Living Hope Fellowship Church

SHOUT UNTO GOD

Training Material

by Pastor Kevin Badgley

SHOUT UNTO GOD

Preface

(praise, faith)

          Psalm 47:1 tells us, “. . . O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.”  We need to shout unto God and kick the devil out!  One of the ways we resist the devil is to Shout unto God.  The devil cannot inhabit the things of God.  He can only come in after the shout’s gone out.  When we disobey the devil and say yes to God, we can feel oppression, depression, and the devil lift off! 

          Have you lost your shout?  God knows your heart.  He can hear even the thoughts and intents of the heart.  When you pray, have you got all the faith of a potato? 

          Have you ever noticed that somebody who used to shout unto God is now shouting at everybody else because the devil’s in?  They carry on, and they’re just about as happy as a gut shot polar bear.  Pray that God will give them the shout of triumph again! 

          Turn your face toward God, shout unto God and get the victory!

SHOUT UNTO GOD

by Pastor Kevin Badgley

          It seems that the church has lost the ability to shout!  Psalm 47 says this in Verse 1, “. . . O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.”

          What does it say?  Speak with a loud voice?  It says Shout, Shout, Shout,

“. . . shout unto God with the voice of triumph.”  Hallelujah!  If you don’t shout before the battle, and as you go into the battle, you won’t have anything to shout about when you get out of the battle, because you’re going to lose the battle!

          The Bible gives a command that the church of the living God shout unto God.  Many of them today are shouting at God.  God declares that He wants you to shout unto God with the voice of triumph, not the voice of disgust; not the voice of melancholy; not the voice of, Oh, why me, Oh, Lord; not the voice of, Oh, God, where are you?  He wants you to shout with the voice of triumph, and say, Glory to God!  Glory to God!  I thank God for the victory over the thing that’s trying to destroy me! 

          God said SHOUT, and he didn’t say to shout “limp- wristedly”.  A lot of people are shouting today, but it isn’t with the voice of triumph!  They’re just making a bunch of noise, but I believe God to anoint the shout so people can get the victory again.

          Now there are some places you just won’t shout.  Unfortunately, it’s even tough in church.  Some come and sit in church and say, I ain’t shouting in front of them.  They’ll think I am a fool.  Or they may say, They’ll give me a hard time, so I’ll shout at home.  Go home and try shouting.  I didn’t say at your kid, wife, or husband, but at the devil.  Say, Devil, get off my back!  I rebuke you in the name of Jesus! I bind you off of the neighbor.  I bind you off my family!  I bind you off of the church!  I bind you off the preacher!

          Do you pray like that?  I think it’s high time we started shouting unto God and kicking the devil out!  People have lost their shout and gotten feeble voiced.  I’m soft spoken, and I can’t shout.  You press in and get a hold of Jesus, and He’ll give you a shout!

          I believe God will give you the voice of triumph when you start praising the Lord in advance for the things He said He would do.  If He said He would deliver you, and heal you, and bring revival, then He will do it.  Why don’t you shout and praise the Lord?  It doesn’t matter if you haven’t seen it yet.  God said He’s going to do it, and that you’re fixing to see it.  Can you say Hallelujah?  That is the shout of a voice of triumph unto God.  God is looking for it.

          My God gave me a shout of triumph that can be heard all over heaven and all over hell.  At the name of Jesus every devil trembles!  What if you shouted the name of Jesus with the voice of triumph?  Hell’s foundation would be shaken.  When you shout like you’re supposed to with the voice of triumph God ordained for you, you’re going to see the victory in your life, and you’ll see the devil flee. 

          Instead of shouting unto God with the voice of triumph, most of them are clamping their hands on their head going, Oh, God, I’ve given all this for you!  I’ve sacrificed all this for you, and here I am, up against a wall.  They’ve lost their shout.

          They say that man can’t stand but about 130 decibels before he gets ear damage.  I dare say the devil can’t stand that much before he gets ear damage, because it’s multiplied in the Spirit.  He has to flee!  One of the ways you resist the devil is to Shout unto God.  The devil has got to go, because he cannot inhabit the things of God.  He can only come in after the shout’s gone out. 

