Have you experienced holding a guitar or any musical instruments? Do you know something about it aside from its being a musical instrument? Do you know how to play it? Or have you asked a friend to tutor you and yet you see yourself so upset because you can’t still figure out how it goes?

For those who have just acquired the interest in music as well as for those who have been music enthusiasts for quite a long time, you should not worry anymore! There are abundant resources available in the present that can be used to learn music easily.

Afar from the traditional way of teaching music which is purely theoretical, it evolves from a complex approach to a more practical type. Such happens with the help of the advanced technology.

Consequently, there are new trends of teaching and learning music as well as those musical instruments. One is by utilizing advanced music teaching gadgets, which are considered as some of the most useful music teaching resources nowadays.

For an instance, there is this digital piano that lights its teeth up while playing a recorded music piece. The user will just have to press the keys that light and in an instant – he can now play a music piece with his high-tech keyboard. It is no wonder how these gadgets brought an enormous impact to the music industry!

It is also true that the Internet can also be one of the helpful music teaching resources at the present. One can simply know more about the latest gadgets, updated inputs and much innovation by just browsing the net with some few clicks. That surely makes such easy access to music teaching resources. Now, isn’t it really amazing?

The web or the Internet is highly regarded as an effective medium to provide a wide scope of information in almost any subjects. It is renowned globally for it caters to the need of everyone especially in terms of communication and research. Undoubtedly, it is another functional music teaching resource; certainly, something that music educators can exploit with when it comes to obtaining music teaching strategies.

Most music teaching resources in the recent past such as books and fellow music teachers seem to be just references while these new advanced ones are combined ‘references’ with great  ‘advantages’ and accessibility.

With this channel, burden in teaching is almost eliminated or lessened by web and online venture on the part of music educators. As a result, they can easily download activities, quizzes, and games to be used as their teaching instruments and techniques – unlike before when they needed to improvise on their own.

On the other light, students can learn music and other related matters on their own. They can surely enjoy music more while learning it with interactive activities online. As they put in their full attention into it and be able to give in time and effort, these kinds of innovative activities truly promote both rational and creative thinking.

The new technology of music – teaching and learning – is definitely more effective than those conventional ones.

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Distributed in the US by WMG. “Wagon Wheel” by Old Crow Medicine Show from OCMS, available now. Download on iTunes: bit.ly Links: Facebook: www.facebook.com Website: www.crowmedicine.com “Wagon Wheel” Lyrics Headed down south to the land of the pines And I’m thumbin’ my way into North Caroline Starin’ up the road Pray to God I see headlights I made it down the coast in seventeen hours Pickin’ me a bouquet of dogwood flowers And I’m a-hopin’ for Raleigh I can see my baby tonight So rock me, mama, like a wagon wheel Rock me, mama, any way you feel Hey, mama rock me Rock me, mama, like the wind and the rain Rock me, mama, like a south-bound train Hey, mama rock me Runnin’ from the cold up in New England I was born to be a fiddler in an old-time string band My baby plays the guitar I pick a banjo now Oh, the North country winters keep a-gettin’ me now Lost my money playin’ poker so I had to up and leave But I ain’t a-turnin’ back To livin’ that old life no more So rock me, mama, like a wagon wheel Rock me, mama, any way you feel Hey, mama rock me Rock me, mama, like the wind and the rain Rock me, mama, like a south-bound train Hey, mama rock me Walkin’ to the south out of Roanoke I caught a trucker out of Philly Had a nice long toke But he’s a-headed west from the Cumberland Gap To Johnson City, Tennessee And I got to get a move on before the sun I hear my baby callin’ my name And I know that she’s the only one And if I die in Raleigh At least I will die free So rock me, mama …
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Music education has been included in many curricula in different nations around the globe. However, since not all students are musically-inclined, not all of them are motivated to learn music. As a result, they are no longer excited to experience formal music schooling inside their classrooms. With this conflict of interests, music teachers are then challenged or pressured on how they could make their students learn and love music at the same time.

To basically adhere to the problem, they are determined to research the latest music teachers’ resources. Since both teaching and learning are two dynamic processes, music teachers and their students should meet half way – adjusting to the kind of individuals they are.

And because they are up to music education, these music teachers need to update their lists and records with the most modern trends and techniques, which are believed to be very effective and influential with the kind of students they have right now. From time to time, there could have been new music teachers’ resources that could improve their teaching strategies as well as their way of relating to their dear students.

Today, music educators incorporate theories and application to give a well-rounded musical experience and to teach music in various perspectives intended for international understanding. To meet many demands and expectations of their students, music teachers keep on upgrading their available music teachers’ resources by doing some researches over the Internet. In just a matter of few clicks, they would be aware of what is really the latest in the music academe as well as the newest style and approach in teaching that they can utilize in their everyday instruction.

The perceived effort to enhance music teachers’ resources also results in a greater number of students, who are now more motivated and determined to learn and love music. When their music teachers use some personal touches as part of their resources – sharing their own insights, thoughts and experiences on a particular topic, the learners become more eager to attend to their music classes and listen to their classroom discussions. This happens simply because they feel that they have something to relate to and such experience could also happen to them in time.

Indeed, teaching and learning music can be both fun and enjoyable. Just like in real life and in our daily activities, when we integrate music into anything that we do, it amazingly turns out to be more special and a lot of fun. After all, music gives most of us such inspiration and motivation to look forward to something better and brighter. Love music and enjoy tomorrow. 

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Most music teachers consider teaching music to their dear students both their profession and passion. Most of them have the heart for arts and music – making each student love learning music and music as a whole. With this kind of outlook and disposition in teaching music, the inspired and motivated music teacher tends to begin his search for consistent improvement in his teaching strategies as well as his effort for personal and professional growth.

Indeed, there is a wide variety of creative music teachers resources that students can certainly enjoy and get excited working on with. According to studies, the integration of audio and video recording in music education has been an effective technique to catch the attention and grab the interest of the learners. This is believed to be an effective tool in raising the level of interest and motivation among music learners.

Current practice in music teaching favors a practical and a hands-on approach in emphasizing performance and composition. The use of recorded music as a teaching resource has tended to take a back seat. However, recordings are the predominant vehicle of musical experience today. As the students are expert listeners to recorded sound, major developments in the access to and presentation of recorded music are opening up new educational possibilities to most of them.

Targeted to be implemented in most music classrooms, the production and engineering aspects of recorded sound to online music libraries and teachers’ experiences of using recordings in the classroom have been randomly practiced and taken into consideration.

When a classroom setting has a relaxed atmosphere, informal learning may take place yet anxiety, tension and pressure would neither rule the learning situation. Hence, when there is relaxed supervision with no teachers behind the desk, the students would be more eager and interested to learn music. Students may also work in groups – giving them more chances of friendship and peer support. In this case, cooperative learning is found effective. The music teacher may encourage the students choose various musical instruments of their choice and eventually master such.

After they finish recording, they may organize or set-up a short play or a mini-concert to show their rendition of songs and other performances. These activities can heighten the learning process as they get too excited in meeting their objectives and getting high grades. These can also help them boost enough self-confidence and self-esteem. Through these music teachers’ resources, the music teacher tends to meet most of his objectives all at the same time.

These creative techniques in music education intend to motivate the learners from different ages and with different lifestyles. So start your quest to amazingly creative music teachers resources now. Be inspired to share your knowledge as well as the joys of music to your students. Make them realize that learning music is fun so they have to do it all by heart. Happy teaching!

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Article by Peter Silvester

The Singer Corporation was first established as a sewing machine manufacturer in 1851, trading as I.M Singer & Co, by Isaac Merritt Singer and a New York lawyer by the name of Edward Clark.

The first large mass production factory for Singer was built in 1863 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Two years later in 1865, I.M Singer & Co, was renamed and began trading as Singer Manufacturing Company. 1963 brought in a new look to the company and along with it a new trading name of The Singer Company. Its claim to fame is the production of high quality sewing machines.

With the status of a global corporation, the company is now based in La Vergne, Tennessee. It has many competing companies, however, Singers main competition are Brother Industries and a subsidiary of the Toyota Group (a company that manufactures Toyota, Necchi and E&R Classic Sewing Machines), Aisin Seiki.

Singer has a great production history and many, if not all, their older model machines have become antiques, commanding high auction bids. Four of the most popular models are from their very beginnings: Singer model 12K fiddle-bed from 1878, Singer model 66 with Lotus decals from 1922, Singer model 99 from 1939 and the Singer Featherweight model 222k from 1954.

Nowadays, Singer has many ranges of models and styles to choose from. One of the great Singer ranges is the Singer Quantum. The range consists of four models at the moment and has features for all your needs.

The Singer Quantum 7322 Décor is a more affordable model with the ability to be versatile. This lovely Singer model has 22 built-in stitch patterns so you are never out of options to create the perfect piece. It has a built in 4 step Button Holer. The adjustable pressure and automatic tension makes working with thick and thin fabrics easy for every user. You can drop the feed dogs for any free hand projects you may have such as quilting, embroidery and monogramming.

