Are You Singing Yet

Pastor Stan Mons

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Sermon Transcription:

We're going to get into the Word today. The title for today's message is this: Are You Singing Yet? Are You Singing Yet? Just last week, we saw the Lord give us such a powerful work that the Holy Spirit did in our midst as we had a message titled Understanding God's Message to Satan. Many of you testified how that message changed something in your life, changed your thinking. We talked about the fact that you become a part of God's message to the enemy when it is displayed in you—a sinner—that God is able and willing to perform His great miracles, His change, His grace, His mercy upon someone like you. We talked about the fact that the Lord threw Satan on the earth when he lost his warfare that he was trying to make against God and God's angels. Satan was thrown on the earth, and sometimes we look at that a little funny—why did God do that? Now he's our problem, kind of thing. When in all reality, the Lord, for a time, has bound the enemy to the earth, and then God takes the weakest of the weak, fills them with grace, fills them with His Spirit, and those who used to be puppets to Satan—he used to abuse them and use them—now are filled with the grace and the power. They become a reminder to the enemy that neither his power nor his weapons—nothing—works in his favor anymore.

He has no tools left on this earth to destroy and kill the people of God, to such an extent that God, who knows that it's the devil's heart's desire over your life to kill you, while the devil's standing by, he can't do anything about it. God is taunting the devil and says, "You want him dead? I'm going to give him eternal life by grace forever. Devil, there's going to be a reminder that you will never have your way in the lives of My people." And in an extension of that, you become a part of that message. This Word is part of how the Holy Spirit does it. Are you singing yet? Psalm 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." Are you singing yet?

Every single one of you—you've seen people that are just full of the life of Jesus. They love to talk about Jesus. They're not bothered with shame. They're not bothered with considering how people perceive them or what they think. They just want to talk about Jesus. They don't care who's listening—as long as somebody's listening. They just need to get things off their heart, it seems. And there's a sound that comes forth off of these people's hearts and off of their lives. The Word tells us: "Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks." You listen long enough to a person, you know what's in their heart. The question is: Are you singing yet?

Now, if you desire at all to be transformed by the power of the cross so that your output is changed—your input, your heart is changed—when your heart is changed, your output is changed. If you desire at all to be transformed, to be made something completely different, the Bible says you're made a new creation in Christ. You're not just improved—you died.

Baptism is a picture of that. We go under the water—it's a picture of us dying. And we come out a new man—a picture of what Jesus accomplished by the power of the cross in our life.

If you desire at all to be transformed by the power of the cross and to go from being a person that has no song—in other words, there's no lyrics in your life, there's nothing coming forth out of your heart and out of your mouth that is causing people to begin to notice this Jesus that somehow, someway, was able to save someone like you, change someone like you, set free someone like you, appreciate, approve, and desire the presence of someone like you in His own heavenly courts—that He would wash you and cleanse you and make you righteous and welcome you into His presence. If there's no clear song in your life yet, but you desire to be transformed—to become a person that has a clear song in their life and they cannot be quiet because out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks—if you're willing, God will give it to you. If you're willing, God will give it to you—not your neighbor. He will give it to you.

Now, it's okay if you want other things as well. We're all human, and we will, until the day we die, live with our fleshly will as well. You don't have to feel guilty about your fleshly will. But when you have heard about Jesus, when you have believed that Jesus is the Son of God, something very miraculous begins to happen. You also begin to understand God's will. Now, you may feel like doing your will all the time, but if you choose to do God's will from time to time—you only get it right so many times in a day—if you choose to do God's will, you're going to be just fine. It's like struggling with pride. I meet people all the time that complain about their pride or struggling with pride. Pride is one of those things you'll never have to worry about. It's not a problem. You don't have to pray about your pride because pride is not a stronghold.

What does the Bible say? "If My people that are called by My name humble themselves..."

You don't need God to humble you. You don't need God to do a miracle. You have been set free. You have been given the resources to choose the humble route. You can feel and think prideful thoughts all you want. It's direction. Now you know what the opposite would be—what the humble thing to do would be, what the humble thing to say would be. And you can choose to humble yourself and walk in God's ways. In the very same way, the Lord has set you free. And what the Holy Spirit does—it's an incredible miracle. The Holy Spirit of Jesus, the Spirit of Christ, makes sure that there are songs that rise from the mouths of the redeemed of God. It's how you recognize the redeemed of God.

