It’s been an over 40-year journey dealing with music. I’ve played music in the Church for over 40 years, I’ve seen all types of things done, antics played in music in the House of God. I’ve played professionally for over 30 years for different individuals. I’ve been out in the entertainment industry, watching bright and upstanding talent come forth, watched the skills of some of the talent out there. Impeccable skills. I can only say that the gift of all these abilities that I’ve seen in young men and woman today are God given gifts. These gifts come without repentance (Romans 11:29). These individuals have the ability to sing and play because of the gift of God. Of all the times I’ve seen and heard and been around musical influence, the Lord gave to me 4 things. These I’ve observed with music that Satan does not want you to know or understand the power behind. Those 4 things that music and vibration do are:
1) Express
2) Effect
3) Expect
4) Empower
The 4 E’s, I call them!
Express
Express of expression means that what’s going on inside of you is being expressed on the outward part of you whether through music or song. So it exudes what is actually going on inside of them, then they begin to manifest it through their music or song. So you really can tell what a persons soul is being changed into by what music they listen to or play. Some individuals say they get their best inspiration from writing music or writing songs when they are unhappily or excited. Their best work has come from those types of emotion. So the music that an individual plays or sings comes from deep inside their being.
Effect
Music from musician effects individuals around them. It will cause a person to be happy, sad, confused. Music or vibration bring about an effect in the individual’s soul, body, and mind. Knowing that whatever is in the individual playing or singing will transfer from them, into the listening individuals. If you ever notice in some of the older movies, they would play certain songs that would bring a sense of melancholy, joyous expectation of a loving romance, a victorious win of a battle, or a happy outcome of a situation. It effects an individuals soul.
Expectation
Music or vibration brings a sense of expectation. If you ever notice any of the 1920’s movies/films, they weren’t talking movies. You could hear no words or songs being sung. But they always had a pianist sitting at the front of the theater, playing music with the movie as it played. I’ll never forget the famous movie when I was a kid looking at reruns of a black and white movie, about Penelope Pitstop who was about to be run over by a train and Dick Dastardly was the one who placed her on the track. The audience would yell at the screen for her to get away, then the villain would come on the scene. There was music played with a lot of base and treble at the same time. When they would show the heroine laying on the railroad track, they’d play music with a lot of treble, and hardly any base to show helplessness, expectation, showing the train coming, its smoke going up in the air. So you were in expectation questioning if the train would run over the heroine, and the villain gets away. What would be the outcome? It all was delivered by the accompanying pianist in front of the theater. Or in another movie with the vampires, blood sucking individuals, behind the door, and the unexpected individual walking through would never suspect what was about to happen. But the audience knew because of how the piano player play the villain music. Some of the more recent movies like Jaws where the shark would be swimming off distance, the girl swimming in the ocean. The only thing you saw was the pectoral fin of the shark in the distance, swimming around. You never saw the sharks body, just the fin. Then you’d hear the famous sound “dun da dun da dun da dun.” Automatically you correlated shark fin, girl swimming in the ocean means that she was out of there. The audience would be expecting the end for her. Then we get emotionally affecting, expressing ourselves by jumping, screaming, and speaking to the screen. Then, everyone would be in expectation of the outcome of that girl.
Empower
Music empowers an individual. You hear people playing music at a concert. It gives you the energy to think you can overcome anything. You hear the sound of the trumpet in the background, summoning you to charge or attack as in calvaries, as in war. It gives you a command to do something that you wouldn’t normally do, but you have been given the empowerment through the sound of music. When the Children of Israel were going through the promised land, they would literally scare their enemies to death by the sounds that they made, 2 Samuel 5:24. When we see the walls of Jerico, as the Children of Israel marched around the walls for the last time, they shouted and blew all the instruments and they were empowered by God to defeat the walls of Jericho and destroy the whole city, just by sound and vibrations, voice did the walls crumble.