The Singer Quantum 7380 Quilter is all that’s needed for any quilting project. Although this model of Singer Quantum is purpose built for quilting, it still has all the standard sewing functions expected of a machine. With 34 built in stitch patterns, the user is able to make many different designs. This machine has the same drop feed feature as the Quantum 7322 model. As well as the automatic tension feature.

The Singer Quantum XL-150 has had an upgrade. It boasts a stitch pattern directory of 401 which includes alphanumeric stitch patterns. An integrated Dual Feed System allows for even fabric feeding. The XL-150 also has the Hands-free Presser Foot Lifter, for more control over the fabric.
It has a Long Arm for the larger projects such as quilting and home decoration.

The Singer Quantum 9960 Stylist is the biggest of all with 600 built in stitch patterns, including alphanumeric stitch patterns, 13 fully automatic Button Holes, one touch automatic thread cutter, extension table for large projects and many more.

If you are looking for a sewing machine of quality, look no further than the Singer Quantum Range.

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Promoting Good Vocal Model Awareness in Karaoke Singers

Cathryn Robson BA (Hons) Music, CT ABRSM

www.singshop.co.uk – Online Singing Evaluations and Lessons

During a recent conference I attended singing teachers discussed the concept of curriculum and arrived at a rather succinct description, that of it simply being a ‘From-To’. It was further qualified that this ‘From-To’ would inevitably vary with each student, depending on their particular aims.

Working in a tourist area where karaoke bars, venues and competitions proliferate, singers for whom karaoke is the sole vocal activity form a good 30 per cent of my studentship. The challenges karaoke singers present to a voice teacher are consistent; infrequent exposure to good vocal models, lack of imperative to memorise lyrics and weak internalisation of pulse and rhythm. While all of these musical criteria are important to address, this essay will reflect on some current curriculum tools for developing good vocal model awareness in karaoke students. The question ‘what is a good vocal model?’ is begged. Cultural context defines such an ambiguity and within Western popular music this could be anything between an effective to virtuosic voice. This essay should go some way to answering my own question.

Recent research shows that karaoke, second only to singing along with the radio, is the most popular vocal activity for adults who had a negative experience of singing during school years. Many of these belated singers are ‘…more likely to believe someone else’s judgement about their voice than their own’1. Whether or not this is due to lack of self-confidence, lack of musical experience or both the poor vocal models on the karaoke circuit cannot do much to improve discrimination. Curiously, the original singers who are good vocal role models can be forgotten, with karaoke singers self-referencing and comparing their own performances to other local karaoke singers. My own students reflect a pattern that is typical; several are naturally gifted while the remainder are challenged by pitching difficulties, poor support/breathing habits and/or a harsh tone.

Developing a student’s confidence in their own ability to discriminate is vital. In making curriculum decisions Keith Swanwick remarks that ‘…the only good reasons for choosing anything is that it has musical potential.’ 2 While the material karaoke singers bring to lessons invariably has musical potential I consider working with backing tracks anathema to the development of it. They are excellent practice tools but they go some way to annihilating what innate musicianship a singer may possess. In respect to vocal models they prevent a singer from truly experiencing their voice as an instrument but merely as another layer in the backing track. A recent student concert yielded some interesting responses; karaoke singers were critical of the live professional accompaniment and the lack of sound system believing that these elements had hindered their own performances. On the other hand, one student told me that, having had the opportunity to perform with an accompanist she now finds backing tracks intolerable. Both responses oblige me to consider how I can further encourage these singers to value their voices as independent instruments.

Aiming for this, in lessons I steer the student away from backing track dependency, using chord sheets to accompany them. While this may seem commonplace, with karaoke singers it isn’t, playbacks being preferred. Chord accompaniment exposes bad vocal habits. Ironically, my own deficient keyboard skills go some way to aiding the students. My keyboard accompaniment is sparse and as the singer does not have the support of the vocal line in the music it means that they have to rely heavily on their ‘thinking voice’. It is remarkable how dramatically breath control and pitching improves because of this. Getting a student to sing songs in both the ‘thinking’ and ‘singing’ voices proves to be a very useful exercise. Scales and arpeggios can be practised in the same way, helping to build accurate internal pitch. As there is no imperative for these students to learn to read music they are relying totally on aural skills to acquire repertoire. The popular tradition is aural and the learning style follows suite.

Paul Harris, in his book ‘Improve Your Teaching!’ remarks that ‘…one of the great things about the art of musical performance is that anyone …… can give a masterful performance.’3 This remark certainly held true for the student concert, with me having to privately acknowledge that one of the most moving performances came from a singer with poor pitch. However, this is unusual and publicly I am required to advocate good pitch awareness! Improvisation warm-ups are also proving an effective means of developing this in karaoke students. The student and I will begin with a ‘call and imitation’ in the key of a song they are working on. During this process accurate pitching is practised with the student having to stay within the scale. Even if their tuning is weak I return their ‘call’ correctly, which helps align their own pitch awareness. We then progress to ‘call and response’. Many students find this intimidating at first but after a few attempts they being to enjoy it. I notice that the student often uses their ‘thinking voice’ to work out a response before vocalising it; ‘I don’t know what to do, let me think about it.’ Initially I was adamant that students did not think too much about the shape of their response, wanting them to develop spontaneity, but latterly I have seen the advantage of them considering their responses internally. Self-confidence and musicality increase through improvisation. Paul Harris’ book is full of imaginative approaches to using this tool.

On another front, improvisation can be used to improve awareness of choice in voice ‘colouring’. I have used this for several years with young students but have yet to devise a systematic method for mature students. Asking an adult to sing a ‘blue’, ‘icy’ or ‘creamy’ scale is more often than not met with suspicion and embarrassment.

Voice colouring awareness can evolve through repertoire itself. It is notable how many karaoke singers have no qualms about tackling show songs and the more demanding end of popular music. This rather enviable naivety is surely a result of karaoke’s instant achievement culture. As popular music is easily accessible, so its vocal technique is assumed to be. A few months ago a karaoke singer came to the first lesson wishing to belt out ‘Somewhere’ from West Side Story, an advanced piece within an exam syllabus and beyond the student’s current technical ability. The way round it was to adjust the key and to arrange the song as a colla voce ballad. Within this new arrangement plenty was achieved, notably the student using more considered breathing and experimenting with voice colour effectively. Returning to vocal model awareness, at a suitable point we will listen to and discuss the song in its original context to ensure the student appreciates the difference between her own ‘’sound’ and the music theatre ‘sound’. Should the student stay the course we will eventually look at belt technique. It is productive to ‘…experiment with varying moods or colours within a song…’ leaving students to ‘…decide which would be most appropriate for the character of the music.’4 Autonomy is developed and assimilated and the student progresses further up the spiral5.

I sometimes introduce the Vaccaj vocalises into the curriculum of karaoke singers. These are taught aurally in the original Italian. The aim is to help the student move out of their comfort zone by experimenting with different vocal styles and languages, a sort of musical ‘brain gym’. Invariably this is a successful diversion. The student’s confidence is increased as they realise they are able to tackle music they have previously thought inaccessible. In addition the considered technique required for classical singing has a beneficial impact on the singer’s vocal control and, more subtly, in experiencing what classical singing is the singer becomes more aware of what popular singing is not, i.e. the student starts to learn objectivity about their ‘default’ vocal style. A karaoke student practising a high section in a Diana Ross ballad complained that she was singing it in a ‘classical voice’ and that it ‘wasn’t working’. Identifying this she adjusted to a pop sound. Another student decided that she wanted to explore classical music further as a result of singing the Vaccaj.

Karaoke repertoire is almost exclusively popular with inroads being made into music theatre. Some exam bodies have graded syllabi devoted to these repertoire groups. It is quite a revelation to study these syllabi and the vocal/ performance technique required for each grade. They prove very useful in helping me

evolve a ‘karaoke curriculum’. Dipping into exam repertoire keeps vocal model awareness at the forefront as the material makes specific demands on a singer’s technique.

Finally, in cultivating good vocal model awareness I have started to exploit the karaoke medium itself. Students practise favourite songs obsessively and I encourage them to take advantage of the recording facilities available with most karaoke equipment by recording practice sessions and listening critically to them, analysing breath control, pitching accuracy and quality of overall vocal tone. These recordings serve as a sort of practice diary and we listen to them during lessons, with feedback given from all sides. Lessons themselves are always recorded to further facilitate critical listening. Uniquely amongst students, karaoke singers tend to be unselfconscious about listening back to their voices, welcoming feedback from family and friends in the process.

Progress is monitored in these reactions. Several karaoke students have commented that other singers on the circuit have noticed an improvement in their voices. Most gratifying is when a student informs me that they recognise an improvement in their singing – and why.

