That was good singing. And of course, the Bible teaches
that the Lord inhabits the praise of His people.
Speaking of the Bible, we're going to turn now for a
scripture reading and we're reading Psalm 149, Psalm 149.
There's 150 Psalms in the Book of Psalms.
The book of Psalms wasn't written by Psalm.
It was written mostly by King David.
King David was the sweet singer of Israel.
So returning to Psalm 149, someone asked me as I left
Portadown Conference yesterday what I was preaching on and I
told them I'll tell you in a few hours.
I had two thoughts in my head and the one had to do with
singing and the other had to do with being a soldier.
Psalm 149 says, First one, praise ye the Lord.
Sing on to the Lord a new song, and his praise in the
congregation of Saints. Let Israel rejoice in him that
made him. Let the children of Zion be
joyful in their king. Let them praise his name in the
dance. Let them sing praises unto him
with the timbreland harp, for the Lord taketh pleasure in his
people. He will beautify the meat with
salvation. Let the Saints be joyful and
glory. Let them sing aloud upon their
beds. Let the high praises of God be
in their mouth, and a two edged sword in their hand.
To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon
the people, to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles
with fetters of iron, To execute upon them the judgement written.
This honour have all his sins praise ye the Lord.
Amen of the Lord, and stamp with his own approval and blessing
this reading of his own precious and infallible word.
Amen. My text this morning is found in
Psalm 149, the verses 5 and 6. And it says this, Let the Saints
be joyful in glory, let them sing aloud upon their beds, let
the high praises of God be in their mouth, and A2 edged sword
in their hand. Now have entitled this message
simply this, the blessings and battles of the singing soldiers,
the blessings and battles of the singing soldiers.
Now Psalm 149 is one of five Hallelujah psalms at the end of
the Psalter. And if you look at the first
verse of Psalm 149, praise ye the Lord, and then we'll come to
the last verse, the last words, praise ye the Lord.
And if you were to look at the last verse and the first verse
of Psalm 1464740849 50, you will see that they all begin and end
in the same way. And in our authorised versions,
you've got the words praise ye the Lord.
And in the Hebrew the word is Hallelujah.
It's not unique, does not make stand out.
Psalm 149 is a song of celebration.
It's a rallying call urging God's people, regardless of
their circumstances and their situations, to praise the Lord.
You see, the Lord is a friend to all who know and love him, but
the Lord is also a fool to all who reject him and refuse to
surrender to Him. Remember the children of Israel
at the Red Sea. The Angel of the Lord came
between the children of Israel and the armies of Pharaoh that
were pursuing them. Exodus 14, verse 20.
To the army of Pharaoh, the Lord's presence was a cloud of
darkness. To the children of Israel, it
was a crowd of light. And you see, this was a line
between them, not just of demarcation, but a line of
distinction. You see, the Bible tells us this
in first Peter 3 and 12, for the eyes of the Lord are over the
righteous. These ears are open under their
prayers, but the face of the Lord is against them that do
evil. That's a tremendous verse.
You see in Psalm 149, the Lord has been set forth as a joyous
light to his people. You'll read that there in Psalm
149, verses 1:00 to 5:00. And then the Lord has also been
set forth as the judging Lord to his foes, because the Lord is
also a holy terror to all his enemies.
You're probably familiar with the name Charles Haddon
Spurgeon, the greatest Baptist preacher that ever lived in the
18th century. He's got 66 volumes of sermons.
I have them in the Porta cabin there.
He also wrote many other books, Book of my Preachers.
He wrote a magazine, published it, and it was called The Sword
and the Trial, and I even have a few copies of that as well, but
it could easily have been called The Sword and the Song.
The psalmist here is full of Prius.
Why? He knows that the people of God
are called upon to fight in the battles of the Lord, and as they
fight in the battles of the Lord, they're to do so in the
joyous power of God. This was something that the late
Doctor Martyn Lloyd Jones believed in preached on,
especially in the latter part of his ministry.
God's people are full of grace and full of glory.
They're full of the joy of the Lord as well as a sense of
judgement. You see, God's people are not
meant to be miserable. God's people are not meant to be
mournful. God's people are not meant to be
more food, full of negativity and criticism all the time.
No, we're to be merry. We're we're to be full of joy.
We are to rejoice in the Lord even as we stand for truth and
righteousness. Look at our text.
