POWER OF PRAISE

It was at the Christian Life Center of Dr. Jerry Bernard in San Diego.  I had just finished teaching the "school of evangelism" equipping Jerry's church for an outreach in San Diego. We arrived downtown and the praise team set up their sound system and began to worship.  The presence of God fell like rain!  A long line of homeless had gathered to get some hot soup and sandwiches with clothing and other needed items.  As the praise was lifting up Jesus, the spirit of high worship hit the plaza.  People began coming to the platform giving witness to miraculous healings.  First was a homeless lady pushing her grocery cart full of her possessions.  She handed me her glasses thick as pop bottle bottoms and said, "Here take these I don't need them anymore, the cataracts fell off my eyes!".  Next was a man well known on the streets for his palsy like twisted hands. He took the mike and said, "Many of you know me as I have lived on the streets many years, but look at my hands ... they are healed and straight!  Jesus healed me."  Another man took the mike and said, "I feel Jesus all over this place, He is here!"  Yes, the presence of the Lord fell through simple worship.  In God's presence is everything you need for healing, deliverance and salvation.  Having done outreaches on the streets of San Francisco for almost 9 years, Seattle for 5 years and Tampa for a number of years, I have learned the power of praise and worship.  Perhaps some of you have heard the true story that Dr. Jeremiah has given several times on his radio broadcast.  He tells of the time I was leading worship at Union Square in San Francisco and over 1,000 radical marchers were coming our way and they sent their leader to tell how they were going to take over the park where we were going to do a worship rally in preparation for the homeless outreach the next day. I told him. "You are too late, someone else had already taken over the park!"  "Who is that," he replied.  I said the presence of Jesus.  We began our worship immediately and the sound of the marchers got closer and closer.  God literally sent His angels as a barrier of protection and when the radical marchers arrived they scattered in every direction.  The police told me later they had never seen anything like it.  They had been concerned the whole day about the trouble these marchers could bring to the city.  God intervened through WORSHIP!  Worship is warfare, it is healing, it is deliverance from every enemy!  You can listen to 24/7 worship at our worship TV channel on WATV network Radio & Television network.