The Spiritual Song - Exploring Prophetic Worship by Mike Herron

of God; the Law, Psalms, Prophets and the New Testament. There is a unique power in singing the Word and it is not without design that Psalms are mentioned first in both the Colossian and Ephesians references. A number of sections of the New Testament are thought to be ‘psalms’ such as Colossians 1:15 -20.

‘Christ is the visible image of the invisible God He existed before anything was created and Is supreme over all creation,

For through him God created everything In the heavenly realms and on earth…’ (Col 1:15, 16)

Mary’s Magnificat equals or excels any psalm

portion of the Bible: ‘My soul magnifies the Lord , and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.’ (Lk 1:46, 47 ESV)

HYMNS-

The meaning of this word is a song that is in praise of God. ‘In the Greek world, this word was used exclusively of songs sung to deities or heroes…’ 25 It would include all the compositions of human origin that are in praise or prayer to God and Christ throughout the centuries. Today we refer to hymns as an older style of music as distinct from our

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