Monday, April 13, 2015

The Power and Protection of Worthy Music - Russell M. Nelson

The Power and Protection of Worthy Music - Russell M. Nelson

I absolutely love the Hymns of the Church!

 Prophets through all generations have taught the importance of worthy music in our expressions of worship.

1.  Music has power to provide spiritual nourishment.
     (See“The Nourishing Power of Hymns,” Ensign, May 2007, 11–13.)

2.  Music has healing power. (See “The Healing Power of Hymns,”
     Ensign, Apr. 2008, 66–69.)

3.  Music has the power to facilitate worship, allowing us to contemplate the
     Atonement and the Restoration  of the gospel, with its saving principles and
     exalting ordinances.

4.  Music provides power for us to express prayerful thoughts
     and bear testimony of sacred truths.

5.  Music has power to overcome language barriers.

6.  Music has a sweet power to promote unity and love in the family.

7.  Worthy music has the power to make us humble, prayerful, and grateful.

8.  Worthy music also has the power to persuade.

9.  Hymns can also help us withstand the temptations of the adversary. 
     (Hymnbook preface)

10. Hymns invite the Spirit of the Lord

11.  Hymns create a feeling of reverence.

12.  Hymns provide a way for us to offer praises to the Lord.

13.  Hymns move us to repentance and good works, build testimony and faith.

14.  Hymns comfort the weary, console the mourning, and inspire us to
       endure to the end.

15.  Hymns provide a pattern of worship that is pleasing to God.

A New Testament scripture counsels us to have a well of good music within, “speaking to [ourselves] in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in [our] heart to the Lord;
“Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Ephesians 5:19–20).

 Another New Testament verse says, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you … ; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord” (Colossians 3:16).


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