Singing the Scriptures


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Unique, Powerful Way All Believers Can Experience Breakthrough In the Bible, Moses sang. Miriam sang. So did Deborah, David, Mary, Paul, the angels, and so many more. The Israelites went to war singing; they sang over victories, over happy moments and hard moments. They knew something we've lost sight of: When we learn to sing God's words back to Him, we align the deepest spaces of our hearts with the deepest places of His--and we experience breakthrough. So why do we relegate singing the Word to just worship teams? Julie Meyer, a Dove-nominated artist and worship leader, has been teaching all believers how to do just this. She shows that you don't need to know how to read music or even sing in tune. All you need is Scripture and a willingness to engage God in song. As you do, you will see heartache turn into hope, despair into destiny, fear into fearlessness. You stand on the Word, pray it, and even memorize it. Now it's time to sing it.




Spirit Singing


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A GUIDE TO FINDING THE POWER OF YOUR VOICE Release Stress Naturally Enhance Creativity Experience Ecstatic Self-Expression Composer and sound healer Shawna Carol has taught thousands of students SpiritSong, her unique singing method. In this practical and supportive book, she shares her wisdom and experience - illuminating a sure path to connecting with the joy and the power of singing. Whether you are new to singing, or have long experience, this book opens pathways to new dimensions of the power of song. It includes a step-by-step guide to a personal SpiritSong practice that is healing, creativity enhancing, and a practice for spiritual awakening. Ms. Carol brings her grounded, compassionate, and humorous approach to overcoming the inner critic, releasing trauma, and gifting yourself with the joy of Spirit. As a composer, whose music has been performed around the world, she shows the way to open the creative flow, remove obstacles, and bring forth the songs and the music within you. From her long experience, Ms. Carol gives you the nitty-gritty, real-world information you need to create SpiritSong circles and connect with others in extremely powerful and transformative group practice. She details the safety concerns, shows you how to avoid the potential pitfalls, and provides examples to lead you quickly and surely to success. The book is also a companion and guide, showing how these practices can lead to shamanic experiences of other dimensions for those who are so inclined. It includes helpful advice received by Ms. Carol in such journeys. Distilling a lifetime of experience and wisdom, this book is an invaluable companion to all those who walk the path of song.




Praying in the Spirit


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Is having a prayer language scriptural today? If it s a legitimate gift from God, should I actually ask Him for it? Praying in the Spirit is a book on the New Testament gift of glossolalia.Robert W. Graves shows the uses of prayer language in devotions, intercession, praise, and worship. Through biblical teaching and straightforward...




Growing As a Prophetic Singer


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Growing as a Prophetic Singer addresses practical issues of the heart and offers instruction on how to grow vocally and how to develop in the Word. This informative, and approachable resource is for any singer or worship leader who is involved, or who desires to be involved, with a house of prayer or a church worship team.




Your Singing Voice


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(Berklee Guide). Connect to your authentic singing voice with this holistic guide to a healthy and expressive singing life. This collection of technical discussions, exercises, and insights will help you improve all aspects of using your voice from healthy sound production to exercises for greater vocal facility to guidance on rehearsing with your band. Interviews with Patty Austin, Ysaye Barnwell, and others lend their perspectives to singing, the mind-body connection, and a natural/wellness focused approach to musicianship. The accompanying online audio supports the practice exercises and approaches to learning new songs.




Singing in the Spirit


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When the Spirit Says Sing!


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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, such songs as "We Shall Overcome," "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize," and "Do What the Spirit Says Do" were sung at virtually every mass meeting, demonstration, and planning session of Civil Rights activists. They were sung on the Freedom Rides, during the marches, and in jail cells of the South. Movement activists have commented frequently and eloquently on the ways that singing and songs gave them strength and a sense of self. This study offers a close analysis of the lyrics of the songs most central to the Civil Rights Movement, with an eye to understanding the songs as self-persuasion. In the songs, the activists defined themselves and their world, and reinforced a plan of action for their participation in the Movement. This analysis of the freedom songs is set in the context of Movement history and supported with commentary from activists and background information on Movement activities. In addition, this study offers readers insights into the moving and inspiring power of the freedom songs.




True Worshipers


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Everyone worships. But Jesus tells us that God is seeking a particular kind of worshiper. In True Worshipers, a seasoned pastor and musician guides readers toward a more engaging, transformative, and biblically faithful understanding of the worship God is seeking. True worship is an activity rooted in the grace of the gospel that affects every area of our lives. And while worship is more than just singing, God’s people gathering in his presence to lift their voices in song is an activity that is biblically based, historically rooted, and potentially life-changing. Thoroughly based in Scripture and filled with practical guidance, this book connects Sunday worship to the rest of our lives—helping us live as true worshipers each and every day.




Singing Yoruba Christianity


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Singing the same song is a central part of the worship practice for members for the Cherubim and Seraphim Christian Church in Lagos, Nigeria. Vicki L. Brennan reveals that by singing together, church members create one spiritual mind and become unified around a shared set of values. She follows parishioners as they attend choir rehearsals, use musical media—hymn books and cassette tapes—and perform the music and rituals that connect them through religious experience. Brennan asserts that church members believe that singing together makes them part of a larger imagined social collective, one that allows them to achieve health, joy, happiness, wealth, and success in an ethical way. Brennan discovers how this particular Yoruba church articulates and embodies the moral attitudes necessary to be a good Christian in Nigeria today.




Come, Let Us Sing


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