Name: O Breath of Life
Duration: P00H03M24S
Description: I have adapted Bessie Porter Head's Victorian hymn here; I find it more useful to think about God's breath being closer than my own, rather than as some fire-breathing deity 'out there somewhere'.

O Breath of Life

from Gloria EP by James Sharp and The Lollards

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I have adapted Bessie Porter Head's Victorian hymn here; I find it more useful to think about God's breath being closer than my own, rather than as some fire-breathing deity 'out there somewhere'.

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O breath of life come sweeping through,
revive your church with power,
O breath of life come cleanse, renew us,
prepare your church to meet this hour.

O wind of God come bend and shake,
Humbly you we need,
Then in your tenderness remake us,
Revive restore, for this we plead.

Breathe on us,
Breath of God.
Breathe on us,
Breath of God.

O breath of love come breathe within,
Renewing thought and heart.
Come love of Christ, afresh to win us,
Revive your church in every part.

Revive us Lord, creation groans,
the harvest fileds are white,
Let mercy flow, new life to dry bones,
Come breath, come breath, come breathe your life.

The heart of Christ still feels the pain,
It's where the troubled rest,
The broken hearted find their comfort,
the hungry of the world are blessed.

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from Gloria EP, released March 6, 2015

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James Sharp and The Lollards Bournemouth, UK

The Lollards are a folk/music collective based in Bournemouth, who so far have avoided martyrdom and play songs of love, freedom, worship and blues; preferably whilst people have a beer in one hand or the other.

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