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Praise doesn't come after the victory. It establishes it. Annie wrote that line in a journal and it turned into this episode.
Praise doesn't come after the victory. It establishes it. Annie wrote that line in a journal and it turned into this episode. She spent a year with NET Ministries where an hour of praise was non-negotiable and often happened at 5 a.m., standing, hands out, whether anyone felt like it or not — which is where she learned that praise isn't a reflection of your emotions. Ryan comes at it from the other direction: a 2013 study where choir singers' heart rates synchronized with the melody and with each other, the vagus nerve running right past your vocal cords, and what singing does to a nervous system that's been stuck in fear. Plus the northern lights over a Wisconsin lake, an exorcist's toolkit, and one health sin involving two raw eggs and rice noodles.
In this episode
Chapters
00:00 — Opening prayer
01:05 — Health wins and health sins (including the raw-egg noodle incident)
05:00 — Why praise, and where Annie's story starts
06:35 — NET Ministries: an hour a day, standing, no exceptions
07:59 — The lake, the lodge, and the northern lights
10:06 — Praise is not a reflection of your emotions
11:29 — The body-and-soul case for praising out loud
12:42 — "Whoever sings, prays twice"
14:35 — The 2013 choir study: synchronized hearts
16:03 — Dopamine, oxytocin, and communal worship
16:30 — Why the enemy hates worship
17:38 — Praise establishes victory: Acts 16 and 1 Samuel
21:41 — Music therapy, memory, and why melody sticks
23:14 — The vagus nerve and the hum of singing
24:38 — Romans 12:2 and renewing the mind
26:23 — Neuroplasticity: what praise wires in and prunes out
29:00 — Immune markers, blood pressure, inflammation
31:15 — Practical ways to start
34:17 — If you only have ten minutes
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Health in the Spirit is a Christian health and wellness podcast with Dr. Ryan and Annie DeNome, a chiropractor and a theologian raising a family in Cincinnati, Ohio. Each week they bring holistic health, the wisdom of the healing saints, and the teaching of the Church into one conversation about how to live well, body and soul. Rooted in Saints, Scripture, and the Catechism, the show explores what the ancient wisdom of the Church has to say about the modern health crisis: nutrition, movement, rest, healing, and raising a healthy family. New episodes every Tuesday, beginning July 7, 2026.
Welcome back to the table, guys. Dr. Ryan, Annie here. Today, we are sitting down after a long day in
the office and we're going to be talking about the power of praise, how it reorients the heart,
reorients the mind and how we can live it and what the science of praise actually shows us.
But before we get into any of that so that these words are not just more noise out there and
they don't fall on deaf ears, we're going to go ahead and begin in prayer. Why don't you take
us away, Annie? All right, let's pray in the name of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, amen. Dear God,
I just ask that you just come into this podcast, allow us to share what we need to share that will
resonate with everyone and that will really allow people to tap into this gift of praise that you've
given us. You've given us this gift for a reason that both benefits us spiritually, physically,
mentally, and just allows us to be connected to you. So it allows us to understand more
about this concept and integrate it into our lives and just bless this podcast. Amen. Amen.
And before we fully dive into praise here, guys, we are going to start with our health
win and our health sin of this past week. You want to start us off? Start us off with the bad.
Yeah, we'll start with the bad and with the good. One of my, I guess, one of our health
sins this week was that we were like, we really want some, some Dairy Queen blizzards.
We just needed a little sweet treat. And instead of going through the drive-thru,
we were like, why not? Why not make our own? So we, we whipped some up in our KitchenAid
mixer. We got some dairy-free ice cream, some Oreos. Was not sugar-free. Not sugar-free. It
was dairy-free, though. It was so good. No portion control, just straight.
Straight deliciousness. Goodness. And every once in a while, that's okay,
but we're trying to not do that. We're trying. I think something we could both be better about
is a little bit like, you know, portion control. We're like, oh, it's dairy-free. Like,
it's probably good. It's fine. But like, it still has a crap ton of sugar. So, yeah.
Yeah. Not the greatest. And then my health sin. Okay. Let me stop Ryan right there.
