God gives Songs- daily devotional by Pastor E. A Adeboye

DAY: Sunday 10 January


TOPIC: GOD GIVES SONGS

MEMORIZE: “Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life” (Ps. 42:8)

READ: Psalm 40: 1-3

“And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives” (Mark 14: 26).

To round up the Last Supper, the Lord took a hymn together with His disciples. He was about to make His most difficult trip to the Cross. Looking at the example of our Lord, it is good to sing psalms and hymns regularly. Also, it is wonderful to take a hymn during Holy Communion. However, from our Lord’s experience, hymns should be taken before embarking on very tough divine assignments. Some people do not think they should sing when sad or depressed but the Lord defers. He sang a hymn as was His custom while going to the Cross. If He did this, we too can take a hymn while going through storms, persecution or difficulties. When you are about to undertake a difficult assignment, you need every strength you can get. Hymns are veritable sources of spiritual strength for the committed believer. Taking hymns in hard times can give you the required stamina to go through it. Every divinely inspired hymn has an anointing over it which is released whenever the hymn is taken under a conducive spiritual environment.

“Is any among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is any merry? Let him sing psalms” (James 5:13). One way of utilizing your pleasant moments is by singing hymns and psalms. Someone defines psalms as what you sing to reflect God’s mercies on your life while hymns are the songs that offer praise to God. On the other hand, spiritual songs are those either written by spiritual people or written about a scriptural subject. The Holy Spirit is interested in giving songs to men. He does this when they are asleep. Sometimes, you wake up from sleep with a song on your lips and spirit. That could point to a victory the Lord has given you during the battle of the night. At other times, you could be so lost in praise or worship and suddenly receive an inspiration for a song. Sometimes, you could be so engrossed with the study of God’s Word that you are inspired to come up with a word-based song. How sensitive have you been to the songs from the Lord? This season, the Lord will put a song in your mouth like the Psalmist!

ACTION POINT: You can trigger heavenly songs by what you do. How prepared are you for this? Pray for the success of all Holy Ghost services this year.