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Singing In The Dark - Bishop T.D. Jakes

Mar 16, 2024
I want you to turn to Psalms 137, a very familiar scripture, but I'm going to use it as a starting point tonight to get into the word of God Psalms 137 1-9 Psalms 137 1-9 when you have it, let's say Amen. endure reading other words just one last time then you won't have to get up again until tomorrow you can leave here bent over and still sitting you will look funny but you can do it listen to the language of this one of these psalms how beautiful how poetic almost poetic almost prose the language It is so fluid and yet the message is so sad by the rivers of Babylon there we sat yes we cried when we remembered Zion we hung our hearts on the willows in the middle sarah those who had taken us captive demanded us and those who wasted us They demanded joy, saying when they saw us sing, sing to us, sing to us one of the songs of Zion, how will we sing the song of the Lord in a strange place where anyone has ever been? a strange land if I forget the old Jerusalem let my right hand forget its cunning if I do not remember they let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I prefer not Jerusalem above my main joy remember oh lord the children of Edom on the day of Jerusalem who He said, lift it up, lift it up to its foundations, oh daughter of Babylon, you are going to be destroyed.
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Happy will be the one who rewards you for how you have served us. Happy will be the one who takes your little ones against the stones. I want to return to that verse from one to three, there next to the rivers of Babylon, there we sat, yes, we wept when we remembered Zion, we went on, we hung our hearts upon the willows in the midst of them, for there were those who carried. we far away demanded a song from us and those who wasted us demanded from the land saying: sing to us one of the lords, I will follow how this is the question, how will we sing the song of the lord in a strange land, let us stop there, will I? to talk about

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now holy spirit I call upon your presence to overshadow us now as we delve into the word of god not for the purpose of exploitation but for the purpose of communicating information and inspiration and articulation with clarity of thought and agility of Remember that we come before your throne, O God, that you may dispense wisdom and revelation in a way so profound and educational that we will never be the same.
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I thank you for this group, this remnant, this group of people who have gathered here to hear what he says. the lord god and to all those thousands of people joining us online tonight, I pray that you will be edified and that hell will be horrified in the incomparable and invincible name of Jesus, we pray that someone will love him with all their lungs. man, glory to God, you can be seated, you did so well I almost started a choir. I was listening to the news some time ago before the late Congressman John Lewis passed away, he had come to this protest, this demonstration and he must have been very sick. then, but he came and he was there in the middle of the demonstration and the interviewer came up and interviewed him and asked him how the demonstrations today compare to the demonstrations of the '60s, he said in many ways he said they are quite similar and he said that we were young and vibrant and we were fighting for what we believed in and we were peacefully demonstrating peacefully but defiantly fighting for what we believed in said there's only one thing I wish they would do differently than that We did what they don't do and I waited with my breath restrained to hear what he had to say and he said they should sing and I thought he was going to say something you know deep and it was deep but it took a while. to hit me in the face, he said the force of our march was our song and I thought to myself how can you sing with hoses on and dogs biting you and people hitting you and still you sang and then my mind went back to our ancestors in the cotton fields singing while some were beaten, hanged, raped and murdered and yet they sang and then I came back to this text and thought: what is it about singing that calms the soul in times of adversity?
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It's about music in general and I started doing some research? Music stimulates the part of the brain that produces dopamine. Dopamine is the type of hormone that affects emotional behavior and mood. The influence of music literally has a biological orientation and affects a psychological presentation. powerful, so I got away from what secular people said about it and started thinking about what the holy spirit says about it. I began to realize that music is a weapon. Music is a weapon throughout the Bible that is used to attack the enemy. It was so effective that God used David to play his harp to drive out Saul's demons, so while the psychologist talks about the release of dopamine and the biologist talks about the effect of music on the brain, there must be an effect of music in the brain. spirit that changes things that fights the enemy that drives away forces that music not only affects the mood but also affects what we cannot control ourselves now think with me tonight as we play with this let me set the stage and take a little time with you this is not a happy occasion this is not a choir rehearsal this is not a singing convention and this is not the quartet convention this is not a pleasant situation this is not a bar mitzvah this is not a wedding this is not a social event this needs to take place in one of the most horrible times in the history of all of Jerusalem, you see Jerusalem which is controlled by the Jews at this point and Judah in particular has run into conflict with Nebuchadnezzar Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar has besieged Jerusalem, which has forced them to have to pay money to leave him alone.