Overall most of my karaoke students are content to settle at the ‘Idiomatic’ stage of the Swanwick/ Tillman musical development spiral. This leaves me in the curious position of having to respect the student’s aspirations while feeling frustrated by what I perceive to be lower than necessary expectations. However, this is the individual ‘From-To’ in action. Other students do move beyond this stage, such as the aforementioned singer who is starting to appreciate live accompaniment and the effect its unpredictable ‘musical energy’ has on her singing. Another student is using karaoke as a vehicle to develop his outstanding singing and creative abilities, expressing good model awareness in his own songs through independent and informed vocal choices. Such students value their emerging musicianship and eventually will move on from the constraints of their current medium.

Karaoke has democratised singing and this democratisation has created more learning and teaching opportunities. Its culture is such that huge progress should be possible with its naturally gifted singers; the regular practice/ performance and the hunger to emulate original singers should move mountains in a committed student/ teacher relationship. I conclude that any failure to realise a karaoke student’s potential is partly due to a lack of appreciation of the students’ learning style, which is aural. Taking this into account, the curriculum’s ‘points of entry’6 need to be arrived at through imagination and experimentation – a process in which I am still engaged.

Similar to that of my students my own learning curve has been steep. Working regularly with karaoke singers has prompted me to investigate vocal methods such as those of Seth Riggs and Jo Estill in order to bolster my own toolbox. Pedagogically speaking, teaching students whose musical experience is raw and limited has proven an invaluable challenge, compelling me to invent and re-invent approaches to ‘From-Tos’ on an almost daily basis. A recent doubt in my teaching diary ‘…teaching people singing sometimes feels like taking their power from them…’ is unresolved though I sincerely hope that raising good vocal model awareness contributes to doing exactly the opposite.

Bibliography:

Turton, A. & Durrant, C. (2002) Adults’ reflections on their singing experience in secondary school, CUP*

Swanwick, K. (1988) Music, Mind and Education, Routledge

Harris, P. (2006) Improve Your Teaching!, Faber Music

Davies, Hollingworth, Mitcham, Pegler, Wilding, (2002) A Common Approach: Voice, FMS/ NAME/ RCM°

*Cambridge University Press
° Federation of Music Services/ National Association of Music Educators/ Royal College of Music

1 Adults’ reflections on their singing experiences in secondary school, Turton, A. / Durrant, C. 2002

2 Music, Mind, and Education, Swanwick, K. 1988

3 Improve Your Teaching!, Harris, P. 2006

4 A Common Approach – Voice, Davies, Hollingworth, Mitcham, Pegler, Wilding, 2002

5 Swanwick/Tillman Spiral of Musical Development, 1986

6 Music, Mind and Education, Swanwick, K. 1988

© Cathryn Robson 2009

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BLUEPRINT FOR REVIVAL   

By Prophetess D

A VISION FOR REVIVAL FOR CHURCHES & the proper use of musicians and singers.

God gave me the vision and then gave me the scripture Habakkuk 2:2 “Write  the vision. Make it plain on tables.”

There are several elements to this vision: 24 hour worship, consecration of musicians

and singers (and everyone else too) from sin & drugs &  other openings for demonic oppression, removal of amplification and open doors, evangelism of musicians and singers and praying for the baptism of the Holy Spirit; Dissociating from the atheistic mental health system & their toxic drugs. REPENTANCE FROM SIN IS CRITICAL.

A KEY POINT TO REVIVAL IS THAT REPENTANCE leads to REVIVAL. God often waits to pour out his spirit on us after we repent of sin. This is true for churches that preach error in doctrine; when they repent, God pours out his spirit. The same is true on an individual level. When each of us repents then the spirit comes. Sometimes it is the spirits presence through the intercession of someone else that leads someone to repent.

The Power of Intercession – PEACE IN IRELAND - TIKKUN OLAM -

Healing the World

I had in April of ‘98 a powerful experience of being used by God as an intercessor.

I was playing the piano and singing in tongues, which is a private prayer language

given by God, for 8 hours. I was playing in a sanctuary at Boston Univ. used

by Catholics and Protestants. I heard myself sing “shalom” which means peace in

Hebrew, many times. I had no idea what God was doing, but I could feel the power

of the Holy Spirit on me. Sometime during this event a man came in and listened,

then came over and said to me, “Thank you. I feel like I can go home now.” I asked

where he was from and he said “Ireland”. The next day, the Boston Globe front

page said “Peace in Ireland’. They had just signed the Good Friday Peace Accords.

I asked God, “Did you use me to pray for that?”, and the Holy Spirit fell on me with

power, which meant “yes!”

Being used by God for this type of work is important work. It requires that

a person be sanctified – no sin, no drugs, such as caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, pot. Etc or psych meds which would contaminate the Holy Spirit since drugs are an opening for unclean spirits. If there is spiritual contamination, it transmits into whatever you’re praying into. That’s no good. One must be pure so only the Holy Spirit is invoked and transmitted.

Any time musicians play or sing, whatever is in or around them spiritually gets

transmitted to their listeners or the target of their prayers. This is true for all people

praying as well, or even talking. Spirits jump around thru contact, both physical

and verbal. God needs musicians or praying people to do this kind of work. It is

sacred and a blessing to be used this way. When we pray this way we are prophesying

things into existence by the power of the Holy Spirit. It is an example of how God

wants to use musicians to pray for healing and peace in the world.

Everyone who is born again, filled with the Holy Spirit can pray and sing in tongues.

You need to repent of your sins, accept Jesus as Saviour and Lord, ask to be filled

with the Holy Spirit (which testifies to Jesus as Messiah). Jesus said “unless ye be

born of water and of the spirit, ye will not see the kingdom of Heaven.” John 3:3

and John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten son that

whosoever believeth on him would not perish but have everlasting life.” John 1:1:

“In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was

God.” 1:14: “And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his

glory as of the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth.” 1:17: “The law

came by Moses, but grace and truth come by Jesus Christ.”

1.       24-Hour Worship

I believe that it is God’s intent for churches today to have continual prayer (24 hour

prayer ) which invokes his Spirit so that His spirit will dwell in church buildings

and then when anyone comes in, they will immediately be touched by the presence

of God. This is what happened to me in that Sephardic synagogue in Jerusalem.

God brought me to Jerusalem to experience this so I could testify to this vision; He

wants consecrated buildings, not just people. The Christians sometimes tell me that

at this time, WE are supposed to be the temple of the Holy Spirit, not the buildings.

But they are wrong. The New Testament was built on the Old, not to totally supercede

it but to add to it. Why would He talk about consecrated buildings in the

New Testament when it was already written about in the Old? Both are true. Now

He wants to live in us as temples of the Holy Spirit, but He also will bless buildings

where there is prayer.

Psalm 134 says “Bless you the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, which by

night stand in the house of the lord.”

In the Old Testament the Levites who were the worshippers lived in the temples

and were free from other work because they did this work day and night

1 Cr 9:33.

In the New Testament, Luke Chap. 2 talks about Anna the Prophetess, who

stayed in the temple and didn’t leave, doing fasting and prayers.

How I came to these scriptures is evidence that the Holy Spirit was leading me toward

this vision (to be explained shortly).

My vision for 24 hour worship is something that in the last couple years is starting

to be reinstituted in a few churches around the country. I have been talking about

it for the past 10 years. There is a church in Colorado Springs, that is now doing it.

There is a man in Kansas City, who used to be called one of the Kansas City

Prophets by the Vineyard Christian Fellowship, a charismatic non-denominational

church that is around the country, who has also instituted a 24 hour prayer church

(Mike Bickel – the International House of Prayer in Kansas City (IHOP) There are

now other IHOPs in other cities; Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, and more) so I am

not alone in my vision; the fact that others are also doing it is a confirmation that

what I have been talking about IS of God and I am also in a prophetic role in the

Church as a whole. The bible says that there are different offices in the church. In

1 Corinthians 12:28: “In the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second

prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, also those having gifts of healing,

those able to help others, those with gifts of administration, and those speaking in

different kinds of tongues.” Other churches have done this periodically over the

years and enjoyed revival. The United Pentecostal Church has done it.

My vision came out of my experience of living in a church for 2 years, worshipping and praying at night. Subsequent to that experience, God released certain

scriptures to me that indicated there was a vision He wanted me to share for

this time. God works in strange ways to communicate; often using wierd coincidences.

Don Gossett, a Christian minister and author of a wonderful book on the

power of words and faith, entitled What You Say Is What You Get quotes a friend Sam Feldman “Coincidences are the handiwork of God”.

Here are two examples of my own:

I shared my testimony one night of playing in the church all night with another

Christian woman. She went home and opened her bible randomly to Psalm 134;

“Praise the Lord, all you servants of the Lord who minister by night in the

house of the Lord.”

This was God’s way of confirming that what I had been talking about was from Him.

Months later, I was travelling around the country. I had had the intuition that in the

Old Testament times, the Levites, some of whom were musicians and singers (others

were porters in the temple and judges) were doing worship 24 hours. I had

never found a scripture to support this, and had asked rabbis who knew of nothing

either. As I was traveling, all of a sudden there was a sign that said “Exit 134″-and

immediately after that, I heard “Psalm 134″ in my mind. I remembered the scripture.