Let the Saints be joyful in glory, let them sing aloud upon
their beds. Let the high praises of God be
in their mouth and A2 edged sword in their hand.
Now think of the blessings and battles of the singing soldiers.
Three things. One, the enjoyment of the
singing soldiers in verse 5 we've got Let the Saints be
joyful in glory, let them sing aloud upon their beds.
You see God's people live to enjoy His grace.
He He says, let the Saints be joyful in glory.
Why? Because these Saints have been
already been exhorted. Sing unto the Lord a new song
and His praise in the congregation of Saints.
The new song is the song of the soul set free.
Do you know that there's 9 references in the Bible to the
word new song? Psalm 33 verse 3, Psalm 40 verse
3, Psalm 96 verse one, Psalm 98 verse one, Psalm 144 verse 9,
Psalm 149 verse one, Isaiah 4210, Revelation 5 and 9, and
Revelation 14 and three. That makes 9 in total and Psalm
149 verse one is the 6th reference and six is the number
of man. And you've got to think about a
new man in Christ. And out of all the people in the
world, the man that's in Christ, the man that has come as a
Sinner to be saved by the Lord Jesus, has the greatest reason
to be joyful. The Bible says therefore, if any
man be in Christ, he's a new creature.
All things have passed away and all things have become new and
all things are of God. We have been rebuilt, we have
been renewed, we are being remade in righteousness and
holiness and knowledge of God. We are new creatures.
Let me illustrate. There was a man years ago by the
name of Billy Bray. He was a Cornish miner and he
was known as the Hallelujah man. Whenever Billy Bray walked along
the road and he put out his right leg, he shouted
Hallelujah. When he put forth his left leg
and took another step, he shouted, Amen, praise the Lord.
They they told him one day in church, Billy, if you don't shut
up, we're going to put you in the barrel outside.
And he says, well, if you put me in the barrel, I'll shout out
Hallelujah and praise the Lord through the bunghole.
Now why was Billy Bray like that?
Because Billy Bray was full of the joy of the Lord, that he had
come to personal faith in Christ, that he had tasted the
grace of God, and he took seriously this command to be
joyful and offer praise to the Lord when it says, praise ye the
Lord, when it says, sing unto the Lord.
A new song has praises in the congregation of Saints when it
says, Let the Saints be joyful in glory.
You see, all of these are in the sense of being commands.
We're commanded to offer praise in the assembly of God's people,
in the congregation of Saints. That's why we sing praises when
we come together. It's not just a full time.
We're commanded to do this and we love to be here.
And isn't it wonderful to be able to sing God's praise in
God's house and sing these old hymns, the hymns of redemption,
the the hymns of Greece and the hymns of glory, Hymns that are
full of Christ, his person, His work, his blood atonement.
Whenever the church gathers together, we are commanded to be
joyful as we offer praise unto the Lord.
Why? Because we're recipients of
God's grace. What is grace?
Not just Christ's riches at God's expense.
It's more than that. The grace of God is undeserved,
unmerited favour to criminals and to lawbreakers.
The grace of God is free. It's undeserved.
It's it's unmerited without price.
That's why Paul says in Ephesians 28 and 9, Four, by
grace are you saved through faith, and that not of
yourselves. It's the gift of God, not of
works that any man should boast. You see, we often think of joy.
We often think of joyfulness only when you feel like it.
See, we think, well, joy. Well, that's a feeling of
something in US. When something good happens,
you'll get good grades. In my exams, I want to smile and
and be joyful. Or I learn that my team has won
in their football game. Or I'm joyful when I'm on the
holidays and I'm relaxing. But it but it's much more than
that. You see, it's, it's not being
joyful because something good has happened.
It's not being joyful because there's an earthful event has
taken place, because that event peels into insignificance.
It's being joyful because of who God is.
And you have that realisation and it's been joyful because
what what God has done and it's been joyful because God is.
I had a nice wee message from a man in England and I thank the
man that he's listening online for the little message.
God bless you, Trevor. And it was about God is this
morning. It just tied into the message
because I was thinking of that as I came up the road from Porta
down last night. God is our maker and creator.
God is our sustainer provider. God is our ruler and our king.
God is our Redeemer. God is our judge and advocate.
Can I ask the question this morning?
Does your praise of God flow from joy?
Does your praise of God give you joy?