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Now Nebuchadnezzar is the king of Babylon and Babylon is a superpower of its time. Babylon has such power and such depth. It was what it would be. Rome was what. what other superpowers have been throughout history there was a time when Egypt was a superpower there was a time when Babylon was a superpower there was a time when Rome was a superpower and they had the ability to come in and dominate and control and move and take whatever they wanted and they demanded that King Jehoiakim pay them tributes or taxes or they would attack him, they harassed them, they harassed him, they harassed him, so Joiakim paid it at first and then he got tired of paying it and decided that I'm not going to pay anymore this tariff. ever your enemy intimidated you and you make a decision you push me as far as you can push me you are not going to threaten me anymore you are not going to take over my life no matter what happens it has to happen, it is going to happen it is what it is it is going to happen be what is going to be is going to do what is going to do but you are not going to come to my house and you will not you are not going to come into my life you are not going to enter and that was the spirit of jehoiakim jehovah can refuse to pay homage to Nebuchadnezzar the fourth year which led to another siege in the seventh year of Nebuchadnezzar culminated in total chaos and confusion culminated in conflict and war and fighting and a whole Suddenly, they begin to beat Judah out of Jerusalem. to drive Judah out of Jerusalem.
It's hard to articulate what that means. There is so much history there, there is so much legacy, there is so much power, there is a mixture of the political force of. be Jerusalem but there is also the religious power of being Jerusalem is the epicenter of three of the main religions in the world today so that they are defeated so that Judah is expelled from Jerusalem it is more than land it is land but it is heritage it is culture, it is language It is music, it is food, it is a way of life and it is unthinkable that Judah would be expelled from Jerusalem that a power like Babylon would come in with its polytheistic ideologies and expel Judah from Jerusalem because Judah knew who God was, the only true and living god. always served him but they knew what he was they didn't always obey him but they knew who he was they didn't always submit to him but they knew who he was and sometimes when you become disobedient god will allow our enemies to triumph over us to bring us to a place of submission where we begin to appreciate what we have ignored no matter if you are from jerusalem or africa or istanbul or afghanistan sometimes the enemy that comes against us or from here in dallas sometimes the enemy that comes against us comes against us as the weapon of the lord to correct us and suddenly Judah going into captivity is almost as awkward as when in the old testament when the ark of the covenant was captured and was taken into captivity and eli fell off his throne, remember that and he broke his neck now, instead of the ark of the covenant covenant is taken into captivity, the covenant people have gone into captivity, I don't know which One is more surprising that the ark of the covenant was taken into captivity under the Philistines or that the covenant people went into Babylonian captivity and it was not until they arrived to the rivers of Babylon that cried and cried. because they said how can we sing the song of the lord in a strange land? and I want to talk to you about this tonight because I think it's important give me a little time with this let me play with this just a little bit you have to understand that music itself is captivity the way the music is written the music is written in such a way that You have a signature in the music that tells you what key the song is in and when the musical signature tells you what key the song is in it keeps you captive to what you can do in that key the notes define the parameters with which the melody can flow in contrast to the key signature the key signature lets you know if you are in b flat or f or g or where you are and what is flat and what is sharp in that key and it sets the stage for you to function in a particular way because music at its best is a captivity of 88 keys, tells you which to play, which to stay away from what. what you can use and what you can't use, the armor sets the guardrails on what you can do in that key.
Are you listening to what I'm saying? And so it sets the conditions for the melody and whoever is writing the melody can do it. play all the notes as long as they obey the signature because the key signature tells you what is legal to do in that situation, so when you understand that about music, you begin to understand that music flows with laws and principles and the key signature sets the tone of what you can do in that particular key and you can get out of it you can modulate you can move you can deviate you can go up you can go down but you have to do it strategically because there are parameters that you can move with now if music has laws and people have laws and Situations have laws, that means we cannot be lawless, there are certain laws that you cannot break even if you have freedom, for example, the law of gravity, you can be as free as you can. you want to be you can be free go where you want to go do what you want to do but that doesn't mean you can defy the law of gravity if you jump come back down if you're black if you're black if you're free you're white if you're rich if you're poor yes you have long hair short hair store bought hair uh any type of hair you still have to obey certain rules and certain principles those cannot be broken now that they have been asked to sing the song of the lord in a strange land and now judah is saying how can we sing the song of the lord even though nebuchadnezzar has been ruthless even though he has been powerful even though we have been exiled there and nebuchadnezzar has been there for 18 years and even though they have had power and they have had the control and they have done whatever they wanted to do what they wanted to do when they asked him to sing the song of the lord the children of israel said that I could do it if I were in Jerusalem but I can't do it in Babylon because I am in captivity and it occurs to me that the way how we worship for some of us depends on where we are oh y'all don't listen to what I'm telling you, the way we worship depends on where I'm not talking about geographical locations, I'm talking about where you are in life, what's going on with you At that time, whether it is a good season or a bad season, whether you are captive or free, whether you feel blessed or whether you are in the mood for it or not, and when the conditions are not right and the armor is right, you do not know how get out of key, out of key, out of range, you don't know. you know how to defy the environment you're locked in and break into the next dimension and you think it's impossible to sing the song of the lord because you're in a strange land and I want to teach about this tonight because we're in a strange land now yes, we're still in our country and I hope you are in yours, many people are not, but that is not the only problem, you can be in your own country and still be in a strange land, you can be alone at work and still be in a strange land thank you for the three people who understand what I'm saying, you can be in your own home and be in a strange land, is there anyone here who knows what I'm talking about? it means being in a strange land if you are spiritual you recognize that we are in a strange land right now we are in strange times we are in a strange place we are in strange situations we are in a time where the enemy is challenging us to sing the song of the lord because we are in a strange land at a strange time dealing with strange problems and strange plagues and strange news and strange problems and it's not just about what's happening globally but what'shappening in your own life, I don't know if you noticed it or not, but hell has turned up the heat.
