Genesis 27:29
He who uses his mind to curse gets the curse in
return,
while the mind that blesses receives blessings in return.
while the mind that blesses receives blessings in return.
In all our prayers,
talks, and songs with God as the subject, we should first have a period of
silence, a selah, in which the divine presence is invoked as the creative
power.
Psalm means
"lyric," and the heading of each indicates to the musician what
attitude of devotion should precede its rendition. Selah, (also transliterated as selāh)
is a word used 74 times in the Hebrew
Bible – 71 times in the
Psalms and 3 times in Habakkuk. It is probably either a
liturgico-musical mark or an instruction on the reading of the text, something
like "stop and listen". Selah
can also be used to indicate that there is to be a musical interlude at that
point in the Psalm. The Psalms were
sung accompanied by musical instruments and there are references to this in
many chapters. Thirty-one of the thirty-nine psalms with the caption "To
the choir-master" include the word selah.
Selah notes a break in the
song and as such is similar in purpose to Amen in that it stresses the importance
of the preceding passage.
Jehovah-jireh
means "Jehovah will provide."
Jehovah-shammah ("the Lord is present").
I
separate myself in consciousness from the mind of
the flesh, that I may enter into the mind that was in Christ Jesus.
Teach Us to Pray
by
Charles Fillmore
Cora G. Dedrick Fillmore
[1941]
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