Another Look Podcast
Another Look Podcast is a podcast where we discuss our splinters and planks of wood in the American church. The purpose of this podcast is to have frank and honest dialogue about the role of the church and the role of the believer in America today. Our goal is to take "another look" at who we are and realign our spirits properly. It will hurt initially but the end result will always be a beautiful masterpiece in the Potter's hands.
Another Look Podcast
When Praise Becomes Your Weapon: Psalms 100 Reimagined
What happens when we decide to march around our problems instead of letting them circle us? In this soul-stirring episode, Brother Ken reveals the hidden power of thanksgiving through an enlightening exploration of Psalms 100.
Drawing from his personal battle with prostate cancer, Brother Ken unveils how the ancient practice of thanksgiving isn't just religious tradition—it's spiritual warfare. The Hebrew word "ruah" transforms our understanding of "joyful noise" into something far more powerful: a war cry that intimidates our enemies and declares victory before it manifests.
Like the Israelites who marched around Jericho before the walls fell, we discover that thanksgiving positions us to see miraculous breakthroughs in seemingly impossible situations. When cancer attempted to intimidate Brother Ken with fear, he chose to circle it with declarations of God's Word—creating a pathway for divine intervention.
The episode takes us on a journey through each verse of Psalms 100, revealing profound truths: that our service to God is worship, that we can only enter His gates through thanksgiving, and that God's faithfulness remains constant regardless of our circumstances. Most powerfully, we learn that God's goodness isn't dependent on our situation—His character remains unchanged even in our darkest moments.
If you're facing overwhelming challenges or simply want to deepen your spiritual walk, this message offers practical wisdom for approaching God with thanksgiving even when life gives you every reason not to. Your breakthrough might be just one shout of praise away.
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Welcome to Another Look Podcast. At Another Look Podcast, we go beyond the norm and literally take another look at our life in Christ. We keep an open heart and mind so we can reach, teach and love all of God's creation. Whether you are a novice or veteran in this walk, this podcast is for you. You ready for something new, something that will challenge your thinking and heart? Are you willing and ready to unlearn in order to learn, willing to tear down so God can rebuild? Good, let's get up and go. People are waiting for us. Let's go fishing. Welcome home Columbia. Beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 2:Welcome to another Look podcast. Beloved, this is Brother Ken, minister, beautiful, beautiful. I shared this word in a ministry opportunity I had a few months ago, in May, and with some of the things that me and my family have experienced in the past couple of months, I think it's agripo to just share this word that the Lord gave David in talking about Thanksgiving, and I want to turn and give you another look at thanksgiving in the scripture. I pray, blesses you, I pray ministers to you, um, I don't take for granted that whenever I have these opportunities that god gives me, that it's for, um, whoever God intends it for. But I'm always mindful of the fact that it's audience of one, number one, audience of one meaning. It's an audience between me and heaven, where my faithfulness to God he sees not so much the end result but the faithfulness in doing the assignment. But I'm also mindful of the fact that it's audience of one because there could just be one person that needs to hear this word and while the masses are great, I'm always mindful of the fact that one person needs to hear this word because it could mean the difference between life and death for them. It could mean the difference between making a bad decision that could affect their life forever, or making a God decision that could change their life forever, or making a God decision that could change their life forever. So with that in mind, I want to share these scriptures, and again it's in Psalms 100.
Speaker 2:I'm going to be coming from the Christian Standard Bible and the English Standard Version, and I do that because I try to make it simplified for those who may not know the King James Version, and I'm finding that my audience is usually people who are not necessarily churched or raised in the church, but they maybe have recently received Christ as their personal Savior or they just don't know King James. They can't get down with that version and I understand that. I was that way. I was raised in the King James Version. But my change happened when I got a simple English Bible my mom sent me in college and it changed my life around because I really began to. I saw Jesus. I began to see Jesus and discover who Jesus was for me Kenneth L Davis, personally myself by seeing who he was and pulling back the wool from what I thought he was based on, what people taught me, versus what I saw when I opened up the scripture for myself and read it. So I always will be in the corner of those who may not understand the King James Version but want a more simplified version.
Speaker 2:So I use these versions to help those who may not know and for those who are experienced and prefer the King James Version. All blessings to help those who may not know and for those who are experienced and prefer the King James Version, all blessings to you. No problem with that. I use it most of the time in my Bible study. But I also, for those who and I had one person reach out to me asking what versions I use the most, I use the King James Version with the Amplified and the Hebrew Study Bible or the Interlinear Bible, which has the Hebrew in the Old Testament and the Greek in the New, because those helped me to study more in depth. But Amplified I love, because it brings out a lot of what you'll see in the Interlinear in a more simplified fashion. But King James is what I grew up with, so I use that a lot. But I'm also not. I'm also spending time in the Christian Standard Bible, as well as the ESV and NIV.
