"Awake sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you....be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord.
What is a Psalm and Psalter?
Like the 'temple musicians' who first performed the psalms over 3,000 years ago, so is 'Evan Psalter' named after them. The Psalters primary purpose was to glorify God through music. They did not perform for the sake of entertainment, utility, or artistic expression, but for the primary vocation of making prayers to the God of the Exodus. Their music was prayer and song united into one word : Tehillah (translated as Psalms). We also desire to teach Evan Psalter to be a Psalter rather than a musician.
Psalters are the cry of the Exodus that went out before a great battle that Jehovah God would lead His people to victory in, by singing songs at the front lines leading the charge; rallying the caravan, awakening the sleepers; God's vessels to give courage to the fearful, feeling to the numb, hope to those trying; challenging those safe in the trenches to come out and run boldly to the deadly battle where, Christ out bloody champion is standing for the oppressed. It is here, with the suffering, where Christ is found, that Evan Psalter would lead the worship of the worthy One.
The name Evan comes from Evander, a Scottish name meaning 'warrior'. The name Evan in Hebrew comes from the name John, meaning 'God is gracious'.
Isaiah 30:32
Every stroke the Lord lays on them with the punishing rod will be to the music of tambourines and strings as He fights them in battle with the blows of His arm.
We want Evan Psalter to be a 'Musical Warrior' able to communicate with God his entire life, using every part of his being as an instrument to give God praise and glory for making him fearfully and awesomely. When he comes to the age he can understand for himself the things of this world, we pray for him now that he would be a warrior who is gracious and loves his God ferociously.
Brian and Sarah McDaniel
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May Evan Psalter McDaniel indeed be a mighty "Musical Warrior" for God his whole life. He will be coming into this life being such a blessed little boy, with a strong, loving dad and a sweet, caring mom.
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