Miracles Happen When She Plays the Violin
Taylor believes songs set an atmosphere for healing but encourages believers not to overanalyze the concept. Ultimately, healing comes from God—not music that hits certain frequencies or 650 beats a minute. She knows this all too well because she was on her deathbed after a physician error during a simple surgery. Her colon was deteriorating, and she dwindled down to 89 pounds, having nine surgeries in 90 days before she emerged from the trial.
“I believe healing comes from the stripes on Jesus’ back—that’s it,” Taylor says. “If we go back to Psalm 32:7, it’s simple. He is our hiding place. Just keep worshipping Him, and you’ll find the hiding place. There are not 50 steps to healing. There’s one mysterious secret to getting set free from disease or anything else in your life. You need one good encounter with God. That’s all. Music can set the stage for an encounter with God.”
Soaking in the Presence of God to Rest and Receive
You don’t need to go to a conference and have Taylor play her violin over you to get healed, either. Soaking music—longer, slower versions of worship songs that flow like a river of life—emerged about a decade ago and can be a tool for entering the healing presence of God in your own home.
Scriptures such as Psalm 4:4 (Meditate in your heart on your bed and be still.), Psalm 37:7 (Rest in the Lord and wait patiently.) and Psalm 91:1 (He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.) support the concept of soaking. Soaking is a time to quiet your soul and awaken to His presence, to hear from the Lord and receive what you need.
“Soaking is an interactive experience with God that has no agenda, no limitations on His goodness and is often accompanied by healing,” True says. “Soaking is a time to fix our eyes on Jesus, cease all striving and lay our burdens at His feet. It’s a time to receive fresh healing in our body and soul. Soaking is a time to rest in the shadow of His wings and to know His peace that passes all understanding.”
This next question is vital: Does faith have anything to do with the power of music to heal? Yes and no. Kuhlman once told the story of an unbeliever who walked into one of her meetings thinking it was some sort of convention. With music thundering in the background, the Lord healed him of a hearing disorder—and, at the time, he was still in unbelief.
Music can play a role in healing and so can faith, but God is sovereign and can heal whom He wants when He wants, and we don’t have to feel anything in the process. Duvall echoes Roth’s comments: “Pairing Scriptures with music helps people put their faith on the Word,” she says. “When we worship the Lord, we may not feel anything, but we can believe that when we draw near to Him, He draws near to us and He inhabits the praises of His people—and miracles can happen.”
When God Shows Up to Minister Healing Miracles
Healing music is not merely a scientific theory—it’s a kingdom reality. Worship unites our spirit, soul—our mind, will and emotions—and body with the Lord, and we create a stairway to heaven, piercing a veil between heaven and Earth and inviting the King of glory to have His way. His way—His will—is always to heal the sick, cleanse the lepers and cast out devils.
Sklar says he’s seen thousands of healing miracles while playing his violin and many more salvations in the past 25 years. He tells of a 12-year-old girl in Fort Wayne, Indiana, who was born with a deformed right foot—and the Lord gave her a creative miracle in the form of a new foot. In Canada, Sklar says he watched God heal over 40 people with knee problems—including one man who had been born without kneecaps.
“I was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the Prayer Center pastored by Dave Roberson when I saw God create a shoulder joint that was not there before,” Sklar says. “This man had never been able to move his arm from birth. As I played the violin over him, he said that he felt his shoulder begin to heat up as God healed him. He was doing windmills with his arm, jumping and shouting: ‘Look, I’m healed! I’m healed!'”
True has seen similar miracles through her soaking music. When people play her CDs, God shows up. She reports improvements in Alzheimer’s patients, reduced pain among women laboring to give birth, better sleep and inner healing. “Inner healing, peace and comfort is the type of healing I’ve seen most with my music, and the way God has uniquely wired me to worship and minister to others,” she says.
Taylor can share story after story from over 20 years of playing sounds that set the captives free. She beams when she speaks of Sylvester, a man whose wife made him fill out a card declaring he received his healing even though he felt nothing. After he signed the card, all the pain left his body. Then there’s Margie, a middle-aged woman who had lumps in her breast. After Taylor played her violin over Margie, a miracle happened—the lumps disappeared. When she went to the bathroom to check herself, everyone heard her scream: “Thank You, Jesus. Thank You, Jesus. Thank You, Jesus.”
So how do you get to this place where the sounds can set you free? How do you embrace songs of deliverance? Sometimes it can be quite by accident. But we shouldn’t forget Ruth Ward Heflin’s map to the glory: Praise until the spirit of worship comes, worship until the glory comes, and stand in the glory.
“When you want to know what something is worth, you call an appraiser, and you don’t want an appraiser unless he’s certified—and the certification comes from the book,” Taylor says. “The book—the Bible—tells you what God is really worth. So you call God what the Word says He is, and He becomes that to you. Somewhere in your praise, you’ll lock eyes with Him and step into worship—and somewhere in that worship, you’ll touch Him, and He’ll touch you. You’ll enter the glory, and that’s when deliverance and healing come.”
Watch LaDonna Taylor play her violin on It’s Supernatural and talk about how God heals through her music at ladonna.charismamag.com.
