SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2002

Let the High Praises of God be in Your Mouth!

(This is a partial reprint of an article that was first published in our
Voices From His Excellent Glory magazine, October, 1980.)

Praise and worship is a powerful weaponry against satan. The intent of this article is to encourage you to press towards that realm of praise and workship that lifts you into the heights of Zion where the authority of God's Word is manifest.

We can often gain much understanding of the Scriptures by doing word studies - not only following the Hebrew and Greek meanings of words, but also discovering the definitions found in the dictionary.

Webster's Dictionary says minor means - less

1. (a) lesser in size, amount, number, or extent; (b) lesser in importance or rank; opposed to major.

2. In a minor key; Sad and melancholy; plaintive; in music a melancholy mood. Minor scale; one of the two standard diatonic scale

Sad - means expressing or showing or having low spirits of sorrow causing or characterized by dejection, melancholy.

Melancholy - madness; the condition of having black bile, it was thought to come from the spleen or kidneys and cause gloominess, irritability - gloomy; depressed in spirits; dejected; lamentable; hypochondriac.

Plaintive - means lamenting; expressing sorrow or grief; mournful

Lament - means mourning or wailing; to bewail - a literary or musical composition, as a dirge, or mournful song about some calamity or loss.

Strong's Concordance - Old Testament - #5594 - tear the hair and beat the breasts as the orientals do in grief; to wail

Strong's Concordance - Old Testament - #6969 - to strike a musical note; chant or wail

Strong's Concordance - New Testament - #2355 - wailing; from the base of (2360) to clamor to trouble

Strong's Concordance - New Testament - # 2870, 2875 - mourning; beat the breast; to "chop" especially to beat the breast in grief; cut down, lament, mourn, bewail.

Diatonic - said "the use of the chromatic scale".

Chromatic - in music, using or progressing by half tones

Chromatic Aberration; a property of lenses that causes the various colors in a beam of light to be focused at different points thus causing a spectrum to appear, a spectrum is a spectre, or spirit.

Aberration - means a departure from what is right or true; deviation from truth or moral rectitude; deviation from a straight line.

Synonyms - insanity, delusion, divergence, mania, alienation, illusion

Chanting or Chant - is to sing in major or minor keys .. sing in a monotone using repetition and same beat over and over, intone.

Incantation - to chant a magical formula, to sing or chant - the chanting of magical words or formula in casting spell or performing other magic. Any magic or sorcery.

Psalms 149:6-9 - "Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand; To execute vengence upon the heathen, and punishment upon the people; To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; To execute upon them the judgment written: this honor have all his saints. Praise ye the Lord."

It is in the high praises of God where we have authority over the enemy!

Back to September/October 2002 Voices