In the Christendom singing song is a very vital integral part of their worship to God and in doing that, sometimes the singers are seen demonstrating emotionally the effect of the songs in them. So it is not out of place seeing worshippers sobbing and tears rolling down their chins and also seeing some lifting up their hands in a sanctimonious manner as though they are face to face with their God. And also, it is not a surprising thing to see someone who came into Church service with a heavy heart putting on a cheerful face while songs are going on because singing song is like the catalyst that stirs up the hidden joy in the soul of a man. One important thing not to ignore while singing songs is that the songs are written in words and the content of the songs are communicating vital information realities to the singer. In other words, the singer while singing is making a confession to his or her life, that is why in the understanding of the confession he or she has no option than to break down emotionally without minding who is sitting next to him or her. And one wonders why such a ‘big’ person could stoop low emotionally. Well, is all because the words in the songs are communicating strong messages to his or her soul at that particular time and as a result some stresses and heavy situations could be assuaged.
However, since songs are written in words and singing them mean making confessions. It means that such confessions signal or quicken an attractive or repugnant reaction from the singer’s spirit. The reaction therefore, is based on someone’s ability to relate with the message of the song, his or her level of understanding of the content of the song will reflect in his or her reaction. So, it apt to say that one can be emotional while singing a song that has wrong confession in it because he or she didn’t have a proper understanding of the content of the song. When he or she has proper understanding of the confessions in the song such songs will not put him or her on or off again. Therefore, that a song makes people to be emotional while singing it doesn’t justify the confession in the song rather the justification of a song is done by examining its content through the prism of the scripture. If it fails to scale through the validation of the scripture, that song no matter how melodious, sanctimonious and touching it sounds a believer shouldn’t sing it.
As believers we should be occupied in singing songs that depict who we are in Christ and what we have become in Him. Since singing songs is a means of making confessions and what we confess in turn will definitely reflect to our image in God because we are sending messages to our spirit-man through the songs we sing. When we sing songs that confesses things that the scripture didn’t say about us we are creating a wrong image of who we are and definitely it will make us think less of who we are and consequently abuse ourselves spiritually.
Below are some of the songs I think through the prism of the scripture they are not depicting who we are in Christ and what Christ has wrought in us in Him.
1. These Are The Days Of Elijah – Well, these shouldn’t be the days of Elijah rather the days of the sons of God who we are. We are sons of God in Christ and better than Elijah who was a servant. Moreover our ministry is not found in Elijah but in Jesus Christ as a result Elijah should not set the pace for us to follow, we are in Christ and we do the things Christ does not what Elijah did. Our behavior is patterned after Christ not after Elijah (Luke 9:53-56). Elijah never gave anyone eternal life but Jesus did by His death and we are in Him today giving people eternal life through the gospel. Therefore, these are the days of salvation not the days of destruction!
2. Jesus Na De Only Son Of God – Yes as the monogenes (mon-og-en-ace) He was but as the prototokos (pro-tot-ok'-os) He’s no longer because we are His brethren as sons of God (Romans 8:29). So if you are singing this song you are denying yourself the right of ‘sonship’ in God! See Romans 8:15 – 16, Galatians 4:6, Ephesians 1:5-6
3. When I come Into Your (God’s) Presence – Well, we don’t come into His presence we live in His presence because we were born into Him (2 Corinthians 5:17). We are found in Christ and not outside Christ. So we live in Him and He lives in us and His Spirit and our spirit is joined together we are inseparable entity. The Church building is not the presence of God, it is a place we gather to demonstrate His presence in us. That is why when we gather one sings songs and another gives sermon and the other gives prophecy and His power and glory flows through us because we carry His presence wherever we go (2 Corinthians 6:16).
4. You Are The Lord… You Will Never Share Your With Anyone – This song is misleading. God has shared His glory with me and you if you are a believer. In fact for this reason we are created in Christ that we should show forth His praise and glory (Isaiah 43:7). When God said He will not share His glory with another He was saying that to idols not to His people. (Isaiah 42:6-. Jesus gave us the glory He received from the father (John 17:22).
5. Draw Me Nearer … Draw Me Nearer To Thee – As a believer this song is for you! You are not far from God and He is not far from you. He lives in you and you live in Him. You are His temple, so you are not far from Him (1 Corinthians 3:17).
6. Lord Prepare Me A Sanctuary – As a believer, the Lord will not prepare you, He has already prepared you a sanctuary in Him in Christ. His temple is not different from His sanctuary that you are!
7. Send Down Your Glory – The glory of God cannot be sent down from anywhere again. Since you are the glory carrier. You just need to demonstrate it and people around will see it and praise Him!
8. Let The Weak Say I am Strong – In fact you are not the weak and should not be. The truth is that you are not supposed to pray for strength, you pray from strength because you were born into strength. Your placement is in Christ and in Christ there is no weakness. In Christ the authority has been given to you therefore you are not the weak!
9. Heavenly Race I No Go Tire – Heaven is not a race but a place and it is only located in Christ. If you are in Christ your existence is assured and even right now you are in heaven in Christ. The only way to be in heaven is to be in Christ and if you are not in Christ you can never be in heaven no matter the speed of your ‘race’. Wherever Christ is, is where you are!
10. Eternal, Eternal Life, I Want To Live Eternal Life God Save My Soul – Eternal life is a gift of God to them that believe in Christ, you don’t need to work for it just believe in Christ and you have eternal life. (John 3:16, Romans 6:23, 1 John 5:20).

However, there are many songs out there even written and sang by many notable figures that do not depict our nature in Christ. The accentuation here is based on the fact that it is very important for us to examine the type of song we are singing or ask to sing if it is not declaring who we are in Christ we should do away with it. Let us begin to sing songs according to knowledge and not according to what mollify our emotions. Remember, wrong songs create wrong confessions and wrong confessions create wrong mindsets and wrong mindsets create wrong spiritual disposition and your disposition will tell much about the level of spirituality you will assume or attend in the spiritual cadre.
Source:http://salvationinthelordevangelicalministry..com/2017/12/welcome-to-arena-of-indubitable-truth_30.html

Extremist!!!

You are so right, op. Not all song is healthy for the soul of the believers in CHRIST.

Some songs are dishing out perverted and unrighteous knowledge...

Some truth here, but this is really extreme. Lets not try to think for God.....let God be the one to tell us what to sing or not by the Holy spirit not ur cracked up idealogy

TomHagen:
Extremist!!!

Why is it that people hate to hear the truth? The op is very right and there is nothing extreme in the op presentation here.

mimopel:
Some truth here, but this is really extreme. Lets not try to think for God.....let God be the one to tell us what to sing or not by the Holy spirit not ur cracked up idealogy

I think you are leaning on the face here. The only way God can tell you what to sing is in the bible. Is time for us to start singing songs that let us know who we are

I believe one thing and that is we are what we eat. The words we are confessing each day goes to our spirit and begin to form us inside out and it will not be long enough for us to begin to see the effects on our life. The songs we sing engineers so much feelings both bad and good and can bring us to a certain level in life where we are discouraged or encouraged

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TomHagen:
Extremist!!!

I don't know whether you said this from a hateful side of you. Well, I don think the writer is an extremist. I believe he just aired important views we should look into as Christians and see what we can do as regards to worshiping God with our songs.

You can't separate your spirit from the songs you sing.