I immediately looked it up in the bible I had with me, and found a cross reference

to another scripture that I had never seen before. (Not all bibles have cross

references). The other scripture was 1 Chronicles 9:33 which says “and these are the

singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites who remaining in the chambers were

free: for they were employed in that work day and night.” In other words, they lived

in the temples and worshiped day and night.

After living in the church for 2 years I ended up, a while later, living in a synagogue

all fall and winter, playing the piano there at night. One night the spirit reminded

me of Anna the prophetess. This was a reference to the book of Luke ch 2, New

Testament. Anna was a woman who, it says, “departed not from the temple but

served God with fastings and prayers night and day.” Luke 2:37 It was warm and

there was no snow that entire fall and winter. The city was blessed because of my

being “on duty” – one watchman . He had given me 2 scriptures in prayer – Ezekiel

3 and 33, calling him a “watchman” to the house of Israel.

2. Consecration of the Musicians and Singers and all Believers who

worship (which is everyone)

First, repent of all sin. Unrepentant sin is an opening for unclean spirits.

Next, avoid all drugs, which are openings for unclean spirits.

The scripture in the Old Testament in Leviticus tells us about how God did not

want his priests to be under the influence of alcohol when they ministered in the

temple. This is another example of a principle in the Old Testament which is true

for us now; He does not want us to be under the influence of any drugs when we

minister to others or to Him. Those influences bring other spirits into the worship

and can transmit to others, which is not what God wants. We need to be holy so

that only God’s Holy Spirit transmits when we pray or worship and minister to

each other. The New Testament says “Be ye holy as I am holy.” 1 Peter 1:16. This

includes cigarettes as well as alcohol, and any kind of psychiatric drug. It also includes

caffeine, which includes coffee and tea and sodas with caffeine. I have felt

unclean spirits around me, a fogginess around me when friends of mine drank coffee

or smoked and then prayed with me. Worship leaders have to be consecrated.

It is an important responsibility. I knew someone who was on the worship team at

church who was on lithium. Every time she was singing, I felt a spirit of confus—

around me. She was in a fog from the lithium and that spiritual contamination was transmitting to the whole church.  I prayed for God to consecrate the church and the pastor removed her from the worship team.

Worship leaders also need to be mindful of the music they subject themselves to.

For example, if they listen to blues, that can put a negative spirit around them that

depresses their mood. I know people this happens to. It is not constructive. If they

listen to music that invokes unclean spirits, it will be around them and can transmit

when they worship. Working in businesses where there is continual pop music being

played is not constructive for those called to lead worship; it puts spirits around

them that are not from God. I have experienced this first hand. Before worshipping,

they need to pray for God to make them holy and wash away anything not of God.

“I pray for the blood of Jesus to wash me” is a prayer that works. They need to pray

this prayer before they go to work, and when they leave, to protect themselves and

their thinking from bad influences. When I am around a lot of music I feel unclean

spirits. In the hospital the influence is obvious; many times when certain music was

put on, it set off all kinds of problems between the patients, who were being influenced

by the spirits being loosed by the music. Mick Jagger testified to the fact

that every time their band played a song about the devil, violence broke out. Rap

music also invokes a lot of bad spirits and that is why there is so much violence at

their concerts. A person who is called to serve God with their music needs to purify

themselves so only God’s spirit is around them. The more pure they are, the more

anointing, or power, they will have from God.

Musicians are called to be Prophets

Musicians and singers, because they are spiritually sensitive and prophetically gifted,

have a big responsibility to develop a relationship with God and make sure that

what they are writing and singing IS inspired by God and not a familiar spirit. That’s

why it is so important for them to consecrate themselves from using drugs, which

are an opening to other spirits. They also need to assess whatever they expose themselves

to, whether it is from God or not; the music, the books, TV. all of these

bring spirits around them. God has said, in His word, that there is an office of

prophet in the church, and. He wants the people with these callings to be used to

build up the church, not negatively influence the society by being used by the wrong

spirits. Musicians and singers need to renounce any involvement in their past or

present with any occult or new age practice; remove any books or paraphernalia associated

with it, renounce any false spirits from having read occult or new age

books; these all are openings for false spirits, which will pollute their channel to

God.

In the Old Testament times, the musicians and singers were prophets and prophetesses.

They pray and worship and get words from God to transmit to others and

sing prayers back to God, inspired by the spirit of God. Musicians and singers in

today’s time are also called to operate prophetically in today’s church to do the same

thing. As the musicians and singers invoke the Spirit of God, the Spirit touches

others as well and they also can prophesy, or hear and sing words from and to God.

There is a story in the Old Testament where the prophet Samuel tells King Saul that

he will come across a band of musical prophets and he will be changed. It happens;

he comes across them while they are singing and prophesying, and a new spirit

comes over him, and he starts to prophesy, and the other people say “Is Saul also

a prophet?’ The prophet Joel, in the Old Testament, writing about the end of days,

which is now (since Jesus is coming back very soon, many of us believe) says “In

the end times I will pour out my spirit on all flesh and your sons and daughters will

prophesy, and your old men will dream dreams, and your young men will see visions.”

Joel 2:28 I have heard of a lot of people having prophetic dreams (dreaming

something that then happens). I have had them too.

It says in 1 Corinthians 12:28 that God has set prophets in the church. There is a

certain hierarchy, it says “in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second

prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, also those having gifts of

healing, those able to help others, administration, and speaking in different kinds

of tongues.”

To have the anointing of God these musicians and singers need to do only God’s

music. If they are engaged in other types of music as well, they will be polluting

their channel and bringing other spirits into the worship they do in church. I have

experienced this first-hand. I know of musicians and singers that were doing worship

and simultaneously doing other types of music; I felt the other spirits present

in the church service. And the more pure a person is, the more anointing of the

Holy Spirit he will have.

The creative process, of being inspired, is such a natural high that many people

who are creative get wrapped up in the process itself which is a form of idolatry

to God. They need to use that talent to serve God, not as an end in itself. Musicians

and singers and writers all need to address this issue. I once had a music professor

tell me “Music is our god.” A few years later I called him and said, “Music should

be our channel to God.” The music schools really reinforce this idolatry; that is

why it is so important that their students be evangelized and have their talents channeled

in the right way. With such a pool of talent, it is a mistake for the churches

to ignore what is going on. If God doesn’t use these people, the devil will. And they

will be tempted to be used in the world and that is why the world is so corrupted;

the devil pays well. The music business siphons people into it because the church

is not reaching out to draw them in.

3. Evangelize and Disciple Musicians and Singers in Music Schools

and Professional Musicians and Singers

This is a big job, but the church needs to get on the ball and do this. They need these

people. In Boston where I lived for 30 years, there are several music schools with

multitudes of talent. There are also a lot of musicians and singers starting up their

careers in music, forming bands. This is a huge untapped resource that the church

needs. I would like to see an organization start to do this and connect these people

to the churches. But the churches have to be ready for them; they have to be open

to the vision of using them in a more serious way than they do now. There needs

to be 24-hour worship, and letting some of them work full-time even living in the

churches. Not since the time of Bach have the churches really supported musicians

and singers full time as creative people. Worship and intercession is a creative

process. There are many choir directors in churches and some full-time worship

leaders; but what I am talking about is full-time intercession. There needs to be

more full-time worship leading and intercession. Worship leaders now spend a certain

amount of time rehearsing for Sunday rather than just in prayer and intercession

full-time. In my 24 hour model, someone can be doing intercession and

worship while someone else is rehearsing somewhere else. A lot of churches have

part time music directors who direct choirs and lead worship. Let them continue

these duties, but let them work full-time, doing intercession the rest of the time.

Even if you only have one full-time musician in a church, that is better than nothing.

24-hour can be added later.

4. Removing of Electronic Amplification or Using it Very Sparingly

will result in more spontaneous worship

Instruments should be used to support vocal singing, not drown it out. This way,

the Spirit will fall on the whole congregation and they will be inspired to sing forth

prophetically and to inspire and catalyze others in worship. I have been in a lot of

churches where I have seen that there is another spirit using the amplification to

drown out the Holy Spirit. These churches are not catalyzing the Holy Spirit being

in authority. Where the Holy Spirit IS in authority, prophecy is encouraged. That’s

why God’s spirit is so grieved by all the amplification; it is going in exactly the opposite

direction the Holy Spirit wants to go. The Holy Spirit is gentle and wants to

use all of us prophetically to catalyze the Spirit on each other. God wants the lead-

ership to be patient and wait on God and let the Spirit use others. A good prayer

is to pray for the Holy Spirit to take authority in a service. Interestingly, a few times

I have prayed this and then watched as the mikes don’t work.

When I lived in the church for 2 years, I kept invoking the Spirit of God and I believe

it was there a lot because of my worship. Sometimes when other musicians and

singers came in to set up for worship using microphones, I would feel the Spirit of

God shrivel up and leave with me. The amplifiers and microphones in a lot of cases

are being used against God. They play too loud and quench the Spirit of God rather

than invoke it. God’s spirit is very gentle. He wants his entire congregation to participate

in worship and the leaders need to catalyze this. Sometimes they play so loud

with all the amplification that they actually inhibit that participation that they are

seeking to catalyze. God wants His spirit to use all his people; and he wants others

to be able to hear them if the spirit of God is moving on them to sing or prophesy

to the church. Playing too loud blocks the Holy Spirit from using other members

of the congregation, this is actually quenching the Spirit, and the word says not to.

