Put a new song in my heart
Lord put a song in my heart- a new song in my mouth, and I will sing.
Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, And uphold me by Your generous Spirit.
Psalm 51:12
I love also the NIV: Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
We all need a willing spirit to sustain us. The enemy comes to wear out the saints in these last days. Don’t be deceived. We need to ask for a new song to sing.
And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. Daniel 7:25
We have been warned from way long ago, but we have also been given hope, encouragement, and truth to not quit. We are empowered by Him, or as I like to say: “inpowered”. Believers have His Spirit living on the inside. I’m going to use lots of scripture, more than usual, because it is vital to know the very truth of the matter that sets us free. This isn’t my typical blog, but one I felt we could use.
We are facing lots of opposition right now in this world, as believers. It’s for sure trying times. We need each other. It’s easy to get down and stay down, but we weren’t born to quit. We were born to battle, and God made us to endure. So therefore, He enables us too. God, our Maker, He wants us to win. The enemy of our soul, he wants us to quit. I come to encourage you today to endure believer. Don’t quit, don’t faint and don’t give up or in.
If you faint in the day of adversity, Your strength is small. Proverbs 24:10
CONSIDER HIM who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. Hebrews 12:23Return to the stronghold, You prisoners of hope. Even today I declare That I will restore double to you. Zechariah 9:12
WE LOOK TO JESUS.
We must consider Him, Jesus, Who suffered much but didn’t quit. As I read through Matthew 27 & 28 this morning, I was reminded of how much Jesus did suffer. love the verse that tells us that we are prisoners of hope. God wants to restore and He does nothing half way. So, we must keep the faith. We must return back to our stronghold, our hope, our God.
Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2
Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but the one who stands firm (endures) to the end will be saved. Matthew 24:12-13
We learn to endure from our perfect example, Jesus. We must not quit, but set our sights on Him. Not everyone wins. Only the one who endures till the end.
Do not lose heart or be afraid when rumors are heard in the land; one rumor comes this year, another the next, rumors of violence in the land and of ruler against ruler. Jeremiah 51:46
But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed. Job 4:5
The Good News is:
1- We are told that this would come.
We’ve already been warned so that we would be prepared, not surprised. We must watch. In this world you will have many troubles. Troubles come and troubles go. If we face trials, sometimes that’s just proof that you’re going in the right direction. It’s called opposition. Those who fight will be met with opposition or otherwise, there’d be no need to fight. This trouble isn’t our permanent destination. If we are discouraged, or tempted to lose heart, we can know that there is hope. It’s all a battle for our faith and for our soul. Jesus endured and that is why we must not lose heart. He made a way, and we must follow Him.
2- He said to be of good cheer for He has overcome the world & all that’s in it.
We must take heart. We must not be afraid. Fear and discouragement lead straight down. He said that we would have trials and face tribulations. It is written. It is also written that it is finished and that HE gets the final say!! That’s our hope. We’ve been warned about these trials but also given the importance of being of good cheer and overcoming. Good cheer will keep us from getting down and from discouragement.
We can do all of this by using the weapons of Spiritual warfare, not physical, as some fight. We do this by first knowing, and then standing in truth. We do this by His Spirit helping us to endure and making us willing. We must rely.
We need some antidotes. We need the right weapons. We need to learn to fight right. We fight our battles with praise, with truth, and on our knees first. So, when we have need to stand, we can. We are strengthened first on our knees.
Don’t quit. Endure. Stand fast. Stand firm in faith. Loins girded with truth. Mind stayed. Hope anchored. Trust placed. Be of good cheer. Don’t faint. Don’t lose heart. Don’t lose faith. Made to endure. Hang on to hope, prisoner of it.
“For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.” Jeremiah 31:25
We all get bogged and burdened down. Whether it be from the news of the world around us, trouble with a loved one, struggles in finances, etc… Our souls get tired, that’s how the enemy attacks us, when we’re down. He gets us in our weak, vulnerable and unshielded places. Yet, we have the weapons!
He wants to discourage us so that we will become weary and weak in our very souls; deep down. He wants to tire us out and make us want to give up. That’s why we must learn the truth; that the devil is a liar and he’s a deceiver. We must learn to counteract his attacks as soon as they come at us. We must not wait. Ephesians 6 tells us what those weapons are and how to use them. The power is in His Spirit and the tools that we believers possess. If we don’t know what they are, how will we use them? We must have a strategy. He doesn’t want us left defenseless.
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. 2 Corinthians 10:3-6
We wait.
But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:31
When and while we are waiting, we are charging. We aren’t quitting, rather waiting to be infused. Like a battery waiting on its charge. That takes faith. It’s not weak to wait, it’s wise. It’s unwise to try to fight drained, so we wait on His Spirit.
