Pastor Leon’s SOAP:  Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer
December 29, 2023: SOAP #5139: Revelation 10-14

SCRIPTURE:  Revelation (NIV) 14:1 Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. 2 And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. 3 And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No-one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.

OBSERVATION:  David, 1500 years before Christ, wrote of singing “a new song” to the Lord.  It is now 3500 years later, and as we look ahead into the book of Revelation, we see “a new song” being sung before the throne.  Surely “new songs” have been present in every generation.  God has been and always will be worthy of new expressions of praise.

APPLICATION:  This past year, God has brought things into my life for which I can express “a new song” of praise — something for which I have never given thanks or praise before.   It may be something that I have taken for granted, or something that came through a new source.  It may not be a great musical composition; it may be only the words; but from my heart I can give Him fresh praise, “a new song” or expression of appreciation.

PRAYER:  Lord, thank you for friends who receive these SOAPs.  As they look back over 2023, may their hearts be filled with fresh praise.  Amen

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