My Weapon is a Melody

The Lord has been revealing the power there is in a song. There is so much power in the words we speak and the things we declare with our mouths. The things we say can either bring life or death. Words are never empty. I have found they often cause very tangible things to happen in both the physical and spiritual realm.

           

           “A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.” (Proverbs 15:4)

I have loved listening to the song Raise A Hallelujah by Bethel because each line declares the power of what it looks like to sing and praise amidst the most difficult trials in life. I will praise in the presence of my enemies. I will praise louder than my unbelief. I will praise in the middle of the storm. I will praise, I will worship because He is worthy. He is worthy of the song I sing and the breath in my lungs.

I have been finding so much freedom and joy in singing simple songs to the Lord. I may be walking around the kitchen singing the precious name of Jesus over and over. I may be singing a prayer to the Lord when I really need His help with something. I may be squealing Hallelujahs after I get to do something I love or am just delighting in how good God really is. I may be belting out my new favorite worship song at the top of my lungs. Worship has taken different forms, but I have found these simple prayers and praises that are sung out loud are having a true and profound effect in my life and in my spirit. I have experienced the fruit of it. After I have spent time singing to the Lord, I can feel my unbelief in a hopeless situation start to fade. I can feel the irritation or frustration start to diminish in my heart as I sing my heart out to Him. I can feel faith start to arise, joy start to bloom, and my spirit begin to awaken to what He is doing in my life.

“Every time I worship, I am deeply impacted. The Holy Spirit empowers me to see Jesus as He truly is, and when I see Him, I am changed. As I worship Jesus, He empowers me to grow, to love others well, and to minister in His power.”  {Global Awakening}

When we sing to Him, about Him, or with Him, we are joined with Him in a deep way. And when we are joined with Him, “the poverty of our personal identity is lost in the fullness of His greatness” (Bob Sorge, Secrets of the Secret Place).

When we sing, we get to declare “yes and amen” to the promises He has declared over our lives. When we sing, we get to loosen the grips of the enemy and dance upon the disappointments we have walked through. Our song is a spiritual WEAPON!!! It is a weapon that helps us fight against the power of darkness and invites the power of light in our lives.

You may at times feel like you don’t know what to sing. You may feel like you don’t have a song in your heart or a tune in your mind to sing. This is actually the best place to be because it opens up the opportunity for you to sing in the spirit. You can allow yourself to bypass your mind and open up your spirit to what it needs to sing. Your spirit knows more of what you need than your mind does. When you allow the Holy Spirit to invade your spirit, He is able to minister to you in ways you did not consciously know you needed. You are able to allow your spirit to realign with God’s spirit through song. I think this is what Ephesians 5:19-20 is talking about when it says, “Instead be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Don’t be afraid to sing your way back to His arms.

The melody that comes from YOUR heart is unlike anyone else, and the Lord wants to hear the song you can sing. It’s about giving God the honor He deserves and using the weapon He has given you to put the enemy in his place. As I was writing this post, I felt the Lord wanted me to speak to someone specific. I felt He was saying there was someone who really needs to know their voice has power. I also felt like the power in this person’s life was going to be released when they let go of pride or insecurity about their voice and sing their heart out. We can sing in different volumes depending on the circumstance, but for this person I really felt like there is going to be a new level of power released when you open up your mouth and sing LOUDER than you ever have before. There is going to be freedom released not only over your life as you sing, but over the lives of the people around you too. So I pray for whoever this word is for and I pray they would know the Lord is speaking to them. I pray they that they would have the courage to SING LOUDER. Louder than they ever have before because you can be undignified before the Lord. No joke. This could change your life so just try it.

{Even Louder by The Church Will Sing}

When I lift my voice

Heaven comes to earth

When I sing this song

I feel you respond

…

Even when my eyes can’t see

I will sing till I believe it

Even louder, even louder

Sing until you believe it.

I want to challenge each of you to SING MORE. A melody is a weapon we can use to bring the Kingdom of God to this earth. David, a man after God’s own heart, was a worshipper. He sang his heart songs to God all the time and the Lord was so pleased with him. If you need more proof that our melody is a weapon, read 1 Samuel 16:14-23. It tells the story of Saul and how there was an evil spirit that continually tormented him, but when David would sing and play his instruments, the evil spirit would leave.

“Whenever God’s spirit came to Saul, David took the lyre and strummed a tune. Saul got 

relief from his terror and felt better, and the evil spirit left him.”

Like woahhh. The music we make has the ability to drive evil spirits out of us, our homes, and our work places. Think about it. It is very hard to be worried when you are singing about the goodness of God. It is very hard to think about the shame you feel when you are praising the King for who He is. It is very hard to be tempted by the sin you keep falling into when you are singing in the power of the Holy Spirit. So sing, sing, sing. If you need relief, faith, joy, or freedom, you know the weapon you need to pull out of your back pocket. Your weapon is a melody. He is going to do immeasurably more than you could ask or imagine with the song your heart sings to Him.

❤ Melissa