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All Things
02:32
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Image of the invisible God
Firstborn o’er creation
For by Him all things were made
On earth and in heaven
Jesus Christ, before all things
Who holds all things together
Reconciles all things to God
And all things to each other
All things seen and things unseen
Rulers, thrones or powers
All these things were made through Him
Who levels haughty towers
Our Messiah, Lord and head
Of the gathered body
We the wondering feet and hands
Serving to Thy glory
Here, God’s fullness, pleased to dwell
In Him, Lord and beginning
Making peace now with the blood
Of His crucifixion
Our Messiah, the first new day
First raised among the fallen
That all things may follow Him
Through death to resurrection
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Song of Cain
03:37
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Bless the LORD, O my soul
With all that is within me
Bless the LORD, O my soul
Who crowns thy head with mercy
Bless the LORD, O my soul
Let all these broken bones sing
Bless the LORD, O my soul
The bloodied earth is groaning
Bless the LORD, O my soul
From yon to everlasting
Bless the LORD, O my soul
So all the wind-blown grass sings
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Holy Spirit, Groaning
02:08
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Come Holy Spirit
Hovering over the waters
Come Holy Spirit
Hovering over the waters
Awaken life from sea and soil
Harvest for our work and toil
Come Holy Spirit
Hovering over the waters
Come Holy Spirit
Every language is on Your breath
Come Holy Spirit
Every language is on Your breath
See your Image in every face
Make the earth your half place
Come Holy Spirit
Every language is on Your breath
Come Holy Spirit
Groaning with creation
Come Holy Spirit
Groaning with creation
Groaning with us every day
Till all our tears are wiped away
Come Holy Spirit
Groaning with creation
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Destroying Mountain
04:17
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O destroying mountain, be rolled into the sea
O destroying mountain, be rolled into the sea
The mountains shall be levelled and the earth shall be set free
Behold, destroying mountain, the blood beneath your feet
Behold, destroying mountain, the blood beneath your feet
You’ve crushed the poor into the floor, beneath your own conceit
Be gone, destroying mountain, go terrify no more
Be gone, destroying mountain, go terrify no more
Put your weapons on the fire, your crown upon the floor
You’ve heard, destroying mountain, that the first shall be last
You’ve heard, destroying mountain, that the first shall be last
Before the wounded crucified, we all shall be disarmed
O destroying mountain, you too shall bow the knee
O destroying mountain, you too shall bow the knee
In the twinkling of an eye we shall be changed, both you and me
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Be Still
02:53
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Though the mountains shake
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Though the oceans roar
Though the earth may open up and fall
Though the Powers gloat
And malice roams the land
Though the strongman lifts his bloodied hand
May we yet be still
Before the Prince of Peace
May we lay our crowns before his broken feet
Why ye stand far off?
Seeming there beyond
while the voiceless hurting suffer long?
O Jesus, how we need
the feet that bring good news
the hands that heal the hurting and abused
May we yet be still
May our raging cease
May we make these days, ready for His Peace
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Also Go With Thee
02:45
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Lord be with us when we hurt
As among us in our mirth
Lord be near our woundedness
In all we carry along with us
May we also go with thee
On the walk to Calvary
May we also be sharing
In thy wounded suffering
Jesus raised up from the grave
carrying still the scars today
In our midst declaring peace
With thy wounded hands and feet
May we stand with those who mourn
Those who hunger, those who’re poor
Those who weep in woundedness
As our messiah stood with us
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Take the Knee
06:51
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Take the knee ye weary souls
Though the song of empire rolls
Subject to no woman or man
Only to the Maker’s hand
Take the knee ye cast aside
‘Gainst the powers that pass ye by
Take the knee before the one
Who watches over ye and them
Take the knee ye weary souls
Until righteousness shall roll
For history doth bend toward
When God shall judge between us all
Take the knee ye suited powers
Scoffing from thy glassy towers
Ye, who think ye masters, see…
Y’are but servants before He
Take the knee ye conquerors all
Who live and die by strength and sword
All ye take shall be returned
And ye shall see another Lord
Take the knee ye weary souls
Until righteousness shall roll
For history doth bend toward
When God shall judge between us all
Take the knee ye silver tongues
Who print the pages and spin the yarns
For ye shall not forever stack
Your lies upon the people’s backs
Take the knee ye merchant lords
Who sit upon the wealth of all
Which comes and goes at thy behest
Take the knee, open thy chest
