We are living in an era of music that God is going to destroy. When God brings down the mystical Babylon described in chapters 17 and 18 of Revelation, He does more than just bring down religious systems. He brings down something that is quite commercial, something that is interwoven in the business, in the finances, in the religious life, in the society life, and in the intellectual life of the world.
Revelation 18:22, ASV: And the voice of harpers and minstrels and flute-players and trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft, shall be found any more at all in thee; and the voice of a mill shall be heard no more at all in thee.
The end of Babylon’s music is recorded in Revelation chapter 18. The beginning of it is recorded in the fourth chapter of the book of Genesis, which traces the generations of Cain, after he was driven out from the presence of the Lord.
And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle. And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and pipe. And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron. Genesis 4:20–22a, ASV.
These were the descendants of Cain. And a music came forth from them which was of great influence, so much so that it occurred at various strategic points in the history of the Bible.
Exodus chapter 32 shows us that when Moses had gone up onto the mountain to receive the Law, the people demanded that Aaron make gods for them. After he had made the golden calf, they worshiped it and began to make music, and it resulted in an orgy (Exodus 32:1–6, 17–18, 25). The music stimulated them and brought that to pass. Under the influence of music, Herod watched the daughter of Herodias dance; and the music was so stimulating and exciting that he offered her anything she wished, up to half of his kingdom (Matthew 14:6–7; Mark 6:21–28). If you remember, that is when he ordered the head of John the Baptist to be brought in on a platter and given to her. That was Herodias’ wish, because John the Baptist had rebuked her for her wickedness (Matthew 14:3–11; Mark 6:17–19). All of this shows that the power of music must have been very great. It began with the descendants of Cain, and it can be traced right down through the Word of God until God finally destroys it when Mystery Babylon is brought to an end (Revelation 17:5; 18:21–22). Of course, Mystery Babylon is the symbolism of much that we see in our world order right now.
Do you believe that the music people listen to has an effect upon their motivations and their thoughts? It does. Music has been proven to be a very strong force. A good book to use in researching this subject would be Phil Kerr’s Music in Evangelism.* The first chapter especially deals with the power and the force of music. For example, did you know that music is used in dairy barns to stimulate the cows to give more milk? Music is also used in insane asylums. Certain types of music will calm people’s minds—even the minds of those who are demented.
Music can also be used quite effectively to stir people up. Have you ever listened to any of the broadcasts of Adolf Hitler’s speeches that came in the late 1930’s? Unless you understood German, you could not understand a word he was saying; but one thing was very striking about those speeches: they sometimes had a prelude of hours of militant music, some of it specially written by all of the German composers and band masters that the Nazis could secure.
Why? Because they knew that a certain beat could bring the people into a state where their heartbeats would become almost the same, and they would be ready to respond the way Hitler wanted them to. If you were to take the pulses of a group of people, they would vary. But if you started playing music with a tempo at just about the beat of the pulse and slowly began to accelerate it, the people would begin to liven up and to feel the same things. Soon they would all be ready to hear and respond to the same ideas. Adolf Hitler knew the psychology of what he was doing. And although he was probably mad, he knew how to stimulate a mob. Otherwise he would never have been able to convince them of the things he had to say, or of the things he wanted to motivate them to do. That is the way Satan has always done this. That is one way he has always moved people—through music, through a certain beat. We go to Africa and teach the natives to sing hymns, and yet we bring the wild beat of the savage over here and our kids go wild over it; and they become savages in some respects.
We are living in a time in which a great deal is being accomplished through sound, through music. Have you ever tried to endure a television program that you could not see? Sit behind a television set with someone and try to carry on a conversation while a wild western or a spy picture is playing. It will drive you out of your mind. You can hardly bear it. If you are in another room while someone is watching television, you may feel as if your nerves are falling apart—and you have to turn it down. But the people who are watching the television are not the least bit nervous, because their eyes and ears are in tune, and their spirits are in tune, with the sounds that are preying upon them. And those sounds succeed in creating much.
