Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
The apostle Paul spoke of singing and making melody in our hearts.
Ephesians 5:18-20 ... be filled with the Spirit;
Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
When I start out the day and am reminded of a hymn, I find I begin singing that hymn in my heart.
I have found a website which gives you all the words of a specific hymn and all the verses and you can even have sound of piano playing the hymn so you can sing each verse.
I use that often.
The website is: hymnal.net
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I wrote the following to our little church group, urging them to partake of these hymns and make them a part of their daily lives.
Email from Joan Boney:
This morning, I had the hymn, Standing on the Promises of God, going though my head. So I pulled it up on my Kindle at the hymnal.net website, and pressed the play arrow and the piano began playing this hymn.
The second time the piano played it, I began singing the verses, one by one, going through all these verses.
As I sang, I thought of the words, how scriptural and how good it is to remember these promises never fail, as verse 4 says.
I even thought of some of the promises of God after I sing this hymn
* I will never fail thee nor forsake thee
* All things work together for good to them who love the Lord to them who are the called according to HIS purpose
* Many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivers him from them all
* If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God who giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not and it shall be given him
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And look at some of these lines in this hymn
* Standing on the promises that never fail
Having that concept drilled into us should be very helpful. When we get this hymn deeply into our inner being with the words, I think it will do a good work
* By the living Word of God I shall prevail. Standing on the promises of God
* Overcoming daily by the Spirit's sword
You can tell by the words in this hymn this person writing the hymn really had the Spirit of God.
I am sure these spiritual hymns can be used by God to help us.
... singing and making melody in your hearts Ephesians 5
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