God will make a way...

For those who cannot see a way right now...

See this inspirational site page: Is Your Hut Burning with the song "God will make a way.." in the background...

Session 2: Living Beyond Yourself - Resonating with the Spirit

I wish that God had left me a personal manual that outlined my steps of obedience. And indeed, the Word of God has done that and is quite specific about certain things. Black and white commands, like the Ten commandments. But when it comes to making decisions like which job, should I quit, which option, etc. it is not 'laid out'.

Beth reminds us that through the power of the Holy Spirit, we can have:
1. Heightened perception -"I am doing a new thing!...Do you not perceive it? (Isaiah 43:19).
2. Heightened discernment - "And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best..." (Philippians 1:9-10)
3. Heightened insight - being able to draw from God's file folder on that subject; it requires feeding on God's Word and continual filling of the Spirit. You are drawn to the Spirit's choice because your spirit and His 'oscillate with the same frequency'.

She made a comment about people who only want a 'twilight zone' experience with God. It is a mark of immaturity.They do not want the hard work of opening the Bible and searching His Word to 'hear' His perspective.

How often in the past have I just wanted God to just speak to me in a vision. I wanted the 'magician' to wave away my crises with His wand. Instead, I got the Father who says "no", or "wait" a lot, just because he wants me to "grow up!" And I have found that my reasons for coming to Him have been changed in the process of 'using' Him to make my life OK, to just wanting to be near Him, to drink from His Presence, to love Him and know His love.

Father, I want my spirit to oscillate with your Spirit. I want to recoil from the evil that You recoil from; I want to be drawn to the things that matter to You. Empty me anything that is hampering Your power in me to do Your will. In the Name of Jesus, I pray, Amen.

Let Him carry the weights...

"They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and, not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.(Isaiah 40:31, KJV).

The final lesson in last week's study {Beth Moore's, Living Beyond Yourself}, spoke about the natural man vs. the carnal man vs. the spiritual man. While the natural man does not have the Spirit of Jesus and therefore does not have the ability to grasp spiritual realities, the carnal man is one who has invited Jesus into his heart, yet lives like the natural man, a mere infant in Christ. The spiritual man is one in whom "the mind of Christ is activated". A woman who keeps in step with the Spirit by consciously and deliberately yielding the Spirit of God daily.

I have a friend whose struggle right now is very hard. Please let me encourage you to keep on yielding to the Holy Spirit no matter how dangerous the waves seem to be around you. You cannot control what you were never equipped to do. Only God can. So let go. Let Him do His work in His time. You just obey His promptings. As Beth says, do a 'power-walk' with the Spirit daily, let Him energize you, let Him carry the weights. Amazingly, you will be building spiritual and emotional muscles by letting Him do the hard work.

Father, I commit my friend to You. As You bring her to the state of acknowledging complete helplessness, and as she cries out to You, "Help!", reach out, Holy Spirit, energize her, speak life into her mind, renew her spirit, bring joy where only despair has taken residence. Let her glimpse herself through Your eyes. Let her take Your Hand to come out of the pigpen that Satan has gone to great pains to install and customize. In the Name of Jesus, I pray, Amen.

The beauty of a child...

In my last post I prayed about God being enthralled with the beauty of His children. I could not stop thinking about that concept. I asked myself, "What was so appealing?" Then the verse came to mind:
Luke 18:17
I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it. (NIV)

by © 2twyla23456

The more I thought about it, the more it came to my mind as I pictured my own sons and when their beauty is most appealing:

in their most childlike state -

sleeping,

listening in wide-eyed wonder to stories of God,

or gawking at the world around them,

hugging a dog, hugging me at bedtime,

showing off for Daddy or Mommy,

saying exactly what is on their minds,

jumping into the arms of their father in the pool without taking their eyes off him,

obeying my instructions without question...

Childlikeness is said to "marked by innocence, trust, and ingenuousness [showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness] " (Merriam's Webster online dictionary).

