"Sing to God, sing praises to His name..." - Psalm 68:4-6

First and foremost we are told to sing to God.  It is the first step in connecting with the heart of the Father.  There are many times we don’t have much to sing about, mainly because life hard on us and it is daily beating us down, it becomes a step of faith to sing to God just to express our heart to Him.  Sing our needs, sing our desires, and sing our hurts to Him as well as our joys.

Secondly, we are told to focus our singing about His name.  God’s name meets us right where we are at.  

When God spoke to Moses in Exodus 3:13-14, Moses asked God “What if the people say, ‘What is His name?’ What should I tell them?  Then God said to Moses, “I am who I am.””  

Another way of stating Gods name that stays in line with the Hebrew rendering is: “I am the becoming one”, or “I will become what I will become”.  God’s name becomes what we need at our point of need.  God is there to meet us where we are.

It says when we praise God and as well as praise His name, we are preparing the way for Him to come to us, it says "He rides through desert" places, how many desert places have you been in?  I for one have been in many desert places in my Christian life where the dryness of my connection with God was suffering, and the very act of deciding to praise God and focusing on His name and Him becoming what I need becomes like water which refreshes and restores me.  It is at those times of refreshing that I rejoice and take great pleasure in His presence, for He has become my sustenance.

This Psalmist goes on to say that He is a "Father to the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, gives the lonely a home, and leads the prisoners out with joy."  God becomes all these things to the needy, He also becomes all these things to us, and more.  What is your need today?  What can God become for you to bring you His assurance and comfort and meet you at your point of need?

God is faithful to respond to you if you merely ask Him.

Blessings to you;

Stephen Barnett