The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

that is predictive, when they are prophetic their effect is the same as a prophetic message spoken verbally. The difference is that music and lyrics intensify the prophecy’s impact and expedite the hearer’s reception of the word. Sometimes psalms are didactic, acrostic, instructive, or injunctive and have no music attached to them. They sometimes rhyme to convey the pulse and tempo of God’s mood in the communication and can include liturgical songs, worship, and praise odes. Whatever the nature, the psalm is a set piece of music for sacred use; that is, sanctuary and/or worship use. 1211. Psalmist—A singer of prophetic songs, hymns, and dirges that contain futuristic, judgmental, provocative, invocative, and creative overtones. Psalmists may or may not be prophets. The distinction is whether or not their mantle operates outside of musical settings or highly aesthetic environments. Also, the enforcement element of all prophets is required to provoke more than a musical and worshipful response. The psalmist must also have power to invoke the invisible agents of creation, God’s angels, His spiritual ministers, etc. Their manifestations must also promote obedience and submission in routine prophetic operations. Like intercessors, many people confuse psalmists with prophets or assume the psalmist is an automatic prophet. While they are clearly prophetic, most psalmists are not prophets because of the factors described above. Psalmists, when they teach or minister apart from their music, often find their anointing verging with messages that address the musical treatments of the Word of the Lord. They can teach music, song writing, praise, and worship. But outside these situations they are often unable to prophesy the word of the Lord equally, as effectively, or with correspondent clarity. 1212. Psuche—Greek word for psyche. The term is also the name of a goddess who copulates with Eros. See the explanation of Eros. The basis of this presumably annual encounter may account for the traditional Valentine’s Day celebration. 1213. Psyche—A) The soul realm, emphasizing the mind and its mental state over the emotions. B) That which is of the mind. 1214. Psychic—One who tells the future by occultic means, whereby the soul realm and carnal spheres of a hearer are read. Psychic readings stress the afterlife —the dead (necromancy) and worldliness (cosmopolitanism)—and are typically confined to things on earth. They incite sin and defection from Creator God and His laws. Their themes are home, marriage, money, sexuality (more like