The story of the Psalms Project began twenty years ago in 1982. I
owned a Christian Bookstore in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho and the Lord began
saying to me, "It's coming, it's coming, I'm going to open doors for
you, you're going to love it, it's going to be wonderful!" For a whole
year, He kept saying this, and at the end of the year, we got
transferred to Honolulu, Hawaii. Almost immediately, I met Phyllis
Ramia, who was known as the Spiritual Mother of the Entertainers on the
Island because she had led so many of them to the Lord and had mentored
them. Her Grandfather was a part of Zion City and Azusa Street and that
Prophetic Mantle had been passed down to her. We became like twin
sisters.
Shortly after we met she began saying to me, "Rosalie, you are
going to be known for singing the Psalms. You must begin." Two years
later we moved to the Missoula, Montana and every time we would talk on
the phone she would say, "Have you begun?" And I would say, "I trust
you, I believe you, but I don't know how to begin." Then, on my
birthday, March 21, 1989 she called, sang Happy Birthday to me and then
once again said, "Have you begun?" When we hung up I immediately opened
my Bible to the shortest Psalm, 117, with anticipation of what God was
going to do, and the melody was just there and I excitedly recorded what
I heard. Seventeen days later on April 7, 1989 Phyllis came to visit me
in Missoula, MT. and she prophesied over me once again that I would be
singing the Psalms saying, "The Lord created you to be a bitty songbird
that rests on His hand. For the rhythm and the melody of the Lord shall
come to you like streams of water flowing from Heaven. And the song is
already written, so you don't have to plan it. The melody is already
Heaven sent, airborne to you, so you don't have to struggle for it."
One week later I received the music for Psalm 124 and the adventure had
begun. And yet I thought, I have the rest of my life to do this, and so
it took me two years to do the first 20 Psalms, recording them in my
pantry, in Montana.
In 1992 I moved to Post Falls, Idaho with an urgency to complete
the Psalms. I began living and breathing the Psalms day and night. The
next four years I spent in my laundry room, my "sound studio". Every
day as I worshiped Him, He would sing in my ears the beautiful melodies
and show me which Psalm they belonged to. Then we would work on them
all day together, usually till about 2:00 a.m. in the morning, when I'd
say, "Lord, I really don't want to stop but I've got to go to bed, I'm
so tired," and then I would play them on the stereo all night as I slept
so they would become a part of the fiber of my being and so I could
memorize the music and the many words.
In 1993, I began working at Koinonia House Ministries with Chuck and
Nancy Missler, donating my time because it was such a blessing, and they
gave me all of the materials from their ministry. Every year they would
take a tour to Israel and Host a Conference for an Update of the
Building of the Third Temple in Jerusalem. They had given me all of the
tape sets from those conferences. Gershon Salomon, Founder Chairman of the Temple Mount & Land of
Israel Faithful Movement, was always the
Keynote Speaker for those Conferences, and when I heard him speak on the
tapes, I just cried and knew I had to meet him and ask him two
questions, "Has anyone put the whole book of Psalms to music, word for
word since David and is there any record of David's music." The
following year, March 1994 I went to Israel with Chuck and Nancy
Missler, not only to enjoy being in Israel, but especially to meet
Gershon Salomon and ask him those two questions because I thought he
would know the answer if anyone did. He was so gracious and when I
asked my two questions, his answer was, "No." I told him the Lord had
given me the music prophetically to 80 of the Psalms so far, word for
word, and would he like to listen to them. He was excited about it and
listened to all 80 in a 24 hour period saying that he had cried though
them all, that God had given me this project to do and that I must
complete it. He said, "I promise you this that they will be put in the
Temple Mount Museum."
The next year I literally ate and breathed and slept Psalms 24
hours a day and one week before I returned to Israel February, 1995,
with Chuck and Nancy Missler, I finished all 150 Psalms. I knew Psalm
119 would be the last one the Lord and I did, and it was. I had taken
all 150 Psalms to Israel with me on eight, ninety minute cassette tapes,
simply to show to Gershon Salomon that they were completed, but I ended
up giving them to him. The next day I went to the Wailing Wall, placed
my hand on the wall and thanked the Lord that He had given me the
project to do and that it was finished. The Lord spoke and said that
the will of the Father had been accomplished. I stood there and cried
knowing that by giving the Psalms to Gershon Salomon, the music to all
150 Psalms was on Israel soil for the first time in 2000 years. I went
home and got all the music copywrited and waited for 7 years to see what
wonderful thing God would do with the music.
September 1999 I went back to Israel with Roberta Hromas, with the
American Christian Trust, Sanctuary of Prayer in Washington, D.C. and
Pavilion of Praise in Jerusalem. She made it possible for me to sing
the Psalms prophetically across Israel. That was such a thrill for me.
Then on December 12, 2001 I got a phone call from a Producer in Nashville, Tennessee, Robert Metzgar, and he offered to
produce the Psalms for me. I arrived on January 1, 2002 and we began
recording with Tony Migliore the arranger and many wonderful musicians.
Exactly 20 years before, the Lord had said, It's coming, it's
coming, I'm going to open doors for you, you're going to love it, it's
going to be wonderful" and truly the adventure of a lifetime had begun!
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