We aren’t to faint, we are to wait if we feel like we might faint. Otherwise, that’s when we quit. That’s why the Word says twice in the same scripture to, “wait”, to express it’s importance. We only gain the harvest, after the wait. Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. Psalm 27:14
And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high. Luke 24:49
Waiting is not cowardly; waiting is simply not depending on your own might.
So he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel:’ Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty. Zechariah 4:6
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Corinthians 12:9-10
Look up, not down.
We don’t give up, but instead we look up.
And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. Luke 21:28
But you, LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, the One who lifts my head high. Psalm 3:3
Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. Psalm 43:5
When our soul gets tired, He comes to Refresh and satisfy the weary soul, and to Renew our strength again. He replenishes. We must put our hope in God. We throw our hope out there like an anchor and we tie off to the very promises of God to rescue us. We must not try to face or fight the waves alone or they’ll win every time. We must hold on to peace be still until the waves subside. We are anchored to Him, our living hope. He gives us strength if we wait and enabling grace to do.
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. HE GIVES strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; Isaiah 40:28-30
It’s normal to get weak and want to quit. It’s human nature. But to wait upon the Lord takes trust and faith for Him to do the supernatural. We must walk by The Spirit and depend on Him, in order not to fulfill our natural tendency to want to quit. We don’t fight our tendencies alone.
That is why:
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Philippians 4:13
Because we rely.
We can do all this, because He is, I Am. He enables us born again believers. Born of His Spirit the second time, and not of flesh like the first time that we were born into this world. When born to our mothers, we were born into the natural. When born by His Spirit, supernatural. We must depend on the supernatural. We must cry out like the Psalmist did: Why are you so downcast within me, my soul? We must put our trust in God again. It’s a daily surrender. It’s a choice that we must choose. Everyday give it up: the need to go it alone or the want to quit. His Mercies are new every single morning that we wake up. That’s good news and the reason why we cannot worry about tomorrow. Sufficient are the troubles for today. Just like grace, it’s enabling grace that is good for the moment. His grace is enough. It’s available step by step and we must depend on it every single step. That’s enough reason to sing, another day, another chance. Each moment is a blessing and an opportunity to sing.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1
Look up. Look out. Don’t get stuck. Keep trusting. Keep waiting. Keep walking it out.
We rejoice.
Nehemiah said, “Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” Nehemiah 8:10
Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice. Philippians 4:4
Back to the original verse, the need for the joy of His salvation to be restored to us. Why? Because HIS JOY IS OUR STRENGTH. That tells me that if we don’t have joy, we don’t have strength. We are therefore weak! So, unless we rejoice, do we really have joy? That’s why this scripture says always and again! Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say, “Rejoice”! Just as we must wait, we must rejoice while we wait. We must rejoice always. In all things giving thanks for this is His will. When we least feel like it, is when we need it most. We must turn it around. We must ask Him to restore unto us the joy of His salvation. To remember why we first started this journey and to give us a willing spirit to sustain us by His Spirit. Giving us His strength, to endure.
We must get our joy back. We have something to gain, but also something to lose. We must lose our discouragement. Our disappointment. Another thing that holds us back is anger. We must let go of all that’s holding us back and weighing us down. We must cast it on Him, and loose it. He can handle our weight. We can’t. He says to cast all your care, not just part of it. He will sustain us, He will never permit the righteous to be moved.
His anger is but for a moment, but His favor is for a lifetime. It’s ok to be angry, just not to stay that way!
The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue. Proverbs 25:23
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil. Ephesians 4:26-27
But on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast. Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.” Genesis 4:5-7
It changes us. It changes our face, our countenance, our behavior. Injustices come and injustices go but His favor is for a lifetime. Give Him rule, He will grant you a willing spirit to sustain you. Lest you fall and cave into the temptation to be angry forever, and all but giving up and quitting. That is why we must deal with our anger and what is causing us to be angry, quickly. He ain’t mad at you, He wants you back. It’s THE ENEMY who has lied to you and tried to hold you back. He doesn’t want you to know the truth. We conquer anger in honesty, prayer, forgiveness, releasing the situation to God to handle, accepting our part in it, and rejoicing.
It isn’t easy. Personally, I’ve found it one of the hardest areas to conquer. But, He says that vengeance is His. How is it His if we are still holding onto it? Again, I’m not saying it’s easy, but the only way to be released from it, is to let it go. We must give it to Him, let Him have it in full. If He says that vengeance belongs to Him, we must ask ourselves why we are holding onto it. Why are we holding the sword and onto the offense with such a tight grip? When all along, it’s just damaging us, while we could be living in freedom. We ought not miss out. That’s why we aren’t to let the sun go down on our wrath, so that each day can be a new day. His mercies are new every morning, but we won’t walk in that while still holding onto yesterday and it’s offense. It’s hard but once we let go, it gets easier. The hardest part is holding on with that death grip. It’s the only way to freedom: release.
