Wednesday: Joyful Noise 3

Praise The Lord. How good it is to sing praises to our God!

Salvation Wednesday, Salvation Wednesday, believe and confess and be saved... Salvation Wednesday, Salvation Wednesday, believe and confess and be saved... Amen.

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters, it is a beautiful Salvation Wednesday here at the Southern Location of the North Pole. It is the day we pray not just for the unsaved and those we think might not be saved, but the day we pray that God uses us to go into the fields of harvest and work to bring in the lost. It is our job, folks, to be working for Jesus. Here are some other much needed prayers... Please pray for Gabbette and her family (Gabbette = Donna). Please pray for Don Saylor and his family, for Pastors Tony, Charles, Kevin, Larry, Richard, and me... Also pray for the pastors from your church today. Prayers also for the family of Ruth who has gone home to be with Jesus. Vicki still needs our prayers daily.

Joyful Noise 3: Psalm 147: 1 - Praise The Lord. How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and fitting to praise Him! 7 Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving make music to our God on the harp. (NIV)

Here in that same Psalm are just a few of the reasons we need to be singing the Praises to Him.
Psalm 147: 8 - He covers the sky with clouds; He supplies the earth with rain and makes grass grow on the hills. 9 He provides food for the cattle and for the young ravens when they call. (NIV)

You know on this day when we talk about praising the Lord and being saved and our salvation and helping Jesus bring in the lost, I want to point this out... So many people think that we have an ALL loving God and that in the end all will be saved and we have no reason at all to fear God. Years ago when I was just a child and the streets were still made of dirt I had fear of daddy and even my mother. My fear was out of respect for them and what might happen if I do not follow the rules laid down by them. Folks, all of the rules were good and fair as are all the rules of our Lord God. Most of the rules laid down by my parents were indeed just rules of our Lord in the first place. So I had that fear of my parents, and oh yes, the punishments that might come forth when I mess up and even more fear if my mess up was really big. Now I know you all think I WOULD NEVER do anything wrong, but I was, well, sort of a "brat" sometimes. I had a few of my mother's "back hand" across my mouth if I were to talk back, and I had a bigger fear of my dad's razor strap if I talked back to my mother... you see what made my dad get really mad was if I did something that upset my mamma. I also had the fear of this sound... zippppppppppppp - that was the sound of a belt being pulled real fast from the belt loops on my daddy's pants. I want to point out again I was never abused or beaten, I was justly punished for deeds that I did wrong, or the good deeds I did not do. So listen to this, should we fear God? YES... I mean it should be reverent fear. Listen to this from Psalm 147: 11 - The Lord delights in those who fear Him, who put their hope in His unfailing love.

My daddy and mamma loved me very, very much, and more than once I was told that "this is going to hurt me more than it is going to hurt you", and I thought at the time... yeah, right! But then every now and then I would see my mother crying after she punished me and with those big tears coming down her face she would hug me letting me know how much she loves me. My parents also never, and I want to say this again, never went to bed at night letting me think they did not love me. Even if I had been punished and sent to my room, they would come in and hug me and tell me they loved me. I would then say, does this mean I can come out of my room tomorrow? The answer was no, but we love you anyway. God is the same way with us. We are His children and He must keep us in line as a good parent does. Does He punish us? I think so! Is it just? Of course! He is trying to keep us in line so that in the end, He will invite us into heaven. How He must feel when He turns one of us away at the gate. So let me get back to our joyful noise. Even when we mess up, or even more so when we mess up, (mess up = sin) we need to be singing to God, singing praises to Him, about Him and for Him. I also want to point this out to you... Singing Praises to God or about God is not always done in song. You can be singing just in words. Telling others about God and how good God is, is indeed singing praises. Even if the word is just spoken... However, you know me and I like to sing in song... so let's go out again singing and I don't care if you say you can't even carry a tune in a bucket, your words in song going up as Praises to God are always music to God's ears. Let's first ask God to forgive us and either save us or renew us in Him... If you have never gone before God, through Jesus asking to be saved, I ask that you do not put it off for another minute. I mean you could be called right now. Your heart beat could do one of these - _____________________________ a big flat line... So please come to God The Father through Jesus The Son right now. Or you could refresh today, and folks, do you want some real good refreshment? Get washed all over again in the blood.

Dear Father in Heaven, please look over our prayer requests and honor them according to Your will for those on the list. And Lord, we pray for those sick to be healed and left with us. Lord, we do though honor Your will, for it is far better than ours. Now Lord, please forgive us of our sins and get us ready for Heaven. Help us to repent and turn from sin and our daily sins. Wash us today in the blood of Jesus and make us whole. We want to be saved, we want to be Born Again in the Spirit. In the name of Jesus, I place my request. Amen.

Go forth now, singing a song of praise today and sharing your blessings... can you do that, share those blessings and lets lock this song into our hearts and minds today. Come and join the late Patsy Cline and me and sing this one... Love ya, dan.

"I am weak but thou art strong; Jesus, keep me from all wrong. I'll be satisfied as long, as I walk, let me walk close to Thee. Just a closer walk with Thee; Grant it, Jesus, is my plea. Daily walking close to Thee. Let it be, dear Lord, let it be. Again please... Just a closer walk with Thee; Grant it, Jesus, is my plea. Daily walking close to Thee. Let it be, dear Lord, let it be...

He's all I need, He's all I need; Jesus is all I need. He's all I need, He's all I need, Jesus is all I need. One more time... He's all I need, He's all I need; Jesus is all I need. He's all I need, He's all I need, Jesus is all I need.

He is Lord, He is Lord! He is risen from the dead and He is Lord! Every knee shall bow, every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
He is Lord, He is Lord! He is risen from the dead and He is Lord! Every knee shall bow, every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

"I am weak but thou art strong; Jesus, keep me from all wrong. I'll be satisfied as long, as I walk, let me walk close to Thee. Just a closer walk with Thee; Grant it, Jesus, is my plea. Daily walking close to Thee. Let it be, dear Lord, let it be. Just a closer walk with Thee; Grant it, Jesus, is my plea. Daily walking close to Thee. Let it be, dear Lord, let it be.