Surrendered Saints on Dry Land — Carter Conlon

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Praise God.

If you'll go in the Old Testament, please, to the book of Jonah, chapter 2. That book is about six books from Ezekiel. Go forward or eight back from Matthew and find the book of Jonah, chapter 2. Oh, Jesus.

Oh, God. I ask for an anointing from heaven. Lord, you have to come and you've got to take me much deeper than I can go. You've got to give me grace. You've got to help me understand and grant to me the power to live what you've put in my heart to speak.

The hour is late, Lord, and I pray, God Almighty, that your word find its course into every heart. Now, Holy Spirit, I'm asking you to anoint this word because if you don't, it will have no effect. You've got to come with an anointing power and you've got to make this word live.

And I ask you for it in Jesus' name. Amen. I'm going to speak this morning about surrendered saints on dry land. The greatest need of our hour, believe it or not, is for surrendered saints on dry land.

And you'll understand this when we get to the end of this message. Jonah, chapter two. Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord, his God, out of the fish's belly and said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord.

And he heard me out of the belly of hell, cried I. And thou heardest my voice for thou hadst cast me into the deep in the midst of the seas and the floods compassed me about and all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

Then I said, I'm cast out of thy sight yet. Well, I look again toward thy holy temple. The waters compassed me about even to the soul. The depth closed me round about the weeds were wrapped about my head.

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth with her bars was about me forever. Yet has thou brought up my life from corruption. Oh, Lord, my God. When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord and my prayer came in unto thee in thine holy temple.

They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed salvation is of the Lord. And the Lord speak unto the fish and had vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

Now, Jonah is a type. I'm going to be preaching about the life of Jonah in type. Now, when I say type, it's it's a shadow play of something else that the Holy Spirit wants to speak into our generation.

He wants to speak it into your life. If we strictly always look at the scripture from a historical context, we don't learn from it. For the Bible clearly says in Timothy that all the scripture is inspired by God is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for instruction and righteousness.

And so if we are able to see the scripture in that light this morning, it will help us to grow in the grace that God wants us to grow in. Now, Jonah is the type of a man who doesn't want the relationship with both God and with man to which he was called.

Folks, you can't have one without the other. As a Christian, a relationship with God will ultimately reflect itself in your and my interpersonal dealings with men and women and children of our generation.

And so Jonah, not wanting this relationship, took what he thought to be an easier journey. A journey as far away as possible from that which he was called to by God himself. Verse one says in chapter one, the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh.

Let's say New York instead of Nineveh. Arise, go to New York, that great city and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before me. But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord and went down to Joppa and he found a ship going to Tarshish.

So he paid the fare and went down into it to go with them on to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. Now, he joined a group of people that are going in the opposite direction to what God has been speaking and where God is calling him.

The scripture says he paid the fare. Folks, there's always a price when we're unwilling to follow the plan of God for our lives. Pay a price. And sometimes it seems to be an easier journey. And I fear for this generation because I feel that much of what is called to be the testimony of Christ has paid the fare as it is and has taken a much easier journey than the place that God has truly called us to.

There's always a price. Listen to what the prophet Zechariah says in chapter 11, verse 17. He says, Woe to the idle shepherd that leaves the flock. The sword shall be upon his arm and upon his right eye.

His arm shall be clean, dried up and his right eye shall be utterly darkened. Now, here's the price. The price is a loss of strength and a loss of vision. Folks, if you understand that strength and vision that comes from God only comes when we're in the will of God and when we're obeying God.

Then the opposite happens when we're moving in the wrong direction. There's a loss of strength. Spiritual strength begins to dry up and a loss of spiritual vision. A clear lack of discernment, a clear lack of understanding of not only the time we're living in, but personal direction of where we're to go.

And in this condition, it says in verse 5, well, verse 4 tells us a storm entered. And so violent that people began to be afraid that what they had trusted in on their journey was breaking up. Is it possible, folks, I'll throw it out just as a question, is it possible we're witnessing this again today in our world?

Is it possible that things that we've come to trust in, I'm talking about as a society at large, is starting to break up and fear is coming to the hearts of men and women again? Just as the scripture says it would when societies turn away from God and when this world begins to mount its last and incredible rebellion against the truth of God.

