True prophetic
worship is when the music/worship of heaven invades our worship of Him!
Our goal in EVERY
worship setting/time is to truly ‘touch’ heaven’s music/worship!
But the
hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in
spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship HimGod
[is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in
truth.
John 4:23-24
What does it mean to
worship God ‘In spirit”??
Example of
2 men who were in the spirit
John (Revelatoin
1:10 was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard
behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,;Rev 4:2And immediately I was in
the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and
[one] sat on the throne.)
Ezekiel 37I
was carried away in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in
the midst of the valley which [was] full of bones,.
Jesus said
‘thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. What are they
doing in heaven???
Then talk
about Asaph, David, examine Psalms, and discuss prophetic musicans
Discuss
prophetic worship as when heavens worship invades OUR worship, whether that is
dance, song, instrument, banner/flag waving, or hand movements, hearing//seeing
something in the spirit and then doing that
Talk about the woman who broke
alabaster container oil Luke 7:37
1.
Talk about how out of our brokenness and realization of sin, can the most
anointed worship flow !
Alabaster…white (purity)
Alabaster is readily
water soluble, while marble is not. Alabaster is
softer than marble, however it can be polished
to
a high, translucent gloss making its surface
look
deceptively hard and glass-like.
This is an
attractive property to artists and artisans, who
have
fashioned delicate carvings and thin-walled,
translucent objects such as vases, lamps,
and
lantern shades from the easily worked material.
However, alabaster is extremely brittle and is
easily bruised. It can be scratched with a
fingernail.. It has to be protected for its very
susceptible to deterioration.
It was water soulable…we are made to soak him up
yet in all this meant to be poured out
And the flask would have absorbed the fragrance,
spikenard
Spikenard is very
expenseive. It
was grown in high mtns,HIGH
altititues (it a rOOT)
(high mtns…sos) Lot of trouble to
import, was put in
alabaster boxes, and carried ALL OVER THE WORLD
Spikenard has
relaxing properties,
mary MINISTERED to Jesus…can u imagine??
She KNEW His heart, His troubled
anxious heart, she was anointing Him for burial. Prophetic worshippers must be
intimate with HIM…and KNOW His heart!@
Genesis 1:2…the Spirit of God moved over surface
of waters…means to flutter, to brood (as mother bird) to CHERISH, to grow soft,
to flutter, to cherish, to tremble,
RACHAPH…Hebrew word
Dancers, flag wavers etc can do this part!
Hebrews 2:12…Jesus is in our midst when we are
worshipping, worshipping the Father WITH US!!!
"I
will declare Your name to My brethren;
In the
midst of the assembly I will sing praise to You."
When we
are worshipping, scripture says HE is in our midst worshipping the FATHER in our
midst! It could be thru a dancer, musician, singer, or just a person in corner
rejoicing wildly!
What is purpose of prophetic worship?
1.
to TRULY glorify Him
Example of
2 men who were in the spirit
John (Revelatoin
1:10 was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard
behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,;Rev 4:2And immediately I was in
the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and
[one] sat on the throne.)
Ezekiel
37:1The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the
spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of
the valley which [was] full of bones,.
Enoch…was he a worshipper that delighted God so
much he just ‘took
him’?What an honor not to have to taste death!
2. Even in the OT God’s will was for the
prophetic to flow freely in worship
1. God’s will for the prophetic to
flow in worship is revealed in the ingredients of holy
Incense oil of the temple:
.
Exodus 30:34
And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha,
and galbanum; [these] sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each
shall there be a like
[weight]: (equal part)
\
STACTE,
(STAK-TEE) which means ‘to ooze, to distill gradually, to fall in drops, to
speak by inspiration, to prophesy” This oil was obtained by pricking a tree; the
oil oozes forth spontaneously. Exodus 30:34It is also known as myrrh! It
symbolizes suffering, and was used to prepare bodies for buria.
Onycha: (ON-ee-cha)
Peeling off, by concussion of sound. Comes from
root word to ROAR!
