rhymes
Included in this new section are some of our rhymes. These are more street poetry than rap, and include paraphrases of Psalms. Others express many Biblical truths and lines from across the Word.
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Psalm 103 Remix | TOP
Praise the Lord, with all of my soul
With everything I have, Lord, you're in control
My whole being praises you cos you're all-seeing
Day to day, in all you do, your kindness is exceeding
Forgiving all my sin, mistakes and all my evil
Cleansing me within, my inner state is healed
You've saved me from the fiery hell
Your love and mercy, unparalleled
You satisfy my heart's desire with gracious holy fire
Renew, restore, my Spirit soars, like eagles, I fly higher
The Lord does only what is right and fair
Justice for all who are down and in despair
Revealed his ways to men like Moses
Israel saw God's deeds, and in his love, he chose us
The Lord is merciful, compassionate, kind
Slow to get angry, shows love to mankind
The Lord won't accuse us or wage acts of terror
Won't harbour his anger towards us forever
He never punishes us as our sins deserve
Or repay us according to our wrongs, but with love
For as high as the heavens look over the earth
God looks down with favour to his people who serve
As far the east is from the west
So far have our sins been taken, laid to rest
Just as a father shows love to his children
The Lord has compassion on all those who fear him
He knows how we were formed
From the dust we were transformed
As for man, his days are like the grass
Growing up just like a flower in a field
The wind blasts, the flower fades, like an empty glass
He's gone, forgotten, no longer revealed
But forever and for all time
The Lord's love for his fam, sublime
His goodness travels down the generations
Through children's children, it runs across the nations
With those who obey and keep God's holy laws
Remembering to follow him, the one who has no flaws
The Lord has set his throne in heaven
His kingdom reigns, from evil we're delivered
Praise the Lord all you heavenly angels
All you mighty warriors who obey his every word
Shout to the Lord all you heavenly hosts
Lift up his name you who worship and serve
Praise the Lord in all his works and power
Everywhere. He rules. Praise the Lord, our mighty tower.
Psalm 139 Remix | TOP
Lord you get inside my head, you’re like my bed-spread
Covering me, I’m blessed, filled with you like blood is red
Yo, jus like a doctor, my sinful life could shock ya
But I know nothing can stop ya, cos your Word's a real sin blocker
You know before I’m speaking, that spiritually I’m creakin
But through you Lord I’m breathin, you even called me, called me Stephen
Know my thoughts before I think em, if I’m uplifted or sinkin
If I’m growin in you or shrinkin, if it’s love or hate I’m drinkin
My words are not my own, you even chose my tone
If you were on the phone, I’d call you up, Lord please come home
You’ve put your hand up on me, your pain, the cross, such beauty
No time for playas or cuties, don’t care about cash or booty
On the cross you died all bleedin, but that gave me true freedom
And even if cats can’t see em, your truth the way from demons,
You’re greater than the stars, the planets shout your powers
Created all the flowers, man in England got yo showers
OH LORD YOU’RE WORTHY, WORTHY, I GIVE MY LIFE TO YOU
WE GIVE YOU GLORY, GLORY, LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE THROUGH
Your Spirit fills, surrounds me, gives faith which means that I’m free
I know that I’m unworthy but through you God made classy
The heavens show you’re there, the earth displays your flare,
The sunlight shows you care, God’s Word your written share
Man I’m truly blessed, from the east through to the west
From my foot up to my chest, yes to God and bump the rest
Your right hand like a guide, in you I can confide
You reside and I abide, both day and word, at night
Lord you’re my creator, mechanic and inventor
Jesus Christ, God sent ya, to come and be earth’s healer
Lord I lift you up, my beats will never stop
This accapella rhyme drop, is gonna make your head nod
Just look at what you’ve done, just think what I’ll become
In heaven wit God’s Son, got satan on the run (ha ha)
All my days are planned out, in your name I stand out
