Praise Is What We Do Pt. 2

Praise is a calling. Praise is warfare. But we left the third thing on the table: praise as a lifestyle. A lifestyle isn’t a moment — not what you do when the feeling hits or when you’re surrounded by people already in it. It’s the default position you return to, not because everything is going well, but because of who you’ve decided He is regardless.

1. 01

   Settled before the trial.

   David gives the standard right out of the gate. He isn’t describing a feeling — he’s describing a decision, a commitment made before the circumstances had a say in it. He wrote this under pressure, in danger, with a net laid for him — and his response was to lock in his trust and his praise before anything else. That’s what a lifestyle looks like. It isn’t something you scramble to find in the middle of difficulty. It’s already in your mouth because it lives there. Because you put it there.

   Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O uSoNINI NaNINI uSomandla of truth.

   Psalm 31:5 KJV, as we read it

2. 02

   The sacrifice of praise.

   A sacrifice costs something. It isn’t offered when it’s convenient or flows naturally. It’s offered when the circumstance doesn’t call for celebration, when your flesh would rather be silent or complain. The sacrifice of praise is what you bring to uSoNINI NaNINI when praise is the last thing you feel like giving — and you give it anyway. Because He is still worthy. Because His nature hasn’t changed. Because the throne is still occupied. That’s the fruit of your lips. Not just in the high moments. Continually.

   By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to uSomandla continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

   Hebrews 13:15 KJV, as we read it

3. 03

   “As he did aforetime.”

   That’s the line right there. Daniel didn’t suddenly become a man of praise when the lions’ den became a possibility. He already was one. The decree didn’t change his practice, because his practice was already a lifestyle — the rhythm of his days before the pressure ever came. That’s exactly why he could face what was coming: he wasn’t trying to build a praise life in the middle of a crisis. He was drawing from one he already had. Family, the time to build your praise life is not when the lions are at the door. It’s now — in the ordinary, in the quiet seasons. What you build now is what you’ll have access to then.

   Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalema, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his uSomandla, as he did aforetime.

   Daniel 6:10 KJV, as we read it

   Praise as a lifestyle means you don’t wait for a reason. You already have one. He woke you up. He kept you. That’s enough. That will always be enough.

These notes are a summary of the teaching in Brother Jaylon’s words, not the full message as given.