Song of Solomon 7:9
And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak. And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
The book is one of the one thousand and five songs or poems written by Solomon, composed as a dialogue carried on between various parties in vivid, warm, Oriental figurative imagery. It is a poetical picture or parable of Christ and His church, setting forth His wonderful love and her love in response to Him, though her love is often wanting in faithfulness and constancy. Its imagery belongs to the time in which it was written and is to be read in that setting, alone with God with the thought of Christ and the church in mind, without the objection that is now sometimes offered against it.
The wine that goes down sweetly and causes the lips of those that are asleep to speak means that the promises of God dropped into the soul work like wine. When a promise comes with applying power it warms the heart, and it moves even dull and sleepy souls to speak out in prayer. To find such inward power to pray is a finding season when God draws near, and it is to be sought in secret prayer.