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Show THE POWER OF MUSIC I Samuel 16: 23 Every year attention to the about this time, heritage we music is not just some singing in the anything else, morning listing plays with a our have in music. For we are. we can lives our When sing, we and is like medicine to the soul. I wake up birds. I go about the that give addendum in but it is central to all that cannot do we over the for the singing day listing airways. for the music I fall asleep song in my heart for another Music is powerful God has of the day 1 to have night done. medicine for the soul. truly blessed us at music-music that shouts with claps with expectations, calms the to sing hope, music with melody that spirit. Everybody ought to even if you have to all alone. When we sing music that learn how in the shower sing together there something that lets us harmonize one or is with the other. Notice, this text is about a king who had gotten himself fired by God. I Samuel 15: 23, we read of Saul, "Because you have the word of the king." rejected Lord, He has rejected you Saul had gotten to the longer relied or depended on place that he no God. His was so puffed up with pride that it had him trusting self and thinking he had everything under 2 as in control. So God gave orders to His prophet Samuel to go down to Jesse of Bethlehem's house and anoint place one of Saul. It is indeed fires His anointed in his of his place. one a sons But that's what get too big for our britches. in the day when God somebody else sad and puts king happens when we ought not ever We get to the place that we think we can get along without God. When Samuel got to Jesse's tall, impressive looking older have anointed him house, he son. king but the He would oil from his hom refused to flow. God reminded His "Look not height on his countenance, of his stature; saw a prophet, or on the because, I have refused 3 him: for the Lord seeth not man as man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart." Even was lot seeth; for Samuel, a man deceived by us (I with much physical because of physical appearance. by the nature of the makes one and will lips, hair, good. soon not what we A whole chew You be and standards of the world's fashions. It's not the the size of the we can pick your friends associates and mate 7) spiritual insight, appearance. have bitten off more than careful when you Samuel 16: shape of the nose, the color of the eyes, the or the shade of the skin that Outward beauty be gone. What see on is fleeting really matters the outside but what 4 we is discover in the heart. The book of Romans helps us with this when we learn to not be conformed to this world the outside but to be transformed the inside. by the renewing brought in, somebody else. seen all of the was (I care ruddy, of the Samuel 16: 12) a sheep. and withal of goodly The Bible a to look God told Samuel to get up and anoint him for he king. that Jesse said yes but he is just beautiful countenance, and to." sons they fetched this shepherd boy, says, "He on Samuel said you must have child, young and taking When of our minds (12: 2) After Samuel has Jesse on was the one to be made "Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and 5 brethren; anointed him in the midst of his and the spirit from that of the Lord upon David came day forward." (I Samuel 16: 13) There is power in music. The sad thing is that Saul didn't really know Lord departed was it. "But the from Saul, 14) That is a sad Spirit of the and from the Lord troubled him." position to be fired and an (I evil spirit Samuel 16: in. David was in trouble in Psalm 51 because he had lost the joy of his an evil salvation but spirit. Everything Saul couldn't suspicious, little image being thing, was endlessly, troubled 6 by seemed to go wrong. sleep, was restless, worried invaded on was fretted over every every hand. He didn't know what to do. His servants they find good musician, a who would play music as a suggested cunning harpist, medicine for the soul. Saul like the idea and ordered his servants to find such One of the servants a man. "Behold, I have seen a son said, of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and prud-ent in matters, and the Lord is with him." a a man greatly and comely person, (I Samuel sent to Jesse's house and David Saul of war, and 16: came 18) Saul and loved and became his armour-bearer. There is power in music. "And it from God came was to pass, when the evil upon spirit Saul, that David took 7 an harp, and played with refreshed, and departed was his hand: so Saul was well, and the evil spirt from him." (I Samuel 16; 23) Music has power. Music may not conquer the devil but it will drown out his sounds. Music will shut up the that avenues bring sadness to the mind. Music will re-pave the streets to joy. Music will draw 1 never His voice us back to God. heard of Jesus was like Savior 1 know sang resurrection Mine! Victory Is and maybe mine, but if He had been singing on singing, one song He would have morning: "Victory is Mine!" 8 a |
