Almighty God (Rev. 15:3)
And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations!
—Revelation 15:3
This is so good as we get these glimpses throughout Revelation into the songs of heaven. What I love here, specifically in Revelation 1,5 is how this—sometimes you’ll see, “and they sing a new song”—but this song really is new.
It is very similar to songs that have been sung by God’s people, going all the way back to his deliverance of his people in Egypt. That’s why this is referenced as the song of Moses, which takes you all the way back to Exodus 15. So that makes this a really old song that they’re singing.
But all the way back in Exodus 15, God’s people paused and praised him for what he had done. He had just delivered them out of slavery in Egypt. He had just caused the sea to split in half. He led the people through on dry land. And so you look back.
That song in Exodus 15—you read, for example, verse 11: “Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders? You stretched out your right hand; the earth swallowed them.”
They’re just in awe of God’s mighty deeds. So fast-forward centuries, and you come to Revelation 15. You see this picture of heaven singing the same thing all over again: “Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty. Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations.” And based on this verse, this picture, and this song in heaven, I just want to encourage you: let’s sing it today. Let’s pray it today.
This is what God’s people have prayed for centuries. We join in that line today, and let’s learn this song because we’re going to be singing it for eternity. So let’s just do it right now. I’m not going to sing it, but I’m going to say it and lead us to pray it.
O God, great and amazing are your deeds. O God, we praise you for your great, amazing deeds that we see all throughout your word—including splitting a sea in half, including all those plagues in Egypt, including delivering Daniel from a den of lions and Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego from a fiery furnace. We praise you for delivering Jonah from the belly of a fish.
What an amazing deed, O God. We praise you, Jesus, for showing the power of God in the flesh—for healing people of diseases, for raising people from the dead. That was an awesome deed: Lord Jesus, raising Lazarus from the dead, raising a little girl with your word from the dead in a way that astounded people, for delivering people from demons. We praise you for your amazing deeds, O God, all throughout your word, all throughout history, over thousands of years—amazing deeds. We praise you, God, for your amazing deeds in our lives, for saving us from our sin, O God.
This amazing deed that we will praise you for all eternity. O Lord God the Almighty, great and amazing are your deeds; just and true are your ways. We praise you, God, for your justice, for your faithfulness.
You are true—completely, perfectly true in your character and your ways. God, we are so thankful that your ways are not unjust. Your ways are not false. Just and true are your ways. O King of the nations, you are the King of all the nations, the Lord of all the nations, and we trust in you.
As we look at a world today with all kinds of headlines and all kinds of nations, we praise you as the King over it all, the sovereign ruler over it all, who will one day bring your justice to reign all over the earth. Yes, O God, we join in this song today, and we look forward to singing this song forever.
And we pray, God, help us to lead others to see your great and amazing deeds, to know you as the Lord God the Almighty, as the King of the nations.
A Prayer for the Muhamasheen People
God, we pray for the Muhamasheen people of Yemen—for a million and a half Muhamasheen in Yemen, most of whom have little to no knowledge of your great deeds in Jesus and your salvation that you have made possible for them. God, we pray: bring this good news. Bless our brothers and sisters—the small number of them who are in Yemen—for the spread of your glory among the Muhamasheen in Yemen, that they might see how great and amazing you are, how just and true your ways are, and that they might know you as the King of the nations. God, we pray all this.
We sing all this in our hearts straight from your word in Revelation 15:3. And we look forward to the day when, singing this song by faith, we’ll be singing this song by sight. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.