Onycha is a powerful
antiseptic ( also called stryax benzoin) facilitates rapid healing! Hospitals
used to use it to kill germs and is powerful aid in healing open wounds!
galbanum; resin from gum tree,
used also for medicninal purposes, reduces imflamation. Comes from root word
which means THE BEST OF LAND, FAT. This is also a powerful antiseptic, and when
combine with frankincense, its
electrical frequency increases dramatically..it
supports and aids the body’s natural defenses!
Botanists have written that galbanum’s odor is strongly balsamic, pungent and
disagreeable when burned. There is an interesting
suggestion in the Jewish Talmud as to why this powerful, less-than-fragrant
resin was used in the holy incense: “Every communal fast that does not include
sinners of Israel is not a fast.” This has been linked to the fact that incense
included spices or perfumes with lovely fragrances, but was not nthrn Galbanum
is used for its antiseptic.
*DISCUSS
Sin is burned off during worship! The
enemies flee (germs)
Frankincense:
White…resin, holiness? It is grown in high, mtn areas where the terrain is
difficult and desert, parched area. It is a low growing tree. It is harvested by
slicing the tree open with cuts, and the droplets ooze out are called tears. The
resin dries out and is crushed into a powder. Periodically these frankincense
trees have to be ‘cut’ again for a fresh flow of frankincense to flow out of!
The oil of this herb is great for helping pain/inflammation of joints/and helps
blood flow!
Applicatons: When we worship, the fragrance of our worship is POWERFUL and
releases healings, and the roar of our Lion! Often, the HS pricks our spirits,
and when the tears flow freely, it is a good sign, He is just obtaining more
‘oil’ to keep our lamp burning(possible comparison to parable of the 10
virgins?)
How ‘prophetic worship’ manifests in the body of
Christ:
Lord
your God in your midst,
The Mighty One, will save;
He will rejoice over you
with gladness,
He will quiet
you with
His love,
He will rejoice over you with singing."
The
Lord your God in the MIDST of
you
1.
‘Midst’ means the
‘inward part, the seat of thought/emotion’
(keh'-reb) (the spirit within us)
2.
OR midst, as in
middle of His people
1.
God singing to His Bride
through the prophetic song. Can be personal or cooperate prophecy or
exhortation. Sometimes this can also be the ‘song of the bride.’ (Jeremiah
33:11) Also referred to in scripture as the ‘song of the Lord.’
The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and
the voice of the bride,
a.
We have a SINGING God.
Zephaniah 3:17
Lord your God in your midst,
The Mighty One, will save;
He will rejoice over you with gladness,
He will quiet you with
His love,
He will rejoice over you with singing."
The Lord
your God in the MIDST of you
b.
Three different types of
‘prophetic’ worship here: GOD worshipping, rejoicing in our midst!
1.
He will
SAVE (means to give victories,to save in
battle,to deliver) Songs of deliverance, battle cries of victories (yaw-shah')
2.
REJOICE
(means to LEAP/SPRING UP)
(soos) Can apply to dancers, flag bearers, etc
3.
REST (or quiet) (khaw-rash')Means
to ‘engrave, to plough (His love songs/lullabies quiet our hearts and engrave
His word(s) on our hearts)
uth
(He will rejoice/joy over you with….joy there means to go in a circle, spin or
possible orbit)..solar system
3.
SINGING
means a LOUD, RINGING cry of joy or
supplication
*Several different words are used in this passage for joy/rejoice, they are
all JOY in fullest
sense, including ‘party/banquet’ type rejoicing, banquets, leaping, dancing type
of words (like at a Jewish wedding celebration!)
c.
At your right hand are
pleasures (means beauty, sweet singing/music )
In Hebrew)Psalm 16:11
*We just have to tap into that
singing Spirit of God (or rejoicing, or comforting, or rejoicing one in our
MIDST!
OR Jesus worshipping the Father in
our midst (as we looked at last week)
*We need to realize that truly our
spirits are seated NEXT to Him in heavenly places, and listen/look for that
beauty, and the sweet music/singing…then FLOW in it
2.
God singing to His Bride
through the prophetic song. Can be personal or cooperate prophecy or
exhortation. Sometimes this can also be the ‘song of the bride.’ (Jeremiah
33:11) Also referred to in scripture as the ‘song of the Lord.’
