Redeemed For Resurrection in Christ

All glory be to our wonderful Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for this latest instrumental album Redeemed for Resurrection in Christ ~Original Keyboard Instrumental Prayers! The newest release is the natural follow up to the instrumental album “Behold The Lamb released in February 2023.

While “Behold The Lamb” is a musical meditation on Christ, the Lamb of God who sacrificed His life by dying on the cross for the sins of humanity, the theme of Redeemed For Resurrection asks listeners to reflect on what redemption in Christ actually means for the soul who receives Jesus as their Savior.

The Lord has always given me the titles for each song to use for His albums.

The titles are often inspired by a scripture.

The Lord revealed to me several years ago that His instrumentals were musical conversations intended to ignite intimate conversations~ prayer ~between Himself and the precious souls who take them into their prayer closets. (*see Matthew 6:6)

“But when you pray, you should go into your room and close the door. Then pray to your Father. He is there in that private place. He can see what is done in private, and he will reward you.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭6‬:‭6‬ ‭ERV‬‬

The verse~ the song, was as a flame, a light to stimulate His children to go to their bibles, to seek His face, and believe by faith that Christ will teach them through His Word, by His Holy Spirit. For “…faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.” Romans 10:17

The Lord has promised in His Word to reveal Himself to His children who believe in Him and keep His commandments.

Jesus said, “He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him.”

Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.” John 14:21, 23 NASB1995

And He promised “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.” John 10:27-28 NASB1995

One caveat if we are of a worldly mindset, ( here is the dictionary definition of worldly: *of or concerned with material values or ordinary life rather than a spiritual existence: ie~ “…his ambitions for worldly success”)

~ then the Lord stressed that worldliness would be that one factor that would bar the Holy Spirit from entering the door of their heart.

Jesus said, “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments, and I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him…” John 14:15-17 NASB

A worldly heart, Jesus told His followers, cannot see the Holy Spirit or ever know Him. It could not ever know or walk with God.

I pray always that the Lord Jesus will speak to many through the things He shares through me to those who find them scattered throughout the earth.

Those gifts are always meant to help His children seek His face through His Word and pray directly to Him.

I believe the Lord desires to have an intimate relationship with His children even as Enoch walked in such a way with God.

The scriptures say “And Enoch walked with God and he was not, for God took him…” Genesis 5:24

Enoch also believed God. Because of Enoch’s faith, God took him away to heaven. He did not die like other people. As a result, nobody could ever find him, because God had taken him away. Before God took him away, it was clear that Enoch had made God happy.”
‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭11‬:‭5‬ ‭EASY‬‬

Jesus said, ‘“This is eternal life that they might know God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent.” John 17:3

How can we know God if we don’t spend time with Him and read His Word?

The Lord had specifically said, “Do not self promote…”

All of the business models were in opposition to this plan. The Lord’s guidance did not make sense. “I don’t see how this will ever help Thy songs to reach Thy children,” I prayed. Of course He meant don’t self promote in the way the world does. Which seemed to be all the time. I was to share only as the Lord led me to share. He told me that when I published something to share His seeds and then whenever He asked me after that, but not until He said to.

But the Lord was always opposed to the never ending streams of commercial business advice and strategies for success that were ever being hurled at me.

So I just kept on doing what the Holy Spirit led me to do, ever relying on God’s Word, trusting that He who loved me would never fail me.

“But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.” John 16:13 NASB1995

As far as the songs were concerned, I named them what the Holy Spirit led me to name them. For it was all His music.

The Lord said not to worry about trying to gain favor with the culture. I was to only care about God’s favor. All I had to do was to honor and obey Him.

The Lord impressed on my heart that what mattered to worldly vanity would never matter in the Lord’s Kingdom.

