The Calling of a Musician: How to Unleash the Hand of God in Your Ministry

By Kwabena Frimpong

The music ministry is a very attractive ministry indeed. It is a ministry that inspires people, which blesses people, which causes people to encounter God. It is important therefore for Musicians to understand that the God who made music is a Master Musician Himself. He established the foundations of this great gift and made it available for us to discover.
The Calling of a Musician is a book that unveils important principles to empower Musicians to excel in their calling and to function effectively the way God designed them to function. This book will teach you:
1. How to relate to God in your life as a Musician
2. The importance of walking with God.
3. How to respond to God through your songs as a Musician
4. The difference between Spirit-filled songs and non-Spirit-filled songs... and many more!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Quest Publications
• Release date: Jun 24, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310856334

Kwabena Frimpong

KWABENA FRIMPONG, affectionately called Kobby, is a musician and an author. He is an accomplished musician, and has written three books and recorded two albums. He is the music director of Revival Outreach Church for 31 years and has helped with the training and raising of music groups for the past 31 years. He has also ran various seminars for many music groups. Kobby currently lives in Accra, Ghana, with his wife Lilian (also an accomplished musician), with their three children.

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The Calling Of

A Musician

The Calling Of

A Musician

KWABENA D FRIMPONG

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THE CALLING OF A MUSICIAN

Kwabena D. Frimpong

© Copyright 2014

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Rev. Date: 13-June-2014 (Smashwords Edition)

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DEDICATION

I dedicate this project to Lilian, Kobby and Elsie

Thanks for your love and support and giving me the enabling environment to pursue this calling

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Special thanks to

Apostle Robertson Aboagye-Darko and Rev. Mrs Mabel Aboagye Darko. Thanks for being parents to me.

Rev. and Mrs Robert Oppong Yeboah for your love and support

Pastor Helen Yawson for your warmth and encouragement

Mr. Earnest Nii Okai…..you are such a brother

All musicians I have interacted with, whose testimonies and experiences have made this book possible

All members of ROC. Thanks for encouraging me to serve you

My friends on the GH Minstrels platform….couldnt have made it without you.

FOREWORD

EXCELLENCE in ministry has never been something that I put on the back burner; it has always been in the forefront of my mind, when it comes to leading worship, presenting a 3 minute song, preparing for a concert. Why? Because it is for God, the Creator of the universe.  He deserves the best music and the best presentations. We should not prepare in a haphazard manner, because it’s for God.

When we look around us, look at the detail that God went into, in creating the earth, look at yourself, you are a Masterpiece, a work of art. Why then do a lot of musicians then think it is okay to offer God an average performance?

I think sometimes it boils down to understanding, as in, where we fit into God purpose. It comes down to understanding what God wants to achieve in the earth, through the skills and grace He has given us.

The scripture says in the book of Revelations, 4:11

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. The musician was created by God, the Music was created by God, to please HIM.

Throughout the worship and vocal workshops I run, I always emphasise,  that God deserves our best and not our leftover. Therefore we must train ourselves to be excellent in the ministry that God had called us to.  This is why we cannot present music, songs that are half baked, vocals that leave worshippers distracted from their primary purpose of worshipping the Most High God. We must be excellent spiritually and skillfully excellent.

This book tells us the source of our gift, it directs us to seek God for all that we need to make our gift better, because He is the Master Musician. This book guides us back to the Pure source of our gifting, GOD HIMSELF. It helps us tap into that neglected realm of God’s creativity, after all, scripture says He is the fountain of Living waters that we can tap into.

Jeremiah 2:13 For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, and they have hewn for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns which cannot hold water.

This book teaches us to go back to the Fountain of living water, our source of inspiration, all other sources are incomplete, broken, leaking, but in God, we have all the wisdom we need to be the best Musicians this world has ever known.

I think that if musicians would just go back to the Master Musician himself, He will begin to give us sounds, chords, harmonies, lyrics that could only have come from the throne of God. But to tap into this we must know who our Father is, we must understand that there is nothing in the creative realm that he hasn’t got the solution for. We must understand that God created music, not the devil.

Therefore we must seek him so that His will can be done here

Reviews for The Calling of a Musician

[mobolaji_olaniyi · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I am greatly blessed with the 4 chapters of this book as a church musician, i reccommend the book for every current and intending christian musician.

[anneline · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

very nice art of work, i love the way it was made easy