For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning. Psalm 30:5
He tells us here that we will weep, but it won’t last forever. Things go wrong. Sometimes we go wrong. But, we must put our hope back in Him. We can know and be assured that, the sun will shine on a better day.
1 I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.
4 Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. Psalm 40
Breaking it down:
1 Wait patiently, lest you faint. Sometimes it takes a minute. Jesus was mocked and told to save Himself if He was Who He said He was. Yet, the 3’rd day came. Yours is coming to, just wait!
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. Proverbs 24:10
2 He will bring you up out of what you sink into IF you call. Ask, and wait. There’s something to learn in each lesson in life. Question is, are you willing? Will you try to find another way of escape? Will you accept being stuck and sink lower?
To the roots of the mountains I sank down; the earth beneath barred me in forever. But You, Lord my God, brought my life up from the pit. Jonah 2:6
Take a moment to read Jonah 2 to see how differently your story can end if we cooperate with God and cry out to Him.
But I, with shouts of grateful praise, will sacrifice to you. What I have vowed I will make good. I will say, ‘Salvation comes from the Lord.’” And the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land. Jonah 2:9-10
Jonah had to get low before he was lifted back up. He had to dig deep and release what he was holding in but it ended in praise!
Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck. Psalm 69:1
The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die. Lamentations 3:54
I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me. Psalm 69:2
3 When we have a new song in our mouth, we no longer have to sing the old one. Sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth. Psalm 96:1
He wants us to proclaim what He has done. A testimony comes from a test. How we tell them, how else would they know? How would we have truly known, unless we’d truly been to the deep and back up again to tell about it? Jonah had a story to tell but not till after he had the lesson. He doesn’t want us to drown, He intended to set us back on our feet and back on higher solid ground. There will be a time to tell. We overcome by His blood, the blood of the Lamb, and by the words of our testimonies. (Revelations 12:11) Keep telling of His love and what He has done for you, how He died to set you free. Keep overcoming, this is how.
Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
4- We must trust God and make Him our trust. Or else we will believe, thus fall for a lie. Keeping our eyes on Him. The author and perfecter of our faith. He will see us through and He Is our perfect example Who has gone before us. He made a way.
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart rejoices, and I give thanks to Him with my song. Psalm 28:27
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Psalm 27:13
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
I will Sing of Your love forever. Not only is Your joy my strength but laughter is medicine for the soul. I must look for reasons to laugh and I must purpose to rejoice even if I don’t feel like it. I must get my why back, my smile back, my faith back. That’s faith in what You will do, and my praise comes before my break through. Our souls aren’t to be downcast forever, and I trust that you’ll put a new song in my heart and on my lips.
“I'll praise before my breakthrough
'Til my song becomes my triumph
I will sing because I trust You
I will bring my heart, I will lift my song” (Lyrics to “Praise Before My Breakthrough”)
AND WHEN THEY BEGAN TO SING AND TO PRAISE, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten. 2 Chronicles 20:22
Don’t wait. Go ahead and sing before your breakthrough. Don’t discount the power of praise. When the praises go UP, His Power comes DOWN. He inhabits our praises and it is power. That when we find our greatest truths, in worship. It’s was first in the dark that we could only then see the light of truth. We had to believe a lie before we understood truth. We had to be in the dark, in order to see the light. That’s what Jesus came to do, shed light and reveal truth. The very truth that would set you and me free. We must receive it and walk in it, In order to be and stay free.
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 2 Corinthians 4:6
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light; 1 Peter 2:9
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee. Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. Psalm 51:12-14
We’ve got something to teach and to tell others out of this. God will make this trial a blessing and we will proclaim His goodness. He will turn our night into morning and will cause us to have a day song, out of our night song. Weeping may endure for a night season, but joy always comes in the morning, just as sure as the sun rises again. He will restore unto us our joy. We will rejoice for He has made us glad. His joy; our strength. We acknowledge what’s going on, we acknowledge our God, we pray, we cry out, we look to Jesus, we trust, we study, we wait, we sing, and we will rejoice in You Lord; our Victor. Our victory rest in you.
Study Psalm 43:1-5. When we begin talking it out with our soul and pour it all out before God as the Psalmist did, I believe that we will be encouraged again. Don’t hide it, don’t deny it, don’t dwell on it. But instead, be honest and give it to Him.
Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, dear friends!
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Phillipians 4:1 & 4-8
He tries to get us in our minds, that is where the battle takes place. It’s a battle for our mind, where we win or lose. We must keep our minds stayed on God and truth because we trust Him. This is how we fight our battles!
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. Romans 8:36-37
We are fighters; MORE THAN conquerors. My God does nothing half way.
Philipians 1:6
