“Able
Music Ministers”
2 Corinthians 3:6, “Who also hath made us able ministers of
the New Testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter
killeth, but the spirit giveth life.”
Hikanoo
(2427), which has been translated able in this verse, means that God
qualifies or enables the Christian to minister. We know tht talent and
education makes it possible to perform and direct music, but it is God who
makes a Christian musician an able minister of music.
There is
much more than a subtle difference between a musician being able to go through
the routines of public musicing in church and the touch of the Divine on the
human that makes one an “able minister”. Every Christian musician should seek
God’s touch i.e. anointing on his or her music ministry. Only the touch of the divine upon the human
enables a musician’s ministry to be efficacious.
Prayer
for the Day
Our dear precious and holy Heavenly Father I am asking You
to touch my music ministry until Your anointing changes the way I music unto
You in the presence of others. Lord, I
am asking you to empower my music ministry so that it will bring honor and glory
to Your worthy and wonderful name. Help
my musicing to be effective because it is empowered and enabled by the Blessed
Holy Spirit. This I am asking in Your
strong name. Amen
God
Protects His Musicians.
Psalm 32:7, “Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve
me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance.”
Natsar
(5341) that is translated preserve in the AV. Has several shades of meaning but
in this case it means protect continually or over a long period of time. This
Psalm was given “to the chief musician” so we may conclude with certainty that
this promise pertains to God’s “Chief musicians”.
A second
thought that we should consider is “thou shalt compass me about with songs of
deliverance.” It is interesting to note
that the word songs which was translated from ron (7338) is derived from ranan
(7442) which means to emit stridulous sound thus connoting the playing of a
string instrument. So, the psalmist says
that God delivers and protects him with instrumental music.
Thought
for the Day
The Bible mentions music therapy centuries before E Thayer
Curry made music therapy a medical and psychological practice in the 20th
century.
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