Devotions For Music Ministers

Devotion For Music Ministers

I will bless the LORD at all times, His praise will continually be in my mouth. My soul will make it's boast in the LORD. The Humble will here thereof and be glad.
Oh magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt His name together
Psalm 34:1-3

Why I Worship This Way


When I express worship to the Lord I do it in a lot of different ways. Sometimes I clap my hands as Psalm 47:1 tells us to. Sometimes I shout as expressed in that same verse. Sometimes I sing as commanded in the sixth verse of that same Psalm. Sometimes I walk and leap as the man healed of crippledness in Acts chapter 3 did. Sometimes I dance or play instruments as Psalm 150 says to. Sometimes I bow down according to Psalm 95:6. Sometimes I raise my hands as in Psalm 134:2.

O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker.
Psalm 95:6

Through everyone of these methods of praise and worship God is delighted. It make look foolish to the natural man but it brings God pleasure. It gets His attention.

When we see the word, praise, in the Old Testament it can have a variety of meanings. Below is a listing of various Hebrew words that are translated praise or worship and scripture where these words are used.

Transliterated: yadah – to throw up your hands
Phonetic: yaw-daw' Strong's Number: 3034
Text: a primitive root; used only as denominative from 3027; literally, to use (i.e. hold out) the hand; physically, to throw (a stone, an arrow) at or away; especially to revere or worship (with extended hands); intensively, to bemoan (by wringing the hands): -cast (out), (make) confess(-ion), praise, shoot, (give) thank(-ful, -s, -sgiving).
Gen 29:35. And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the Lord: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing.

Transliterated: halal – to boast, to rave, to appear as foolish      
Phonetic: haw-lal' Strong's Number: 1984
Text: a primitive root; to be clear (orig. of sound, but usually of color); to shine; hence, to make a show, to boast; and thus to be (clamorously) foolish; to rave; causatively, to celebrate; also to stultify: -(make) boast (self), celebrate, commend, (deal, make), fool(- ish, -ly), glory, give [light], be (make, feign self) mad (against), give in marriage, [sing, be worthy of] praise, rage, renowned, shine.
Psalms 48: 1. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

Transliterated: thillah
Phonetic: teh-hil-law' Strong's Number: 8416
Text: from 1984; laudation; specifically (concretely) a hymn: --praise.
Psalms 22:25. My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

Strong's Number: 8426
Transliterated: towdah – a choir of worshippers, extending the hand, thanksgiving
Phonetic: to-daw' Strong's Number: 8426
Text: from 3034; properly, an extension of the hand, i.e. (by implication) avowal, or (usually) adoration; specifically, a choir of worshippers: --confession, (sacrifice of) praise, thanks(-giving, offering).
Ps 26:7. That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.

Transliterated: miqra' – to worship in public
Phonetic: mik-raw' Strong's Number: 4744

Text: from 7121; something called out, i.e. a public meeting (the act, the persons, or the place); also a rehearsal: --assembly, calling, convocation, reading.

Transliterated: shachah – to fall down, to make obeisance
Phonetic: shaw-khaw' Strong's Number: 7812
Text: a primitive root; to depress, i.e. prostrate (especially reflexive, in homage to royalty or God): --bow (self) down, crouch, fall down (flat), humbly beseech, do (make) obeisance, do reverence, make to stoop, worship.
Jeremiah 7:2. Stand in the gate of the Lord's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the Lord.

Transliterated: zamar – to play an instrument or sing
Phonetic: zaw-mar' Strong's Number: 2167
Text: a primitive root [perhaps ident. with 2168 through the idea of striking with the fingers]; properly, to touch the strings or parts of a musical instrument, i.e. play upon it; to make music, accompanied by the voice; hence to celebrate in song and music: -give praise, sing forth praises, psalms.
Psalms 147: 1. Praise ye the Lord: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.

Transliterated: shabach – to glory
Phonetic: shaw-bakh' Strong's Number: 7623
Text: a primitive root; properly, to address in a loud tone, i.e. (specifically) loud; figuratively, to pacify (as if by words): --commend, glory, keep in, praise, still, triumph.

Transliterated: shbach - to adore
Phonetic: sheb-akh' Strong's Number: 7624
Text: (Aramaic) corresponding to 7623; to adulate, i.e. adore: --praise.
Psalms 147:12. Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.

Worshipping God in ways set forth by the Scriptures is powerful. If you have never worshipped God in any of these ways, try it! Your relationship with Him will never be the same! The world celebrates it's sports stars and celebraties and its politicians in these ways. Why not give the celebration to the one who made the stars and is King of kings and Lord of lords forever.

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