Doing Something About What You've Seen

Brooke Fraser. Writer of one of my favourite songs, 'Hosanna'. When she sings this song, strange things happen to me.... every time.

I'm plugged into my iPod, weeping at the bus stop. Or I'm walking along Braddell Road and *boom!* - I'm in tears. Or I'm going to Junction 8 and a prophetic voice is stirring in my gut, for this generation to be strong and rise up to make a difference. *Bam!* More tears. By now, I'm wondering what is happening to me! I see in my head the broken people I've met on my DTS outreaches/Go teams to India, China, KL, Cambodia. People crying out in their slums, on the streets, in rehab centres, villages, poverty-striken homes, hospitals, nursing homes. People being attacked. Dying of AIDS. Dying on the streets. Stuck in poverty, disease and hunger. Trying to overcome addiction. Trying to make a life out of nothing. Total brokenness.

I get visions and reminders of the people I've gone to to before, and visions of more hurting and dying, needing this generation to rise up to love, pray, heal, touch, and GO.

I thank God for taking me to so many places, to see so much. My heart breaks for the King to come and save them. My heart breaks for them to sing "Hosanna in the highest" in the midst of their pain and suffering, knowing that it is Him who carries them and has not abandoned them. It is my heart for them to worship Jesus as they find the answers in Him, just as I am worshipping him in the midst of my current pain and questions.

Back to Brooke Fraser. She went to Africa and made a decision to write this song, 'Albertine' to tell the world what she had seen there. One thing she wrote strikes me: "Faith without works is dead." My prayer is that many songwriters and worshippers would do what she does, stirring up love in action and prophetic prayers through the songs they write. Take a listen....

Now that I have seen, I am responsible
Faith without deeds is dead
Now that I have held you in my own arms,
I cannot let go till you are....