Redeemed means that you were stuck because you got in debt. And now, basically, something would have been given as assurance. Because a debt could not get paid, now your car is impounded, for example. But you're the car. And so Jesus shows up and pays off what you could never repay. And so that car—or, in this case, you—you are redeemed, if you will, from the impound lot. And now you have been set free. That's paid off. You have been brought into freedom. Someone else paid for it. You get to enjoy it. And those redeemed—the Bible teaches us—they will have a song. This is how you know the redeemed—they have a song. The question is: Are you singing yet? Let me read to you about how the Holy Spirit does this. Ephesians 5:18-20: "And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit."

Now, let me stop there for just a second because there are preachers and teachers that take this scripture, they stop reading right here, and they may not say it exactly like this, but you listen long enough, you get the message. What they say is, "Well, the Bible basically explains when you drink alcohol, you're going to behave a little crazy. And when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, you may also behave a little crazy. God says, 'Pick the Holy Spirit.'” Let's keep reading: "But be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ." The Bible explains itself very clearly. You just have to keep reading. It says, "Don't be filled with wine because it's going to affect how you live, what you say, and what you do. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. It's also going to affect what you do, what you speak, and what you say. You're going to be speaking to one another—to the brothers and the sisters in your life—in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always to God."

That is what happens when you are filled with the Spirit. This is one of the things the Holy Spirit will do in your life—He will cause a song to be burned into your heart, and out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth will speak. One of the workings of the very power of the Spirit of Jesus Christ that comes to live in your heart is to cause songs to be born—songs that did not exist. And they originate, if you will—they originate in you. This is how Jesus buys a dirty vessel from the devil, purchases it, redeems it out of the impound lot, if you will, and while the devil's watching, He puts His Holy Spirit inside of that vessel. That vessel, which used to pour dirtiness and used to be full of filth—now that vessel, while the devil's watching, Jesus begins to pour. All of a sudden, life is coming out. All of a sudden, a song is born to the glory of God. The input has been changed; now, the output has also been changed, and there is nothing the enemy can do about it in the lives of God's people. Nothing.

I want to take you to a story in the Old Testament that I think exemplifies this possibly the best, to my knowledge. The people of God—you may have heard the story—were slaves in Egypt for hundreds of years. They had to work without being treated fairly. Pharaoh was concerned with the growth of God's people, was concerned with the possible strength of God's people, and so there was a yoke put on them, and there was a slavery put on them to keep them under control.

Then God sends Moses into the situation. He has his staff with him, and the more Moses began to cry out for the freedom of God's people, the more Pharaoh increased his pressure—until Pharaoh had no more resources to increase the pressure. By the miracles and the hand of the Lord—those miracles done through that staff, that piece of wood—the Lord got the people all the way to the point where the blood of a lamb was put on the doorpost (again, doorposts made out of wood). That blood of the lamb was put on those doorposts, and when the blood of the lamb was on your doorpost, the people of God the next day were brought into a freedom they didn't fight for, a freedom they didn't purchase, a freedom and a provision that God had made for them by His mighty hand and by the blood of the lamb.

The people exit Egypt and start on a journey with God on their side. God begins to do miracle after miracle for them, and then, one day, they end up at the border of the Red Sea. They decide to go camping out there. That's where we pick up the story because Pharaoh, his heart hardened, tries to come after them again. Exodus 14, starting in verse 9: "So the Egyptians pursued them, the people of God, and all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen and his army, and overtook them camping by the seaside beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon. And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. So they were afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord." Here we have this incredible picture—the child of God, just delivered out of the hands of the enemy, just experienced salvation, if you will. Just experienced that "I'm forgiven, and if I'm forgiven, God is going to treat me this way—it's incredible! He does miracle after miracle, He leads me out with a gentle hand, even though I didn't have the fight in me, the faith in me. I had nothing impressive—it was the blood of the lamb that broke me into freedom."