Speaker 2:Even so, with all that said, let's get into the scripture, okay. So let's give. Just for background, theologians believe that King David wrote Psalms 100 between 1400 BC and 538 BC, which is a time period between Moses in the book of Exodus and the time following the Babylonian exile in the book of Ezra. The book of Psalms was considered a hymnal book for the people of Israel for worship in the temple, and Psalms 100 in particular was a hymn of thanksgiving sung when the people of Israel brought their offering of thanksgiving into the temple. So let's start with the first verse and I'm going to take my time with this because there's so much revelation that the Holy Spirit gave me and going through these verses. So in Psalms 100, it says make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth. And again, this is an English standard version. So again, psalms 101 says make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth.
Speaker 2:This scripture has vital application to us as followers or disciples of Christ. So what does it mean when he tells us to make a choice for noise? And it kind of confused me initially when I was a young baby in Christ, because noise is not something normally associated with something good. Right, you know, when you think of noise you think of something as something negative and unwanted from a human perspective, but in the Hebrew there it is going to my inch and linear. The Hebrew word for noise in this scripture is ruah. Ruah, by definition, means to shout and triumph over our enemies, to shout a signal for war or march towards the place of war. So why does God command us to make a joyful ruah or a joyful noise?
Speaker 2:Well, my joyful noise, beloved, is a declaration of a victory won in heaven before it's even manifested in the earth. When I make a joyful shout or a joyful noise, it's a weapon in the hands of the Lord of hosts who fights for us. Lord of hosts, meaning Jehovah Sabaoth. See, we shout because we are responding to the victory God has promised us, even if we don't see it yet. We don't need to see something to believe something. We don't need to see what God said to believe what God said. We believe it because God declared it in the heavens and he declared it from the heavens into our lives here on earth.
Speaker 2:Look at Joshua 6.20. And we're talking about the walls of Jericho. So it says this. So the people shouted and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted a great shout and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they captured the city. See, they shouted, they shouted the victory before the victory was manifested.
Speaker 2:But if you read earlier in that chapter also, you realize something Before they shouted, they marched. Before they lifted a shout, they marched, sometimes beloved. Why am I saying that? Because sometimes, beloved, you have to learn how to march around the thing that's standing in your way before you lift up a shout. Because here's the reality your problems, your issues that you're facing are marching around you. The scripture says that Satan marches around you as a roaring lion. But how about you get on the offensive and start marching around the things that Satan put in your path, not as a roaring lion, but as a conquering hero, as a conquering believer? See, let's say you're dealing with. Talk about me.
Speaker 2:So I'm dealing with cancer. I've been diagnosed with prostate cancer. I'm not ashamed of it, I'm not scared of it. Good thing is this I recently had my observation, and I have more of a chance dying from something else than from cancer, because it's actually not in remission, but it's it's in it's early stages. It's in a low stage called Gleason 6, stage one. But for you, when I first was hurt, when I first was diagnosed with cancer, it scared me. Cancer was marching all around me, telling me I'm going to die.
Speaker 2:But then I began, after a few months of going through all the woe, is me beginning to speak the word of God, beginning to see the journey I'm on with God in this situation and actually beginning to give God praise while I'm in this journey, because I'm starting to see, I was starting to learn to magnify him more than the cancer. And as I started doing that, I began to march around cancer. You get what I'm saying. Cancer was marching around me, but I began to march around cancer and I began to speak to cancer. I began to shout to cancer that I am not going to die, I shall live and not die, that I shall declare the works of the Lord, that greater is he that is in me than cancer, that's in the world, that I am more than a conqueror through Christ. See, I began to march around cancer and the shout of cancer, and then the walls are now coming down. The walls are coming down. Be loved. I'm sharing this with you because you need to learn how to march around the issues of life. You need to learn how to march around the things the enemy put in your path to bring you down and begin to shout with a voice of triumph. When we raise a joyful shout, we are declaring our faith in God in the earth.