We must remember one thing and always understand, that music tells a story without a voice being spoken. When we understand that music stirs up God. The Bible says that the angels in heaven sing and cry holy, holy around the throne, Isaiah 6:3. The Lord looks for the voice and singing all the time. It’s around Him all the time. If we don’t understand this, then we need to know, music sends a petition up before God of what we are going through. Because the petition contains an expression, effect, and expectation so that He would empower us to go forth in Him. So, know this, that those things that God expects from his people, Satan desires the same thing. He wants the people of God, and the world to give him the 4 E’s. People who play music or sing songs that don’t give God the glory, then they are giving satan the glory and he will effect them thorough their soul, and he will only give them nothing like he gave eve, so don’t expect anything from him. David said in the book of Chronicles and Psalms, to send him the chief musician, the skilled musician. David wanted people to know that you can’t give God just any kind of music or song, but you’ve got to give Him that which is skillful. That will show the expression of your inside, that would effect God’s emotions or heart toward you so that you’ll be in expectation from God to empower you to go forth in the world of sin. David would play skillfully himself. When Saul was bothered by demons and stressed, he would send for David to play the harp, with skill so that evil spirit would leave Saul. He understood there were certain notes and vibrations needed to be played to deliver an individual from the torment of demonic possession or demonic attack. After David would play his harp, Saul’s spirit would be calm. In Chronicles 6, david always had skill.
In this age we live in, we pay skilled musicians to come into our edifice to play music and sing among our Church’s. So we have hired the unsaved to usher the saved before the throne of God and to play worship and praise music in the House of God, and they don’t understand about God or Holy Ghost, nor being a Holy Ghost filled musician. They are being hired to perform a job. It’s a job to them. I ask you, do you want an unsaved individual trying to usher in the presence of God, who doesn’t know anything about the Holy Ghost, being filled or being anointed? Or do you want someone to take you into the presence of God, to be an anointed skill musician? Because if you’re hired, you’re no more different than someone hired to play music in the word. If you’re skilled at the things in the world, then you’re skilled on the things for Satan, and the people around you will give Satan praise. Instead of them expecting the Holy Ghost to effect them, the only effect they’ll get is from Satan, empowering them to do even more evil. Do you want a musician skilled in the things of the world to play in your place of worship to God? It’s an oxymoron. They come into the house of God saying they’ll bring you into the presence of God, but what they’re actually doing is giving praises to Satan. They’re doing and playing the same things they play in the world because that is all they know. What is the difference? Skillful musicians in the world excite your emotional being. Skillful anointed musician in the house of God bring you into the presence spiritually before God.
If any Pastor allows hired musicians or worldly unsaved musicians or praise singers to continue to conduct their praise and worship service, it’s like asking an evil spirit to bring you into the presence of God. Then that spirit is going to steer you away from the presence of God and right into the arms of Satan. That is why you hear these hired praise and worship musician’s and singers will play and sing songs prevalent in the world. That reinforces Satan’s hold of bondage on you. So instead of you being set free in the presence of worship and praise, you’re bound even more. Haven’t you ever wondered why those musicians after the praise and worship is over they never stay? They go to the back of the Church, working their way to leave. They’re hired skilled musician, they don’t want to hear the Word of God. But then you turn around and pay them from the House of God for a service rendered. You take that which is holy and give to a dog. You take the tithes and offerings of that assembly and give it to a hirling who will take it and use it for Satan purpose. Did you ever realize that that musician just got through standing guard in your place of worship so that the Holy Ghost can’t come in to deliver the people and restore people and you paid him for it? If it goes on long enough, then God is suffering to put Iccobode on the door of your ministry, which means the glory of God has departed, 1 Samual 4:19-22 when the Ark of Covenant was stolen by the Philistines. There is a difference between a hired musician and an anointed musician. If God gave you the gift freely, I dare you to pimp that for money, why would you go an pimp it back, selling it to God? You should be stripped, or just play in the world. Satan was aware of that when he was in heaven, so he understands what touches the heart strings of God, the notes, the sounds, and what causes the atmosphere to change. In order to keep the people of God from moving into God’s presence, Satan has allowed his hirlings to go into the House of God to block the music so the people of God will not be healed and restored. Selah.