An’ I will never run out, of words of praise to spit out
OH LORD YOU’RE WORTHY, WORTHY, I GIVE MY LIFE TO YOU
WE GIVE YOU GLORY, GLORY, LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE THROUGH
Your wisdom it is priceless, the King of endless ages
Your Word is truth filled pages, you’re peace while the world rages
Lord examine my heart, this freestyle just a start
All evil ripped apart, I’ll take your life-filled path
(c) steve h, 2004
God Most High (Psalm 91 remix) | TOP
I will go to God most high, you know I'll be protected
I will say, to my God, you're my place of safety
You're my God, I trust you, you've promised to save me
Keep me safe from secret traps, save me from diseases
Spread your wings over me, you're my place of refuge
Your faithfulness is like a shiels, your truth it will protect me
I will fead no danger at night, nor weapons sent to harm me
You take all my fear away, so I'll fear no sickness
I will call out to your name, Holy God always the same
We worship you cos you are living, Father, Son and Holy Spirit
At my side, many may fall, but God will keep me standing
Even if thousands drop, the Lord he will protect me
God has put his angel force over me for shelter
They watch me, wherever I go, to catch me if I stumble
The Lord has said he'll look out, for those who will love him
So I'll call on his name, and he will always answer
He'll be with me in my trouble, rescue me and help me
He'll give me, a life outstanding, then I'll shout, 'he saved me!'
I will call out to your name, Holy God always the same
We worship you cos you are living, Father, Son and Holy Spirit
steve h (c) 1999
Nothing can separate us from God's love (Rom 8.31-39, Phil 3.8, Eph 2.8-9) | TOP
If God is on our side then listen what can be said
Thru the sacrifice of Jesus and the blood that he shed
God freely gave his Son to us so what won't he give
To his people on this earth, to his people that live
Through Christ we are sorted out, he died on the cross
So now I say compared to Jesus all else is loss
Cos God did this freely, not through things that I've done
Now I stand before the Father through the death of his Son (and say..)
Nothing.. can separate us from God's love.. (x4)
Christ died for all our sin, then he came back from the dead
He took away our punishment, he felt it instead
So now he sits by the Father, always pleading our case
Reminding the world of his love and his grace
Now we have the victory, the debtors are paid
Through Jesus we are sorted, by the power of his name
He overcome the power of death and all that is bad
If only we'd reach out and touch the love that is God
Nothing.. can separate us from God's love.. (x4)
Not hunger, suffering, hard times, not death
Not trouble, pain, grief, not death
Not life, not angels, not eveil. not death
Not the present, nor the future, the past, nor powers above or below
We have the victory so shout it
Through Jesus we are cleansed so shout it
Nothing breaks his love so shout it
We overcome through Jesus so shout it (x2)
(c) steve h, 1998
God's Way (half rap, half poem!) | TOP
The Lord is searching out through all mankind to look and see
A man whose heart is after his, to shape, create, set free
He sees beyond the physical, cos outer beauty fades
To probe deep down and test the heart where inner beauty lays
He’s looking for a life sold out, purposes that touch God’s heart
He purifies and cuts away, takes out and sets apart
The dying branch he prunes away, and burns away the rot
But breathes new life into the man whose heart is for The Rock
He takes a lump of clay like me, with skill he moulds my life
The Lord’s my shepherd, and my guide, the way, the truth, my light
In pastures green he’ll lead me on, through dark times he inspires
A single flame that’s deadlier than any man-made fires
Yesterday, today, the same, the Lord he guides my steps
The mighty King, who sits on high and yet he won’t forget
In everything, in all you are, he sees and knows your name
You may not be all that God wants, but you won’t stay the same
The Lord he is the fixer, restores and comforts too
The crying child, the broken heart, God’s ever faithful, true
He freely pours his love into the lives of those he’s called
Your name is in his book of life, the Lamb of God, assured
My life is in his hands, my times, the paths I’ll take
