it’ s the one thing that God will not do for us. You think that God will do everything for us. There’ s one thing He won’ t do for us, and that’ s put the garment of praise on us. That’ s our job. So we have to put it on. He won’ t do that for us. Every day. I’ m putting my garment on. I want the oil of joy, oil of gladness, and Nehemiah 8 says,“ The joy of the Lord is my strength”. That wasn’ t some sort of lightweight praise party. That was in the midst of battle. It was in the midst of a moment where Nehemiah was like,“ Lord, if you don’ t show up, we’ re dead”. Isn’ t that amazing?
[ WM ] That is amazing!
[ Martin ] It is in the context of joy. Joy is not,“ Hey, we need a little bit more joy”. We need the joy of the Lord because to help us win battles. And that’ s why Galatians 4, it’ s really important that joy is a fruit of the spirit because we need these things. We need self-control, patience, love, joy to win our battles. And it’ s not just for dancing down the front on a Sunday night.
[ WM ] That’ s right. And this is fascinating what
you’ re talking about because it also reminds me of the armor of God. Ephesians says that we’ re to put on the breastplate of righteousness and a helmet of salvation, and this and that. But if you read that in Isaiah, there’ s another piece of apparel listed in Isaiah that’ s not in Ephesians, and it’ s called the cloak of Zeal. I was thinking, well, if you wear a cloak, it covers your backside. And really, a lot of times our battles come from behind us, from our own brothers and sisters, and it’ s that cloak of zeal that keeps us going.
[ Martin ] Oh, that’ s amazing. Can you write that down for me and send it to me?
[ WM ] Yeah, I sure will. That was something the Lord showed me years ago that there was this other piece of equipment called zeal.
I guess I should wind this time down. What’ s your current guitar of choice? I was surprised to see you playing what appeared to be a Collings on some recent videos.
[ Martin ] Yes, yes, you’ re correct. I’ ve been a Martin guitar guy for years and years, and I had
a 1957 mahogany Martin, I think it was a 00-19 or something, but beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Interestingly, it started to lose its tone a little bit, and I couldn’ t figure out why. I’ d had it on a road for 10 years. I mean, flying it everywhere. It went through the mill. So, I retired it to my house.
[ WM ] And it’ s tired.( laughs)
[ Martin ] It’ s tired.( laughs) It’ s like, please just give me a couple of years off. I was in a shop, a guitar shop downtown Dallas, and I found this Collings, and the neck joins the body at the 12th fret. It was beautiful, all black. I asked the guy in the store, I said,“ Tell me about this guitar”. He said,“ Yeah, it’ s a year old. It’ s been in its box. It was a custom order from Collings, but no one picked it up and it’ s been in the box ever since it’ s been born. It just needs bringing to life.” So, I bought the guitar, took it home. I’ ve put a K & K pick-up in it. I came back to Austin the following year and amazingly was able to go for a tour around the Collings workshop. And they don’ t do tours anymore. So, they very kindly let me in. I took the guitar, and they said,“ Oh yeah, this
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