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About Numbered Notation

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  1. The numbers are the notes of a scale
  2. “1=C” tells you where to start
  3. Dots make a note higher or lower
  4. How long each note lasts
  5. 0 means rest
  6. Bar lines and the time signature
  7. Curves: ties and slurs
  8. The words sit under the numbers
  9. Repeat signs and 1. 2. endings
  10. Minor keys: “6=A”
  11. Put it together: a line of a hymn
  12. Check yourself
  13. Try it on a hymn

The numbers are the notes of a scale

Numbered notation (jianpu, 简谱) writes a melody as numbers instead of notes on a staff. You do not need to read music: take one small step at a time and press Play on any example to hear it while each number lights up. Sound only starts when you press Play.

Instead of notes on a staff, each note is a number from 1 to 7. They are the seven steps of the scale you already know: do re mi fa sol la ti. After 7 the scale starts again at 1.

The seven numbers with their names. Press Play and say each name as its number lights up.
Sing along: do re mi fa sol, and back down to do.

If you can sing do re mi, you can already sing every number from 1 to 7. Tap or click any number to hear just that note.

“1=C” tells you where to start

At the top left of the sheet you will see something like 1=C. It means the number 1 (do) is the note C, and every other number counts up from there. 1=G means do is G, so the whole tune sits a little higher. Nothing else changes: the same numbers make the same shape, only higher or lower.

1=C: do is C.
1=G: the same numbers, starting higher.

Not sure where C is? On a piano it is the white key just left of the two black keys. Or ignore the letter and start on any note that is comfortable for your voice: the tune only has to keep its shape. The − and + key buttons on a hymn page shift the key for you.

Dots make a note higher or lower

A dot above a number means one octave higher. A dot below means one octave lower. Two dots mean two octaves. No dot is the middle range, where most of a tune lives. The name stays the same; only the height changes.

The same number at three heights: dot below, no dot, dot above.
A tune that climbs: it starts on a low sol and ends on a high do.

How long each note lasts

Tap your foot at a steady pace: each tap is a beat. A plain number lasts one beat, so you sing a new number on every tap. Dashes, lines and dots change that.

A plain number is one beat

Four numbers, four beats: one number for each tap.

A dash holds the note longer

Each dash adds one beat. The 5 lasts two beats and the 3 lasts four.

A line underneath makes it shorter

One line is half a beat, so two underlined numbers share one beat. (Two lines are a quarter of a beat.)

A dot after makes it half as long again

A dot after a number adds half its length. The first 5 lasts a beat and a half, and the short 3 fills the rest of the second beat.

0 means rest

A 0 is silence for one beat. Keep counting and keep tapping, but do not sing. Dashes after a 0 make the silence longer, just as they hold a note longer.

Sing 1 3 5, stay quiet for one beat, then come back down. Rests light up too, so you can feel the pause.

Bar lines and the time signature

Tall lines cut the music into bars, each holding the same number of beats. The two small numbers at the start, like 4/4 or 3/4, say how many: 4/4 is four beats in every bar, 3/4 is three. The first beat of each bar is the strongest, so lean on it a little. A double line with a thick edge marks the end.

4/4: count 1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4. The first beat of each bar sounds a little louder.
3/4: count 1 2 3, 1 2 3, the lilt of a waltz.

Curves: ties and slurs

A curve over numbers joins them. If it joins two of the same number, it is a tie: sing the note once and hold it for both. If it joins different numbers, it is a slur: sing them all on one syllable, gliding from one to the next.

A tie: the 5 is sung once and held across the bar line, six beats in all.
A slur: “Him” is sung on two notes, 3 then 2.

The words sit under the numbers

Each number gets one syllable, written right underneath it. A short dash after part of a word means the word carries on under the next number. If a number has nothing under it, it belongs to a curve or a dash: keep singing the syllable you are on.

Read left to right, one syllable for each number: Twin-kle, twin-kle, lit-tle star.

Repeat signs and 1. 2. endings

A bar line with two dots, :|, means go back and sing that part again, from the matching |: sign (or from the start if there is none). Sometimes the repeat has two endings. Sing ending 1. the first time; on the repeat, skip it and sing ending 2. instead.

Play it: you hear the 1. ending, the repeat, then the 2. ending. Watch the highlight jump back.

Minor keys: “6=A”

A song in a minor key, which usually sounds more serious or tender, is labeled like 6=A instead of 1=C. It means the number 6 (la) is the home note, here A. The numbers keep their usual names; the tune simply feels at home on 6 and often ends there. 6=A uses the same notes as 1=C.

It starts and ends on 6 (la), the home note. Listen to the darker colour.