Oh, you guys aren't going to tell me anything. I don't know if you realize it or not, but hell has released new demons. Some of you are 40 years old, 50 years old. You never saw the demons you're dealing with now. You're in hand-to-hand combat and then enemies attack you in places you've never been. attacked before and you find yourself in a strange land and you are almost in a fog in your mind in your emotions in your spirit and the enemy wants you to lose your song he wants you to lose your soul because your song is your strength it is your joy it is your peace it is your power he wants you to lose your song and you look like you're standing outside your own life looking through the window at your own life like you're not really there it's so strange people are acting strange friends are acting strange relatives are acting strange strange situations break out in your life you feel a little strange in your body everyone walks in a fall it almost feels like your life is a movie that plays late at night when you were a child and you had to deal with situations with the ones you've never had to deal with before and you're trying to figure out what I need to kill him with what it takes to make a breakthrough what I do and who I do I need to call where I need to go and you don't understand that the power of life and death It is in your tongue that the power of life and death is in your mouth that if you opened your mouth and shouted to that god he would break the yokes of your life, your spirit and your soul, that you do not have to submit to the enemy alone because there is something strange in the atmosphere, you don't have to succumb to the strangeness around you, no You don't have to hang your heart from the willow tree and sit and cry and forget everything you know.
You may be in Babylon, but you are still a Jew. You may be in Babylon, but you are still a child of God. You may be backed up. on your car payments but you are still bathed in blood, you may be in foreclosure, but you still have the power of the holy spirit and until you learn to use what you have against what you don't, you will never be able to get out of bondage and so what I'm teaching you tonight is how to break a captivity because the enemy is sin in captivity to shut your mouth but the devil is a lie there is a great breakthrough for God's people if you learn how to ignore the environment around you and open your mouth and sing open your mouth and shout open your mouth and praise god open your mouth and give glory to god that was not the case with babylon they sat by the willows and wept when they remembered zion You see, they had attached their song to a city.
They had attached their song to a location. You'd be surprised by the people who can only sing when they're in love. Oh, I'm going to sit there, I'm going to take a step. on tiptoe just sit there I'm coming they can't sing during a divorce they can't sing during a crisis they can't sing during loneliness they can't sing during a test and suddenly instead of things getting better, they prolong the captivity because they They lose their surroundings and do not know how to sing the song of the Lord in a strange land, but I came to tell you tonight that the earth does not control the Lord, you do not.
I don't hear what I'm saying, but I'll keep driving until he understands. The land does not control the lord. If God is God in Jerusalem, he is God in Babylon. If God is God when things are going well, He is God when things are going well. going wrong if god is god when you're on the top of the mountain, he's still god when he's in the valley and if you get past your surroundings and what you see around you and the strangeness of the time and the strange things that people tell you says and The strange things they are doing now and the strange things that are happening in your life.
The Lord sent me here tonight to teach a class that will arm you with the weapons necessary to achieve the breakthrough you need to move toward. the area that you are trying to move into because what god has for you you have to let it out of your mouth and when you open your mouth and start to rejoice under god you are going to bring wait, I want, I want to explain some come when when you are proud The praise team choir auditions but when God says sing he doesn't audition because God isn't saying sing according to how melodious your voice is and how well trained you are and how well you can riff when the Bible says sing. lord a new song he doesn't talk to you about what key you're in and whether you can hold a melody or not because god isn't measuring the song by the melody he's measuring it by the intensity oh you guys don't hear what I'm saying this is a question of equal opportunity now, when you talk about singing on stage, some people understood it, some people didn't, some people can, some people don't. but when it comes to singing before the lord even people who sing well have no more chance of pleasing him than people who sing out of tune because the type of singing that god speaks of that you are doing has nothing to do with it.
