Music, Emotions & God

   I was reading in my current choice of literature this morning. "Kissed the girls and made them cry" by Lisa Bevere (good stuff). I just really wanted to share something that really spoke to me as a musician and songwriter who is madly in love with God. Hope it speaks to you too.....

"Music is an essential key to the awakening of our love for God, because music has the power to usher us past our present reality and into the very presence of God. It lifts our truest and deepest emotions closer to the surface and transports us to a dimension closer to the heart of God. He can speak for us when words are hard to express and our feelings are so overwhelming. As a youth David used the power of music to draw him closer to God and keep loneliness at bay while tending sheep. As he sang he sensed God's presence with him in the wilderness."

   The music we listen to has the power to control our emotions. When we choose to listen to music that feeds our emotions instead of causes us to rise above our circumstance, we've chosen to remain in that state. If we want to change our situations, we need to be careful of what we take in. What goes in is what's gonna come out. I have no problem with love songs and listening to secular radio, but I really have no desire to because my desire is for Him, and most of the time that's not who they're talking about.
    As musicians and songwriters I think we need to realize the power we have been entrusted with. What kind of influence do we want to have? The sounds and words we release into the atmosphere have the power to change lives, communities, and even our nation. How are we going to chose to use the anointing and power we've been given, to simply blend in or change history?

"Someone in this generation is gonna make a noise thats gonna shape a nation!"