{"id":1882,"date":"2013-10-06T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.barbdahlgren.com\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2013-09-24T20:48:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T01:48:47","slug":"the-power-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/?p=1882","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Music can be powerful. Studies show that music can\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sheet-Music.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1885\" alt=\"Sheet Music\" src=\"http:\/\/www.barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sheet-Music-286x300.png\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sheet-Music-286x300.png 286w, https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sheet-Music.png 301w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Affect your mood<\/li>\n<li>Alter buying habits<\/li>\n<li>Make you work more efficiently<\/li>\n<li>Relieve pain<\/li>\n<li>Reduce stress<\/li>\n<li>Increase stress<\/li>\n<li>Affect your eating habits<\/li>\n<li>Increase athletic performance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The list goes on and on. Music also helps teach. When we sing something we remember the words. One of the first songs we teach children ends with, \u201cNow I\u2019ve sung my A-B-Cs, next time won\u2019t you sing with me?\u201d Stroke patients who have lost their speech can be taught to speak again by singing. Those who stutter have been helped through singing.<\/p>\n<p>When my dad had Alzheimer\u2019s he could not remember people\u2019s names or who they were. However he could listen to a CD of gospel songs and sing every one of them without missing a beat or lyric. Then he would look at me and say, \u201cYou know what that song says is true. God is great!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>God created music and it can be a powerful tool. The Psalms show us that music was used to praise and worship God. But music was used for other purposes in biblical times as well. Music was used to\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2026soothe the soul as mentioned in 1 Samuel 16:23. \u201cAnd it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took a harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u2026stir up the gift of prophesy as mentioned in 2 Kings 3:15. Elisha said, \u201cBut now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the Lord came upon him.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u2026inspire as mentioned in 2 Chronicles 20:21, 22. When Jehoshaphat was going into battle he appointed singers unto the Lord. As they went out before the army, they sang, \u201cPraise the Lord; for his mercy endures forever.\u201d And when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushes against the children of Ammon and Moab which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.<\/li>\n<li>\u2026teach God\u2019s Word as mentioned in Colossians 3:16. \u201cLet the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u2026release the power of God as mentioned in Acts 16:25-26. Paul and Silas found this out when they were in jail. \u201cAnd at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, and the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one&#8217;s shackles were loosed.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u2026etch the mighty power of God in our memories. In Exodus 15:1 Moses sang a song of praise to God for deliverance from Pharaoh. \u201cThen sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord: I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously\u2026\u201d It\u2019s quite long so I won\u2019t quote all of it here. Some say this song of Moses is the oldest recorded song in the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Songs were used throughout biblical times to express: joy, triumph, grief, relief, celebration, thanks, praise, and so on. Matthew 26:30 tells us that when the last supper had ended Jesus the disciples sang a hymn before leaving. What a powerful image!<\/p>\n<p>It seems so sad that this wonderful creation of God has caused so much division in his church. In our next few blogs we will explore some aspects of music and its impact on God\u2019s people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music can be powerful. Studies show that music can\u2026 Affect your mood Alter buying habits Make you work more efficiently Relieve pain Reduce stress Increase stress Affect your eating habits Increase athletic performance The list goes on and on. 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