Noise Makers In The Spirit Author Alexis N.Washington

I recently attended a Women’s Conference and it was truly amazing!  A true time of refreshing, deliverance and uplifting of downtrodden souls is what we experienced.  I personally went with expectation-to receive from God.  I experienced a touch from the Master!  He restored my soul, lifted the heavy burden and broke yokes over my life by the anointing that was on the Speaker of the Hour.

Right around the time of praise and worship, I heard these words:  “Noise Makers In the Spirit.”  I ignored it at first but then I heard it a second time, “Noise Makers In The Spirit.”  I quieted my spirit to tune in to the voice of God.  I started listening to the voices that were in the conference as they offered up the sacrifices of praise and worship.

“Noise Makers In The Spirit” 

Almost immediately, I started to get a little aggravated.  Should I feel guilty about listening to the people praise God and have the feeling of aggravation?  Maybe or maybe not.  But that is just what noise does-it aggravates.  In fact, Webster defines noise as a sound, especially one that is loud or unpleasant or that causes disturbance.  It is synonymous with the words clamor, racket, uproar, tumult, commotion, pandemonium, and babel (confused noise).

You might begin to ask, how can the sound of praise and worship be a noise that aggravates?  Read John 4:21-24 KJV

“Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.   Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.  But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”

What God desires is our TRUE worship.  We cannot continue to worship out of formality-under the conditions of which we are accustomed to.  Worship out of your spirit.  It is communion with God.

Now here is the message…The Word!

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.  1 Corinthians 13:1 KJV

Another translation..

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.  1 Corinthians 13:1 NLT

Yet another translation…

If I shall speak with every human and Angelic language and have no love in me, I shall be clanging brass or a noise-making cymbal.   1 Corinthians 13:1 Aramaic Bible In Plain English

If you do not have LOVE, no matter if you speak in tongues of men or of angels you will just be a “Noise Maker In The Spirit”.

Charity is a benevolent goodwill toward or love of humanity.  Furthermore, God is love!

He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.  1 John 4:8 NKJV

That is how a person can worship what they do not know as the scriptures read in John 4:21-24, because if you do not love- you do not know God.

 Praise, worship, and salvation is directly connected to LOVE.  Love is the lifeline…It is the catalyst that allows one to worship in spirit and in truth.

Love draws and it sustains!

The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying:  “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.  Jeremiah 31:3 NKJV

Another thing LOVE does is -it cast out fear!  Fear has torment:

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.  1 John 4:18 KJV

Love is so powerful that it alone is able to cast out the evil spirits of fear and torment.

 Now back to the conference…

Before the Lord spoke “Noise Makers In The Spirit”, I was apart of the crowd as well until I quieted my inner man so that I could hear what we sounded like in the spirit realm…”Noise Makers”.  I am not saying “them”, I’m saying “we”.  Not everyone that was offering up the sacrifices of praise and worship may have been the “Noise Makers” but the clanging brass and tinkling cymbal was audible enough to be a loud, aggravating sound to my spiritual ears.  I can only imagine how God ears must have felt…

“We must examine our love for others; to be sure our rod of love has not fallen down.” -Pastor Creflo Dollar

I remember hearing Pastor Creflo Dollar preach this sermon years ago when I  watched him on television.  I searched for the sermon and found the bible study notes on his website:   http://www.creflodollarministries.org

It can be found in the archives under the title “Understanding and Living the Life of Faith:  What is Faith?  The Faith-Love Connection”

I will be studying this myself.  This is not only a corporate Word it is a personal Word whereby we can all examine our rod of love.  We can start sharing our love for God and others today!  It’s always a good time to let someone know how much you love and care for them, not only in words but in deeds as well.  Remember to love your enemies too and show mercy.

“But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. ³³ And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. ³⁴ And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners to receive as much back. ³⁵ But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil. ³⁶ Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.               Luke 6:32-36 NKJV

WEAPONS OF OUR WARFARE Author Alexis N. Washington

“The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds”

2 Corinthians 10:4 KJV

We use our hands for a multitude of things to carry out our daily agendas on a day-to-day basis.  It is interesting to come into the knowledge that our hands are lethal weapons against the enemy!  When we clap our hands together under the unction of the Holy Spirit we are waging war in the heavenlies against satanic attacks. 

“Thus saith the Lord God, Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! For they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.”  Ezekiel 6:11 KJV

When you strike your hands together it is equivalent to the sword of the Lord.  Every strike is delivering a blow and every time you stomp your feet in the spirit you are crushing the head of the enemy. 

“So then, son of man, prophesy and strike your hands together. Let the sword strike twice, even three times. It is a sword for slaughter– a sword for great slaughter, closing in on them from every side.”  Ezekiel 21:14 NIV

A sword as defined by Webster dictionary is a weapon with a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard, used for thrusting or striking; often used as a symbol of honor or authority.

Striking your hands together under the anointing causes a sound in the realm of the spirit that causes our enemies to fall down blow by blow and become weakened by the power of God. 

I have researched this mighty weapon (striking of the hands) and was amazed at how we don’t use it as often as we should in spiritual battle.  When in the heat of the battle we often forget that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal.  We don’t have to fight in flesh and blood.  No! Our weapons are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.  Will you allow the power of God to flow through your hands as you strike them together to win your spiritual battle? 

Here is a testimony that I found from Prophetess Michelle Y. Harvey while doing my research on this topic:

In 2012 during the summer time, I remember I woke up with night sweats one night.  When I went to my prayer closet to pray I realized that my voice was gone.  My throat began to scream with pain, and I couldn’t pray in tongues.  I was alarmed. However, I remembered my former pastor mention during one his sermons about the founder of the Church of God in Christ, Elder/Overseer Mason.  He mentioned that Elder Mason wanted to conduct a revival meeting at a hotel back in the 19th century.  When the hotel realized that Mason was a black man, they refused him to use the banquet hall to conduct the meeting in their hotel.  He was, of course disappointed.  Mason was about to leave the hotel, but he saw the empty hall.  Mason then saw a chair.  Mason then placed the chair in middle of the room and began clapping his hands (by the instruction of the Holy Ghost).  The people at the hotel, didn’t realize it was just him clapping his hands, but they thought it was a crowd of people to attack them.  At any rate, when the Lord instructed Mason to stop clapping his hands, he stopped.  When he was about the leave the place, somebody from the hotel saw Mason and told him he could use their hotel to hold the revival-LOOK AT GOD, JESUS IS LORD!  At any rate, when I remembered that story, I began to clap my hands, praising God.  It took almost week, but the Lord healed me from that attack of the enemy.      www.faithrevivaldeliverancecenter.org/blog.  Pastor Chelle Blog

These are real testimonies of two people who utilized their mighty weapons during warfare and defeated the enemy.  Please be reminded that we do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.  (Ephesians 6:12 KJV). 

The purpose of this blog is to bring to our remembrance one of the strategies that God used in biblical times to protect His people and cause them to be triumphant and victorious.  While in prayer, I found myself striking my hands together and speaking in tongues-warring in the spirit.  The power that rose up in the midst of the battle gave me the resolute assurance that the enemy was defeated.  I have only experienced the striking of the hands as spiritual warfare on very few spontaneous occasions before this occurred recently.  This experience motivated me to search out the scriptures to see what the Word says about clapping hands in battle and I wanted to share the results on inspirationalblogging2.wordpress.com.

Praise God from Whom all blessings flow…Amen!