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Psalms,Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Ephesians 5:18-20 says “And be not drunk with wine, for that is excess, but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father”.
In Colossians 3:16 it says “Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God”
Its Gods plan that all of us encourage ourselves and others with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs that will come up out of our spirit from the Holy Spirit. Just like when you speak in tongues (if you are not filled with the Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues read my blog on being “Baptized with the Holy Spirit”) words come up out of your spirit from the Holy Spirit and you pray out mysteries, praying God’s perfect plan for your life. The words don’t come from your mind but out of your spirit from the Holy Spirit. We can all have psalms, hymns and spiritual songs working in our lives the same way.
An example of a psalm that came up out of my spirit recently:
Blessed assurance
Jesus is mine
There is victory every time
I’m washed in His blood
Kept in HIs hand
Delivered from the enemies plan
Jesus is merciful
Jesus is kind
Always living with Him in mind
There is ups and there is downs
but steady is he
who keeps his eye on Thee
Speaking in psalms is like everything else you do with God, it’s by faith. Just like when you speak in tongues you don’t get all that your going to say at once you only get one word or phrase at a time and when you speak it out you get the next word or phrase. The same thing is true in speaking psalms you will get a word or phrase and as you speak it you will get the next phrase. Speaking psalms is a form of what the bible calls prophecy (inspired utterance) and Romans 12:6 says …. He that has the gift of prophecy, let him exercise it according to the proportion of his faith.
As you exercise this more, by doing it, your faith grows in that area and you will be able to speak out more.
One way to help you get started speaking psalms is praying in the spirit (tongues) because 1 Corinthians 14:4 says “One who speaks in a tongue edifies himself” and then in 1 Corinthians 14:13-15 it says “Therefore let one who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful. What is the outcome then? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the understanding also; I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the understanding also.” So as you start speaking in tongues from your spirit you can switch over to speaking in your known language out of your spirit. Thats also a good way to pray, because you will get things that your mind never knew or thought off. God would not tell us to pray for something that we could not have.
If you are more given to singing you can sing hymns and spiritual songs out the same way I spoke of speaking psalms. When Ephesians , Colossians and other places in the bible were speaking of hymns and spiritual songs it wasn’t speaking of singing out of a hymn book, even though many of the hymns in hymn books were given the way I am referring too, because there were no hymn books at that time, but the bible was saying let the Spirit give you a song or a psalm for the moment.
Speaking to yourselves in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs is for everyone that is born again or the bible would not have told us to do it. You will find that it is a great blessing if you will do it. Several times when I needed to be encouraged the Spirit would give me a psalm and help me through what ever it was I was going through.