HARP & BOWL
Harp & Bowl is a model of prayer and worship that facilitates prayer, group worship, and unified intercession.
What is Harp & Bowl?
- Comes from Revelation 5:8
- “the four living creatures and the 24 elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. And they sang a new song…”
- Mixture of worship (harp) with the prayers of the saints (bowl)
- A model that combines the spontaneous with structure
Why Harp & Bowl?
- Unity
- Helps unify the prayer room. Anyone praying can join in unified prayer to help “fill the bowls” before the Lord
- Having basic structures unifies and gets everyone on the same page
- Wisdom and Humility
- This model facilitates overcoming fears
- This model allows for beginners and seasoned musicians and singers
- This model stays central on the Word of God
- Brings heaven to Earth
- As we mirror the realities of heaven, we release and establish those realities here on earth. Worship and prayer unto the King on earth as it is in heaven.
- “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
- As we mirror the realities of heaven, we release and establish those realities here on earth. Worship and prayer unto the King on earth as it is in heaven.
- Re-establishes (in the Spirit) King David’s command from God on worship
- Details of this command – 1 Chronicles 28:11-19
- After David became king he set up a tabernacle of worship in Jerusalem (1 Chr. 15). He set Levites before the ark (which spoke of God’s presence) to worship God night & day. 1 Chronicles 16:1, 4
- David established full-time singers, musicians & gatekeepers
- 4,000 musicians – 1 Chronicles 23:5
- 288 singers – 1 Chronicles 25:7
- When the Old Testament kings continued, or re-established this form of worship, revivals and renewals emerged
- Hezekiah’s revival (725 BC) – 2 Chronicles 29:25-27
- Josiah’s revival (about 625 BC) restored full-time singers and musicians – 2 Chronicles 35:3-15
- Jehoshaphat’s reform (about 870 BC) included establishing singers and musicians – 2 Chronicles 20:19-28
- Jehoiada restored temple worship in the order of David (about 835 BC) – 2 Chronicles 23:18
- Zerubbabel (about 536 BC) established full-time singers and musicians as commanded by David – Ezra 3:10-11
- Ezra and Nehemiah (445 BC) established full-time singers and musicians as David commanded –Nehemiah 12:24, 45
- Amos prophesied the restoration of David’s tabernacle
- “On that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down…” Amos 9:11
- A global, spiritual tabernacle of worship and prayer is being established to usher in the return of the Lord to the earth, and to release the fullness of revival to the nations before the “harvest at the end of the age.”(Matthew 13:39)
- Acts 15:14-18