We, Ryan doesn't even get a chance to talk. I know what it is. Last night.
That was not what I was gonna say. Last night. It was a, I don't know if it was a sin. It was
definitely a sin. Stop. It was a sin. Never, ever be done ever again. Ryan and I, I was
coming home late. I didn't get a chance to prep anybody dinner. I had dinner somewhere else with
their son and Ryan is always coming up with different things in the kitchen. Just listening.
Listen, listen. Mixing odd odds and ends together to stop business. You're saying,
and I'm revealing it to the people. He mixed two raw eggs with these like rice noodles. And it was
I wanted noodles and protein. It's Asian inspired.
So gross. Okay. Then he was like, I'm going to make it better and put hot sauce in it.
Yeah. It didn't make it better. No, it just, it was just too much egg for the amount of noodles
I had. That was the only problem. Just no. I guess that's my health sin. No. That's just
you don't even, nothing. No. All right. Let's help the people find some, hopefully you guys
found some joy in that. Just never decide to mix duck eggs. They're already big. Okay.
Into rice noodles. It's like disgusting. Yeah. I only needed one egg, but I wanted more protein.
Didn't work out well. Yeah. I guess that can be my sin. Let's talk about some wins,
Annie. What was your win? There's no recovery from that or absolution.
What was your win this week? My win this week was I got to do Peloton workouts quite often this week
and I did it before our son woke up. So I'm really proud of myself for that. Getting back on the
bike, you guys. My win this week was actually hitting a bunch of my protein goals. Been trying
to get 120 grams of protein in every single day and I've only missed once and I'm actually using
an app that I created myself so that it's the most efficient, cheapest macro tracking app out there.
More to that on more on that coming soon. A couple of you guys have access out there, but
now we've got our wins and sins, whatever you want to call my eating choices there.
Yeah. We'll leave it at that. Let's go ahead and get into praise, guys. We're just glad this is a
podcast and I didn't take a picture. Let's go ahead and get into the topic for today. We'll be
talking about the power of praise to really start things off and he's going to give a little bit
of her background here. So we're going to let Annie take it away for a couple minutes and then
we'll pop back in. Yeah. So we're just going to jump in here and talk about the background
of why praise is important and why we, why it came to light that we should probably talk about this.
You know, praise is one of those things that for a lot of Christians, when you
praise and worship draws them in to the heart of God, it's one of those almost like gateway drugs
into a deeper relationship with the Lord. And I know that the Lord used praise
specifically in my life to draw me into a relationship with him. And he,
you know, was pursuing me through this, this outlet and this way to give him honor. So
back at the very beginning of my life, I'm going to quickly go through this, but my mom
gave me a CD called Worship Jams and when I was like seven and I remember sitting in my
closet and listening to these praise and worship songs and I'm sure it was the classics. Yes,
it was. It was like Lord, lift your name on high. What are you saying some for us? We
can say that for another time. I didn't quite warm up yet. No, I'm just kidding. But I can,
I can link the CD in the pod notes. But anyway, if you guys have a CD player in your car,
you guys can buy it. Anyway, probably on eBay. Anyway, so then I, you know,
it will continue to be a recurring theme in my life. And then when I was a missionary with
net ministries, praise and worship was a part of their, their role of life, like one of the pillars
of their organization. And we learned about praise. We dove into the, the depths of why do we praise?
What is the Bible? What does the scriptures say about praise and worship? You know,
why God, you know, made us to glorify him and, you know, what we do with our bodies matter.
And so, you know, I have some amazing stories from that year on the road. Like some of the best stories
from that year were because of worth through praise and worship. Like I can count you, tell you
countless stories of different moments of praise that just still light up my heart to this day.
And I, I miss them deeply. And one of the most profound moments in my life was during
training. We were at this Lutheran summer camp in, in the middle of the heart of Wisconsin
and it's called Camp Wapo if anybody's listening and has been there. I know my net missionary,
fellow net missionaries have been there, but shout out Camp Wapo. Sponsor us.