The scripture says the mariners were afraid, verse 5, and cried every man to his God and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea to lighten it of them. Now, there's this incredible storm going on above Jonah's head, really, because he'd gone down, the Bible tells us, into the belly of the ship.

And really, he was only concerned about his own comfort. It's the type of a Christian who comes to God and has a very clear, definitive call and a specific purpose that God has for that person's life.

But instead of yielding to that purpose, they go down into the belly of the ship, as it is, and everything is going on above their head, but they're not aware of it. Society can be in all kinds of peril, but as long as they're personally comfortable, they really don't care.

Talks about this in one of the Old Testament prophets, it talks about a religion that lays on beds of ivory, anoints itself with the chiefest of ointments, consumes the finest of wines, and sings to musical instruments, and has no concern whatsoever for the affliction of Joseph.

Has no concern for his brother, or her brother, that is in all kinds of trouble and turmoil, that has put this out of his mind. The prophet says this type of religion will be the first that goes into captivity.

Jonah, verse 5, says, was gone down into the sides of the ship, and he lay and was fast asleep. Jonah's in a sleepy form of religion, in which he became both largely unaware and unconcerned about the hour in which he was living.

He's not aware of it, folks. And the scripture clearly says there's going to be an attitude in the last days that says, well, where's the promise of his coming anyway? All things carry on just as they always are.

There's always been prophets, or so-called, that are raised up that say we're living in the last hour. And some of them were a hundred years ago. We're still here. All things are carrying on just the way they are.

He's fast asleep. He's largely unconcerned about this storm, this storm that is breaking up this vessel that he's chosen to travel on. A call to prayer comes. In verse 6, it says, the shipmaster came to him and says, what means thou, O sleeper?

Arise and call upon thy God. If so be that God will think upon us that we perish not. Now, he's called to prayer. And folks, there's a call to prayer in the nation today. There's a call to prayer. I don't care if it's being advertised on the Internet.

There's a call, an inward call. And everybody knows who's called by the name of Christ that this is a time that we should be praying. We should be seeking God like never before. But there's no evidence at this point in his life he could respond to this call.

He could probably pass it on to the next guy, but himself, he couldn't respond to it. And I'll tell you why he couldn't respond to it. Because the moment he would begin to pray, he'd go right back to verse 1 in chapter 1.

Where the Lord came to him and said, this is what I'm calling you to do. He's not willing to do what God's called him to do. So therefore, he can't pray. That's why many people can't pray. They'll go to prayer meetings and they'll get on their knees and it'll look holy.

They'll put their face down in their chair and watch their watch and hope for the whole thing to be over shortly. They can't truly go into the heart of God, because when they go into the heart of God, there's a call that's on their life.

There's something that God is asking them to do. Something that they are being called by the Holy Spirit to speak, and they're unwilling to do it, and therefore they can't pray. And folks, I do believe that is the root of prayerlessness in our nation today.

If truly the people of God begin to pray in this generation, the church would be transformed almost overnight. Men and women would be coming out of places all over called the house of God, and they would be going into the marketplace and they would be doing the very thing that God calls them to do.

They'd be living in the manner that God's calling them to live, and I do believe there'd be a great effect happen on our society today. Jonah might have been the only one on board this particular vessel that truly knew the Lord.

Think about your workplace. Think about your apartment building. Think about the floor you live on. Think about your street. You might be, it's possible, the only one who truly knows God. But he was living in such a self-induced and self-seeking slumber that only divine intervention could rouse him.

God knew he had a man in that ship, but how does he get a hold of him? What does the Holy Spirit have to do to wake this man up? How does God do this? Folks, we're living in a time when I fully believe if I'm hearing anything from God, God is going to wake his church up in America one more time.

He's going to rouse his church. There are many, many people are living in this kind of a condition. They've chosen an easy route. They've put away the hard parts of the Word of God and they've gravitated to the promises.

And they're walking in this slumber. They're beneath all of the storms. And as long as I'm comfortable, as long as I'm happy, let everything break apart all around me. Let people cast all of their concerns and cares into the sea, as long as everything for me is comfortable.

