"Speak O Lord"

At tonight’s Wednesday evening Lenten service we are singing Keith Getty and Stuart Townend’s “Speak, O Lord”. These guys (who previously wrote “In Christ Alone (my hope is found)” have a calling to write new worship music that works in the world of hymns, but I find that it also speaks powerfully to those who prefer the more typical contemporary fare. The lyric quality is very high – I note especially in v2, line 7, “Your majestic love and authority” – the typical praise and worship stuff, good as I think some of it is, rarely turns at that point of the song to remind us of the authority of God in our lives. The melody is superb. I’m looking forward to leading this tonight.

Speak O Lord as we come to You
To receive the food of Your holy word
Take Your truth plant it deep in us
Shape and fashion us in Your likeness
That the light of Christ might be seen today
In our acts of love and our deeds of faith
Speak O Lord and fulfill in us
All Your purposes for Your glory

Verse 2
Teach us Lord full obedience
Holy reverence true humility
Test our thoughts and our attitudes
In the radiance of Your purity
Cause our faith to rise
Cause our eyes to see
Your majestic love and authority
Words of power that can never fail
Let their truth prevail over unbelief

Verse 3
Speak O Lord and renew our minds
Help us grasp the heights of Your plans for us
Truths unchanged from the dawn of time
That will echo down through eternity
And by grace we'll stand on Your promises
And by faith we'll walk as You walk with us
Speak O Lord till Your church is built
And the earth is filled with Your glory

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