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In Ephesians 5:18-20 the Apostle Paul wrote:<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201c\u2026be filled with the Spirit. Speak to one another in psalms<\/strong>, hymns<\/strong>, and spiritual songs<\/strong>, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.\u00a0Give thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n In the Christian tradition, \u201cPsalms\u201d are understood to be those songs based clearly and exclusively on the book of Psalms or songs written throughout the Bible. \u201cHymns\u201d are those songs written from or about the Word of God where the Scriptural context is clear.<\/p>\n The term \u201cspiritual songs\u201d originates from the Hebrew word for praise, \u201ctehillah<\/em>,\u201d which is translated as a \u201cnew song\u201d that is unique and personal to you. In fact, tehillah praise<\/em> is, specifically, a \u201cspiritual song\u201d you spontaneously write from your spirit and sing to the spirit of God in your private times of worship.<\/p>\n Each of these has a place in corporate worship service, but the harsh reality is that when it comes time to choose songs for church, many worship leaders look for what is\u00a0popular<\/em><\/strong> over what is\u00a0praise<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Ask this: Does this song minister thanksgiving to the Lord as a Psalm, hymn, or spiritual song?\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n God\u2019s design for praise and worship is infused with power, but too many churches simply accept that just because a song is emotionally moving or popular, that it is\u00a0anointed<\/em> worship. That simply isn\u2019t true, Scripturally speaking.<\/p>\n In fact, no words anyone could ever write will hold more power than God\u2019s own Word. God partners with His<\/em><\/strong> Word and that\u2019s why songs of praise and worship must reflect agreement with His Word.<\/p>\n Photo Credit: Zack Smith\/Unsplash\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Ephesians 5:18-20 the Apostle Paul wrote: \u00a0\u201c\u2026be filled with the Spirit. Speak to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.\u00a0Give thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ\u2026\u201d In the Christian tradition, \u201cPsalms\u201d are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[82,4068,1014,591],"class_list":["post-13888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-christian-living","tag-church","tag-discern","tag-song","tag-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}