Take the knee ye weary souls
Until righteousness shall roll
For history doth bend toward
when God shall judge between us all
Take the knee, and keep the ground
From the schemes of the unsound
Who, for nought but easy gain
Would tear creation up again
Take the knee by river and lake
Against the coiling black snake
Who, for nought but want of more
Would poison sea and sky and soil
Take the knee ye weary souls
Until righteousness shall roll
For history doth bend toward
when God shall judge between us all
Take the knee, for to contend
For the image of God in them
Whom the powers hath kept outside
For, your peace and theirs are tied
Take the knee ye faithful ones
For the grace to be daughters and sons
of the Maker of thy enemies
take the knee and pray for these
Take the knee ye weary souls
Until righteousness shall roll
For history doth bend toward
when God shall judge between us all
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Sacred Head
02:18
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O sacred head once wounded
With grief and pain weighed down
How scornfully surrounded
With thorns thine only crown
How art thou pale with anguish
With sore abuse and scorn
How does that visage languish
Which once was bright as morn
O sacred head, what glory
What bliss till now was thine
And now, despised and gory
And set on, here in time
Thy grief and thy compassion
Were all for sinner’s gain
Ours was the transgression
And yours the deadly pain
What language should I borrow
To praise the, heavenly friend
For this thy dying sorrow
And mercy without end
Lord, make me thine forever
And let me ever be
Held within your shadow
Beside your wounded feet
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I asked the Lord that I might grow
In faith and love and ev’ry grace,
Might more of His compassion know,
And seek more truthfully His face.
‘Twas He who taught me thus to pray,
And He, I trust, has answered prayer,
But it has been in such a way
As almost drove me to despair.
I hoped that in some favored hour
At once He’d answer my request
And, by His love’s constraining pow’r,
Subdue my sins and give me rest.
Instead of this, He made me feel
The hidden evils of my heart
And let the angry pow’rs of hell
Assault my soul in ev’ry part.
Yea, more with His own hand He seemed
Intent to aggravate my woe,
Crossed all the fair designs I schemed,
Blasted my gourds, and laid me low.
“Lord, what is this,” I trembling cried;
“Wilt Thou pursue this worm to death?”
“’Tis in this way,” the Lord replied,
“I answer prayer for grace and faith.”
“These inward trials I employ
From self and pride to set thee free
And break thy schemes of earthly joy
That thou may’st find thy all in Me.”
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Watching and Waiting
02:43
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Watching and waiting with these tired eyes
Whither the horizon lies
Watching and waiting with these tired eyes
Waiting for the sun to rise
Carrying the burdens of the days and years
With us inside our hearts
Carrying the burdens of the days and years
Quietly along the path
In all of our days and along our ways
There’s been too many sorrows Lord
Too many stories of such brokenness
Too many hurts to hold
But ever so dimly, as in a mirror Lord
We see visions of the rising sun
And little growing shoots of the age to come
Are emerging in the present one
And its love that doth span from the broken days
To the glory of the days to come
And its hope and faith that along the way
Hold onto what the love hath done
Yes its hope and faith that, along the way
Draw toward the rising sun
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Gather to the Mountain
03:07
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As we walk t’ward the mountain
O the wind and rain’re howling
And all history is scowling as we go
Amidst all the beef and cussing
And all the strife and fussing
And all the wretched hustling down the road
As we gather to the mountain
gather to the mountain
gather to the Maker of us all
Our disputes’ll all be settled
And we’ll hammer down our metals
And make spades to keep the garden ever more
As we stand there round it’s base
Alongside some we used to hate
And also some we used to quietly ignore
And those that we had wronged
And all those who suffered long
And maybe those who left us bleeding on the floor
Well if we’re headed down to Zion
To make peace before Messiah
Don’t make sense for us to argue all the way
We are sisters, we are brothers
Lets make peace here with each other
An d Messiah journey with us all this day
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Maranatha
03:59
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Let the trees all clap their hands
Let the stones jump for joy
Let the earth shake off its bonds
Let the peoples all rejoice
Maranatha, our Maker
Who maketh all things right
Maranatha our Healer
Come rise, o healing light
Let the peoples all delight
In the Messianic light
Let the whole earth be glad
At the making all things right
Let the poor be lifted up
From the ashes and the dust
Let the proud climb down from their thrones
And we shall sing as one
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David Benjamin Blower Birmingham, UK
David Benjamin Blower: 6-string writer, poet, theologian and podcaster from Birmingham in the UK.
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