A New Song

“He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” Luke 4:18-19For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love. Galatians 5:13 NLT Worship: Celebrating faithful love Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle. Psalm 144:1 He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me. Psalm 144:2 LORD, what are human beings that you care for them, mere mortals that you think of them? They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow. Psalm 144:3-4Prayer: A plea for rescue Part your heavens, LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, so that they smoke. Psalm 144:5 Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy; shoot your arrows and rout them. Psalm 144:6 Reach down your hand from on high; deliver me and rescue me from the mighty waters, from the hands of foreigners Psalm 144:7 whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful. Psalm 144:8Reflection: Victory comes from God through Jesus I will sing a new song to you, my God; on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you, Psalm 144:9 to the One who gives victory to kings, who delivers his servant David. From the deadly sword, deliver me; rescue me from the hands of foreigners whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful. Psalm 144:10-11 whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful. Psalm 144:8, 11Praise: Anticipating promised joyThen our sons in their youth will be like well-nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace. Psalm 144:12Our barns will be filled with every kind of provision.Our sheep will increase by thousands, by tens of thousands in our fields;our oxen will draw heavy loads. Psalm 144:13-14There will be no breaching of walls, no going into captivity, no cry of distress in our streets. Psalm 144:13-14Blessed is the people of whom this is true; blessed is the people whose God is the LORD. Psalm 144:15 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. John 8:36