Song Effect

Proclamations of power for triumph are established in spirit with song performance.

While scripture imparts the elements of truth, when it is the melody’s lyric, it makes its way to the heart for faith formation.

Song:

Lyrical information/message
Melodic soul hook
Embeds in the spirit for prolonged impact

“In order to take the spiritual temperature of an individual or society, one must mark the music” (Plato).
“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful” (Socrates).
“He who sings, prays twice” (often attributed to Augustine of Hippo, ca. 430).
“I am not ashamed to confess publicly that next to theology there is no art which is the equal of music, for she alone, after theology, can do what otherwise only theology can accomplish, namely, quiet and cheer up the soul of man, which is clear evidence that the devil, the originator of depressing worries and troubled thoughts, flees from the voice of music just as he flees from the words of theology” (Martin Luther, 1530).
“Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak” (William Congreve, 1670-1729).

In the choice of God as a secure dwelling place is the atmosphere for the song’s effect.

Psalms 32:7 (NKJV) 7 You are my hiding place; You shall preserve me from trouble; You shall surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah

In the work of God in Christ is our surrounding with the song and its effect.

2 Corinthians 2:14 (TLB) 14 But thanks be to God! For through what Christ has done, he has triumphed over us so that now wherever we go he uses us to tell others about the Lord and to spread the Gospel like a sweet perfume.

With an encounter of God’s power there is evidence in the heart’s altered soundings.

Psalms 40:1-5 (NKJV) 1 To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; And He inclined to me, And heard my cry. 2 He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, Out of the miry clay, And set my feet upon a rock, And established my steps. 3 He has put a new song in my mouth—Praise to our God; Many will see it and fear, And will trust in the LORD. 4 Blessed is that man who makes the LORD his trust, And does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. 5 Many, O LORD my God, are Your wonderful works Which You have done; And Your thoughts toward us Cannot be recounted to You in order; If I would declare and speak of them, They are more than can be numbered.

The impact of the victory is proportionate to the song’s release.

Psalms 98:1-6 (NKJV) 1 A Psalm. Oh, sing to the LORD a new song! For He has done marvelous things; His right hand and His holy arm have gained Him the victory. 2 The LORD has made known His salvation; His righteousness He has revealed in the sight of the nations. 3 He has remembered His mercy and His faithfulness to the house of Israel; All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. 4 Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the earth; Break forth in song, rejoice, and sing praises. 5 Sing to the LORD with the harp, With the harp and the sound of a psalm, 6 With trumpets and the sound of a horn; Shout joyfully before the LORD, the King.

In the song is reliving the God intervention and its awakening of hope.

Exodus 15:1-3 (NKJV) 1 Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD, and spoke, saying: "I will sing to the LORD, For He has triumphed gloriously! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea! 2 The LORD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation; He is my God, and I will praise Him; My father's God, and I will exalt Him. 3 The LORD is a man of war; The LORD is His name.

In the writing of a deliverance song is identification with it for future triumphs.

2 Samuel 22:1-4 (NKJV) 1 Then David spoke to the LORD the words of this song, on the day when the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. 2 And he said: "The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; 3 The God of my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, My stronghold and my refuge; My Savior, You save me from violence. 4 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies.

At the time of transition – warning and blessing came in a song, not a sermon, exhortation, or prophecy.

Deuteronomy 31:19-21 (TLB) 19 “Now write down the words of this song, and teach it to the people of Israel as my warning to them. 20 When I have brought them into the land I promised their ancestors—a land ‘flowing with milk and honey’—and when they have become fat and prosperous, and worship other gods and despise me and break my contract, 21 and great disasters come upon them, then this song will remind them of the reason for their woes. (For this song will live from generation to generation.) I know now, even before they enter the land, what these people are like.”

Fresh inspiration in the ongoing experience of a previous triumph.

Revelation 5:9-10 (NKJV) 9 And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, 10 And have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall reign on the earth.”