By Your Word and Your Will

For our souls are dry as dust

Give us new ears to hear

Lord and draw us near

As you declare us just.

For a dead man to believe

And your holy grace receive

By the work of your Spirit

Alone we will hear it

And a new life is conceived.

Chorus

By Your Word and your Will

A vacant heart is filled

It’s impossible until you come

We are dead in our sin

And we cannot begin

Till to us your kingdom comes.

And then your will is done.

Turn our hearts to You alone

As we kneel before your throne

For it’s not up to us

In Your work we must trust

In the kindness you have shown

Then we’ll know as we are known.

So turn our hearts to You

Make our hard hearts new

Lord waken the dead

Bring life to dry bones

Then our spirits are fed

By the mercies you’ve shown

August 25, 2009/March 8, 2021