The
Work of the Holy Spirit in Music Ministry-Part 7
The anointing of the Holy Spirit is a
particularization of the divine influence on church musicians. A part of this “enduement” for service is the
anointing of the Holy Spirit on a musician.
Acts 1:8a promises that those who shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost
“...shall receive the (dunamis 1411) or miraculous ability to be witnesses. I submit to you that a part of this witness is
this miraculous Holy Spirit anointing of sanctified musicians. Without this peculiar and miraculous divine
influence upon the musician, he or she is
left in a state of spiritual and musical bondage. The tenth chapter of Isaiah gives an account
of the children of Israel being in bondage to the Assyrians and being freed
from that bondage.. Verse 27 states, “ And it
shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off
thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed
because of the anointing.”
Many times church
musicians are in this same condition.
They have a burden on their shoulders and a yoke around their neck and
they plod on from month to month in bondage to others. These “chief musicians” may be likened to the
children of Israel who were here likened to an ox who had an awful burden on
his shoulders and a stiff yoke around his neck.
You may ask, “What kind of bondage are you talking about? Man has an incurable desire for
excitement. Man is constructed in such a
way that he is always reaching out for the spectacular. Every musician is created by God in such a
way that he can only find true satisfaction outside of himself. Therefore, church musicians who do not have the
dunamis of the Spirit are bound
by a troublesome
bondage that hinders their music ministry.
Tomorrow we will continue the thought of Christian musicians who are in
bondage .
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