(vs. childishness which is marked by immaturity and lack of poise.)

"A childlike man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle aged habit and convention."— Aldous Huxley (1864-1963)

Father, I pray today that I will shed the childishness that thwart Your blessing in my life; the tantrums when I don't get what I want when I want; the belief that I can control my life if only...; I pray for the childlikeness that has a pure heart to see You and revere You and say "WOW!" I pray for a childlike heart to say "Sorry, Father". I pray for a childlike heart to show off just for You. "Look at me, Abba!" I pray for joy that springs from delight with life and creation. I pray for a pure love to flow through me and out of me unpolluted by the toxic experiences of life. Let me be as a child coming to her Father with delight, joy, expectation, safety, reverence and most of all, love. In the Name of Jesus, I pray, Amen.

As easy as A B C

Hey..got this in my email today...great quote...
In regards to his statement that success is as easy as A B C...
here is the reason..

"You are "A" child of God.

You will "B" successful
when you "C" what He sees in you."
"A B C"
(…..Copyright 2007 Bob Perks)

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."

(Matthew 5:8 -The Holy Bible, NIV Version)

Lord, grant me Your vision to see myself as You see me. Purify my heart. Let me take sides with Your picture rather than mine. It is downright hard for me to accept that You are enthralled by my beauty when I only see how much I do not measure up. And then, I look at the children You have lent me for awhile to nurture, and I see how enthralled I am by their beauty even though I am aware of their sinful nature. So, I humbly thank You. Be Thou My Vision.

In the Name of Jesus, I pray, Amen.

Be Thou My Vision

(Click here for the organ melody)

Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart;

Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art.

Thou my best Thought, by day or by night,

Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light.

Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word;

I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord;

Thou my great Father, I Thy true son;

Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one.

Be Thou my battle Shield, Sword for the fight;

Be Thou my Dignity, Thou my Delight;

Thou my soul’s Shelter, Thou my high Tower:

Raise Thou me heavenward, O Power of my power.

Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise,

Thou mine Inheritance, now and always:

Thou and Thou only, first in my heart,

High King of Heaven, my Treasure Thou art.

High King of Heaven, my victory won,

May I reach Heaven’s joys, O bright Heaven’s Sun!

Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,

Still be my Vision, O Ruler of all.

(Words: At­trib­ut­ed to Dal­lan For­gaill, 8th Cen­tu­ry )

Session 1-Living Beyond Yourself - POURING

Another evening, buzzing with energy and conversation. Another packed evening, even the balcony was filled. Since I am somewhat claustrophobic, I felt a bit disoriented down in the sanctuary, but felt safe surrounded by people who make me feel safely loved, including my childhood friend, Sandra, Ivel, Tess, and of course, my hubby and Tess's hubby. My 10-yr-old decided it was boring to be with the kids, so he decided to stay with me. Mmmmm...

Well, shortly after Beth started, I glanced down at my son. Apparently he had been 'playing' with the gum in his mouth and it was now wrapped and stuck around 2 of his fingers. As surreptitiously as possible in a small, crowded space, I gave him some Kleenex. Why? I have no idea, because soon there were bits of tissue shredded and stuck on his fingers. OK, another surreptitious move, while Beth is speaking and my mind is berating me for not taking him to the kids' room, I took my sanitizer out to spray his fingers. More needed. Yet more needed. OK. Finally. Sigh...

Still God spoke and spoke.

This session was all about POURING: to produce or utter in or as in a stream or flood (www.dictionary.reference.com)

1. Pouring Out: CONFESSIONS & CONCERNS - Psalm 62:8 (NIV Version, The Holy Bible)
Trust in Him at all times, O people; Pour out your hearts to Him, For God is our Refuge.

We need to spill out all that concerns us, our sins, our anxieties, our hurts, our anger, ALL....

WHY?

We need a different kind of "Filling"!

