Joy Comes in the Morning

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Joy Comes in the Morning By Brandon Burden 11/4/2017 1. Read Psalm 30:4-5. a. Sing to the Lord, all you godly ones! Praise his holy name. For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime! Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning. b. Night (def.) – the period of darkness from dusk to dawn when no sunlight is visible. 2. We have been in a night season. a. Many of us have been in a night season where no light has been available. b. We’ve been feeling our way around in the dark trying to figure out where we are and where we are supposed to go. i. We’ve become accustomed to running into things in the dark. ii. We’ve stubbed our toes on the furniture on more than one occasion. iii. We’ve probably even said some dirty words we shouldn’t have said and would be ashamed to say in the daytime. iv. But you see, we’ve been in the dark. 3. What is the night season? a. The night season is one where nothing makes sense. i. Everything you thought you were supposed to be doing you aren’t quite sure if you’re really doing it. ii. God seems to be distant and far away. You aren’t even sure if He hears your prayers anymore. iii. You feel all alone like there is no one there to help you. iv. You wonder if what God promised you will ever come to pass. b. In the night season, you can only see by the glimmer of the candle light. i. The light of God’s glory and presence seems like only a flicker in your life. ii. Psalm 119:105 becomes all too familiar to you: Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. 1. The Word of God is the only flicker you have to hold onto. 2. You’ve tried holding onto everything else, but you’ve had to let go because nothing else makes sense.



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iii. In the night season, you learn to: Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6. 1. You have to trust the Lord, not because you want to, but because it’s your only option. 2. You learn not to lean unto your own understanding mainly because you don’t have any understanding. a. What you are going through is beyond all reason and human understanding. c. In the night season, you ask the Lord questions like “How long, God? How long are You going to let this go on for?” i. And He responds with answers like, My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; for whom the Lord loves He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives. Hebrews 12:5. 1. You see, at this point in the night season you realize that the only way you’re going to get through this is if you decide to just surrender and accept God’s maturing process. a. You stop giving God excuses. b. You stop blaming everyone else for what happened to you. c. You decide that pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change, and you let go and become a mature one in God. 2. In the night season, you are learning through the reason of much use that your senses are being exercised to discern both good and evil. Hebrews 5:14. a. It is in this place of much use that God is preparing you to be the son and the daughter He created you to be. ii. And then one day you wake up and you realize that you have been in a test. 1. You see, all of God’s great men and women had to go through the test of sonship. a. Abraham had to lay down Isaac. b. Isaac had to dig another well and then another and then another until God made room for him in the land. c. Jacob had to wrestle with God. d. Joseph had to go through prison.

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e. Moses had to stop running from God. f. Joshua had to endure until Moses died before they could take the land. g. Ruth had to leave her gods and follow her mother-in-law to a land where she knew not. h. David had to withstrain himself from killing Saul. i.

Jeremiah had to survive being thrown into a mud pit.

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Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego had to make it out of the fiery furnace.

k. Daniel had to overcome the lion’s den. l.

Esther had to lay her life down for the sake of her nation.

m. Hosea had to marry a prostitute n. Jonah had to go to Nineveh. o. Mary had to face public ridicule and possible stoning to bear the Christ child. p. Simeon and Anna had to wait their entire lives just to testify of the Christ child. q. Jesus had to face temptation in the wilderness, and then again in the Garden, and surrender His will to God both times. r. Peter had to be sifted like wheat. s. The 120 had to wait faithfully in the Upper Room for 50 days before the Promise of the Father could come. t. Paul had to bear the sufferings of an apostle, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, and in deaths often. u. Timothy had to overcome his fear of man, and had to learn to fight the good fight of faith. v. And all the other saints in the Hebrews Hall of Fame had to quench the violence of fire, escape the edge of the sword, learn how to be strong in a place of weakness, turn to flight the armies of aliens, and be valiant in battle. 2. But they all had one thing in common: they passed the test! They all passed the test of being fit for God’s kingdom. 3. KingdomLife, I’m here to tell you tonight that we, too, have PASSED the TEST!

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4. Our night season is over! I prophesy it to you tonight. Our night season is over, and our day has come! a. David wrote, Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. Psalm 30:5. b. I find several things interesting about this particular psalm. i. First of all, I find it interesting that David connects the idea of joy with the dawning of a new day. He says that joy comes in the morning. ii. Morning (def.) – the period of time between midnight and noon, especially from sunrise to noon. 1. The interesting thing about morning is that it starts in the middle of the night. It doesn’t start when the sun comes up. What that prophetically says is that: a. Even in our period of darkness, there is still light. b. Even in our period of testing, God is still there. c. He never leaves us nor forsakes us. 2. The second thing I find interesting about morning is that it symbolizes the first or early period of anything; it symbolizes a beginning. a. I find this definition interesting because morning can symbolize the beginning of a new era. b. Era (def.) – a date or event forming the beginning of any distinctive period. i. Notice that it’s not just any period; it’s a distinctive period. 1. Distinctive means there has to be some point at which it begins. 2. Prophetically speaking, I believe that something very distinct is taking place this weekend. c. Third of all, the thing I find very interesting about this psalm is that David connects the idea of morning coming with the concept of joy. i. “Joy” is defined in the Hebrew here as a shout of rejoicing; loud cheering in triumph; singing. It describes the kind of joyful shouting done at the time of great victory. 1. Obviously, David was saying that he had just been in a very painful season in his life.



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a. Look at what he says in ver. 2-3, O Lord my God, I cried out to You, and You healed me. O Lord, You brought my soul up from the grave; You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. 2. But in ver. 5, David declares that his season of weeping is over because a great victory had come. 3. So what is David celebrating? d. Lastly, what I find very interesting about this psalm is that celebration had come during a very specific time in David’s life. i. This psalm was written at the dedication of the House of David. 1. It was intended to be sung at the building of the house of cedar which David erected for himself when he no longer had to hide from Saul in the Cave of Adullam, but had become a great king. a. David had just passed the test. b. He didn’t kill Saul and establish himself as king with his own hand. c. He waited on God to fulfill God’s plan for his life, and God had established him as king over Israel. d. He had passed the sonship test, and now he was co-ruling and co-reigning with God over all of Israel. e. One era had ended a new ear had begun. No more hiding, no more running. David was now established in his place as king. f. And the house that he built was evidence that that new ear had come. 5. The dedication of KingdomLife’s new building is evidence that a new era has come in our history. a. We have been in the Cave of Adullam. i. We have run from Saul while at the same time trying to preserve our own lives. b. We have stewarded everyone who was in distress, who was in debt, or who was discontented. i. We didn’t turn away from any who came seeking for help. c. And now those that we have stewarded have become God’s mighty men. i. They have become the mature sons and daughters of God, and are now a mighty army in this land.



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d. And now our night season has turned into morning, and we are full of joy unspeakable! i. We rejoice in what the Lord has done. ii. We rejoice in where He has brought us from. iii. We rejoice in this house that He has built for us iv. And we rejoice that the new era has begun!



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