an you imagine what life would be like without music? Have you ever thought about that? You see, life without music would be like life without color, because music is to listening and sound, as color is to sight.

Music Brings Things to Life

I remember the days when they first brought out TV and it was only in black and white. Man, we were so excited to go and watch things on TV, and we didn’t even notice that it was just black and white until that first day I saw it in color. I just could not believe it was the same picture. I could not believe it was the same movies I had been watching before in black and white. There was a whole new dimension to it. The thing came to life. It was no longer just a picture on a screen, it was like I was really there, like I could really see the person.

Music is like that. We have sounds, we have speech, we have talk, we have noises all around us. But when you add music to that noise it adds a new depth and a new dimension to the world around about you. Music is a very, very powerful force, and in these modern days we can see how powerful music is, because the music industry is one of the biggest industries that is going at the moment.

Can you imagine what would happen to the youth if right now we were to take away all of their stereo cassette players and sound systems, and ban the recording of music and singing groups? Can you imagine life amongst young people without music? Can you imagine life amongst us older people without music? It would be a horrible, horrible existence.

Music is at the very fiber of our being. And in this message I am going to try and show you from the Word and from general observations that I have made, and you will understand just why music is so important to us. So I am just going to start an introduction to this subject here so we can get into how important music is in the prophetic ministry. We will not get into looking at praise and worship and psalmody. It is such a big subject I originally allowed just one message for it, but I can see it is going to be at least two.

So here I am just going to look at music. We are not going to be going much further than music and singing, let alone getting into actual praise and worship and psalmody. So, let’s just see how it goes.

Music Adds Power

Music has a power. Have you noticed that music is used in advertising to make you buy the product? Have you ever tried to watch a movie that does not have a musical background sound track? Have you ever tried that? I know in South Africa where we came from they used to often buy movies from all over the world, particularly when things became tight and you could not get a lot of stuff, because the country was being sanctioned politically. So they would buy all the junk that they could get from all over the world. And you would sometimes get these horrible movies. The acting was okay. The people spoke clearly, but there was no musical background.

You know what it is like when the guy crawls up with that intense moment of suspense and there is no music that goes (tada, tada, tada!)? It just takes the power all away from it. You do not realize how important music is. You don’t even notice the music when you watch a movie. We will look at that more just now.

Music Has Power Over Creation

Music has power over the creation. Have you ever seen the picture of the snake charmer sitting with his flute and the snake is swaying around? There is this great big deadly cobra and he is dancing to the music. Well they say it is not the music, because the snake is deaf and it really just watches the piper as he waves his pipe. I don’t know. I think there is a power there that they do not realize. There is a power there that makes a deaf snake respond to music.

How does that work? I don’t know. But music has power over creation. People have always known that. That is why you have the old story of the Pied Piper, hey? The guy with the flute who charmed all the rats out of town. When they would not pay him his money he went and took all the kids away. You know the story, a legend.

There is power in music. There is a very great, and terrific power in music. It is there and we cannot deny its existence, because experience proves to us that it is there. But why?

Music and Happiness Synonymous

Music and happiness go together. When you are feeling happy; when you are feeling unwound; when you are feeling free of care, you start to sing. And when a guy has had a few drinks and the alcohol starts to take effect and he starts to lose his inhibitions, he starts to sing. You have heard of the old singing drunk. Why? Because singing and music tend to go together with that feeling of contentment, of joy, and of peace.

Have you ever sung in the bath? Come on, of course you have. You see, you are relaxed there in the beautiful warm water and you are feeling like just letting go of the cares of the day, and are feeling wonderful and relaxed. You feel like you could just lie there all night, and you just burst out in song. And that small bathroom makes you sound like one of these great opera singers. So you let rip. It is amazing how good you sound, until you get out of the bath and come into a normal room, and your voice sounds all flat again. Man, I just wish I could live in a bathroom all the time so I could sing that way, don’t you?

You see, singing is an expression of the heart. It has a terrific power to lift your spirit, to lift your soul, and to stir your emotions. Music also holds the key to releasing God’s power into the earth. That is what I want us to deal with here.