“Quench not the spirit” I Thess. 5:19.

The Holy Spirit often doesn’t bother to fall on someone in the back to sing something

forth, because no one would hear them due to the microphones up front

which make it impossible for the worship leaders to hear anyone but themselves.

So the spirit doesn’t fall on the others like it would. I was on the worship team of

a Brazilian church and one time all the mikes were stolen. At the next service, the

spirit fell on many of the congregation and they were inspired ‘and singing things

out loud. This was evidence of what I am talking about.

God tells us in the psalms to SING .A NEW SONG. He means to make up spontaneous

musical prayers. This will happen with the whole congregation if the Spirit

is allowed to take authority and not be quenched by those in front. God wants the

worship leaders to flow in the spirit and make up spontaneous new songs; He also

wants the congregation to mature and also do this. Sometimes the leaders hold the

congregation back by being too much in control. They need to yield more to the

Holy Spirit, because the spirit is trying to do more than they realize. Minimizing the

use of amplification plays a big part in this.

When the Holy Spirit is in charge and there is spontaneous worship, people

sing different things, as the spirit leads, but the Spirit is directing and they

end up singing in harmony with each other. This is awesome. The Anointing

can fall on anyone and use them this way. More on this later.

5. Open Doors to Churches

A lot of churches close their doors these days because they are afraid of their equipment

being stolen. There are two answers to this; first, if they had 24-hour worship,

the musicians and singers would protect what is there by being there. Second, if

they give up the electronic and the amplifiers and mikes and just use acoustic pianos

and guitars, there would be nothing to steal and they could leave the doors open all

the time for anyone to come in and pray. Acoustic guitars are portable and few musicians

and singers leave them in the church in the first place. Acoustic pianos are

not portable. I’ve never heard of one being stolen. I think a lot of the break-ins that

I’ve heard about of musical equipment being stolen are signs from God that they

are grieving his spirit away by using this equipment. The church needs to understand

this and change their attitude about worship. The musicians and singers will develop

loud voices like I did if they consecrate themselves and trust the Holy Spirit for

power to sing loud. If I can sing, anyone can sing, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

As He healed me, my voice got louder and louder. This will happen for anyone

who embarks on the path I am describing. Some of the psychiatric drugs constricted

my voice again; that’s how I know the drugs are not from God. He would

not want to take away the testimony He gave me to his healing power. Only the Adversary

would inspire that. The bible says “The gifts and calling of God are without

repentance.” Romans 11:29. He would not take away what he gave me. It is inconsistent

with His word.

I spoke to churches about leaving their buildings open at night for worship and

many of them said to me “Our insurance won’t cover it.” The answer is, “live by

faith”. You’re a church. If you’re doing God’s work, HE will protect you. I testify

to this. Nothing ever happened to me while I lived in the church at night. On the

contrary several times when they made me leave, there were immediately break-ins.

God was trying to show them that I had been protecting the church and they

were driving away their protection. One time a man came in while I was there alone

in the church. God had given me such authority in that place that I accused him of

having robbed the church previously and I knew I was right. He denied it at first

but what then transpired was that we both ended up praying for each other and I

was blessed. Whatever he had had in his mind to do again, left. God took over and

converted him. ( Actually, I think he was an angel that had removed things God

wanted removed from the church)

My vision for revival includes 24-hour worship, and open doors in the churches so

that anyone can come in and pray while this is going on. After I left my church I

moved to a university chapel which had the doors open all the time during the day.

I was playing one day and praying for “fire” to come down, meaning God’s fire to

pour out. A little while later 3 student-age people came in and told me that they had

been sitting on the steps outside and suddenly felt fire, so they came in. It is evidence

that my vision works. The Holy Spirit Himself will draw people into the

church; all we have to do is worship inside and leave the doors open. If churches

are concerned about the cost of lighting these places they need to live by faith;

people will make donations that will cover this expense. One can leave a donation

box in the church near the door and whoever comes in will contribute. This will

cover the building and the musicians and singers, if they are working full-time. The

Levites in the Old Testament lived on the tithes of the congregation. This could

work again. If people want to play in shifts and work other jobs too, that is also possible.

But I believe that some of us are meant to do this full-time and God will

cover us. I used to come out of the church after playing all night and by divine appointment

run into people that would give me money. This was God’s way of supporting

my ministry work. Personally, I solved the problem of needing expenses for

the building by not turning on the lights; I played in the dark all night: I also wore

a coat and didn‘t need the heat on. So I cost the church nothing. But I can remember

sometimes getting too cold and leaving or my fingers getting too cold to play.

If the church had totally supported my efforts and provided a space heater, I would

have been more blessed and so would they. The minister had gotten sensitive to the

fact of the cost of keeping on a light, so I stopped using the lights. But if he had

supported me and trusted God, God would have provided for his and my need. If

I needed one, I, could have bought a little battery light to put on the piano to read

music. I played without sheet music, so I didn’t bother.

6. Let Musicians and Worshippers Live in the Churches if Possible

The support for this is the Levites in the Old Testament, who lived in the rooms

of the temple 1Cr 9:33 and the New Testament, Luke chapter 2; where Anna the

Prophetess lived in the temple with fasting and prayers and didn’t depart. Why

should a worshipper work 40 hours just to pay rent somewhere, if they are going

to be in the church worshipping full-time? If there is room, let them stay in the

church. I used to worship at night in the church and rest there, and then go out during

the day to do something else. I evangelized in the subway with my music. I also

taught in the schools and used it for evangelism. I think it would be a real blessing

to be able to rest in the presence of others who are still worshipping, continuing

the 24 hours shift. God’s presence would remain strong and give the person many

prophetic dreams from Him.

MANY MUSICIANS AND SINGERS ARE NIGHT PEOPLE. There is a

spiritual reason for this.

They are called to pray for others, through worship, at night when others sleep, and

for people all over the world who are awake. God uses us here to pray for people

in China. God often uses me to pray for Israel. They are 7 hours ahead of us. Their

day is our night. He needs people on the night shift. Things are going on all over

the world and we need to be used to pray for others. Sometimes when you pray at

night, the people you pray for are having dreams from God, because they are too

busy during the day to hear from Him. So as you worship and pray for them, God

is talking to them. This is one way He uses nighttime worship. Churches are safe

sanctuaries to pray in for situations that are volatile. It would be good to have a

safe place here to play in, to pray for Israel, as a rest from or preparation for going

there. I think there are some musicians and singers who are being misconstrued as

being mentally ill, and being told to just sleep at night and work regular jobs, rather

than being encouraged to use their talents as prayer for God.

7. Dissociate from the Mental Health System

Any musicians and singers or prayer warriors and worshippers who have any connection

with the mental health system need to get out. They should not be taking

any drugs, which inhibit the power of the Holy Spirit and are an opening for other

spirits. I knew someone on the worship team of a church who was taking lithium.

Every time I went to church, as soon as I went in I got attacked by a spirit of wooziness,

or confus—. This was because she was in a fog from the lithium, and when

she sang, that spiritual contamination transmitted to the whole church. The thinking

of the mental health system is polluting their thought life and prayer life as well;

that’s why they need to dissociate from it. This is because the mental health system

is premised on atheism, which sees biblical thinking and experiences as symptoms

of mental illness. Christians are slandered by the mental health system and labeled

psychotic. Hearing God or demons are considered to be auditory hallucinations;

seeing or feeling angels are considered visual hallucinations, which are considered

symptoms of psychosis. Hence they get labeled Schizophrenic or Schizoaffective.

Being “hyperreligious” gets them labeled bipolar, since hyperreligious is defined as

a symptom of mania. So then they are assumed to be manic-depressive or bipolar.

It is all false logic, nonsense. The labels are nonsense. Christian counselors that

have books using psychiatric terminology need to get rid of them since they bring

false spirits around them since the books are based on lies. People that go to counseling

for anyone who thinks this way or has these materials in their office can be

afflicted by bad spirits just being in the office. I went to someone’s office who was

a Christian counselor. I felt oppression around my head as soon as I walked in the

door. The counselor said she didn’t think the books could affect her, but it was affecting

me. (It was affecting her too, but she just didn’t realize it). I believe that

other counselees who went in there and didn’t know to pray for the blood of Jesus

to protect themselves, were also being afflicted.

We need to pray for the mind of Christ. God’s ways are not our ways,

“My thoughts are not your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8

 ”Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Romans 12:2

A good prayer to pray is “Lord let your thoughts be my thoughts, let your heart be my heart.”