Don’t remonstrate, just motivate to choose his ways so great
Please bless me Lord, I won’t let go, I need more of your love
Lift me up, anoint my cup, my heart just craves your love
At times the Lord will break you, into what seems like small pieces
But like a master craftsmen, he assembles then releases
Fits together, bit by bit, completing life’s full jigsaw
Building up a healthy man to be a God-filled resource
So Lord I come to you, a weak and broken man
Please take all that I am, and make me all you can
The life of God inside my heart will change lives one by one
Jesus take my all, release and take me on
Eagerly awaiting, ascertaining, celebrating
The returning King, the re-creation, Lord over creation
The purpose of the Cross, the Christ, to reunite with God
Our broken lives, we once were lost but now we’re found the Lord
Not empty handed in this fight, I’m ready for the battle
The Word of God, the sword I swing, and prayer makes satan scuttle
Christ the everlasting, the warrior of peace
The King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, eternal God, high priest
The man whose life’s submitted, and shows that he’s committed
One day will be acquitted, to heaven be admitted
So set your mind on things above, but rep God in your actions
Witnessing in word and deed cos Christ in you attractive
So take my life and let it be surrendered God to thee
The paths I take, the moves I make, come Jesus set me free
The master’s seeking people for himself that will be faithful
Stop begging like a dog for scraps, eat at the master’s table
So dig into the Word of God and pray to seek God’s face
Replace those empty feelings with ones of love and grace
As Christ shines down and lifts you up, just spread his holiness
The power of God within you breaks the pain, the loneliness
From day to day we’re growing, in God, his light is showing
Christ will fill you up, abundantly and overflowing
Anoint your head with oil, to serve the one true King
In all you do, at home, in life, in everything, you’ll bling
Not rockin jewels or fancy stones, not escalades or jazzy homes
Forget the Jones, and mobile phones, our life’s in Christ alone
So lay down your life, surrender, to Christ and feel his splendour
Almighty King, eternal God, he is our one defender
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me
I once was lost but now I’m found, was blind but now I see
So thank you Lord for all you’ve done, you hung upon that tree
He’d have died up on that Cross. if only for you (audience) or me
STREET POETRY / LIFE ISSUES
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Rhyme about violence | TOP
So what you gonna do man, you gonna pop me?
Wass the next step bro, you gonna stop me?
Gonna take out your gun like it's some kinda toy?
Deploy cos my lyrics annoy you boy?
You think you're hard cos you carry a gun
But son it don't mean none, don't make you no man
Your lifespan goes down if you carryin my friend
The end of your life before you intend
So you in some gang using violence for respect
Respect gotta be earned man and it ain't thru the fist
No-one respects you if you carrying a gun
Don't make no difference if you go and pop someone
If you cock the glock then you movin forward the clock
On your life, inside, or on your life, you gonna die
I was in a gang and they all hard and violent
But son they didn't care, in the end they weren't there but were silent
Identity don't come thru carryin son
But thru God's only son, who gives life to everyone
Too many deaths, too much pain, your conquests puttin a strain
On too many lives, too many minds, your eyes are going blind
So snap out of it bro, get a new flow, give true life a go else you gonna end up down below..
(c) steve h, 2002
Anger Rhyme | TOP
Don't want your anger and your hatred, your vitriolic statements
Aggression that's messin, depressin and accessin'
The roots of bitterness, lack of forgiveness
You're fillin your heard with an abyss that's
Going down so deep to the core it touches the raw
Nerves that have never healed, a space that needs to be filled
Don't expel your violence cos you can't take the silence
Your defiance an alliance to the repression
Expressing thru that violence
See it's inside that needs to be washed out, no longer washed up
So express your doubts an stop messin about (with your life)..