          Have you ever noticed that somebody who used to shout unto God is now shouting at everybody else, because the devil is in?  They shout all right!  They fuss and they fume.  They argue, and they bicker, and they carry on.  They’re just chewing and gnawing all the time, and they’re just about as happy as a gut shot polar bear.  They have got the wrong shout, and now the devil is hounding them and chewing on them!  They’re chewing back, because they won’t shout and say, Devil, I rebuke you in Jesus’ name!  Get thee behind me, Satan.  They are afraid of what the neighbor might say.  What would your neighbor say if you started shouting? 

          Shout unto God with the voice of triumph.  Psalm 5:11 says, “But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice:  let them ever shout for joy. . . .”  If you trust God you’re supposed to shout for joy.  It says “let.”  It’s an act of your free will to shout unto God with a voice of triumph and get the devil off of your back.  A lot of people say, (yawn) Praise the Lord.  The mouth is wider in yawning than it is in shouting!

          I did that, one day in Grand Chain, when I felt an unction from the Lord.  The Lord said SHOUT.  I said, What?  He said, DO YOU WANT ME TO SHOUT?  Did you ever notice people that can’t hear?  You can shout, and they still don’t hear it?  Sometimes that’s because they quit using their ears.  When you quit using something, you lose the ability to use it!  If you quit using your ears, they’ll go deaf, so I thought I’d better use mine.  I’d like to retain what hearing I have left, so I said, Shout here?  The Lord said, YES.  I said, Now?  He said, YES.  I was trying to think of any other questions I could ask him before I did.  Isn’t that like us?  We make a list of why, who, how, and what and make sure God is right.  Amen? 

          I stood there, just about at the little alley between the Post Office and the other building there, and I said, All right.  Hallelujah!  I looked up, and there wasn’t a soul on the street.  The Lord said, ONE OF THESE DAYS I’LL FILL IT, AND YOU CAN DO IT AGAIN.  That means people are going to be listening for a shout.  How are people going to come to something if they can’t hear it?  How are they going to come to something if somebody doesn’t command the victory?  They need to hear a shout of triumph!

          Have you ever heard anybody get excited in the store and say, Ooooh!  Everybody in the place looks around.  What’s the matter with you?  When people win something on TV, they shout and squeal and aren’t a bit afraid that millions are watching.

          God said that he would come forth with a shout. 

1 Thessalonians 4:16 says, “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:”  The voice of the archangel of God will sound, and suddenly the church is going to be changed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye.

          Have you ever felt the oppression and the depression of the enemy?  The devil said, You’d better be quiet; you’re going to make a spectacle of yourself.  You know you don’t feel a shout coming on.  Did you feel him sitting on you?  He tries to keep you from shouting.  When you disobeyed the devil and you started to shout, Yes!  Yes! what happened?  You were changed in that moment you decided, obeyed, and did the shout!  You suddenly felt oppression, depression, and the devil lift off, didn’t you?  Some people say, Well, I don’t know.  Well, maybe you need to shout again. 

          I believe God wants to put a shout in people.  They say, Well, it takes all my air!  You blow it fine gossiping or chewing at your family members.  You do it fine talking about yourself with “poor me” melancholy.  You do fine discussing politics and religion and all the other things that people get into during the week.  Why don’t you use your “air” for something for God?  Why don’t you shout, Hallelujah, in Jesus name!?

          Some preachers are so dignified anymore that they can’t shout!  If they did, their faces would get red, and all the veins would pop out on their necks.  That’s not cool; it makes you sweat, but it’s a cleansing of the body as well as the soul!  We’ve got to shout unto God, and at the devil, and say yes to Jesus, and no to Satan.  We’ve got to believe God again.

          I’m going to run through the superstore one of these days over in Paducah!  I listened to a tape about old Jack Coe.  This man’s dead and gone.  Jack’s momma had got saved, and they went to one of the first all night supermarkets that came out in the ‘60s.  She came up to a can of tomatoes and said, Jack, do you know what this red on this tomato can reminds me of?  The blood of Jesus that washed away my sins tonight!  She began to praise the Lord and he said, That thing set me off, and I began to shout, and to run the aisles, and the whole thing shut down.  The cash registers quit working; the people stopped buying and watched an old woman and a boy shout.  Why?  They were shouting, and it wasn’t in order.  Shout in a supermarket?  I don’t even shout in church!

          Jack Coe said when he came to himself after several minutes of doing that in the supermarket, he saw the old meat man over by the counter.  He was wiping his face on a bloody apron, weeping, and saying, You go to that holy roller church, don’t you?  He said, Uh-huh.  That old meat man said, I got to get a hold of that.  I got to get it.  My wife got that thing three nights ago, and I haven’t been able to live with her since.  I’ve got to get a hold of Him.  The next night that butcher came and received Jesus right there in the saw dust.  If you’ll start shouting, it will pull the devils not only off of you, but off of those around you.  Hallelujah!

