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Old Age and A Stringed Instrument

Posted in Deeper Life, Worship, Praise and Music, tagged , , on June 25, 2026| 3 Comments »

And even when I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me,
Until I declare Thy strength to this generation,Thy power to all who are to come.

For Thy righteousness, O God, reaches to the heavens,
Thou who hast done great things; O God, who is like Thee?

Thou, who hast shown me many troubles and distresses,
Wilt revive me again, And wilt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

Mayest Thou increase my greatness, And turn to comfort me.

I will also praise Thee with a stringed instrument, Even Thy truth, O my God;
To Thee I will sing praises with the stringed instrument, O Thou Holy One of Israel.

My lips will shout for joy when I sing praises to Thee; And my soul, which Thou hast redeemed.

My tongue also will utter Thy righteousness all day long;
For they are ashamed, for they are humiliated, who seek my hurt.

– Psalm 71:18-24

When the Psalmist reached old age, and the Lord had shown him many troubles and distresses in his lifetime, he knew that the Lord would revive him again. He knew that the “God of all comfort” would comfort him again. It was out of these experiences during his lifetime, that the Psalmist gave us all the Psalms. And being a musician, he was able to put into song, songs of praise, songs of hope and songs of deliverance by the Spirit. What a blessed book, is the book of Psalms. In his old age, his heart was to be able to declare to the next generation, what God had done for him.

Yesterday I spoke with a dear friend whom I have known for many, many years. We are both musicians and worship leaders. I was sharing this Psalm with him, and how at our “old age” we are still leading worship and being used of the Lord to help a new generation of worship leaders and musicians. There is something about old age and our life experience in the Lord. It is by the Spirit that those things are now ingrained in our hearts. Psalm 71 :9 says, “Do not cast me off in the time of old age, do not forsake me when my strength fails”.

Thank you Lord, for the opportunity to still by used to “declare Thy strength to this generation,Thy power to all who are to come”.

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One Strain of Heaven’s Pure Melody

Posted in Deeper Life, Worship, Praise and Music, tagged , , on June 17, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Should we be called also, before Jesus comes, we will sorrow only for those we must leave behind. We will joy for all those gone before. We only miss our loved ones here. Could we but catch one strain of heaven’s pure melody it would spoil us for earthly sounds forever. Could we but catch one glimpse of departed loved ones, through the “gates ajar”, earth would no longer hold us here. We must see things from the Heaven side. Earth’s sounds and spirits are so crude and cruel. Heaven is all love, and joy, and peace, and rest. Thank God! Sorrow and parting, there, will never more be known. No more empty chairs, nor graves nor coffins, there.

Frank Bartleman- 1925

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Psalm 124

Posted in Deeper Life, Worship, Praise and Music, tagged , on May 9, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Psalm 18:17 says “He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me”. What a blessed thing, to realize that there are some enemies that are too mighty for me, but the Lord is on my side to help. That is what Psalm 124:1 says “Had it not been the LORD who was on our side!”. Verse 8 says “Our help is in the name of the Lord!”.

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Quote For the Day

Posted in Deeper Life, tagged , on February 26, 2026| Leave a Comment »

The Spirit of God is not confined to the tabernacle, but, like the wind, blows where He listeth. And they that humble themselves shall be exalted; and those who are most fit for government, are least ambitious of it. -Matthew Henry

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Jesus and Politics

Posted in Church in Crisis, Deeper Life, tagged , , on January 1, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Of all the books in the world, the one most quoted, most misunderstood and most misapplied is the Bible….

Adlai Stevenson, former governor of Illinois, when going through the throes of deciding whether or not he should let his name stand for nomination for the presidency, reportedly had a deep indisposition for the office. He was quoted as having repeated the words of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.” Now it is remotely possible that a true saint of God, in a moment of awful and heart-searching prayer, might in hushed reverence quote these words of the Savior and apply them to his or her own case. But their use at a political convention came as a dash of cold water in the face of some who heard. In the midst of endless billows of hoarse shouting, grandiose and unsupported claims of achievements, bitter and abusive denunciating of others who did not agree with them, senseless and moronic acts of childish demonstrating, “snake dancing” and horn blowing, obsequious flattering and downright lying, it is hard to see how the spirit of our Lord’s solemn and tender words could have a place. All political conventions are alike, regardless of party, and should Christ appear at one of them and demand that His Lordship be acknowledged and His commandments be obeyed, He would be forthright shouted down and led from the room by the sergeant at arms. Yet His words are quoted as if they had a place there—surely a painful misapplication of Scripture. – A W Tozer

This World: Playground or Battleground?, 43, 44, 45.—Tozer Topical Reader

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Today’s Quote

Posted in Deeper Life, tagged , on December 1, 2025| Leave a Comment »

“I prayed for faith and thought that someday faith would come down and strike me like lightning. But faith did not seem to come. One day I read in the 10th chapter of Romans ‘Now faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God’. I had closed my Bible and prayed for faith, I now opened my Bible, and began to study, and faith has been growing ever since”. – D L Moody

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Anointing

Posted in Deeper Life, False Prophets, Prophetic Mixture, tagged , on November 17, 2025| Leave a Comment »

I have a paper here that was composed and was stimulated by a brother on the subject of anointing in which his principle theme is that anointing is not some fixed phenomenon that God confers on individuals as if it were an office, an ecclesiastical office in the church, but something proportionate to one’s actual authentic relationship with God in moment by moment obedience to the thing which He requires. And in it and with it comes the spirit of revelation and he gives the example of Peter recognizing that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and upon which He says “upon this rock I will build My church” and the rock was not Peter himself but rather the revelation that had come through the Spirit in a moment given, which is to be the foundation itself, the operation of God’s Spirit in them who are in true union with Him. Art Katz- Truth Reality and the Anointing

https://nielsprip.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/truth-reality-and-the-anointing-art-katz.pdf

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Surviving the Anointing

Posted in Church in Crisis, Deeper Life, tagged , , , on November 2, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Here is a great series by David Ravenhill, worth a listen. This is part one.

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