Good morning thank you for taking the time to read this mornings
Fire-starter from 2 Chronicles 5. This morning our Fire-starter thought
is: music and God’s presence.

Reading this passage is a great reminder that the right kind of music is
a great thing when it comes to God’s presence.

We are living in a day when we think God’s presence is only felt when
preaching is around or when there is shouting from the pew. In our text
there was thanking and praising and God showed up.

Don’t get me wrong I am all for preaching and singing but sometimes we
just need a praising for God’s presence to be shown. By the way psalm
100:2 states to… come before his presence with singing.

His presence can be shown around us by how we approach music.
Music is a very powerful tool. I don’t watch alot of news but yesterday
as my mom was changing the channel to the news station in Charlotte for
the weather it stated in the headline that a study showed music was a
pain reliever. I thought this was interesting. Next time someone is
being a headache to you start singing just kidding!!! Music has a lot of
power and carries a good bit of us on a day to day basis. Music can
either draw you closer to God or turn you away from God.
This morning we are talking about how music can bring you to God’s
presence. After all we are supposed to come before his presence with
singing. Lifting our voice to him.

If the music sounds worldly turn it off. If the music sounds like
something that would be played twenty years ago in church then I would
pay more attention to it. The Devils greatest tool is music and he will
try his very best to keep you away from the right kind of music. Music
that reflects on who Christ is. If the song and message doesn’t bring
you into his presence and seeing who he is then turn it off.

May God help us to have music of praise and thankfulness to God for who
he is and what he has done.
I hope you have a praise and thankful kind of day!!!!

2 Chronicles 5:1-14 KJV
Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the Lord was
finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father
had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments,
put he among the treasures of the house of God. [2] Then Solomon
assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the
chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring
up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which
is Zion. [3] Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto
the king in the feast which was in the seventh month. [4] And all the
elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark. [5] And they
brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the
holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did the priests and the
Levites bring up. [6] Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of
Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and
oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude. [7] And the
priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord unto his place,
to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even under the
wings of the cherubims: [8] For the cherubims spread forth their wings
over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the
staves thereof above. [9] And they drew out the staves of the ark, that
the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but
they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day. [10] There
was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at
Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when
they came out of Egypt. [11] And it came to pass, when the priests were
come out of the holy place : (for all the priests that were present were
sanctified, and did not then wait by course: [12] Also the Levites which
were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with
their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having
cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar,
and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
[13] It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to
make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord ; and when
they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments
of musick, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good; for his mercy
endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the
house of the Lord ; [14] So that the priests could not stand to minister
by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house
of God.