Each saint is the Lord’s temple in which Christ resides when they invite Jesus into their heart. (*see 1 Corinthians 3:16, 6:19)

“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”
‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭6‬:‭20‬ ‭KJV‬‬

Conforming to the world He stressed had no place in Christ’s kingdom and can never serve Christ’s purposes. By conforming to the world He meant doing things that in a way that was not according to His will. He wanted me to abide in Him in prayer, to listen to His voice, and to trust Him by faith that He would lead me by His Holy Spirit down the right path. That He would not fail me. That He is real and not an imaginary Creator.

The Lord stressed that if I would trust Him, and do everything He asked that He would demonstrate His faithfulness to His Word. And so thirty six albums later He has not failed me and done everything exactly the way He has promised.

Jesus said, And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me.” John‬ ‭12‬:‭32‬ ‭KJV‬‬

He told me His reality could only be manifested as I removed my focus from this world and off myself by gazing upwards in sincere worship, living for my Savior who had given Himself without reservations to redeem our souls so that we might serve Him in the resurrection of the new lives He had purchased for us through His death on the cross.

“But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.” ‭‭John‬ ‭14‬:‭26‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬

Christ would teach His children these truths through His eternal Word as they sought Him with a pure heart.

God is love.

He has no favorites. He loves each of His children as if they were the only child He had to love. He longs for each of us to come to know Him and spend time with Him each day.

Jesus promised to reveal Himself to those who would believe.

Jesus said “This is the will of Him who sent Me,

that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing,

but raise it up on the last day.

For this is the will of My Father,

that everyone who beholds the Son

and believes in Him will have eternal life,

and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.”

No one can come to Me unless

the Father who sent Me draws him;

and I will raise him up on the last day.

It is written in the prophets,

‘And they shall all be taught of God.’

Everyone who has heard

and learned from the Father,

comes to Me.”

John 6:39-40, 44-45 NASB1995

In Jesus name amen.

Peaceangelsongs Blog, Redeemed for Resurrection in Christ Copyright © 2023 by Suzanne Davis Harden, Through the Indwelling Risen Lord Jesus Christ, Inspired by His Holy Spirit, To The Glory of God The Father, In Jesus Holy Name, Amen. Original scripture paintings Copyright ©️2023 by Suzanne Davis Harden, Through the Indwelling Risen Lord Jesus Christ, Inspired by His Holy Spirit, To The Glory of God the Father, In Jesus’ Holy Name, Amen.

***Whoever loves God is known by God- 1 Corinthians 8:3***

Preview all of the music from Redeemed For Resurrection Original Keyboard Instrumental Prayers on my Peaceful Prayersongs Music Website at the following Web Address: https://peacefulprayersongs.com/home

Meditations For The Journey

Featured ~ Suzanne Davis Harden

*Meditations For The Journey~Original Keyboard Instrumentals © ℗ 2022 Suzanne Davis Harden, All Rights Reserved.*

Meditations for the Journey~Original Keyboard Instrumentals-is the thirtieth album of published music the Lord has given me to share since 2013.

The first album the Lord gave me was God’s Rainbow Promise. That first release was to be a harbinger of the three main types of music that the Lord would be producing through me for the next nine years: both original vocal prayer songs and instrumentals, and traditional Christian hymns.

We serve a risen Lord and Savior who desires very much to communicate with us. That is why He revealed to me that He gave me this music; He said that they are His musical conversations and that if people will take them into their prayer closets along with their Bibles and listen to them (or even just a clip) and read His Word, looking up the scripture reference the song title points to, by faith trusting He’ll speak to them, He will indeed speak to their hearts.

Jesus said, “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow me…”
John 10:27 KJV

The Lord asked me to become a musician according to His purpose and plan. I was not a musician before He dropped this beautiful gift in my lap. I didn’t know why the Lord would take a soul who cared only about music as something to listen to while creating art, and would make her into someone whom He created music through for His glory and honor.
I look at all of the music He has made through me and am astonished. I know it is the Lord’s work and not mine.

