Send the Fire

And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire.... And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. Acts 2:1-4
For our God is a consuming fire. Heb. 12:25-29
  
                        
  
1. Thou Christ of burn - ing, cleans - ing flame, Send the fire, send the fire, send the fire!
2. God of E - li - jah, hear our cry: Send the fire, send the fire, send the fire!
3.’Tis fire we want, for fire we plead, Send the fire, send the fire, send the fire!
4. To make our weak hearts strong and brave, Send the fire, send the fire, send the fire!

                         
           

  
                    
    
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Thy blood - bought gift to - day we claim, Send the fire, send the fire, send the fire!
To make us fit to live or die, Send the fire, send the fire, send the fire!
The fire will meet our eve - ry need, Send the fire, send the fire, send the fire!
To live a dy - ing world to save, Send the fire, send the fire, send the fire!

                   
      
          

  
              
       
       
Look down and see this wait - ing host, Give us the prom - ised Ho - ly Ghost;
To burn up eve - ry trace of sin, To bring the light and glo - ry in,
For strength to ev - er do the right, For grace to con - quer in the fight,
Oh, see us on Thy al - tar lay Our lives, our all, this ver - y day;

                 
    
            

        
   
              
    
We want an - oth - er Pen - te - cost, Send the fire, send the fire, send the fire!
The rev - o - lu - tion now be - gin, Send the fire, send the fire, send the fire!
For pow’r to walk the world in white, Send the fire, send the fire, send the fire!
To crown the of - f’ring now we pray, Send the fire, send the fire, send the fire!

                   
   
             
WORDS: William Booth, 1894. MUSIC: “Tucker”; Frederick Booth-Tucker, pub.1922. Public Domain.