          Some of you have lost your shout, and some of you never had a shout, because you didn’t know it was necessary!  God gave us a command to shout unto God.  Visualize buzzards on a carcass.  The carcass isn’t quite dead, but it is going.  How do you get buzzards on a carcass to flee if you don’t shout at them and clap your hands?  That’s the church:  a dead skunk in the middle of the road stinking to high heaven! 

          What if somebody came by and said, Get off of that carcass you foul devil in Jesus’ name!  That thing would go flying off!  Then someone starts to preach and say, Get up, come on, shout, move, believe God again, and let’s get with it.  Let’s do something.   Don’t sit on it.  Believe God and shout yes!

          You might say, I ain’t got nothing to shout about.  Start shouting, and you will.  You don’t think so?  Your neighbor will be in your face in a minute saying, What are you doing?  Don’t shirk away; say, I’m shouting unto God with the voice of triumph!  Then don’t say anymore.  If they ask, What for?  You can answer, Because the devil’s gone off of me.  Would you like to know Jesus?  It would be a beautiful witnessing tool, wouldn’t it?

          Old time Pentecostals were busy rejoicing and praising God.  I wasn’t raised Pentecost, but I can see that some of you need to get your shout back!  When I start shouting and praising the Lord, that’s the power of God.  It’s not the foolishness of men, nor is it witchcraft of the devil. If you’ll shout, you’ll get the victory!   

          You go into the hospital and it says, Quiet Please!  (Devil at work).  I’m often amused that you might go into the funeral home, and someone may say, Quiet Please, (dead might hear).  What if you went in and said, Hallelujah! and sixteen people pop up!  Do you believe God would do it?  1 Thessalonians 4:16 says, “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:”

          Some have gone to sleep in church, without the dignity to listen to the preacher after he’s fasted, prayed, and sought God.  You won’t shout loud enough to keep them awake!  Well, that’s the preacher’s job.  Evidently, evidently . . .

          You may say, When I come out of church my ears are ringing.  I can’t hear you for the ringing!  You shouted too loud today.  You start shouting for God, and you won’t be able to hear what the devil has to say for a change!

           When the devil starts talking, you say, Glory to God!  Praise the Lord!  I thank God for the victory over you Satan, in Jesus’ name!  He’s got to go.  There are two reasons:  (1) the decibel level got entirely too loud, and (2) he can’t get a word in edgewise, because you’re so busy praising God.  It takes more effort to shout than it does to just say, Praise the Lord.

          Read in Joshua 6:1-5 & Verse 20.  Joshua and the children of Israel had just crossed over Jordan.  God parted the Jordan at its highest banks, and they walked across, and came to Canaan.  They had a choice of sitting there and having the Canaanites eat them for breakfast, or they could go on and take the land from the Canaanites as God had ordained them to do.  That is just like you are now.

          Joshua 6:1-5 says.  “(1) Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel:  none went out, and none came in.  (2) And the Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof,” [that’s the devil] “and the mighty men of valour.” [That’s the principalities, and the devils.]  (3) And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once.  Thus shalt thou do six days.” [That was the same length of time it took to create the earth, the world, and all the heavens.]  (4) “And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns:  and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.” [Quiet assembly, right?]  (5) And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.”

          The wall won’t come down until you shout!  You’re not going to get any farther, or higher, or translate, or go in the rapture, or anything else until you start getting your shout.  You’ll ascend straight up.  There won’t be any weaving back and forth; it’s going to be straight up.  Straight and narrow is the way.  How do you get there?  You shout your way to victory! 

          God gave His people a command.  He said to compass the city, but not to say a word.  When you’ve compassed the city long enough, it’s high time you start shouting, and praising the Lord, and believing God.  He told them to “. . . make a long blast with the ram’s horn. . . .”  What if you shout, and it doesn’t fall down?  The thing had to fall, because God said it would fall.

          It said when they make a long blast.  It meant a long blast—it meant a series of shouts that would continue to echo against that wall, and hammer against the walls of hell, and hammer against Satan and his kingdom, and against the things that so easily beset you.  When you start shouting and praising God, you’re hammering that thing back into the pit.  God will give you the victory, and you’ll walk right over the wall!

