Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit.Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; And uphold me with a willing spirit.
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… God, give me a willing spirit. Psalm 51, verse 12, restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit to sustain me. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, I've wanted to gather you. Do you know how many times God has wanted to set you free? Do you know how many times God has wanted to restore your brokenness? Do you know how many times God has wanted to give you freedom? Do you know how many times God has wanted to gather, but you were not willing to come into his presence? I'm telling you, God grant us at Zoe a willing spirit to do your will. Oh, come on, clap if you believe it today. That's our prayer. Restore unto me. Put it on the screen again. Restore to me the joy of being saved and grant me, give to me a willing spirit. You know what a willing spirit looks like? Put this on the screen. This is what it looks like. When God convicts us, calls us, invites us, you have two options. …
God of mercy, as we enter into Lent, may your spirit guide us to places we might not necessarily want to go. We turn to you because you, O Lord, have the words of life. Help us to hear what you have to say and grant us the courage to live it out. This we pray in Christ's name. Amen. repent and thou shall be saved. Is that what you came here to hear today? I mean, is life going well with you? When you look out at the world, is it as it should be? Do you find yourself crying out to God in fear or because of injustice? Do you hope that God would finally come and fix all that is broken? You wonder, when will the day of the Lord get here so that we can have peace and justice for all? be careful what you wish for the prophet Joel proclaims that the day of the Lord is coming and is near however he goes on to describe the day as one of darkness and gloom on that day there will be a great and powerful army but it is not to bring liberation and freedom to the oppressed. …
… Cast me not away from your presence, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of your salvation, and renew a right spirit, and grant me a willing spirit." Somebody say, I will. I will. Say, I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. Even when I don't feel, I will, because I have a passion. I will. I will. I'm not waiting on the position. I have a passion. Father, we thank you today for returning us to our first love. We don't want to labor without love, and we don't want to serve you without passion. We don't want to lose our place. We don't want to miss our chance. So while the lampstand is still in place, while we still have breath in our bodies, we still have an opportunity. We call out to you, God, and we don't ask you to restore our passion because the fact is you didn't take it away. It's still in us. It was just waiting for this word, for this moment to be awakened. So, God, we call our passion to the surface like Elisha called the iron of the axe head to float to the top of the water. We're calling our passion forth today. …
… take not your Holy Spirit from me, restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you. Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness. O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise, for you will not delight in sacrifice or I would give it. You will not be pleased with a burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God.
… David, when he got out of fellowship with God, said to the Lord, Lord, restore unto me the joy of thy salvation. He didn't say, Lord, restore unto me salvation, but restore unto me the joy of thy salvation. What is the burden that we ought to have sympathy for with these people? Well, first of all, they have a broken relationship with Almighty God. David prayed in that penitential psalm, Against thee and thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight. This person who once walked in sweet fellowship with God, that fellowship with God is broken. One of the most wonderful parts of my life is the fellowship that I have with God. When I awakened this morning, my first thought, when my eyes opened, was, Good morning, Lord. I greet you, Lord. I bless you, Lord. Just the fellowship with Him, to be able to sing it and say it, I come to the garden alone when the dew is still on the roses, and the voice I hear falling on my ear. …
… And yet, he prayed that prayer, and God brought him back. He prayed, Lord, restore unto me the joy of thy salvation. And thank God God did, and God gave him a second chance. Our God is a God of a second chance. Do you know somebody who's been overtaken with a fault? Well, the Bible says you're to restore him. Now, I want you to look at that word restore. Look at it. Restore such a one. Do you know what that word means? It's a technical word. It literally means to set a bone that has been broken. And it literally means to mend a net that has been torn. It's restoration, putting back in place that which is broken or that which is torn. Have you ever had a broken bone? I have. I was raised in Florida. And down where I was raised, coconuts grow. And we didn't have money to spend at 7-Eleven because we didn't have a 7-Eleven, but we had coconut trees. And if you wanted some refreshment, all you had to do was be part monkey, shinny up a coconut tree, and get a coconut. …