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Psalm chapter 30, verses 11 and 12.

You have turned for me my morning into dancing.

You have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness.

That my glory may sing your praise and not be silent. Oh Lord my God, I will give thanks to you

forever, exclamation point. And that's how Psalm 30 ends. This Psalm is a cry for mercy at different

points. Even the verse right before, verse 11 says, hear,

O Lord, and be merciful to me. Oh, Lord, be my helper. Both those sentences with exclamation

points at the end. And then it's a cry of faith here at the end. Verse 11, you have turned

for me my mourning into dancing.

And I just want to encourage you with that declaration today.

For anyone listening to this right now who is mourning in any way,

I exhort you, look to God, who alone has power, love, mercy, who alone is able to turn your

morning into dancing. He is able to loose your sackcloth. The whole picture is to put aside mourning and clothe you with gladness.

Is this not what Revelation says at multiple points is what history is headed toward for all who trust in God?

Toward the day when He wipes every tear from our eyes.

It says it in Revelation chapter 7, Revelation chapter 21, when we see his face and mourning

and suffering and sorrow and sin and death are no more and everything is new we are satisfied in him

and there are no more tears in our eyes when he clothes us with gladness and will clothe us with

gladness for all of eternity that our glory so what He has done in our lives, this transformation

from morning to dancing, that we may sing your praise and not be silent.

And then the last phrase here, last sentence in verse 12, oh, Lord my God, I will give thanks

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