2. Pouring In: HIS SPIRIT - Ephesians 5:18

Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

Prerequisite: Pouring out

Only His Spirit can fill TO SATISFACTION. In an age where we are so in touch with beepers, email, cell phones, we still feel so incredibly empty. Why, because, nothing or no-one can satisfy our emptiness. That is why we can become so driven or obsessed with our blogs, emails, etc. because we are trying to fill that void with the temporal. Beth says "Few conditions place us at greater risk than emptiness". Isn't this true? How many of us make poor decisions when we feel empty, simply because of our need to feel different?

Proverbs 13:12 -Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.

3. The Pouring Forth: FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT - 2 Corinthians 3:5-6

"Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant---not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life."

And this is what I desire my blog to be: a spilling out of the Spirit to edify, to encourage, expose, comfort, enlighten. I see this in many of the other blogs I check out on Christian Women Online and Laced With Grace. I can thankfully rest in His competence, spill out, and leave the rest to Him.

Father, I pour my life out to You. Cleanse me of any toxic stuff taking up space where You should be. Pour Your Spirit into the void and fill me to overflowing. Spill out on to this blog, on to my family, on to my community, on to my country, on to the world. May all I encounter taste of Your Fruit. In Jesus' Name I pray, Amen.

Meet the Browns

My hubby and I went on a date on Tuesday night. We went to see "Meet the Browns", Tyler Perry's movie. Again, it was easy to see why he gets scathing reviews, but also why he is able to deeply touch many others. Read the excellent review on Christianity Today.

Poignant moments for me included:
- the daycare provider, although protesting that she needed to be paid, still makes time for the single mom and tells her, "God always makes a way." Do you believe this? How have you seen Him work in 'impossible' situations?
-the oldest son's hurt and protest at the hardships his mom has to face. His tears were deeply felt. Here was a son whose love for his mother went far deeper than the hurt from his father's lack of love.
-when he told his Grade 3 buddy he could not sell drugs, his friend sadly acknowledged that while he could see that was not for him, that he himself would never be anything but that...

...this was a hurtful splash of reality that I have seen right here in Toronto. Young black men without hope of a better future, gang leaders propagating that they have no choices, giving them a place to belong. The eyes are sad with pain going so deep, that only true love, Jesus, the Hope of glory, is able to reach in. I know, I have been to the funeral of a teen who wanted to change, but a rival gang gunned him down before he had a chance. I looked at the eyes of the teens who came to the memorial service and I hurt for them.

Who will give them a chance, Lord? My heart is so moved by compassion for them, because You live in me. My sons get to hear how much I love them, how they make me proud. They have a mother who is able to drop them off and pick them up from school. They have a father to watch guy movies with, to play with. Father, please move the hearts of more men, godly role models to walk alongside these 'at-risk' youth. Please give their moms a break, so that they have more patience and gentle words for their children. Show Yourself to be the Perfect Father for them, Lord. I surrender my concerns to You Who knit together each one of these precious young men for a glorious purpose. May the wider community stop viewing them through fear and suspicion, and instead see them as You see them. In the precious Name of Jesus, I pray, Amen.

Living Beyond Yourself - Intro

The energy was palpable last night at the introduction to Beth Moore's Living Beyond Yourself : Exploring the Fruit of the Spirit. The church was packed, women, men and youth. It was so funny to see my son and his pals cracking up over Beth's lament over having 'flat hair' in Kenya.

It was extra special to have a childhood friend, Sandra, sitting next to me. In fact, as I was driving along to the study picturing Beth doing her study, her face 'morphed' into my friend's. Weird? But you know what, I realize that my friend is actually a Trini version of Beth Moore! Wow, should she hear God's call, there's no stopping her!

Anyway, this intro was about letting our lives be an exclamation mark. It was about the grave clothes being loosened; it was about realizing that 'life' is beyond our ability to live. As Beth says, it is about realizing that "through the infiltrating power of the Holy Spirit, I can...
-do things I couldn't.
-feel things I didn't.
-know things I wouldn't.