It has to do with tone and tone and framework and structure and order It is a challenge to sing the song of the lord in a strange land no matter the flat or high key out of key it is defined to sing the song of the sir The song says: I refuse to succumb to the environment around me. I am going to bless the Lord at all times and praise Him anyway. In fact, you won't get out until you learn to sing. You won't make a breakthrough until you learn to sing. singing the Lord's saw in a strange land crying will not get you out of problems crying will not get you out of problems going into depression will not get you out of problems raising your hands will not get you out of problems but I dare you to open your mouth and lift up voice and start singing to God.
God does something when you sing a song under him. She can sing an a and she can sing and see, and he can sing an f and together. It just sounds like noise but it's okay he says he'll make the noise make a happy noise under god make a joy why noise under god because god says what blesses me is not your talent it's your spirit it's your heart it's your defiant your singing pierces through something pierces something in the spirit world gives you a breakthrough over the nebuchadnezzar who is trying to keep you captive everyone here has a nebuchadnezzar who drags you into captivity that changes your mood that brings tears to your eyes that every time you try to get up and Nebuchadnezzar comes and wants to bring you back into captivity and challenge you and mock you and say where is your god now where is your song now how are you going to sing now how are you going to praise him and I saw from time to time not only do I praise god because he is good I don't just praise God because he's great I don't just praise God because he's done sometimes I praise God just to make the devil nervous and let him know that I'm still going to praise him.
Everything may not be right. All my bills may not be paid. Everything may not be in order. I may not even be happy, but in the midst of all this, if you think I am. I'll stay here and cry and hang my heart by the willow tree. I have news for you tonight. Ah, oh God, I have to leave it. I don't want to go that far. I will bless the Lord at all times. His prayer will be continuous. It will be in my mouth in Babylon It will be in my mouth in Jerusalem It will be in my mouth in Judea It will be in my mouth in crisis It will be in my mouth when the bills are paid It will be in My mouth when you go and leave me It will be in my mouth when my feelings be hurt It will be in my mouth when I lose my job It will be in my mouth when I have to move in with my mom It will still be in my mouth because I am a soldier.
I respect the fact that these are people who have been drugged in captivity and women have been raped and men have been castrated with blood running down their legs and ankles, uh, chains on their feet and hands tied behind their backs. who left Jerusalem in a desperate situation the crisis is momentous it is not comfortable it is painful they are far from their homeland they are far from everything that is familiar to them they are far from everything that defines them but you are not far from god David said yes I do my bed in hell there you are he said if I take the wings of the morning and ascend to the ends of the earth there you are I want to talk to someone whose life is inconsistent and everything around you is inconsistent and you can't find anything solid to pin it all down around you is inconsistent the only thing that is consistent is god god does not change god does not move god does not move because you move god does not Do not move because your conditions change and if you learn to be like God that means you have to be firm , immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, you can't, I will get rid of the bad-tempered Christians. the next day they are this way the next day they are this way god is calling for coherence god is calling for people who can sing in the darkness god is calling for people who will open their mouths and praise him no matter what is happening in your life no matter what is going on in your mind no matter what is going on in your body you have to find a way to praise god because things are not going to get better until you open your mouth and learn to sing in the midst of adversity We hang our hearts of the willows to which we went when we remembered Zion, if I forget Jerusalem, let my tongue please even the palate.
Jerusalem is not just a geographical location. Jerusalem is a place centered on your soul if I forget who I am. my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth you have to know who you are even when you're in a strange land you have to know what your center is even when it's a strange time you have to know what your center is even when you lost your job you have to know what your center is even when you are destabilized by people you thought you could trust and you couldn't people you thought you could count on and you can people who said they would be with you and you left but you have to stabilize yourself with your Jerusalem Jerusalem is your spiritual epicenter is the place from which you get strength is the place from which you get vigor is a place from which you get identity our Jerusalem is not a physical Jerusalem there is a Jerusalem that descends from heaven there is a Jerusalem on earth in your heart there is a Jerusalem there is a spiritual epicenter called pavilion god hides you in a secret place you go to the secret place with god when all hell is breaking loose there is a secret place that anchors you so that you are not at the mercy of the environment to control the intensity of the power you operate with if that were true if I put you in a situation where there were witches you would lose your glory god has to have a power that transcends an environment god has to have a power that will work in a hospitable world god has to have a power that will work in an unemployment line god has that having a power that will work I don't No matter where you are, the only thing that is unstable is him because God is able to do it, see this in abundance, above all you can ask or think, hold it according to the power that works in you, according to the power that works in you.