We do not yet know the force of music. There are many Scriptures which speak about satanic music and its force (Exodus 32:17–19; Daniel 3:4–7; Matthew 14:6–11; Mark 6:21–28). There are also many Scriptures which speak about anointed, spiritual music and its force in the world (Exodus 15:1–21; Numbers 21:16–18; II Chronicles 20:21–29). This is something for which we must prepare our hearts, because the prophecies, both in the Old and New Testaments, speak of a new song. There is a new song that the earth is going to hear.
I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee. Psalm 144:9, ASV.
Praise ye the Lord. Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints. Psalm 149:1, KJV.
Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them. Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof. Isaiah 42:9–10, KJV.
And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and didst purchase unto God with thy blood men of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation, and madest them to be unto our God a kingdom and priests; and they reign upon the earth. Revelation 5:9–10, ASV.
And they sing as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders: and no man could learn the song save the hundred and forty and four thousand, even they that had been purchased out of the earth. Revelation 14:3, ASV.
People in the world are aware of this; and in different places, university music departments and outstanding engineers are working on it. They say, “We know that there is another sound. We know that there is a dimension in music, in sound, that has not yet been achieved. We do not know how it will come, but we know it is there.” They have created all kinds of electronic devices, because they are reaching for that dimension in sound. It is not just a stereo quality; there is a dimension in sound that has not been heard yet.
A number of years ago as I was waiting upon the Lord, He gave me a revelation concerning this music. For want of a better term, I will describe it as “square music.” It is music that has definite sides to it, and height and depth. It has boundaries. And when it comes, it is going to move people as they have never been moved before.
The book of Revelation speaks of a time when there will be one hundred and forty-four thousand who will sing a new song, and they will be the only ones who can sing it (Revelation 14:1–3). No one else will be able to sing it. The music that is coming is described in the Word of God. If you look in the Scriptures, you see that David had a way of singing and playing so tremendously that he was able to influence evil spirits (I Samuel 16:14–16, 23). When Saul was overtaken with an evil spirit, David would sing and that spirit would flee. At one time Elisha the prophet was called upon to prophesy, but he could not, because Jehoram, the king of Israel, was there, and he was an apostate idolator (II Kings 3:1–3). Elisha said to Jehoram, “If it were not for Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah (who was there also), I would not even look upon your face.” Then he called for a minstrel; and as the minstrel began to play upon his instrument, the prophecy began to come to Elisha (II Kings 3:14–19). Great clairvoyant vision came before him, and he gave the answer exactly as to how the outcome of the battle should affect the king of Israel. This shows the power of music. Even under adverse influences, that music will still come forth.
Music in the early Church must have had a tremendous force too. The early Church did not know music as it was introduced by the Greeks and the Egyptians. The music that they did know is described in the first record of Christian services—the Christians met on the hilltops outside the cities, and the people in the cities could hear their chants. And in this day, some have listened to the singing in the Spirit that God has brought spontaneously and have remarked that it sounds something like chanting. The chanting of the early Church deteriorated until finally, in the fourth century, St. Ambrose tried to codify and bring together all the chants that had been used in the Church up to that time. Then, two centuries later, Pope Gregory used that as the basis for what is now called Gregorian chant. That chanting is still carried on by some Roman Catholic priests today. I am fully persuaded that the Gregorian chants are a deteriorated form of the singing in the Spirit that the early Church had. By the fourth and fifth centuries, the chanting had already become something which had lost the anointing and the Spirit. The Holy Spirit was gone from it, and it had become just a chant.
In the Reformation, a whole new line of singing was introduced. Martin Luther introduced hymns such as, “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” which was called the marching song of the Reformation; and Protestant churches took their cue from that. They came forth with a hymnology that is vast. If you ever want to explore it, an excellent book to read is John Julian’s A Dictionary of Christian Hymnology.* This book is quite old now and out of print, but it is still a classic source of information. Page after page, it gives the tremendous songs that have been created since the Reformation. And yet in this day and hour, a new music is coming to the Church of Jesus Christ, and we are experiencing it. When people come to our services, they do not always know quite what we are doing. We sing songs that come by the Spirit, songs that are not found in Julian’s book. They are often fresh—something spontaneous which comes forth in the Spirit right at the moment. There is a break with the conformity that has been resting on the Protestant churches. God is beginning to stir His people to a spontaneous expression of their spirit in songs and in worship. Watch what is going to come. If we pursue after this music, we will be only one of many churches from which a new trend of singing will come forth.
