Voice/Throat Care for Preachers. - Page 2

Hoovie · #11 03-22-2009, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Edward Anglin

What are dieretics?

Sorry - that should be diuretics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diuretic

freeatlast · #12 03-22-2009, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Edward Anglin

Seriously?

You seriously need revival? j/k kinda busy easter sunday ;-)

This might help, us singers use this to help our golden pipes.

"When the pipes get scratchy use the following:

3 tablespoons liquid honey
2 ounces of lemon juice (pure)
2 teasponns of granulated sugar
1 Xtra large cup

Boil water, add ingredients, pour hot water in cup, stir until honey is disolved....drink it while it is hot and drink it as hot as you can stand without burning your mouth. Do this once every 2 hours on preachin' day and your scrathy throat will be clear."

EA · #13 03-22-2009, 11:08 PM

Do you guys think it would be wrong of me to schedule guest speakers for a whole month?

I've never done such a thing, but I'm wondering if maybe I should.

mizpeh · #14 03-22-2009, 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Edward Anglin

Do you guys think it would be wrong of me to schedule guest speakers for a whole month?

I've never done such a thing, but I'm wondering if maybe I should.

Nope, maybe that's what God has in mind?

joyful · #15 03-23-2009, 02:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Edward Anglin

Do you guys think it would be wrong of me to schedule guest speakers for a whole month?

I've never done such a thing, but I'm wondering if maybe I should.

I don't think this is wrong at all. If you don't take care of yourself now, you may jeapordize your ability to preach at all in the future. I would just let the church know that you have strained your vocal chords and need to rest them in order to proceed in good health. Any reasonable person should be very understanding of this.

Praxeas · #16 03-23-2009, 02:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Edward Anglin

Here's the deal.

I have preached at least three times a week for the last 9 years.

That adds up to around 1400 sermons that average around 35 minutes.

That total does not incude personal bible studies.

I am thinking I may have overused my voice.

For the past two months I have struggled mightily with my throat/voice.

It comes and goes in spurts.

However, today it is so bad I can barely speak.

Have you guys ever experienced this?

What do you do to combat it?

use a microphone instead of SCREAMING???

Praxeas · #17 03-23-2009, 02:03 AM

why do some churches only have/allow one person to preach? Other people have gifts and callings too

bishoph · #18 03-23-2009, 02:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Edward Anglin

Here's the deal.

I have preached at least three times a week for the last 9 years.

That adds up to around 1400 sermons that average around 35 minutes.

That total does not incude personal bible studies.

I am thinking I may have overused my voice.

For the past two months I have struggled mightily with my throat/voice.

It comes and goes in spurts.

However, today it is so bad I can barely speak.

Have you guys ever experienced this?

What do you do to combat it?

I went through something very similar a few years ago. It got so bad that I finally went to the doctor. He told me that during my sleep acid from my stomach had come up and "burned" as he described it my vocal chords. From this, he stated that I had scar tissue on the vocal chords that would require very expensive and very risky surgery to fix.

A couple of months later I was in service and God instantly healed me, I have never had the problem again.

If you wake up occasionally with acid in your throat it may be the same thing, It can be treated with anti-acids before you go to bed, and may go away just by preventing that.

At any rate I will be praying for your healing!

pelathais · #19 03-23-2009, 07:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Edward Anglin

Here's the deal.

I have preached at least three times a week for the last 9 years.

That adds up to around 1400 sermons that average around 35 minutes.

That total does not include personal bible studies.

I am thinking I may have overused my voice.

For the past two months I have struggled mightily with my throat/voice.

It comes and goes in spurts.

However, today it is so bad I can barely speak.

Have you guys ever experienced this?

What do you do to combat it?

Dude! You are a stud preacher! 35 minutes?

But seriously... I had it down to 45 minutes on the spot. I did that once a week for about 15 years. For a time I also did a daily thing (*that we will never speak of again) that had to fill a one hour time slot.

What I found that helped and hurt- caffeine hurt. Sure it was the next best thing to an anointing, but it stretches the vocal chords. I could actually listen to myself on tape and tell when I had caffeinated before hand just from the timbre of my voice.

Also antihistamines - if there's a cold coming on or allergies, I found that using some over the counter thing with guaifenesin helped. The other stuff just dries you out. I was dying of pneumonia once and some prescription strength guaifenesin along with antibiotics made me right again. That was before I learned what was giving me the pneumonia all the time. God was merciful in the way He nurtured my wretched self.

The singers will probably give you better advice than I could about honey and syrups, teas and that sort of stuff. It's probably all good. Dunno, I just found that these two things tended to mess with my voice the most.

rgcraig · #20 03-23-2009, 09:04 AM

Speakers, singers and preachers can develop nodules on their vocal cords.

At one time because of allergies and then over using my vocal cords while in school (singing), I completely lost my voice for a period of time and had to actually go to speech therapy to learn to use my true vocal cords instead of my false cords (I had switched to the false cords automatically because my true cords were overworked).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_fold_nodule

I would rest them.