The Shout of A King!

    Remember when Jesus came riding into the city on a donkey and people began to shout?  Of course there were those there who wanted to stop the shout, to whom Jesus said, "if these should hold their peace the stones would immediately cry out", Lk. 19:40.  God will have a shouting people because His plan does not call for shouting rocks.  And, there is more to this shouting business than just noise and emotions.  Once the king of Moab tried to get old prophet Balaam to curse Israel.  Balaam said he couldn't do it for the "shout of a king was among them", Nu. 23:21.  That is peculiar for Israel at the time had no earthly king.  I think old Balaam saw something in the spiritual realm about shouting that the modern church might be missing.  Jericho fell when God's people shouted.  The people of Israel once rebuilt the temple walls and did so with great shouting, so much so that people were unable to discern weeping shouts from joyful shouts (Ezra 3).  Have you ever been in a church service like that?  Love it, love it!    When David brought the Ark home it was done so with shouting.

    Of course, shouting is only for the undignified, some will say.  Yet, the Bible says those that trust in God "shout for joy", Ps. 5:11.  Upright of the heart "shout for joy", Ps. 32:11.  Those God blesses "shall shout aloud for joy", Ps. 132:16.  Sometimes I get so full of joy there just ain't no way to let-r out but shout!  We are to shout for joy for the Lord has taken away judgments that were against us, (Zep. 3:14-15.)   Oh my, when that sinks in - you just gotta shout!   Undignified?  Okay, I'll accept the title and love the title - and keep shouting. Why?  Because I trust, because I am upright of heart,  because God has taken away judgments against me!  G-L-O-R-Y!!!!!! (shouted).

       When Jesus came riding on that little donkey, He was fulfilling this prophecy,  "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion, shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold they King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salavtion; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a cold the foal of an ass", Zech. 9:9.    Those people in Jerusalem, seeing Him coming on a little donkey, started shouting because deep down inside the shout of a king rose up.  Maybe they did not understand it all, maybe they did not even know a prophecy was being fulfilled before there very eyes, but the shout of a king rose up in them and they let the shouts fly!  My friend....when you know the King...it happens!  Can't help it....gotta shout!

      We are to clap our hands and "shout unto God with a voice of triumpth" Ps. 47:1.  Why, oh why oh why should we behave so radical, so undignified?   Because "God is gone up with a shout", Ps. 47:5.  God rises with the shouting of His people!  Over the years I have found things begin to happen when people begin to shout for joy. Demons get nervous and flee and revival may even break out when "the shout of a king" arises in the hearts and mouths of the redeemed of the Lord.  It has happened for us before.  Oh,  tell you, when the Holy Ghost suddenly chooses to magnify the King to you  it is really hard not have a shout come out.  If I could somehow type with volume, I would say, Halelujah, the King is here and He has taken away judgments that were against us!!!!!!!!  (shouted)