Good Morning Friend,
Aren't you tired of singing the blues?
I remember as a kid I absolutely despised going over one of my aunt's houses in particular, because no matter the time or day she would have a blues album playing. I didn't understand all of what the music was saying at that time, but I knew one thing it made me feel down and depressed. Day in and day out, she would listen to these artists repeatedly sing of how their baby left them out in the cold, how they didn't have this or that or how nobody loved them and how they felt all alone. I remembered saying to myself when I got a little older and cognitive of these lyrics "I would have left you too singing these same old sad songs", in response to the artists' dismal anecdotes.
I need to let you know today that God is about to change your song! Things are shifting for you and before you know it your song of sorrow and pain will be a song of victory and joy! Whatever station you have been listening to its time to change the channel because elevation is heading your way. (Glory to God!)
Now as an adult I understand and in some ways can sympathize with the pains and woes of these singers on those albums. Life can sometimes get you down so that you feel as if all hope is gone. It can make you feel like it's not worth living anymore, that you are on an island all by yourself and that no one loves, appreciates or cares for you. Oh yea, since my childhood days I've sang the blues too…and if I were to put them down in the studio I could probably make a Platinum selling album (and probably so could you). But what does it profit our soul to constantly relive and wallow in the pains of the past? At some point we have to say alright it happened, let me get up from here, dust myself off and get it together. So what they hurt you or walked out on you, dry your eyes and in the words of my girl Fantasia let them know, "if you don't want me then don't talk to me, go a head and free yourself." Furthermore, guess what "I'll be alright" because I serve a God of recompense. And believe me for all of the tears you've cried, heartache you've experienced and pain you've had to go through…HE'S GOING TO REPAY BABY, the Lord going to make it up to you! Weeping may endure for a night BUT joy is going to come in the morning (Psalms 30:5b KJV). The nights of crying your eyes out will give way to days of laughter (Psalms 30:5b The Message Bible Translation)!
Watch this, Psalms 98:1 says it like this in The Message Bible Translation: "Sing to God a brand-new song. He's made a world of wonders! He rolled up His sleeves, He set things right." My good God! As I shared last week, God allows us to sometimes go through certain life experiences in order to get us to an expectant or predestined end. Proof of this is once you have experienced a tragedy, heartache or just a life occurrence you will experience God going to work to bring the glory out of the situation. As the psalmist expounds in Psalms 98, He literally rolls up his sleeves as a work man or woman who is about to handle some serious business and goes to bat on our behalf. He then begins to allow us to experience such favor that will leave you saying "it was good that I went through that" (SMILE!).
Be encouraged my brothers and my sisters because God is working on your behalf. This week begin to speak over yourself the promises of God that He has declared in His Word toward you. Begin to speak that you are healed, set free and delivered from the past. Begin to speak to yourself that you are more than a conqueror, that you are victorious. Look in the mirror when you get a chance and let yourself know how fine and how beautiful you are and that you are fearfully and wonderfully made. Soon my friend your song of "down-home-blues" will turn into a song of "this is the Lord's doing and it is marvelous in my eyes."
Much Love,
Clyde L. Webster
You-Tube Video of the Week
Donald Lawrence and The Tri-City Singers "Encourage Yourself" (Thanks Royale!)
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