But you know, we had on this net, you know, net year, we had these different opportunities to
have nights of praise. We praised every day. And so during training, we had a night of praise
and me and four other missionaries went out down to the lake behind the lodge. And
you could still hear the music blaring up in the, in the lodge and people praising with their entire
hearts. And we decided like, we just felt called to go down into the lake and just experience
God and nature. And we were praising out there in the lake. And we were like knee deep. And then
we were falling along with the, what was going up on in the lodge and we're singing along.
And out of nowhere, the Northern light, this came across the sky in mid worship.
And it was like these ripples of color, so distinct. And it was like the most
just profound moment, the most beautiful moment of my life. And it just, you know, there's countless
stories about, you know, we were in a host home doing praise and the parents had a reversion back
to the faith. And now they're really involved in their, their faith lives and just different
times on the road. And, and one thing too that was very interesting was that we had,
no matter where we were, no matter what time of day, we had to do two things every day,
personal prayer time and an hour of praise and worship.
Didn't you guys try and start your day with praise and worship?
Yeah, most of the time we tried to start, sometimes it was after
like there was some mornings where we'd be doing praise and worship at five.
Some days we do, we do our praise and worship hour at nine in the middle of the day at
different, like in parks, random places, like rooms, I don't even know.
We're doing praise and worship everywhere. And it blessed the people that, that got to
encounter that. But through that experience, through having to do praise and worship every day,
another point on the praise and worship thing is for the most part, we had to stand
and use our bodies. So, you know, stretch out our hands, express ourselves through our
bodies. We're strictly enforced. It wasn't strictly enforced, but it was a beautiful,
you know, sacrifice that we all made. And through the sacrifice, you know, we learned
how to push through our tiredness and we really grasped that praise and worship is not a
reflection of our emotions. And I think that's, and we can get into that later,
but that's where I learned that God deserves our praise. No matter what the emotion is,
no matter how tired I am, we still offered up praise for his glory. And we really
understood that praise is not based on emotion, but it's an agreement with who God is
before our circumstances even change. So, and then that's something, that's a gift.
This habit that I made on that net year, on that missionary year, became influential throughout
the rest of my life and still to this day. I mean, it's been 10 years now and I still,
maybe it's not an hour, but like if I have a drive, and most of my drives here in the city
are 30 to 45 minutes, and I pretty much do praise and worship the whole time. I'm singing out loud.
I'm praising God. I'm doing free praise. And the coolest part about that is our two-year-old son
also gets to experience the beauty of that. Yeah, because I'm carting him around.
Sometimes I'm like, okay, I'm getting too out of hand here. I gotta focus on the road.
But it's a habit that I've carried. Wow. That's like a fun fact. That's like,
you know, one of those like awkward. Anyway, okay, anyway, so like it was a habit that I carry
throughout my life. And then, you know, I realized that there are some physical, you know,
not only spiritual benefits, but some some health benefits as well. And that's what we're about
to dive into. Yeah. And I think just like kind of going off of that, like, I think
core reason that probably had you do that is just to dive deeper into that,
no matter the circumstance in your life. Like you should be praising God because there's always,
like there always is a silver lining. Like there is always an at least I still have
X, Y or Z to praise God for, even if it's literally the only thing you have left is your
voice to praise God, right? Just your life, your ability to live because that, like,
not to get too deep here, but because you're alive, you get to,
you have the chance of spinning eternity with him. And that itself is due praise.
Exactly. And God literally gave us lungs, hands, voices, arms, legs, in order to use all of those
things as tools to glorify him and to praise him. And I think that is like it's, as we're human,
we are both body and soul. And that's one of the most beautiful things of Christianity is
recognizing the importance of the fact that we're body and soul. We are not made for this earth,
we're made for heaven. But while we're here using our bodies to glorify God and to edify our soul
is just so incredibly important. And you know, St. Augustine always says, whenever you sing,
you pray twice. So even if, even if for no other reason than to get two prayers for the price
of one, we're all about a deal here. We're all about being efficient with our time. So if you
can sing and pray twice, what a fantastic opportunity that is. And part of that too is like
what we do with our body can really shape our soul. And I think that that is so beautiful that
God gave us these bodies to not only glorify him, but that we can use our bodies to shape
our souls. Yeah, I mean, even in scripture, you know, it talks about how they lifted
hands, knelt, danced, sang aloud, processed to the temple. You know, it's, it's, it's been a part of our
Christian life from the very beginning, you know, from before even Christ came. I mean,
we have the example of David, you know, praising the Lord. And even before that, you know, there's
plenty of times in scripture that it shows examples of people using their bodies to
give glory to God. Even in Psalm 95, it says, come, let us sing joyfully, kneel before the
Lord who made us. There's so many, we could like have a whole document full of scripture verses
that highlight this, but really the point is that the body and spirit are not, they're not
separate systems. God created us, you know, mind, body, soul, soul and body.
