Christian 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). ...
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“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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