Sing Your Hearts Out to God!

There is an amazing truth in the Kingdom of God relating to singing over barren areas in our lives.

Sing your hearts out to God! Let every detail in your lives—words, actions, whatever—be done in the name of the Master, Jesus, thanking God the Father every step of the way. Col 3:15

I heard a story once of a group of women who’d been unable to have children, who got a hold of Isaiah 54 and took it to heart.

Sing, barren woman, who has never had a baby. Fill the air with song, you who've never experienced childbirth! You're ending up with far more children than all those childbearing women." God says so! Isaiah 54:1

For a year, 9 or 10 woman met every week, and sang together (worshiped God) for an hour. By the end of that year, every one of them, who had previously struggled to conceive, was pregnant. Barrenness was broken over their lives.

When I was 21 I ended in hospital for a series of serious eye operations over a period of 3-6 months. I was told that should I refuse the operations I would most certainly go blind. The ophthalmic surgeon warned me to anticipate going into deep depression over the next few months. He was quite insightful. He said, the eyes are the window to the soul so when we operate on the eyes the soul becomes hurt and depressed. I found this quite interesting, and he was right, that “Eye Ward” in Bloemfontein National Hospital was the most depressing atmosphere I’d ever walked into. The place was dark, a heavy cloud of depression hung over it and I could sense a deep despair over the other patients there. However, I knew from Isaiah 61:3 that we need to “put on the garment of praise and the spirit of heaviness will flee” from us. So I did. I was in a private Ward and I had the music player next to me with praise and worship songs playing all day. I would sing, and sing, and sing and sing. The nurses would come and stand at the door to listen to me! I never got depressed once. The Specialist actually asked me to please help the other patients to get some of what I had. The operations were a success beyond their expectations (to this day I have not had repercussions) and my eyes healed after these operations in half the anticipated time.

All you saints! Sing your hearts out to God! Thank him to his face! He gets angry once in a while, but across a lifetime there is only love. The nights of crying your eyes out give way to days of laughter. Psalms 30:4

Daughters of Zion, sing your hearts out: God has done it all, has set everything right. Psalms 97:7b