Sound has the power to change everything. Imagine a scene
from a movie where a woman is walking down a sidewalk. I’ll add some details to
spice it up. It’s a fall afternoon and the wind is picking up, making the dead
leaves swirl around her feet with every step. The street is downtown in a big
city. It is crowded with business people on their lunch break. The woman, in
her forties, is wearing a navy blue skirt and a white blouse. Her right hand is
clutching the strap of her purse, and she is walking extremely fast. From these
visuals what do we know about the situation? Very little. We can guess at what
the situation might be—maybe she’s late for a meeting, maybe she doesn’t work
and has come downtown to give her husband something at his office. The truth is,
we know nothing except what our eyes see. Our eyes simply give us facts.
Now take the same scene and add the eerie sound of a lonely
faint chime. Voice this over the background of a futuresque dissonant chord
from a synthesizer. Add the boom of a bass drum playing sporadically as if in a
death march. Now we feel something. We’re concerned for the woman, maybe even
scared and on the edge of our seats because we think she’s being chased. Change
the music to a light piccolo playing over the pizzicato plucks of an
orchestra’s violin section and the scene becomes more playful, as if she’s
running against the heavy flow of people walking the other way. With this
background music, she becomes more of an individual heroine whom we’re rooting
for. Finally, change the music to the slow, lush sound of strings passionately
playing “The Love Song” and hearts drop. Perhaps she is on the way to the
hospital where her love lies dying and has only hours to live.
Sound can create a story from dry facts. It stirs our emotions
to go beyond facts to feeling. The scene’s meaning depends entirely on how the
viewer and the listener choose to respond emotionally and the meaning can also
depend on their mood while watching and listening. The revelation that comes to
the seer has everything to do with the sounds of the scene.
The woman walking is a picture of the church, progressively
taking steps forward, often frantically. The sound being heard as the church
goes forward has everything to do with how the seers will interpret what goes
on. Therefore, the sound impacts how they will pray, how they will believe, and
how they will interpret the activity they see in the church. Is she walking
into a season of peace, a season of joy, or a season of being raped and
violated by the world? Music is the indicator. Music sets the tone of her
destiny.
Throughout the generations of history, the spiritual climate
of God’s people has always had a musical indicator. God unveils new songs and
new sounds in relationship to the new revelation of His presence in His people.
That’s why the enemy fights so hard to counterfeit everything that God desires
to do musically in a generation.
The eye gate is as important as the ear gate, for unless we
see what the Father is doing, how can we hear what He is saying? The prophetic
song in our generation is musically coming into agreement with and accompanying
what God is doing and saying (See John 5:19). He has been developing our
sensitivity to His Spirit through the emphasis on prayer, intercession, praise
and worship, causing His church to walk as a victorious lady in a blue skirt
surrounded by songs of deliverance, seeing and hearing with each step the
sights and sounds of God’s heavenly purpose.
Our team of worshipers are stepping confidently into the
land of Israel this December. We are on a mission to prophetically release a
new soundtrack of truth that clearly interprets the heart of God for the nation
of Israel, as well as the purposes of God unto our generation. May the
accompanying soundtrack of this upcoming scene impact all the nations that are
watching Israel, that they might hear the sound of heaven as we simply walk
with our God and obediently release the sounds into the spirit realm that He
has given to us.
