Our Help From Heaven || Spoken Word


 


Our Help From Heaven


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You saw me.


You saw me amidst the millions


and you chose me.


 


As if your will to save was already in motion


when you knit me and composed me.


 


You,


found me.


You favored me and met me.


You breathed life into my virgin womb and asked I follow and forget me.


 


In my youth,


the world would turn their backs and shamed me.


Telling secrets of false scandal,


a groom with place to blame me.


 


But you, heard me.


You sent me help from Heaven.


When an angel met the man to leave me and


told him of our ever-present blessing.


 


The name, Jesus.


It rolled off our lips like glory.


And the kicks I felt from deep within


were authoring a story.


 


Our salvation,


But at the cost of all I knew.


Now on a journey that I never planned


but with faith to honor You.


 


And there you led us


by census back to Bethlehem.


Just as the prophets had foretold


we found ourselves without an inn


 


and I begged you.


Lord could this be your deed?


That I would birth the one to save us all


next to cattle, ox and steed?


 


What were you doing?


You were sending help from heaven.


In a way that looked so little like what all the world expected.


 


I surrendered


to the wild ways you do things.


And in response to what I fail to grasp


I trusted you would use me.


 


In my adversity you sustained me,


you maintained me


and proclaimed me


capable of carrying a Heaven-sized ordaining.


 


You robbed me of my infancy,


you brought me to the end of me,


and in that moment every inch of me


cried out I need help from heaven!


 


And there you came.


With the labor pains that Eve knew


I lurched and longed to meet you


and felt you come like help from heaven.


 


Heart beating, your tiny cry fell.


Oh my son, I cry EMMANUEL.


God with us, Prince of Peace, you’re here


as I count your fingers, toes and ears.


 


You’re perfect.


Spotless little lamb.


Who am I to hold so tightly


the precious Great I Am?


 


Oh yes you’ve come.


Like help from heaven for us all


oh Lord now let your glory fall


your plans are worthy to be praised!


 


You keep Your word.


You Show the world your mercy.


Lifting the weak you quench the thirsty


with your ever-flowing hope.


 


My life a picture


of a King who is the victor.


Who meets the weary servant girl


and calls her out by name.


 


God, I will praise you.


The one who was and is and is to come


and through me you have sent your Son.


Hosanna in the highest!


 


He is here!


Redemption wearing flesh.


Somehow our God has come to us.


You have remembered Israel


 


Our help from heaven.


I stored it in my heart.


Glory, glory in the highest!


Emmanuel, God with us.


 


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Merry Christmas


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