Psalm 149

Singing :
Medically what is involved.


New song:

we don't eat old food.

1)  Fresh leading of the Holy Spirit.

No longer slaves perspective.
The Bible says in Lamentations , His mercies are new every morning.
His mercies are new every morning .
For every day, and for every situation, there is new mercy from God.

Every act of God is new.
What God has done for crossing of Red is new at that time. and Moses and Miriam had new songs at that time.

What God has done for overthrowing Jericho as different was new mercy and there was new song.

-- King David  has written wonderful psalms and new psalms for every situation the he faced and how God delivered him.

---you don't get a new song in the busyness of your daily life. But you get a new song when you separate time for God, and get in tune with God.


New song is not about having a talent to write a new song. If so, the bible would say sing a new song all the talented people.

New song is about a fresh response to a fresh mercy of God in your life.


2) New generation


3)  New Tune and  New Lyric





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Rejoice in Maker
                  King
                  Glory

Luke 10:
20 However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
Rejoice that your souls are saved.

Come prepared for worship to give your best. With singing, dancing, and let yourself to worship God.

Why we should come prepared for worship, because The Lord takes Pleasure in His people.

V - 5,6
Let us get rid of all complaining, murmuring, upset,egos,
and let the high praises of God be filled in your mouth.

High Praises in mouth
Two edged Sword in hand.

John 1: 15-23

V15

John the Baptist witness always directed people to Christ.

Many times we hear people testimonies directing about themselves.

Our testimony is always about Jesus Christ and not about our self.

V16-18

We can know God only through Jesus Christ.

Grace and Truth came from Jesus Christ.

V19-23

When John the Baptist was asked who He was,
He didn't boast about Himself, but He gave exactly who He was and for what purpose He was sent for.
He was sent to make Staright the way of the Lord.

Each one of us has to know what our purpose is in life.
That we can know only by spending time in Word, Prayer.

John 1: 8-14

Witness
V8:
John witnessed to the world about the Light.

We are called to witness to the world about Jesus Christ.

Light.
V9 Jesus is the true Light for every man.

In Matthew 5:19,
Lord Jesus says, "you are the light of the world"

Jesus is Light of the world and He made us  Light of the world.

Do we shine as Light in this dark world?

V10-13
He came to the World He created but the World did not recognize Him.

If we are involved too much in the world we will not recognize nor hear Jesus Christ.

But if we pray and read His Word  and worship Him , we will recognize and accept Him.
Whoever receive Him , He gave authority to become Children of God.

V14

Jesus is full of Grace and Truth.

Grace gives favor for those who believe.
Truth corrects us and sets us free .

John 1 : 1 - 7

Beginning

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:1 NKJV

Compare with Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1 NKJV

Study:

Beginning was Jesus Christ, Son of God.
He was with God. And He was God.
In the beginning Heavens and Earth created by Him.

Beginning should  always be God.

How it applies to our lives.

Anything we think, speak , do , the beginning should be God.

Your waking up should begin with prayer to God.
Your reading - The beginning should be Word of God.
Your talking - The beginning should be about God.
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Everything was made through Jesus Christ.

Read Colossians 1:15‭-‬18 NKJV

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.

Study.
Everything was made through Jesus Christ.
This should create a heart of devotion for Jesus

Life and Light

In Jesus , there is Life.
Only when there is Life, you can be Light to others.
If you don't have life you cannot be light.

Blessing

Blessing is an act or a word to 

Genesis 1:22

First occurrence of blessing

And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
Genesis 1:22 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/gen.1.22.NKJV

Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Genesis 1:28 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/gen.1.28.NKJV

God blessed man to be fruitful and Dominion.

Even  man bless.
Rebekah was blessed by her family

And they blessed Rebekah and said to her: “Our sister, may you become The  mother  of thousands of ten thousands; And may your descendants possess The gates of those who hate them.”
Genesis 24:60 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/gen.24.60.NKJV

How a person can really bless.
What does it require to bless another person.

Faith.

We see in Hebrews 11 that many men and women of faith did mighty things by faith,
Sarah received power to conceive.
Abraham by faith moved to promised Land.

By faith Moses rejected passing pleasures.

By Faith only you can pronounce a blessing.

By faith Jacob worshipped leaning on his staff and blessed each of his sons.

Faith is confession of God's promise.
Gods Word we should declare it.

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.
Hebrews 11:20‭-‬21 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/heb.11.20-21.NKJV

Genesis 48: 8-10

Jacob blessed sons of Joseph.

Faith is the only factor God will accept.

Jacob eyes were dim.
But faith doesn't require natural eyes.
The world might say when you don't have something how can you bless others.

When Abraham was asked to pray for the womb of kingdom of abimelech.
Abraham didn't have any kids at that time but it is only by faith you bless.

You should be a person who knows God's promises.

If you don't know what God has promised how can you bless.
The basis of your faith is promise of God.

Even when Joseph had arranged his sons correctly to get blessed, and although Jacob cannot see , by faith he placed his hands correctly and blessed the sons.

Numbers 13 : 25

When Moses sent spies.
10 of them came back and gave evil report.

They told the facts. But facts are not Truth.

You got to speak blessing and for you to bless you have to speak by faith the Word of God.

And they returned from spying out the land after forty days. Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. Then they told him, and said: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there. There we saw the giants ( the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”
Numbers 13:25‭-‬28‭, ‬33 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/num.13.25-33.NKJV

Telling a fact report can become evil report if there is no faith in it.

Truth is not merely telling true words, Truth is about speaking the Word of God by faith.

Second part is choosing a blessing.

Proclamation of blessing is one thing and second is choosing a blessing

The Bible talks about many Godly men and women in New testament.

When mentioned about old testament saints, the new testament does not mention about their sins.
Did David sin, Samson?
But New testament talks about their faith and not about their sins.

