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Holy Spirit, Come Our Hearts Inspire

from Love & Lightning, Winter & Warm by Wen Reagan

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On Babel's plain, the fires of men
In common purpose roared
The unity that God once gave
They seized with one accord
But God poured out peculiar tongues,
Peculiar, odd, and vain
They scattered all the human fires,
That burned on Babel’s plain.

The desert pealed with flames divine,
“I hear my people's cry!”
But Moses turned his face to hide
From unconsuming fire.
“O Lord and God,” the shepherd pled,
“My tongue is mute and mired.”
“O who inspires mortal mouths?”
The holy flame inquired.

Holy Spirit, Come O Sacred Fire
Holy Spirit, Come our hearts inspire

On Sinai’s crest, the storms of God
In gales of holy dread
Beset the mount in veils of fire,
With smoke it palled and spread
Then God gave Moses words of life
In thund’rous peals construed
And Isr’el spoke in stark reply,
“What God says we will do.”

Holy Spirit, Come O Sacred Fire
Holy Spirit, Come our hearts inspire

In Galilee, the holy cloud
That brandished Sinai's crest
Bestowed itself on Mary's frame
And settled there to rest
Then holy fires of power divine
Beheld her virgin womb;
They tabernacled in her flesh
But left her unconsumed

Holy Spirit, Come O Sacred Fire
Holy Spirit, Come our hearts inspire

At Pentecost, the winds of God,
In savage tempest roared;
Like Sinai’s mount, their flesh assumed
The fires of their Lord
Then God poured out peculiar tongues,
From native lands abroad
And birthed the Church as holy flesh
In unity with God.

Holy Spirit, Come O Sacred Fire
Holy Spirit, Come our hearts inspire

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from Love & Lightning, Winter & Warm, released May 1, 2014
Words and music by Naaman Wood and Bruce Benedict
Arrangement by Naaman Wood, Bruce Benedict, and Wen Reagan

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Wen Reagan, lead and background vocals.
Barbara Hazelwood, choir vocals.
Amber Wood, choir vocals.
Tim Morris, electric guitar, hand claps, and choir vocals.
Dan Jaasma, electric guitar and hand claps.
Jeremy Ruckstatter, drums and hand claps.
William Glass, electric guitar.
Naaman Wood, electric and acoustic guitars, bass, organ, hand claps, and choir vocals.

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Wen Reagan Durham, North Carolina

Wen Reagan is a singer-songwriter and worship leader based in Durham, North Carolina. Wen serves as the Director of Music and Worship at Blacknall Memorial Presbyterian Church, teaches worship at Samford University and Duke Divinity School, and contributes as a songwriter for Cardiphonia, a national network of worship songwriters writing for the love of the church. ... more

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