And then, we read this incredible thing: "The Egyptians marched after them, so they were afraid." That is where so many, if not all of us, at one time have been—or maybe are today—in our walk with Jesus. He has set us free from the grip of the enemy. He has set us free from the slavery. But anytime the enemy shows up on the scene, there's a fear in our heart: "He's going to get me. He's going to overtake me. He's going to run me down. I've got no strength."

For a moment, the children cry out to the Lord, but the story turns really quick. Verse 11: "Then they said to Moses, 'Because there were no graves in Egypt?' " Now they get sarcastic. "'Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt? Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, "Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?" For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness!'"

They say, "It's hard to follow God. It's costing us a lot!" All of a sudden, that's now what comes to their mind: "It's costing us a lot to follow the Lord. It's a little difficult to follow the Lord. It hurts. I have trial after trial, difficulty after difficulty. Life was easier and, in many ways, more fun for me before I started following Jesus with all of my life. God loved me in Egypt—why couldn't I just be loved by God in Egypt? Why do I have to follow Him? Look at me now—look at the trials, look at the difficulties. This is not fun. I'm sad. I don't feel happy. I thought I'd be happy. I thought life would be easy. I thought things would just fall together, and now I feel tormented. Every day, every time, the enemy seems to not be able to leave me alone, and fear gets in my heart. Wouldn't it have been better for me to serve the Egyptians than to die out here in the wilderness where the enemy is trying to kill me? God could have loved me right there in Egypt!"

Verse 13: "And Moses said to the people, 'Do not be afraid. Stand still. Do nothing. And see the salvation of the Lord, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever. The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.'" Verse 15: "And the Lord said to Moses, 'Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward. But lift up your rod and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.'" Here, the Lord tells Moses, "Remember that staff that is in your hand?" When He called Moses, God asked, "Moses, what is in your hand?" And it's as if the Lord brings that thing up again: "Moses, before you go forward, remember that staff. Put it in front of the people. Put it in front of you." That staff—pointing to the cross of Jesus Christ.

He is telling them, "Let that piece of wood by which I delivered you, let that piece of wood that did all of the miracles—that I did all of My miracles through—to show that the power of Pharaoh had nothing over My people, put that piece of wood in front of you one more time. And I am going to take the children of Israel into the waters and out of the waters, and something is going to be accomplished if you follow this piece of wood right now. But if you let that go before you right now, when nothing makes sense, something is going to change." Verse 22: "So the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. And the Egyptians pursued and went after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. Now it came to pass in the morning watch that the Lord looked down upon the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud, and He troubled the army of the Egyptians. He took off their chariot wheels so that they drove them with difficulty. And the Egyptians said, "Let us flee from the face of Israel, for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians."

You see, the enemy cannot leave you alone, church. The Lord knows the enemy is obsessed with destroying your faith. He's obsessed with still trying to kill you and destroy you and make your life worth absolutely nothing. He's obsessed, and the Lord knows why. Why didn't the Lord just shut off the Egyptians on the seashore? He allowed them to pursue them right into the waters, and then He begins to trouble them. He begins to attack one more time the strength and the ability of Pharaoh. Verse 26: Then the Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come back on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen."

And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and when the morning appeared, the sea turned to its full depth, while the Egyptians were fleeing into it. So the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. Then the waters returned and covered the chariots, the horsemen, and all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. Not so much as one of them remained. Chapter 15: Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the Lord and spoke, saying: "I will sing to the Lord, for He has triumphed gloriously. The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him; my father's God, and I will exalt Him." Hallelujah!

Church what do we learn from this story? There's many things we can learn, but what we look at today is we need to let the cross take us through the Red Sea. What does that mean? How do we go into these waters and come out different on the other side? You're already forgiven. You're already set free out of Egypt, but there's still an attack of the enemy. There's still a fear of the enemy. There's still a doubt in the heart that says, "I don't know with all of my soul that when the enemy shows up, the Lord just takes care of him." My heart doesn't know that yet. My heart still fears the devil. My heart still fears sin. My heart still fears some of the resources that the devil seems to have in my life or around my life. How do you come out different on the other side? On this side—complaining, despair, fear, frustration, confusion about your standing with the enemy, how it's going to turn out in my life when the enemy shows up in my life. And then, on the other side—a song born of the Spirit of God, and all of these other things are gone.

