I personally believe that the most important part of a song is in the weight and depth of its lyrics.
Nothing about a song gets to me more!
That's what I enjoy the most about singing. Sometimes in the place of fellowship(be it personal or corporate), there are many emotions going through my heart that I find music to be a great channel of expressing... through not just the melody but more importantly through great lyrics, that carry realities of faith, blended in the synchrony and harmony of melodies...
It's just beautiful 😍
And I'm glad I finally have a place to share or breathe out the motions of my heart in song lyrics 😌
The issue of the New Heart and the New Spirit has never been clearer!
Dearly Beloved Brethren in the Age of the Reign of Life.
In Ezekiel 36:26, the promise to every believer is: "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh." A man is identified or recognized in the spirit by the quality of his heart!
Jesus clearly states in Mark 10:17-18 that no man (heart) is good. So when you see a believer with a beautiful life conversation which is an outflow of what is in his heart, it is only proof that the Gospel is potent to change a man. No man came with the ability to respond to the gospel from heaven! A work was done also by the gospel to make a heart good so that it can respond to God as it ought to. The Parable of the Sower in Matthew 13:18-23 shows us 4 types of heart: 1. The Wayside heart 2. The Stony heart 3. The Thorny heart and; 4. The Good heart
So the other types of heart are supposed to journey to become "the Good heart". A good heart is a Heart of Flesh! The New heart is gotten gradually from washings and cleansings by the water of the Word.(Ephesians 5:26)
The new spirit given at the end of the many cleansings is Charity as a nature! Because yes a Charity man is a Spirit not just a spiritual man. And Charity is a seal on the Faith of Christ. So Pastor Dimeji said and I quote, "New heart plus new spirit gives Heart of Flesh!" Wow... I screamed! Just Wow!!! The Technology of Conversion hid in the Scripture of the prophets is mind blowing!!!
Thank God for gifts of Christ that are helping us excavate scripture and bring forth this treasures🙏🙏🙏
Dearly Beloved Brethen of the Age of the Reign of Life.
You know it's easy to hear so many revelations and get used to them and truly understand them as the spirit giveth understanding and feel good about hearing the truth and bask in the Euphoria of it.
And then when you hear about milk of the word, you can easily feel like Oh... I must have passed this level! (I didn't say you haven't 🙃) It seems mere... Basic... Ordinary
But have you ever been in that position where something that was like a tall commandment for you which you're still trusting God to keep, and then you hear during a teaching and see proofs in Scripture where that particular thing was wrought in men by pure milk of the Word??? And you're like... Really??? God abeg 🤲😩 With all my revelation...
I stand to acknowledge the power and potency in the sincere milk of the Word! In Matt. 5:18 Jesus affirms that no jot nor tittle of the Word of God would pass away before coming to fulfillment!
The Milk of the Word is a proceeding out of the mouth of the Lord which when it is sourced from everlasting light, is able to make much power available!!! Pst Dimeji Elugbadebo made a striking statement during singles rendezvous and I quote: "Faith in milk is supposed to separate a man from confidence in the natural". You'd agree with me that it takes lot of power to do that. So until we begin to rightly discern the allocation of the milk we might not be able to access the power it is supposed to deliver to us. So while we would not tabernacle with the milk of the Word, we would also not overlook it! While we would pay attention to the path to Eternal life that God is revealing and hear all the tall revelations, we would also discern rightly and not despise what God has put in the Milk of the Word to do in us. It is an important part of the gospel on which the whole building would rest. Our ability to journey well in meat and even strong meat is by how much of milk of the Word we have used (not just the one we've heard).
I bless God for the restoration of the content of the pure milk of the word to the church again🙌. I'm still waiting and expectant for the Lord to once again open up the details of what the early church were taught as the apostles doctrine.
The Psalmist said in Psalms 19:13," Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression."
I now see that it is being presumptuous and a great transgression to despise the milk of the Word! Hei... God😩🤲 We must not allow the privilege of hearing great revelations make us commit this great transgression. Romans 12:3 says "For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
God knows most perfectly what is lacking in the building of every man and that is why he wants to supply it by taking us back to milk from time to time. We must be humble enough to pay attention when the Lord is turning our attention to seemingly simple things .
It is the same Mouth that is speaking when you're hearing the Servant and the Two Prophets and also when you hear about how you should be a student of scripture or how you should pray aloud until you can hear what you're saying. It is the same Lord! Do not despise it!!!