The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and
the voice of the bride,
Sometimes the Holy Spirit in us
cries out as the ‘bride’ worshipping her Bridegroom. A prophetic unction rises
up in us.
3.
Our spirits worshipping
on a higher level or anointing; and it brings a supernatural…BEAUTY
REALM!
Manifestation of power, such as healing/deliverance, miracles, victories in
spiritual warfare. Also brings spirit of ‘prophesy’ for seers, prophets.
a. David/Saul I Samuel 16:23 “cunning/skillful means ‘discerning”
14
But the
Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and a distressing
spirit from the Lord troubled him.
15
And
Saul's servants said to him, "Surely, a distressing spirit from God is troubling
you.
16
Let our
master now command your servants, who
are before you, to seek out a man
who is a skillful player on the
harp. And it shall be that he will play it with his hand when the distressing
spirit from God is upon you, and you shall be well."
17
So Saul
said to his servants, "Provide me now a man who can play well, and bring
him to me."
18
Then one
of the servants answered and said, "Look, I have seen a son of Jesse the
Bethlehemite, who is skillful
in playing, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a
handsome person; and the Lord
is with him."
19
Therefore
Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, "Send me your son David, who
is with the sheep."
20
And Jesse
took a donkey loaded with
bread, a skin of wine, and a young goat, and sent
them by his son David to Saul.
21
So David
came to Saul and stood before him. And he loved him greatly, and he became his
armorbearer.
22
Then Saul
sent to Jesse, saying, "Please let David stand before me, for he has found favor
in my sight."
23
And so it
was, whenever the spirit from God was upon Saul, that David would take a harp
and play it with his handt
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4: HOW PROPHETIC WORSHIP MANIFESTS ITSELF
(CONTINUED)
b.
Singers went before the army
2 Chronicles
20
20It
happened after this that the people of Moab with the people of
Ammon, and others
with them besides the Ammonites,* came to battle against Jehoshaphat.
2
Then some came and told Jehoshaphat, saying, "A great multitude is coming
against you from beyond the sea, from *Syria; and they are in Hazazon Tamar"
(which is En Gedi).
3
And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord,
and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
4
So
Judah gathered together to ask help from the Lord;
and from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord.
5
Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of
the Lord, before the new court,
6
and said: "O Lord God of our fathers, are You not
God in heaven, and do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations,
and in Your hand is there not power and might, so that no one is able to
withstand You?
7
Are
You not our God, who drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your
people Israel, and gave it to the descendants of Abraham Your friend forever?
8
And they dwell in it, and have built You a sanctuary in it for Your name,
saying,
9
'If disaster comes upon us--sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine--we will
stand before this temple and in Your presence (for Your name is in this
temple), and cry out to You in our affliction, and You will hear and save.'
10
And now, here are the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir--whom You would not
let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from
them and did not destroy them--
11
here they are, rewarding us by coming to throw us out of Your possession which
You have given us to inherit.
12
O
our God, will You not judge them? For we have no power against this great
multitude that is coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but our eyes
are upon You."
13
Now all Judah, with their little ones, their wives, and their children, stood
before the Lord.
14
Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon
Jahaziel the son of
Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite
of the sons of Asaph, in the midst of the assembly.
15
And he said, "Listen, all you of Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and
you, King Jehoshaphat! Thus says the Lord to you: 'Do
not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is
not yours, but God's.
16
Tomorrow go down against them. They will surely come up by the Ascent of Ziz,
and you will find them at the end of the brook before the Wilderness of Jeruel.
17
You will not need to fight in this battle. Position yourselves,
stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, who is
with you, O Judah and Jerusalem!' Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out
against them, for the Lord is with you."
18
And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem bowed before the Lord,
worshiping the Lord.
19
Then the Levites of the children of the Kohathites and of the childreYn of the
Korahites stood up to praise the Lord God of Israel with
voices loud and high.
20
So
they rose early in the morning and went out into the Wilderness of Tekoa; and as
they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, "Hear me, O Judah and you inhabitants
of Jerusalem: Believe in the Lord your God, and you
shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosper."
