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What Is Your Spiritual Song?

In today’s reading, Habakkuk pens and publishes the lyrics to a song entitled “Even Though.” What started as a simple prayer to God ultimately became a spiritual song for Habakkuk. Habakkuk provides a blueprint for accelerating a move of God in your life. He creates a song representing a genre of music described by Paul in Ephesians 5:19. A spiritual song is considered spontaneous and inspired by the Holy Spirit. It’s a personal song you create that no one has ever heard. You sing this song to yourself and God.

Habakkuk is talking and singing to himself because he has become discouraged. He was overwhelmed and feeling far from God. As a result, he began losing faith and needed to be filled with God’s Spirit again. Therefore, he created this song. As a result, he experienced restoration.

That wasn’t always Habakkuk’s approach. He began chapter one by hurling two separate complaints toward God. God responded by informing Habakkuk that he couldn’t see His hand and what He was trying to do for Habakkuk.

By chapter three, Habakkuk learned the importance of shifting his atmosphere. Your atmosphere is the energy around you. It’s the tone of your voice. It’s the way people feel when they come into your orbit. It enters the room when you enter and remains in that room when you depart. In a similar way that the earth’s atmosphere protects its inhabitants from ultraviolet radiation that comes from the sun, your atmosphere helps protect you from the influences of the flesh. Your atmosphere will invite the enemy or block him from wreaking havoc in your life. Every person is responsible for taking charge of and shifting their atmosphere.

Habakkuk eventually realized this. He recognized that he needed to change his attitude toward himself, God, and others. To shift his atmosphere, he needed to change his language.

Your atmosphere is decorated with the words you speak. Your mouth is the dial that controls the climate around you. For this reason, Paul encouraged us to speak to ourselves in spiritual songs and to create a melody in our hearts to God (Ephesians 5:19). This helped control the atmosphere around Habakkuk and what provoked God to move in his life.

Do you have a spiritual song? What has God done for you lately? How will you use your words to shift your atmosphere today?

Prayer: Lord, I take responsibility for my atmosphere. Remove from my life any complaining, bitterness, ungratefulness, anger, vengeance, and anything else that does not bear witness to your glory. I humbly ask that you place a melody in my heart and a song on my lips today. Let the atmosphere of grace, peace, and joy precede me when I enter any room. In Jesus’ powerful name I pray, Amen.