The Spiritual Song - Exploring Prophetic Worship by Mike Herron

spiritual song doesn’t always have to be loud but it does have scriptural basis to be so.

The sound of lightning and thunder-

And I heard a sound from heaven like…the rolling of loud thunder. It was like the sound of many harpists playing together. This great choir sang a wonderful new song. (Rev 14:2,3) In these verses we are told that the playing of harps and the singing of the new song is so intense that it sounds like the ‘ rolling of loud thunder.’ The corporate spiritual song rolls through the hearts of God’s people impelled by the Holy Spirit. Thunder and lightning is meant to be a lesser example of the true experience of praise. Lightning and thunder is the result of the polarization of positive and negative charged molecules in a cloud. The colder, heavier negative charge falls to the bottom and the lighter, positive molecules rise to the top creating a similar effect of plus (+) and minus (-) terminals on a battery. The warm air of the Holy Spirit collides with the cooler human heart, the negative effects of life fall downward and the uplifting praise rises within us resulting in thunderous, powerful spiritual song.