          Here’s what they shout in the church today, and I’ve heard it for years:  Hey, slow down, I can’t keep up.  I look over my shoulder and say, Keep shouting! to the ones that are way behind, and any who are having trouble.  I even tell the ones who can see the way I just came - through the thickness, the brush, and the briars.  If you keep on shouting they can follow your shout.  If it seems like they can’t keep up, keep shouting anyway.  They’ll find you sooner or later by the shout that you’ve got.  You’re giving it so they will find the way. 

          Joshua 6:20 says, “So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.”

          You’re going to have to shout.  You aren’t going to go quietly to heaven.  The dead are going to rise first.  It takes a shout to raise the dead!  Most of the church world doesn’t think they’re dead, but they aren’t shouting.  I’ve heard some Pentecostals shout and carry on, but they aren’t very loud—decibels yes, victory no.

          When you start shouting and praising the Lord, and say, I believe God anyway, then God will meet you where you’re at.  He’ll pull that wall down flat.  You can walk across it and say, Glory to God!  That’s how you get closer to God, and how you knock down the obstacles in the way. 

          You say, Oh, I’m, laden down with so much!  SHOOOUUT!  Get the thing off!  Just anywhere?  Doesn’t the devil put it on you just anywhere?  Jesus should be your example.  Look at John 11:43 which says, “And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.”  When the dead hear that shout of triumph, they will rise because somebody from glory shouted back!

          In Isaiah 59:2 we find out something about God’s hearing.  “But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.”  What if you’re talking to somebody else, and your son or your daughter is pulling on your leg?  They’re saying, Hey, hey, hey Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad!  They got your attention didn’t they? 

          When you start shouting and praising the Lord, you can do it!  I believe God will give you a voice to shout, if you use it for the glory of God!   That child got your attention.  You were busy, and he wanted your attention!  He had to say, Hey, Dad!

          When you start shouting unto God, you’re going to get His attention.  You say, But God can hear me; he knows my heart.  Oh, yes he does.  However, Jeremiah 17:9 says, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”  That’s why he doesn’t listen to you.  That’s why you don’t get any answers.  That’s why you don’t feel anything when you pray.  God knows your heart and can even hear the thoughts and intents of the heart.

          When you turn your face toward the things of God, you will start wrestling, fighting, and warring against the flesh.  The devil is not your biggest enemy; you are.  I said you are!  You’ve got so many needs and you’ve got so many wants.  Pretty soon we’ve got so many shackles, and chains, and bondages, and thorns that we can’t even think any more.  When you pray, you’ve got all the faith of a potato!  You lay hands on the sick and it’s like laying hands on a dry corn cob without the corn!

          You need to get down and say, Oh God, be merciful to me (I’m talking to saints too).  Get down and say, Oh God, set me free!  If there is no answer, you shout, God, help me!  Get rid of all those inhibitions and all that pride, because you’re crying out to God!

          Didn’t the prophets cry out to God?  Moses would fall on his face on a regular basis.  You can’t shout with your head locked, but if you’ll start shouting, Glory, it’ll crack, and then you can go Hallelujah!  Say, Thank you Jesus, and it will loosen and break!  You’ll start dancing like you used to. 

          Instead of shouting with pain, and anguish, and wretchedness, let’s start shouting with a voice of triumph!  Jesus said in Matthew 11:28, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” 

          When the people began to shout and praise the Lord, the glory and the power of God came in the new temple that Solomon dedicated before God.  The cloud came in and the porters couldn’t even stand.  The preachers couldn’t even preach.  They couldn’t stand to minister because of the glory of the cloud.  They were shouting to God and they were praising and thanking God for what He had done.

          Are you going to shout with me?  Can you say, Hallelujah! and Praise the Lord!?

          God, restore unto your servants the joy of their salvation.  Bring the shout back to those who know better.  God, bring the shout to those who never knew before!  Give them all an anointing to shout and praise God!  God, set every captive free.  Amen.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

PASTOR KEVIN BADGLEY

LIVING HOPE FELLOWSHIP, P. O. BOX 111, GRAND CHAIN, IL  62941

CHURCH / FAX (618) 634-2541

E-mail  livinghope@hughes.net

www.livinghopefellowshipchurch.org

These condensed Bible studies have been published to help new Christians in their new walk with the Lord.  Kevin Badgley, the author, is the pastor of Living Hope Fellowship Church.

This is a Living Hope Fellowship publication.