The more spiritually mature a person who walks with Jesus is, the less their thinking sounds like the world. Understanding of spiritual things is a kind of wisdom that comes with

experience with God. Without that relationship, one cannot achieve this. The natural

unspiritual mind dominates the mental health system, so those called to serve

God need to remove that influence from around them. The churches will become

the healers, by invoking more of God’s power. I know that as I played the piano and

sang, God was doing healing in my emotions without my talking about it to anyone.

Talking is not necessary for healing. God already knows what is hurting us; His

spirit goes right into our minds and emotions and does healing by His spirit. There

are many stories of people being “slain in the spirit” – falling down under the power

of God, and waking up completely healed of the effect of some trauma or delivered

from a besetting problem. I believe that the talking of problems often keeps

the person stuck in it; it re-releases the problem onto the person and can keep them

stuck, because of the negative power of words. That’s also why praying in tongues

is so powerful; it is using a prayer language under the power of the Holy Spirit and

God uses it to pray for us and others by His Spirit. It doesn’t release problems back

into our lives by re-speaking the problems in our language; it just takes care of

them. I was having a bad situation one time and a whole church prayed for me in

tongues; no one told them what was going on; the situation stopped immediately.

God knew exactly what was going on; and having them all pray by the power of the

Holy Spirit took care of it.

“MENTAL ILLNESS” is often really misunderstood SPIRITUAL BURDENS

A lot of people that are called “mentally ill” are actually spiritually sensitive healers

themselves, many of them gifted in music, who are “called” by God to heal others

through prayer and worship. Unfortunately, a lot of them don’t realize this, and the

society doesn’t realize this, and the churches need to realize this. Their value in the

society is not understood and not being used. This is what needs to change. Putting

them on drugs is exactly robbing them of the abilities to minister and pray for others.

They need to establish a right relationship with God so they know how to pray

and use their talents effectively to help themselves and others. For example a spiritually-

sensitive person feels the pain of others around them much more around

more than some other people. Or they just feel pain, and don’t know why. Often it

is precisely that they are spiritually sensitive, feeling the pain of others. It is not a

chemical imbalance. It is a sensitivity given by God so that they will pray for others,

and the others will be healed. This then lifts their pain. This is especially true of any

person that has been born again, filled with the Spirit of God. And many of the

mental patients I have met, are Christians who HAVE been filled with the spirit of

God. So they suffer because they are feeling God’s suffering and the suffering of

their fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. Let me explain this. Any person who has

the Spirit of God living in them is connected to EVERY OTHER Spirit-filled believer.

There is only ONE HOLY SPIRIT. It lives in all these people simultaneously, interconnecting us. OF COURSE we feel each other’s pain! God cries with us when we suffer and we feel His grief for our suffering.

God’s purpose in interconnecting us is to get us to pray for each other, to lift each other up. He doesn’t want us to go on drugs that block the pain and get us individually to feel better, numb to the suffering of others. That is not God’s intent. He wants us to learn to pray

so that whatever is causing the pain, whether it is just emotions or sin, is dealt with.

God gave us His spirit to create relationship between us and God, and us and each

other. The drugs block our connection to God, and block our connection to each

other. It is oppositional to the purpose of God. Another patient told me that the

drugs made him numb. This is exactly what I am talking about.

I lived in a synagogue for 7 months after living in the church, praying for Jews. One

night I started to weep, and I heard the Holy Spirit say “I am weeping for my people”.

That was God letting me feel his burden for the Jews. It was definitely not my

own emotions.

A note to churches that send their sheep to psychiatric counseling

This is a tragedy because the mental health system, rooted in atheism, pulls them

further into lack of faith and uses drugs which further impede their relationship

with God. I know people this has happened to, and the church is guilty of sending

them there, both indirectly and directly. The churches that counsel their sheep to

go to psychiatric counseling are directly guilty of doing this and are in big trouble

with God. Woe to the pastors that slaughter their sheep.

Psalm I: Blessed is he who does not take the counsel of the ungodly. The

psychiatry system is ungodly— rooted in atheism.

MENTAL ILLNESS is caused by BAD SPIRITS, NOT CHEMICAL

IMBALANCES

All diseases, both physical and mental are caused by spirits that have assignments

which can attack our bodies, thoughts or emotions. They can be rebuked in Jesus’

name. I have rebuked illnesses. I had a spirit of depress- jump on me twice when

I touched someone who had it. I was crying for no reason. God wasn’t speaking to

me about what it was about, so it wasn’t a spiritual burden. One time someone

prayed for me and it left. The other time, I spontaneously coughed and it left. (self

deliverance). Another time I was feeling that spirit for some reason. I said “why am

I so depress—-? God said back to me, “you know what to do.” So I rebuked it, and

it left. I was healed spontaneously of a sexual disease when I repented of sexual sin.

I rebuked can—-, a life-threatening disease, and it left. James ch 3:15-17 says there

are 2 sources of thought, above and below. Wisdom from below is “earthly, sensual,

demonic.” Wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield,

full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality or hypocrisy.”

Bipolar Disorderis a label that is way over-diagnosed. It is just the “disease du jour

of psychiatry today; 20 years ago, their favorite label was schizophrenia. Christians

sometimes get labeled bipolar because they consider “hyper-religious” a symptom

of mania. Then, according to their logic, if the person is manic, they must get depress—

too, hence manic-depress., or bipolar. It is from faulty deductive reasoning.

People who really have this condition (manic-depress—) most likely have brought

the condition on themselves by using drugs (caffeine, alcohol and too much sugar).

Caffeine is an opening for spirits of man—and alcohol is an opening for spirits of

depress—. Caffeine can make people hyper and can cause anxiety. Alcohol is a

known depressant. Changing one’s diet will remove one cause of the problem.

The most important thing is addressing one’s spiritual condition. Being saved and filled

with the Holy Spirit brings peace and stability to a person. The Holy Spirit brings

peace. Jesus said “My peace I give to you, not as the world giveth, give I to you.”

John 14:26. After I got saved people said I was more peaceful. This makes sense

because being saved gives one assurance they are going to heaven, which removes

the anxiety people can have on a deep level about what will happen when they die.

I think people have anxiety because on a deep level their spirit KNOWS they will

go to Hell if they don’t get saved. This is not neurotic; it is truth. The problem is

sin. When a person gets saved, their sins are forgiven, erased. God’s peace comes

to them. Once they are saved, if they stay in sin, they may not feel God’s peace

until they repent. Taking care of the spiritual level needs to be the first order of

business. Sometimes people have anxiety—or depress—because they are living in

sin or have unrepentant sin. They use drugs to treat their condition. Taking psych

meds no more addresses the spiritual level than using caffeine, sugar or alcohol. It

is a mistake, and can mask the real problem, which is spiritual. Repenting of sin and

getting right with God will bring God’s peace. Repenting doesn’t just mean asking

for forgiveness, it means changing direction. A person should ask for God’s help

to resist sin. The Lord’s Prayer says “lead us not into temptation”. Sometimes when

I had a problem and asked why, God said to me, “you didn’t ask for my help”. He

doesn’t impose his will a lot of the time, He waits until we ask for help.

Psychotherapy is not generally speaking, going to be helpful unless it addresses

the person’s spiritual condition and their need to repent of sin and be saved. The bible says “blessed is he who does NOT take the counsel of the ungodly.” Psalm 1

Since the majority of psychologists and psychiatrists are atheists, their counsel

would be counterproductive. Christian counseling is the best choice. But

beware of those who work with psychiatrists.

The Holy Spirit can inspire anyone,no matter what they believe, to say something that is from God.  One time at a hospital, I was talking to a shrink who HAD read the bible but said he was an atheist.

Jesus said that the Holy Spirit will bring all things to remembrance that he had

taught. Since this man had read the bible, the Holy Spirit inspired him to suggest

something to me about a particular sin. God can speak through anyone, but so can

other spirits. The head of the World Federation of Mental Health, George B.

Chisholm, in 1947, said the purpose of psychotherapy is to eradicate morality. This

type of atheistic therapy is very destructive and just leads a person in vicious circles.

Long term psychotherapy is really just a trap. Knowing one’s problems is only the

first part of the problem. You need to know how to solve them, and the only real

solution is with God and Jesus. My mother once said to me “Freud takes you to a

wall and leaves you there.” This means, to me, that psychotherapy is a dead end.

Dwelling on one’s past can be very counterproductive. It can invoke bad things to

repeat. It is the devil who tries to get us to look backward. God tells us to look forward.

I heard a prophetic message one time in church: “Look not to the past”. A

person who is saved and has accepted Jesus has their sins and traumas washed away

by the blood of Jesus. This makes them a new creature in Christ. Freud was the father

of psychiatry. His atheism and drug addiction are the root of what psychiatry

is about, and both are dead ends.

Sometimes there are food allergies involved. God can cure a person of those. Artificial

food additives can cause problems as well. Melody Petersen in her book Our

Daily Meds (2008) makes the case that aspartame, common in sodas, is causing

problems. It is poison. I have felt the Holy Spirit leading me to avoid artificial food additives.

One should ask God to lead them as to what to eat or drink. One should be especially

careful not to eat blood. The bible says the life of the animal is in the blood.