The joy of the Lord is our strength.
Strength to carry on despite the difficulty, despite the
darkness, despite your situation.
See, we should really be all asking ourselves this question.
Am I really praising the Lord? Praising the Lord in all that we
are, in all that we say, in all that we do?
Are you really giving the whole of your heart to God's praise,
to glorify Him? Let me put it simply.
Do you rejoice in Him? Do you light in Him?
Do you open your mouth to sing the high praise of God with a a
loud expression of joy, whether in the congregation of Saints,
as he mentions that in verse one, or upon the bed?
Let them sing aloud upon their beds.
Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, that that means
in their throats. See, let's remember we are his.
If you've come as a Sinner to the foot of the cross and
receive Christ as Lord and Saviour, you're His.
This morning. We belong to Him, we believe on
Him, we are blessed by Him. We are honoured to be able to
come and worship Him, who He is and what He's like and what He's
done. Oh, there's times, yes, we don't
feel like it. Times we don't feel close to Him
as we ought. Times we're not really inclined
to open our mouths and offer praise, but we need to, even
though when we don't feel like it, because we enjoy his grace
and salvation. Our sins are gone, they're under
the blood. We have a full and free and
forever pardon. We've been brought from darkness
in the light. We've been legally justified in
Christ. We have been adopted into God's
family, the the Lord. He is our God, He is our
Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour.
We're indwelt by the Spirit of God and I want to tell you
that's a Trinitarian blessing and and we can praise him as he
says here in verse four. He says verse three, let them
praise his name and the dance. Let them sing praises unto him
with the timberland harp. I want to tell you that that's
nothing to do with a sinful sensual dance.
It's not like the dancing of the daughter of Herodius, the king
in front of Herod. It's nothing about being a
seductive pole dancer. David, we read dance before the
Lord. See, in ancient times, God's
people use their their body as well as their mouths to praise
the Lord, as they praise the Lord with their heart, soul,
mind and strength. They use percussion instruments
like the temple. They use string instruments like
the harp. She's not wonderful to learn
here as we read in this beautiful Psalm.
For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people.
He will beautify the meek with salvation.
And whether you're in the House of God or at home alone, even in
your bed when you're at quiet rest and when there's a restful
spirit, we can still sing praises unto our God.
Not only do we enjoy His grace, but we extend his glory.
It says in our text, let the Saints be joyful in glory.
What's man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him
forever. Remember what we read over there
in Corinthians and 1st Corinthians and chapter 10 and
in the verse 31 it says, whether therefore you eat or drink or
whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
See, one of the ways to praise Him is to be excited about Him.
The word joyful literally means jumping for joy with something
tremendous and something wonderful and something good has
happened. The the praise here is about
boasting and and bragging in the Lord, praising Him continually
and fervently and liberally and dearly.
The word sing here has to do with one who's travelling on a
journey. So wherever he or she goes,
they're singing to the Lord. They're making melody in their
heart. They're making much of Him that
they're taking up with His glory.
The word praise here has to do with shining.
Think of someone with a clean heart mentions made here of the
word sins. You've got to think of holy ones
that are saved and separated and being sanctified unto the Lord
speaks of a clean heart and and a clean conscience.
No one like cleansed from all sacred and presumptuous sin.
Why do we exist to enjoy his grace?
We exist to extol his glory. We exist to extol his greatness.
The Bible says great as the Lord and greatly to be praised.
Psalm 148 or Psalm 48 verse one, See, the Lord has saved me.
You take that into your mind this morning.
You've been changed and transformed.
You're no longer what you once were.
You're a new creature in Christ, and the Lord is sanctifying you
wholly and setting you apart, and the Lord is changing and
transforming your life by the power of the Word and the power
of the Spirit. And the Lord is using you, and
therefore you can rejoice in Him.
You can be joyful in Him who is King.
You can be taken up with Him. Fill your heart and mind with
who He is and what He's done and what He's like.
Isn't it wonderful this morning that we can worship God?
Isn't it wonderful this morning that we can walk by faith with
Him? Isn't it wonderful that we can
witness for Him and open our mouth to speak of His glory?
Notice the bodily parts here in our text.
It speaks of a mouth. Verse 6.
It speaks of a hand. See, what's in the mouth must be
right before what's in the hand can be effective.
We exist. Here's the enjoyment of the
singing soldiers. They enjoy God's grace.
