Sovereignty

Blown by the Wind

The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.

John 3:8

Holy Spirit, 

As we enter this place,

free us to surrender

to the power of your Wind.

We give up control

of worries that keep us sleepless

and burdens that make us hunch.

We give up our ideas

of what we think church should look like

and how you should do your work.

We give up the fight;

we refuse to fight Sovereignty 

and resist being transformed.

You are God; we are not. 

We open our hearts 

to your transcendent power

and your immanent presence. 

We invite you to enter

the recesses of our souls no one has ever seen

because we thought them to ugly for anyone to see. 

Blow Holy Spirit! Blow! 

We expect you this day

to convict us from sin,

to deliver the oppress,

to encourage the discouraged,

to be near to the brokenhearted.

There is nothing too big for your transcendence 

and nothing too small for your immanence.

Blow Holy Spirit! Blow!

Disrupt us with beauty

and awaken our souls.

We’ve been asleep for too long

inside theological boxes that confine you

as if we could imprison the Wind. 

Blow Holy Spirit! Blow! 

Shake us out of complacency,

disturb our souls with what disturbs You. 

Disrupts us with beauty 

into your mission and story.

We surrender to the Wind.

Amen