The Kosher laws forbid eating blood. There were 4 laws given the gentiles in Acts

ch 15: one was not to eat blood (the others are not to eat food sacrificed to idols,

food strangled, or to fornicate). Eating fruits and vegetables gives a person more

energy. Fish and vegetarian protein is a better source of protein, which stabilizes

the blood sugar. When a person needs energy to wake up, it makes more sense to

eat fruit or drink juice, than to drink coffee. Juice immediately releases sugar into

the blood, which goes to the brain to wake it up. Caffeine is less direct anyway; it

affects the pancreas, which affects the blood sugar mechanism. Overworking the

pancreas with drugs can wear it out, causing diab —. The brain needs oxygen to

function too, so the best thing is to get exercise, which brings oxygen to the brain.

Then a person can fast and not necessarily need to eat or drink something. Doctors

typically say that one can cause kidney damage if they go more than 3 days without

water. But with God’s help people can fast longer with no bad effects. I have gone

6 days and not had any problem. Fasting is a valuable tool to deliver oneself from

spiritual oppression.

8. Pray for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit — Jesus called this “power

from on high”.

He told his disciples to tarry in Jerusalem for power from on high and when

it came, they talked in tongues and prophesied. All Christians need this

power and should pray for it.

The bible also warns us to avoid churches that have a form of godliness but deny

the power thereof. Therefore churches that deny the Power from On High need to

repent. They need to pray for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, as in ch. 2 of Acts,

as evidenced by talking in tongues and prophesying.

Whether talking in tongues and prophesying is evidence of having the Holy Spirit

in a person, or whether it is simply more POWER, all Christians need it.

Every person should pray for the baptism of the Holy Spirit, which is evidenced

by talking in tongues and prophesying, according to Acts ch. 2.

Fasting is important to receive the Baptism. When we fast our spirit is lighter

and we pray with more power. To pray for someone else, both people need to fast. I say this about fasting by my experience and what the Holy Spirit has shown me.

There is an even more fundamental issue. Christians disagree about whether a person

has the Holy Spirit in them. Pentecostals often think that the evidence of a

person having the Holy Spirit in them is that they talk in tongues. Some people

don’t know if they have the Holy Spirit in them. If they have spoken in tongues,

they have received the Holy Spirit. I knew that I had received the Holy Spirit after

I received speaking in tongues, because I started to feel a witness in my chest if

something grieved God. Previous to receiving the baptism of speaking in tongues,

this hadn’t happened. If they haven’t spoken in tongues, they may not have received

the Holy Spirit yet. Before the day of Pentecost, in Acts ch. 2, when the disciples

were told to tarry for “power from on high”, Jesus breathed on his disciples and said

“Receive ye the Holy Spirit”. The question is, Was it IN them or ON them? Some

believe that the people had it IN them at this point, that what happened later was

more POWER of the Holy Spirit. That is the witness I get from the Holy Spirit.

I think the real evidence of the Holy Spirit being in a person is Love. I have met

Christians that don’t talk in tongues, but they have love. I would’ hesitate to Say they

don’t have the Holy Spirit in them. Maybe it is true that they don’t have “power

from on high” yet, as evidenced by the baptism of the Holy Spirit which results in

talking in tongues and prophesying.

We all need more power from on high which Jesus told his disciples to tarry for.

How that manifests, is the real question. In the Book of Acts, chapter 2, Jesus had

told his followers to tarry in Jerusalem for “power from on high” and the Holy

Spirit came and filled them, and they spoke with other tongues. In chapter 19 in.

the book of Acts when they received the Holy Spirit it says they spoke in tongues

and prophesied: I do both. Some people may have received the baptism and have

prophesied but have not talked in tongues. They need to speak in tongues by faith,

and the Holy Spirit will take over. See next paragraph.

Sometimes I pray in tongues and then God talks to me and gives me the interpretation.

All of usneed this “power” from God to do the miracles that He has called us to do in thistime to heal the church and to heal the world. A lot more people would talk in

tongues if they believed in it. One has to believe to receive, generally. And sometimes

a person has sin they haven’t repented of, which is blocking them from receiving

it. Some people say to me “If God wants me to talk in tongues, I will” but

some of them are missing out on the fact that their need to seek God more on the

subject and pursue it; they need to ask God to reveal what, if anything, is blocking

them. It is not enough just to ask. Many people ask once and if nothing happens

they assume it is not God’s will: This is false. It happened to me when I repented

of some sin; I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit before I was baptized in

water, just like the gentiles in the book of Acts. I have prayed for some people to

receive tongues and the spirit has expressly told me that, they need to repent of

something.

I read a book called Power in Praise by Merlin Caruthers. This man says that a person

should ask for the baptism of the Holy Spirit and believe they have received it,

and just start talking in tongues by faith; The Holy Spirit will take over and give the

person the witness that the Holy Spirit is doing it, not just them. I asked God if this

was correct — I got a witness by the Holy Spirit that he is. My witness is that one

should fast to speak in tongues the first time. If a person has the Holy Ghost, then

by faith he can talk in tongues.

After I received the baptism (it came over me and I had the sensation that it was

not me talking but the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues. This didn’t just “happen”

again. Someone told me to start praying in tongues by faith and the Spirit would

kick in. I tried it and found this to be true. Initially it may seem like a person is

doing it by themselves, but the Holy Spirit will make its presence felt to let you

know that He is really operating.

There are multiple purposes for speaking in tongues; some of it is for edifying

the church; this type is spoken loudly at a service, and then someone else is

supposed to get the interpretation and tell the church what the Holy Spirit is speaking.

I think there are many times in churches where someone speaks in tongues

but the person who is given the interpretation is too shy to speak it; they may not

be sure they are hearing from God, as a result others are left wondering what was

going on. We all need to act in faith for God’s process to work for the group.

Another purpose for tongues is a personal prayer language where the Holy

Spirit directs our spirit what to pray for. This is not for prophecy for the

church, it is intercession by the Holy Spirit for whomever he is using the

person to pray for. Praying in tongues gives privacy, the person doing it does

not know what the sins of the other person are, yet they can be used by God

to pray for them. There is a certain logic to this.

Paul also says to pray for God to tell our mind what our spirit is praying for.

Sometimes God does reveal what the Spirit is doing; but not always. God

uses us to pray in tongues for others that we don’t even know, and for situations

in our own lives that we don’t even know about yet; He is taking care

of our future without telling us, which might cause us to have worry if we knew it.

So He just takes care of it by having us pray in tongues.

Another reason for tongues is that it appears that the Devil cannot understand

it. My testimony, and others have told me the same thing, is that prayers

seem less hindered when we pray in tongues; the devil can understand our language

and try to intercept us if we pray aloud, since he can hear us, but he can’t understand

tongues. So sometimes instead of asking others to agree with us on a prayer; it is

more effective to just pray together in tongues, and the Holy Spirit creates the unity

between our spirits.

A related situation is that sometimes there is no way to talk about or pray

about a situation in English without having the words actually invoke the

problem to re-occur. In such situations, talking in tongues is the only way

to address it and solve it. I had a situation like this one time where I couldn’t

discuss the problem. The pastor told the whole church to pray over me in

tongues. Nobody had any idea what the problem was. It got solved by their

praying in tongues.

There are some types of prayers that seem to need the power of tongues to bring them about.  Sometimes I pray for something, and then the spirit falls on me and start praying in tongues. I keep praying until the spirit tells me “it is accomplished.”

An important theological point about tongues is that some people believe that it is

a gift – only for some people. I want to address this. In I. Corinthians 12 it says

there is a different gift…”divers kinds of tongues.” It doesn’t says tongues, but “different

kinds of tongues”. Some people, when they pray in tongues, speak in different

types of tongues, that sound like different languages. Other people always seem

to sound the same. So I am making the distinction by saying that the gift spoken

about here is different types of tongues, as opposed to just one type. I think everyone

can potentially have a personal spiritual prayer language. Not all speak in

tongues in church, for the purpose of prophesying to the church, but all can pray

in tongues for their own edification and to pray for others. Some tongues are for

the purpose of being interpreted in church, other tongues are personal. People can

pray quietly in church, in tongues, and not speak it loudly to the whole church. This

happens a lot. In a book that is free on the Web to read titled The Walk of the

Spirit, The Walk of Power by Dave Roberson, he talks about the ability to talk in

different languages while praying in tongues. He has preached in languages he did

not know. I spoke in Hebrew while praying in tongues.

Singing in Tongues

One of the greatest joys I have ever experienced is singing in tongues. Anyone

who has received tongues has the capability to do this. Anyone, even before

they have received tongues, can be inspired by the Holy Spirit and sing under the

anointing of God, without tongues, in their own language. I have experienced several

people all singing together in tongues with no instruments, and we all felt the

gentle peace that accompanied the presence of God. It was a very gentle, Holy

presence. Loud amplification of instruments tends to drown this out; that’s why

worshippers need to be sensitive to the Spirit and let Him be in control. The experience

of this sort is probably what Heaven feels like. One time I was in the church

praying with 2 friends and suddenly all 3 of us heard singing, high up in the sanctuary.