One of the verses especially struck a chord, because it is the primary lesson God has been teaching me recently:
"..We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even fo life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead."
2 Corinthians 1:8-9

If you have already asked Jesus to come in to your heart, then His Spirit lives IN you and because of this, we are able to live life to the fullest, through Him IN us.

So let us heed the call together to "exclamation-mark living":
[___Put your name here____] , Come out!
[just as Jesus called out to Lazarus, dead in the tomb]

Psalm 27:13 - "I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living."

May I bless you all with the confidence that you will see how good God is, no matter how hard things seem at the moment.

~Love, Sita~

He felt it too...

Last night was a sleepless one. Had a dental appointment yesterday and only ate once. The consequence for me: GAS PAINS! Late at night. Then thoughts started swirling, so I came down to write. I started to write about defining moments in my life and realized how hard it was. It was painful but I needed to confront the pain head-on. He has prepared me for this. One of my painful memories that still becomes a present reality at times is when I see in the eyes or hear in a subtle manner, "You do not belong here."

In Malcolm Muggeridge's Mother Teresa Of Calcutta: A Gift For God, he quotes Mother Teresa:

"When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus Himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst His own and His own received Him not, and it hurt Him then and it continues to hurt Him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in His loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

I distinctly remember as an international student here, away from my family, being called "Paki". I had no idea that Pakistanis were the newly stigmatized group, nor was I from Pakistan. I was called "Chink!" I was not from China. I did not want to party with my roommate, so I was deemed "feels-she's-too-good-for-us".

I went to a large Christian church, but realized I was 'invisible' as no one interacted with me. I attended a Christian youth group in college but soon realized that outside of the group meeting, the leaders wanted no interaction as they passed me straight.

Not too long after, it dawned on me that missions was inviting and acceptable to most as long as those 'natives' stayed in their foreign land. Having them on their doorsteps was much too uncomfortable especially when the stereotype assumptions came into play.

I remember viewing the Billy Graham film, "The Young Ones" and buying the LP. I played the song, "I Love You" over and over again, just to hear someone say those words. Now I look back and see how precious that time was, as now emptied of all familiar, of all support, I looked to God to become my everything. My faith grew as never before. Andrae Crouch's singing, "Through It All" became my theme song:

Through It All

[Lyrics by Ray Boltz]

I've had many tears and sorrows,

I've had questions for tomorrow,

There've been times I didn't know right from wrong:

But in every situation

God gave blessed consolation

That my trials come to only make me strong.

Through it all, through it all,

I've learned to trust in Jesus,

I've learned to trust in God;

Through it all, through it all,

I've learned to depend upon His Word.

I've been to lots of places,

And I've seen a lot of faces,

There've been times I felt so all alone;

But in my lonely hours,

Yes, those precious lonely hours,

Jesus let me know that I was His own.

Through it all, through it all,

I've learned to trust in Jesus,

I've learned to trust in God;

Through it all, through it all,

I've learned to depend upon His Word.

I thank God for the mountains,

And I thank Him for the valleys,

I thank Him for the storms

He brought me through;

For if I'd never had a problem

I wouldn't know that He could solve them,

I'd never know what faith in God could do.

Through it all, through it all,

I've learned to trust in Jesus,

I've learned to trust in God;

Through it all, through it all,

I've learned to depend upon His Word.

Are you facing a season of loneliness now? Then hunger for His love. Let His love fill you. Share with us if you want in the comments section.

I bless you with the kind of trust that comes only in this season.

~Love, Sita~

Sermon snippets: The Well and the Prayer..

What an incredible service this morning. We had a visiting speaker, Miles Valley, who has quite a testimony of drugs, street life, found frozen in a snowbank, then miraculously rescued, healed and restored, set apart for God's glory. (Read his full story here.)

In recent times when he was feeling discouraged about the lack of growth in the new church he recently planted, he took a 2-week sabbatical in his old town where he grew up. He shared his testimony in a church there where his former drug buddies, now converted, attended. His one request to God was, "Show me how big You are, God."