I think one of, one of the just coolest things kind of before this podcast, we,
we prepare like, yeah, we have these conversations around our kitchen table,
but we also want to make sure we're bringing you good information. We want to fact check ourselves
a little bit and just kind of like my more sciency brain was like, well, how, how are they really
connected? Like what happens when we praise God? And I came across this study done in 2013,
where they actually took singers and they took singers, strap them up to heart rate monitors,
measured their HRV, their heart rates. And one of the most interesting things there is the
heart rates actually mimicked the melody of the song. And then not just that, but there's two more
crazy things. They didn't just mimic the melody of the song that they were singing,
but they actually like as a choir, everybody's heart rate achieved the same rhythm. So
everybody in the choir, their hearts were literally beating at the same moment. So
just imagine like we're two or, we're two or more are gathered, like I am with you.
That's what Christ tells us. And when two or more are gathered, Christ is with us.
And we are praising, we're praising with the angels. You can think of it this way.
I don't know if this is totally correct, but I thought this was a, this is just a connection
that I had where like your heart is literally beating at the same pace as the other person,
the other people you're praising with. And if the angels in heaven are praising with you,
are their hearts not also beating with ours? Like how freaking crazy is it to think about those?
But it's a good concept. Listen, listen, it's just an analogy. It's not perfect.
And then not only like some of those things, and we'll, I want to talk about this later
because Annie has a couple other points she wants to bring up, but like part of that is like
music is one of the, the like surefire ways to give yourself more dopamine and communal worship
like floods your body with dopamine. Cause you're getting the dopamine of community.
You're getting that rush of oxytocin, those feel good neurotransmitters, feel good hormones
as you're doing this to, to even like rewire our brain.
And on top of that is that we know the enemy hates worship because it belongs to God alone.
It literally drives out demons. I know of examples and we've talked to, you know,
a couple of different therapists and exorcists and they, they use praise and worship in
exorcisms. So if that doesn't show you the power of praise, I don't know what does
giving glory to God, literally it, if you just speak and glorify him,
can drive out any temptations, any, just any evil presence that you feel in a room.
It's, it's so powerful cause the enemy hates the glory that you give to God.
And not to shout out Josiah Queen too much here. No free shout outs on this show,
but he has a phenomenal song called demons. I was literally just listening to it this morning,
talks about that exact same thing. We'll link it, we'll link it below, but Josiah
Queen demons, phenomenal song. I guess I need to give it a listen because I haven't,
I haven't heard it. So the more you know, I'll send it to you.
And you know, praise doesn't, it doesn't follow victory, it establishes it. Okay.
There are so many examples in the Bible. Okay. And especially going back to,
going back to driving out demons, David plays the harp and I, I should have literally had the
scripture pulled up. I can also try to put that in the show notes, these examples of scripture.
Who knew that we would be diving into the scripture so much? It's like a mini Bible study.
And with that vein of like the enemy hates worship,
praise doesn't follow victory, it establishes it. And there's real spiritual power and praise.
And you know, when we stop thinking that the enemy has power and start fixing our eyes on the
greatness of God, praise doesn't come after victory, it establishes it. It anchors the
heart and wonder. This is a quote, this right here is a quote that I wrote down in my journal
and I really wanted to share with you guys. So praise doesn't come after victory, it establishes it.
It anchors the heart and wonder, turns despair into confidence and close us with the presence
that the enemy cannot imitate or withstand. While the armor equips us for battle, praise
positions us inside the victor. Worship aligns us with heaven's order, submit to God,
then resist the devil and the enemy's accusations fall silent. Scripture's rhythm is consistent.
