Pastor John, occasionally I like to check in with you and simply ask if there's anything

off of your front burner, anything that you're thinking about from your personal devotions

that you want to share with us here.

Tony, I think what I want to do off my personal devotions is encourage folks to sing to the

Lord by themselves in their personal devotions.

I believe that the Spirit of God wants to encourage us to sing to the Son of God and to the

Father and the Spirit in which I'm giving this right now, maybe I better clarify.

The Spirit in which I'm giving this encouragement to sing is like the marriage counseling I

would be given to somebody if they said things aren't going so well with us.

You don't need advice for us.

I'm not laying anything down as a detailed prescription or a formula that's going to fix

anybody.

I don't have any intention to say how often a person is saying or how long they should

sing or how loud they should sing or any specific results that are going to come from singing.

It's not like that.

It's more like me saying to a husband, why don't you just try regularly saying to your wife,

I love you.

I'm not telling him five times a day or I'm just saying if that's missing, probably it

could go better, you know, or try touching her on the back of the neck when she's standing

at the sink for no reason whatsoever, not leading anywhere.

Just felt like reaching out to her or try talking well of her in public.

In other words, I would just be kind of throwing out these suggestions that I've learned over

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