Psalms 42:8: “Yet, the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.”

Normally when you think of a command you are thinking  of an order.  An order is given under the assumption that the one receiving this order may not really want to carry it out, but as a command it must be carried out or a penalty will be paid.    That is what makes this translation a little confusing.  Is this to suggest that maybe there are times God just does not want to show His lovingkindness and so He must order it?

The word for command is suh  which means to appoint or establish. The translators use the word command because this is in a Piel form which intensifies the verb. Logically, if you are going to intensify the word establish, command would seem to be the best word to use.  But when we say a Piel intensifies, that does not necessarily mean to make it more powerful. It could also mean to make it more complete or certain.   Thus the Lord makes certain that His lovingkindness is well established, He does not miss a trick.  We look around and see all the pain and suffering in the world, or maybe in your own life and you think: “Well, the Lord’s lovingkindness sure did not make it into my corner today.  But, soft, according to this Psalm, His lovingkindness is shining as brightly as ever. The word lovingkindness is chasad. This is also the same word used for a stork. So what in the blazes does lovingkindness have to do with a stork?  Do you ever wonder where the old wives tale about the stork delivering a baby came from?  The ancients made an observation.  They noted in the animal world how the mothers tenderly cared and protected their young, but they also noted that when they considered the degree of care and protection, the stork mother ranked well above all the other animals. Thus, who better to entrust the delivery of a baby than to mother nature’s number one mama.

So in the daytime we get His lovingkindness, but at night we get  His song.  The word for song is surah.  This is usually understood as a sacred song, The word is spelled Shin Yod and Resh.  The Shin brings us peace, the Yod is a messenger from heaven and the Resh is the power of God.  Hence this is a song that brings the peace of heaven filled with the power of God.  Yet, when I traced this word through its Semitic roots, through its origins in other Semitic languages, I found something interesting. This word surah (song), does not have to be musical. There is nothing in the word surah that would require this message of peace to involve music or singing although it could be.  In its Semitic root we find the word is really speaking of vibrations. Scientist tell us that music is vibrations, but fragrances are also vibrations, everything our five sense pick up are vibrations that are translated into sight, sound, taste, smell and touch.  Surah (song, vibrations) is sort of like heavenly vibrations that are so in tune with God Jehovah that the enemy cannot penetrate it because those vibrations are just not in sync with the enemy.

At night the enemy can so easily attack to fill you with the vibrations that are compatible with him such as fears and terrors.  It is at night when all your worries and fears reach its climax. That is a good time for God to fill you with  His heavenly vibrations to shut out the enemy’s planned attack against you. I remember someone telling me that she felt the presences of evil spirits in her house at night so she started to play worship music on her CD and the presence left. Perhaps that is because the vibrations  surah (song) or wavelengths of  the worship music were so in sync with God and so out of sync with the enemy that the enemy had to flee.  James 4:7: “Resist the devil and he will flee from you.”  How do you resist the devil?  One clue is found here in Psalms 42:8, once you begin worshipping and praising God you begin to resonant with God or vibrate with God.  Worship and praise creates a surah or vibration that begins to  match the surah or  vibrations sent out from God.  Prayer, Scripture reading and even testimonies are all a surah a song or a vibration that do not resonant with the enemy or match the vibrations of the enemy but they do match those of God. Hence, the enemy will flee from you like a room full of people who will stumble over each other to get when I begin to sing.  Worship and praise sends out such annoying vibrations to the enemy that he can’t stand to be around you. Just like people can’t stand to be around someone who is singing off key.

Yet, unholy music, negative speech, degrading entertainment, evil thoughts etc. will resonant with the enemy and he will just take up residence with these surahs (songs) or vibrations. Then it will be God who cannot stand to be around such off key surahs (songs) or vibrations.

Recently, the wife of a rather famous preacher faced a lot of criticism from the Christian community when she said that worship and praise is meant to make us happy and God does not need our worship and praise, it is only for us and to make us happy.  She was criticized because God is holy and therefore he must be worshipped, He demands worship.  Seems to me both sides are saying the same thing but the way they express it sounds totally out of  harmony.  God needs our praise and worship just as we need to praise and worship God so that we can enter into the same wavelength or the same surah (song) or vibration with God.  Once we are in harmony or in tune with God, the enemy cannot stand to be around us anymore than we can stand to be around music that is off key.   Yesterday I took the garbage and once I opened the can and dumped my bag in it I had to flee as the odor was so foul.  Foul odor is nothing more than a surah, certain vibrations that just does not resonant with me.  At night I diffuse an oil in my room called Peace and Calm, that odor does surah or resonant with me and when I couple that with a quiet praise and worship I receive God’s surah (vibrations) or songs in the night and  I quietly fall into a peaceful sleep as I am resting in the surah (vibrations) of God.

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