Sing a New Song - Day 5

Psalm 149:1

“Hallelujah!  Sing to God a brand-new song, praise him in the company of all who love him.” (MSG)

Hallelujah!  What a God we serve.  

I treasure my quiet times when I am alone with God.  However, I love to join with others as we worship as a body of believers.  Especially have I been blessed to sing with others who speak and sing in another language.  I can remember getting goose bumps the first time I heard a room full of believers lift their hearts in praise in multiple languages at the same time.  

I can’t help but think that’s what heaven will sound like as God's people from the ends of the earth, from every tribe and nation, sing a new song of praise in the “company of all who love him.”  What a day that will be!


Thank you God for your reminders throughout the Bible to Sing a New Song.  Thank you for putting a song in our hearts as we praise you every day!  Amen.

Sing a New Song - Part 4

Psalm 98:1

“Sing to God a brand-new song.  He’s made a world of wonders!” (MSG)

Sing a new song today about this world of wonders!  As I looked at His world of wonders today, this was my new song of praise.

Praise Him for. . . . .

For the way he has made our bodies to function and work as a unit. 

For the seasons and how each season has a purpose.

For all the creatures he has made, from the smallest bird that sings his song, to the giraffe who must have made God smile as he gave him his long neck.

For trees that provide us beauty and the plants that spring forth at just the right time.”

For this and more I praise God for his world of wonders!

Why not start your list today of God’s wonders and praise him.

Sing a New Song - Part 3

Psalm 96:1-3

“Sing God a brand-new song!  Earth and everyone in it, sing!  Sing to God – worship God!  Shout the news of his victory from sea to sea, Take the news of his glory to the lost, news of his wonders to one and all.” (MSG)

When I read these verses, and actually the remainder of this Psalm as well,  I was reminded of the old hymn, "Jesus Saves."  Do you remember that hymn?

I looked up this old familiar hymn and listed just some of the lines here:

“We have heard the joyful sound, 
Jesus saves!  Jesus saves!

Spread the tiding all around,
Bear the news to every land,

Tell to sinners far and wide,
Jesus saves!  Jesus saves!

Sing above the battle’s strife,

By his death and endless life,

Sing in triumph ore the tomb,
Jesus saves!  Jesus saves!

Let the nations now rejoice,

Shout salvation full and free,

This our song of victory,

Jesus saves, Jesus saves.”

It is an "old" song but the message is always new:  JESUS SAVES.  JESUS SAVES!

Look up all the words of this hymn and sing this old, new song to God today!



God, thank you for this good news that Jesus saves.  Help me as I share that news with others.  Amen.

Sing a New Song - Part 2

Psalm 40:1-3

“I waited and waited for God.  At last he looked; finally he listened.  He lifted me out of the ditch, pulled me from deep mud.  He stood me up on a solid rock to make sure I wouldn’t slip.  He taught me how to sing the latest God-song, a praise-song to our God.  More and more people are seeing this; they enter the mystery, abandoning themselves to God.” (MSG)

This passage reminded me of those times when I pray and pray and wait for an answer.  Then when he lifts me up out of that ditch he is careful to make sure I don’t slip as he puts me on a solid rock.  I love the thought that God does not just lift me out of the ditch but how he is careful to help me stand on a solid rock.  Don’t you love it how he cares for us?  

Then in verse 3, he teaches us how to sing the latest God song. . . not just the routine, “thanks for all of my blessings songs” but praise for this specific answer and this specific time of lifting me up.  Oh, how I love to praise Him!


Thank you God how you care for me and for how you encourage me every time I open your Word.  Amen.

Sing a New Song - Part 1

Today in my quiet time I was challenged to not let prayer become routine but rather to “sing a new song.”  From there I began to look at various scriptures with the phrase, “sing a new song.”  Over the next few days I will be posting my thoughts on some of these passages.  I hope as you read my thoughts God will lead you to think about how you can “sing a new song” as well.



Psalm 33:1-3

“Good people, cheer God!  Right-living people sound best when praising.  Use guitars to reinforce your Hallelujahs!  Play his praise on a grand piano!  Invent your own new song to him; give him a trumpet fanfare.” (MSG)

These verses mention different instruments to use as we praise God, but verse 3 says to “invent your own new song to him; give him a trumpet fanfare.”

Maybe today I will try praising him with my singing voice (now I can promise you I’ll be alone when I do that).  Then instead of just "Amen" at the end I will close with my rendition of The Hallelujah Chorus!  

The point I believe is to praise Him in a new way.  My prayer is that our "new song" will be pleasing to Him and perhaps even make God smile.

Teach Me to Number My Days

Recently as part of my quiet time I read Psalm 90:12-17.  This passage begins, "Teach us to number our days. .  . . ."  After reading this passage in the NIV, I went to The Message to read verse 12.  In my copy of the Message I had previously underlined not only Verse 12, but Verse 10.  Verse 10 from The Message reads, "We live for seventy years or so (with luck we might make it to eighty) and what do we have to show for it?  Toil and trouble and a marker in the graveyard."

This verse has given me pause to consider before and now again during my quiet time. Perhaps it's because I've lived my seventy years and I'm now working my way toward eighty so I want to make every day count.

And so I ask, "How do I number my days?  How do I make every day count for something?" I believe the rest of this passage helps answer that question.  Verse 14 of Psalm 90 reads, "Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days." (NIV) What better way to number my days then to begin every day than in God's Word?  

Verse 16 tells us to live so that others will see the work God is doing and how He blesses His children.  As the Psalm ends, David asks that God affirm the work we do.  Isn't that what our goal should be, that others will see God at work in our lives and especially that God affirm our work?  

As I thought about this that morning, I read I Corinthians 15:58b which gives us yet further understanding, "Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain."

The Message says it this way, "Throw yourself into the work of the Master, confident that nothing you do for him is a waste of time or effort."

If everything we do is done with the purpose of pointing others to God, reflecting Him in our life and our work, our day will not be wasted and I believe that is the best way to make every day count.  

Thank you God for Your Word and how you can answer our every question as we study. Amen.