Speaker 2:1 Samuel 17, 20 says this and David rose early in the morning and left the sheep with the keeper and took the provisions and went as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the encampment as the host was going out to the battle line shouting the war cry. This is when David was going to his brothers who were facing the Philistines and Goliath. See, they shout a war cry. Because the thing is, when I shout, or when we shout in the spirit, or when we shout joyfully or we lift up a ruah, it mentally intimidates and confuses the enemy. Second Chronicles, 13, verses 14 and 15, says this and when Judah looked, behold, the battle was in front of and behind them. So they were surrounded and they cried to the Lord and the priest blew the trumpets. Then the men of Judah raised the battle shout. And when the men of Judah shouted, god defeated Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
Speaker 2:You got to shout your victory. You got to shout before the Lord If you want to have any victory in your life. Not shout at the Lord, shout before the Lord. And what do you shout? The word of God. What does God say about your situation? Shout it, open your mouth and speak it, because your issues are speaking to your mind, your issues are speaking to your heart, your issues are speaking to your soul. But your spirit inside is saying say what the Lord says. Whose report will you believe? We shall believe the report of the Lord. Psalms 102 says this Serve the Lord with gladness, come into his presence with singing. Our service unto the Lord is worship. It is also being obedient to his command in Romans 12 1. Let me get there.
Speaker 2:I had it up, but I, for some reason, I had it, but I believe I remember, but I want to be accurate in it. So, romans 12 1, for some reason I had, but I believe I remember, but I want to be accurate in it. So, psalm, romans 12, one says this. It says I appeal to you. I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Our service unto the Lord, with a pure heart, is holy and pleasing to the Lord. He receives our service as an acceptable sacrifice which pleases him. Serving God is an act of spiritual worship based on what we just read in Romans 12.1. Not only is my service worship to the Lord, but it ushers in his presence to the Lord, but it ushers in his presence. Unlike what we may have experienced, there is something indescribable when we encounter the presence of God. See, his presence draws out of us an authentic worship, an authentic shout, an authentic praise and spiritual song from our spirit, because he created us to give him worship. Where do we see that? In Revelations 4.11,. Where do we see that In Revelations 4.11, it reads as this he created us beloved to worship him. Our service is our worship, our service is our praise, our service is our adoration unto God, because it's what we can reasonably do.
Speaker 2:Psalms 103 says this know that the Lord, he is God. It is he who made us and we are his. We are his people in the sheep of his pasture. My second pastor, my mom, was my first pastor, but my second pastor, reverend Jones, used to say that all the time the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. We are his sheep and we are his people in the sheep of his pasture. He used to love saying that and it rings to me now more than ever. I appreciate that. Reverend Jones, reverend RW Jones, what an awesome pastor. So this verse in Psalms 103 shows us the eternal and supreme authority of the Lord and our position in him. The bottom line is the Lord is God. This is a declaration of ultimate and exclusivity, declaring his position in him.
Speaker 2:The bottom line is the Lord is God. This is the declaration of ultimate and exclusivity, declaring his position of authority. The Lord is not a God, but he is the one true, living God. There is none who stands beside him or is equal to him, because God is one of none. There is none equal to him, none beside him, none below or above him. He is exclusive and the one true living God.
Speaker 2:1 Corinthians, 8, 4 and 6 says it like this Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that an idol has no real existence and that there is no God but one. For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth as indeed there are many gods and many lords yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom all things and for whom we exist, and one, lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist, whom are all things and through whom we exist. See, there are a lot of people that pose to be gods or see themselves as lords. We have these little G's, these little L's that think they rule and reign over everything, but they have no. They can't even compare to the one true living God we serve and his son, the Lord Jesus Christ. See, we belong to God because he made us. He made us to be. He made us with purpose. What's his purpose? To be his people.
Speaker 2:Deuteronomy 14.12, 14.2 says it like this. Again, it's Deuteronomy 14.2. For you are holy people belonging to the Lord, your God. The Lord has chosen you to be his own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth. 1 Peter 2.9 says it like this but you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light, Hallelujah. What is our purpose? We are called to be the sheep who dwell in his pasture. Sheep depend on the shepherd to provide for them. The provision of the shepherd never runs out if we dwell in his pasture.
Speaker 1:We are called beloved.