There were no other people in the church, so it had to be angels. It sounded

like they were singing in tongues.

One of the most dramatic experiences I had of singing in tongues as intercession was in April of ’98.

I was playing the piano and singing in tongues, which is a private prayer language

given by God, for 8 hours. I was playing in a sanctuary at Boston Univ. used

by Catholics and Protestants. I heard myself sing “shalom” which means peace in

Hebrew, many times. I had no idea what God was doing, but I could feel the power

of the Holy Spirit on me. Sometime during this event a man came in and listened,

then came over and said to me, “Thank you. I feel like I can go home now.” I asked

where he was from and he said “Ireland”. The next day, the Boston  paper front

page said “Peace in Ireland’. They had just signed the Good Friday Peace Accords.

I asked God, “Did you use me to pray for that?”, and the Holy Spirit fell on me with

power, which meant “yes!”

There is a difference between a group of people singing in tongues and talking in

tongues. A bunch of people talking in tongues together may invoke the Holy Spirit’s

peace, or it may not. Sometimes it seems like confusion. But the singing in tongues

experiences I have had seemed to invoke a gentler holy peaceful presence. The

Holy Spirit was directing our spontaneous worship into an amazing unity that made

us all sing in harmony. There was no discord. No one knew what they would sing

next, yet, because the Holy Spirit was in charge, He was directing all of us simultaneously

in spontaneous worship.

I have had experiences where several of us sang together both in our own languages

and in tongues, going back and forth. We spoke a few different languages, and we

all spoke in tongues as well, so we were going back and forth between singing in

our own language and using tongues. At any given moment it would be hard to tell

if the other person was singing in their own language or tongues. Both were happening.

I have had experiences where I sang a song in English and others sang the same

song in their own language, and we felt the Holy Spirit. I have also had experiences

of spontaneous worship where I sing one thing and someone next to me sang

something else, like adding a part in counterpoint. I think God wants the whole

church to join in and all do this together. The Spirit on one catalyzes others to also

go into spontaneous worship. The bible tells us to sing a new song. This means

spontaneous songs. Spontaneous worship really invokes the power of God to do

healing and whatever He wants to do in people. When we allow ourselves to do this,

we are letting Him direct us, instead of Us directing the worship. The more we let

the Holy Spirit direct us, the more He will do in us.

To receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit a person may need to ask God to reveal

any doctrinal error they may hold. When they repent of it, the Spirit comes. There

are churches that have false doctrines that don’t have the power of God because

of this. We are told to worship God in Spirit and Truth. So God wants us to seek

His truth.

If a person believes that praying in tongues is not for today, as some believe, that

is doctrinal error that can block it from coming.

If a person believes that those who pray in tongues have a mental problem, they

need to repent. They are actually attributing to the devil what is from the spirit of

God, which is the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.

If a person thinks it is only a gift, and not everyone is supposed to get it, this may

be doctrinal error that can block them from receiving it. One needs to have faith

to receive it. They need to repent of not believing, and ask for it. They can pray

‘Lord if my doctrine is error, forgive me’. The error is that the scripture says the

Article by Hudson Millar

The world of music is something that can soothe as well as pep up the mood of a person. No wonder music of diverse kinds has been a very vital and integral part of media and entertainment. Production music and music stings occupy a very conspicuous part of the entertainment industry. It is very true that any form of a video clip has an amplified impact upon the audience when an appropriate piece of music is incorporated into it. Consequently, the demand for has been considered invaluable since time immemorial. These music bits are basically produced by music libraries that also own the possession rights of the music piece.

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playingforchange.com – From the award-winning documentary, “Playing For Change Peace Through Music”, comes an incredible rendition of the legendary Bob Marley song “One Love” with Keb’ Mo’ and Manu Chao. This is the third video from the documentary and a follow up to the classic “Stand By Me” and the incredible “Don’t Worry.” Released in celebration of Bob Marley’s birthday on February 6th, this tribute to the legend is performed by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it traveled the globe. Order the CD/DVD Playing For Change Songs Around The World” now at amazon.com! tinyurl.com Playing For Change “Songs Around The World” is now available at your neighborhood Starbucks and everywhere music is sold. Order the “One Love,” “War/No More Trouble, “Stand By Me,” and “Don’t Worry,” videos and the new Songs Around The World album now at itunes! tinyurl.com Sign up at playingforchange.com for updates and exclusive content. You can also buy cool stuff in our new online store! Join the Playing for Change Online Street Team at ufanz.com Join the movement to help inspire people from around the world to come together through music.

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Ipod nano now has a built-in video camera that lets you record fun as it happens. Then share it with friends on the Internet. It’s the video camera that’s small enough to take with you everywhere.

A quick scroll through the menu takes you to the video camera. Then you’re ready to record video in portrait or landscape – perfect for emailing or posting on Facebook or MobileMe. A built-in mic lets you capture audio, too. And when you play back your video on iPod nano, you’ll hear the recorded audio with it. All of which means your indispensable music player is now your indispensable video camera.

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Ipod nano 16gb now has a polished anodized aluminum finish in nine electrifying colors. And a larger 2.2-inch color display for your viewing pleasure.

Itunes your greatest hits.

It’s even easier to organize, browse, grow, and share your digital music and video collection with the new iTunes. And now you can save items with a wish list and enjoy iTunes extras – bonus features on select albums and movies – like lyrics, photos, interviews, and behind-the-scenes media.

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There’s always something great on the FM dial. And now the FM tuner lets you hear your favorite morning shows on your commute and discover new music while you work out. It even shows you what and who you’re listening to.1

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If you are passionate about music and pretty good at writing, why not start a blog to review the music you listen to? With today’s social web you can utilise tools such as Twitter and Digg to promote your reviews and build up a following over time.

In this article we give 3 tips on how you can amass a following through your album reviews.

1. Write lots of content

This sort of goes without saying, but I will hammer it home anyway – write lots of content, and write it often! Too many blogs go stale after a few weeks because the author gives up, having not reached a million readers in under a month he feels his efforts are in vain. This is simply not true – Rome was not built in a day – in fact it took about 500 years. Your blog won’t take that long to kick off, but in relative terms expect to work on it for at least 6 months before you get some real visitors!

2. Share everything

We live in a social world now. I started using the internet in 1998 and it felt like a desolate place. Now, everybody is tweeting, facebooking, digging… make sure you add social bookmarking and sharing links to each review you write and also ensure you set the example by sharing the content yourself!

3. Include imagery

Turns out people love to look at pictures, and one big block of text just won’t hold the users interest for long. If you can, include images. This can include band pictures, artwork or even just the artist’s logo. Imagery will hold the reader’s interest for longer meaning your review has a stronger impact.

If you do decide to enter the world of music journalism, beware that it is quite saturated. This does not mean, however, it is full of good writers. Be persistent and strong with your writing and you can be one of the few that creates sustainable success.

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Music lovers and enthusiasts have all the rights to learn their chosen musical instrument despite of their impairment, as long as such will not completely forbid them to play such. Various tips and instructional guides are available on the internet and some libraries that will give music teachers the resources to be effective in handling special learners.

Let us say in the case of Andrea Boccelli, a great tenor and musician who was diagnosed with glaucoma and lost his sight at an early age of fourteen; if not for his music teacher, we might not hear his tranquil and heart warming voice. More so, he reached success in music because he had such self-motivation and certain love for music. And these had made it all possible.

Generally speaking, special learners are regarded as those students, who either have cognitive, physical, mental or social abilities and disabilities. These groups of special individuals are faced with different learning challenges. However, through the professional assistance of music teachers and enthusiasts as well as effective and efficient music teachers’ resources, they are able to comprehend, adopt and adjust to such learning situations. Also, acquisition of skills and knowledge has been possible through these resources for music teachers.

Great examples of music teachers’ resources are those from the Internet such as tips and inputs from various music teacher sites, personal experiences of the music lovers and experts themselves, other extensive techniques and methods of music teachers, and some findings from different music researches. When music teachers are in need of such reliable and effective resources, they may adopt any of those mentioned sources and make each a part of their music teaching strategies.

Music teachers’ resources truly come in variation. You may actually choose from different available resources nowadays. However, you have to bear in mind that it takes a lot of analysis and discernment to find out which among those resources would be appropriate and effective for each special learner. Remember that as a music teacher, your role does not end in mere teaching music but most of all, in making them discover their talents and feel that they are treated as typical and average students.

Though it may be quite difficult to deal with special learners, music teachers will then feel and realize that teaching them can be very rewarding. Your time, efforts and hard works will soon pay off especially if you have seen your learners succeed and unleash their music talents and inclinations.

Furthermore, when these special learners tend to appreciate their music teachers, have made them their real mentors, and have considered them as their source of motivation and inspiration, these music educators can proudly say that being one has been a blessing, thus gives them such feelings of fulfillment and self-worth.

For more tips and music teachers’ resources, visit this music teaching website.