They're wrapped up in His glory. They live to extol greatest the
Lord. Think secondly with me this
morning of the engagement of the singing soldiers.
Look at the words in our text. Let the high praises of God be
in their mouth and A2 edged sword in their hand.
Now as you think of the engagement of singing soldiers,
think with me of the core of the conflict.
I want you to think of the battles and the struggles and
the conflicts that the church faces.
We face a battle with sin and Satan.
We're in a spiritual war with the world that seeks to squeeze
us into its mould with this anti God and anti Christian agenda.
It were in a battle with inward remaining sin and corruption.
And because of that battle and struggle and conflict, God's
people are not often joyful. They can be joyless.
They can become depressed and discouraged and dispirited.
And that's where many are AT at this minute and time in the 21st
century. And I want you to think this
morning of this connection. Being a singer and being a
soldier, let the high praises of God be in their mouth.
Not just praises, but the high praises of God.
The word God here means L, the God of strength, the Almighty
and A2 edged sword in their hand.
I was thinking of soldiers going to war.
And then I came across these little books, British patriotic
songs, English patriotic songs, and I was just reminded, of
course, of the song that English soldiers sang during the Civil
War. You know all about the English
Civil War, 1642 to 1651. It was a fight between the king
and Parliament. The king was King Charles the
First. The King's supporters were
called Cavaliers. The supporters of the Parliament
were called Roundheads, and they were led by a man called Oliver
Cromwell, known as the Lord Protector.
Well, I'm not going to preach on the English Civil War.
OK, not going to give you a history lesson, but just to
remind you of this, that when the Roundheads, led by Cromwell,
set off the battle, they sang patriotic songs, but they didn't
sing any modern songs. They sung the Psalms and some of
the psalms that they sung were the Hallelujah Psalms and Psalm
149 was one of them. Let the high praise of God be in
her mouth and A2 edged sword in their hand.
You see, the songs lifted the spirit.
The songs reminded them of God, the living and the true God with
whom they have to do. The songs reminded them of life
and death. It reminded them of mortality.
It reminded them of eternity. They were known as Christ's
singing soldiers, the Roundheads in the Civil War, Christ singing
soldiers. And it was that thought when I
come up the road on the motorway yesterday that came into my mind
as I was thinking about attacks for today.
You see, we ought to have joy, the joy of the Lord, in the
midst of the battle. In the midst of the battle.
We're to enjoy Christ because of God's grace, because of God's
glory, because of God's greatness.
As Ready pointed out, the Hebrew word is L here.
Let the high praises of God be in their mouth.
One who's strong and mighty to deliver, One who is the
Almighty. Now let me be careful because I
want to make this clear. Now listen to me very carefully.
I'm not talking about a literal war here.
I'm not talking about a physical warfare like the English Civil
War. See this was OK for ancient
Israel. Ancient Israel where a
theocracy, they were ruled by God.
We are not. Ulster doesn't have the title
deeds like Israel has to its land.
We are a parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarchy.
And that constitutional monarchy, of course, come out of
the Glorious Revolution of 1688 in the Willehide settlement of
1689. And I say that for this reason,
some have used these words literally to take up arms to
justify an armed struggle for God.
Let's go out and fight with swords.
Let's go out and fight with guns.
Let's go out and fight with clubs.
I'll give you 1 illustration. Germany, Protestant Reformation.
Thomas Munster and the peasants revolt in Germany in the 16th
century. It did a lot of harm to the
cause of the Reformation. Thomas Munster took these words,
these verses, in a literal sense.
He seen himself as the sword of Gideon.
He went out to war. There was the extreme Anabaptist
as well. And of course in our day there
might be some who profess the name of Christ.
Think we've got to as well go out and lift up A2 edged sword
to kill other people, die or convert.
Well, that's not the way of the Christian Church, that's not New
Testament Christianity. The two edged sword here can be
of course a picture of the Word of God.
In Ephesians chapter 6 and verse 17 we read this and take in the
helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is
the Word of God over there in Hebrews.
In Hebrews chapter 4 verse 12, it said, For the word of God is
quick and powerful and sharper than any 2 edged sword, piercing
even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the
joints and marrow. And as a discerner of the
thoughts and intents of the heart.
Let me tell you a little story of the man standing going off
from London to Tel Aviv. He's going to the land of Israel
on his holidays with a party and he's from Northern Ireland here.