Speaker 2:We are called to depend on him, the good shepherd, for all of our needs. Philippians 4.19 says it like this and my God will supply all your needs according to his riches in glory, in Christ Jesus. In Christ Jesus, matthew 6.33 says it like this but seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you. So many times we seek for our needs to be met outside of Christ, when Philippians 4.19 tells us that God has already provided all of our needs according to his riches and glory, but they can be found in one person, that's, in Christ Jesus. But we got to be seekers of Christ. That's why he says in Matthew 6.33, we seek the first the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God can be found in Christ Jesus. Not only do we seek the kingdom of God, but we seek his righteousness, his way of doing things, god's way when we seek him, not the things. When we seek him and when we seek his way of doing things, he then will then take care of the things. He'll provide those things for us. No, this is not a quid pro quo. This is the fact that if you want to find something oh man, I'm sorry y'all, my music came on, it's all good. Anyway, listen, if we want to find things, we'll never find those things apart from finding Christ. If we want to find things, apart from finding Christ, we want to find things, and God knows our heart. We can't find things apart from him, anything that we need, that we desire to have. We must have our desire first on God. We must have our desire first on the shepherd, the good shepherd, because he knows what we have need of.
Speaker 2:Psalms 104. Says this enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, bless his name. This is a call or a pathway on how we approach God. We can't just enter his gates any kind of way. The gates and courts are symbolic of our intimacy with God. The gates are the entry points where we transition from the outer world and draw closer to his holy presence, from the natural to the supernatural, from the physical realm to the spiritual realm. The courts are far more intimate because it's the place between the gates and the dwelling place of God.
Speaker 2:But we can't enter, like I said, any kind of way. We must enter with thanksgiving. We can't even get to the said any kind of way. We must enter with thanksgiving. We can't even get to the courts until we enter his gates correctly, and that's by giving him thanks. It doesn't matter what you're going through, because even the scripture says in all things give thanks, in all things give thanks.
Speaker 2:If you enter his gates with thanksgiving, you will begin to experience something, and what you'll begin to experience as his presence. And if you've ever experienced the holy presence of God in any way, you will become overwhelmed with both his beauty of his presence and the weight of his glory. The closer beloved you draw to him, the more your spirit responds to him in thanksgiving. It just comes out of you because, again, we were created to worship him, and part of our worship is in giving him thanks. And to be that close to God, to be close to the God of all creation, draws out of us the very thing he created us for. It's to worship him.
Speaker 2:And so the question bears itself why does all this worship, this praise at thanks Thanksgiving, get drawn out of me? That answer is found in the next verse, psalms 105. For the Lord is good, his steadfast love endures forever and his faithfulness to all generations. When I experience the presence of God, it exposes me, us to the goodness of God. As you continue to walk with the Lord, you come to the understanding. His love is always steady, always consistent, always constant and eternal. And this is the beautiful thing. God remains faithful to us because that is His character. His faithfulness is not based on our faithfulness or lack thereof towards him. God's faithfulness is enduring and eternal because he's driven by his nature, and his nature is to love.
Speaker 2:First, john 4 says it like this Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. That's why you can't talk about love without talking about God. True love is who God is. It's not that God loves God. God is love. He is the definition of love. That's why this praise gets drawn out of us, because his goodness exposes us to his presence and his presence exposes us to his goodness. And as we experience this, the closer we get to him, the more we are overwhelmed by his glory, by the beauty of his holiness and by the weight of his glory, and we begin to see how truly faithful God is. Because it's just, it's in his, it's his character. He doesn't know how not to be loving. He doesn't know how not to be faithful. He doesn't know how not to be good. He doesn't know how not to be faithful, because all of that is part of who he is. So, as I close, I want to tell you something. It's just we have to, and I can't speak for you, I'll speak for me.
Speaker 2:We have to stop basing our Thanksgiving based on what we're experiencing in life. On what we're experiencing in life, if you're going through all hell and Gehenna, you still have a right and you still have a responsibility to give him thanksgiving, because the fact that you're still breathing means he's not done with you. The fact that you're breathing and existing means that God this is the hell you're going through is not the end of you, means that God this is the hell you're going through is not the end of you. It's just a season or a day or it's just a time in life. That's temporary and God can turn it all around. And sometimes the difference between what you're going through right now and what you want to see is in you lifting up thanksgiving unto God.
Speaker 2:It's something when you can go through a lot of stuff and still say Lord, I thank you for everything that I'm going through because you are here In every storm I experience. God, I know you're still right here by my side, that, even though I'm in the fire, they see not just me, they see you next to me, just as you were with Shadrach, meshach and Abednego. You are right here in this fire with me, and though this fire is seven times hotter, I'm not singed by the flames. Lord, I thank you that, regardless of what may be in my bank account, regardless of what may be in my life, regardless of who walked away from me, you have not walked away from me Because of the pain I'm in. You are the God who heals me. You are the God that sends your word and heals me.
