Do It Again

Scripture Focus:

Psalm 126:2–3 (NIV) — “Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, ‘The Lord has done great things for them.’ The Lord has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy.”

Last week we saw that God loves to celebrate. He built feasts and festivals into the life of His people so they would remember His faithfulness with joy.

Psalm 126 is a burst of that joy. God’s people are remembering a time He rescued them, a rescue so good it felt like a dream. They laugh and sing, and even the nations around them say, “The Lord has done great things for them.”

Then the song turns, and they pray in verse 4: “Restore our fortunes, Lord.” In other words: Do it again. They have just celebrated what God has done, and that celebration gives them the courage to ask for more.

We can pray the same way. When we celebrate what God has already done, we are not just remembering past blessings. We are remembering the character of God. His faithfulness in the past gives us confidence for the future. The God who did great things then is still the same God today.

There is a small word we use to close almost every prayer, usually without thinking about it: amen. It means “so be it” or “let it be so,” and it comes from the same Hebrew root as the word for faithfulness. When we ask God to do it again and then say amen, we are not simply asking Him to repeat a past blessing. We are placing our trust in His unchanging faithfulness. We are saying, “Yes, Lord. Let it be so. I know You will be faithful again.”

Forge is celebrating 40 years of God’s faithfulness. It is a time to laugh and sing, to tell the stories of what He has done, and to ask Him boldly for the future. The same is true for your own story. Celebrate what He has done. Then ask Him, with all your heart, to do it again.

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