When you open a hymnbook, do you get frustrated? Do the songs describe what you feel? Do they bring forth the worship that you really want? Are they inadequate for the day of expression that God is setting before us? But we break forth, and we begin to sing in the Spirit. We do not always have words; sometimes we speak in tongues as we sing. Sometimes we use very common but beautiful phrases such as “hallelujah.” Then sometimes words begin to come too. Many of our people have sung in perfect meter and rhyme, and the songs have been tremendous.
We are on the threshold of a new thing. Something new is coming that we have never heard before, and we are in the first expression of it. As we learn to sing in the Spirit, it may be like the babbles of babies just beginning to learn to talk. But it will not be long until God perfects that, and people will be singing in a prophetic flow.
In this study on prophetic music, I want to remind you that in Bible times there was prophetic music. I Chronicles chapter 25 speaks of those who prophesied with harps, and with lyres and cymbals (I Chronicles 25:1–7). It is good to read that. The book of I Chronicles gives a lot of genealogies and classifications of worshipers and singers in the Temple. The first seven verses of chapter 25 speak about those who were appointed to prophesy with harps.
Imagine the worship of old, when prophets of God would bring their harps to the house of the Lord. They would sit there and play their harps; and soon beautiful psalms would come to them, and they would begin to sing before the Lord. It must have been a tremendous thing to be there among those prophets of God. We are still too much on the side of conformity. And we still have very much of the old springboard or trampoline approach in our worship services. We sing two or three songs—we get a higher bounce with each one—and then we can break out and sing a little bit in the Spirit and a few psalms come.
But what will the day be like when we fulfill the Word of God that Paul expressed?
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God. Colossians 3:16, ASV.
Be filled with the Spirit; speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord. Ephesians 5:18b–19, ASV.
Three Greek words are used in this passage in Ephesians. They are psalmos, humnos, and oda pneumati—psalms, hymns, and odes of the Spirit, which is sometimes translated “spiritual songs.” Psalmos means something that is sung with musical accompaniment. Hymns are songs and praises addressed to God. They are sung to the Lord. The oda pneumati is a song of the Spirit. It can be on any subject and can be created spontaneously at the moment. It can be with or without musical accompaniment. It is often freestyle singing. They had this freestyle singing in the early Church, because they let the Spirit of God predominate.
What will it be like when the Word of Christ dwells in us so richly that when we come together we are ready to burst out with song? We would be like artesian wells from which the water is ready to gush forth; and soon, tremendous songs in the Lord would begin to come forth. I think we had better study again Ephesians 5:18b–20 and Colossians 3:16–17.
Be filled with the Spirit; speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father. Ephesians 5:18b–20, ASV.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God. And whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. Colossians 3:16–17, ASV.
Some of the psalms, some of the odes in the Spirit that come forth in our services, will probably not win any prizes. Certain qualities and standards of music are not there. Yet there is something that can be imparted through what the person who is singing manifests in his spirit. I do not think we should despise the song, because sometimes the most effective psalm may wander over every key imaginable, but it has something from God in it which will be a tremendous source of edification.
There will be a new song in the earth. People are going to sing these new songs of the Lord. There will be prophetic music again.
In the days of the restoration from the exile, there was much concern about God restoring those who would prophesy with harps (Ezra 3:10–11; Nehemiah 12:27, 44–47). Great diligence was given to try to restore the sons of Asaph, and certain others who were of a prophetic line. These were prophets who would prophesy in music and song, and Ezra and Nehemiah were concerned that that ministry be restored.