21
And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed those who should sing to
the Lord, and who
should
praise(in) the beauty of holiness, as
they went out before the army and were saying:
Read in different translations!
TRANSLATIORS SEEM TO BE MYSTIFIED BY THIS TRANSLATION…WORDING VARIES A LOT
Praise, halal…shine, boast, be clamorously foolish, to FLASH LIGHT..implies loud
beautiful praise, celebration
Beauty here is interesting; it means glory, or holy adornment, or
ornaments..some versions say holy attire (ask for different translations)
but it also means
GLORY OF THE
KING!!
HIS
BEAUTY
Psalm 27…one
thing I have desired..to
behold
(to gaze upon) the
BEAUTY
of the
Lord
Psalm 90:17
Let the
beauty
of the
lord be upon us, and establish the work of our hands!
We are clothed with Jesus
righteousness, and holiness, but also when we enter into prophetic worship, HIS
BEAUTY, manifest presence comes upon us, and the enemy flees! Its like as we
abandon ourselves in worship, our garments begin to sparkle and gleam in
radiance!
Holiness means ‘separateness’.
(thus the homework assignment for this week. Sometimes we must separate
ourselves, literally, from our surroundings, Jesus went away by Himself from
even the disciples, to a lonely place to be with His Father.
"Praise
the Lord,
For His mercy endures forever."*
22
Now when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set
ambushes against the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against
Judah; and they were defeated.
Gideon appoints trumpet players. (Judges
7) Then
Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him
rose early and encamped beside the well of Harod, so that the camp of the
Midianites was on the north side of them by the hill of Moreh in the valley.
2
And the Lord said to Gideon, "The people who are
with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands,
lest Israel claim glory for itself against Me, saying, 'My own hand has saved
me.'
3
Now therefore, proclaim in the hearing of the people, saying, 'Whoever is
fearful and afraid, let him turn and depart at once from Mount Gilead.'" And
twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.
4
But the Lord said to Gideon, "The people are
still too many; bring them down to the water, and I will test them for
you there. Then it will be, that of whom I say to you, 'This one shall go
with you,' the same shall go with you; and of whomever I say to you, 'This one
shall not go with you,' the same shall not go."
5
So
he brought the people down to the water.
And the Lord
said to Gideon, "Everyone who laps from the water with his tongue, as a dog
laps, you shall set apart by himself; likewise everyone who gets down on his
knees to drink."
6
And the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth,
was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people got down on their knees to
drink water.
7
Then the Lord said to Gideon, "By the three hundred men
who lapped I will save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all
the other people go, every man to his place."
8
So
the people took provisions and their trumpets in their hands. And he sent away
all the rest of Israel, every man to his tent, and retained those three
hundred men. Now the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.
9
It
happened on the same night that the Lord said to him,
"Arise, go down against the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand.
10
But if you are afraid to go down, go down to the camp with Purah your servant,
11
and you shall hear what they say; and afterward your hands shall be strengthened
to go down against the camp." Then he went down with Purah his servant to the
outpost of the armed men who were in the camp.
12
Now the Midianites and Amalekites, all the people of the East, were lying in the
valley as numerous as locusts; and their camels were without number, as
the sand by the seashore in multitude.
13
And when Gideon had come, there was a man telling a dream to his companion. He
said, "I have had a dream: To my surprise, a loaf of barley bread tumbled
into the camp of Midian; it came to a tent and struck it so that it fell and
overturned, and the tent collapsed."
14
Then his companion answered and said, "This is nothing else but the sword
of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel! Into his hand God has delivered
Midian and the whole camp."
15
And so it was, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its
interpretation, that he worshiped. He returned to the camp of Israel, and said,
"Arise, for the Lord has delivered the camp of Midian
into your hand."
16
Then he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a
trumpet into every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and torches inside the
pitchers.
17
And he said to them, "Look at me and do likewise; watch, and when I come to the
edge of the camp you shall do as I do:
18
When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then you also blow
the trumpets on every side of the whole camp, and say, 'The sword of the
Lord and of Gideon!'"