The other day He inspired me to sit down and listen to the songs on Meditations for the Journey and contemplate them during my quiet time. He had me concentrate on the music, then reference the scripture passages the song titles pointed to while praying, and ask the Holy Spirit to teach me what I believed He was saying to my heart through the music and scriptures. I took my notebook and pen, got out my bible, and listened to the songs, pausing as necessary.

I chose to focus on the title track, “Jesus is the Author of Our Faith.”

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed
about with so great a cloud of witnesses,
let us lay aside every weight,
and the sin which doth so easily beset us,
and let us run with patience the race
that is set before us,
Looking unto Jesus
the author and finisher of our faith;
who for the joy that was set before Him
endured the cross,
despising the shame, and is set down
at the right hand
of the throne of God.”
Hebrews 12:1-3- KJV

As I listened to the music I saw it in my mind as an organic triangular shape, its long perspective shooting wildly upward into an ever expanding light, which symbolized the high notes dancing on a steep mountain that kept appearing the more I listened to the song.
I noticed a pronounced symmetry in the music as the lower tones kept resounding beneath the steep mountain.

It seemed as if one had been ascending the summit of a great height, only to tumble down the keys into a dark valley where the echoes of the shadowy notes reiterated their voices in another layer of somber tones; it was a great tumble into the shadow path of mysteries indeed after one had heard so distinctly the brighter notes chiming in the airy sunshine as if they would go on in their cheery triumphant echoes forever.

And like a repeating pattern, its symmetry like a cosmic poem was reprised over and over but in a labyrinthine way so that no two phrases or paths were exactly alike. Down the valley and up the mount…only to fall into the shadows again, but one day, the crown we will reach if we don’t give up for joy lies ahead just ’round the bend…

The music reminded me of the scripture;

“And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.”
Romans 5:3-5 KJV

For to climb the heights of heaven and taste of its glories and joy and then fall into the depths of despair is indeed a kind of suffering that some of God’s children are appointed to in this world.

However, Christ promises to be with His own no matter where they must go on their journey with Him in this life. For Christ, the Author of our faith, has paved the way for each of us. There is nowhere we can go that Jesus has not gone first. And He will go there again with us through the Holy Spirit He has put in our hearts to abide with us forever as we abide in Him, keeping our hands in His and our eyes on Him, and not focused on this world with all its distractions.

One of the most comforting passages of scripture is Psalm 139:7-12:

Whither shall I go from Thy spirit?
Or whither shall I flee from Thy presence?
If I ascend up into heaven,
Thou art there:
If I make my bed in hell,
behold, Thou art there.
If I take the wings of the morning,
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
Even there shall Thy hand lead me,
and Thy right hand shall hold me.
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me;
even the night shall be light about me.
Yea, the darkness hideth not from Thee;
but the night shineth as the day:
the darkness and the light are both alike to Thee.
Psalm 139:7-12 – KJV

I couldn’t help but hear those scriptures resonating in this music as I listened to it and was comforted.

For it sent me straight to those passages reminding me of the Author and Finisher of my faith who for the joy set before Him endured His cross, despising the shame, ever looking upward toward the Light ahead of Him by faith.

And if Jesus could endure the horrors of the cross for the joy that was set before Him, then He would help me persevere throughout my journey on this earth no matter what challenges I must face.

For Jesus Christ is a living, risen Savior, and He ever dwells within me by His Spirit who will never leave or forsake me. In Jesus’ name, amen.

This song meditation illustrates the idea of how the Lord wants to speak to us through these songs. I pray that what I’ve written will inspire you to listen to the music for yourself and let the Lord speak through them to you personally, for He surely has a unique word for each soul who takes the time to listen to them, while meditating on His Word, and praying to Him. As I wrote, the songs are His divine conversation starters.
The titles are to lead us into God’s Word, and as we listen to the songs, contemplate His Word, and pray, His Holy Spirit will guide us into the truth of what He wants to teach us.
However, We must approach the Lord by faith.

