OUR PRAISE CHANGES THE ATMOSPHERE! 

by Jim Wies

Jesus said the Father is seeking worshippers who will worship Him in spirit and truth. (John 4:23,24) A very important part of our corporate life together as the Church is our worship experience, yet most Christians do not realize all that the Scriptures have to say about it, nor the power that is released through praise and worship. Over 150 times the Scriptures tell us to “Praise the Lord” We were created to worship!

Prophetic leader James Goll recently wrote this:

     “In our day, as the manifested presence of God is restored to the Church, unusual reactions and responses are coming forth. Extravagant praise, militant intercession, warring with the gift of tongues, groaning, travail, shouting, and even laughter. Psalm 47:5a (NKJV) declares that "God has gone up with a shout." Psalm 89:15a (NKJV) states, "Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound!" We are living in a day when the intercessory sounds of deliverance are coming forth.

     “Prophetically, I say, ‘The sounds of deliverance are just beginning. This new surge of the Spirit will grow mightily, and the sound of war will be heard in the Church again.’ In other words, ‘Hold on to your seat; you ain't heard nothing yet!’"

God has designed even His creation to praise Him.

Psalm 148:1-5 says: Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD from the heavens; Praise Him in the heights!  2 Praise Him, all His angels; Praise Him, all His hosts!  3 Praise Him, sun and moon; Praise Him, all you stars of light!  4 Praise Him, you heavens of heavens, And you waters above the heavens!  5 Let them praise the name of the LORD, For He commanded and they were created.

The heavens are singing

Moon and stars praising, Mountains and hills singing, the ocean resounding, trees clapping their hands, and rocks crying out in praise to God!  REALLY??

In an article titled, “Black Hole Strikes Deepest Musical Note Ever Heard,” we read, “Astronomers have detected the deepest note ever generated in the cosmos, a B-flat flying through space like a ripple on an invisible pond. No human will actually hear the note, because it is 57 octaves below the keys in the middle of a piano.”

Every solar flare shoots out and strikes the sun’s corona like the strike of a guitar string, creating a tone that reverberates through the universe. Yes, the sun is singing.

One amazing example from nature about how even creation’s song changes the atmosphere is what botanists call “Sonic Bloom”

God gave the birds a song to sing. They have several songs: mating calls, gathering calls, wake up calls. Anyone who has lived on a farm knows the roosters will let you know when the sun comes up. One of the things birds do is sing what is being called the song of the morning causing “sonic bloom”.

A few moments before the sun tips over the horizon at sunrise, the birds start chirping and welcoming the sun. This early morning bird chirping triggers the opening of a plants stomata, or  mouth-like pores to suck up the morning dew. On every leaf there are thousands of such small openings. Each stoma--less that 1/1000 of inch across--allows oxygen and water to pass out of the leaf, or transpire, while other gases, notably carbon dioxide, move in to be  transformed by photosynthesis into sugars. So their song stimulates life in the environment around them.

His creation is constantly singing

Song is made up of sound waves or basically frequencies, that vibrate against our ear drums which causes us to hear them. The hu¬man ear can hear a range of 20 to 20,000 Hz. or vibrations, per second. An elephant can hear a sound vibration as low as 5 Hz and a dolphin can hear up to 150,000 Hz. But they are discovering waves of energy WAY beyond our capacity to hear them. The speed of sound waves as we know it is relatively slow, but radio waves, and other waves of energy travel at an amazing speed of about 7 times around the world per second.

Quantum Physicists have found that, at the sub-atomic level or the quantum level, all mass is materialized out of phenomenally small waves of vibrating energy. These small vibrating strings of energy are the building blocks of protons, neutrons and electrons, the stuff atoms are made of. Their frequency actually determines what they become. But they still can’t figure out what causes them to vibrate. The sound of God’s voice literally materialized the universe! His voice energized and sustains all things.

The Voice of God is a different kind of sound that exists in, and issues from, the realm of heaven. Jesus explained this when He said, “The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are life.” (John 6:63) Hebrews 4:12 says this: “For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword,” or “For whatever God says to us is full of living power:” TLB

When the sounds of heaven’s realm break through the quantum veil into the material realm something shifts. So there is something very significant and unique when we praise Him. When our songs of praise are joined with the sounds of heaven, POWERFUL things happen. When we worship Him, something is loosed, something is released from heaven.

The power of praise when heaven joined in, leveled the walls of Jericho (Joshua 6: 20) The power of praise when heaven joined in, caused an earthquake and released Paul and Silas from jail. (Acts 16:25-26) Natural sound coupled with heaven’s “sound” is AWESOME in power. The power of praise, when heaven joins in, releases His glory and His glory changes the atmosphere!

2 Chronicles 5:11-14 tells us:  When the priests came forth from the holy place … and when they lifted up their voice accompanied by trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and when they praised the LORD saying, "He indeed is good for His lovingkindness is everlasting," then the house, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud,  so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.

When the Church gives Him glory, His promise is that He will glorify the house of His glory.

 “Arise, shine; For your light has come! And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you.  2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, And deep darkness the people; But the LORD will arise over you, And His glory will be seen upon you.  3 The Gentiles shall come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising. 7 …And I will glorify the house of My glory” Isaiah 60:1-7

*Some of this material related to quantum physics was taken from the book “Quantum Glory: The Science of Heaven Invading Earth” available through www.XPPublishing.com