The Start of Music

Where did music come from? When did it start? Was it invented by the Beatles or one of the early guys like Frank Sinatra or Bing Crosby? When did it start? How far back do we have to go in history to find out when the musical instrument was made, when music first began, and when songs were first created? Well, the Bible gives us a little bit of a hint.

If you turn to the book of Job in Chapter 38, God begins to speak to Job out of the whirlwind after he has gone through all his troubles and he has moaned and groaned and spouted his ideas, and his friends have spouted off their ideas. Eventually God says, "Okay now that you’ve all given your ideas, let Me give you My opinion."

He calls to Job and says, "Who do you think you are? Were you there at the beginning, Job, when I started the whole thing?" And God said to Job in Job 38:4:

Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare if you have understanding. Who has laid the measures of it if you know? Or who has stretched the line upon it? On what are the foundations of it fastened? And who laid the cornerstone of it, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.

Music the Foundation of the Earth

God laid the foundation of the earth. And He says to Job, "When I did that; when I put it all in place; when I put the cornerstone there and the foundation and I laid the earth in place, the morning stars sang together."

Who are the morning stars? What is the Morning Star? The Morning Star is that star that comes up before daybreak. It is a beautiful bright light in the sky. It is the light that comes to let you know that day is coming. It was what came forth before God created His very first thing when He said, "Let there be light."

How you have fallen from heaven, o Lucifer, son of the morning! You are cut down to the ground, who weakened the nations! For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation on the sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’

Who was this one called Lucifer, the light-bringer, the son of the morning? He was the Morning Star, that’s who he was. He was one of the leaders of that group of angels whose full time job is to sing, "Hallelujah, praise you Lord." Their full time job is to worship and sing in the presence of God. God cannot go one second without music. It is part of His nature. God does nothing without music, because music and the Spirit of God are integrally one. They are joined together.

Worship Angels

Are you beginning to see why music is so important, and what a power there is in it? The worship angels make up, I believe, a third of the angels of heaven. We read about it in Isaiah 6 where Isaiah had a vision of the Lord and he said, "I saw the Lord high and lifted up and His train filled the temple." And he saw the seraphim flying with three pairs of wings. They were singing and they were crying out and worshipping in the presence of a holy God.

If you read the book of Revelation, you will see the songs that are being sung continuously at the Throne of God and in His presence. There are angels worshipping and singing all the time in the presence of God in the heavenly realm. That is why God inhabits the praises of His people. God lives in music. And when God made man and imparted of His own Spirit into man, He did it in the presence of music. When God took the power of Spirit and caused Spirit to make matter, He did it in the presence of music.

Sounds of Creation

I want to tell you something. God built music into nature. Do you want to hear the music of nature? Just be quiet a moment and listen. We live not far from the sea here. We are just four houses down. And every night if we lie with the windows open we can hear music. We can hear the waves crashing on the beach. They are making rhythmic noises and sounds. It is the music of the creation.

We also live in a place where the wind blows most of the year. There is a sea breeze. And as the sun comes up and as it begins to rise in the sky and the earth begins to heat up, there comes a draft that takes place off the sea that comes over the earth, and the wind begins to blow. And if you listen carefully you will hear it blowing through the trees. You will hear it whistling through anything that stands in its path.

You will hear the music of creation. You will hear the sound of movement. You will hear the sound of the trees brushing in the wind. You will hear the sound of the trees brushing against the roof and against the wall. You will hear the sound of the gate swinging open. You will hear the sound of things moving, and where they move rhythmically you will hear music. You will hear a motor car going down the road (brrrrr). It is pretty primitive, but it is music.

Then if you have as many dogs and cats and things as we have, you will hear another kind of music. I do not really like that music. You know, there are certain kinds of music that I just cannot stand. One of them is (woof, woof, woof). I just don’t like that tune, but hey, it is music. It is rhythmic. And each of them sings their own tune. You will have the one sitting down the road there, at 12:00 at night or 1:00 in the morning and he will be sitting there going (1-2-3, 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4-5, 1, 1-2, 1-2-3-4). And you want to get up and take a stone and tell him to stop singing! But it is music. God made them that way. It is the music of creation.

