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!
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