Often, anointed music would disappear from the scene completely. But in the New Testament Church we find that effective singing again. For instance, Acts chapter 16 tells us of the time when Paul and Silas were put in prison in Philippi. They had cast a fortune-telling spirit out of a girl; and when the men who controlled her financially saw what had happened, they had Paul and Silas seized and beaten in the public square, and then put in prison (Acts 16:16–23). But about midnight, Paul and Silas were singing and praising God, and the earth began to shake. The doors of the jail were opened, and everyone’s chains fell off, and they were freed (Acts 16:25–26).
It is difficult to describe this effective singing. Today we feel that we have to be in the mood to sing. The Old Testament records an experience of the captivity when the people of Babylon demanded songs from the people of Judah (Psalm 137:1–6). They replied, “We hung our harps on the willow tree. How can we sing the songs of Zion when we are captives in a foreign land?” They could not sing because they were a sad, exiled people. But Paul and Silas were not in any position to rejoice either. They had been severely beaten and then put in stocks in the inner prison. Nevertheless, they began to sing. And the song of the Spirit was so great that it transcended the physical pain they were in; it transcended everything. And it brought forth something that made the very vibrations of the earth seem to shake with the songs that were being sung.
There are many kinds of vibrations—some that we know nothing about yet. These different vibrations affect us differently. There are ultrasonic waves, radio waves, and electrical waves. There are certain vibrations that we call sound. There is the scope of vibrations that we call light and color. There are also vibrations higher than any of us can see, such as ultraviolet rays. They are beyond the scope of violet, the highest vibration of color. But way up beyond that, there is a vibration in the realm of Spirit. God spoke about that in the book of Job. He said to Job, “Where were you when the stars of the morning sang together at creation, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” (Job 38:4–7.) One astronomer has said that he believes there was a music which once existed in the universe. That is what the Bible tells us: the stars of the morning all sang together.
There are vibrations in the realm of Spirit. There are vibrations in God. There is a music in God that we have not touched yet. One of these days, God is going to release it. One of the first things in the liberation of all creation from its subjection to futility will be the song (Romans 8:20–21; Isaiah 54:1; 55:12–13). The song will come forth first. Whenever things have been out of order, a song has been important. When the children of Israel needed water in the wilderness, the nobles sank their staffs in the ground while all Israel gathered round and sang; and the wells sprang up with water (Numbers 21:16–18).
One of the most important functions that will happen in this day is this function which we call singing in the Spirit. It could be so easily despised. We could miss the significance of it and not realize that it is the prelude to something great which is to come forth in this age.
The singing in the Spirit is just the beginning of a new song that God will bring forth in the whole earth. It is a great, tremendous, impressive thing, that God is bringing forth a new music, a prophetic music, a spiritual music. We are only on the threshold of it. But if we knew how important it is to do this, we would begin to gather together with the Word of Christ dwelling in us richly—even as the early Church did—and we would begin to speak to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs (Colossians 3:16). I know what would happen. There would not be such a thing as having to battle demon assault in a service. There would not be any such thing as people coming and saying, “Oh, I’m oppressed. Pray for me.” There would not be long lines for deliverance. The people would just gather together, and in the oneness and the unity of the Spirit, with the Word of Christ dwelling in them, they would begin to sing. And as the spirits fled from Saul (I Samuel 16:23), so the evil spirits would flee from the assembly of the believers. We would literally dominate the spiritual atmosphere.
Do you know what I mean by dominating the atmosphere? That is a term of war. Before an army can take the land, the first thing it has to do is control the air. Therefore, when a country is planning to send soldiers in to take a beachhead, the first thing it does is send planes over. Why? To knock the enemy’s planes out of the sky, to weaken the enemy’s defenses, and to weaken his lines of assault. When it finally looks as if the enemy’s defenses are weakened enough, then the infantry is sent in.
The Lord wants you to realize: We are not wrestling against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against the spiritual wickedness in high places (Ephesians 6:12). We are wrestling against the prince of the power of the air (Ephesians 2:2); and as long as he controls the atmosphere of a service, you will come and labor to get through to the people. All the time you are preaching and trying to get through to them, you will not be sure whether the enemy has fouled up their hearing or not. But what a wonderful day it will be when we come with such worship, such singing in the Spirit, such a flow of God, that finally the whole atmosphere is literally one of the glory of the Lord. We will gain the mastery of the very atmosphere round about us. We will not be hit by anything contrary or demonic, but we will just stand with an openness to the Lord. Then the Word will begin to flow back and forth—psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, prophesying, moving in God. Tremendous things can happen in a church which moves upon that level.
