{"id":336,"date":"2017-05-12T20:50:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T19:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prayerscapes.com\/blog\/?p=336"},"modified":"2018-09-04T17:10:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T16:10:43","slug":"a-prayer-song-for-pentecost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayerscapes.com\/blog\/a-prayer-song-for-pentecost\/","title":{"rendered":"A new film for Pentecost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Come, O Spirit of God,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Cause blind eyes to see.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> In this day, awaken our land.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Come, O Spirit of power,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Breathe life through your church.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Come O Lord, bring Heaven to Earth,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Bring Heaven to Earth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is our prayer for Pentecost Sunday &#8211; the day we remember how the Holy Spirit came on the first disciples with great power. The word &#8220;power&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Acts+1:8&amp;version=NIV\">Acts 1:8<\/a>) in the Greek is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gotquestions.org\/dunamis-meaning.html\">dunamis<\/a>&#8221; from where we derive the English word &#8220;dynamite&#8221;. So &#8220;you will receive <em>dynamite<\/em> when the Holy Spirit comes on you&#8221; is a more accurate way of understanding what Jesus was wanting to convey to his disciples!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GzypaenKC_M?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible to download this film in HD by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayerscapes.com\/FilmPages\/come_o_spirit_of_god_video.html\">following this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The refrain of &#8220;Come O Spirit of God&#8221; is a heart cry to the Lord, that His Holy Spirit would move through the church with great power and awaken hearts and lives to him. The verses outwork this move of the God into the neighbourhood, taking as their base <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Isaiah+61%3A1-3&amp;version=NIV\">Isaiah 61<\/a> &#8211; words which Jesus presented as his manifesto at the beginning of his public ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes as a songwriter, very occasionally, something seems to come from nowhere. It&#8217;s almost as if you&#8217;ve been wandering through a forest and uncovered a treasure that has been lying there hidden for centuries. &#8220;Come O Spirit of God&#8221; was one of those rare moments in my life. The main refrain, chords and melody came to me very quickly. Of course, like any song, it needed crafting. And that&#8217;s when I gave Malc Garda, a good friend of mine a ring and invited him round to see what he made of it. Malc had the great idea of developing the verses into a practical outworking of what this heart cry means.<\/p>\n<p>Little were we to know that within a year thousands would be singing it at major Christians festivals up and down the land, and it would end up on several CD&#8217;s and song books. If you&#8217;d like to try this song with your congregation, here are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayerscapes.com\/Dwell\/come_o_spirit_of_god.html\">the links to the\u00a0 chords\/words sheet, onsong file &amp; melody line score<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Come O Spirit of God&#8221; is taken from our new album (entitled &#8220;Dwell&#8221; &#8211; out next month!) &#8211; a collection of prayer songs and creative readings that we&#8217;ve been crafting over the last few years. Some of these tracks are already backing tracks to videos on this site (such as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayerscapes.com\/FilmPages\/prayer_connects.html\">Prayer Connects<\/a>&#8221; &amp; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayerscapes.com\/worship\/may_the_road.html\">May the road rise up to meet you<\/a>&#8220;) &#8211; whilst others are brand new for the album. However, it&#8217;s possible to download &#8220;Come O Spirit of God&#8221; as <a href=\"https:\/\/geo.itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/come-o-spirit-of-god-single\/id1236071149?mt=1&amp;app=music\">a single from iTunes<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B071F4VZYS\/ref=sr_1_1?s=dmusic&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1494609400&amp;sr=1-1-mp3-albums-bar-strip-0&amp;keywords=Prayerscapes\">Amazon<\/a> now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come, O Spirit of God, Cause blind eyes to see. In this day, awaken our land. Come, O Spirit of power, Breathe life through your church. Come O Lord, bring Heaven to Earth, Bring Heaven to Earth. This is our prayer for Pentecost Sunday &#8211; the day we remember how the Holy Spirit came on <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prayerscapes.com\/blog\/a-prayer-song-for-pentecost\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[7,8,6],"tags":[11,34,33,15,3],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","category-music","category-prayer","tag-film","tag-intercession","tag-justice","tag-music","tag-prayer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.prayerscapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Come_O_Spirit_Of_God_1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7bKxI-5q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":574,"url":"https:\/\/www.prayerscapes.com\/blog\/closing-prayer\/","url_meta":{"origin":336,"position":0},"title":"Closing Prayer","date":"October 8, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I find that there is a unity that arises through worship that it is difficult to express in words. 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