Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth! Sing out the honor of His name; make His praise glorious. Say to God, How awesome are Your works! Through the greatness of Your power Your enemies shall submit themselves to You.
All the earth shall worship You and sing praises to You; they shall sing praises to Your name, ( Psalm 66:1-4).
Oh, sing to the Lord a new song! For He has done marvelous things; His right hand and His holy arm haved gained Him the victory.
The Lord has made known His salvation; His righteousness He has revealed in the sight of the nations. He has remembered His mercy and His faithfulness to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth; break forth in song, rejoice, and sing praises. Sing to the Lord with harp and the sound of a psalm, with trumpets and the sound of a horn; shout joyfully before the Lord, the King.
Let the sea roar, and all its fullness. The world and those who dwell in it; let the rivers clap their hands; let the hills be joyful together before the Lord.
For He is coming to judge the earth. With righteousness He shall judge the world, and the peoples with equity,( Psalm 98).
I am very glad that the Word says to make a shout or a loud noise in praise to the Lord. We do not have to have a beautiful voice to praise Him….. I am very grateful to the ones who have been blessed with great voices that I can hide behind in singing our song to our King!
I live in great amazement to worship songs to the Lord. The instruments playing all together making an awesome sound of beauty to the King of beauty. Each voice and each instrument are beautiful in themselves and yet when they play all together….. Wow- the songs of the Lord are outstanding, beyond this world……. They are heavenly, played by heavenly people.
As the body of Christ is one in the Spirit of God, the unity binds us together under our King, the Head of all creation….. We are His and He is our King….. We bow in adoration and submission to obedience to His word.. .. His words are the songs we sing.
We resonnate His beauty, Him, the King of our hearts. He is the King of the universe. The King of the nations is here among us…..
As we lift Him up in adoration, in obedience and worship. Most of all, when we lift Him up to all the One who died to save all; our King on the cross….. He will draw all peoples to Himself, it is His promise……
It is first written in Joshua 3:5, And Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you……
The Lord did do great wonders among them when they obeyed….. Please notice after the consecration, came the crossing of the Jordan. The Israelites crossed over the river bed as the Lord held back the waters for them…..
Then they were finally in the promised land……. The Lord delivered them into His land……. But wait a minute! The Lord told them through Joshua to consecrate themselves….. They did….. Now after they are in the land, all the males had to be circumcized before they could move the inhabitants of the land out.
Why?
They were delivered by grace—- symbolizing the Lamb of God dying on the cross……They went through the parted waters, the torn veil….. They entered into the Holy of Holies……but then they needed to part with their flesh to have the authority to bring Light to the land, their land or souls, then from there move to the outer courts……
Soon as they died on the cross also- circumcized their hearts to the Lord….. Guess who shows up…. The King of glory, the Lord of Hosts….. ready to lead His army into a victorious battle…..The Israelites knew the Lamb but now they needed to know the King of glory—- so with us.
The Lord also speaks to us, the people of the Way, through His prayer to our Heavenly Father in John 17:16-21, They are not of the world just as I Am not of the world. Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.
As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.
I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may know that You sent Me.
The Lord sanctified Himself for us…. It was proven that we have a hard time to consecrate ourselves for a long period of time…. We all come to place where nothing is working. The wall of protection has some gaps in it in our life. We wonder….. The Spirit then lets us know there is more than leaving the world or Egypt. We may have received the the Lord as Savior, but not as Lord or King who reigns over us.
So we say, okay Holy Spirit, what does that mean?…. The Spirit speaks the heart of our God:…… You have died also with Me so you can be with Me where I Am. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you, ( Romans 8:11). Christ in us is our only hope of glory!( Colossians 1:27- paraphrased).
We died and die daily on the cross with the Lord. As we live out this Truth, ( is that what Paul meant by walking in the Spirit?),then the Spirit of God is able to appropriate His nature in us. We may have accepted this in our heads but have we stopped the work of the Holy Spirit in His tracks? Do we stop Him when He introduces us to some pressure on our flesh that perhaps is blocking the flow of God through us?….. He is relentless to raise us in the Spirit unto the image of the Lamb of God…
This is the way to exalt our King and lift Him up——–to be consecrated or sanctified to Him alone…. No treason, no slacking off in the army. There is great difference in the man called Peter before and after the day of Pentecost…… The flame of God ignited within him and changed Peter into a world changer……for His King……
So who do we chose this day? Who do we say I Am is in our lives?
We are finite creatures with a single focus…. Yes, we can multitask, but we still have an agenda….. Will this year be a year of His agenda or ours?…… We are Kingdom of God people….. We are Light bearers…. We bring His light to darkness and darkness splits……
The Holy Spirit within us always crowns our King with glory…… There is no mixture in the presence of His Spirit. In the fires of God. There will be found purity, truth and love in our heart for our King…..All else will blow away like chaff in the wind of His Spirit.
