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God Will Put a New Song in Your Mouth
PSALM 40:1 – 3
What is a song? A song is more than a melody; it is a message. It is a poem
set to rhythm which could be borne from gratitude, or shaped by experience, and could be offered as a response to what life has done and what God has done.
The book
of Psalms is filled with songs from real people with real life’s stories. The songs came from their encounters with life: people, battles, betrayals, victories, and most importantly from their
encounters with God.
The
Songs of Solomon also gives us a powerful picture of the romance between Christ and His Church. By using the tender love between a husband and a wife, the Songs of Solomon reveals the depth of
devotion, purity, and affection that should mark the relationship between Jesus and those who belong to Him.
Now, for
there to be a new song, there must have been an old one. Your old song found its inspiration from your season of struggle, old pattern which could not fulfill your desires
David
described his old song in Psalm 40 and verse 2, the song of a man in despair. He sang of the time he was in a horrible pit, a time he was stuck in the miry clay: a place you cannot climb out without
the help of God, a place of uncertainty about tomorrow but the God, the helper of the helpless lifted him out of that pit.
In Psalm
137, the children of Israel sang a song of sorrow in Babylon, a desperate, disappointing, and discouraging song in the land of captivity. Their enemies mocked them and demanded, “sing us one of the
songs of Zion”, the song they used to sing with joy to the Lord.
But how
do you sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?
Psalm
126:1–2 shows us that God changed their song when He delivered them from the captivity of Babylon: “When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was
our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them.”
Any
untoward place is a strange land. Any condition that stands against the promises of God is a strange land. And truly it is not easy to sing the song of Zion with chains on your feet and heaviness in
your heart. But I say to someone today: you days of captivity is over - your song will change.
By the
Red Sea, there was no hope of survival before that well-trained Egyptian army. The children of Israel feared destruction or a return to slavery. But when God miraculously parted the sea and brought
them through on dry ground, Miriam lifted a new song: a song of deliverance (Exodus 15:1 – 3).
The Red Sea before you is parting even now. You are crossing over to the other side- into liberty that will not be questioned in the name of Jesus Christ.
Year
after year in Shiloh, Hannah’s song was the song of tears and sorrow; quiet sorrow poured out before the Lord. But the day came when God turned her mourning into praise and her tongue found a new
melody: “My heart rejoiceth in the Lord, mine horn is exalted in the Lord: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.” (1 Samuel
2:1).
I speak to you today: your song is changing from tears and sorrows to joy and rejoicing in the name of Jesus.
Whenever
God brings a person into a new season of blessing, a new song rises from their heart.
I speak over you today: you are entering a new season that will change your song. Your melody is turning from sorrow and pain into joy and gladness in the name of
Jesus.
The case
is different though in the New Testament, we have a new song: the song of the redeemed of the Lord. This song is focused more on the gift eternal life not just on the betterment we experienced in
life. The joy and song of the redeemed in not on any physical or material acquisitions but on our salvation.
Paul and
Silas were in prison, and they began to sing praises and thanksgiving in the prison.
Each
time Jesus was faced with great needs in His ministry, he sings a new song of praise to the Father.
As a
Christian, every season of life should lead to a new song of praise because we know that all things work together for good.
It is
the pleasure of God for us to sing new songs to him. To express His powerful and wonderful works (Isaiah 61:1 – 3)
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How do we enter into a new song
- Being Born Again – Acts 3:19; 2 Corinthians 5:17
Your new
song starts by accepting the finished work of calvary by Jesus Christ. In my few years of serving the Lord and being a committed adherent of Jesus Christ, many people are in church not a Christian
but as a church goer.
The
greatest song anyone can sing is the song of salvation- deliverance from the power of darkness into the kingdom of the dear Son of God – Jesus Christ (Colossians 1:13).
Nothing
can be better in the life of person than being free from the oppressive dominance of Satan into the freedom of and in Jesus.
Today, I
want someone hearing me to acknowledge their sin, ask for forgiveness from God, accept the grace of salvation through the finished work of Jesus and accept Jesus into their life.
The song
of salvation supersedes anything one could wish for on earth. This song will continue in eternity in the presence of God when we shall reign with Jesus forever.
- Knowledge of God’s Will – Hosea 4:6
One of
the difficult things in life is knowing God’s perfect will for one’s life. The book of Proverbs says in chapter 25 and verse 2 says: “It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the
glory of Kings is to search out a matter.”
Do you
know that by the new birth, you are a king? Revelation 1:5 - 6, “and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him
who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever.
Amen.” It is to your honor to figure out what God has in store for you as a
king.
Many
people are having a hard time in entering the season of their new song because they could not search out the secrets of God. “The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him, And He will
show them His covenant.” (Psalms 25:14 NKJV)
Joseph
knew the plans of God for his life. He was going to be head above shoulders to his brothers and when he became what God said about him, he sang a beautiful song in Genesis 41:51 and 52 when he called
the name of his first son Manasseh (“God has made me forget all my toils and my father’s house”) and called his second son, Ephraim (“God has made me fruitful in the land
of my affliction”).
