Would You Subdue My Soul

Would You subdue my soul?

Would You increase in me?

For years Your life has been so bound

O Lord

within my soul! Grow in me!

Would You break forth again?

Would You flow unrestrained?

Divide my spirit from my soul!

O may my spirit reign! O Lord!

O may my spirit reign! O Lord!

Soften my hardened heart

Touch all its calloused sense

Till You gain ground in all my heart;

O Lord! Revive my being and dispense!

Soulish love

Lord

recede

Nat’ral strength

Lord

deplete

Fill more with Spirit

Lord

I plead!

This cost I’d hourly meet! O Lord!

This cost I’d hourly meet! O Lord!

Shine on my life and work

Reveal my Christlessness;

The flesh expose that loves to boast

In vanity

its own righteousness.

In all things great or small

Sever me from the fall—

Deliver me from right and wrong

Till tree of life is all! O Lord!

Till tree of life is all! O Lord!

Lord

break my outer man;

All independent traits

To death confine by pow’r divine;

Each feeling

thought and word regulate.

Quiet soul reinstate

Every part saturate;

Upon Your gentle voice I’d wait;

Your move initiate! O Lord!

Your move initiate! O Lord!

Grant me the grace to bear

What’s measured by Your hand;

Lest I be blind and You withstand

Lord

do what pleases You—I consent!

From my wounded heart raise

Sacrifices of praise;

I’d worship You in all Your ways

And You as God appraise! O Lord!

And You as God appraise! O Lord!

O Lord

mature in me

Channel of life make me;

That long before my days shall end

Life from my being flow constantly.

Help us learn earnestly

Skills to fight corporately

Perpetuate Your victory

Subdue Your enemy! O Lord!

Subdue Your enemy! O Lord!