Song 7 out of 22 alphabet songs within Psalm 119
ALBUM: Amazing Psalms 'n' Promises
ALBUM: Amazing Psalms 'n' Promises
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Song Story: THE MUSIC STORY of this gift from God
is so long that I've put it at the END of this blog :)
is so long that I've put it at the END of this blog :)
Dedicated
to Protector LORD God, 24 February 2013
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LYRICS
1
Remember
the Word to Your servant upon
which
You, God, have caused me to have hope. This is
my
comfort in troubles. For Your Word, Lord gives me
Life.
The proud mock me so much, and yet
I
won't turn from Your Law, O God. And I
remember
Your judgments You gave us so long ago.
CHORUS:
God's
Law is Comfort. Psalm one-hundred-Nineteen, 49 to 56.
God
remembers His Promise!
2
Disgust
has taken hold of me LORD, because
wicked
people have forsaken God's Law...
God's
Statutes are my songs anywhere I have
traveled.
O LORD, I remember Your Name
all
DAY. And I remember Your Name
in
the night.
O my LORD -- I keep Your Law, it's now mine.
CHORUS:
God's
Law is Comfort. Psalm one-hundred-Nineteen, 49 to 56.
God
remembers His Promise!
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Song Story:
1. I
was checking out my “untitled” folder...
was interested in the studio file I'd done a few weeks earlier called
untitled Dm Rag << D Minor Ragtime beat >>
with my piano on top of a canned drum loop.
2. Started
playing with the song.
3. Completed
the drums and that bass line I really like.
4. Corrected
jazz timing for the piano; then
5. added
sax track to guide me when I would be recording the
vocals at the
studio, since the melody is a bit tricky.
6:
Only
after I finished the MUSIC tracks
did I pull out my Bible and ask God, OK,
what should I do with this?
Since
I had been working on the Psalm 119 series, 1-1/2 years after I first
had the concept to do this (while in a summer-long Bible Study on
this single Psalm)....
I opened my Bible to Psalm 119. It fell to
Zayin.
The
words fit the jazz meter of the already-created music.
My Hebrew instructor / Shabbat fellowship leader Rick Blankenship had
come to the studio to record the entire Hebrew alphabet,
since I knew
I'd never pronounce the letters right!
As a last-minute thought
which I am sure the Holy Spirit provided,
I asked Rick to also
provide the meaning for each Hebrew Letter.
On
the same studio night, the producer recorded and
did his audio
improvements to a track where I read
the entire Psalm 119 straight
through.
KEEPING
IN MIND THAT I
RECORDED THE SCRIPTURES
LONG BEFORE
THE MUSIC >>>
NOTICE THE CHORD THAT THE WORD “INDIGNATION”
LANDS ON
IN THE READING.
It's a REALLY weird, HARSH chord.
When I
had first recorded that chord, it was a MISTAKE-----
BUT I liked its weirdness,
so I just kept the piano track unchanged.
In fact, I EMPHASIZED the
mistake by making it the melody note!
And I did NOT
plan this location for the scripture to land on.... a harsh chord for
“indignation.”
I just dropped in the scripture track and it landed there.
This is
GOD'S planning...
and it has happened a number of times, as earlier
stories tell.
And
so for this song, I created a project that cut out the pieces for
the Zayin scripture reading and Rick's alphabet reading. And thus
God has guided yet another of His songs of Psalms for His people that
puts HIS Words to music. This
is God's project that I am honored to develop under the Holy Spirit's
guidance and empowering.
-ddo
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(First published 20 July 2013; re-printing songs in Psalm 119 sections order.)
©2013 (registered with USCO) by DianaDee Osborne (all material),
all rights reserved. FREE personal usage; see website.
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With thanks to Rick Blankenship, leader of GRAFTED IN Fellowship (Hebrews 11) for Hebrew Letter reading & definition during each Psalm 119 song; and to BlueLetterBible.org for providing God's Word in easy-to-research format. MORE free download MP3s & sheet music at
http://dianadeeosbornesongs.com/PSALMS---and---Prophets.php
Additional encouraging resources at DAILY DEVOTIONS FOR DAILY DIETERS:
http://dailydevotionsdiet.blogspot.com/
