HIS SONG IS WITH ME

Ps.42:8 – The LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime,

And in the night His song shall be with me—

A prayer to the God of my life.

The promise of a song in the night is precious, how many of His sons and daughters have been carried along by the supernatural song of the Lord. The first time I heard this phrase, song in the night, it was from Dick Mills. It was a Sunday afternoon at a specially called meeting in the auditorium at our bible school, God’s Army, in Kerman, California. Brother Mills called my wife Parris out of the crowd and gave her a word from the Lord. The scripture verse was Ephesians 2:10, “you are His workmanship”. Workmanship is the word poema in the original language. Brother Mills went on to “tell Parris you are His work of art and the Lord will give you songs in the night”. I have remembered that moment for over 50 years now, recognizing the power of God’s spoken word and the power of His songs. Here is how Spurgeon describes this.

“His song shall be with me. Songs of praise for blessings received shall cheer the gloom of night. No music sweeter than this. The belief that we shall yet glorify the Lord for mercy given in extremity is a delightful stay to the soul. Affliction may put out our candle, but if it cannot silence our song we will soon light the candle again. And my prayer unto the God of my life. Prayer is yoked with praise. He who is the living God, is the God of our life, from him we derive it, with him in prayer and praise we spend it, to him we devote it, in him we shall prefect it. To be assured that our sighs and songs shall both have free access to our glorious Lord is to have reason for hope in the most deplorable condition.”

Spurgeon said that our prayers are yoked or are vitally connected to our praise. Our songs in the night are supernatural, they are actually the Lord praying and singing over us and at the same time praying and singing through us. Parris and I have faced our share of storms and have gone through some dark times that you would have to say were seasons of the night in all of these years since that afternoon service in Kerman. The Lord has been with us and has often wrapped His arms around us in a song. I have to say His song in the night has been with us all of these years.