When God puts a song in your heart

He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the LORD. (Psalm 40:3)

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• Put There by God
• God Is the Goal
• What does it mean to have a song in your heart?
• What does it mean for God to give you a new song?
• What Scripture says you have a song in your heart?
• What does it mean to make melody in your heart to the Lord?

There is a song in your heart. Did you know that? The song in your heart celebrates what you consider worthy of celebration. You consider worthy of celebration that in which your soul delights. You delight in — with the song of your heart — that in which your soul finds satisfaction.

This does not mean your soul is as satisfied as it could be, or that your soul is satisfied with the things that it should be. In fact, many people celebrate things that aren’t necessarily worthy of celebration. Sadly, billions praise those things that starve their souls and drive them to the brink of eternal death. Some are still singing as they fall off the cliff into outer darkness. That would be us, too, if God had not given us another song to sing — a “new” song.

There is another song that celebrates true soul satisfaction. The “new” song put in the heart by God’s grace is one that celebrates him, not our worth or the quality of our praise. The psalmist sings, “He put a new song in my mouth.”

Put There by God

The song is there. The song has been “put” there by God. God! It has not been “earned” by the feeble works of man. The psalmist doesn’t say, “I learned a new song! I earned a new song! A song of praise by, and for, my efforts, my wisdom, my riches, my greatness!” This “new” song is a celebration in the mouth of the psalmist, but he is not arrogantly praising himself. The next phrase shows that the evidence of God’s grace has been joyfully received and rejoiced in, not earned. He says that this new song is “a song of praise to our God!”

Why? Because the psalmist had said,

I waited patiently for the Lᴏʀᴅ; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. (Psalm 40:1–2)

God Is the Goal

This new song celebrates God! It rejoices in God! It sings about God! The psalmist waited patiently for the Lord! The Lord inclined to his cry! The Lord drew him up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, set his feet upon a solid rock, and made his steps secure!

This song celebrates God for who he is and for what he has done. This is the “new song.”

The heart that has been changed by the gospel sings the praise of the Savior. For only in Jesus, we have been redeemed. We have been saved from our sins that have separated us from our God. We have been raised from our spiritual death to walk in the newness of eternal life. We have received and have been sealed by the Holy Spirit, the guarantee of future and final redemption. We have been called out of darkness and into his marvelous light to proclaim his praises. He is our new song.

Our circumstances are not our song. Jesus is.

When we gather for corporate worship, it is to share in this gift of “new heart-song” praise to our God together, both as individuals and as those who can truly call this God “ours.” The heart of the psalmist should also be “our” heart as he proclaims, “Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lᴏʀᴅ.”

As we celebrate the salvation of God through Jesus Christ and in the power of his Holy Spirit, our song will show others the soul satisfaction we have experienced. This should be our desire as we come together — with our new heart-song — to praise God publicly and joyfully.

Even through sorrowful waiting and painful trusting, our song of praise — though at times with a lamenting melody — will yet praise him, for our circumstances are not our song. He is our song! And he is worthy of celebration!

A night figuratively speaking is a picture of that unknown ahead and around of us. Dark times filled with distress, worry, fear, sin, and even death. Do you know that God puts a song in our heart?

Have you noticed yourself singing even in the darkest times?

It could be that you are battling for your life or you are in the middle of a huge mess.

Yet a song in your mind suddenly appears and your heart is at ease.

I would like to share two of my life stories with you today.

Testimony #1

When I was 15 , I left home to be in a boarding school where I spent couple of years until I finished college.

My boarding school life was just the beginning of many nightmares that wouldn’t go away easily.

Since it was a Catholic college , there was a small chapel inside the building . It was open 24/7 which was a blessing for me.

I would wake up many times in the middle of the night and go kneel in that Chapel.

It was there I noticed how I would hum a tune softly as the cool breeze from the window sang along with me.

It was Jesus who put a song in my heart those days and healing slowly within me. Those songs held my very heart together from breaking down mentally and physically.

Psalm 77:6 At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered:

Testimony #2

Another difficult season in my life was when I gave birth to my triplets at 26 weeks. They would be in three different nursery rooms and it was emotionally very stressful for me.

But I would hold each of my babies (kangaroo care) and would hum every single day for 2 months in the NICU as I watched their fragile bodies

God put a song of praise in my heart as a new mom to lean on Him when I had no friend to lean on.

Just today, as I watched my triplets play in their backyard, I heard them hum their own tune in sync. ( I wonder where they got that humming from  )

Job 8:21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with a shout of joy.

3 SONGS GOD PUTS IN OUR HEARTS DURING THE BEST AND WORST DAYS.

1.God puts a Song of Deliverance to take our eyes from the Red Sea and towards the Redeemer.

The Israelites saw the big Red Sea in front of them and an army of Egyptians behind them. God had promised deliverance from bondage but here they are faced with death. It is in that dark moment , God parts the Red Sea.

Exodus 14 : 22 says the children of Israel walked on dry ground as the waters became walls on their right and left.

It is right after they crossed the Red Sea and watched their enemies drowned that a song erupts.

Exodus 15 :2 The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

• Do you find yourself sandwiched between this huge Sea and an army ?

Psalm 32: 7 You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance

Our Redeemer lives and HE is greater than any mountains you are facing.

2. God puts a Song of Praise so that it can be a place of testimony for others in shackles

In Acts 16, we read about some owners made money out of a young slave girl who was filled with demonic spirits by fortune telling. Paul and Silas were on their way to a prayer house and cast the demon out.

These owners were so enraged that their livelihood was taken from them, that they stirred a crowd to strip and beat these men of God. They were flogged and thrown into the prison and a jailor was ordered to guard these Paul and Silas.

Midnight came, the Lord puts a song and Paul and Silas sing loudly as the prisoners listened to them. Just then an earthquake shakes the prison walls loose and the jailor was about to kill himself. But Paul and Silas stop the jailor and shares the Gospel to the man and his entire family.(Acts 16:25-28)

Someone else is going through the same pandemic, the same sorrow as you and I. Our loud songs can be a comfort to them.

Psalm 40: 3 , NIV He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear the LORD and put their trust in him.

When God puts a song in our heart, our prison walls will become a place of Heavenly commission.

Our messes become a place of ministry that will draw at least one person to Jesus Christ

A heart that sings the song that Christ experiences the true joy that comes in the morning. She finds her shelter upon the Rock of her Salvation.(Psalm 5:11)

3. God puts a Song of victory to foreshadow what Heaven will look like :

I am a self -certified kitchen and bathroom singer. If I am not singing, then I am either humming a tune or listening to music.

I hope you love to sing or listen to songs because Heaven will be full of amazing singing and singers.

Hannah, Moses, Miriam, David, Solomon, Paul, and all the saints who have gone before us sang here on this earth.

Have you been anxious over this season of pandemic? I live in New York and my state has been hit hardest right now with the virus.

But know this, my friend even if we die our death here on earth is temporal. Christ has won over death and Heaven will be our eternal home.

I am a pilgrim and so are you, my friend. It just means that you and I are travelers; our Home is in Heaven- the final destination for a born again believer.

Revelation 5:9 And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,

Reflection  :

Is there a particular tune you have been singing, playing, or humming these days?

If this post encouraged you, won’t you share it with a family member or friend ?

May our silent and loud songs be an aroma for our Savior and for the people around us.

Until Christ returns,

Diana

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What does it mean to have a song in your heart?

What does it mean for God to give you a new song?

What Scripture says you have a song in your heart?

What does it mean to make melody in your heart to the Lord?