The Spiritual Song - Exploring Prophetic Worship by Mike Herron

and as this glorified music filled the place and everyone worshiped, the lady sitting at the organ began to play in the spirit and furnished perfect accompaniment.” 14  The spiritual song has ‘selahs,’ moments of rest where there is silence.  There are acoustic dynamics of loud intensity and softness in the song.  There is responsorial singing in the spiritual song; a soloist ’ s verse is responded to by the congregational choir  The spiritual song can be acapello, unaccompanied by instruments  Once again the spiritual song is expressed in a duet in tongues  The instruments can supply harmonic support to the song Ernest Gentile is a respected teacher, author and prophet. As a young preacher he ministered during the time of the Latter Rain revival and the reemergence of the spiritual song of the Lord. Here are his observations about the early days of this form of worship. ‘ I have always thought of prophetic song as a special type of prophetic utterance that adds the dimension of music to the spoken

14 April, 1949 issue of ‘Wings of Healing’ magazine publishe d in Portland, Oregon