Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

Beach, California. Gay’s Prophetic Praises Series waspublished by Integrity Music and Gay was a worship leaderfor Integrity. He says,“God is raising up anointed prophetic songwriters to bringforth THE WAR SONGS OF ZION IN ORDER THAT THECHURCH MAY BECOME THE FIGHTING ARMY THATHE HAS CALLED IT TO BE” (“Silencing e Enemy,”Charisma, October 1992).Gay’s album Roar, Oh Lion of Judah features a “prophecy”by Bill Hamon.Hamon, one of the alleged latter rain “apostles,” oenmentions contemporary praise in his books. He believes thatGod speaks new revelations and empowers the end-timemiracle “revival” through the sensual atmosphere of themusic. He says that contemporary praise music “can bring inthe prophetic mantle” (Hamon, Prophets, Pitfalls andPrinciples, p. 19). He considers contemporary worship as anelement of “spiritual warfare” used by “God’s propheticmarines” in bringing the kingdom of God to earth (Apostles,Prophets, and the Coming Move of God, p. 114). He says thatthrough the “manifest presence of God” created bycontemporary praise music God speaks revelation (e Dayof the Saints: Equipping Believers for eir Revolutionary Role,p. 343).Hamon, who was 77 years old in 2011, experienced thebeginning of the latter rain Manifest Sons of God movementin the 1950s. He says the wild, backbeat Pentecostal musicplayed an intimate part in that movement from its inception.“I was personally present at the Crescent Beach BibleConference in 1954 in British Columbia, when this type ofworship was birthed in the Latter Rain Movement. … econgregation of about eight hundred people had beenworshipping God for quite some time. As the worship loweredto a melodious murmur, suddenly A SISTER BEGAN TOPROPHESY, ‘e King is coming, the King is coming--go yeout to meet Him with dances and rejoicing.’ She started taking261