Put it together: a line of a hymn

This is the first line of hymn 8, “Praise God, from whom all blessings flow”, written in numbered notation. Try the slow tempo first, and sing the words as each number lights up.

1=G in 4/4. Three silent beats, then “Praise” on beat 4. The dots under 7, 6 and 5 mean those notes dip one octave lower.

Check yourself

Four quick questions, with no score and no pressure. Tap an answer to see right away why it is right or wrong. You can always try another answer.

Tap the number that is held the longest.

Tap the 5 that is one octave higher than the first 5.

What does a 0 mean?

Under 1=G, which note is the number 1?

Try it on a hymn

You opened this from a hymn that has a Numbered view, so you can try it right now.

  1. Look at the top left of the sheet: the key, such as 1=D, and the time signature, such as 3/4.
  2. Find the first number and sing it. Then follow the numbers from left to right with the words underneath, one syllable for each number. Press Play in the player to hear the recording while you follow.
  3. Letters above the numbers (C, G7) are chords for a guitarist or pianist. Ignore them while you learn the tune.
  4. To be guided, open the Learn tab and press Play. Under Display, set Learn notation to Numbered (or choose Numbered on the Lead Sheet tab first). For hymns that have numbered lines, each line of numbers scrolls into view in time with the recording while a bouncing ball follows the words; other hymns show the piano notation there. The Speed menu slows it down.

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Seven Spirits of our God

Fullness of the Spirit The Seven Spirits

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“Seven Spirits” of our God—
Lo, the age has now been turned
To the Spirit with the Son.
For the churches He’s concerned.
 
Come, O seven Spirits, come,
Thy recovery work be done!
Burn and search us thoroughly,
All the churches are for Thee.
Burn us, search us,
All the churches are for Thee!
2
Sevenfold the Spirit is
For the deadness of the church,
That the saints may turn and live,
That the Lord may burn and search.
3
Now the Spirit of our God
Has become intensified:
’Tis not one but sevenfold
That the church may be supplied!
4
Now the seven Spirits are
Seven lamps of burning fire,
Not to teach us, but to burn,
Satisfying God’s desire.
5
See the seven Spirits now—
Seven piercing, searching eyes.
In the church exposing us,
All the church He purifies.
6
Seven Spirits doth the Lord
For the churches now employ;
All those in the local church
May this Spirit now enjoy.

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Clay S.

Waukegan, IL, United States

Jun 27, 2026

Thank you Lord for Your sevenfold, intensified Spirit! It is the ongoing, daily, moment by moment cure for my deadness, deaFness, blindness, etc. (There are many etc. 's! )

A few words from the Holy Word for Morning Revival, A New Revival - Living the Life of a God-man (2000), pp. 24-25

"I have come to cast fire on the earth, and how I wish that it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how I am pressed until it is accomplished!" (Luke 12:49-50)

"... And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne which are the seven Spirits of God."

(Rev. 4:5)

"And the angel of Jehovah appeared to him [Moses] in a flame of fire out of the midst of a thornbush. And when he looked, there was the thorn bush burning with fire but the thornbush was not consumed." (Ex. 3:2)

"It is not easy to learn that we are simply a [thornbush] for the manifestation of God. Throughout the years I have been learning one lesson: to work for God without using the natural life as the fuel, but letting God burn within me. In ourselves we are nothing; we are mere thornbushes. But God still treasures us and desires to manifest Himself as a flame of fire from within us. We should treasure His burning by never putting any trust in what we are according to the natural man. Our natural man with its energy, strength, and ability must be terminated and forgotten. Our ability and strength mean nothing. What can a thorn bush do? Nothing. Although you may consider yourself to be capable, you will eventually realize that you are merely a useless thornbush. We all must have such a view of ourselves. Thank God that He visits us, stays with us, and burns upon us. Although the divine flame burns within us, and upon us, we ourselves are not consumed.

Life Study of Exodus, pp. 69-72.