And he couldn't be roused, but God is about to rouse this man and he's about to rouse the church in our time. Now you ask me, how is it going to happen? Is it going to come in a dream? Is it going to be just a momentary quickening?

It's possible God can do these things. But if we learn anything from Scripture, we see something of the pattern of God in this story. Verses 7 to 10. It's incredible. What happened in this particular story is that the Lord gave a form of spiritual awakening.

It's not a true spiritual awakening, but it's a form of an awakening. To the people around, to the lost that were on the same journey, they became aware that because of this man, Jonah's light-seeking and following of God, because of this, their world was now falling apart.

And they said, everyone to his fellow, verse 7. Come, let us cast lots that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots and the lot fell upon Jonah. Society is quickly coming to a point where they're going to say, why is this trouble upon us?

And of course, everybody's always looking for somebody to blame. They said to him, tell us, we pray, for whose cause this evil is upon us. Now, all of a sudden, the whole ship turns to this man who's just been sleeping down in the bottom of it.

He's not been part of trying to take it out of the storm. He's not doing anything much, but just taking a journey. But all of a sudden, sovereignly, the whole of that society on that ship is focused on him.

And they begin to ask him some questions. What is your occupation? Where are you coming from? What is your country? And to what people do you belong? Amazing. All of a sudden, they're looking at this man and they have a sense in their heart, there's something about him that is causing or allowing this storm to go unabated.

And he said to them, I'm a Hebrew and I fear the Lord, which is not exactly quite true. If he truly feared God, he would not be on this ship. If he feared God, he'd be in Nineveh where he was called to go.

I fear the God of heaven, which made sea and the dry land. The only thing he forgot is man, which made man too as well. And he's not very concerned about this. Then the scripture says the men were exceedingly afraid and said to him, why have you done this?

For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the Lord because he told them. And there's something in the heart of men looking at churches in every corner that is going to wake up and say, why have you not told us about this day?

Why have you not told us? If you know God, where is God? Explain God to us. Why have you been running from God? What is the word of the Lord? We're in the midst, our whole, everything we trusted in is spilling over and unraveling now.

Now, where's the word that you're supposed to have? If you really do belong to God, tell us, what does the future hold? Where are we going? 9 -11 was a textbook example of this. When there was a flood of people after the towers were attacked, coming into churches all over the country, only to find there was no word there.

There was no explanation there. And statistically, some have said that after 9 -11 there were less people attending the church, there was less confidence in the church than before the towers were attacked.

They came in and they began to look for answers, but they ran into this casual social gospel that has nothing from God, has no word for troubled times because it doesn't really seek God, doesn't really want to walk in the ways of God.

Oh, but the men said, nevertheless, and they said to him, they said, what do we have to do that the sea might be calm to us? And he said to them, take me up and throw me into the sea, and the sea shall be calm.

In other words, you've got to get rid of this soft religion. If you want stability, you've got to throw soft-seeking of God overboard, because that's really what Jonah was. That's what he represented.

And I bring a word today to this whole country. If you want to get through in the coming days, you've got to throw this soft-seeking, self-serving religion overboard. You've got to get rid of it. You've got to get rid of all of it.

You've got to throw it. Oh, but you see, men so loved their soft religion. Verse 13 says, nevertheless, the men rode hard to bring it to land, but they could not, for the sea wrought and was tempestuous against them.

Oh, they don't want to let it go. Nobody wants to let their soft religion go. You can really grow to love soft religion. Down in the belly of the ship, rocking back and forth to sleep, while everyone above your head is perishing and terrified.

Men can grow to deeply love their soft religion. And they try everything they can to bring this problem about to a resolution, but they couldn't. And finally, nothing is left to them, but to take this concept of God as it is and throw it overboard.

Take this soft-seeking and throw it over the rail. And the scripture says, so they took up Jonah, they cast him into the sea and the seas from a raging. Then, verse 16, the men feared the Lord exceedingly and offered a sacrifice unto the Lord and made vows.

Oh, folks, there's a day coming. Isaiah said it this way. They're going to go into the holes of the rocks and the caves of the earth for the fear of the Lord and for the glory of His majesty when He arises to shake terribly the earth.