Instruments Based on Creation

As we look at the different kinds of musical instruments that are made, you will find they are all based on the creation. There are wind instruments that are designed to take the movement of air, of wind, and to cause it to make a sound and convert it into music.

There are stringed instruments, like the guitars that we play all the time, where you pluck a string and the string begins to vibrate and it begins to make music.

There are reed instruments, where little pieces vibrate together against each other to make a sound. Some of the insects have that naturally, like that noisy little cricket that beeps and beeps in the middle of the night also to keep you awake. He is just playing a little tune on his drums there, having a good time of worship to the Lord! I wish he wouldn’t do it at such awkward times, but he does. He is causing vibration to take place.

We have percussion instruments like the drums and cymbals. And do you know that just about everything that is made has music? You can take anything you like, and whatever you do, hit it, smack it, blow on it, do something with it – it is going to end up making music. Music is built into the creation. There is not a thing that is made that does not have music built into it.

Music in Everything

Of course God has given music to us in our vocal cords, to be able to create sounds; beautiful sounds for some people, but for some of us that do not have such good vocal cords, not such beautiful sounds! But we can make a joyful noise to the Lord. It is music. Thank goodness the Lord is tone deaf. He would have a real problem with my singing I think.

We have the ability to make music. It is built into the creation. And you know, I believe that a coloratura soprano, who reaches extremely high notes, can actually make a glass break just from her singing. Why? Because she sings a note that is high enough to actually reach the frequency that is built into glass. That glass has music built into it! Every object has potential music.

You say, "But I can’t sing."

You have music in you; everyone, everything that is built and made. Why? Because when God said, "Let there be …" the morning stars were singing. There was music. There was music in the air. Whenever God moves there is music in the air. And if you want to see God move in greater power than ever, put some music in the air. God operates in and through music.

Resonance

Let’s look at a couple of scientific things here shall we? What is music exactly and how does it work? We have something that, in science is called resonance. What is resonance? Resonance is the ability to get the maximum capability out of something. So if you take a bottle, for example, and you blow on it, it begins to vibrate and it begins to whistle. It whistles at a frequency that is known as the resonant frequency. And at that frequency is makes a lot of noise.

Now, if you were to take something like a tuning fork that you can hit and make a noise with, you can get it to vibrate at the exact same frequency as that bottle. I know this. This was my science practical at School. I will never forget this one. I ended up with the worst one. I arrived there late and everybody had taken the best ones. My job was to take a couple of tuning forks and a bottle of water and work out the formula that says that when there is a certain volume in the bottle, the tuning fork is going to reach its loudest pitch. So you had to hit this tuning fork and hold it over the bottle and pour water in until the tuning fork grew the loudest and hit its resonant frequency.

Singers use resonance all the time. What they do is they change the shape of their throat to make sure that the sound that is being created by their vocal cords vibrates in the cavity that is in their throat. It vibrates at the resonant frequency, creating maximum volume and maximum power.

Spiritual Resonance Needed

So why am I speaking about resonance here? The reason is because we need to find out how to get ourselves in tune to the point where we can release the maximum power from our spirits through music. We need to learn how to obtain spiritual resonance. And we need to do that by coming to the place where our spirit and soul and body are all vibrating at the same frequency.

Now you are not going to do that by walking in the flesh. You are not going to do that when your body is vibrating at a different frequency. Just put a bunch of people together who cannot sing, and get them all to sing in harmony. Oh man, it is a cacophony. It is a noise. But take two voices that blend together in harmony and you start to get a beautiful sound, which begins to come out.

You see, God has built us with music in us. We have music in our bodies. We have music in our souls, and we have music in our spirits. And if we can get those to flow in the same key, at the same resonant frequency, in perfect harmony with each other, what is going to happen is we are going to get a perfect vibration, a perfect flow. So just as you take that tuning fork and stick it on top of the bottle, what happens is the air in the bottle begins to vibrate with the tuning fork at the same frequency. And when it does that the power is highly amplified.

Singing Lesson

That is how a singer does it. And if you want to find out if you are getting resonance when you sing (I will just add this for your interest. I know all about this, it does not come naturally), take yourself a candle and hold it in front of your mouth while you sing. If you blow the candle out, you do not have resonance. You are blowing air.