(c) steve h, 2003
Past Hopelessness, Present Hope | TOP
I used to pen lyrics that were lyrically deep
I wanted to sleep, the road ascended too steep
The heartfelt cry, the pain that just blended
Physically within me, not mended, extended
Across me like measles, spiritually feeble
Didn’t want to see people, I melted like treacle
Lost in my world, trashed to the core
Spent time on the floor, my heart raw, my eyes sore
Couldn’t see why life was drifting away
Lost on the rapids of life, sinking in clay
Felt used by the world so related through hate
Indifferent, arrogant, wouldn’t open life’s gate
Had dreams and ambition, I flirted with music
But dischordant keys, dark words got abusive
Considered my end, my world had few friends
Physically living, emotionally drained
Lost in self pity, I lived in self city
Wrote rhymes and short ditties, had few friends but my kitty
Tiredness, brokenness, the road seemed darkened
Hurricanes swirled all around, my world broken
But one word of hope and I would have awoken
That one day came suddenly, I knew he had spoken
(c) steve h, 2001
Inner Struggles | TOP
Don’t want to feel alone, a stone unturned, I roam
Through places unknown and I groan
Cos I don’t have a home, not one that’s my own
And it’s hurting my soul, sometimes I’d rather not live
This pain inside is getting harder, I’d rather
Not feel like this but it seems I’m going further away from my Father
And I know it’s not true cos he’s there when things are getting darker
So I need God’s grace..
But still it hurts like an ache, not a fake, something hard to shake
Like a snake, it slithers and delivers, like flowing rivers & it’s hard to take
Not alone in this world, yet I feel that still something’s missing
Incomplete, not sweet and I wanna eat from the table of the Spirit
Got Jesus inside but I ride in 2 directions at once
And I can’t seem to get that peace to release..
So where do I go to show that I know that God sows and grows
True life inside, defines my time, inspires my rhyme
And releases my mind from the dark side
The battle rages on, so through song I wanna share my soul,
Let lyrics flow, speak my heart, give up control
To the saviour, who shows the path and never wavers, shows no favour
Gives time flava so that we can savour true life..
I can’t seem to break free, shake off the chains, in my mind or in my heart
Can’t seem to start, to see the way forward, which way to go, though I know
That God is directing and sitting alongside, it’s hard to decide
And it hurts inside, like a ride that defies all logic and reason..
Must be silly season, where I feel like I’m freezing
Left out in the cold and I’m all alone..
I cry out to God to show that he knows but still it’s so slow
That I want to explode, cos I want to get out there and see God in power
But right now I feel like an under-fed flower,
All weak as I seek to inherit like the meek
My God don’t ignore me, I’ll keep moving forward
Won’t let evil destroy me or toy with me
Cos I’ve got God’s glory before me and know God is for me
(c) steve h, 2002
You Think Your Life's Sorted (a poem about this world) | TOP
You think your life's sorted but you got miles to go
All your issues buried but bundled up just like the snow
People claiming to have answers but they don't get you anywhere
I'm aware that deep down, fear is rising and you're scared
Just open your eyes to the problems - and then sound off
It's not like a dirty car, you can't just wash it off
Sickness, diseases, stress and perilous times
Your motives reflected by dollars and dimes
Won't find satisfaction in a simple dollar bill
So you grab for rising portions, take more than just your fill
It's never complete, self-perpetuating circles
Of monetary greed, brings chills like on icicles
You're travelling greater distances but know less folks
Like a damaged bike wheel, you're removing all the spokes
Taking and grabbing, your honesty always questioned
But driving for your goal, it's verging on obsession
Repressing deepest needs by superficial coatings
While physically inbalanced and growing ever bloated
Conceited and angry, your life is one long show
Ignoring all the issue, and faking it like a panto
Covering up with make-up, relatinoships just break up
But never will you let up, creating emotional craters
Energies invested, incorrectly indigested
Spending all your nest egg, legacies molested
Endless problems follow your trail of compulsive destruction
Infrastructure of society crumbling, fatally punctured
But you don't wanna know, you can't even see
Corruption, vice, on show, a sickening entity
You're giving in more and more to all that's broken, screwed up
The darkness covers your minds, but still you don't hold back
No boundary you won't cross, no actions you won't take
No people you won't crush, no attitude you won't fake
Declare intent so proudly, boasting ever loudly
So full of selfishness, your inside is ever cloudy
Can't you feel the oppression that disturbs your inner judgement
You're swimming through the mud. It's sewage and you're drowning
This world needs Jesus.