And he's asked by an IDF member, have you got any weapons with
you? They meant a sword or a gun or a
club or a knife. And he said, I've just got my
old trusted sword. They kept them for four hours.
They knew exactly what he was talking about.
It was the Word of God, but because He mentioned the word
sword, they took it literally. The sword of the Spirit is the
word of God. And remember in John's Gospel,
the Lord Jesus said in John chapter 18 and in the verse 36,
my Kingdom was not of this world.
If my Kingdom were of this world, then would My servants
fight that I should not be delivered to the Jews?
But now is my Kingdom not from fence?
You see, the Church of Christ is not to take up weapons.
It's not to go out into the community and enforce the law.
It's not to punish the evildoer. That's the job of the
government. Romans 13 verse one.
See, we're not a theocracy. It's right and honourable for
human governments to enforce law breaking and law making in our
community. The Bible teaches in Corinthians
the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through
God to the pulling down of strongholds.
So I want you to think of the core of the conflict.
It's a spiritual conflict. Keep that in mind.
I want you to think of the cause of the conflict.
You see, when it mentions here the two edged sword, it reminds
me of course that the causes for gospel truth and and gospel
light. Folks, we are in a spiritual
war. Remember Ephesians 6 and 12
where we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the
darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high
places. We're in a battle against sin,
Satan and the world, a battle for light, a battle for truth.
See, in the modern world, the gospel has looked upon us
something that's stupid. It's a worthless thing.
It's being good news, especially if you listen to the modern
media. To the unbeliever, the gospel
means nothing good news. They don't see any value in it.
But the devil's purpose is to keep them dead in sin.
The devil's purpose is to keep them blind in the darkness.
The devil's purpose is to keep them diseased.
And and that's a big thing that we face at the moment.
The church faces danger from without, it also faces danger
from within. Remember hope we read in the
book of Jude over there in Jude 3 and 4.
Beloved, when I give all diligence to write unto you of
the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you
and exhort you. You should earn us to contend
for the faith which was once delivered unto the Saints.
For there are certain men crept and unawares who were before of
old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men
turning the grace of our God into luxuriousness and denying
the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
You see in Jude's day there was men crept into the church
unawares. They had a plan, they had a
purpose. Change the church, change it's
worship, change it's witness, change it's stand for the
scriptures, Change it's walk from being God centred to being
a man centred from, from a God pleasing way to a man pleasing
me. And of course that has happened
over time, in the 18th and the 19th century it has happened and
the churches have fallen prey to these ungodly men and, and, and,
and, and, and they have changed the style of the old hymns and
the modern ones. They, they have brought in a
more modern message. They brought in modern versions
of the Bible and of course we have to ask with Jeremiah, stand
ye in the ways and see and ask for the old pass, wherein is the
good way, and walk therein and you shall find rest for their
souls. But they said we will not walk
therein. What do we face today?
Let me say it very quickly. As we finish, we face militant
resurgence of Roman Catholicism. It was Archbishop Usher that
said when the Church of Rome is in a minority, she's a lamb,
which is in equality. She's a fox, which is in the
majority, she's a lion. Do you know that Pope Leo the
14th And I haven't preached. I haven't said anything about
Pope Leo in the past, neither the death of Pope Francis or the
election of Pope Leo. Haven't mentioned it
deliberately, but this is what he said recently.
We want unity. He also said this, the Church of
Rome presides in charity, never questioning of capturing others
either by force or by religious propaganda or by means of power.
When I read that and that's come officially, I, I thought, well,
that's a lie that can't be true. Let's nail the lie.
Look at the history, the Inquisition, the Spanish Armada,
or we could go on the wars that the Church of Rome was behind.
We also face a battle with militant atheism and
secularisation. We want to dismantle our
Christian culture. We face another enemy of
progressive liberalism out to destroy the family unit.
You think of the explosion of the sodomite parades in our
street and how sinful and vulgar and obscene the whole thing is.
Add into that the programme of education for the children,
teaching boys and girls that abortion is OK, contrary to the
command thou shall not kill. Teaching them about
relationships that have to do with different genders.
I mean, there's only two genders, male and female.
Teaching them about LGBTQ plus. Then we face, of course, the
spirit of socialism. See, there's many evils around.
