1 O Jesus Christ of burning, cleansing flame,
Your precious blood-bought gift today we claim.
Look down and see this waiting host,
send us the promised Holy Ghost:
Oh, how we long to see another Pentecost.
Refrain:
Send the fire, send the fire, O Lord.
Send the fire, send the fire, O Lord;
to magnify Your name, to never be the same,
we need Your Holy flame, send the fire!
2 God of Elijah, hear our Spirit's cry,
to make us fit for You, to live or die,
to burn up ev'ry trace of sin,
to bring the light and glory in;
Oh, let the glorious revolution now begin. [Refrain]
3 Lord, it's just You we want, just You we plead,
and by Your grace You meet our ev'ry need.
Strengthen our hearts to do what's right,
strengthen our faith to win the fight;
Lord, let Your power flow to walk the world in right. [Refrain]
4 Now make our fragile hearts both strong and brave,
send us into a dying world to save;
see us upon Your altar lay
all of our lives this very day;
send down the fire to crown our off'ring now we pray. [Refrain]
Source: Our Great Redeemer's Praise #292
Rv William Booth United Kingdom 1829-1912 Born in Sneinton, Nottingham, his father, well-off, lost much of his wealth and descended into poverty when William was young. William was apprenticed to a pawnbroker at age 13 to pay for schooling fees. He was converted at 15 and read extensively and trained himself in writing and speech. He eventually became a Methodist preacher. He did evangelistic work with his friend, Will Sansom, preaching to the poor on Nottingham. He would have stayed with Will, but Sansom got tuberculosis and died in 1849. William spent a year looking in vain for work. He finally found work with a pawnbroker in London, but the small amount of pay from that and preaching was insufficiennt, so he resigned as a lay pr… Go to person page >
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