Speaker 2:God, lord, regardless of what they say, you say that I am beloved and accepted of the beloved. And, lord, I thank you that I can be able to march around those things that try to mess with me, because you will perfect those things that concern me. God, hallelujah, see that roar, that shout begins to intimidate the enemy. And when you can shout through your pain, when you can shout through your circumstances, when you can shout in the midst of going through things, god begins to disturb the enemy. God begins to fight on your behalf. The Lord of hosts begins to fight. Heaven comes down to the earth and fights those principalities in the heavens that dare to come against you and begin to manifest themselves in the earth and come against those things that come against you. Because you have a shout of thanksgiving, you have the roar, the breath of God that allows you to shout and march around your Jericho walls, beloved. March around your Jericho walls, beloved.
Speaker 2:Whatever you're experiencing, that is not of God, is not permanent. It's temporary and you can begin to look at it. You don't have to close your eyes and be scared of it. You look at that uncircumcised Philistine, like David did, and you begin to speak the word of God to that thing or those things or those people that dare to be used by the enemy against you, and you speak the word of God. You can make it, you can stand beloved. But you gotta give thanks in all things, because he is worthy of your thanks.
Speaker 2:He is worthy of your thanksgiving because the Lord is good and his steadfast, steady love endures forever towards you and he is faithful to all generations, not just to you, but to those that were before you and those that will be after you. He'll be faithful, you, but to those that were before you and those that will be after you, he'll be faithful. So there are prayers you're praying for your children and your children's children that God will be faithful to honor, because you stood in the gap and prayed for them. I pray this word was a blessing to you. If it was, let us know. Let us know. Your responses to us mean a lot, so you can hit us up on our email page at I mean our email at alptrinity1 at gmailcom. Or you can respond to us on our, on our Facebook page or our. What's the other thing? Just respond to us on our Facebook page or our IG page or Instagram page. Or you can uh respond back to our mail. Uh, we also have a mail page, which I was not aware of, on Buzzsprout, which is our web host, um, or on pod page, if you have anything you want to say. We are grateful for your faithfulness and supporting us and listening to us and praying for us. Um, grateful for your faithfulness and supporting us and listening to us and praying for us. Keep me in prayer. Keep my wife in prayer. She just had surgery this past week, which was an emergency surgery, but God brought her through. She's home recovering, thank God. Keep me in prayer as I continue to march around cancer, continue to march around all these things that think they could come against me. They don't know who I am, apparently because they don't know who I am, who's a who's I am. So it's all good. God is good. Amen. Um, thank you, god bless you, and look forward to the next word that God has for me. Um, so, thank you, love you and love you, god bless. Thank you for joining us at Another Look Podcast.
Speaker 2:We now come to that portion of this series, of this episode, where we offer you the opportunity to receive Christ as your personal Lord and Savior. According to Romans 10, 9, 9 and 10, it says If you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth resulting in salvation. So, if you believe, I want you to repeat these words after me. Dear Heavenly Father, I come to you in the name of Jesus Christ. Your word says whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved, and that's in Acts 2.21. I'm calling on you and I come, surrendering my life and my will to you. I pray and ask Jesus to come into my heart and be Lord over my life. If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with your mouth I make confession unto salvation. I do that now.
Speaker 2:I confess that Jesus is Lord of my life and I believe in my heart that God raised him from the dead. I do that now. I confess that Jesus is Lord of my life and I believe in my heart that God raised him from the dead. I ask you, holy Spirit, to come make your home inside of me and live in me. I confess all of my sins to you, lord, and ask for forgiveness for them right now, in the name of Jesus. I receive you, jesus, as my Lord and Savior. I thank you, god, that I am now reborn and a new creation. I am a Christian, a child of Almighty God and a child of the one true King. I have salvation and I am saved. Thank you, jesus, lord. You also said in your word Lord, if you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him, according to your word in Luke 11, 13. I'm also asking you to infill me with the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit, rise up within me as I praise God. I fully expect to receive a supernatural prayer language and speak in that language, as you give me the utterance According to your word in Acts 2.4. In Jesus name, amen, so be it. Congratulations. If you prayed this prayer, then you were born again and now have eternal life in Christ Jesus. All of your sins are now forgiven and the Holy Spirit now lives inside of you. The word of God says that everyone in heaven rejoices at your salvation, according to Luke 15, 7 and 10. So right now, heaven is having a party because of your decision and God has a huge smile on his face. If you prayed this prayer, please email us at alptrinity1 at gmailcom so we can hear your testimony, pray for you and send you a gift from this ministry. God bless you and remember this always Jesus loves you.
Speaker 1:Amen.
Speaker 2:Roger zero G and I feel fine.