Verse 20 says, in that day, a man will cast his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which they have made for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats. There's a day coming, folks, when soft, self-seeking religion is going to be thrown away in its entirety.

Thanks be to God. And only that which is Christ is going to remain. Hebrews 12, 26 says, God says, yet once more, I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. Verse 27, and this word, yet once more, signifying the removing of those things that are shaken as of things that are made, that means man-made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

Beloved, everyone that professes to be of Christ is going to be severely tried in the last days. You are going to be tried. I am going to be tried. Mordecai came to Esther when there was difficulty in the land, in the book of Ruth, and he said, don't think for a moment that you're going to escape because you live right now in a place of safety.

Don't think you're going to escape. Folks, there's trouble coming to the whole world. And folks, you don't have to be a prophet. Just read the newspaper now. You don't have to even know this book. The book makes it very clear that we're living in the last days, and the last days are going to bring all kinds of trouble into the earth.

A shaking is coming. It's even begun that only that which cannot be shaken might remain. The only thing that cannot be shaken is that which is built on the foundation of Jesus Christ. The coming trials are going to be so deep that only that which truly finds its life source in Jesus Christ will have the ability to live and to speak for God.

It's going to be a hard day, folks. You don't have any idea how I fight to get up and preach this. I would love to go into some book of the Bible and just get up and talk about when Paul and Silas sang and the prisons shook.

But I've got to obey God. I've got to stand in this pulpit and speak what the Holy Spirit is speaking. If I don't warn you, if I don't stand here as your pastor and make a certain sound, how will you prepare yourself for the coming days?

How will you be made ready for the battle? And thanks be to God, I believe everyone who attends this church and many others like this church, you will not have to stand in the last days and run back to this house and say, Pastor, why didn't you tell us?

Why didn't you warn us about the days that were coming our way? Why didn't you prepare us to be strong? Why didn't you wake us up out of spiritual slumber and move our hearts to seek God again while he still might be found?

The Lord prepared a trial for Jonah. We would say, now, what happens to the people now? What happens to the prodigal son, as it is, who's taken the gifting of God and gone far away from the heart of his father?

What happens to this Jonah that men throw overboard? I see a time coming when society is going to throw overboard. It's already happening now. Much of the professing church of Jesus Christ. You see the judgment is already beginning and it's going to be thrown overboard by the masses of society.

Is that going to be the end of these people? Is there no mercy for them? Had Jonah moved beyond mercy? In verse 17 of chapter 1, the scripture says,. Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Now you see, Jesus said in Matthew chapter 16 in verse 4,. There will be no sign given to a wicked and adulterous generation but the sign of the prophet Jonas. Now what this scripture tells me is that God brought this man into a type of the suffering of Christ.

But he doesn't leave us there. He is the one who purifies his church. He is the one who calls that which is called by his name out of places where we shouldn't be. Thinking things we shouldn't think. Living in a manner we shouldn't be living.

And whenever the voice of God is calling, he calls us in mercy, thanks be to God. He took Jonah out and brought him in as it is to a type of the sufferings of Christ where Christ was three days in a grave, going down as it is into the lower parts of the earth.

But at the end of three days he lived again. As Christ has lived again, Jonah lived again. And I do see many people in our time coming back in the power of Christ. I see people who have walked far, far away from God and they're not living in the manner they should.

They're not seeking God. They're not walking in obedience to God. And they have embraced some soft form of religion. And yes, the world and society in general will write it off in the coming trials as irrelevant.

But I see many of these men and women coming back as the prodigal son did down the road again. They're coming back. They've gone into trial. And in this trial they found something of the life of Christ.

Jesus says, I will live again and those who follow me will enter into the miraculous power of my resurrection life because it's the only life that can sustain men in times of crisis. There's nothing else that cannot be shaken apart from the life of Christ.

And you don't find this life apart from sometimes having to go into the trials of Christ. Whereas the apostle Paul, you and I say, I have a sentence of death in myself. I can't get myself out of this trial.

I thought I could breeze through this life and into the kingdom of God. But all of a sudden I'm finding myself in a crisis that's so deep that nothing but the power of God can get me out of it. And Jonah found himself in this difficult time.