How does that happen? Here's the Lord's message to you and me through that story. Just like with the people of God in its time, "My miracle for you will destroy your enemy."

So, God leading us into something miraculous is usually a difficult situation—that's why it requires a miracle. An impossible situation—that's why it requires a miracle. "My miracle for you is the very thing that will destroy the enemy out of your life." And a miracle happens when we are baptized. Now, I'm not talking about when we take this piece of the wall out and have physical baptism here in the church—that's not what I'm talking about. Baptism physically with water has no power. It's no special water. It's a baptism of the heart. This baptism that we physically do here is symbolic of the actual baptism that has happened to our soul. And when our soul has been baptized and followed after the cross through these waters and come out on the other side, now certain things have been taken away, have been done away with. The power and the impressiveness of the enemy have now been removed from my life, and somehow, miraculously, a song is born in my heart.

Now, I want to also get physically baptized to show the world and to remind the devil that everything the devil thought he had on me is now gone. God has caused me to come out a different man on the other side. The Spirit has put a song in my heart. A miracle takes place in your life when your soul is actually spiritually baptized. We go in one way and we come out different. The complaining disappeared. The fear of Pharaoh has disappeared. And a song is born. 1 Corinthians 10:1-2: "Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware…" The Bible says, "I don't want you to be unaware." We’ve got to pay attention. "I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and the sea." It's a picture of baptism. The Word is giving us this story—after exiting Egypt, the miracle of crossing the Red Sea. The Word is giving us these stories that we may understand what baptism is really about and what we can expect when our soul is baptized and then expressed in a practical, physical way.

But this story of the Red Sea is there to help us understand something of what happens when our soul is actually baptized. What does baptism mean for you and me? To be actually baptized, to be a baptized person, to have a heart that follows after Jesus, to have a heart that longs after Jesus, to have a soul that is baptized—it simply means to follow Jesus with your heart, your mind, and your strength. Especially when it doesn't make sense. To follow after the cross when financially it doesn't make any sense at all. To follow after the cross when it feels like you're going to lose every relationship you ever cared for in your life. It doesn't make any sense, but I'm going to follow after the cross. To follow after the cross when the Holy Spirit speaks a small word to your heart and says, "I know that all you see is water, and behind you seems to be the enemy. On the sides are mountains. You feel like you can't do anything. There's no room for you in the kingdom of God. There's no future for you in the kingdom of God. But I'm whispering to your heart to put the cross one more time ahead of you, and I will do a miracle that will cause you to come out different on the other side."

It means to follow Jesus when nothing makes sense, but you refuse to make a Plan B. You no longer trust in your own understanding. You no longer trust in your own ability to figure out what should or should not happen in your life. You've made one decision—it's a singular one, and it says, "My Jesus came into this world to save me. I will follow Him. I'll never doubt Him. I may not understand, but I trust that if I follow Him, things will always turn out better in the end. I trust to follow Jesus." That's a baptized heart. That's a baptized soul. Forgiven. The enemy's dominion broken. But now, if you will, at a crossroads—right here at the waters of the Red Sea.

It's not your faith that opened the Red Sea. It's not your following of Jesus that opened the Red Sea. None of it did it. The Lord, in His mercy and in His grace, says, "I'm just going to cause the cross to go before you. I'm going to move those waters. I'm going to give you the miracle. But follow that cross right now when it doesn't make sense, and I will cause you to come out different on the other side."

It's a baptized heart that says, "I'm going to follow Jesus in the way I do everything. It doesn’t have to make sense to me—this is what I'm doing. I'm going to follow Him." And that man, that woman—they will go into the spiritual waters one way, and they will come out different. That man goes in struggling with sin. That man may go in complaining. That man may go in with doubt about who he is to God and if God will act on his behalf or not. While he still has a complaining heart, he still says, "Why is this so difficult? I don't like it, God, and what You're doing. I want to be different, but I'm not." And that man comes out different out of those spiritual waters and realizes it's not something we do.