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, not in your denomination, not in your city, not in your people. God said that I can do much more abundantly than all that you can ask or think according to the power that works in you. Jerusalem has now been taken from you. but you can't take me away from me you can't take me away from me god said it's not according to the river you're sitting next to it's not according to where you're working it's not according to how you feel in your body it's according to the power that works in you and god said If you work I can work if you oh if you move I can move if you look up I can look up if you extend your hand I can go down I can only do it according to the power that so wants you to hang your heart by the will of the trees and forget who you are and you think you can't do it because you don't get what you want and then you're like a baby crying because God will wean you from this and put you into that and say, will you praise me now?
Can you praise me now? Can you praise me in this situation? Can you love me like this? Am I still God in this situation? Can you glorify me now? If you are well instructed in the word of God you will offer him the sacrifice of praise of the fruit of your lips continually with thanksgiving the sacrifice I know you don't feel like it you don't have to do it you can stay tied up as much as you want but if you give him the sacrifice of praise if you give the sacrifice of praise of the fruit of your lips your lips your lip can't do that for you the praise team can't do that for you band I can't do that for you because god is watching over your mouth you say you don't even I can sing I don't even care God says when your lips move my lips will move when you open your mouth I will open your mouth when you start thinking about me I will start thinking about you I'm looking at your lips I want you to take about 15 seconds and just open your mouth and make any kind of happy noise anything you have anything you have any key any tool any kind of sound oh oh oh oh they don't remember, but old people used to walk on the floor and just say oh look when you start to open your mouth buds start to fall chains start to fall barriers start to fall problems start to fall no It doesn't matter what river you're sitting next to, it doesn't matter what the tree you're standing next to will be, you don't even have to have heart if you have a mouth, let the redeemed of the lord yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. yes yes theThe devil will challenge you, he will try to shut you up, he will try to shut you up, he will try to shut you up, he will try to make you sit still, but the devil is alive, we are in a fight tonight. we're all in a fight tonight you listen to me online we're in a fight tonight you can take those pretty little shoes off we're in a fight tonight glory to God you better take off their nails and take off their earrings we're in a fight tonight and you have to learn how to enter into spiritual warfare and sing and shout and dance and pray and drive back the forces of the enemy because there is something we have to drive back and we have to do it with our mouth and we have to drive it back with our saw and we have to drive it back with our prey and we have to drive it back if you push it back if you push it back if you push it in a movement if you push it in a movement if you push it in a movement if you push it in a movement if it you push it in a movement if you push it in a movement if you push it in a movement you're going to make me preach I don't want to do that I don't want to do that hallelujah look at someone say if you push it in a movement if you push it in a movement it will move you have to decide if you want to be a captive or do you want to be a conqueror I say: do you want to be a captive or do you want to be a conqueror?
Do you want to be a captive or do you want to be a conqueror now? If you are a conqueror, that still means you have to fight against it. I cannot be a conqueror if you have no opposition, but if you decide that you are going to be a conqueror, that means this will not hit me. He could die somewhere, but he won't. right here this right here won't spank me because I'm a conqueror actually according to the word I'm what more than a conqueror give me that word like you like you've been in bible class before I'm more than a conqueror could I don't feel like a conqueror .
He may not look like a conqueror. I may not have the emotions of a conqueror, but the Bible says I am more than a conqueror. He was simply in Babylon. He was simply in Babylon. It just happened. being by the willow trees I was simply in this situation, but my situation does not define my reality, can I go deeper into this? What strikes me about this singing in this dark place and his inability to overcome his anger. In fact you have to realize that this text is a song in itself that in the Jewish tradition the rabbis sing as much as they speak because there is something in your voice that cries out to God and when you open your mouth and cry out to God, he moves in your In the name of the paradoxical situation of Texas, it fascinates me because, on the one hand, it is a deplorable place and, on the other hand, probably just to mock them, the Babylonians ask them to sing.
It's just me, I think they should because I've learned the power. from singing in the dark I know why the old people complained all of you the same reason why the slaves sang in the fields it is a message it is a code it is a system it is a message it is a code it is a system it is a message it is a code it is a system it is a steel away from Jesus it was too long it was too long to stay still far from Jesus to stay all the states my lord calls me it sounds like he is just singing but it is a message and it is a it is a code it is a code It is a code that hell cannot decipher It is a code that the devil does not understand It is a code that demons cannot understand It is a code that lets them know that I am preparing to leave captivity It is a code that says I am preparing to break my lord calls me by thunder hallelujah and when you start to understand that code things began to break don't tell me if this is true if this theory is true let's try it in other places so I left the psalms and went to the book of acts And when I got to the book of facts, I surpassed the book of facts and they had put Paul in prison.