Singers before soldiers, praise before breakthrough. And a real example of this in the Bible is when
St. Paul and Silas in Acts 16, they were, you know, beaten, chained into a jail cell.
And they just decided to sing, pray, like they were praying and singing hymns to God.
And not soon after that, then an earthquake came and the chains broke and then they were able to
escape. And they praised before freedom. They praised despite their circumstances, despite
their, I'm sure their emotions were, you know, hopeful in the Lord, but also, I mean-
Not too excited to be in jail.
No, she was excited to be in jail. Yeah. And, you know, this story completely changed the way
I viewed worship because it taught me that not only is praise about giving glory to God,
but it's an act of trust and spiritual warfare. And it's not just emotional expression,
like I said before. And, you know, another example is back in the New, in the Old Testament,
when, when David is playing the harp for Saul in 1 Samuel and scripture says that Saul is,
he's being tormented and David played and worshiped before the Lord in this moment. And
it says, Saul would be relieved and feel better and the evil spirit would depart from him.
And all he had to do was listen. Saul didn't praise, it was just David praising the Lord with his harp.
Yeah. All he had to do was listen. And I think that kind of just makes me think about like,
what, like, we're talking about praise, right? Obviously, singing, but it doesn't have to just
look like when you're in your car, in the shower, at church, out of worship, like in a worship
environment, out of worship event. Like, simply listening to praise as you're walking your dog,
going for a run, all of those times where you don't want to be, I mean, you could,
obviously, be singing praise as you're running down the street and kind of look like a freak
that way, looking like a freak is encouraged. But if there's gonna be a new shirt, looking like a
freak is encouraged. But in those moments where you can't praise, you can still listen to the praise
and it's, that can still bring you out of that. That's where, that's where praise and worship
music, Spotify, iTunes, wherever is so incredibly important because it like, it just kind of
makes me think, like when, when there's, makes me think of like music therapy, when people are
dealing with patients that are older, dementia, Alzheimer's, those sorts of things where their
memory is failing. Like when, when they hear songs, they're actually brought back to like,
we're talking about somebody that's in their 80s and 90s, they're brought back to the 1950s,
the 1960s, when you play their favorite song from that period, they're brought back to like,
that first time they heard it. An important time when that song was on in the background and they
can remember that like it was literally yesterday and tell you exactly what clothes they were wearing.
It's, it's the most crazy thing, but they literally can't tell you who drove them to that
appointment. 100%. And in that, like thinking about that, like melody is like this glue. Like
it makes me think of that and then it makes me think of like all those times in chiropractic
school where, where I'm singing stupid songs to remember like glycolysis.
Wait, do you guys remember in middle school when your, when your teacher made you like
memorize the preamble, you know, from like, and then everyone learns it by like school?
I don't even know what it's called. I don't think I ever had to do that.
It's not school rock. It's like this, the cartoons. Anyway, it goes like,
Are we talking VHS here?
I guess. It's like, we the people in order to form our perfect union.
There we go. That's him singing.
I knew it was going to come later. I said later. You guys know what I mean.
Anyway, back to your point. I'm sorry.
No, yeah, exactly that. So you're memorizing something using music because
like music like solidifies in your brain. And there's, there's something I read at one point
and I couldn't find it or couldn't totally remember where it was, but it was something
along the lines of like, as we sing those things, like that, like when we're talking,
when we start talking about the vagus nerve, like the vagus nerve passes right past our vocal cords
in the like the hum of singing those things, like tells our brain that this is a safe place.
This is good kind of bypasses part of our brain and like lets those things be stored there.
So just in like listening, we're able to, to the music, we're able to kind of bypass part of that,
part of that like trust system that our brain has with information coming into it.
And like your nervous system kind of reads praise as like, you're safe, you're not alone,
all of those good things. And even in, even in Romans it says faith comes from hearing,
right? And just anytime we can expose ourselves to praise is so important. And it doesn't just
like we're talking about listening, singing, using our bodies, glorifying our, glorifying God,
but it doesn't just like make us feel good, do all of those things, like drive away demons,
right? But it also like physically like transforms our mind.