“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1

“But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for He that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.” Hebrews 11:6 – KJV

We must want to seek Him, want to believe that He will speak to us, and believe that He will speak to each of us, not just to some of us.

It is imperative that Christians read God’s Word for themselves, and not let people tell us what the Bible means.

Jesus said, “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost,
whom the Father will send in My name,
He shall teach you all things,
and bring all things to your remembrance,
whatsoever I have said unto you.”
John 14:26 KJV
John the Apostle wrote,
“But the anointing which ye have received of Him
abideth in you,
and ye need not that any man teach you:
but as the same anointing
teacheth you of all things,
and is truth, and is no lie,
and even as it hath taught you,
ye shall abide in Him.”
1 John 2:27 – KJV

The Word of God is the most important Book we will ever read for it is God’s revelation of Himself.

Prayer
Heavenly Father, May You speak to our hearts through these songs that are gifts from Your heart as they point to Thy Holy Word when we meditate on Thy Scriptures and listen to Thy Holy Spirit teaching us what Your Word is saying to us, for You have promised to speak to Thy sheep and You keep every promise forever, In Jesus’ name, thank You, we love You, amen.

Below is the link to the songs from Meditations for the Journey~Original Keyboard Instrumentals.

*This is a pre-release as the album has not been delivered to any streaming radio platforms yet.
May you be blessed as you read God’s Word and Listen and meditate on the songs in your quiet time with the Lord on my Hear and Now Website:

https://suzannedavisharden.hearnow.com/meditations-for-the-journey-original-keyboard-instrumentals

(*Remember this album is a pre-release and the only website where it is currently available. Please take this opportunity to meditate on the songs and use them to inspire your faith and draw closer to the Lord Jesus Christ. God bless!)

Peaceangelsong Blog, Meditations for the Journey- Original Keyboard Instrumentals Album Cover, Suzanne Davis Harden, through the indwelling Risen Lord Jesus Christ, Inspired by His Holy Spirit, to the Glory of God the Father, In Jesus’ Holy name, Amen.
Copyright © 2022 by Suzanne Davis Harden All Rights Reserved.

Scripture References taken from the King James Bible (Public domain)

Musical Prayers

October 11, 2019October 13, 2019 ~ Suzanne Davis Harden

“If They Be Silent The Rocks Will Shout,” ~ an high energy instrumental song on my new release “All Glory To God Forever.”

This song refers to a story in the Gospel of Luke:

And they brought him to Jesus: and they cast their garments upon the colt,

and they set Jesus thereon.

And as He went, they spread their clothes in the way.

And when He was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives,

the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice

for all the mighty works that they had seen;

Saying, “Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord:

peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.”

And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto Him,

“Master, rebuke thy disciples.”

And Jesus answered and said unto them,

“I tell you that, if these should hold their peace,

the stones would immediately cry out.”

Luke 19:35-40 KJV

Although the religious authorities had witnessed thousands of astonishing miracles performed by the Lord Jesus Christ in the name of His Heavenly Father over the past three years of His ministry, they refused to believe that He was from God.

Although Jesus always gave glory for everything He did to His Heavenly Father, and said He could do nothing apart from His Father, and though He taught sound doctrine with authority from the Scriptures, the religious leaders were determined to slander Him among the people and attribute His power to work miracles to the Devil.

DESPISED AND REJECTED

The religious leaders refused to accept Jesus Christ because He told them the Truth. He told them that they were corrupted hypocrites who were far from God. They looked pious on the outside, but were sinful and needed saving on the inside. They were self righteous and proud, and did not believe Jesus because they trusted that their good deeds were enough to save them.

They also put great confidence in their Jewish heritage. Because of these things they believed they could never be lost. Jesus told them that they were blind and deaf.

He said that if they did not accept Him then they would die in their sins.

However, they would rather kill Him than believe such a thing. And so they unmercifully had Jesus crucified on a cross.

Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who had never sinned, suffered and died for the sins of not only those who put Him to death, but for all humanity. Though He died, He rose again on the third day. The Father restored Him to life and gave Him a glorious new eternal body.

Because He died for our sins that we might have eternal life, not only should the rocks shout, so also should the rivers and trees, and all the earth cry aloud and give Him praise and glory and honor for His sacrifice that we might be forgiven for our sins and be cleansed by His spotless blood shed on the cross for us.

Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Philippians 2:9-11 – KJV

MUSICAL CONVERSATIONS

Prayer is a conversation between The Lord and me.

All of the music the Lord gives me is birthed in prayer and worship as well as in the Word of God.

The Lord recently revealed to me that the published songs He has given me over the past six years are not primarily for entertainment purposes, but He has sent them to be musical dialogues through which He can speak to our hearts by His Holy Spirit who inspired them.

To enter into the Lord’s musical conversation, first I start with the song’s title, listen to the music in prayer before the Lord, taking my bible along with me, and ask the Lord Jesus to speak to my heart what He wants to say to me through His word.

Jesus gave a promise to His disciples. He said that His Holy Spirit would guide them as they sought Him.

“But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in

My name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance,

whatsoever I have said unto you…John 14:26 KJV

Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth:

for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear,

that shall He speak: and He will shew you things to come.” John 16:13 – KJV

Most all of my published song titles have biblical references.

The prayer song titles and hymns have lyrics that are straightforward. And all of my prayer songs have been inspired by the Bible, mostly the psalms. The scriptures that inspired each of them are in the prayer song books that feature the lyrics. It will inevitably be the Word of God that the Lord will use to speak to your heart as you sit down to listen to His songs. For that is what gave them birth.

How an individual song might apply to your personal situation is a matter for private prayer between you and Christ. He will make the matter plain to you. Trust the Lord Jesus.

Again, these are personal, holy conversations between you and the Lord Jesus Christ. Please keep them private between you and the Lord. That is the meaning of holy. Keep holy things between yourself and God.

Jesus said, “But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.”~ Matthew 6:6 – KJV

You may want to check some of things the Lord inspired me to make for a particular song because He never had me create something to no purpose.

For example, the Lord sometimes gave me a blog, scripture painting, or a video to include with His music. Again those things have their origin in the Word of God.

JUST A PIECE OF THE LOAF…

Perhaps you may only be able to hear clips of the songs.

May you know that it is not necessary to purchase any of the Lord’s songs.

The clips are usually long enough to hear what the instrumental songs are like. As for the songs with lyrics, again it is not necessary to purchase anything.

You can always borrow the prayer song ebooks through Kindle lending in order to discover their lyrics.

Find out what libraries the prayer song ebooks are in and borrow them that way.

I have made some of my prayer songs into music videos with the lyrics printed on them.

Nothing that is God’s will is to no purpose, just as your life is absolutely God’s will and you have a divine purpose.

“Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.” ~ Ephesians 5: 17 (KJV)

The things that the Lord has had me produce and publish these past several years have been gifts and messages from His heart.

He never fails to speak volumes to me when I take the time to sit down and allow Him to converse about what He wanted to say to me through a song He’s given me.

It’s amazing how many biblical references the Holy Spirit really will guide us to when we stay quiet before the Lord and listen to Him!

“The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in Him.

The Lord is good unto them that wait for Him, to the soul that seeketh Him.

It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.” ~ Lamentations 3:24-26 (KJV)

I’m so thankful for this honor of being able to do our Heavenly Father’s work despite so many physical challenges.

These only serve to prove that it is Christ’s power doing the work in and through me. Otherwise there would be no way I could do these things.

“It is not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit says the Lord of Hosts…” Zechariah 4:6

May God bless you and speak to your hearts, comfort, and encourage you through all of His holy songs and gifts He has given me the privilege to share with you.

Love, peace, and grace,

Suzanne ❤️

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