Raise a Hallelujah Intro (feat. Tony Miller) [Live]

From the earliest days of recorded history There's always been power in song Most theologians believe that Genesis chapter one Literally says this in the Hebrew God sang "let there be"... We know beyond the shadow of a doubt From the cross Jesus begins to quote Psalms twenty two And until this day Psalms twenty two is never read in a spoken language It's only sung and chanted So at the most difficult days of His life Jesus was still singing So whether you're Mariam And you gotta to take a tambourine Because your enemy just fell behind you You have to begin to sing your way into believing That a horse and rider has been thrown into the sea Or whether you're King David And the only way you could ever find your purpose Is to slip off in a field somewhere by yourself And just start worshiping and singing and Making melody in your heart to the Lord Or maybe you're Paul and Silas in a prison cell And your midnight hour is about to arrive And you realize that you don't have the keys that can unlock your problem But you've still got a song down on the inside of your spirit I've come to look for somebody tonight That has a song on the inside! There's a word that we quote very often in church circles Its the word "Hallelujah" I dare you to say it "Hallelujah" Hallelujah is often times, people say It just means "praise ye the Lord" But it literally meant to make a boisterous sound of song That boasted about how good your God is We are not singing songs tonight of discouragement and depression We are singing songs boasting about how good our God is When Ashley talked to me about this recording he said "Bishop I want it to be a worship night" Because there is a major difference between singing and worship A lot of people sing that never worship When Moses had been in the presence of the Lord He came down off the mountain and everybody dancing around the golden calf was singing And Joshua said "the sound of victory is in the camp" Moses said no its not the sound of victory its the sound of singing Because if your worship has not got its proper focus It can never have its proper effect You can't sing around your success And you can't sing around your accomplishments And you can't sing about your talent but you can sing about the One who made a way when there was no way The song that Ashley is about to do is a song that God literally began to speak into my spirit strongly Because a line of this songs says "a melody is my weapon" I may not know the whole bible I may not even know where to find a scripture But I can have a melody that becomes my weapon The song says "raise a hallelujah" That implies two things I believe wherever you are listening to this song right now You're gonna have an option of doing one or two things To raise it that means you've got to get bold You've got to get bold enough to say my voice is gon' to be used as an instrument You know what there's incredible people here that helped make music for us tonight But he greatest instrument in this room is your voice I believe we're tuning up because we're about to raise I ain't got no help I believe we're about to raise Is there anybody in here ready to raise Here's the other thing Is that not only do you have to be bold enough to raise it Sometimes you're' laying in the ashes of things that didn't go the way you though they ought to go Sometimes you prayed and it didn't turn out like you think it ought to turn out Sometimes you believed and it went in an opposite direction But in those days out of the ashes you begin to raise a hallelujah I don't know how and I don't when Don't even know where but I do know who I do know who is about to change my circumstance So i'm gon' count to three and when i do I want you to raise a hallelujah in this place One Two Three