Yeah. Yeah. And scripture like is constantly talking about renewing our mind and being
rooted in scripture. And in Romans 12 too, it says be transformed by the renewal of your mind
and praise actively renews the mind because worship redirects our focus by repeating,
you know, different truths about God and, you know, different things that,
you know, fear, anxiety, bitterness, you know, whatever it may be, hopelessness,
they affect the body and praise interrupts those cycles and reorients us towards peace and trust
and gratitude and God's providence. You know, worship changes our, our posture, our heart posture,
our physical posture, our breathing, you know, what our focus is on and what our thought patterns are.
That makes me think about like neuroplasticity. I'll talk about that and I'll hold my thought,
I'll hold my tongue and I know Annie has a couple more points she wants to make on this.
Another scripture example of this is in Psalm 42. And it says like, why are you cast down? Oh, my soul,
hope in God, for I shall see again, praise him. David is literally preaching to truth back into
his own mind. He's renewing his mind and staying rooted in Christ. This is a real life example
in scripture. And, and praise and just a little side note is praise doesn't deny reality.
Like we all go through hard times, but it replaces, it places reality under God's authority.
That, that line has become so real in my life because worship doesn't magically erase suffering,
but it doesn't change who we're looking at in the middle of suffering.
It also regulates the nervous system. And that's where Ryan comes in because he knows,
you know, he knows all about the nervous system being the king of the nervous system.
I wouldn't necessarily say that, but just kind of bringing it back to the nervous system a little
bit, talking about like neuroplasticity just kind of reminded me of the saying is that neurons
that fire together wire together. And then kind of this other saying like, like most people hear
it in regards to like muscle and weight, weightlifting, like if you don't use it, you
lose it, right? So, like when we're talking about worshiping, renewing the mind, like that song
like starts rewiring the way our brains work because it's like singing is not just thinking,
it's not just reading, like it's incorporating so many different parts. It's incorporating our
mind, it's incorporating like our body, our vocal cords, all of those things rewiring our
brains that are literally like rewiring our brains to have more gratitude, more hope,
more praise. And then Annie hit on this perfectly, like when we're using those things, we're also
using less the like the fear, the anxiety, the, the negativity. And so we're actually
like losing those neural connections in our brain that we've been wired that way. So praise
over the long course of time, eventually like weeds out and prunes the garden of all those
negative thoughts. Like worship literally like quite our minds focuses it on God because your brain
like as much as as much as people like to think they can multitask and as much as I like to
think I can multitask, your brain can really only focus on one thing at a time like intently,
right? So if we're focused on the Lord, we literally cannot be focused on the negativity and
the light that praise brings into our lives is literally like dispelling the darkness of the
negativity and the fear and just like leaving us in a, in a place like that's part of the reason
aside from like the dopamine and the science and all of those things, like we literally have
more neural positive neural connections when we praise leading to better mood, better sleep,
like all of these things like are just compounding like God tells us to praise and there's also all
of these practical benefits. Like it's so beautiful. Like what God tells us to do is like actually
good for us on so many levels. It's it's insane. He's he's pretty genius. It's like
he did this on purpose. I don't know. I can't be sure. Oh, he's such a good guy.
All right. And like in just continuing to like on that on that topic of the nervous system,
like neuroplasticity. Yeah, that's great. But like as our voice box, our vocal cords literally
sit right here, vagus nerve runs brain down. And one of the coolest things about the vagus
nerve is it's literally a sensory organ, meaning that like right around four out of every nerve
fibers of the vagus nerve actually send things to our brain in one out of every five sends like
things back to our body, right? So when we're singing and we're activating those vocal cords,
that sensory nerve in that like is being stimulated in this way that like tells your
brain like everything is good. It's it's like when you're stressed, you're like holding
your shoulders up here, you're all nervous, whatever, like your cars are flying past you or
whatever on the highway. And then you kind of come out of that and go off the exit ramp and you
kind of let out this big like and everything just falls. Like there's a reason that exhale
and that sigh, like that's why you do that when you're relaxed because it signals to your body
like all is good. And that's that that vocal cord stimulation of the vagus nerve,
which then like the vagus nerve to like there's or just like that stimulation of that nerve like
also plays into the immune system, which we can get into more like on another topic. Or if you
guys have questions about that, I'd love to answer them in the comments, the DMs, all those good
things literally goes deeper than what we're talking about. There's so many physical benefits.
