FROM CRYING TO SINGING: I'M IN MY SINGING VOICE NOW

Thesis: The world’s evident disregard for God should elicit a song of praise rather a lament of despair.

Introduction: the moral decay of this nation has reached biblical proportion to such a degree as I have never seen or experienced before. Never in my life have I seen such an overt and outright disregard and utter rejection of God and the things of God. It is common place to see the defaming of Jesus on a regular basis. Things have gotten so bad that this attitude has permeated every aspect of life (home, personal lifestyle choices, parenting, respect for our parents and elders, relationships between one another, even our worship in the house of God and commitment to God have been under attack and tainted and assaulted by the attitude of the day. For many of us it has been a praying time and even a time of tears because things have become so bad that our seeming only response is to cry about this world and it’s affect on our way of life and it will sometimes feel as if your prayers and tears have been disregarded and heaven has closed its ears and has left you to suffer with the ungodly and evil. This is a tough time but I decree and declare that if we can just shift our perspective a little bit it will chande our despair into a dance, our cry into a chuckle and, our supplication into a song.

Interrogative: When is the last time you used your singing voice?

Exposition

Here in this Psalm we find David in another difficult situation that drives him to his knees in prayer and supplication because of the exploits of the wicked and evil.

POSITION:DECAY IS DEADLY 28 Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. 2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts. David is crying that God not only hear him, but answer him and not reckon him with those who shall be sent to the pit.

He is seeking God to separate him from his circumstances and the condition of his surroundings

David is crying because he is tired of smiling faces disguising hearts of hatred “ Ps.55: 21  The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart:

His words were softer than oil, fyet were they drawn swords.”

he’s tired of a perverse and wicked generation that can’t and won’t live out the Love of God but only talk about it. “ Jer.6:8  Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: One speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, But in heart he layeth his wait

David is crying because no matter how much he prays and cries there seems to be no change in the people, the nation, the world, home, personal lifestyle choices, parenting, respect for our parents and elders, relationships between one another, even our worship in the house of God and commitment to God. “Rom 16:18  For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

Petition: DON’T LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT

4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.

God let your hand be on them also

don’t let my tears be in vain

don’t let my prayers fall to the ground

let them reap what they sow

PROMISE HE WILL TAKE CARE OF IT 5 Because they regard not the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

he has answered my prayer

don’t you worry and don’t you fret nothing gets by God :3 The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding ?the evil and the good.

1 Samuel 16:7 - But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

1 Peter 3:12 - For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

SHIFT YOUR PERSPECTIVE

6 Blessed be the Lord, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.

instead of crying to Him I will Bless him

because he has heard the voice of my supplication: supplication has a different voice and God understands and answers

He heard your tears, moans, silence, screams, pounding on the kitchen table

WITH A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE MY PROCLAMATION HAS CHANGED TO PRAISE:IN MY SINGING VOICE

7 The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

The Lord isn’t just silent, He’s my strength and shield

both offense and defense

because I trusted Him he is my HELP

instead of tears of dispare I have tears of praise, instead of desparation I have praise, instead of hopelessness I have praise

replaced my anguish and anger with praise- my pain with praise and my Sobbing with a Song

now where there was crying I have a song a song for every occasion. I GONNA PUT A PRAISE ON IT

Logos Digital Hymnal Standing on the Promises

Standing on the Promises

Author: R. Kelso Carter

Composer: R. Kelso Carter

Tune: Promises (Carter)

Scripture: 2 Peter 1:4

1 Standing on the promises of Christ my King,

Thro’ eternal ages let His praises ring;

Glory in the highest, I will shout and sing,

Standing on the promises of God.

2 Standing on the promises that cannot fail,

When the howling storms of doubt and fear assail,

By the living Word of God I shall prevail,

Standing on the promises of God.

3 Standing on the promises of Christ the Lord,

Bound to Him eternally by love’s strong cord,

Overcoming daily with the Spirit’s sword,

Standing on the promises of God.

4 Standing on the promises I cannot fall,

List’ning ev’ry moment to the Spirit’s call,

Resting in my Savior as my all in all,

Standing on the promises of God.

Chorus Standing, standing,

Standing on the promises of God my Savior;

Standing, standing,

I’m standing on the promises of God.

PERPETUAL PROMISE

8 The Lord is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed. 9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.

The promise that never stops giving

when He lifts them up forever the language of the Psalmists changes

Be Worshipful The Promise of Undeserved Blessing (vv. 8–9)

David closed his song by encouraging his people with what he had learned from the Lord. Not only had God saved His anointed king, but He would also save His people Israel. “God save the king” included “God save the people,” so they must trust Him. David saw the nation as God’s inheritance

Be Worshipful The Promise of Undeserved Blessing (vv. 8–9)

God’s flock, and God’s family. The word “feed” in verse 9 (KJV) means “to shepherd.” (see Ps. 23), and “lift up” means “to carry like a child.” Of course, the faithful shepherd sometimes has to carry the lambs, so the two images merge (Isa. 40:11). Though he was Israel’s king, David always saw himself as a shepherd (2 Sam. 24:17). Indeed, the nation of Israel is God’s inheritance, for He has invested in them the spiritual treasures that the bankrupt world needs (Rom. 9:1–5). “Salvation is of the Jews” (John 4:22). God has not forsaken His people.

Gospel

It’s my response to what He did for me

Logos Digital Hymnal Take My Life and Let It Be

Take My Life and Let It Be

Author: Frances R. Havergal

Composer: Henri A. Cesar Malan

Tune: Hendon (Malan)

Scripture: Eph. 6:24; Rom. 12:1

1 Take my life and let it be

Consecrated, Lord to Thee;

Take my moments and my days,

Let them flow in ceaseless praise.

Let them flow in ceaseless praise.

2 Take my hands and let them move

At the impulse of Thy love.

Take my feet, and let them be

Swift and beautiful for Thee;

Swift and beautiful for Thee.

3 Take my voice and let me sing

Always, only, for my King.

Take my lips and let them be

Filled with messages from Thee,

Filled with messages from Thee.

4 Take my silver and my gold,

Not a mite would I withhold;

Take my intellect and use

Ev’ry pow’r as Thou shalt choose,

Ev’ry pow’r as Thou shalt choose.

5 Take my will, and make it Thine,

It shall be no longer mine;

Take my heart, it is Thine own,

It shall be Thy royal throne,

It shall be Thy royal throne.

6 Take my love—my Lord,

I pour At Thy feet its treasure store;

Take myself—and I will be

Ever, only, all for Thee,

Ever, only, all for Thee.