84. MUSIC & DANCING
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Let them praise His name in the dance: let them sing praises unto Him with the timbrel and harp (Ps.149:3).
1. Music is the speech of angels.
2. Music is the medicine for broken hearts.
3. Some sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought.
4. I'd rather any day hear someone sing with feeling from their heart in the power of the Holy Spirit, than a professional perfectionist who gets all the technicalities perfect, but with no real love, & sounds like an empty, hollow, noisy "sounding brass or tinkling cymbal"! (1Cor.13:1)
5. A singer is a messenger with a message in song.
6. Better the night, with song in it, than no night & no song.
7. I think all good music, happy music, loving music has to be of the Lord! (A toast:) To the Lord of Love & loving music!
8. God is the Lord of the Dance! "So have I made the dance & I have made the music & I have made the love that I have given unto your father!"
9. To be a truly great singer, you have to have a broken, loving heart!
10. Our songs & our message either make them run the other way as fast as they can go, or make them melt into our arms.
11. Our music spurs them to action, either for us--or against us!
12. If there's anything a singer is prone to, it's pride! Don't let it happen to you!
13. Music is our message! Music is our ministry!--Don't fake it!--Or you'll be a phony--like the rest of 'em!--But use it!--Like it!--Feel it!--Sing it!--Do it!--in the Spirit!--and it'll live in their hearts forever!
14. "Hark the herald angels sing!"--You're my angels & you're singing & heralding the beautiful good news of His Love, & they had better hearken & listen!
15. Music is so emotional, it should be a true expression of your own personal true emotions.
16. A chirp is better than nothing! If you can't sing a beautiful song like the wild birds or the canaries, at least you can give a little sparrow chirp!
17. The canaries sing so pretty in their jails, behind the bars in their cages, such sweet songs, the songs of the bars, the songs of prison, the songs of those who suffer!
18. Even if you can't sing a beautiful song, you can at least make a joyful noise for Jesus!
19. Even if you're in a cage like the birds, you can sing a sweet song to encourage a lot of people!
20. Music is one of our primary forms of communication with this generation!
21. It's amazing how people's different personalities come out in their dancing--body language, body talk!
22. Emotion makes your music!
23. Why doesn't our music make a hit with the World?--"If you were of the World, the World would love its own, but you are not of the World, therefore the World hates you!" It's God's music & they hate it!
24. Music can be technically perfect & spiritually dead!
25. The hard rock of today is like the jazz of yesterday: it's rebellion & defiance!
26. I like soft lights, soft music, soft wine & soft women!
27. The right music can bring a certain response in your own heart & mind. It has a psychological & spiritual effect on you.
28. It's almost like a composer is a spirit guide & becomes a medium, & his music is his crystal ball!
29. Musical perfection is mathematical, but musical inspiration is divine!
30. Most people can't stand to listen to any one singer for more than two or three numbers at the most, no matter how good they are!
31. Our purpose in singing is not to entertain--but to implant an idea or message in people's minds that they just can't shake.
32. A song that has to be explained is not much good!
33. The music itself has got to paint the emotional picture or feeling of the message of the song!
34. Music to me is the miracle of this generation!
35. Our music is the miracle which attracts so many to our message about the Man.
36. Our inspired songs are like the key of love which unlocks hearts, to find a responsive chord that longs to harmonise with them!
37. You can't very well sing a song of praise & thanksgiving to the Lord & be complaining & murmuring & groaning & moaning at the same time!
38. Mount up with wings like the eagles,
And fly on the wings of song.
The words that speak, the music that sings
Will live forever on!
39. Walk in the sunshine,
Dance in the light
Sing as you're marching
And fight the good fight!
40. Go boldly forth His praise to tell
With song on lips, to serve Him well
Life this new dawn begins anew;
For Jesus' sake be true, be true!
41. All music...should have no other end & aim than the glory of God and the recreation of the soul; Where this is not kept in mind, there is no true music, but only an infernal clamour & ranting.--Johann Sebastian Bach
42 The Christian life is set to music; the un-Christian way is set to misery.
43. Hard rock music is music to kill by, music to destroy by!--It destroys your hearing, it destroys your senses, almost destroys your spirit & makes you want to kill or destroy!
44. Most of the World's great literature & music was created on the basis of anticipation--looking forward to something wonderful & beautiful, the hope, longing, desire & yearning for love!