It's like with anything you can go so freaking deep. It literally like lifts your immune
system markers, it decreases your blood pressure. It literally like calms all of the like literally
like inflammatory pathways in your body, like TNF alpha, like some of those anti or those inflammatory
markers are literally just lessened through singing. All of this has been studied. It's
it's so insane. Like I can keep going and I think you guys can tell that. But if you
have questions DM me, I'd love to hear some feedback on that or like anything else you
know that way. But anyone's to dive into like as we just like kind of wrap things up here,
anyone's to dive into some practical ways that we can start implementing this.
Yeah. And just a, you know, side note too is like, you know, we have a website and we have
a blog as well. So that's where we can put some of these things that we didn't get to or
perfect some of the show notes that we want to expand upon that we didn't get to just like
talk about here. We'll just we'll put it in a blog post and you'll be able to find it.
Yeah. We'll throw it on an Instagram story sometime.
Yeah. Yeah. We will. But, you know, just like going back to, you know, this power of praise,
you know, when my it's just at the end of the day too, it's, it's a benefit for our prayer lives.
You know, when we're vocally praying it shifts our, our interior posture. And when my foot,
when my prayer felt dry or I was exhausted or distracted or emotionally numb, worship always
brings my gaze back to him. And it, it, it arouses this interior devotion and it's meant to
overall vocal prayer and praise and worship is, is ultimately made to direct our hearts
to that just resting and that gaze into the father's heart and his, and his gaze back at you.
That's all it's about in the end. That's what heaven is going to be,
literally praising him and then resting in his gaze for eternity.
And that is the victory that we have, even though praise doesn't come after the victory,
praise establishes it in, in all of those things Annie just said. That's how we can,
so we can start to establish that victory in our minds, in our hearts, in our actions.
And another point is like it's sometimes hard to enter into prayer. Sometimes we just come
in distracted or we have our mind on things. So I encourage you, you know,
maybe start with vocal prayer, start with praise and worship because it really conforms our interior
state into the words that are being prayed. And then you can go into that reflection of
scripture and listening to God. That was another thing that we learned on that is to start with
praise and worship so that our interior could be more open to his voice and to really be
able to reflect on scripture. So just some quick ways that you guys can integrate this into
your life is start with your personal prayer life. Like what I just said, like start your personal
prayer life, personal prayer time with some praise and worship or some vocal prayer. Like
literally, if you don't sing, you can pray it out loud. You can pray out spontaneously from the
heart or you can do scripture. You can do praise and worship songs. You can pray the
names of Jesus or even just recall like his blessings and his gratitude or even set prayers.
But, you know, if this isn't, I hope this podcast convinced you of, you know, the power of praise and
like how God has literally designed our bodies for it's a gift. It praises literally a gift
because it benefits us in so many ways. And really, like I said before, draws us into his heart.
That's, that's literally what we were made for.
And I think, like just to, just to end things out here, we're at a kingdom medicine
conference through encounter ministries a couple months ago. And one thing that one of the speaker
said that was probably the biggest takeaway for me is even if you only have 10 minutes to pray a day,
if all you do is praise, you have done so much for your prayer life. And that like,
that just really hit hard with me. But we'll let you guys have the rest of your day back.
Thanks for listening. And let's go out there, start praising so we can start establishing
the victory of Christ in your life. Don't forget to subscribe, follow us, social media,
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next week with another episode. Let's just end super quick in prayer here. Holy Spirit,
please fall upon each and every one of our listeners and ourselves and anything that
was of you, Lord, please allow that to be sealed in all of our listeners, minds and hearts, and
anything that was not of you, please allow it to be washed away in the blood of Christ.
And we just ask for all of these good things to be blessed by you, Lord. Amen. See you guys next week.