I speak over someone today that you will begin to sing like Joseph as God will perform miracles in your life that will make you forget your toils, the wickedness of your father’s
house, and make you fruitful in this land in Jesus name.
Joseph
knew the plan of God and when he got there, he knew he was where God wanted him to
be.
The
fulness came when his brothers bowed before him: “So Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him. Then Joseph remembered the dreams which he had dreamed about them,”
(Genesis 42:8-9 NKJV)
Listen
and listen carefully, no demon in hell and person on earth can cancel the plan of God for your life. Just stay on the Lord and He shall bring it to pass, and you will sing a new
song.
- Patient Waiting – Psalm 40:1
From the
anchor scripture in verse 1, David said, “I waited patiently for the Lord; and He inclined unto me, and heard my cry.”
From
Biblical account, we understand that David was introduced to the stage at age 17 when he was anointed from a group of 8 siblings. He was enthroned in Hebron at 30 years old and in Jerusalem at 37
years, and he reigned for 40 years (2 Samuel 5:4 – 5).
So, he
waited for 13 years for partial fulfilment and 20 years before the full fulfilment of God promises over his life.
There is
always a waiting period in the things of God. The problem we have is our understating of time. As human we understand time in Chronology while God is outside time and space.
God in
His infinite mercy and Omnipotence gives us the Kairos time which compensates for the Chronos we thought we’ve lost.
Joseph
waited 13 years to stand before Pharaoh but 22 years before his brothers began to bow before him in full reality of his childhood dream.
David
said that he waited until God drew him out of the horrible pit and the miry clay and planted his feet upon immovable rock.
You are
going to sing your new song, but you must wait for God. The Bible says that God “He has set the right time for everything. He has given us a desire to know the future, but never gives us the
satisfaction of fully understanding what he does.” (Ecclesiastes3:11 GNT)
Time
will not permit me that talk about the waiting of Abraham and Sarah (25 years), Elizabeth and Zechariah until their old age for their new song, but it came at the time when Jesus would be
born.
The
Bible says that the vision is for an appointed time: “For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the
end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.” (Habakkuk 2:3 NKJV)
- Obedience to God – Deuteronomy 28:1 - 13
There
are many whose new song will only happen when their finances change. They have been under the yoke of poverty and ridicule. Poverty brings ridicule.
Many
were born into poverty and doesn’t know how to get out of it. Your story is changing today in the name of Jesus!
Your
breakthrough from lack is in the Bible. Knowing that it is the plan of God to give you life in its abundance (John 10:10).
The plan
of God is to give His children a life full of good things, but it is predicated on obedience to His words.
If you
want to sing your new song, you must decide to become an obedient child of God. The Bible is replete with blessings and curses (Deuteronomy 30:19).. We enter the blessings if take heed to what the
Lord says.
James
1:25 talks about getting blessed by doing what the word of the Lord commands. You end a life of struggle and painful song by diving into the word of God.
You want
a new song, begin to follow the word of the Lord. It will knit you with the mind of God.
One of
the things that ends poverty is diligence. Your diligence in following the Lord and in your business (Hebrews 11:6; Proverbs 13:4; 22:29)
- Faith – Romans 4:17 – 21
At 99
years and 89 years, Sarah was medically unable to conceive. She was not just menopaused, she had Meno stopped. But Abraham still took a shot at the word of God in going into Sarah with faith that
Sarah will conceive the promised child.
The
currency in the kingdom of God is faith. If you cannot believe God for what He promised, you cannot sing a new song.
The word
of always speak contrary to your situation. God told Gideon that he was a mighty man of valor when he was hiding from the Midianites. He rejected what the Lord said initially but later developed
faith to enter a new life of victory over the enemies of Israel.
- Prayer – Philippians 4:6 – 8; Psalm 2:8; Matthew
7:7
If you
want to change your story, you must be ready to pray until something happens.
Despite
the wicked taunting and vexation of Peninnah, Hannah didn’t stop following Elkanah to Shiloh. She kept praying until she got in contact with the man of God and got a blessing on her
prayers.
Prayer
solves problems and if you are tired of singing your old song and desires a new one you have to pray in the name of Jesus
“He has
put a new song in my mouth— Praise to our God; Many will see it and fear, And will trust in the Lord.”(Psalms 40:3NKJV).
The
experiences of the past that led to songs of despair, uncertainty, and impossibility is over.
God is
bringing help wherever it’s needed, he is going to turn impossibilities around to joyous experience, and victory wherever there is a despairing battle.
You will
begin to sing songs of praise and thanksgiving because of the mighty works that the good Lord will perform in your life.
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