Step In Time With the Holy Spirit

Step in time with the Spirit

Live by his very power

Living each day

Reconciling every hour.

Step in time with the Spirit

Gathering pace as you walk

Learn by good example

Exactly how to talk.

Step in time with the Spirit

Allow him to anoint

Every move you make

Obey him who does appoint.

Step in time with the Spirit

At times waiting for him to come

For everything without him

Is incomplete in sum.

Step in time with the Spirit

As God begins his work in you

And even as his Spirit continues

To in that hold you true.

Step in time with the Spirit

Knowing he is your power source

Experiencing his dynamism

This ever loving force.

Step in time with the Spirit

Don’t let your flesh drag you down

Enduring the spiritual battle

Having a smile and not a frown

Step in time with the Spirit

Don’t turn to things of desire

Don’t let the enemy

Smother your spiritual fire.

Step in time with the Spirit

Retain the essence of sobriety

For in this way the Spirit will

Protect your integral propriety.

Step in time with the Spirit

Jettisoning every vainglory

Believing in his power

As he invests in your story.

Step in time with the Spirit

In ways to enjoy the fruit

So more and more and more

Christ becomes your dear root.

Step in time with the Spirit

Know his refining grace

Moving as he leads

Running only your very race.

Step in time with the Spirit

So patience and kindness are yours

So when the testing inevitably comes

You are able to open those doors.

Step in time with the Spirit

March in time with unity

For the defining sign of life

Is the prosperity of community.

Step in time with the Spirit

Relate with the offensive

Don’t pridefully reject them

By becoming stubbornly defensive.

Step in time with the Spirit

Resist the want to compete

Reject the envying spirit

There’s no glory in that to repeat.

Step in time with the Spirit

Put off your superior conceit

For if you don’t do this

You’re in line for a commanding defeat.

Step in time with the Spirit

Restore the broken vessel

Promote the Spirit’s work

So in them the Spirit can nestle.

Step in time with the Spirit

Carry the burdens to relief

For in this beautiful way

We will most certainly nurture belief.

Step in time with the Spirit

Settle the onerous demand

And by realistic expectations

We obey God’s command.

Step in time with the Spirit

Notice the moment’s very need

Believe that God provides

And will give us to sow his seed.

Step in time with the Spirit

Look up to heaven alone

Take your counsel from him

And by him your good deeds are sown.

Step in time with the Spirit

Be others’ experience of the Lord

For everyone who doubts

May see him in us who’s adored.

© 2014 S. J. Wickham.