Worship Content

Pepper Choplin created a moving, updated setting of the classic Bessie Porter Head text,

"O Breath of Life," often focusing on the plea:

 

"Revive us, Lord, the world awaits; Raise up Your church to spread the light!".

 

It is a poignant, impassioned anthem often used for church revival or renewal. 

 

O Breath of Life

(Traditional Lyrics/Choplin Setting)

 

Verse 1
O Breath of Life, come sweeping thro',
Revive your church with life and pow'r;
O Breath of Life, come, cleanse, renew,

prepare our lives to meet this hour
 

Verse 2
O Breath of love, come breathe within,
renewing mind and will and heart;
Come love of Christ, teach us to love,

revive your church in every part.

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Verse 3
O wind of God, move through your church,
come bend and break as to your will;
Then by your tenderness remold,

that as you break us, and remake us,

remake us as your own.

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Verse 4

O heart of Christ, broken for us,

in you we find our strength and rest;

Recive our hearts, broken and weak,

and let your waiting church be blest.

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Revive us Lord, why are we still

while harvest fields are vast and white?

Revive us Lord, the world awaits;

Raise up your church to spread the light!

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