First thing the pastor said was, "My sermon today is all about how big God is."
Miles proceeded to buckle up his belt and hear a powerful word from God. But after the sermon, Miles still didn't 'hear' anything.

Right after the service, a guy came up to him and said, "Hey Miles, remember me?"
Miles said, "No, I don't.."
He said, "I'm Jake. I was there in the snowbank too. Now look at us, me a Christian, you, a preacher!"
Miles said to himself, "OK, this is awesome, God."

Suddenly an old lady, probably in her eighties, turns around with tears streaming down her face and said, "Thirty-five years ago, when I read about this young man found frozen in a snowbank, I prayed for him. I never knew what happened to him until now. You have encouraged me today, young man."
Miles said, "Yes, God, You are more than I could ever imagine!"

He shared this quote from G. Campbell Morgan who said about the Samaritan woman, "She went to the well with a bucket and came back with The Well!" How cool is that!

We have The Well inside of us, but instead of drawing from this well daily to satisfy our thirst, we go about drawing from everywhere else, things that do not satisfy. In time, we lose our thirst altogether. We need to cry out again for thirst, thirst for the living God.

He reminded us of the passage when God was choosing the men to fight against the Midianites. God chose only those men who went to the river and were gulping down the water with their hands. They did not just touch or feel the water, they gulped it down thirstily. That's the kind of thirst we should pray for daily.

Funnily enough, it is only when suffering comes that we go to the river in this way. Sometimes, we take just a sip and get dehydrated soon enough. Other times, we draw from our memories of being satiated but it does not refresh a parched soul.

Jesus said, "..but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." (John 4:13b, The Holy Bible, NIV Version)

Father, I pray that You will give us a daily thirst for You. May You fill us so that we don't thirst after other things or people that do not satisfy. May that spring of water welling up in us to eternal life spill over on to our families and community and to our world, like this dear old lady, who never knew until 35 years later, what her prayers produced and the fruit of her faithfulness in Miles' gift of evangelism that has brought so many to taste of the Living Water. Thank You, God. I praise You this day.
In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Diary of a Mad Black Woman...

Just finished watching this movie produced by Tyler Perry. It evoked so many emotions. The raw expressions of the underlying themes of betrayal, anger, revenge, and ultimately forgiveness and restoration were vividly portrayed by the actors. Cicely Tyson served as the voice of reason, wisdom, God's voice.

Wow, what a beautiful illustration of forgiveness in action, taking care of the very same person who robbed her of her 'life'. I don't know about you, but several persons come to my mind when it comes to robbing me of 'life', some were consciously aware driven by Satan's hatred, others unconsciously lashing out because of their own pain. I was simply a vent. Callous disregard.

Forgiveness is not an easy process. It requires first painfully acknowledging all the pain, the mess that was created by that person's actions. Then, a choice to release that person of the consequences of their actions by forgiving them. The thing is, the primary person being released is you. You have just released yourself from the power of that person.

The timing is different for each of us. Sometimes, as in child abuse, God allows that pain, that cannot be faced just yet, to be buried. Much later, when the person has the resources to deal with it, God allows another trigger to bring it to the surface. Then we can go back, now holding God's Hand, and knowing He is 'covering' us, we can confront and at God's nudging and enabling, forgive.

I sense there is someone who needs to hear this.

May I bless you with freedom to soar as you finally release the pain that became so ingrained, so a part of you, that you thought it was you. Father, please gently pull out all that pain and fill with the Balm of Gilead to heal and restore. Father, now please gently let ----- fly to the heavens and for the first time in a very long time, may ----- laugh with joy from deep within. In the precious Name of Jesus, I pray, Amen.

After I finished posting this, I felt an urging to come back to express on behalf of the pain perpetrator the remorse that you have been longing for and may never receive:

-----, it breaks my heart to see how ruthlessly I took your heart and raked it with my thorns of cruelty. I am so sorry. I am so sorry. I was not even thinking about you, it was my own pain. You did nothing to deserve this callous disregard of your life. I will forever suffer the consequences of my actions. All I can ask of you is to please forgive me because more than anything, you deserve to be free of me. You deserve to dwell in peace and walk in freedom.

