Songs of Deliverance 1

Psalm 32:7 You are my hiding place; You shall preserve me from trouble; You shall surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah

 What a wonderful verse – God surrounds His people with songs that bring deliverance and joy. I want to take a few days to look at some of these songs of God – the songs He sings over us as we hide in Him. We need to tune our ears to hear His song – then it will resound in us and touch every difficult and hopeless place in us until we come to a place of triumph over our suffering.

I want to begin with the song from Hosea, as I heard from a friend in Nevada today – she sent me an article her husband had seen in the “Natural History” magazine – a song about singing sands!

A Song From The Wilderness—Hosea 2:14-15

Therefore, behold, I will allure her, Will bring her into the wilderness, And speak comfort (tenderly) to her.

 I will give her vineyards from there, And the Valley of Achor as a door of hope; She shall sing there, As in the days of her youth, As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.

The Lord draws us with solitude in the wilderness - The Lord actually draws us to the desert place. We tend to think of the wilderness or desert as a bad place – a place where we suffer. But the Lord has a special song to sing through us here. He wants us all to Himself and He actually has a unique desert experience picked out for each one of us.

The Lord draws us with words and songs Notice that our song comes after the Lord speaks comfort to us in the wilderness. The word for “speaks” in this passage is the Hebrew word: dabar, which can also mean to promise or to sing!

The Hebrew word for “comfort” is leb. It really speaks of the deep inner comfort that God puts into the core of our being. He gives wholeness and courage to us as He speaks and comforts us in the wilderness – then He gives us a song.

The Lord draws us with gifts of trouble – this wilderness actually has a name – it is the ‘Valley of Achor.” Achor means trouble – it is a place near Jericho where Israel got into her first trouble after crossing in to the Promised Land (Joshua 7). Achan, from the Tribe of Judah disobeyed God and took items from Jericho after God had forbidden it. At some point in your walk with the Lord, He will take you to your “Achor” the place of your first and deepest flaws. What a wonderful thing it is that He helps us to deal with our sinful nature in this wilderness – not only that, He teaches us His song here in this place and turns the trouble into doors of hope – not only for us, but all those who pass this way with us.

Our extremity becomes God's opportunity. Our misery gives place to God's mercy.

Now He is able to close the door of our past behind us and lead us out of the wilderness with His song on our lips and His fire in our eyes!

"Troubles are often the tools

By which god fashions our hearts

For better things."

(Henry W. Beecher)

The wilderness becomes a vineyard

The sorrow becomes a song

The trouble becomes a door of hope

Now we get to something interesting – the article I mentioned from the “Natural History” magazine on “Singing Sands” by E. R Yarham. This is a great article that talks about the scientific phenomenon of sands that “sing” at various times when certain circumstances are in place. Such as…when the sands are hot, when reservoirs of water flow deep beneath the sand, or when the wind blows along surface of the sand and catches little ridges.

Go HERE and read the entire article – it is so interesting.

I am fascinated by this article as it shows us that natural deserts can “sing” – how much more can our desert places sing – especially when we have deep reservoirs of Holy Spirit water within our hearts; or when we have the blowing of the Holy Spirit on our hearts.

So…don’t turn away from the Lord as He leads you into this place. He sings over you and puts His song into your heart. The next step is that you can be used to sing God’s song of deliverance – the song of the wilderness over others who need to walk through their door of hope.

Part 2: HERE