You come out of that place, and you realize a song was born, a song was given. God's song is now with me. He has given me a song to sing. Even though I was complaining, I didn't have the faith, I didn't have the boldness, I didn't want to have the miracle—somehow, God gave someone like me the song. Out of all people, God gave me a song. His song is with me. That's what becomes part of that message that God is sending to Satan. That person—they were complaining. They didn't earn it on the right side of the water, so to speak. They didn't seek God properly on the right side of the water. And yet, God opened the waters for them anyway, loved on them, gave them direction anyway, and then at the other side, gave them a song—while the enemy had no more power, no more ability, and no more strength to put fear in their hearts. The Lord is the man that says, "I complained. It was me on that side of the Red Sea. I wanted sin. It was easier when I would just give in to sin. Devil, leave me alone. I just ask for forgiveness. I believe Jesus will forgive me. I believe He covers me. I believe He loves me." I just don't want to fight this heart. I just don't want to follow this heart. I was angry and selfish and spiritually blind. But when the cross showed up on the scene of my life, when the cross went before me, the cross opened for me my Red Sea. I followed the Lord, and my enemy was not with me anymore. When I got out of those waters, he was gone. When I got out of those waters and when I came out of those waters, God put a song in my mouth. God took me through the Red Sea, and He drowned my enemy in His miracle. That's the song of the redeemed.

Psalm 40:1-3 To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. "I waited patiently for the Lord, and He inclined to me." Here’s the man—he’s cheated on his wife, he’s murdered a man, he had a baby out of wedlock, he wasn’t fighting alongside his people when he should have been—and here God gives this man a song. And he says, "God inclined His ear to a man like me." That’s His message to the nation. Everybody knew what he had done. His army men knew what he had done. And here comes a song that the Spirit has awakened in the heart of David. God listens still. God reaches out still. God allows my voice to be heard still. A man like me—God hears my cry. Verse 2: "He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps." He has put a new song in my mouth—praise to our God. Many will see it and fear and will trust in the Lord. That’s how the Spirit of Jesus sends a song into this world—through you. A song that turns eyes to the Lord and says, "Really? You would answer a man like that? Really? You can forgive a man like that? Really? You draw near to people like this?" It’s a song with a message. God has heard me. I don’t hide who I am anymore. All men can know all the wrong I’ve done, but here is the song: God hears a man like me. He has spoken with someone like me. He has removed my sins and set me free, put my feet on a rock. He put a song in my mouth.

Church, are you singing yet? Has God given you that song yet? Some of you—God has brought it to your heart, to your mind, to obey Him and to be actually physically baptized. Maybe for the first time. Maybe again. Maybe some of you are realizing that true baptism of the soul, and God removing all of the fear of the devil and giving me a song of heaven, never happened before I was physically baptized. The Lord is doing it right now. Or the Lord has already done it in your life, and you realize the Lord may be asking you to—maybe for the first time, maybe again—get physically baptized. That’s fine. You can get baptized physically as many times as you would like. All it is is a symbol of what actually happens spiritually. But for many, the Spirit of God is calling unto us for our souls to be baptized. That’s a state of being. It’s not just once—40 years ago in my life—that happened as a historical event.

We can look at it sometimes as that physical event that took place and refer to that baptism, and it’s fine to refer to it. But the Lord goes a lot deeper than that. It represents something—your soul to be baptized—and a decision to be made that says, "I follow this piece of wood. I follow this cross. I follow this Lord. I follow Him when it doesn’t make sense. I trust Him. I don’t make a backup plan." My father shares the story—I had no idea. I once wasn’t looking to minister in any way, shape, or form. But I remember when the Lord had spoken to my heart very clearly and told me to go to a ministry school here in America. I was living in the Netherlands. I loved my nation. I loved my country. At that point, I would have never imagined myself living outside of my country.

That was not something that fitted into my ability to understand the world whatsoever. I could never imagine it. I loved my nation. And then the Lord speaks to me—to go to this school founded by a preacher I’d never heard of, David Wilkerson, in a country I’d never been—the United States of America—in a state I think I’d never heard of, Pennsylvania. And when the Lord told me that, I was so excited. Because all I desired was to follow after Him. Because my soul had been baptized. I wasn’t baptized physically for years until later, but my soul had been baptized. And so all I desired was to know where the cross was going, where the Lord was leading me, so I could just follow Him into it. It made no sense. I didn’t like it. It was way too expensive. I loved my family, loved my friends, loved my language, loved the humor of my culture, my people. I loved so many things. I had no reason to leave whatsoever. It made no sense. But I was so excited.