But the new testament talks about sins of few people

Sin of Esau -Food
Sin of Cain - Ego and Pride and anger
Sin of Balaam -Riches

Why
Everybody sins, but whats the difference.
In anger , a person scolds and sins
In moment of lust, looks at a women and sins.

But there comes situations in our lives where we have to choose between a blessing (spiritual) and worldly thing.

That will turn out to be a critical moment.

For example
Let's see Cain.
The Lord gave an opportunity to Cain even after his offering was rejected.
So now he has to choose what he has to do.
He could have said sorry Lord I messed it up with my offering. Next time I will bring the best of offering.

But instead he chose to vent out his anger at his brother and killed him.

When you are confronted with a choice of a blessing and worldly thing and if you choose to reject the Blessing that comes from God then Bible calls such person as evil person.

Jude says woe to them for they gone in the way of Cain.

not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous.
I John 3:12 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/1jn.3.12.NKJV

So the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.”
Genesis 4:6‭-‬7 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/gen.4.6-7.NKJV

Esau:

The below is how Esau rejected his Blessing.

Blessing of God against a material momentary thing.

In life you will always come across these options.

What you choose matters.

Can you see this Esau rejected God's blessing and after wards when he wanted to inherit he was rejected.
There was no place for repentance even though he deligently sought with tears.
This is pretty serious.

lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.
Hebrews 12:16‭-‬17 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/heb.12.16-17.NKJV

Now Jacob cooked a stew; and Esau came in from the field, and he was weary. And Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am weary.” Therefore his name was called Edom. But Jacob said, “Sell me your birthright as of this day.” And Esau said, “Look, I am about to die; so what is this birthright to me?” Then Jacob said, “Swear to me as of this day.” So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob. And Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils; then he ate and drank, arose, and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.
Genesis 25:29‭-‬34 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/gen.25.29-34.NKJV

Choosing is a blessing is important.

Psalm 142

When Saul the King was chasing after David , he escaped and ended in a cave called Adullam. David was emotionally down.

 v4. Look on my right hand and see,
For there is no one who acknowledges me;
Refuge has failed me;
No one cares for my soul. 

Acknowledge: Abaraham Lincoln story


David was feeling so lonely. No one cares for my soul. Today so many people live in loneliness.
even though they might have family, but no one cares for them. 
Today it is all about virtual. Wife and husband might be on the same bed, but the husband will be sending messages on whatsapp to his friends, and wife will be sending whatsapp messages.when some thing funny comes on whatsapp group they will laugh. I
Facebook, if some one follows you find a neighbor if someone unfollows you you are in depression,  if some body likes you are excited, if someone disliked you are depressed. Today the whole world is so lonely.

Story of 3 friends.

 David was a lonely man in Adullam Cave. What kind of people approached him.
people in Debt, discontented.
1 Samuel 22:1


David therefore departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. So when his brothers and all his father’s house heard it,they went down there to him. 2 And everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered to him. So he became captain over them. And there were about four hundred men with him. 

and he became Captain over them.
When you are down you need someone who is stronger.

A CEO is as good as his team.
A leader is as good as his team.
Any leader of an organization wants smart, brilliant people for the success of company.

Not in the Bible.

The Way God operates is entirely different from the way world operates is .
David became a CEO of the company of debt people, people are completely down.

When Gideon comes with thousands of people, God asks Gideon to cut down the size and brings down to 300

When the Lord choses disciples, he didnt go to Gamaliel university and see who are the best brains in this university and chose them.

Even here God leads David to become CEO of people who dont have anything to offer.

In Christian life, it is all about God.

But how do these leaders run these organizations, like David, like Jesus.

I cried out to You, O Lord:
I said, “You are my refuge,
My portion in the land of the living.

They know how to cry.
The day , they spend time with the needy, and when alone they cry out to God.
God blesses you to bless who are in need.
In Gospels, Lord Jesus says when you give a feats , invite poor, blind, lame and give the feast.


Result

12 Now these are the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he could not move about freely because of Saul the son of Kish. And they were among the mighty men who helped him in war. 2 They were bowmen and could shoot arrows and sling stones with either the right or the left hand

Psalm 140

1) Deliver me, O Lord, from evil men;
Preserve me from violent men,
2 2) Who plan evil things in their hearts;
They continually gather together for war.
3 3) They sharpen their tongues like a serpent;
The poison of asps is under their lips. 


Matthew 6 : 13

And do not lead us into temptation,
But deliver us from the evil one.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.[

The world is full of evil.
You go to schools,colleges, offices, everywhere you see evil.

People who plan wicked things in their hearts and have poison in their tongues.
They continually gather together for war.

For evil one the friend is evil.

Isaiah 5:20
20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

1) Call evil as evil.

When you see evil or hear evil. call it as evil, don't mask it and say that it is okay. 

Genesis 3:  the devil calls truth as lie

1 thess 5 22 reject every kind of evil. 

2)  Depart from it.

First a desire to run away from evil should be there.

Some people ask can i watch this or can i go there or can i go to pub ?

If you become a believer, the first thing is depart from evil.

Joseph running away from evil.
Genesis 39:
11 But it happened about this time, when Joseph went into the house to do his work, and none of the men of the house was inside, 12 that she caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me.” But he left his garment in her hand, and fled and ran outside. 13 And so it was, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and fled outside,

Joseph did not stay there and tried to resist. but he ran.


Proverbs 1:8

My son, hear the instruction of your father,
And do not forsake the law of your mother;
9 For they will be a graceful ornament on your head,
And chains about your neck.

10 My son, if sinners entice you,
Do not consent.

2 Timothy 2:22

22 Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.


3) Do not repay insult

1 Peter 3:8.9
8 Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous;[a] 9 not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.