SINGING YOUR PRAYERS

Worship With The Word

The holy Bible tells us  ''Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.'' (Colossians 3:16 )

There’s a beautiful melding of these two that happens where our own words become also words from scripture. Here are five (5) reasons to sing your prayers:


1. You can pray longer and enjoy it. Singing your prayers is a way to make long prayer not only tolerable but enjoyable. I could make up a chorus or verse from scripture and sing it for an hour.  For some reason, singing is much more pleasurable than speaking prayers.

2. Repetition is easy and doesn’t feel weird. I’ve heard of old saints repeating 3 or 5 word prayers over and over all day long “Forgive me, Lord, a sinner.” for example.  I’ve tried this as I do feel there is a benefit to repeated prayers, but it just feels unnatural. When you sing your prayers, you may make up a chorus that goes with the melody like “God, tell me you love me again. Tell me you want me again.  Awaken love.” It feels easy and natural to sing this chorus over and over to the melody.

3. It makes your prayers scriptural. There is definitely power in using the word and communicating it back to God.  When you pray-sing the Psalms, you are often praying the very prayers of this amazing man after God’s own heart, David.  (And think of that-He also sung his prayers!).  You can use nearly any verse out of God’s Word and turn it into beautiful dialogue between you and God.  It also gives you a scriptural vocabulary for communicating with God and others.

4. Music gets in deeper to the soul. You know there is just something about music.  A good song will penetrate your heart and move your emotions. When you sing your prayers, you are escorted to a deeper place with God and feel His words resonating within you.

5. Singing prayer is a great way to “pray without ceasing”.  Since I find it enjoyable, I use most of my time to make up scriptural song-prayers to God–on walks, car rides… And a lot of the times, the choruses will stick with me throughout the day while I’m washing dishes or changing diapers.



Reference

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• https://www.openbible.info/topics/singing_prayers

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