Text: Psalms 30:1-5
Memory text:
“But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night?’” Job 35:10 NKJV

A night season is when God is working, but nothing looks open yet. It’s not defined by time but by experience. It’s a period when you don’t know what to do, when your feelings outweigh the evidence, when answers are delayed, and God seems silent. You know God is able, but timing is unclear. You obeyed, but results haven’t appeared. While satan tempts during the night season, God tests faith also. Job said in his night season, “But he knows where I am going. And when He tests me, I will come out as pure as gold.” (Job 23:10).
Night season doesn’t last forever. No matter how dark and how long, it rolls away with the appearance of the morning. Joy is proof that the night is over and the morning has come.
“..Weeping may endure for a night, But joy comes in the morning.” ‭‭(Psa‬ ‭30‬:‭5‬).
Even though night seasons can be trying, yet God gives a song in the night as a buffer throughout the period. “.. Who gives songs in the night?’” (Job 35:10). These are songs that flow from His presence, not from pleasure. It’s supernatural joy in the midst of difficulties. These night songs are proof that God is with you in the trials. They cancel the divine absence and distance that night season tends to create. Habakkuk 3:17-18 expresses this kind of joy. This joy is not circumstantial but spiritual.
God also gives songs in the night to defeat hopelessness, which often grows then. Singing praises to God in the night season is a sacrifice. It causes fear to lose its voice, hope to stay alive, and faith to be strengthened. In the midst of deep pain, wounds, and locks in their legs, Paul and Silas sang in prison before deliverance came ( Acts 16:25).
People don’t sing songs in the night because they understand the situation but because they trust God who is able to handle everything concerning them. Singing in the night is faith speaking louder than fear.
Night songs don’t always change the situation immediately, but God gives you songs in the night to keep you strong while you are waiting. Songs in the night sustain you during the trying times instead of collapsing. God gives strength before He gives solutions ( Isa 40:31).
Friends, may your night season end with joy in the morning; and may it not be prolonged in Jesus’ name.

Prayer points
1. Father, I receive grace not to fail in my night time seasons; and may my night of weeping end with joy in the morning, in Jesus’ name.
2. Father, give me songs in my night seasons and strengthen my faith while I am waiting for Your deliverance, in Jesus’ name.

Today declarations
1. My night season has an expiry date, it will end with joy in the morning and won’t be prolonged.
2. In my night seasons, I sing songs that flow from God’s presence, not from pleasure; God gives me strength while waiting.