If you are ever in need of encouragement, don’t sit down somewhere and wait for people to show up with comforting words. You could be in for a long wait. And the longer you wait, the more likely it is that your pit of discouragement will become a pit of depression. Being a songwriter can sometimes be a discouraging profession. But if you know where to look for encouragement, you can find it when you need it, even if you have to preach it to yourself.
I keep a list of scriptures on the wall in my office. Many times through the day I’ll look at them and read them. Even more often than that, I will speak them out loud. Someone passing by may think I’m talking to myself, and I am. But I’m not speaking my words. I’m speaking God’s words to my spirit.
Several times through the day I will look up from my desk and say “If God be for us, who can be against us? I keep myself reminded that “All things are possible to him who believes. “Greater is He who is in me than he that is in the world.
Sometimes I will just run all the scriptures I have in front of me into paragraphs, and speak them out loud to make sure they get down deep into my spirit. I quit caring a long time ago about whether or not people think I’m crazy. You can hear me quite often saying things like:
“The Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The things that are impossible with men are possible with God. So be confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. Set your mind on thing above and not on things of earth. Hold fast the pattern of sound words, in faith and love. Let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion. In the secret place of His tabernacle, He shall hide me. He shall set me high upon a rock! Do not rejoice over me, my enemy. When I fall, I shall arise! When I sit in darkness the Lord will be light unto me.
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. And the things that are impossible with men are possible with God. The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer. He is my God, my strength, in whom I will trust. So be strong and of good courage. Do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor powers nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate me from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. No weapon formed against me is going to prosper anyway! And every tongue that rises against me in judgment You shall condemn. For this is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of Me, says the Lord!
When doubt tells me things are impossible, God says “all things are possible.”
When the world tells me, nobody loves me, God says, “I love you.”
When stress tells me that I’m too tired, God says “I will give you rest.”
When fear tells me that I can’t go on, God says “My grace is sufficient for you.”
As a songwriter, you have to keep yourself encouraged in the Lord. The Word of the Lord is so powerful. It lives, breathes and moves. God gave us His WORD for a reason. He has so much to say. Let Him say it in you, and through you.
Until next time, keep on writing!
Author: Daryl Williams
| Author's Website: http://darylwilliamstrio.net
Written: 02/01/2012
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Category: The Songwriter
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