When you have resonance all you need is a light application of the vocal cords and the air coming through your vocal cords, to cause maximum resonance in your throat. When you do that all the air is taken up with making the music and there is none left over. Your candle will not blow out. You can hold the candle right in front of your mouth and it will not go out if you are singing right. If you blow the candle out you are not singing right. There is a singing lesson thrown in the middle for you as well!

Now how much spiritual power are you wasting?

You say, "I wish God would use me. I wish I could really release the anointing. I wish I could flow in the Spirit."

You have the power. You have the music in your spirits. But you do not know how to release it in resonance. You do not know how to release it to flow together with your spirit, your soul and your body all going together. You can learn to do that, and Lord willing, as we continue with this I am going to show you how to do that. So this message is just a buildup, a carrot if you like, to make you want to read the next one. It is a good preaching trick.

Musical Frequencies

Music has frequencies. What is a frequency? It is the speed of vibration. The low frequencies are the lower sounds; the high frequencies are the higher sounds. The human ear can only hear a certain range of frequencies. The human voice can only sing a certain range of frequencies. And depending on what kind of singer you are, your range of frequencies is limited. Mine are limited to mostly the lower notes. They are the only ones that have reasonable quality. When I get to the higher ones I sound like I am screeching like an owl!

Some people do not have a problem. They can just open their mouths and they can go from low to high without a problem, with perfect sound, perfect quality. I am not one of them unfortunately. Actually a lot of singers are not either. But nevertheless, in spite of the range of the human vocal cords, there is a limit to the range of our hearing. We can only hear down to a certain frequency and only up to a certain frequency. There is a frequency range that we can hear.

Animals Have Higher Frequency

Animals do not have the same frequency range. Animals can hear sounds that are far higher than what the human ear can hear. I am sure you have heard of the dog whistle. What is a dog whistle? It is a whistle where when you blow on it, nothing comes out. Well, so you think. But when you blow on the whistle, the dog can hear. The dog can hear the whistle blowing, but you cannot hear it. It is a very useful thing if you do not want to make a noise and call your dogs, and you do not want to wake the neighbors. Why is that? Because dog’s ears can detect a greater frequency range. They can hear higher sounding notes.

Spiritual Dog Frequency

Can you imagine what would happen if you could become a dog? Now I am not speaking about getting a sudden fancy for the fire hydrant. I am talking about getting a greater range of frequency to hear. What is going to happen is you are going to hear things that you do not normally hear. Have you not noticed that you will be sitting and you do not hear a thing, and suddenly the dog’s ears will prick up, and it will suddenly bark? It will start to look. Something is up. And off it goes to go and bark at something. And you think, "What is this dog barking at? I didn’t hear a thing." He heard something that you did not hear. He has a greater frequency range in his hearing.

So why am I talking about frequencies? I tell you why, because music is a spiritual thing. There is music in your spirit. Your spirit can put out a frequency that cannot be heard by the human ear. Your spirit can put out a frequency that requires dog ears; well not dog ears, but spiritual dog ears. In other words, you need to be able to hear in the Spirit, to be able to hear the frequency that is coming out.

Releasing Anointing in Music

So what happens when a person begins to release the anointing through music? They may be melodious. They may be not so melodious. They may sing like a great famous public singer, or they may sing like me. But what is going to make the difference when it comes to the anointing of God is not going to be the frequencies that you hear with your human ear. It is going to be that extra frequency that goes outside of the hearing range of the human ear. It is going to be the frequency that I call the anointing.

You need to be able to hear that new frequency. You need to develop your spiritual hearing to be able to hear the frequency of the music of anointing. If you are able to develop that, you will be able to hear things when people sing that other people do not hear.

Tune to the Frequency

I remember hearing once, I don’t remember the exact details, but it went something like this. This guy said that he was in a meeting and a couple of people stood up to give a duet. They stood up with a box guitar and began to sing the duet. There were two of them trying to sing in harmony. They were out of key and the guitar was out of tune. They could not harmonize. The one kept going off. It was awful. It was horrible. He wanted to put his fingers in his ears and say, "Get them out of there. Take them away. They’re breaking the meeting."

