“Sing to Me”

Sometimes we come to a place in our spiritual lives where we must stop the merry-go-round and get off. Our world is spinning from the demands of life and we say, “I have had enough play. I’m getting off here and going this direction.” It takes some evaluation or summing up of circumstances to do this. Drastic changes come suddenly when you get off the merry-go-round and start evaluating what is going on in your life.

There are times when I have felt impressed to fast, in order for the flack around me to subside. This is what I call pressing in, bulldog faith. I see the problem, it is impossible, and I take a drastic measure to start fasting in order to see something happen. I have adopted this verse, “This poor woman cried and the Lord heard her and delivered her from all her troubles.”

I have been praying recently for revival to break out. It needs to break in me, before I see results. I was at the church to pray for the services. I found a wonderful pillowed altar to kneel down on, when the Lord said, “Sing to Me. Get up. Sing to Me! I did. A spontaneous time of worshipful singing came forth. Here is an example. “Lord, My God, I will sing to You! I will sing praise to You, My King. I worship and adore you. You are wonderful! Hallelujah! I will clap and sing, raise my hand, twirl and dance for you have given me joy, great joy! I bless your name! I bless Your name! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!”

I knelt down again at the cushioned altar. I had just begun praying, when the Lord said,” Get up, Sing to Me.” This need to sing to Him was there all that afternoon. I sang in the car on the way home, and came early to church to sing some more. I sang too loudly in the service, and finally Sunday afternoon, as I was writing this newsletter, the Lord said to me, “Sit before Me. Bask in My presence! I will provide a company of angels to be around you as you worship Me for I am almighty God. There is none like Me. I am your company, the presence you want to be with. I am come that you may have life, life most abundant. Be free in Me. Minister to Me, my child. Sing from your heart to Me. I have placed in your hands an instrument. Clap and sing for victory, for this is the way out of your dilemma.”
You see, I was praying for the Lord to change circumstances. He came through by the first of the next week. The Lord was beginning something more in me, and I needed to persevere with Him for a season. I didn’t need to go out of town. I needed to stay in place.

There are many passages in the Bible about singing and shouting to the Lord, which involve our responses to Him. In my case, He was saying to sing to Him and forget the burden, for He would take care of it as I just worshiped Him. Long ago I learned to make up songs and tunes to Him whether they made sense to anybody else or not. Worship is spontaneous and sometimes we get too bogged down in our worship. Freedom is getting started and letting go of the garments of praise from the past, and receiving the freedom of the Lord to just worship like we love Him and want to be in His presence. He wants us to worship from our heart, like He wants me to write from my heart. I shouted and sang last week when I met with him. I shouted: LORD JESUS I PRAISE YOU! FATHER I LOVE YOU! I WORSHIP YOU! HALLEUJAH! HALLEUJAH! I BLESS YOUR NAME! YOU ARE WONDERFUL; YOU ARE GOD ALMIGHTY, HALLEUJAH!

The Lord gave me this verse which I repeated aloud many times:
Zephaniah 3: 17—“The Lord your God is in your midst, a victorious warrior. He will exalt over you with joy, He will be quiet in His love, He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.” J

Turn to I Samuel 17: “God will deliver me so that all this assembly may know that the Lord does not deliver by sword or by spear: for the battle is the Lord’s and He will give you into our hands.”

David ran quickly to meet the giant. David stands before Saul with the Giant’s head in his hand. When the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled! You have to fearlessly kill the giant and cut his head off with the giant’s own sword. The giant in your life will taunt you until you cut its head off. You have to confront the giant! All the armies of Israel did not have boldness until David, a ruddy, youthful, runt killed the giant with a stone and a sling shot. Then they ran after the Philistines and killed many of them.

David made this statement to King Saul, “Your servant was tending his father’s sheep when a lion or bear came and took a lamb from the flock. I went out after him, and rescued it from its mouth. When he rose up against me, I seized him by his beard and struck him and killed him. Your servant has killed both lion and bear and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them; since he has taunted the armies of the living God, the Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.

To the giant, David said, “I come to you in the name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have taunted.” David said, The Lord will deliver you into my hands and I will strike you down and remove your head from you. I will give the dead bodies of the Philistines to the birds of the sky and wild beasts of the earth that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, and that the assembly may know that the Lord does not deliver by sword or spear, but He will give you into my hands.”

The Lord wants to give the giant into your hands, but you must do the work to kill the giant of despair, the giant of ________ in your life. What is coming against you the most in your spiritual life? Apathy hits us all, because it is prevalent. Life is hard, God isn’t answering, where is He when I needed Him? He was right there, waiting for you to listen.

Psalm 95: 1 “Shout! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.”

Psalm 81: l “Shout joyfully to the God of Jacob.”

Psalm 66: 1 “Shout joyfully to God, all the earth: sing the glory of His name. Make His praise glorious.”

47:1 O clap your hands, all ye people; shout to God with a voice of joy!

Let’s pray. Dear heavenly Father, Thank you for this time to communicate with the church. Thank you for leading me to stay home, and for forgiving me for rushing ahead instead of listening to your plans. I submit this letter to You, to take it and use it in the lives of those who will read it. Thank you for dealing with me about singing and shouting, and for the good time that resulted from shouting to you in an almost empty building Saturday as I met with you.

Thank you for the freedom in Christ that we have, to go boldly before your throne of grace because of the blood of Christ that He shed for us. Help me to listen and to obey You. Forgive me for the times I haven’t listened. Forgive me for the fears that overwhelm and the anxieties. I release them to you now, and place my burdens at your feet. Thank you for caring enough for me, that you caused my sister to cancel out on my visit. I shout to you by faith as I sit here writing to these precious people.

Lord, will you move mountains in their lives? Will you bring us revival as you melt our hearts? Will you come, Holy Spirit of God, and move in the services at our church? Will you forgive us for apathy, for giving into the merry-go- round of life?

Help us to come into your presence with singing, and drop our problems quickly, in order to worship you and sit at your feet. Forgive us for hardness of heart, and for fears that we would be left with the problem. Forgive us for thinking you are not big enough to handle the giant that has come against us. Cleanse us from our fears, and take our burdens, Lord.
In Jesus name, amen.