45. Certain kinds of music can also be like a combination of tone signals, almost like dialing a number. If it hits the right combination of notes, the right music can bring a certain response in your own heart and mind.
46. God's music makes you want to do the will of God and love Him and love His children!
47. Music is one of the most emotional forms of communication!
48. Effective music, whether good or bad, will inspire you to action--either good or bad!
49. Project your love & sing from your heart, play from your heart, speak from your heart, sock it to them from your heart directly to their heart!
50. Seek inspiration to save perspiration!
51. The song is the girl & her beautiful body, the musical accompaniment is the clothing--so clothe her lightly!
52. Songs about being lonely & heartbroken & needing comfort were the songs that always appealed to me the most. I felt they had a message for everyone, because in a way, everyone's a little bit lonely, especially if they don't have the Lord.
53. Worldly show biz is great if we can use it, but if it's only using us, it's time we forget it!
54. We can't let worldly show biz take the place of God's biz, or He won't bless it!
55. We're in show biz--the business of showing God's Love to the World.
56. Music is the communication of the heart.
57. Music is what attracts kids today. Music is their religion & much of it comes straight from Hell & is diabolical, demonic, nothing but rhythm, big beat, big African jungle beat, a spiritual thing that gets them into that same vicious kind of violent spirit! It's like fighting the very demons of hell, a total horrible spiritual influence!
58. In those discos it's like you're right in Hell itself where the Devil has absolute control over them, the music & their minds & their bodies & everything. There is no communication possible but spiritual communication with the Devil through such music. The youth today who are producing it are just absolutely insane, crazy, neurotic, demon-possessed, & all you hear is the horrors of Hell & the screams of the demons, and it's horrible! They're getting themselves ready for Hell itself! It's horror music!--Absolutely the fiends of Hell straight out of the Pit!
59. The Hard Rock of the Devil is demonic, it brings demons, it gets people inspired with demons! Just as our sweet music carries the Spirit of God, so the Devil's music carries the spirit of the Devil!
60. Modern youthful music is so nerve-wracking, they never give you a chance to rest! So drumming, driving, it's really nervous music, nothing restful or relaxing about it. It's something to have nightmares by! I think it's driving this generation insane! The Lord is going to have to come soon, or the whole World will go crazy!
61. Music has to be the personal expression of your own personal emotions & the way you feel about the subject. It has to be you, it has to be your personal testimony, your personal message, the thing you want to tell people & that you're convinced of & convicted of & really believe so that you can really sell it & sing it because you believe it & know it & experience it, & you become a salesman just as much of the Gospel when you are singing the Gospel as you are when you're preaching it.
62. It is better to make a few little mistakes & sing from your heart than to sing mechanically perfect with no heart at all. It can be perfect mechanically & technically & be flat as a flounder spiritually & emotionally, if you don't really sing with spirit, inspiration, the power of God & a heart full of Love for the lost. Above all things you must put that emotional spiritual perfection first, the love. You've got to have the real love, for without love it's nothing.
63. There's nothing as powerful as the Word of God. No matter how beautiful music may be, if it hasn't got the Truth in it, if it hasn't go the Word in it, it is powerless, flat & meaningless!
64. You can't beat those inspired songs that either contain the Word or quote the Word! That's the powerful seed that will cause an orgasm in their hearts that will bring forth fruit.
65. Perfection comes of the Spirit! It's the perfection of Love that will be the most perfect in the eyes of God.
66. Your songs will be more Spirit-filled & go smoother & even better if you depend more on the Lord & less on technical perfection. Depend more on the Spirit & Love & inspiration than just vocal, instrumental & technical perfection in recording.
67. Our message in song is one of our main ministries & it can be used where all else may fail.
68. A song has got to move you. It has got to make you want to do something!--To dance, to fight, to love, to cry!--Or something!
69. Your dance is supposed to be a witness to your joy & happiness & inner beauty & glory & the wonderful joy of the Lord!
70. Music is the miracle of this generation. It is the magic that heals their souls & wounded spirits & proves our Messiahship, that we are their saviours.
71. Let our music be bold, brash, wild, violent & revolutionary--a declaration of war!--Along with the sweet & the sad & the heartbreaking, as well as the cheerful, light & happy!--But whatever it is, let it be alive! The words are the most important part of our music, because without the Message it's nothing.
72. Our uniqueness is our message, the words of those songs, & if we have a good musical vehicle to carry it, fine. But if not & we have to choose between the music & the message, I'd rather have you scream your heads off with the words so folks can understand you, even if you have to do it a capella, or without music!
