Restoring Request

Tune: Christchurch

('Now is eternal life')

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Spirit, rise up in me

Free from captivity

Where dull, dreary may be

Help us your true light see

Life of God, Person here within

Our hearts, come cleanse us from our sin

 

Revive, restore, we pray

And do forgive each day

Where we fail and fall short

Or give you little thought

Content to know your love, to rest

In you, and find your peace, we blessed

 

Breaking up fallow ground

Where unyielding soil found

So productive for you

We shall be fruitful too

Gifts and fruit of you, Spirit, show

While we on earth, this time below

 

Grant favour and your grace

To all of every race

To recover, prosper

As we to duties stir

At work, at home, whatever place

Whate'er situations we face

 

In troubles here to turn

To you, and your ways learn

Light through the darkness shine

'Tis your presence divine

Shall lead us, each step that we take

To grow in Christ, for His name's sake