God!--Part 4

God!--Part 4

         I believe that God’s establishment of divine-human communion is of great import to our worship of the Trinity.  Elohim, God in plurality, desired and desires to communicate with both men and women in this life.  Worship communication, both public and private, corporate and individual, is a God thing.  Although we marvel that Adam and Eve transgressed and broke off that wonderful communication of the Garden of Eden, many people repeat history and transgress Gods law and precepts and therefore break off that wonderful communion between god and mankind.

         Many Christians who remain mute when the body of Christ is musicing, are refusing to commune with God.  Although these Christians do not mean there silence as a form of rebellion against a God established communion, their silence is without a refusal to commune with God.  Since the Bible is fraught with references to the necessity of communing with god through music, it is the responsibility of every music minister to catechize the congregation on the significance and importance of musicing together unto God.

 

Song and Thought for the Day

Song for the Day—O Master Let Me Walk with Thee by Washington Gladden

Thought for the Day

God has not changed,  He still desires to walk and talk with men and women who desire to have a relationship with Him.

 

God!--Part 3

God!--Part 3

         God’s relationship with mankind has been relational from the time God created humans on this earth.  Musicians who believe the Genesis record have a great assurance when they music about the only true God who was not only relational then, but also seeks to have relationship with us today!

         Early in the Genesis record God communed with his human creation.  He communicated with both man (Adam) and woman (Eve).  God communicated with his human creation not because He had to walk and talk with them in the garden, but because He desired to have fellowship with them.  It seems to me that they did not even slightly realize the significance or importance of this divine-human connection established by God himself.  In the garden God could have sent one of His angles to communicate God’s message to them. It is a wonderful thought that God desired to walk and talk with Adam in the Garden.

 

Song-Prayer and thought for the Day

Song-Prayer for the Day 

Come Holy Ghost, our souls inspire,

And lighten with celestial fire.

Thou the anointing Spirit art,

Who dost thy sevenfold gifts impart.

Thy blessed unction from above

is comfort, life, and fire of love.

Enable with perpetual light

the dullness of our blighted sight.

Anoint and cheer our soiled face

with the abundance of thy grace.

Keep far our foes, give peace at home:

Where thou art guide, no ill can come.

Teach us to know the father, Son,

And thee, of both, to be but one,

That through the ages all along,

This may be our endless song:

Praise to thy eternal merit,

Father, son, and Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Thought for the Day

How would you feel if someone was in your presence and yet refused to communicate with you?

God!--Part 2

God!--Part 2
         Depending on how a Christian musician perceives God, he or she will either music the name of God with authority or timidity and some doubt.  In the Book of Isaiah in chapter one verse one Isaiah recorded, “In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.”  Isaiah received much from God because he had a correct concept of who God is and what He is capable of doing.

          God ordained that the Bible would begin with who God is, i.e. his nature, and His relationship with those whom He so carefully, and wonderfully created.  Think of it, God was transcendent from the time of man’s creation.  We know that He walked and talked to Adam and eve in the Garden of Eden because Genesis 3:8 states, “And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.”

 

Prayer, Chorus, and Thought for the Day

Prayer for the Day 

“Grant, we beseech thee, merciful God, that thy church, being gathered together in unity by thy holy Spirit, may manifest thy power among all peoples, to the glory of thy Name;  through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the same Spirit, one God world without end.  Amen.” The Book of Common Prayer, 1953, pg. 185   

Chorus for the Day       Great Is the Lord by Michael W. Smith    

Thought for the Day 

Since God has proven Himself to be an awesome God to generation after generation, why should we not trust him to be god in the twenty first century?

 

 

 

God!--Part 1

God!--Part 1

          Genesis 1:1 states without apology or without reservation or hesitation “In the beginning God…”  We mention his name with great comfort, respect and with great expectation.  We worship God because of His worth-ship.  Christianity is different than other world religions in that we do not worship statues of a great person who was but rather, we worship the only true God who not only was but is.

          In Exodus 3:14 God was communing with Moses, “And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.”  We are under the authority, guidance and protection of the same God who is at this very instant.  Christians who music the name of God the Father, God the Son, or God the Holy Spirit are calling on the same currently alive God as Moses communed with thousands of years ago.

 

          Genesis 1:1 states without apology or without reservation or hesitation “In the beginning God…”  We mention his name with great comfort, respect and with great expectation.  We worship God because of His worth-ship.  Christianity is different than other world religions in that we do not worship statues of a great person who was but rather, we worship the only true God who not only was but is.

          In Exodus 3:14 God was communing with Moses, “And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.”  We are under the authority, guidance and protection of the same God who is at this very instant.  Christians who music the name of God the Father, God the Son, or God the Holy Spirit are calling on the same currently alive God as Moses communed with thousands of years ago.

 

Prayer, Song, and Thought for the Day

Prayer for the Day

Our heavenly Father I am asking You to help me to saturate my mind with songs of everlasting joy.  Help me to lead others in experiences of musical worship that will bring everlasting joy upon their heads.  Help me to continually recognize how powerful songs of joy can be in bringing everlasting joy and gladness to your people.  These petitions I bring in your strong name.  Amen.

Song for the Day—Therefore the redeemed of the Lord by Ruth Lake

 Thought for the Day

Only the redeemed shall have songs of everlasting joy because only the redeemed will have everlasting joy.

Songs and Everlasting Joy

Songs and Everlasting Joy  

            Isaiah 35:10, “And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads:  they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away."  Did you ever stop to think that Christ’s peaceable kingdom will include music?  Music is one of the things we have in this life and will have in the life to come.  There aren’t very many things that we have in this life that can be taken to heaven with us.  A few of those things are those whom we have helped to win to the Lord, other “treasures” (not money) that the Bible teaches us that can be laid up in heaven.  St. Matthew recorded that Jesus said, “Lay not up to yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doeth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth or rust doeth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through and steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” (Matthew 2:20-23) 

            Only the ransomed of the LORD will be able to take music with them to the life hereafter.  The Bible states that those who reign with Christ will have music and everlasting joy upon their heads.  I believe that one of the ways that God will allow saints to obtain everlasting joy and gladness will be through music. 

            In heaven sorrow and sighing will have to flee in the presence of Gods bestowed gladness and joy.  I believe that this continuous gladness and joy upon the heads of the saints will be expressed through musicing unto God eternally.  So, Christian musician be sure to prepare yourself and those to whom you minister musically to store up good music because I believe that it can be taken to heaven. Catechize every Christian under your influence to music unto God in this life as a preparation for the life to come. 

 

Thought, Song, and Prayer for the Day

Thought for the Day

I want to be sure that I, as a Christian musician, place more value or moral value than musical value.

Song for the Day O to Be Like Thee by Thomas O. Chrisholm

Prayer for the Day

My dear Precious LORD and Savior I am crying out to You, “O to be like Thee! Lord now I am coming, Now to receive Thy anointing divine”.  Please help me to keep the main thing the main thing.  Lord, I want You to be first in my life.  I am asking You to “Pour out Thy Spirit, fill with Thy love”.  Please “Make me a temple meet for Thy dwelling: fit me for life and heaven above.”  My heart is crying out to You, “O to be like Thee, blessed redeemer, pure as Thou art.”  These things I am earnestly asking.in Your wonderful holy Name.  Amen