They were going to kill him in the morning. This is serious. The first mistake is that they locked him up with Silas because if two of you agree on touch something on the ground, it will be done. Look, the devil is wrong when he lets you be locked up with someone else who is on the same frequency that you are on and and you don't listen to what I'm saying so the Bible says the Bible says they put Paul and Silas in prison and look what time is it, he says and at midnight midnight is the darkest part of the night that was when there was a complete blackout everyone should be in bed at midnight at midnight the jail is quiet at midnight the lights are out at midnight the shift At night it is the easiest shift to work because all the prisoners sleep at night except Paul and Silas instead of being asleep the Bible said at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises to God and the prisoners listened to them look don't stay there sitting in prison and being passive and quiet and still you have to make some noise in your prison, you have to open your mouth in your prison you have to shout in your prison you have to open your mouth to the fire but wait until it's midnight wait until Don't wait until it's a little dark Don't wait until it settles down to be dark Wait until it's midnight 'cause there's something about singing in the darkest part of your night that allows hell No, I won't submit to your son at midnight, Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises to God, is everyone listening to what I?
I am saying that they prayed and sang praises in the darkest time of their lives. I don't know who listens to me tonight, but if you are in the darkest moment of your life, if all hell is breaking loose, if you can get out of this first. here comes that and before you can get out of it here comes the other if you are going through first one thing and then another if your moods are everywhere your children are everywhere your emotions are everywhere you the body it's everywhere just wait until midnight when it gets really dark when it gets really black when the devil is waiting for you to roll over and die open your mouth and shout to god and midnight at midnight and midnight paul and silas the bible says paul and silas prayed and sang they prayed and said what a fool sings in prison at midnight you have to be a fool for christ you have to be a fool for christ if you're trying to fit into this message it's not for you you have to be bold enough to be different enough to sing at an unexpected moment sometimes you have to dance without music or drums or tambourine no one to say go no one beats no nothing it doesn't matter if you're on the beat or off the beat, it's only negative that it's midnight because if you do you do it at midnight if you do it at midnight if you do it at midnight if you do it at midnight I wish I had someone here who was going through a midnight because it needed to be dark enough so that your praise stands out loud enough so that when you give the praise activate it if you're looking online and you're passing midnight if you open your mouth and praise him now he'll activate it someone pray for someone praise him now yeah yeah yeah yeah that's what I'm talking about there that's what I'm talking about there , that's what I'm talking about, right there, that's what I'm talking about, right there, that's what I'm talking about, right there, that's what I'm talking about, right there. there that's what I'm talking about right there that's what I'm talking about you you can't say it but the wall is cracking what you're saying joshua you mean when I scream the wall cracks yes when you open your mouth and scream to god I see a crack in the wall when you break your lips god breaks a wall I see a crack oh you have a wall of debt you have a wall of bills you have a wall of problems you have a wall of crisis but if he opens his mouth you can shout at the wall right now sit with me sit with me it's okay sit down with me sit with me I'm going to behave I'll be good in a minute I'll be good in a minute hallelujah hallelujah at midnight paul and silas prayed and sang praises to god they sang and prayed to god but at first the prisoners heard them that's all the prisoners heard them prisoners heard them that means they have not yet crossed the earth for him when they did it for the first time You started to sing and pray, you pray and at first the only thing you move are other people, then other people start moving in the prison, other people They start because you're still in the kingdom of earth, but at some point, at some point, it must have been a point because the Bible says suddenly, have you ever had a sudden event in your life?
You didn't even feel like you were just going through the motion, but suddenly, suddenly, it means that you can point to the moment when you penetrated from the earth realm into the spirit realm and the Bible says that suddenly there was a great earthquake that shook the foundation of the prison and immediately so we have to suddenly and we have it immediately if suddenly you get it immediately once suddenly just suddenly brought the earthquake but immediately they open the door you need to suddenly and immediately that will suddenly bring the earthquake but they will immediately open the door whatever needs a door opens give him some praise for it immediately so watch this Then they, the first one who did it, the prisoners heard them and he had to go further of the prisoners because the prisoners couldn't have caused the earthquake so they praised it until suddenly they came and suddenly they brought the earthquake and once it had pierced suddenly then they got it immediately and the doors open anyone who is here needs a door to open is in your mouth is in your mouth is in your mouth but it is in your head come on it is in your mouth it is in your mouth it is in your mouth the door you need to open is not in the judge's mouth it is not in the mouth of the people is not in the mouth of the governor it is in your mouth it is in your mouth and when you open your mouth not only you but everyone was loose Now not everyone was singing, not everyone was singing, but everyone was loose, that's why the devil put you in jail first, because when you open your mouth you're not the only one who's going to lose.