In chapter 2 verse 6, he says, I went down to the bottom of the mountains. The earth with her bars was about me. But yet thou has brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God. I went down to the bottom.

And some of you here this morning, you are on your way to the bottom right now and you know it. If you're wise, you're throwing the soft seeking heart overboard yourself, not waiting for somebody else to do it.

The most intelligent move you can make today, if you don't have a relationship with God that causes you to say, Lord, what will you have me to do? You should throw that heart overboard. Let it go down to the bottom where it belongs.

In this position, he says, my soul fainted within me. In verse 7, I remembered the Lord and my prayer came into thine holy temple. This is where Jonah began to finally pray. I began to pray. And folks, if you're in a crisis that's causing you to pray this morning, you're in a good place.

You might think you're in a bad place, but ironically, you're in a good place. Because if God has allowed something into your life that's causing you to begin to cry out to him like never before, you should be thanking him with all of your heart.

You should be saying, God, thank you that you're not letting my heart remain complacent in the crisis times in which we're living in today. Thank you, mighty God, that you are the one who is guiding me to a place where my life will be used for your glory.

Verse 8, Jonah says, they that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. Lying vanities. 2 Kings 17 .15 talks about Israel when they backslid against God. It says, they followed vanity and they went after the heathen that were round about them.

They that observe these things. They that attempt to be part of the journey of a society that is perishing. They that join the rebellion against the love of God. They that move away from following the will of Christ.

Forsake their own mercy. Now, this is a revelation. Jonah says, God, you've got mercy for me. You have had nothing but mercy for me from the beginning. If I'd only followed you when you'd called me, I would have known your mercy and your mercy would have flowed through my life and other people would have been brought into this mercy of God.

And in chapter 2, verse 9, he says, I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord. In other words, it is God's choice. It is His path alone.

It's His right to save whomever, whenever and however He chooses. Salvation is of the Lord. We do not choose our own salvation. We do not make our own salvation. We do not chart our own salvation. Salvation is of the Lord.

Beloved, when you and I were called of Christ and when our minds and hearts opened to His mercy, the scripture says He bought us with a price. He paid for us with His own blood. Therefore, we are called to glorify God with our mind, our heart, our body.

Everything in us is called to bring glory to His name. We are not called to live our own way anymore. We are called to walk with the Savior. We are called to speak what He calls us to speak. We are called to stand in the strength of God where He calls us to stand.

Salvation is of the Lord. We're living in a generation where men have tried to create another salvation. In order to do so, they've created another Christ who never challenges sin, does not talk about the cross, does not call people to obey His will, offers no punishment for wrongdoing, created a completely different Christ that allows men to fall asleep in the midst of the storms that are brewing all around us.

But my God is calling His church in these times to awaken again to the righteousness of Christ, the power of Christ, the life of Christ, the glory of Christ, that we might stand in this generation as Paul stood on the deck of a perishing ship with the word of God in our mouth and our feet planted firmly when everyone else is walking in terror.

We know who we are. We know where we're going. Jonah says, My life is His and His mercy will save me and keep me. And so too I will let this expression of mercy flow through my life to others. Folks, it's only in trial that you discover mercy.

It's only in failure that you fully begin to understand grace. Don't let the devil tell you you can't come back. Don't let him tell you it's all over. Don't let him tell you that you're too far gone for God to be able to use your life.

No, that's where grace is found. When you fall in the deepest, when you've gone to the bottom and finally start crying out to God, this is sometimes the moment that God's able to use your life in the purpose that He intended for it right in the beginning.

When Jonah began to cry out to God, when he'd gotten down as far as he could go, he said that weeds were wrapped around my head. That's the memories perhaps of what he should have done, the mistakes that he had made.

I was compassed about with waters. These are the accusations of the devil and perhaps even the enemy using Scripture to try to cause this man not to rise again. Depths closed around me. I went to the bottom of the mountains.

The earth with her bars was about me forever. He said, yet you have brought up my life from corruption, O Lord, my God. When my soul faded within me, I remembered the Lord and my prayer came into thine holy temple.