God spoke to Him and said, "You be quiet. Just you be quiet! They are making beautiful music for Me, not for you."

He did not have his ear tuned to hear that other frequency. And if you are going to benefit from the power that is released from the anointing of God, that is released through this agency of music and singing, you are going to have to learn, prophet of God, to develop an ear for the anointing of God. You are going to have to develop an ear that when somebody opens their mouth to sing, you don’t say, "I don’t like that style of music. I’m not into reggae."

"I hate rap."

"Oh, metal music just stirs me up and makes me angry!"

"Country music makes me want to get ill."

"Mariachi music? Oh no, not again."

You are going to be hearing a lot more than that. You are going to be hearing that extra note that is coming way above the rest. You are going to have your ear tuned, and will hear a beautiful, beautiful sound coming out there. You are going to say, "Wow, what singing. Wow, what music. It is beautiful. It’s bringing me into the presence of the Lord."

Most People Do Not Have It

Most people do not have an ear for that, let me tell you. Most people have never learned; they have never been taught. I am going to show you shortly why most people have never learned to pick it up.

You say, "That’s not true. When I listen to certain music and certain singers I feel stirred up in my spirit. I get close to the Lord."

Maybe you do. But it does not mean that you are hearing the anointing or sensing it. I am not going to jump the gun. We will be getting to that shortly.

Speech Versus Music

What is the difference between speech and music? When a person speaks they are just talking. Now I speak for sometimes periods of an hour, or if I really push it 90 minutes. I don’t know how some folks bear it. But speech is not music, unless you really like the preacher and you say, "His preaching is like music to my ears."

Music Flows

But how about if I sing my message? You would think I am nuts. Maybe. I might be anointed, I do not know. You see, music and speech are not the same. And yet they can be the same. They come from the same source. But what is it that makes music different from normal sounds and speech? It is harmony; a beautiful sound rather than discord. When a person speaks; when several people are speaking together in a group, there is noise. It is not music, it is noise. For something to be music it needs to flow in harmony, and usually it needs to flow at one level of volume, not getting loud and soft like me. When I get excited I start to shout, and when I feel the anointing I quieten down and get very spiritual.

Music is Orderly

But you see, music flows. It flows like a river. Music has scales. Who made those up? Where did that come from? Who said that music notes are A B C D E F G A B C? Those things were created by man. But yet, what they did is they discovered something that God built in there, that music works to specific rules and to specific patterns. Music is a pattern. It is not just a sound, but it is a particular flow of sound that follows patterns. It follows an order, just as God made the creation to be a creation of order. The planets fly around each other in order. They gather together in galaxies in order. The whole creation is one of order.

And when a person begins to hear music they begin to become part of that order. We are getting back again to the idea of spirit and soul and body flowing together in order. In which order? In the order that God created us to flow in; in the order that our spirit is to be in control. Our spirit is to pour forth an influence to the soul, and the soul is to pour the influence through to the body. And so a flow begins to take place. If you want that flow to take place you can do it with music.

Music Changes Emotions

Music has a power to change the way we feel. It has the power to motivate us to different kinds of action. Now I am not even talking about spiritual music. Nor am I talking about worship or singing under the anointing. I am talking about any old musician out there that can do this. Hollywood are doing this all the time. You can change the mood of a person and you can make them do something, by exposing them to the right kind of music.

Happy Music

Happy music; music that is filled with celebration, creates a feeling of euphoria and joy. Oh yeah, good old lively music! I feel good. If you put that kind of music on you cannot stay sad. If you want to be sad you have to switch it off, because you want to wallow a bit.

"Just switch that music off man, I don’t feel like being happy now!"

Have you ever tried singing while you are sad? Have you ever tried singing while you are depressed? You cannot do it. They do not agree with each other. They work against each other. But you can take music and play it to somebody and make them happy. If you are feeling down all you need to do is to put on some lively music. It doesn’t even have to be Christian music. It just has to be the right kind of tempo of music, and what is going to happen is it is going to change your feelings.

The Blues

Not everybody wants to be happy all the time so people have created other kinds of music. We have mournful music. We have ‘singing the blues’. Oh, you want to moan and groan, you want to wallow, you want to cry. You want to say what a horrible world it is and you want to sing the blues. Good old mournful music, full of minors.

