WE HAVE SUNG IN WORSHIP MANY TIMES “wɔ bɔɔ no din ansa na wɔwoo no
onwanwani bɛn ne wo Jesus
DID IT OCCUR TO YOU THAT THE PORTION I CAPITALISED (YESAIAH NE YOHANE) IS VERY WRONG?
THAT IS NOT THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF THE SONG. SOME WHO ARE DISCERNING EASILY REALISE THIS. YOU HEAR WORSHIP LEADERS RAISING THIS SONG WITH STRONG EMOTIONS. IF WE WORSHIP WITH OUR HEART AND WITH UNDERSTANDING, WE WOULD KNOW THAT OUR WORSHIP SONG IS FAULTY. MOSTLY WHEN WE SING FROM OUR HEAD AND REST ON SOUNDS FROM INSTRUMENTS, WE MAY THINK WE ARE BRINGING HEAVEN DOWN. THE CONCERN IS THAT LIES CANNOT ENTER HEAVEN. SO ANYTIME WE PRESENT PRAYER OR SONGS WHICH DISAGREE WITH SCRIPTURE, WE DO OURSELVES NO GOOD.
YES! IT IS TRUE THAT ISAIAH PROPHESIED CONCERNING JESUS’ COMING BUT JOHN DIDN’T. THE FACT IS THAT JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS ONLY SIX MONTHS OLDER THAN JESUS. AT THE TIME JESUS WAS BORN, JOHN HAD NOT STARTED TALKING. SO HOW AND WHEN DID HE PROPHESY THAT JESUS WOULD BE BORN?
PLEASE CONSIDER THE TEXTS BELOW CAREFULLY.
Luk 1:24 After this his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and for five months remained in seclusion.
26 In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee,
27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name
was Mary.
36 Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be barren is in her SIXTH month.
YOU SEE AT THE TIME MARY RECEIVED WORD FROM THE ANGEL ELIZABETH WAS 6 MONTHS PREGNANT WITH JOHN.
WE CANNOT CONTINUE TO DO THINGS ANYHOW. WE MUST GIVE OURSELVES TO THE WORD OF GOD AND LET HIS WORD DOMINATE OUR MINISTRATIONS TO HIM.
NO MATTER HOW WE SING THIS SONG FROM OUR HEARTS, THE FACT STILL REMAINS THAT WE ARE SINGING A LIE. THE SONG SHOULD RATHER BE “YESAIAH NKOMHYENI”, NOT YESAIAH NE YOHANE”
MAY YOU GROW IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF OUR LORD JESUS.
OPOKU AGYEMANG EMMANUEL
REVIEWED BY REV. DR. ERIC OWUSU BARNIE
THE NETWORK OF REVIVALISTS 