Ephesians 4:3   Be eager and strive earnestly to guard and keep the harmony and oneness of [and produced by] the Spirit in the binding power of peace.

 

 

If any has taken vocal lessons before,  your instructor might have taught that you are to close your eyes as you exhale,  releasing sound,  and imagine a line going out from your mouth.   This is an imagery aid to help project sound and to keep on pushing,  staying on the same note.  

 

The Lord, however,  was my Teacher.     One day during worship in my living room,   I was seated on the floor and singing a song to Him.   It was a slower song and I let out a long note of sound.    As I did,  this long note (exhaled breath with sound released) took on the form of a line coming out of my mouth.     A straight line.  

 

But then,  this line had a sewing needle leading its way.     There was a sewing needle and thread coming out of my mouth!   (Please stay with me here)  

 

He said "With your long notes of song,  I will heal the body"  

 

I started to see that the song of worship,  was as a needle and thread sewing my body back together,  sewing all the parts and binding them up so that there would be no more fragmented, broken,  dysfunctional units.      Every time I sang a song of worship to Him,   my body was being sewn together and I was being made whole.   Every exhaled breath of a  note, was another stitch sewn.     (meditate on that for a moment.   Every exhaled breath,  every time we "release"  our strength in song to Him,  or to each other, it is another stitch sewn to heal our body,  physically, and corporately).  

 

His Body.   Every time we corporately come together to worship Him,   He is sewing (binding) us together as one wonderful harmonious blend.   

 

Healing.    The results of  abuses, wounds, divisions, fragments,  injuries,  trainwrecks,  shipwrecks,  car wrecks, etc,  are mended as we come together to worship Him in song. 

 

But now,  receive this.  

 

Colossians 3:15  Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

 

Ephesians 5:19 - speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord

 

Speaking TO ONE ANOTHER in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.       

 

There is healing to the Body when we speak to each other in psalms,  and hymns.    

 

What does that look like?   Real life is not a musical on Broadway  (my mind can't picture this for more than a second).

 

I'm not sure.   Perhaps because I only know my part.    I write psalms and sometimes speak in them to others. 

 

I meditated a few times on the construction of a song.   When I recited the words only,   it didn't seem to have a flow of one line to the next.    But when I sung those same words,   the music seemed to cause one line to flow right into the next, and it was the music also that kept the rhythm of one line sung,  to the next line sung.    

 

Powerful words bound together by the flow of music.  

 

 Like a sewing needle and thread binding the hearts of the Body of Christ together.   

 

Like intercession and worship, bound together.   

 

The prayers of the saints combined with the songs of the psalmists, bound together.    

 

  

 

Lord I pray we all get a revelation of what You are doing in this day,  binding, fusing, mending, repairing, sewing,  uniting, harmonizing our hearts together in unity with Your Holy Spirit.   Thank You Lord for a new song in our mouths and hearts every day.     You said You gave us all a new song to sing.     I pray we sing it today and every day going forward.     Amen.