Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.

So I'm chapter 30 verses 11 and 12. You have turned for me my morning into dancing. You've

loosened my sackcloth and closed 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. It's really interesting even as I was

just sitting down to record this podcast episode. Some things were brought to my attention that are

really heavy on my heart and I come to Psalm chapter 30 and I read that God turns morning into

dancing earlier in this chapter in Psalm chapter 30 verse 5. The Psalmist says weeping may

Terry for the night but joy comes with the morning and this is just the encouragement I want to

give you today. Pray over you today especially if there are things that are heavy on your heart.

If there is morning or weeping in your life right now or just for you to store this away for

days when morning and weeping come to know that with our God weeping and morning are never the

end of the story. Weeping may Terry for the night. Psalm 30 verse 5 but joy comes with the morning.

God turns morning into dancing. He doesn't just take away morning. He turns it into dancing.

What a picture of going from one extreme to the other. All of this possible because our God

has come to this world of sorrow and mourning and sin and sadness and death and our God has

conquered it all. He has defeated sin, Jesus dying on the cross rising from the grave. He has

conquered death itself and he has promised that in this world we will have tribulation. We will have

weeping. We will have mourning but take heart. He says to his disciples, I have overcome this

world so that the Psalmist here in Psalm 30 before he knew all that would happen in Jesus says

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

Just think about that word forever for all of eternity. We will give thanks to God. It's no

coincidence that when you get to revelation and you see heaven described multiple times. God

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