73. What a ministry is music! It is indeed a miraculous gift for the healing of many souls & bringing life to many lives & peace to many minds & hearts.
74. "Dost thou think it a strange thing that I have inspired these things & singers & put the words in their mouths & given them greater significance than thou hast dreamed, to prepare the hearts of My people!"
75. "And the songs that speak are inspired by Me & the music that lives shall never die & the children who sing it shall live forever in a land that is eternal! For I am their God & they are My children & I speak for them & I sing for them & I live for them & I bring them life & joy & songs & music that are eternal & that shall never die, if they will but listen to the music the sings & the songs that live, to the words that speak & the children who love with hope of a land that is eternal & that shall never die!"
76. Real inspiration comes with real feeling.
77. Dancing closely & affectionately with someone with your arms around them is the next best thing to being in bed, because they just open up their hearts & humble themselves.
78. We're not only glorifying God in the dance, we're also glorifying sex!
79. I hate shallow singing where the singers don't really feel it. Music without feeling is music without meaning no matter what the words are.
80. The music has got to fit the words to make the Message effective.
81. I think much of the music of the World is inspired & beautiful & it's not all in the Family.
82. Jazz was the beginning of devilish music, the beginning of the distortion in music & dissonance & disharmony & raucous, loud, harsh, annoying music, the beginning of the musical rebellion against harmony & beauty & romanticism.
83. Africa has polluted the World. When it routed its diabolical sounds & its noise through the U.S., & found its voice in the U.S. it found a way to pollute the whole World. It's demon-possessed music. It's the music of the drug addicts & the Devil dancers. It's the music of the War dances of Africa. It's demonic noise with nothing but horrible, Satanic, demonic rhythm, there is nothing beautiful about it. It's ugly, monstrous, diabolical, demon-possessed.
84. A generation's music certainly is an honest expression of its emotions, how it feels, & its ideals, standards, & morals are expressed in its music.
85. The whole of the arts of this generation, whether its music or art or literature or whatever it is, is just plain ugly, it's like the face of the Devil, the voice of hell! Monstrous, demonic, Satanic, diabolical, ugly, horrible! Looks like the devil is finally taking over! There's nothing pretty or beautiful, sweet, good or lovely left.--Nothing good left except us & the Lord & His Creation, & very few good folks & very few good things, the very few are far outnumbered by the forces of the demons of hell.
86. This so-called music of this generation is just noise that destroys. You can't listen to that stuff all day & not suffer.
87. They tell me our goodness is badness
Our singing of songs is in vain.
But I tell them their wisdom is madness
I'd far rather sing than complain!
(See also No.32, 92, 166, 232, 312C, 326, 326A, 399, 774, 924, 929, 930, 963, 987, 1006, 1016, 1026, 1043, 1048, 1062, 1091, 1107, 1210, 1211, 1213, 1318, 1532, HH1, Childcare Handbook II.)
88. 2SA.6:14 And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
89. 1CH.16:9 Sing unto Him, sing psalms unto Him, talk ye of all His wondrous works.
90. 2CH.5:13,14 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the Lord, saying, For He is good; for His mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord; So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.
91. PSA.30:11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: Thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness.
92. PSA.33:2,3 Praise the Lord with harp: sing unto Him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. Sing unto Him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise.
93. PSA.40:3 And He hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.
94. PSA.57:9 I will praise Thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto Thee among the nations.
95. PSA.69:30 I will praise the Name of God with a song, and will magnify Him with thanksgiving.
96. PSA.95:1,2 O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the Rock of our Salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto Him with psalms.
97. PSA.144:9 I will sing a new song unto Thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto Thee.
98. PSA.149:3 Let them praise His Name in the dance: let them sing praises unto Him with the timbrel and harp.
99. PSA.150:1-6 Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in His sanctuary: praise Him in the firmament of His power. Praise Him for His mighty acts: praise Him according to His excellent greatness. Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. Praise Him with the timbrel and dance: praise Him with stringed instruments and organs. Praise him upon the loud cymbals: Praise Him upon the high sounding cymbals. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.
100. ACT.16:25,26 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
101. 1CO.14:15b I will sing with the Spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
102. EPH.5:19 Speaking to yourself in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.
103. COL.3:16b Teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
104. JAM.5:13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
105. REV.14:3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the Earth.
106. REV.15:3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are Thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are Thy ways, Thou King of saints.
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