Don't feel you have to do this on your weekend but I have found it very freeing and then focus enhancing for myself. This may be the most important thing you can learn is Praise in many different ways this week we are:
Worshiping with instruments
When you look up instruments in the concordance you will find that the word is used for weapons as well as musical instruments. I think this is because music, shouts, clapping and all forms of using our body as an instrument for God is one of our Most powerful weapons in warfare. Music can soothe excite free, empower destroy restore and so much more.
That being said you can also be used by the enemy to bring destruction.
Genesis 49:6,7
“Simeon and Levi are brothers;Instruments of cruelty are in their dwelling place.
6 Let not my soul enter their council;
Let not my honor be united to their assembly;
For in their anger they slew a man,
I have posted in previous posts that Lucifer was the prince of the airways. So we need to carefully use the gift Jesus took back from satan for godly purposes.
Enough about the enemy but to say every time you take time to worship God with music and your instruments you really show satan and remind him he has lost the title prince of the airways. It also was one of the keys resurrected with Christ. This is perhaps the most powerful way to walk on serpents and scorpions.
Okay I admit it I get a little excited
stomping on
serpents and scorpions.
King David really is probably the leader in the Bible of worshiping in the presence of the Lord. 1 Chronicles 13:8 read the whole passage here:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%2016&version=NKJV
Then David and all Israel played music before God with all their might, with singing, on harps, on stringed instruments, on tambourines, on cymbals, and with trumpets.
- 1 Chronicles 16
New King James Version (NKJV)
The Ark Placed in the Tabernacle
16 So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tabernacle that David had erected for it. Then they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.2 And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord.So this was what David did while bringing the ark to it's final destination. He made offerings and giving is a form of worship but I will talk about that another week.Feasting was also a integrate part of honoring God with thanksgiving3 Then he distributed to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to everyone a loaf of bread, a piece of meat, and a cake of raisins.4 And he appointed some of the Levites to minister before the ark of the Lord, to commemorate, to thank, and to praise the Lord God of Israel:
5 Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, and Obed-Edom: Jeiel with stringed instruments and harps, but Asaph made music with cymbals;
6 Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests regularly blew the trumpets before the ark of the covenant of God.
David’s Song of Thanksgiving
7 On that day David first delivered this psalm into the hand of Asaph and his brethren, to thank the Lord:
8 Oh, give thanks to the Lord!
Call upon His name;
Make known His deeds among the peoples!
9 Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him;
Talk of all His wondrous works!
10 Glory in His holy name;
Let the hearts of those rejoice who seek the Lord!
11 Seek the Lord and His strength;
Seek His face evermore!
12 Remember His marvelous works which He has done,
His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth,After a tremendous challenge to build the Wall of Jerusalem from ruins to half the height it was Nehemiah actually appointed those that were skillful to worship God on instruments play skillfully on the harp, and sing with joy.
The Hebrew expression translated here as "play skillfully" literally means "to do well in playing music." The verb "to be skillful" comes from the Hebrew root that means "good," and is elsewhere translated as "to do well." But when it's combined with the verb for playing instruments, the "to do well" suggests musical expertise.
www.thehighcalling.org/reflection/play-skillfully-0#.UjPeMj-K9Go
Psalm 33:3 reminds us that we’re to use well the gifts God has given us. If we have musical talent, then we should learn to "play skillfully" for the Lord. In reality, this takes years of diligent practice. Though it might be tempting for people with lots of natural musical ability to coast on their laurels, Psalm 33 encourages them to work hard on developing their skills. Yet their commitment to excellence must not keep them from singing "with joy" (v. 3).
Nehemiah 12:27 New King James Version (NKJV)
Nehemiah Dedicates the Wall
27 Now at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought out the Levites in all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings and singing, with cymbals and stringed instruments and harps.
David said to praise with different instruments. And really do we think we have the ability to create an instrument that originally wasn't in the mind of God. Instruments are great, what they are used for is up to us.
Psalm 150:4
Praise Him with the timbrel and dance; Praise Him with stringed instruments and flutes!King Solomon also used instrumentsI also gathered for myself silver and gold and the special treasures of kings and of the provinces. I acquired male and female singers, the delights of the sons of men, and musical instruments of all kinds.In the New Testament it talk about using ourselves as instruments for the use of God and not unrighteousness.Romans 6:13
And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
So this weekend I will use my hands my feet my fingers will hit the ivories Might even pull out a few other instruments and have some fun. Might even try playing the saw.....hum I don't have a saw how about my sword??
Just kidding...
Have a
this weekend
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