Instrument Conversations
Drums have a voice so you can let them be an extension of yourself and express
what you feel. Many musicians today are closed in, mostly in their own world when they are playing. Yet some feed off of the other players around them listening to what is going on and the phasing of the song itself to add taste fills. I know however that some drummers over play when they are not listening to what is going on around them. This may be because they are trying to impress rather than add and finesse! The musical atmosphere around us and what is currently happening is important not only to you but the other players you play with. What if your bud just played a fantastic number of measures on their instrument, and without listening to what was flowing their, being in our own little world, you play in an outburst right over what he has just laid down in the song? Well, my friend just may have cluttered over his expression, instead of flowing along with the musical conversation. Have you every been standing with a group of friend day dreaming? You think you know what they have been talking about, when one of them asks you a question about the theme? Suddenly you realize you only heard the first of the conversation and haven’t a clue about what they have been saying. You blurt out something about what the conversation was about, just to find out that they aren’t talking about what they were saying. Then they all look at you like you’re an idiot. Musical conversation requires concentration. Music often changes from one expression into another, so if you’re not paying close attention you won’t hear the changes and you’ll be left behind. Then there are the players today that try to fake the conversation (like the example just given) by reestablishing the beginning of that conversation. When this happens the band may start over but everyone knows who was in their own little world playing their instrument.
Musical Conversations With God Through The Prophetic Stream
Musical conversation is fundamental to all music forms and especially to prophetic music in worship mostly because it is not what just one player is saying, but about what all the players are saying together. Musical conversation has a central theme as does the prophetic stream and when it comes through a time of worship and praise it is purposed to answer the needs of persons in that congregation. Conversation in music is a two way street. In prophetic music it begins with a delivery from heaven in song and lyric and jumps into a conversation. The instruments express this conversation as well as the deliveries which come from the singers. There are two different ways that prophetic music delivers itself. First because it starts in the realm of worship it is our conversation with God. Secondly, the conversation begins as heaven drops into the worship team the theme which is intended to happen. Thirdly, the singers and instrument in the worship group may have either and exchange with God in these expressions or with the congregation.
One area of prophetic is in the form of prayer and intercession which is inspired by heaven, the other diversity of this form is directed to the congregation individuals or the whole as to divine words proclaimed to set the people free! Either experienced results in an amazing and powerfully mighty time in the realm of the Spirit. The anointing is turned up as the mind of God is revealed directly. Scripture tells us that this type gathering experience is not for the timid.
1Corin. 14:25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
The Prophetic Stream Bursting Out And Soaking In The Intercession Prayer Pool
The prophetic stream in worship causes amazing deliverance, healings, guidance, edification, as God seeks out those who have been waiting upon the Lord for help.
This form of music is a channel by which God causes a spiritual delivery of answers to many questions. There is another side to the prophetic stream. That side is the intercession prayer soaking side. We really don’t realize our need for the Spirit of the Lord just to minister to us. Just as the Spirit of the Lord hovered and brooded over the earth, forming the earth, it is necessary for us to sit and soak in His presence under the creative restoring anointing. Healings come through recreation, so under His anointing brings about what is necessary for regaining our health and wholeness, spirit, soul, and body.
There are times when the Spirit of the Lord just wants us to sit under His presence breathing in everything of the Spirit of God. There is great perspective to know sitting at the feet of Jesus and giving Him total control of our lives. So you can gain this by sitting in the pool of prayer after this intercession. You don't have to do anything there but gaze into the Lord beautify presence!!! There time in the prophetic stream of worship where this is made possible. The worship band plays interludes of music in the background while His people just soak in His presence. Doesn't that sound good. :-) It is! The Psalmist David had this in mind when he wrote his songs and we see the word "SELAH" which means meditate upon, focus upon God, or reflect upon God's goodness in worship, and in His presence. Wow... this is exactly what everyone needs out there.
The wonderful thing about this is some folks become addicted to the presence of the Lord, because they see their need for these special times of ministry. For these they can take with them and audio recording so they can continually be ministered to by the Lord and His same Spirit again and again. I have found that recording these songs from the Lord can be captured by just turning the recorder on and allowing God to have His way in that time period. Then when going back over the recording I edit toward the highlights of what God’s Spirit did in those sacred minutes.
Flowing In The Stream Of Prophetic Delivery
The development of the worship team individuals to privately ministry to the Lord in song is key. What develops through private times of intimacy then is carried into the congregation by those same worship team players or singers. What they become privately before God in their times intimacy is what they are when it comes to the prophetic stream and ministry before the congregation. Private ministry to God by them is the same level of intimacy in the congregation when you ministry to the Lord all the time in worship! When one privately ministers to the Lord and receives prophetic songs from the Lord there, it isn’t difficult to receive them from the Lord worshiping Him before the congregation.
The goal of worship is focusing upon our object of affection Jesus Christ! Since He receives our affection, and because He loved before we loved, He is already to pour out His Spirit and love upon us. What comes out from this time of intimacy is our interactions with Him. The same is true when we are focused on Him in a worship team.
What comes streaming out toward us is His love and care for us which takes the form of the prophetic stream and moves toward all of our needs.
Rom. 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
He doesn’t withhold from us. So we know that His character delights in responding to us and toward all of our needs no matter what they are. This is why the worship team players and singers position plays us a important role in ushering in the presence of God’s anointing to meet people at their special point of need with His touch or direct word to them!
Jesus Is The Band’s Leader
Something to remember here is that Jesus is the orchestra leader and because of that the music we make for Him is much more than other own expression when it is accompanied by the Spirit of the Lord to minister to Him, or when we are in a receive mode in expressing the “Song from the Lord.” If you’re a prophetic musician you pay attention to place an emphasis where the band leader directs you. I think that this the foremost point is the main difference in prophetic playing, the different between playing for yourself and playing what Jesus wants.
The Result Of Prophetic Playing In Worship
What comes forth from this specific type of prophetic stream in worship is a beacon!
The intensity of light is great… and the truth shatters the darkness and obscurity.
1.) Jesus is the Light self disclosed to those in the darkness, those who have been caught in the storms of life and need the light to guide them successfully in their navigation.
2.) Whatever is obscure it is penetrated by the light beaming from the Savior, and clarity is the result. This cause a overthrowing of the darkness in ones life and the dawning brightness of the morning star to govern us!
3.) The songs are created by “the Spirit of Prophecy.”
4.) The dynamic of delivery of such songs come spontaneously while worshiping the King.
5.) The “Song from the Lord” always carries the breaker anointing in setting the captives free! “For where the Spirit of the Lord is there is Liberty.”
6.) The prophetic songs always speak to the point of need; where the person or persons are spiritual at. In other words the songs speak forth the crucial link between the person’s need and the person’s freedom, and when they are received they bring the fruit of having the words of the Lord spoken directly toward that area.
7.) Prophetic songs which come forth reveal the testimony Jesus Himself to everyone present in the worship, because it is the Spirit of Prophecy which reveals Jesus to us!
8.) For the Christian musician... it means seeing and hearing an amazing new flare of creativity which comes from the Spirit of the Lord into the worship music they are playing. Without a doubt Jesus and His Spirit are the most amazing creators of musical expression known to mankind. If you don't believe that just listen to Handel's Messiah sometime... and know this all came to the composer by way of him receiving divine inspiration. Now who doesn't need that?
by Rod Lambur
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