What Kind of Music Should Be Done During Healing Lines?

There is no instruction on this subject in the Bible.  It is totally a matter of preference.  The best answer to this question is – whatever music the person ministering likes!  (Find out in advance if you can.)  Some preachers like upbeat music, many like slow, worshipful music, some like singing while others like instrumental music, and some prefer no music at all!  Having played (and sometimes sung as well) for healing lines for preachers in all but the last (obviously) of these categories, I haven’t noticed any correlation between the quality of the anointing and the type of music.  I don’t think God cares about the type of music as long as people are reverent.  They can be running the aisles and still be reverent; they don’t have to be quiet.  The one kind of music you don’t want to do is something that encourages people to get out and do Greek line dances or something in the flesh.  (However, if the minister tells you that he has an unusual anointing whereby people are healed by the busload while doing Greek line dances, don’t let this comment stop you from cooperating.  I just haven’t seen that yet.)

Some of the old-timers insist that the songs from the good-old-days just had more anointing on them, but you’ll put the hip-hop crowd to sleep singing those old songs.  On the other hand, you may drive away the retirees if you do all rap music.  (I have heard anointed rap music, but not any anointed “gangsta rap.”  Also, “Christian” heavy metal “scream rock” where you can’t understand the words being screamed would be counterproductive during a healing line, or any other line for that matter.  An appropriate line for unintelligible Christian scream rock would be at the exit door.)

Of course, you should never do unbelief music – including modern, rocking unbelief music with videos of waterfalls and low-flying helicopter shots of beaches behind the projected horrible lyrics.  I’ve had to try to preach faith while the music someone picked out served to suck the faith out of anyone who believed the lyrics.  Pretty waterfalls with lyrics about being weak and poor or majestic mountain peaks with lyrics that say that God gives and takes away will do nothing to help anyone.  I don’t want to sing about a day when my strength is failing when Moses’s strength never failed and he had a covenant worse than the one I enjoy.

For additional advice for musicians who play in healing services, see Healing and Music.