CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE
To worship as King David worshiped by using ancient musical concept played on a simple instrument to express authentic personal worship before a deserving and awesome God.
The Psaltery:
A musical instrument anyone to play.
This simple instrument is designed for making music beautifully personal and warmly inviting.
The Psaltery has grown out of a long history of similar instruments like Harps, Lyres, Zithers, Lap Harps and Auto Harps. This Psaltery has its own unique color code that allows ages 5 to 95 to play music very quickly and meaningfully.
The Psaltery is a tool for authentic personal praise and worship. In the hands of those who seek to honor and praise the Lord of Lords, the Psaltery is an instrument for majestic worship before a deserving and awesome God.
“I will also praise thee with the psaltery, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel” Psalms 71:22. KJV
This instrument has ancient roots and is probably similar in some ways to the instrument Kind David played as he wrote the Psalms. The Psaltery connection:
PSALMS : A book of the Bible, songs that declare worship, worship songs in the tradition and focus like King David
PSALTER : A collection of Psalms –tools, ideas that encourage personal worship .
PSALTERY : An instrument for playing the music of the Psalms for personal worship.
Worship begins with a Psalm – a Psalm begins with Praise – Praise is played on a Psaltery .
WHO WOULD USE A PSALTERY
1. People who want to have a deeper life and like Kind David desire to have daily moments of intimate music to worship God. For God inhabits the praises of His people.
2. Believers who have found the peace in quiet moments where God's word and the Psalms become a shield and comfort.
3. People who understand the use and value of music in personal worship to build deep capacity by their daily habits in quiet times.
4. People who know God is interested in the thankful heart, the intentional active singing praises to the Lord of Lords. For God does not look at the state of the art; He looks at the state of the heart. Proverbs Guard your heart.
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Personal quiet times are exponentially magnified by personal worship music.
Does David's example as a great leader have anything to do with his personal worship habits? Worship is a state of the heart; musical sound is the state of the art. It is almost impossible to overstate the power of music to influence the state of the heart. It stimulates emotional, mental, spiritual and levels unmatched by other means of communication.
Words alone can be very strong, but when supported by the power of music, meaning and purpose can be deeply implanted into the soul!
WHY USE THE PSALTERY The Psaltery is a personal worship musical instrument designed as a tool for making your daily personal worship music more meaningful.
Personal worship music making is God's idea of a marvelous expression for His people. To be engaged daily in a meaningful expression of joy and soul healing is how God inhabits our lives. Like King David must have experienced, we can have rich personal moments with God.
Surely David was a man after God's own heart. He worshiped personally with music daily on his Psaltery – why shouldn't we?
Personal quiet times are exponentially magnified by personal worship music. Does David's example as a great leader have anything to do with his personal worship habits?
Worship is a state of the heart; musical sound is the state of the art. It is almost impossible to overstate the power of music to influence the state of the heart. It stimulates emotional, mental, spiritual and levels unmatched by other means of communication.
How To Use The Psaltery For Personal Worship:
1 . Find and select worship music in hymns, spirituals, psalms for personal authentic praise.
2. Learn the musical techniques and color codes for playing the Psaltery, guitar, piano, etc.
3. Make it a priority to sing one or two praise songs daily.
4. Invite a person to join you; a spouse, child or friend.
5. Sing simply with purpose and joy.
6. Spend time meditating on the words.
7. Minutes in worship are worth precious gold and enhance quiet times.
8. Worship moments daily bring mountains of sustainable strength.
9. Authentic moments in personal daily worship translate to authentic personal momentum for a meaningful and purposeful devotional and study time.
10. Daily personal worship moments add hours to your daily schedule and volumes to your daily meaning and purpose! What mighty things could God do if He did inhabit His people daily? No God of cosmic dimensions is valued supremely with worship only once a week at church (at best). Nothing can replace the time we spend investing in the moments of worship. Having a personal worship time is like planting a garden. It's those seeds that produce a hundred fold in faith and confidence in the face of a storm. Psalm 59:16
If we offer quiet praise, joy and love - we will experience abundance and freedom, then this moment will have been worth while.