Country Music

Then you have country music. Oh dear, country music. I think they want country music to be happy, but it is always singing hard luck stories about the love that you lost, and how somebody else took her away, and she does not want to come back anymore. At least, most of the country music that I have heard does that. Sorry you country music fans, it is just not one of my favorite kinds of music. It makes me feel miserable. Some people like feeling miserable. They like wallowing. Maybe that is your thing. You see, the music is going to put you in the kind of mood that you want to be in.

Romantic Music

Then you get romantic music; music that stirs the emotions; music that stirs the passions. You know you have this typical scene that they try and portray in Hollywood, where the guy softens the lights and it dims, and he begins to put on this beautiful soothing music in the background so that he can create the right kind of romantic environment and atmosphere.

You know something? It works. Come on you married couples that are not getting on so well, when is the last time you sat down by candlelight and put on some beautiful soft, soothing music? It works. Candlelight has that power to bring you closer to the person. I tried to figure out once why it does that, and I came to the conclusion that in candlelight you do not see the person very clearly and you can imagine they are somebody else. Well, this is just my theory. It has that power though doesn’t it? It softens.

Hollywood do that. If they want to create a romantic scene they soften the picture. They put a filter in to make it all fuzzy and blurry, and they put the right kind of music in, and you start falling in love with the person on the movie. You cannot help it. It has a power. The power is there. Listen, they did not create it. They just discovered what God created.

Satan a Master Musician

God made music to have that kind of power. God created music, not the Devil. But I want to tell you something, he was the son of the morning. He was the Archangel in charge of the worship angels. His job was to lead worship in heaven. I want to tell you, Lucifer is a master musician. Lucifer, Satan, knows the power of music better than most Christians. He has taken that power and has put it in the world, and he is preaching his gospel to the young people of our society. And he is using music to do it.

You say, "But it’s horrible, this heavy metal music. This vile stuff that my kids are getting into."

The Spirit Behind the Music

Listen, it is not the music. It is the spirit behind the music. Some people have used the soft romantic music to seduce women.

"What horrible music, it’s used for seduction. It is devilish."

That is the way they felt about the early popular music. No, it is not the music. And in spite of the fact that there are certain kinds of music that I do not like, God can use any kind of music. Let’s get that right. It is not the music. It is not a case of the fact that the young person is listening to a certain kind of music that they are being influenced the wrong way. It is the spirit behind the music. It is the power that is being released through that music by the people that are singing it.

And if God’s people will rise up they can take that same music and put the power of God into it and add that extra frequency, and they can send forth the anointing power of God using the exact same tool that Satan has used to destroy. They can use the exact same tool to build up and to heal. There is power in it.

Anointed Drummer

I know of a person who had a tremendous ministry as a drummer. He used to play drum solos and the anointing of God would come down. I heard him play once. He just sat down there and he said, "Okay, just close your eyes and concentrate on the Lord," and he began to worship. He began to play his drums. And man, as he began to play his drums the anointing of God began to fall, the power of God came down, and people started to experience God’s Spirit on them. People began to get healed.

I believe at one time somebody came to him who was deaf, and he opened the front of his drum and he said, "Stick your ear in there." And he hit his bass drum as hard as he could! The ear popped open instantly. I guess it had no choice.

Battle Music

It is not the instrument. It is the anointing that goes with it. But you see, we can take that power of music. We have battle music; battle music that stirs one’s anger and stirs to action, that stirs you to want to go out and conquer. It is that rhythmic military music that makes you want to start marching. It makes you want to take up a gun and start shooting. It is music.

"It’s evil music, it’s awful."

No, it is music. It is something God created. That music can be used to stir you up to come against the powers of darkness. We need to know how to use what God has created, instead of just throwing it away because the world and Satan have used it wrongly.

Music in Our Bodies

Why does music affect us so strongly? Because music is built into creation, and because we are part of creation. You will notice that music is based on the very functions that God has built into our bodies. Our bodies are making music. They are making rhythm all the time. Just be quiet and listen to yourself and you will hear yourself breathing. That is music. Get yourself a stethoscope and listen to your heart (boom boom boom). You have built in drums. You are making music. If you have a digestive system like mine you hear a sound in your stomach and you have something worse than heavy metal!