Let go. Everyone's bands were loose. The bands are loose and the devil is afraid of you because he knows that if you free yourself and open your mouth, everyone's bands will be loose, I don't know who they all are, but they are all banned, everyone has been lost, but that's how it will be. This doesn't happen if you can't sing in the dark at midnight he sang in the dark at midnight he sang in the dark at midnight he sang in the dark and then I started thinking about singing in the dark and I thought about what they said about Jesus in the night about easter the bible says that on the night of easter after having had the lord's supper the bible says that everyone starts singing now this is the night before they apprehended jesus to take him to the cross and this is the night that the pasha lamb becomes the jesus of glory the carnation the incarnation of god himself is going to go to the cross and he is the only one who knows that he is the lamb that goes to the cross and on this night and one that they say is that he is saying with them the last thing they heard him say in the darkness of Easter night was that he started singing with her who can sing on the last night off do you know that god can sing the bible said that god sings about us literally sing about us Jesus sings in the night that they are about to take him away why do you say when you know you are about to go to Christ you already told us in the garden of Gethsemane that you did not want to go to the cross so you are not singing because you are happy of going to the cross then your emotions are in captivity they are in babylon and yet your discipline says sing and he is saying and of all things psalms 118 he is saying this is the day that the lord has made we will rejoice and be glad in It now, what kind of madness is this that this particular day of all days is the day that you sing the psalms 118 this is the day that the lord has made we will rejoice and be glad? in it you know why it is a day of redemption it is a day of atonement it is a day of restoration it is a day of renewal it is a day of healing it is a day of divine purpose how do you know it is that day because it is dark?
It wouldn't be dark if God wasn't getting ready to do something. It wouldn't be dark if God wasn't getting ready to move. It wouldn't be so dark, it wouldn't be so dark if it weren't like that. t the day the lord has made and jesus knows the day by the darkness jesus knows this is the day by the darkness what do you mean by the darkness by the betrayal by the attack by the pain by the level of the problems is a sign that This is the day that the Lord made. Psalm 118 has much more than that, but this is the day the Lord made.
We will rejoice and be glad in him. This is crazy, rejoice in the dark, yes, but I can. I don't see, that doesn't matter, but I can't see and they just betrayed me and I just told him what they're going to do is make it quick and I'm going to sing while you look for them, what kind of faith is this? that sings while your judas goes to get the soldiers is the same kind of faith that made you feed your enemy if you were sitting at the table with me and i knew you were my enemy you and i wouldn't get bread for me i would get john your bit you if you are going to eat you better go and ask your mother because you will not receive anything from me but Jesus fed his enemy he served his enemy he sat with his enemy with his Juan on one side and his Judas on the other he sat with his enemies and you can't be agreat man or woman of God until you can sit between john and judas and treat them both equally oh you are not. you are going to talk to me you have to be able to sit with john and judas and know which is which and feed them both with the same bread and the same cup with the same peace and then have the audacity to sing in the dark this is what happens when you have to sing against the atmosphere this is how you become lord of the atmosphere let me show you I can show you a little more first from Corinthians 14 26 talks about what it is then we will say brothers and sisters when you come together each of you has a hymn or a word of instruction a revelation a tongue or an interpretation everything must be done so that the church may be built up and king james says that the church can be built when you sing the church is built when you give word of knowledge the church is built built is an architectural term that needs to be built as renewed as resurrected so singing bills singing bills say that with me singing bills singing bills you know see we don't have Maybe we have it, I don't know because I don't live in your house but you don't see it like you used to see it people standing by the sink singing people washing clothes singing people passing by the house shaking their heads and singing nowadays you don't see the church people had church until they came to church, but before you could enter your house and you could feel the glory in the house because you begin to understand that if you are going to be built up, you have to open your mouth and sing to god and give him glory when Nehemiah was building the wall he not only called the builders, he called the Levites to sing because singing songs now in Corinthians it says that he will build the body of Christ in Nehemiah proves that if you are going to build walls you have to call the singers because the singing build walls and some of you your walls are torn down and that is why this has come to you like this because a man who cannot govern his own spirit is like a city without walls and what made Nehemiah go to Jerusalem in the first place was to rebuild the walls and what you should do instead of giving advice to everyone else is rebuild your walls until you can govern your own. spirit, you can't tell me what to do if you can't govern yourself, oh, you only tell me, so he just called the masons, he called the Levites to sing because there's something about singing that speeds up the building, the building.