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Cc

London, United Kingdom

May 25, 2026

Yes Spirit- burn and search us …

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Un Hermano

Sep 25, 2025

God, the Lamb, the Stone, and the Lampstand

God became the redeeming Lamb who died and resurrected to become the building stone; this building stone is the lampstand with seven eyes, seven Spirits, and seven lamps to produce the church. This golden lampstand is the church. The seven lamps are the seven eyes of God, and these seven eyes are also on the stone. According to Zechariah, this stone is for God’s building. Eventually we see that the stone with the seven eyes is the lampstand. In the book of Revelation we see that the seven eyes of God are the seven eyes of the Lamb. The seven lamps of the lampstand are the seven eyes of God, the seven eyes on the stone, and the seven eyes of the Lamb. This means that the lampstand equals the stone, the stone equals the Lamb, and the Lamb equals God. In Exodus we have a lampstand with seven lamps. In Zechariah we see that these seven lamps are the seven eyes of God and the seven eyes of the stone. The book of Revelation indicates that these seven eyes are also the seven eyes of the Lamb. The seven lamps are the seven eyes of God, the seven eyes of the stone, and the seven eyes of the Lamb. This proves that the lampstand is God, that God is the stone, and that the stone is the Lamb. The lampstand is the stone, the stone is the Lamb, and the Lamb is God. These four things—the lampstand, the stone, the Lamb, and God—are four in one. The lampstand is for shining, the stone is for building, the Lamb is for redeeming, and God is for administrating. Therefore, we have the shining lampstand, the building stone, the redeeming Lamb, and the administrating God.

The seven lamps of the shining lampstand are the seven eyes of the building stone, the seven eyes of the building stone are the seven eyes of the redeeming Lamb, and the seven eyes of the redeeming Lamb are the seven eyes of the administrating God. These seven lamps and these seven eyes are the seven Spirits of God. In the present age the Spirit is the seven Spirits of God who are the seven lamps of fire burning for God’s administration and also the seven eyes of the redeeming and building One for transfusion and infusion. The lamps of burning fire are for God’s administration, and the eyes are for the redeeming and building One’s transfusion. On the one hand, these seven Spirits are seven lamps shining, burning, searching, judging, and carrying out God’s administration. On the other hand, these seven Spirits are the seven eyes of the redeeming and building Christ to infuse whatever Christ is into us.

The Conclusion of the
New Testament:
Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ,
Message 416 Section 5 Volume 3

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RS

WA, United States

Mar 18, 2022

He is the seven-fold intensified Spirit before the throne right now to carry out His administration, running to and fro on the whole earth! "Christ as the redeeming Lamb has seven observing and searching eyes for executing God's judgment upon the universe to fulfill God's eternal purpose, which will consumate in the building up of the New Jerusalem. Therefore, in Zechariah 3:9 He is prophesied as the stone, which is the topstone (4:7), with seven eyes for God's building. These seven eyes are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth, running "to and fro on the whole earth,"(v. 10)....

"Eventually this compound Spirit of Jesus Christ becomes the seven Spirits of God, who are the seven lamps of fire before His throne to carry out His administration on earth for the accomplishment of His economy with the church, and who are the seven eyes of the Lamb for the transfusing of all that He is into the church (Rev. 1:4, 4:5, 5:6).":The Holy Word for Morning Revival: Living in and with the Divine Trinity, pp. 116, 95. Living Stream Ministry

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Anna

Santa Cruz, California, United States

Feb 11, 2021

Come, O seven Spirits, come!
May Thy recovery work be done in all the churches!
Not to teach us, but to burn!
Burn us, search us, All the churches are for Thee!

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Isabel Mendoza

Spartanburg, SC, United States

Jan 19, 2021

oh ven 7 Espiritus de Dios
Ven y termina lo que enpesaste
Oh Señor Jesus
Prepara Tu novia
Oh ese dia se aproxima
Ven y cumple con el plan

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Hiram Chalcedony Guyo

Lucena City, Quezon Province, Philippines

May 5, 2020

3 Now the Spirit of our God
Has become intensified:
’Tis not one but sevenfold
That the church may be supplied!

2Co 3:6 - Who has also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant, ministers not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Through our enjoyment of the sevenfold intensified Spirit, not only ourselves would benefit but also the other members of the Body. Thus we are having a constant supply with each member. In this way, we would have rich experience in the church life because we are ministering life with each other.

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Sonny Seria

Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

May 5, 2020

Now the Spirit of our God has become intensified [Revelation 4:5 - seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God] not to teach us but to supply us - “the Spirit gives life”

The seven Spirits are undoubtedly the Spirit of God because They are ranked among the Triune God in [Rev. 1] vv. 4 and 5. As seven is the number for completion in God’s operation, so the seven Spirits must be for God’s move on the earth. In essence and existence, God’s Spirit is one; in the intensified function and work of God’s operation, God’s Spirit is sevenfold. This is similar to the lampstand in Zech. 4:2. In its existence it is one lampstand, but in its function it is seven lamps. At the time this book [Revelation] was written, the church had become degraded; the age was dark. Therefore, the sevenfold intensified Spirit of God was needed for God’s move and work on the earth. (Rev. 1:4, footnotes 5)

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Jovan Heron

Aachen, NRW, Germany

Mar 21, 2020

He has only one concern. His concern is His Church. He has become sevenfold intensified to supply the Churches. HE WILL BUILD HIS CHURCH! Amen. Lord Jesus come quickly!

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Anonymous

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Feb 19, 2019

Thank You Lord for the sevenfold intensified Spirit.

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