Be Still…
Today I would like to talk a little about hinderances to prayer. Our prayer life is our connection to God.
God tells us through his word “Be Still and know that I am God”. Psalms 46:10
Here is that whole verseBe still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Be Still…
Music has its place during worship service. Maybe even at an alter call. There are many times the preacher gives an alter call and starts praying out loud, then the music picks up a few octives then you can’t hear and agree with the prayer.
Such a waste of breath when it was intended for instruction and salvation.
Music has it’s place. I would rather hear a good prayer than the choir and piano.
Was there good music in the background when our Christ gave us “the Lords Prayer?”
How about when John the Baptist strolled into town. Did he strut in with a boom box on his shoulder singing “Repent, ya, Repent, ya baby, repent for the kingdom of God is at hand. Oh ya, Repent”
Did the strings of a symphony play when the Apostles said to the cripple at the gate beautiful “silver and gold have I none, but what I have I give to you. Rise up and walk!”
No, a million times NO!
Music has it’s place, but not during the preaching like I see televagelist do all the time.
Not during the prayer service or alter call. For the Holy Spirit doesn’t need an introduction or an accompaniment.
And not in ones prayer closet because how can you hear the still small voice during your prayer life? You can not.
Do not be deceived in these Last days my friend, the devil is come to kill, steal and destroy! Do you think that the modern church today is following the proper order?
Wan’t Lucifer, the devil not an Arch Angel and the prime minister of music in the Heavenly Choir?
Here is a description of Lucifer at the time prior to his fall froom Heaven.
EZEKIEL 28:13-19
28:13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone
was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl,
the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the
carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy
pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
28:14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so:
thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and
down in the midst of the stones of fire.
28:15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created,
till iniquity was found in thee.
28:16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of
thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee
as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O
covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
28:17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast
corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee
to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold
thee.
28:18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine
iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth
a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring
thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold
thee.
28:19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at
thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
Are you listening?
A few weeks ago I was invited by a minister to come visit his church. He didn’t say “come vist because the Holy Spirit is present every service. No he said that we have so and so, a professional singer and he promoted the worship service.
I believe many ministers of rightousness, promote the worship service because many in the world respond to music and not preaching or teaching.
When was the last time you heard come to church because God is ever present?
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What? I will pray for you…