He is here to awaken us to the presence of the King…. If we are awakened, the wonders of God will be seen by us…. If we sleep in His presence, how will we see the wonders or even more important, how will we be His wonder on this earth?…..
Could it be the Lord’s heart is showing us as His wonders of God as written in Isaiah 8 :18, Here am I and the children whom the Lord has given Me! We are for signs and wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells in Mount Zion.
We will always grow in His image as we abide in His Word and we allow His word to abide in us…..
Remember what was written in Daniel 2, when Nebuchadnezzar had a dream that the stone that was not cut by human hands grew to a great mountain that will never cease. We are part of that mountain…. His kingdom. The King reigns. He is preeminent, whether He is held in that honor in our lives or not. The Lord is preeminent. As we crown Him as King, we throw our crowns on the ground in bowing to His greatness and His sovereignty….. This means we bow and obey to His sovereignty and lose our rights.
We will always grow strong in the Lord by protecting what we hear and watch with our eyes…….. We guard the presence of the King within by exalting Him in all things. We show Him to be first, that He is preminent—-Stopping all that does not exalt Him, in our lives…..We chose His Preeminence.
When the Lord of hosts presented Himself before Joshua, ( Joshua 5)….. Joshua questioned who this great Warrior was for Joshua’s enemies or for Joshua….. Joshua found out quick….. He was for neither…..He was for Himself, the Commander of the army of the Lord of Hosts……. Our King does not bow before anyone……His love for mankind raised Him higher than other place in God….by the right side of our Almighty God. He bowed and submitted to our Heavenly God once and won His prize- us….. It is finished……says our King.
Israel knew the saving power of God and know they needed the strength of our Mighty God as Warrior and King as they entered the promise land…… is not the same for us today??? In this day and age?
He will bring us through the fires and the waters as we remain in Him…..The King is preeminent and will be shown that in our lives or not…..and if not….. is not that called treason? Is that not the same thing that Adam did ?
We are able to shout to the Lord with a triumphant sound and shout as we praise our King.
Again, as we lift Him up, not our troubles, not our worries—–. In His exaltation, all things will be made new…. That is His promise to us…..The fires and the waters make us into the new….. the image of our King.
Seeing the Lord’ rainbows in the sky always reminds me of His faithfulness as written in Psalms above.
We have witnessed His faithfulness in His keeping us His….. Our King is great and worthy to be praised….. He is strong and mighty… His hold on us is stronger than our weakness. His wisdom in us is stronger than the pull of man made wisdom in this age. But we must turn out any mixture that is found in our hearts……so we may be His wonders and point to others His great wonders.
So we shout a joyful noise and offer up our bodies as a living sacrifice consecrated or sanctified to Him in the work of the cross and the work of His resurrection…… Beloved, we will see wonders…..
For such a time as this, we are to still our busy souls and know He is God. We are quiet before His presence so we may hear His Spirit speaking to us……This year is not a year to do things as usual… We slam the door on all distractions…. We keep our hearts still and quiet before Him and wait for our instructions….. Beloved, this year is not going to be a year that is normal…..have ears to hear and eyes to see what He is planning for those who love Him.
He will bring us through all of 2016 as He has faithfully brought us through all the past days.
But most of all, if we are watching, exalting our Lord as our first priority, we will see wonders this year.
The great worship songs are surrounding us. We shall remember the body of Christ is also of one Spirit not unlike the instruments playing together. As they play in unison the great songs have been birthed that we have been blessed with in these days…..What if we lived as one as written, what could be birthed as we pray in one accord?????????
We have one voice- And after these things I looked, and behold a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out in a loud voice, saying, Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne and to the Lamb!( Revelation 7:9-10).
One heart- He shall see the labor of His soul and be satisfied, Isaiah 53:11.
One mind: For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?, but we have the mind of Christ, ( 1 Corinthians 2:16).
One intent and one goal:Then I said, Behold, I come; it is written of me. I delight to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is within my heart, (Psalm 40:7-8),
We have One focus….
Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of His calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power, that the name of the Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ, ( 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12).
We live to glorify the Lord and lift Him high…… Let us fly like eagles on our praises before our King.
Why are you looking everywhere else for I AM? I AM is here. Closer than your breath. Do you still not believe? I AM with you for you are with I AM….. Do not look for I AM in the chaos, I AM is above it…… Now where are you, child?
Where AM I? Where are you in Me? The chaos is in great turmoil, alas, you are dancing with your King. Rejoice. I AM the God who hears your whispers, your calls in the night. You are My delight for I AM has placed in you My desires and purpose.
The sound of your voice praising lifts I AM higher and higher, alas, I AM lifts you also higher….. for you are with Me where I AM.
Sing the new song I AM has given you, children….. Sing out your heart’s love in praise to I AM, for I AM listening.
SELAH!