My first blog award...

I am honoured today to announce my first blog award from Amrita at Yesu Garden.

Here is what it symbolizes in her words:

Here is an Indian ethnic award I created. The "I Garland You Award" Garland holds special significance in India. People are garlanded as a sign of honor, respect, welcome, love and friendship. Garlands are used at weddings, welcome ceremonies and social and religious occasions.Some people make garlands of real bank notes, usually for weddings to flaunt their wealth.

Thank you, Amrita.You have made history on my blog!

The Cry of the Depressed - The Hope of the Redeemed

A cloud has descended
damp, heavy,
with unease and fear,
longing
for the sweetness
for the assuring nod of the Father's Touch.
Distant memories of His Presence
bring no satisfaction,
for they are but distant.
A breakdown in routine,
the snow, the ice, bone-chilling winds.
Hunched over in body and soul.
Heavy-lidded, muscles tensed.
Please, God, be not distant.
No more.
I need You
to smooth me out,
to make supple my mind and limbs,
to pour drops in my eyes to clear the mist
to sparkle in Your radiance.
Heart, soul and mind longs
to be thawed and warmed in Your Presence.
Soul satisfied.
O God, let that ominous cloud
be transformed into that cloud
which so often wrapped up Your glory
and filled the temple.
Let Your glory fall in this Your temple
today, Lord,
In me.

1 Corinthians 13:12 (The Message)

We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!

Genesis 1: 2-3 (The Message)

2.Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God's Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss. 3. God spoke: "Light!" And light appeared.

Father, may Your love dissipate the murkiness of our minds. Speak light into our darkness. Fill our our void with Your Spirit. Thank You that You indeed are our HOPE!

Jimmy Cliff - I Can See Clearly Now

(Click title to see/hear song performed)

I can see clearly now,

the rain is gone,

I can see all obstacles in my way

Gone are the dark clouds

that had me blind

It's gonna be a bright (bright),

bright (bright)Sun-Shiny day

It's gonna be a bright (bright),

bright (bright)Sun-Shiny day

Oh yes I can make it now,

the pain is gone

All of the bad feelings have disappeared

Here is the rainbow

I've been prayin' for

It's gonna be a bright (bright),

bright (bright)Sun-Shiny day

Look all around,

there's nothin' but blue skies

Look straight ahead,

nothin' but blue skies

I can see clearly now,

the rain is gone,

I can see all obstacles in my way

Here is the rainbow

I've been prayin' for

It's gonna be a bright (bright),

bright (bright)Sun-Shiny day

It's gonna be a bright (bright),

bright (bright)Sun-Shiny day

bright (bright), bright (bright)Sun-Shiny day

It's gonna be a bright (bright),

bright (bright)Sun-Shiny day

It's gonna be a bright (bright),

bright (bright)Sun-Shiny day

He Reigns - Newsboys

(Click title to listen)

It's the song of the redeemed,

rising from the African plain

It's the song of the forgiven,

drowning out the Amazon rain

The song of Asian believers,

filled with God's holy fire

It's every tribe, every tongue, every nation,

a love song borne of a grateful choir

It's all God's children singing

glory, glory, hallelujah,

he reigns

Let it rise above the four winds,

caught up in the heavenly sound

Let praises echo from the towers of cathedrals,

to the faithful gathered on the ground

Of all the songs sung since the dawn of creation,

some were meant to persist

Of all the bells on a thousand steeples,

none rings truer than these

It's all God's children singing

glory, glory, hallelujah,

he reigns

And all the powers of darkness

tremble at what they've just heard

Because all the powers of darkness

can't drown out a single word

When all God's children sing,

glory, glory, hallelujah,

he reigns

It's all God's people singing glory, glory,

hallelujah, he reigns!