Mensa Otabil - Song of Triumph (10/27/2025)
Welcome to day number 38 of our 40 days of power. It’s amazing how God leads us; you start, and it seems like 40 days is so far, and then God brings you one day at a time. I pray the same God who brings us one day at a time will guide and order your steps into the destiny that He has for you.
So today, we want to celebrate the goodness of the Lord as the children of Israel did when they came out from the Red Sea in Exodus chapter 15, verses 1 and 2. Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the Lord and spoke, saying, «I will sing to the Lord, for He has triumphed gloriously; the horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song; He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him; my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.» This is a song that the children of Israel sang as they were led in worship for what God had done for them.
I pray that the same God who gave them a song of victory and a song of triumph will also give you a song of victory and of triumph; and they said, «We will sing to the Lord because He has triumphed gloriously.» I like that phrase: He has triumphed gloriously. In other words, He didn’t just triumph, but He did it in a way that is beautiful. May the Lord triumph gloriously in our lives; may He do something that is a miracle-not just a miracle, but a miracle that is glorious, beautiful, and makes people wonder as they open their mouths and say, «Is this what has happened?» May the Lord give you such a miracle.
The Lord has triumphed gloriously, and they sang and said, «The Lord is my strength and my song.» The Lord is my strength and my song. You know, people can sing under different circumstances. People sing sometimes when they are sad, but there is nothing like a song that bursts out from your spirit when something great has happened to you. May the Lord give you that expression of His goodness and of His mercy. The Lord is our strength; the Lord is our song.
And remember this: we pray, we fast, not because we are strong, but because the Lord is strong. He is the doer; we are not the doers. And then they said, «The Lord is not just our strength and our song, but He is our salvation; He is our deliverance. He’s the one who has delivered us, the Lord, our deliverer.» I like how they concluded: they said, «The Lord is my God, my father’s God.» In other words, when they started, they were talking about the God of our fathers-the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob. That’s what Israel knew: the God of their fathers who visited them in Egypt.
But by the time they encountered God, they said, «He’s not just the God of our fathers; He’s my God as well.» That is the place of faith that God wants each one of us to get to-that when we encounter Him, we don’t know Him as the God of the past, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He’s not even the God of my pastor, the God of Christianity, but the God I’ve come to know. The reason He is my God is that I have seen Him, I’ve tasted of Him, and I know He’s good. God wants us to know Him personally and individually, and in this season, may you also be able to say, «My father’s God has now become my God, and He has triumphed gloriously on my behalf.»
Let us pray. Pray with me: Heavenly Father, You are my strength and song. I lift up my voice to sing my song of triumph to You today. In Jesus' name, Amen. Amen.