Psalm 96:1

Heavy sickness can wear us down, can't it? I didn't realize how it was really affecting me till everyone said, "You stay in your room so much!You seem so depressed!" etc. I didn't feel that depressed really. I was having wonderful times with the Lord, but perhaps I really did need to meditate on some happier Psalms. So this is the Psalm the Lord led me to!

Feb. 1999

Psalm 96

1 O SING UNTO THE LORD A NEW SONG; SING UNTO THE LORD, ALL THE EARTH.

Sing, Sherry, sing! Sing a NEW song unto the Lord! All praise be to HIM-for old, worldly songs are now a grief to thine heart!

Sing, Sherry, sing! This is God's Word to thee today! "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.." (Prov. 17:22) Sing to the LORD! Let your Psalms turn into personal prayers and praises sung with sweetness to the lover of thy soul! Don't sing just to be singing! Don't sing just "words", but "sing ye praises with UNDERSTANDING" (Ps. 47:7b)! May the words you sing be the deep MEDITATIONS of your heart, and as you sing, take each verse and apply it directly to your personal situation today.

Sing, Sherry, sing! Sing a NEW song! The same lovely old words in the Psalms have been sung a "hundred" times, yet by His grace, THIS time God shall open them up in a NEW WAY, and they shall be a NEW song for thee TODAY!

Sing, Sherry, sing! Then humbly bow before the Lord, for thou art blessed. To be able to sing a NEW SONG is a great GIFT from God. Old Testament words packed with New Testament meaning and understanding...And understanding now comes because God hath given
thee a NEW HEART. Bow before Him and give Him praise!

"And they sung AS IT WERE a NEW SONG before the throne..and no man could learn that song BUT the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were REDEEMED from the earth." (Rev. 14:3) "...The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." (I Cor. 2:14)

"And they sing the SONG OF MOSES the servant of God, and the SONG OF THE LAMB."(Rev. 15:3)...Are these two songs really one in the same?...Old Testament words packed with New Testament meaning and understanding?...

COMPARE Old Testament and New Testament verses! Aren't these verses basically saying the same thing?

Old Testament

"I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath TRIUMPHED GLORIOUSLY, the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea...", sang Moses. (Ex. 15)

New Testament

JESUS through death...(destroyed) him that had the power of death, that is, the devil: and DELIVERED them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." (Heb. 2: 14b-15)




Old Testament

"Thou in the MERCY hast led forth the people which thou hast REDEEMED," sang Moses. (Ex. 15)

New Testament

But God, who is rich in MERCY...hath QUICKENED us together with CHRIST...(Eph. 2:4-5) "And they sung a NEW SONG, saying, Thou (Christ) art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain and hast REDEEMED us to God by thy blood..."(Rev. 5:9)




Old Testament

"Thou hast GUIDED them in thy strength unto thy HOLY HABITATION," sang Moses (Ex. 15)

New Testament

"And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in HEAVENLY PLACES in Christ Jesus." (Eph. 2:6) "Howbeit when he the Spirit of Truth, is come, he will GUIDE you into all truth..." (Jn. 16:13)




Old Testament

"Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the MOUNTAIN of thine INHERITANCE...", sang Moses. (Ex. 15)

New Testament

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of JESUS CHRIST from the dead to an INHERITANCE incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in HEAVEN for you..." (1 Peter 1:3-4)


Old Testament words packed with New Testament meaning and understanding...