Psalm 40:9-10 – May 9, 2009
Ps 40:9-10 "I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; I do not seal my lips, as you know, O LORD. 10 I do not hide your righteousness in my heart; I speak of your faithfulness and salvation. I do not conceal your love and your truth from the great assembly." NIV

Do you speak for God? We are called to be His voice, His witnesses to testify of the great things that God has done. The last recorded words of Jesus commission us with power and command us to be a witness of all that He has done. Acts 1:8 records this commissioning “you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." We are called to be God’s voice but too much of the church has been living with sealed lips. It is God’s intention that the church be his mouthpiece, His representatives in the earth. Peter tells us, in 1 Peter 4:10-11 “If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God.” Our words are not words of human origin, but like the Lord our words are living and active when we speak what the Lord would speak. We release a living force into the hearts of the hearers that produces faith which brings transformation. How can we remain silent? How can we withhold God’s praise and the testimony of what God has done? When the church remains silent we rob the people of the opportunity to receive a gift from God and we rob God of the opportunity to express His love and power to a dark world in the midst of that situation.
David was unwilling to conceal the love that God had birthed in his heart. He was committed to proclaiming God’s righteousness in the gatherings of God’s people. God positions each one of us purposefully with a plan for our testimony to affect the community that he places us in. In Acts 17:25-27 Paul testifies to this principle, “From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live . 27 God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.” Today, someone is waiting for you! Today, someone needs to hear your voice! Do not remain silent about the glory and goodness of God. Esther was positioned strategically by the Lord to be His voice in the midst of a dark time in her nation’s history and she had to make a choice. Her mentor Mordecai cautioned her in Est 4:14 “if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?" Too often we underestimate the consequence of our silence. We live forgetting that we may be someone’s last chance to find the Lord. We live blind to the pain that we could be God’s answer for as our words of life bring healing to an aching heart. God continually places you in the midst of great need. He is moving the hearts of men to be ready to hear you. It is time to get our eyes off of ourselves and speak! Be the voice of God that someone is waiting to hear today!