Harold Vaughan: Let’s consider for a moment tonight what I’m calling the singing protocol. There’s a few of these books back there. If you’d like to follow up on these eighteen different prayer protocols.

But let’s think about the singing up there back on the table, the singing protocol. You know, there’s a reason, uh, church services begin with singing. Well, we’re to come into his presence with singing.

That’s what our text says. Come before his presence with singing. God expects us to enter into his presence with song.

Now, um, Psalm one hundred, verse two. Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.

The word. Singing there means to shout for joy. It’s the voice of triumph.

Now it speaks of celebration and rejoicing. Psalm ninety five says, let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms or songs. You know what the word joyful noise noise means?

It means to split the ears, look it up, to split the ears. What’s this talking about? It’s the it’s a shout of joy to sound the alarm of triumph.

Now every revival is characterized with heartfelt singing. Revived. People sing better and they don’t have to sing like they mean it.

They sing because they do mean it. Now I praise this proper response to greatness. It’s the singing protocol.

Now, Colossians chapter three, let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. How many know it’s it’s okay sometimes not to sing about God. You can sing to God directly.

MM. With singing. With grace in your hearts.

To the Lord. Now, uh. Singing with all of your heart to the Lord.

Oh, is my privilege. A few years back to get in three revival atmospheres within a two week period. It was tremendous.

I went down to the tent meeting, and I just want to say this, when I heard about this big tent meeting in Carolina, I thought to myself, my wicked, suspicious spirit, assuming the worst. I thought, well, this is probably one of those camp meeting Nonsense. You know where they’re climbing the flagpoles and running around with the American flag like Batman.

And I’ve heard all these stories about these wild, bizarre things, and I’m thinking that’s probably. I shouldn’t have never thought that these guys didn’t know what was going on. But here I’m pre-judging people.

Well, I was not well, I was sick, so I said, well, I’ll just tune in on Facebook Live. So I sat down in my sunroom, get in my La-Z-Boy. I’d pull up the thing right here, man.

I get to looking at this thing. And, uh, the evangelist’s wife got up one night to sing a song. Twenty five minutes later, she was singing the same song.

Nobody was manipulating. Nobody was hyping anything. People would get under conviction, get out of their seats, hit the altar, get born again.

Shout of praise would go up. And it was just, it was. And I’d sit out there and my spirit was bearing witness with this thing.

And I’m sitting out there weeping, having a big time. And I had to repent of my prejudice, because here I was judging something. I didn’t know anything about it.

And by the way, different cultures of people act different than other cultures of people. Is everybody good with that? If you go to Africa, it’s going to be different.

I’m just telling you, alright, you go to China, it’s going to be different. You go to Israel, it’s going I’m just telling you, you go to the south, it’s going to be a little different. But people that are born again have the same spirit.

So boy, I got to go down there one night. One night there was five thousand people under the tent, a thousand in the sunshine. It was ninety six degrees.

I was sitting back there on the back row beside this black pastor from down in South Carolina. We were down there, man. They had cold water.

That was good. And we sitting back there having a big time and we just praising the Lord. And I’m just it was tremendous.

I went from there to the student prayer advance. I’m just telling you a revival atmosphere. Young people praising God at the top of their of their voice from the bottom of their hearts.

I went from there to New York City, got into a multicultural church. I think it’s one hundred and twenty three nationalities. And brother, they were singing praises to God.

I just want to say something to you tonight. I got in three atmospheres. There was three preaching styles, there was three music styles, there was three different cultures of people represented.

But brother, it was the same Holy Spirit and all three places. And brother, I’m just telling you, it’s a glorious thing to get in the presence of God, where people are overwhelmed and overcome with the goodness of God, and they were walking knee deep in love. I’m just telling you, it’s the singing.

It’s the singing protocol. Now, God’s given us three things to refresh our souls. We talked about the ministry of refreshment, but God’s given us three things to refresh us as humans nature, friendship, and music.

Why do people come to the Blue Ridge Mountains? Why do they go to the Rocky Mountains, Blue Ridge Hills? Why did they go to the Rocky Mountains?

Why do they come to the Great Lakes? Well, nature has a refreshing effect. A friendship refreshes us.

But can I say this to you? Music refreshes us. And brother, we’re to come before his presence with singing.

Now, before you have your devotions in the morning, you need to. Come before his presence with singing. Now some of you all can play instruments and sing.

I can hardly play the radio. And I want to say that YouTube is. Why is.

The reason YouTube was created was for people that have no musical ability, but who really enjoy music. I have no capacity to sing, but I’ll tell you what I know the songs that elevate my spirit. I know the songs that magnify God in my heart and my mind and my soul.

I know the songs that liberate me, brother. And just lift me up in my soul and magnify the the character of God before my face. And I’m telling you before you pray, before you read your Bible, brother, come into his presence with singing.

Now if you can do it yourself, go at it. But if you can’t see me, I’ll tell you where to go on YouTube. But you find the stuff that ministers do.

You find the things that that really elevate God, that lift up the Lord in your heart and soul. I’m telling you, it’s the singing protocol. So I want us to practice the singing protocol tonight.

And I want us to sing from our heart to the Lord. And I want us to brag on him tonight by singing that song. Amazing grace.

How sweet the sound. How many know that song? How many of you ever sung it with only two words on the second verse?

Praise God, praise God to the tune of amazing Grace. Has anybody ever done that? Alright, we’re going to try that too.

Alright, let’s stand our feet from your heart to the heart of God. Let’s boast in the Lord. Let’s sing amazing grace singers, get us on the right note.

Alright, here we go.