Last weekend I was travelling from Boston to Connecticut
with a friend of mine and he played a CD in which a Bishop was singing an
Alicia keys song during his sermon. He said that was the song he was inspired
to sing and changed the word “baby” to “Jesus”. He said it does not matter what
you sing, but whom you are singing it to. The congregation sang with him.
What songs really qualify for worship, praise and adoration
to God?
Songs are vehicles through which we access the heart of God.
They connect with our Spirit when offered as a sacrifice of thanksgiving and
reverence to God from a true heart.
It becomes vital to
understand that Songs move God, that’s why he is involved with giving out songs
(Job35:10, Deut 31:18) It matters what we sing to God as he loves to hear
his children praise him. God delights in the worship of his saints.
Good songs do not necessarily mean they are Gods. Songs containing
biblical terms as Jesus, Joy, God, Bless, Heaven, hope, peace etc., are easily
thought to come from God because to the believer, it sounds Church-like.
There is no instruction as to what styles of song God
prefers. It can be the traditional hymn, a contemporary song or a Spontaneous
Spiritual song, but it matters where the song comes from.
Singing to God has always and will continue to be a sacred
part of our worship because God should be our song (Exd 15:2). He inhabits it.
God demands that we
sing a new song to him (Pslm 96:1, 98:1, 144:9, Rev 5:9) not because he gets
tired of listening to old songs, but because he expects us to see different
revelations of his glory and majesty whenever we sincerely offer Songs in
worship that captures the whole entity of who he is.
Maybe the reason we do not have an experience of the move
and manifest presence of God in our lives and ministry is because we have been
offering him songs he cannot relate to.
What have been the songs you are singing back to God lately?
What inspires and edifies your Spirit?