Now you know where heavy metal comes from. They just took a whole pile of body sounds and mixed it together. Well, is that so far fetched? No it is not. I will tell you why. Because when a baby is in the womb it hears the sound of its mother’s heartbeat. It hears the sound of its own heartbeat. It hears the sound of its mother’s breathing. It hears the sounds of digestion. It hears the noises around. Can you imagine how noisy it must be in the womb? But you know what, the womb is a picture of the best part of your life. That was when you were protected, when you were sheltered, when you were secure, when you were happy, when you didn’t have to worry about whether you have money tomorrow, because mom was just supplying it on tap. You did not have a care in the world. There was nothing to fear.

Recreating the Womb Environment

If we can get back into the womb; if we could recreate in this life the same environment that we had in the womb, we would begin to feel the same sense of security and comfort that we had when we were in the womb. Now think about it. If you can create a musical environment that duplicates the sounds of the human body, you begin to find yourself triggering. Remember that term? We will deal with it more shortly. But if you can recreate that sound, you can recreate the feeling that you had when you were in the womb.

Certain kinds of music do that. Rhythmic music can create the sound of a baby’s heartbeat. Slower music can indicate the sound of the mother’s heartbeat, the sound of the breathing, and the rhythmic sounds that take place in her body. And I tell you what, you get into music that duplicates that, and your body wants to start resonating. You put on some good fast music where the drums are going (bang, bang, bang, bang) and what happens? Your foot starts going (boom, boom, boom).

I think if you listen to your heart, your heart starts to speeden up and go with it. Your whole body wants to start going with it. Why? Music has that power. Because music was there when God created, and when music comes forth it begins to affect the creation again and again and again. Music has power over the creation, because music is a spiritual force.

Music Creates Atmosphere

Music creates atmosphere; not only bad and selfish atmosphere like Hollywood would do, or like advertisements would do, creating an environment where when you hear that tune play you think, "Oh, I must go and buy such and such a product," because you have that little jingle in your mind. It is a very clever form of advertising. But how about the music we use to bring people to the Lord? How about the songs that we use as we are about to give the appeal at the altar call, and the organ begins to play certain soft, gentle music. The choir begins to sing a song of appeal in the background.

You say, "We’re releasing the anointing."

No, not necessarily. You are just creating an atmosphere. You are creating an environment that will stir the emotions of the person and bring them to a place where they are ready to hear from God. Is that wrong? No it is not. But you are going to have to add an extra dimension to that. It is not enough to have that music. The preacher is going to have to be sending forth the anointing of God. The music, the musicians and the singers are going to have to be sending off that higher frequency towards that person, so that they can sense the power of God calling them to salvation and bringing them forward. And it is not the music that is going to bring them forward, but the power that is released through that music.

But what happens when we hear music? As I grew up, the biggest preacher of the time was Billy Graham. He is still around, the famous preacher who has won countless souls to the Lord. I have seen Billy Graham movies through the years. And as far as I can remember, every Billy Graham movie ends; every single meeting of his ends after he has preached, and when he gives his gospel appeal the choir begin to sing:

Just as I am without one plea,

But that Thy blood was shed for me,

And that Thou bidst me come to Thee,

Oh Lamb of God I come, I come.

Musical Templates

Let me tell you something, when I hear that song sung I want to get up and go and get saved again. I cannot help it. If I hear this song I think, "Lord, can’t I just go forward and get saved again, please?" Why? Because I am a sinner? Because I am under conviction? Because the Holy Ghost is telling me my life is not right and I must go forward?

No. What has happened is in those early times when I was experiencing that conviction; when I was under that move of God and I heard that song, the Spirit of God tugged at my heart as it was sung. And I wanted to go forward and give my life to the Lord. What happened is a template was formed. And every time I hear that music now I get a trigger in my spirit that says, "Oh, it felt so good. It felt so good to go forward and give my life to the Lord. I feel like doing it again."