There is something else that can happen, too. I have seen people who would pray and pray, and never be able to break through. They would read their Bible and finally wind up just staring at black spots on a white page; they were not getting anything. But they could take an old songbook, go off in a corner and sing, maybe quite off-key, and the devils would flee for sanctuary. They could not abide that rejoicing in the Lord which was coming forth out of the believer. Have you ever sung yourself out of moods and depression and unbelief? You have done this, perhaps, with just a small measure of the anointing of the Holy Spirit. What will happen when we have increased in that anointing?
We have to carefully distinguish the spiritual singing from the natural singing. If we do not, we may find ourselves thinking, “Well, a good, lively song service is the whole answer.” No, it is the anointing; it is the way we project that anointing of the Holy Spirit in our singing. And this is a great deal according to our faith as we believe God and enter into that worship service.
Singing does something which has to be understood. Singing is a process which unifies the personality, the sum total of what a person is. Singing coordinates a person, takes his spirit, what his conscious mind is focusing on, and his soul and physical body, and unifies them to a great extent.
When people come into a service, they are a congregation, a number of individuals collected together. And if you were to ask how many thoughts are in that congregation, you would have to answer with the number of people who are there. They are not a body; they are a congregation—they have congregated. But when they begin to sing, if their hearts are set upon the Lord, their conscious thought comes to the Lord. Then as they sing, their entire soulish nature—all of their emotions, their will, everything—becomes set on God. And with this unity that is coming to them, they open up to worship and their spirits begin to worship God. What has happened? In each one’s becoming one individual focused on God, with everything of his mind and spirit focused on Him, and his neighbor the same way, they all begin to flow together as one. The power of that unity can be tremendous.
In our services, if we could get even ten percent of the congregation to really singing in the Spirit, with such a focus of God that they were lost to everything else, amazing things could happen. That service would move in God, in a tremendous way; it could not go any other direction. Do not despise this singing in the Spirit. And even if it is something you are not used to, thank God that it is coming forth again. It existed in the Old Testament; it existed in the early Church; and it is coming again at this particular time, which shows the great significance of the hour in which we are living.
The music that is coming forth in the world today is such that most of the great contemporary composers do not create music anymore. All a person has to do now to make music is come up with a few standard chords and weave the right words into it, and he has a song. But there is no real talent in it. The talent which created is gone. The days when people were even interested in the intricacies of counterpoint are gone. Most people do not want symphonic music anymore. What has come? I do not know what it is, but it does have a beat. To be successful it has to have a beat. But I am waiting for the young people to come forth who will be the answer to what the world has, who will begin to sing the songs of Zion, a new song unto the Lord. It has to come. Something is missing yet. Some piece is missing. But we know we are going in the right direction because of what we have already experienced.
What is going to open the door to the great prophetic music that must come? Are there, as many believe, only a handful of years before the next expression of the Kingdom of God is set up on the earth? Do you think that within a generation we could witness that kind of change?
Let me ask you this: How many drastic changes have taken place within this generation? How many people living today were born before television was invented? before the transistor? Think of the wars that have taken place, the wonder drugs that have been discovered, the changes in the world and in the conflicting ideologies in this last generation. Then review the things that have taken place in the earth just since the end of World War II.
What has happened in the Christian world in the last twenty years? How many have heard prophecy for the first time in the last fifteen years? We get impatient and say, “Let’s get this New Testament Church going here. Let’s see it really happen.” But fifteen years ago, were you in a New Testament Church? Did you have prophecy as a set pattern that could really work? What about singing in the Spirit, the gifts of the Spirit, and the various things we have now? So much of this has come forth in just a small part of this generation. I am laying one thing before you: What could happen this year? What could happen in the next six months? What could we see God do from week to week as we dare to pray and seek the face of the Lord? What could happen? Are you a person who says, “Let’s get the old-time religion; it’s good enough for me”? Or are you really believing that God is doing something different—not something different from His Word, but a fresh, new, vital expression of the Holy Spirit coming forth? Are you believing that? What could happen to us if we give ourselves to this music? I think we should. I am in favor of abandoning any conformity that is gripping the Church. We need, once more, that creative music.
