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"I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people." Psalms 35:18

     
"Praise the Lord for His work in and through you!!! We are enjoying and growing in the "Soldiers of the Sanctuary" series..."
                          - Constance, Tennessee

"Calvery greetings may reach to you as many as the sea sand. Thank you very much Pr. John Skeete. On behalf of the Fiwagoh Mission Oprhanage Ministries, I thank Our God for this great blessing He sent to us through you and the Sanctuary lessons. They were amazing and we are teaching other pupils and even church members. We will continue to pray for you and your wife and the whole ministry..."

  - Joshua, Nairobi Kenya

  "Thank you for your good work. I will be praying for your progress..."

  - Samuel, Nairobi Kenya

"Meeting the needs of body, mind, and spirit is so important in these days with diseases, drugs and immorality pounding the human species. I am thankful you are doing your part to make a positive difference..."

                                 - Sylvia, Michigan

  "I really appreciate what you all were able to do to help me, may God continue to bless you..."
                                 - Tee, California

  "Thank you so much. Power packed presentation. I learned so much. What I will focus on is to die to self daily. I want Jesus & God to be King of my life, my heart, my mind...I need to get His character, seek His face, so it may reflect in me...All glory to the Lamb & to the Father! And thank you for all your diligent study! Keep shining & showing His character!
                                  - Theresa, Wisconsin
The Meaning of Melody

"Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ." Ephesians 5:19, 20

Those who are filled with the Spirit will be carried out in acts of devotion, and all the proper expressions of it. The joy of Christians should express itself in songs of praise to God. In these they should speak to themselves in their assemblies and meetings together, for mutual edification. By psalms may be meant David's psalms, or such composures as were fitly sung with musical instruments. By hymns may be meant such others as were confined to matters of praise, as those of Zacharias, Simeon, etc.

Spiritual songs may contain a greater variety of matter, doctrinal, prophetical, or historical expressions. The singing of psalms and hymns is a gospel ordinance: it is an ordinance of God, and appointed for His glory. Though Christianity is a enemy to profane mirth, yet it encourages joy and gladness, and the proper expressions of these in the professors of it. God's people have reason to rejoice, and to make melody in their hearts; not only with their voices, but with inward affection, and then their doing this wil be as delightful and acceptable to God as music is to us. And it must be with a design to please Him, and to promote His glory, that we do this; and then it will be done to the Lord.

Thanksgiving is another duty that the apostle exhorts to. We are appointed to sing psalms, etc., for the expression of our thankfulness to God, and we should continue it throughout our lives. We should give thanks for all things, not only for spiritual blessings enjoyed, and eternal ones expected, but for temporal mercies too; not only for our comforts, but for our sanctified afflictions; not only for what immediately concerns ourselves, but for the instances of God's kindness and favor to others also. It is our duty in everything to give thanks unto God and the Father, to God as the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and our Father in Him, in whose name we are to offer up all our prayers, and praises, and spiritual services, that they may be acceptable to God.
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