My friends, welcome to Follow Him Favorites. This year we are taking on a single question

from each lesson. John, the lesson for this week is basically the first third of the

Psalms. Psalms 1 through 50. And I don't know if how many people realize it, but Psalms

are hymns, they're songs. And so the question may come up this week. Why do we sing so much?

Why is music so important to the church in religion? John, if someone asks you, dad or brother

by the way or bishop by the way, why do we sing so much? Why is music almost a part of

everything we do? What would you say? One school of thought is that we sing so that the

late people can come in and find a seat before the real meeting starts. Right? Okay, that's the

and we still have a lot of it. Now let's have a special musical number. Let's have a really

special musical number. I used to wonder that myself and then you start noticing in the

scriptures how often they sang that Jesus so that they sang in him before the Passover.

So the question became, well, it must be important because Jesus did it. Why did Jesus do it? And

so many of these Psalms that we've looked at are talking about the greatness of God and teaching

us how to reverence him and to honor him. And I guess it's an inviting the spirit type of a thing.

Not all music does that. That's a whole nother discussion isn't it Hank, but the music that

invites the spirit of the Lord to come because boy, once we have the spirit of the Lord,

then our meeting is going to be wonderful and successful. So that's probably the short answer is

we know the Lord wants us to, but it's an invitation to the spirit. Yeah, the Lord commands us to

pray always. That's pretty hard to do to pray always until you hear that singing is a form of prayer.

That's section 25 of the Doctrine Covenants. The song of the righteous is a prayer unto me and it

shall be answered with a blessing upon their heads. Yeah. So if we can keep the songs of the restoration,

the hymns in our head, that's that's part of praying always. And to me, that's a pretty cool way

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