The application process is very dependent. They pray over every application. A lot of people don’t get accepted. Many people that I know of, year after year, don’t get accepted in. They pray, and so I send in my application. I was waiting at home, doing nothing, and I remember my father coming in. He tells this story—some of you may have heard it just a few weeks ago. He came in and kind of sat me down. I was 22 at the time, or 23. He sat me down, and he said, "You need to make a backup plan. If this doesn’t work out, if you don’t get accepted, what are you going to do?" And out of the genuineness of my heart, I just responded to him. I said, "No, I can’t dishonor the Lord like that. He spoke to me. I’m not going to make a backup plan. There’s only one plan, and that’s the A plan. That’s what the Lord told me. And if things don’t work out, God may give me the next plan, but I’m not going to make up a backup plan."

I didn’t know it at the time, but that was born out of a heart that was baptized. But my father, watching that, it began to speak something into his heart—of trusting Jesus and following Jesus.

It began to minister to his heart because he was hearing a song he’d never heard. And that song comes alive. Sometimes you’re not even aware of it. It comes alive in your heart and comes alive in your life when you follow the cross when nothing makes sense. And the miracle of the cross will end up drowning your enemy. That’s what happens to those that have actually spiritually been baptized. The miracle of the cross, as you follow Jesus, ends up drowning the enemy out of your life. That is the promise. God is saying, "I’m going before you. Follow me with all of your heart, and I will put my song in your mouth. The miracle of the cross will drown your enemy and give you a song."

Church, are you singing yet? If you want the powerful miracle of the cross to drown your enemy—if you desire that—would you stand with me today? If you desire that powerful miracle of the cross, just like it did for the people of Israel. They didn’t have anything right, but they could see that piece of wood go before them. All they did was put one foot in front of the other. And once they looked up on the other side, they realized, "My heart, my mouth is filled with a song. The fear of my enemy is no longer present." They could only experience the effects of the miracle on the other side. All they had done was put one foot in front of the other and say, "I’m going to follow when it doesn’t make sense." There are many situations in our life where following without a backup plan doesn’t make sense. But those that do it—they come out different on the other side. And a song is found.

If today you have the desire in your heart—you want that powerful miracle of the cross to drown your enemy—if that is your desire, would you join me here at the altar? If you desire that miracle, please join me. Hallelujah. For those that are online with us today, if it is in your heart, if the Holy Spirit has stirred your heart, if you desire to have the cross do this incredible miracle of baptism in your life where the enemy is drowned out of your life and no longer is there any fear, any reality to you of the power of the enemy, of the ability of the enemy. All of that is literally washed away, and you just realize—God has just given me a song. God has made me new. God has changed what comes out of my mouth. He has filled my heart, and out of the abundance of my heart, the mouth speaks. He has given me a song. His song is with me in the night. He has filled my mouth.

If you want this thing—if you are here at the front or if you are with us online—with a witness in your heart, that means that Jesus is inviting you today to make a decision of trust. To say to Him in your heart, "I’m going to follow You. I’m going to follow You with all of my heart, my strength, and my mind. I’m not going to have a backup plan. I’m going to follow the cross when it doesn’t make sense." That’s the invitation. If there’s a desire for the miracle—that’s the invitation. The cross is going forward. It makes no sense. It looks like it may cost you everything. But for the man or the woman that says, "I’m going to follow the cross no matter the cost, even when I don’t understand," God says, "Watch how you come out on the other side. I’m going to give you a song. The world is going to hear it."

Those that hear it—what did David say? Those that hear it—they will fear. They will look unto the Lord. It’s a song that the Spirit will give unto you. I want to pray over you as the team comes around. And afterwards, we’re going to sing a song to heaven. We’re going to make sure the devil hears it. We’re going to make sure that Portland hears it. But first, I want to pray with you—that the Lord may seal this word in your heart. That when you are at a crossroads, and it makes no sense to follow without a backup plan. With all of your strength, all of your mind, all of your heart. That that may be the moment that you say, "No, no, no. I’ve made up my mind. I’m going to have the song. I’m going to trust the cross right now. I’m going to follow right now."

-Pastor Stan Mons