Laugh Out Loud
The Bible, in Proverbs 17:22 (AMP), says“A happy heart is good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones”. When it comes to good mental health and emotional well-being, happiness is like an anecdote of medicine. We can glean, from this scripture, that humor and laughter fosters a happy heart and has holistic benefits. That is to say that it is good for our physical, mental/emotional and spiritual health. God, in His infinite wisdom, created...
Read MoreIt Is Well With Your Soul
Texts, tweets, posts, emails, vmails, ecards . . . with short messaging being in vogue and social media having become a very popular way to have a conversation, practically no one takes the time to write a letter, send a handwritten note or mail a card any more. I so value the letters and notes I have received from my big sister, Pearl, through the years beginning when she went away to college. I also love receiving the notes and cards that I regularly find in the mailbox from my...
Read MoreBaby Talk and Lullabies
Speaking Biblical Prophesies and Affirmations to Your Unborn Baby – This article was inspired by my family’s loving anticipation of the arrival of a little baby who I so affectionately call “Baby Girl”. When recently speaking with my nephew, Baby Girl’s father, I mentioned that I wanted to send he and my niece some affirmations to speak to our little loved one as we await her birth. Upon meditating on what I would send to them, I was inspired to write it as a blog so that it...
Read MoreThe Gift of Counsel
“There shall come forth a rod from the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, The Spirit of counsel and might, The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. His delight is in the fear of the Lord, and He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes,Nor decide by the hearing of His ears (Isaiah 11:2-3)” Isaiah 11:1-3 is where we find the revelation of seven of the gifts of the Holy...
Read MoreWrite the Vision, It’s for An Appointed Time
One of the coolest things about writing is that, at any hour in 24/7, when God favors us with the rain of His Rhema word one can put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) and record it. This is something that yours truly has come to know in just a short time of blogging to bless the Kingdom of God! It is at those times that the Lord, in His infinite wisdom, inspires this blogger to record what God is saying to His people. When I woke up this morning, God began to give me this Rhema word...
Read MoreChristian Music as Therapy, A Genre Perspective
“Speak out to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, offering praise with voices [and instruments] and making melody with all your heart to the Lord . . . (Ephesians 5:19-20 AMP)” Psalms. Hymns. Spiritual Songs. These music forms are the cornerstone of what we identify as the Christian music genre. Today the Christian music genre is quite expansive and is mostly identified by lyrical content rather than musical style. As such, various sub-genres of music could be...
Read MoreChristian Music as Therapy, A Clinical Perspective
“Let us come before Him with thanksgiving and extol Him with music and song (Psalm 95:2 WEV)”. The recommended therapeutic relationship, for a Christian, is one where the Music Therapist is committed and submitted to Christ who is the ultimate example of an effective ‘therapon’. He is the ‘Wonderful Counselor’ and the source of our health and healing. It is by Jesus stripes that we are healed and it is to Him that we can release our burdens and our sorrows (cf. Isaiah 53:4-5). ...
Read MoreChristian Music as Therapy, A Counselor’s Perspective
“Let the word [spoken by] Christ (the Messiah) have its home [in your hearts and minds] and dwell in you in [all its] richness, as you teach and admonish and train one another in all insight and intelligence and wisdom [in spiritual things, and as you sing] psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, making melody to God with [His] grace in your hearts (Colossians 3:16 AMP).” Music is a gift from God that that has the power to be a balm to a person’s soul, speak healing to a person’s...
Read MoreChristian Music As Therapy, A Biblical Perspective
“. . . Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord . . . (Ephesians 5:19).” God is exalted when we praise him in song. He even inspires sacred music to help us and gave us an entire songbook in the Bible – Psalms of David. The Psalms (sacred songs, spiritual poems or hymns) teaches us that praise and worship music stirs the soul, causes your spirit to be uplifted and helps you to enter into throne room of God. ...
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