Beauty for Ashes

Beauty for ashes and the oil of gladness

For the spirit of heaviness.

What an awesome promise, Lord,

Full of life and hope.

Promising great fulfillment

In bringing in Your Kingdom,

Which we want to come

On this earth as it is in Your heaven.

Our souls are downcast.

Lord, we are lost and lone here;

Weak and wanting are we.

In ourselves we have nothing,

We are nothing.

No power, no glory, no honor, nothing.

Nothing within ourselves that can offer

The hope, love and joy that only You can bring.

So, Lord, we ask You to fill us now

With that oil you have promised;

Give us living water to drink

And Your broken body to share.

Lord, we abandon ourselves to You;

We will follow you.

We abandon our will now to follow you,

Thirsting for living water,

Hungry for the Bread of Heaven,

Desperate for the Oil of Gladness

And desiring only Your Breath

To blow away these ashes

And breathe Your new life into us.

Lord, we commit our ways

To You now.

Fill us with Your will, only Your will, Lord.

We are the sheep of Your hand.

Amen

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