Why do you suppose that in a lot of churches the same people go forward every week to go and get saved again? Well, a lot of the time it is just to go and get blessed again. Why? Because they are sitting in the meeting feeling dry and empty, and that same song that the choir always sings at the end, they begin to sing. They sense a stirring and a feeling taking place within them. They begin to sense a tug and they say, "Oh, I remember how good it felt." They want to go forward and get that feeling again.

Usually that is all they get; the same feeling again. It is just a feeling. It is not the true anointing. God does not touch them; their lives are not changed. That is why they are back next week again, and the week after again. They never change. It is purely an emotional thing.

It Reminds of the Past

When are our templates formed? Our templates are formed in the birth, pre-birth, in childhood and in adolescence, as we covered before. And when is it that a person really gets an interest in music? In adolescence.

Have you ever noticed, they are playing old songs on the radio and they put a certain song on that came out way back there in 19 whatever? You have not heard the song in years. And they put this old song on the radio and they begin to play it. The music begins to come forth and suddenly you get all choked up. Why? It takes you back to that era in your life. It takes you back to that exact period that you were in. It begins to trigger in you the exact same emotions you had at that time.

And if that song happened to be associated with a certain romance that was going on in your life at that time, you begin to get all stirred up and all mushy again in love. You think about that guy you were going out with or that woman you were going out with at that time. And you get all melancholic about it, just because one little song came on the radio. Why? Because music has that power. And music, because it is spiritual, gets linked into that template and it has the power to pull that thing out and to trigger those same feelings in you again.

A Reminder of My Youth

Fairly recently, as we began to spend a lot of time in worship and we ran out of songs to sing, I began to sing a lot of songs which nobody here had heard before, because they came from way back. I grew up in the old Pentecostal days when we still used the Elim Chorus Book. Have you ever heard of it? Most of you probably haven’t. It was the old, old choruses that they used to sing in the early Pentecostal churches.

But you know what? During that period, the Spirit of God was moving. And even though I was young and I did not understand it, I grew up in the presence of God. And I can remember meetings and times and moments when they began to sing a chorus and the power of God began to fall, the anointing began to come down, and I began to sense the presence of God. You know the amazing thing is as I began to sing that song from way back, I began to feel the same feeling that I had back there.

You say, "Man, those must have really been anointed songs."

Actually, a lot of them were absolute garbage. I am not being facetious. A lot of them were given in total ignorance. They were building doctrines that I consider heresy. But I have seen people being filled with the Spirit while singing those songs.

You say, "Well, how can a song that is false, bring the anointing of God?"

Duplicate Musical Styles

It is because that extra frequency was added by the people that were singing it at the time. And if you as a young person listen to the kind of music that you heard during your adolescent period when those templates were being formed, I will guarantee that that is the kind of music you will always like to hear. And when you want to grab yourself some gospel music or Christian music, I will tell you what style of music you are going to go and look for. You are going to look for somebody that sings just like Elvis, if Elvis was your thing. If you were into the Bee Gees you are going to be listening for somebody that sings like them. If you liked Abba, then you just have to find that Christian group that sings like them. And if you were into Metallica, guess what you are looking for? You are looking for a Christian metal band.

"How can you have Christian metal? Metal is vile, horrible music. It’s devilish."

Yes, but when people take that music and put it in their lips and add the anointing of God, people get saved. People get healed. The power of God comes forth.

You say, "But that’s conforming to the world."

Then you had better not sing. Then you had better not use any music. Then you had better not use the stuff that Hollywood is using, because that is of the world. You see, it gets back to the same thing again. The world is using something that God created. And all we need to do is to take that power and begin to use it the right way.

One Special Sound

There are many different sounds out there; many different noises that are made. But there has to be that special sound. Paul in 1 Corinthians 14, where he is speaking about speaking in tongues says, ‘And even lifeless things making sounds like a pipe or harp, unless they give distinct notes, how shall it be known what is being piped or harped? For if the trumpet produces an indistinct sound, who will prepare himself for battle?’

Music has to be used the right way; the right kind of sound for the right kind of anointing has to go forth. Music is an integral part of the spiritual life, and because we as prophets are meant to be releasing the anointing of God and bringing the presence of God into meetings, we need to know how to use it.