He said, when everyone else and everything even in Mount Hart was saying it's all over, God Almighty, I remember that you are merciful. I remember that you called me to preach mercy. I remember that you sent me to a place I didn't want to go.

It was to call men and women and children out of darkness and into the marvelous light of the mercy of God. I didn't want to go. I didn't want to walk this way. But Lord, I know that's who you are. I know you are merciful, O God.

Let me experience your mercy. You can't preach it till you experience it. You can't know it till you need it. Blessed be God. Don't let the devil keep you asleep. And once you wake up, don't let him condemn you.

You have the right to rise up in the life of Christ. As the church of Jesus Christ, you have the right to stand in the grace of God and in the glory of God. Hallelujah. And the Lord spake to the fish.

That's the trial. That's this place of death. That's this place of despair. And it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. Jonah is now surrendered. He has now yielded his life to the purposes of God. And the moment he did, he was thrown out of his trial back to where he began in the first place.

I'm all struck at the mercy of God. The unspeakable grace of God. We can fail him a thousand times. Yet he is still there. Still calling. Still willing to restore. The enemy in our own hearts say it's all over.

It's finished. You've gone too far. You've blown it too often. The Lord says, no. You're now ready to be used by me. You're now ready. You're in a place. When the prodigal son came home and found himself no more worthy, he had disgraced the Father's name.

It was at that point that he began to understand the grace of God. It was at that point he was given a robe and a ring and shoes. It was at that point he could represent his father. Because he was no longer full of religion.

He was full of mercy now. He knew the grace of God. He was walking in the grace of God. I see Jonah standing on dry land now. On a solid footing. Saying, I will by God's grace stand where he places me.

And I'll not be led by the error of those who are journeying away from his presence. I will stand where he's called me to stand. For many here today, it starts in your marriage. It starts with your own children.

I will stand. I'll be a righteous man. I'll be a righteous woman. I'll put things away that shouldn't be put away. I'll talk the way a man of God should talk. I'll read only what men of God or women of God should read.

In business practices, I will not cheat. I will not backstab. I will not lie. I will not assassinate people to climb the ladder. I will stand as a testimony of the grace of God. Let everyone else take this journey into oblivion.

Where they're going to be casting everything they've trusted in into the moles and bats of the earth. But I will stand on the dry land of the grace of Almighty God. Hallelujah. Listen to what David says to Psalmist.

Let me just read it to you. For time's sake. In Psalm 40. I waited patiently for the Lord. And He inclined to me and heard my cry. He brought me up out of a horrible pit. Out of the miry clay and set my feet upon a rock and established my goings.

He has put a new song in my mouth. Even praise to our God. And many shall see it and fear and shall trust in the Lord. Blessed is the man that makes the Lord his trust. And respects not the proud. Nor such as turn his side to lies.

Many, O Lord my God, are they wonderful works which Thou hast done. And they thoughts which are to us. For they cannot be reckoned up in order unto Thee. I would declare and speak of them. They are more than can be numbered.

Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not desire. Mine ears hast Thou opened. Burnt offering and sin offering hast Thou not required. Then I said, Lo, I come. In the volume of the book it is written of me.

I delight to do Thy will, O my God. Yea, Thy law is within my heart. I have preached righteousness in the great congregation. Lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, Thou knowest. I have not hid Thy righteousness within my heart.

I have declared Thy faithfulness and Thy salvation. I have not concealed Thy loving kindness and Thy truth from the great congregation. David says, God, You took me out of a place where I was sinking.

And You planted my feet on a rock. And You put something in my mouth. It was a constant song of praise. Concerning Your mercy and concerning Your grace and concerning Your goodness. I didn't stand as the judge of any man.

I stood as the one who was imploring them on the behalf of God. To turn to God before the judgment comes. Mercy triumphs over judgment. David says, I knew this. And I have not failed to preach Your righteousness in the great congregation.

It didn't matter how many people were listening. It didn't matter where I went or who You sent me to. God, I have not kept this thing silent within my heart. He says, in the volume of Your book it is written of me.

I delight to do Your will, O my God. He set my feet upon a rock and put a new song within my heart. A song that could be seen. It doesn't have to be heard. It can be seen. And men will see it and turn to God.