It's been established a multitude of times that I am Pentecostal. Anyone who has ever seen a Pentecostal church knows that anything goes during service. If the Lord says run you run, jump you jump, shout you shout. Sometimes there's preaching, sometimes there's not. Sometimes worship lasts 15 minutes, other times it lasts hours. And a lot of the times there's random impromptu worship. Other times we just handle the snakes and drink poison. (That's a joke. Laugh.)
While the offering is being received the band does an instrumental praise song. More often than not during the middle of the band doing the instrumental, the Spirit will take over and someone will jump up and start singing the words and before long everyone is singing. Typically when this happens the same verse is enthusiastically sung for 10+ minutes.
Tonight, exactly that occurred. The instrumental was "trading my sorrows." The Spirit took over and my pastor jumped up and started singing it. Before long, the congregation was jumping and shouting singing it.
The song goes, "I'm trading my sorrows
I'm trading my shame
I'm laying them down for the joy of the lord
I'm trading my sickness
I'm trading my pain
I'm laying it down for the joy of the lord
We say yes lord yes lord yes yes lord
Yes lord yes lord yes yes lord
Yes lord yes lord yes yes lord amen
I'm pressed but not crushed persecuted but not abandoned
Struck down but not destroyed
I am blessed beyond the curse for his promise will endure
That his joy's gonna be my strength
Though the sorrow may last for the night
His joy comes with the morning"
I don't give a hoot what you are going through. I don't care what mountain you're facing. I don't care how many legions of demons you are battling. Regardless of anything, I can promise you one thing. Joy comes in the morning.
The Lord is calling you today to trade your sorrows for happiness. To trade your shame for honor. Your sickness for health. Your pain for deliverance. All you have to do is lay it all down and say yes Lord. When you say yes Lord, joy will come.
Lord, I give you my yes. I lay down my pain. I lay down my heartache. My sorrow. My mistrust. I sit it at the foot of the cross. I'm trading it all in for the joy that comes in the morning.
For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for a lifetime; Weeping may last for the night, But a shout of joy comes in the morning.
Psalms 30:5
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