Nehemiah used singing to build the wall Joshua used it Joshua used it to tear down the wall so the same voice that builds a wall has the power to tear down a wall and why does it do both because sometimes in your life you need to build a wall and sometimes Sometimes you need to tear down a wall and God said I know which one you mean when you see when you sing I know what you mean I know whether to build or tear down anything that gets in your way God said I I will tear it down from the high places I will tear it down from the obstacles I will tear down that has resisted my will I will tear down what stands in your way and the promises of god God said when you sing I will tear down anyone who has become vulnerable and you need more walls, God said, when you open your mouth I will build walls where You never had water, where your mother had no walls and your grandmother had no walls and your great-grandmother had no walls and you lived under a generational curse, but what will break the curse is that I will give you walls that your mother did not have.
I will give you walls that your grandmother didn't have. You have, I'm going to give you walls that your great-grandmother didn't have because you're going to do something that they didn't do. You're going to open your mouth under me. God said. I'm looking at your lips when you arrive. tired of sitting there with your face twisted and tears running down your face and lips stuck together god said i will rescue you when you open your mouth i will get you out i don't care it may take me three days to do it you may be on the cross on friday, may May you be in the grave on Saturday, but on Sunday morning I will lift you from everything that ever held you back and you will have to sing, open your mouth and understand that there is nothing. wall that will prevent me from reaching you there is no stone that can be rolled in front of the grave so I will not leave your path because you were singing in the darkness yes, yes, then sing my soul, my savior. god to you wait a minute how can a soul sing then sing my soul me saying that your god be how great you are how great god then it is my soul I tell you your god how great you are how great then things say he, how great, what great you are, come, sing it in your living room, how great you are, how great, though this is, how great is my soul, my savior god, how great, though, how great, Hannah, sing a song that chased away her barrenness and allowed her to Conceive and when the angel came to Mary and said Hail Mary, you have been greatly favored among women, you will give birth to a son.
Mary was also sterile because she had not met a man, they were just two different types of sterility. Hannah had met a man. but her womb was sterile mary's womb worked but she had not met a man both are two different types of sterility but mary remembered hannah so sing my song tell me your god how great you are how great you are is there something buried ? in your life you need to tell yourself this change how great you are how there is something that God wants to leave in the womb of your soul tonight that the darkness cannot take away from you there is something that God wants to leave in the womb of your spirit that will take you from crying to dancing For the rivers of Babylon we cried, they asked us to sing the song of the Lord and we did not know how we can sing the song of the Lord when we are in a strange land, how can we? sing the song of the lord in a pandemic how can we sing the song of the lord worried because our children and grandchildren are going to school how can we sing how can we sing the song of the lord while they beat our backs how can we sing the song of the lord with the holes ? of oppression in our faces, how can we sing the song of the Lord when the phone rings every day about someone who is sick or someone who has passed away?
How can we sing the song of the Lord? You can't sing it if you can't sing it in the dark. In fact, stop singing in the light if you're not going to sing in the dark because God doesn't need part-time soldiers, He needs people who can sing in prison with their hands tied and feet chained at midnight. people who can say, even if he kills me, should I trust him? He needs people who can tell his enemies that what you need to do is do it quickly and still keep your soul and if you keep your soul you can overcome anything as we bring this Bible class.
Until the end of this night I don't know who God sent me for, but I do know that they are here or there, or there, or someone has been having their own personal captivity, your own midnight, your own dark place, your own emotional roller coaster. and you. I'm telling you how I can sing the song of the Lord when everything in my life feels a little strange right now and I'm telling you to do the best you can singing in the dark. I want the praise team to come and close with a song in just a moment, but tonight I want to pray for the people, emotions have been all over the place and they have been feeling like I don't know what to do, I want to pray that God would restore your song because if he can restore your song, you are going to have a sudden situation and if you have a sudden situation, you will enter immediately and if you enter immediately, the doors will open and if the doors open, God will take your opposition and turn it into a chance.
I pray for you tonight, I mean just you and I would come together like Paul and Silas to come to an agreement that everyone's bands would be loose and the captive would be freed. Can I pray for you until you walk away from the willows and start singing? May the dark spirit of the living god fall fresh upon us tonight not because we are so good or so special or so holy or so wonderful but because we are so needy and so desperate and so longing and so in need of you today we need We need your great God , we need you to do some things that only God can do for you.

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