Let our services become much more reverent; may all of us learn to come to the house of God with reverence, with prayer, for meditation. We will make it a house of prayer (Isaiah 56:7; Matthew 21:13). I am not urging that we return to traditions; but I do encourage that we have a more effective spiritual approach in the services. Why? Because in the atmosphere of reverence that has been obtained in other generations, we will break through more easily to the singing in the Spirit that God is bringing now.
I am persuaded that if we give ourselves to Babylonian jingles instead of to real, deep worship songs, we will get hung up on the jingles. If we have more songs of a great worshipful nature, and become more and more a people of worship, then we will more easily be able to progress into what God wants to bring forth. You may not agree with this. You may say, “I want a liberty.”
Yes, but there are many people of deep devotion to God who would find it very difficult not to accept singing in the Spirit, if it already had that mode of worship in which they had previously been able to express themselves. In the liturgical form of worship, many people have a way of really reaching God which is not found in the fundamentalist approach. With a more reverent, liturgical approach, and deep worship, the singing in the Spirit and the preaching of the Word for this day will be more readily accepted by people than if everything in the service hits them new and strange. Most people are not used to the songs we sing or to the freedom we have; they are not used to anything we do. They are not used to the bombastic nature of the services or to the irreverence, to name the main, principal thing. They hear a prophecy and they wonder, “Is this a Word from God? The people do not even act as if God is here; they are not reverent.” Then there is a psalm and someone says, “That is singing in the Spirit.”
“Do you mean the Holy Spirit is bringing a song? The people do not seem as if they are aware of His presence, and then they suddenly sing a psalm? I’m not used to that.”
Are you beginning to see the almost inconsistent thing which we have to face? We must face that this exists with us. There are many problems in the New Testament Church, but one of the biggest is that we must look to God to restore, in a spiritual reality, the pattern of the Word. We must look for that reverence and sense of His presence in every service. Everything else—the glory, the wonder—will come when we have these things in our services.
What is the New Testament Church really like? In organization and structure, which church adheres most closely to the New Testament pattern? If you are looking for the New Testament pattern, you can sit down and make a blueprint: “This is the New Testament Church; this is the way it is put together. It has so many apostles, so many prophets, so many elders.”
“But don’t we have a New Testament pattern?”
Yes, but where is the spiritual reality? We do not want to build something according to a blueprint only; we want the spiritual stuff that it is made of to be a reality. When we have a prophet, we want him to really be a prophet. When we have a brother who is called to be an elder, we pray and we bless him, and we watch over him. And one day, he will stand forth in a tremendous anointing of the Spirit of the Lord. This is what God is doing! This does not come in full measure right away; but it is coming rapidly.
We who are walking with God in this day have a tremendous privilege, a great opportunity of seeing things established that Christianity has not seen since the days of the apostles. Isn’t it strange that this day of such unbelief will also be the day of such faith? Such extremes will take place right in our times. There will be people who will build their ecumenicalism to such a point that they do not have any reality in God at all. And there will be others who will be worshiping God in the Spirit and walking with God as one (John 4:23–24). In this day the people will come forth of whom Daniel spoke.
But the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits. Daniel 11:32b, KJV.
Most music is inspired by a spirit: divine, or demonic.
The prophets who could “prophesy with harps” first had to be prophets whose hearts were in tune with God.
If you want to truly sing in the Spirit, first be filled with the Spirit.
The music world tries to produce a new sound; God wants that new song of His Kingdom.
Let the Word dwell in you richly. Few psalms have ever come from an empty heart.
Musicians, it is more important for your spirit to be in tune with God, than your musical instrument to be in tune. Tune up, but don’t forget to tune in.