Take my voice and let me sing
Always only for my King
Take my lips and let them be
Filled with messages from Thee
Take My Life and Let It Be Consecrated 1874
By: Frances Ridley Havergal (1836-1879)
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As we continue our journey through this classic hymn, work to sincerely offer each part of your life and your entire life to God. It requires diligence and intentionality. Thanks for joining us in this grand pursuit. Let’s tune our hearts.
Let Me Sing
Do you like to sing? I do. Well, to be honest I love it.
By myself, or in groups. With music or without. In the woods or in the shower. I find myself singing at all kinds of different times for all kinds of different reasons and often give thanks to God for the gift of music and specifically the ability to sing.
What an incredible gift it is! Certainly it makes sense that we wold want to offer it back to God to use for His glory. We echo the words of the hymn making them our own prayer. We want God to take our voices but for a particular purpose: that we might use them to sing His praise.
Take my voice and let me sing
I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High. Psalm 9:2 ESV
We know what it is to be glad, but exult? It means to show triumphant elation or jubilation. That is a serious commitment, but God is certainly worthy of it. We should sing His praises because He deserves them. He is worthy. Have you made the decision to use your voice to sing praises to God?
Singers love to sing. They love to use their voices for God. But that should not only be true of those who have musical talent. Every believer should resonate with this expression of commitment. Is it true of you? Will you commit to use your singing voice for God’s glory?
RESONATE!
Take a few moments and offer your voice to God. No one is worthy of the praise He deserves so that is why we praise Him with our singing. Make this your simple prayer today “God, use my singing voice for Your glory.” Then open up your mouth often so He can fill it with praise.
Always Only
It is one thing to sing for God. It is another thing to sing always, only for God. Always would be challenging enough, but when the writer adds only it creates a very demanding commitment. Will you commit to sing always, only for God? What implications might that commitment have?
Does it mean you need to stay in church in one continual, never-ending worship service? No. Rather does it require you to figure out a way to sing God’s praise elsewhere. Yes. Does it possibly also mean that everything you ever sing should be pleasing to Him, even if not some version of “Hallelujah”? I believe so.
We must figure out a way to allow our worship of God, even that which involves singing, to find some expression in our lives outside of church. We must not keep our sung praise inside those walls anymore than we should keep the message of the gospel there. Singers find ways to do this, but we must all allow the Holy Spirit to so fill us with praise it oozes out as we live our lives. But what about other songs?
I believe we can sing songs that are not expressly songs of praise to God and still be singing “always only” for Him. For instance, God blesses us with other expressions of love in different relationships. When we sing songs that express that love, even though they are not be sung to God or about God they remain consistent with His nature. Are there plenty of songs that are not consistent with the nature of God? Of course. We should probably leave those for others to sing if we are committed to sing always only for our King.
Always only for my King
I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being. Psalm 104:33 ESV
Again, the commitment to use our voice for God goes beyond the times we are gathered in church to offer our praise. The Psalmist says “as long as I live” and “while I have being”. Are you devoted to use your voice to sing to the Lord your God always and only? Maybe the latter is the toughest one.
RESONATE!
Take a few moments and invite the Spirit to show you how to sing “always only for Your King”. Then commit to doing that as long as you live or while you have being. Pray a simple prayer like this one. “My King, help me sing always only for You.” Then keep your hands ready to follow the impulse of love.
Lord, thank You for giving me a voice to sing Your praise. Help me to never forget what an incredible blessing that is and to make a point of enjoying it every single day. In Jesus’ name. Amen!
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Video 30.3 Transcript
Welcome to Tuesday Tunings at Resonant 7, where we reflect on the reality of God and resolve to let it resound in our lives, repeatedly. Let’s tune our hearts.
Take my voice and let me sing
Always only for my King
Take my lips and let them be
Filled with messages from Thee
Singers love to sing. They love to use my voice for God. But that should not only be true of those who have musical talent. Every believer should resonate with this expression of commitment. Is it true of you? Will you commit to use your singing voice for God’s glory?
God, use my singing voice for Your glory.
It is one thing to sing for God. It is another thing to sing always, only for God. Always would be challenging enough, but when the writer adds only it creates a very demanding commitment. Will you commit to sing always, only for God? What implications might that commitment have?
My King, help me sing always only for You.
Not just our singing voice, but our speaking voice as well must be committed to God. We must commit to honor God with not only every note we sing but every word we speak. One part of that is the things that we will not say. Will you commit to use your lips only to honor God?
God, help me to use my lips only to honor You.
The other part of the commitment is what we will say. We commit to fill our lips with His messages which implies there is no room for anything else. That would not only bring God glory, but keep us out of a lot of trouble. Will you commit to fill your lips with His messages?
Lord, fill my lips with Your messages.
Take a few moments to talk to Jesus about what has surfaced in your heart, or just listen to what He is saying to you, then we will sing once more.
Sing
Take the awareness of God’s presence cultivated in these last few minutes into the next ones and beyond. Until next time, Be Resonant.
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