19
So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outpost of
the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just as they had posted the
watch; and they blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers that were in
their hands.
20
Then the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers--they held the
torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands for
blowing--and they cried, "The sword of the Lord and of
Gideon!"
21
And every man stood in his place all around the camp; and the whole army ran and
cried out and fled.
22
When the three hundred blew the trumpets, the Lord set
every man's sword against his companion throughout the whole camp; and the army
fled to *Beth Acacia, toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by
Tabbath.
c. Saul and minstrel/company or prophets/musicians I Samuel 10:5-6
(changed/turned into other man,
means “to be overthrown/transformed” , speaks of a radical transformation, also
means to be reversed,to be overturned)
After that you shall come to the hill of God where the Philistine garrison
is. And it will happen, when
you have come there to the city, that you will meet a group of prophets coming
down from the high place with a stringed instrument, a tambourine, a flute, and
a harp before them; and they will be prophesying.
6
Then the Spirit
of the Lord will come upon you, and you will prophesy
with them and be turned
into another man.
d. Elisha asked for harpist before he prophesied 2 Kings 3:15-16
f. When musicians/singers were as ONE…His glory comes
2
Chronicles 5:13-1411
And it
came to pass when the priests came out of the
Most Holy
Place (for all the priests who
were present had sanctified
themselves, without keeping to their divisions),
12
and the
Levites who were the singers,
all those of Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren,
stood at the east end of the altar, clothed in white linen, having cymbals,
stringed instruments and harps, and with them one hundred and twenty priests
sounding with trumpets--
13
indeed it
came to pass, when the trumpeters and singers
were as one, to make one sound
to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord, and when
they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of
music, and praised the Lord,
saying:
"For
He is
good,
For His
mercy endures forever,"*
that the
house, the house of the Lord,
was filled with a cloud,
14
so that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud; for the
glory of the Lord filled the house of God.
Praise here means HALAL…to SHINE, to flash LIGHT!
(Also to act like a madman, foolish)
ROMANS 8:26…Spirit groans, makes intercession (groans, means sigh, breaths)
Song of the
Lord: (Shiyrah)
2 Chronicles 29:27
Then
Hezekiah gave the order to offer the burnt offering on the altar. When the burnt
offering began, the song to the LORD also began with the trumpets, {accompanied}
by the instruments of David ( 2
Chronicles 7:6..David made instruments; KJV says GODS instruments, so God must
have obviously commanded him to make)
Song here
means TRAVELING MINSTREL, like a traveler on a journey
Note the Song of the Lord STARTED with trumpets, then instruments of David (which he made) THEN singers
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The Lord
will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, And in the night His song shall
be with me-- A prayer to the God of my life. (42:8)
Thou [art]
my hiding place; thou wilt preserve me from trouble; thou wilt compass me about
with songs of deliverance. (32:7)
. THE HEAVENS ARE SINGING, PROCLAIMING THE GLORY
OF GOD!
a.
Psalm 19:5
their LINE(also sound)
has gone out through all of the earth”
The
heavens declare the glory of God;
And the
firmament shows His handiwork.
2
Day unto day utters speech,
And night
unto night reveals knowledge.
3
There is
no speech nor language
Where
their voice is not heard.
4
Their *line has gone out through all the earth,
And their
words to the end of the world.
b.
Romans 10:18 paraphrases
it as LINE
One of the definitions here means ‘string of a harp, as the SOUND”. The Jewish Bible translates this word ‘line’ as a musical line/melody/’
c. Job: 38:7 There was music during creation!
the
morning stars sang together,
And all
the sons of God shouted for joy?
“Morning stars’…could be angels, or real stars, or BOTH!
Talk about pitches coming from astromonical bodies, sun, starts,
Also talk about light./sound spectrum
1. Psalms 16:11 “You
will make known to me the path of life. At your right hand are PLEASURES
forever.”
a. Pleasures here means music, sweet singing. Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father.
b. Ephesians 1:20,
which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21
Colossians 3:1 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
b. Touching this divine music helps us stay on path of LIFE.
2 *The most common Hebrew word used for praise, Halal, means to SHINE!
