Hello Everyone, 3

To have a personal relationship with God is to have a new song in your heart. You see, salvation and song are inseparable because the joy of the Lord generates music in the soul.

When a person is in fellowship with the Lord through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, that person has a new song to praise the Lord.

Psalm 33:3 says to, “Sing unto him a new song: play skillfully with a loud noise.”

Psalm 96:1 says, “O sing unto the Lord a new song; sing unto the Lord all the earth.”

Psalm 98:1 says, “O sing unto the Lord a new song; for he hath done marvelous things: his right hand,, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.

Psalm 144:9 says, “I will sing a new song unto thee O God; upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.”

Psalm 149:1 says, “Praise ye the Lord, sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praises in the congregation of saints.”

Isaiah 42:10 says, “Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea and all that is therein; the isle and the inhabitants thereof.”

We don’t want to get stuck in a rut in our singing, and so we are always learning some new songs…and in much the same way, we never want to get into a spiritual rut, but keep things fresh and new…mix it up a little…change the routine around, make improvements, etc.

The balance: The same Bible that commands us to sing a new song tells us not to forsake the old paths and landmarks, and so we strive to keep alive the faith of those who have gone on before, and to learn from the past, and allow it to help keep the future in check!

Stuart Hamblin wrote country and western songs. Before he got saved he wrote a song titled "I won't go hunting with you Jake but I'll go chasing women"

Stuart got saved and John Wayne made a bet that Stuart wouldn't last six months. Sometime after the six months Stuart saw Wayne who said "you cost me some money, Stuart--I bet you wouldn't last six months". Stuart said "It’s no secret what God can do". John Wayne said, that sounds like a good song title and so Stuart went home that night and wrote the song "It is no secret what God can do."

You see his life was changed and made new by the power of God.

We can have a new song every day because …

Lament. 3:22-23

It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. [23] They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

God makes a new creation…our new self and our new song…

Oh How HE Loves Us!

Pastor Phil