The forces of hell, the forces of darkness are all arrayed
against the Christian Church. We get through into the mix,
false religion and false cults. Islam is on the March.
All religions do not lead to God.
All religions are not the way to heaven.
There's a battle on and we are set for the defence of the
gospel and the core of that battle.
It's a spiritual battle. And remember what Paul's advice
was to Timothy in First Timothy and in chapter 6 and in the
verse 12, he says this fight, the good fight of faith.
They hold an eternal life whereunto thou art also called
and has professed a good profession before many
witnesses. We're not just sons in a family.
We're not just Saints in a field to labour and work.
We are soldiers in a fight. And the core of that conflict is
spiritual and the causes were in a battle to the death against
enemies in the force of darkness in an unseen world.
Very quickly our time has gone. Think of the captain of the
conflict. Who's the captain?
You you see these soldiers that went to fight in David's day,
They had a captain. David LED them.
And the captain of our salvation is the Lord Jesus Christ.
I was encouraged yesterday when I was thinking about King
William on the 19th of June 1690 when he came to Belfast, that
there religious service there in Saint George's Church.
The minister preached when thou passes through the waters I will
be with thee. Did he know he was going to
cross the point? I don't believe he did.
I believe that was a prophetic experience.
He was saying to William, the Lord, we'll be with you and,
and, and the Lord is with us as the captain of the Lord's host,
as he was with Joshua. You see, he had plans for the
battle. He is with us.
He, he will give us the victory. He'll be there to support and
help us in all that we face because the fight is his.
His presence, his protection, his provision, his power, his
promises, his purpose will all be realised because he's the
captain of our salvation. Do you know him?
Do you love him? Are you walking with him?
Are you in fellowship with Him? We can think about the
conclusion of the conflict, the outcome of the battle.
Of course, any battle could never be predicted.
The outcome of war is never guaranteed.
But this spiritual warfare, this fight that we're in is
guaranteed because we're already on the victory side.
Jesus said I'll build my church, and the gates of hell shall not
prevail against it. The church has Christ's help,
the church's Christ's power, and therefore we're fighting not for
victory, but in victory, in victory, in the Lord's name.
We could think about the coronation of the conflict, the
two edged sword, fighting against the enemy, defeating the
enemy, and is connected with praise.
Remember in the days of Jehoshaphat, Joshaphat, when he
led the armies out, they sang praise unto the Lord.
First of all, before they ever lifted the sword, Second
Chronicles chapter 20, verses 21 and 22, they began to sing,
began to praise the Lord, and you see, they discovered there's
power in praise. Whenever Paul was at gaol at
midnight, he sang praises unto God and prayer was offered and
the prisoners heard them. There was power in that praise.
There was power in the prayer singing in the jailhouse.
See, that's the coronation. One final thing.
Think about the engagement of the singing soldiers.
What did they do? They sang high praises unto God
before they ever engaged the enemy.
That is critical. God's people sung.
Why did they sing? Because God's people believed in
God, God's people had faith in him.
God's people were rejoicing in him and looking for his
blessing, Samuel Rutherford was heard to say when he was in
prison. I don't know which member of the
Trinity I love the most. I love them all and I need them
all. I need the Father's love.
I need the Son's atoning sacrifice and they need the
power of the regenerating and indwelling spirit.
Here's the engagement of these soldiers.
They discovered as they laboured, there was power and
praise. And that's critical that you
understand that because as they engaged, they praised the Lord.
As they praised the Lord, they engaged.
And I say to you, as we finish, you think of your sins that you
struggle with, sins that you worry about, kill the sins that
you worry about, deal with the lusts that hunt you, silence
every worry and fear. How can you do that?
Through singing the high praises of the Lord and then using the
sword of the Spirit, the word of God, depending on that to gain
the power and to gain the victory.
That's the engagement that we should be engaged in at this
particular time. So if you're here today and
you're full of worry and fear about something, maybe you're
fearful about tomorrow, fearful about the future, fearful of
anything, then let's bring that worry and lay at the Lord's
feet. Let's slay it with the power of
this word of God and sing praises unto God that our God is
true and faithful, and our God will answer prayer.
There's power and praise. There's power and prayer.
There's power in the promises of our God.
The Lord bless you today. Thank you for coming and I pray
that these few stumbling words that the Lord gave me yesterday
evening will be a blessing to your heart.