PROPHETIC MUSICIANS/SINGERS
1.
Jubal, first musician mentioned in Bible. (Genesis
4:20,21) His name means flowing stream)
He was father all who handle the harp and
organ (or pipe, reed)
was warfare thru worship! Psalms 18: 34: He trains my hands for war
Could these selahs been vehicle into the ‘seeing’ realm?
Then
David danced before the Lord with all his might;
and David was wearing a linen ephod.
15
So
David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord
with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet.
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1 Chronicles
25:1…who should ‘prophesy with cymbals, harps, psalteries’
Moreover
David and the captains of the army separated for the service some of the
sons of Asaph, of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps,
stringed instruments, and cymbals
The
strongest prophets were very intimate, open and real with God!
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Psalmist, wrote Psalms 50, 73-80; 81-83
Prophesied, sang with cymbals I Chronicles 15/16,
He had 128 singing children. Ezra 2:41
His Psalms have DISTNICTIVE flavor!
( Study the positioning of selahs and what comes afterwards)
2. The prophetic
singers/musicians all lived together in villages.
a. Nehemiah 12:29 The
singers all came from village of the
Netophathites,
which
means to ooze, to fall in drops, to speak by inspiration. (to prophesy)
The Hebrew word, nabah,
means to bubble up
Now at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought out the Levites in
all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with
gladness, both with thanksgivings and singing, with cymbals and stringed
instruments and harps.
28
And the sons of the singers gathered together from the countryside around
Jerusalem, from the villages of the
Netophathites,
29
from the house of Gilgal, and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth; for
the singers had built themselves villages all around Jerusalem.
30
Then the priests and Levites purified themselves, and purified the
people, the gates, and the wall.
Study the progression here in this
psalm, gates, courts, inner courts, holy of holiess
Of worship ((psalm 100) we often
go thru these stages before we get to the prophetic realm of worship..note Asaph
was minstreling Himself here in this psalm, the prophetic comes after the other
‘gates’ . Often we quit too early, before we get to the ininer most chamber, the
holy of holies, where the prophetic is!
PSALM
77:The Consoling Memory of God's Redemptive Works
To the
Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph.
I
cried out to God with my voice--
To God
with my voice;
And He
gave ear to me.
2
In
the day of my trouble I sought the Lord;
My hand
was stretched out in the night without ceasing;
My soul
refused to be comforted.
3
I
remembered God, and was troubled;
I
complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed.
(shows his
honesty with God)
Selah
(note the selah builds up his soul, edifies himself, expresses his
thankfulness))
4
You hold my eyelids open;
I am so
troubled that I cannot speak.
5
I
have considered the days of old,
The years
of ancient times.
6
I call to remembrance my song in the night;
I meditate within my heart,
And my spirit makes diligent search.
(shows his
warrior spirit and determination)
7
Will the Lord cast off forever?
And will He be favorable no more?
8
Has His mercy ceased forever?
Has His promise failed forevermore?
9
Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Has He in anger shut up His tender mercies?
(here the selah builds up his faith)
(Selah
10
And I said, "This is my anguish;
But I will remember
the years of the right hand of the Most High."
11
I will remember the works of the Lord;
Surely I will remember Your wonders of old.
12
I will also meditate on all Your work,
And talk of Your deeds.
13
Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary;
Who is so great a God as our God?
14
You are the God who does wonders;
You have declared Your strength among the peoples.
15
You have with Your arm redeemed
Your people,
The sons of Jacob and Joseph.
Selah
16
The
waters saw You, O God;
The
waters saw You, they were afraid;
The
depths also trembled.
17
The
clouds poured out water;
The
skies sent out a sound;
Your
arrows also flashed about.
18
The voice
of Your thunder was in the
whirlwind;
The
lightnings lit up the world;
The
earth trembled and shook.
19
Your way was in the sea,
Your path
in the great waters,
And Your
footsteps were not known.
20
You led Your people like a flock
By the
hand of Moses and Aaron.
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God the
Righteous Judge
50
A Psalm of
Asaph.
(SEER)The
Mighty One, God the Lord,