Be Strong & Courageous
Be Strong & Courageous, Spoken Word by Amena Brown Owen
(Watch to the end)
Therefore since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses:
Women.
Who walked with God and walked before us
Women whose feet beat paths and paved roads for the
Women who came after them
Who bore children and carried crosses.
Who carried hopes and prayers and dreams
For them, life was a womb
A place to carry calling, until it's ready to be born.
We've heard the songs
We've heard the sermons and the messages
We've seen the glimpse of what God can do
But what will we do?
How will we take the words we've heard,
Give them bones, muscles, feet,
Until they seep not only into the words we speak
But into the lives we live
We want to be women
Who, in the face of evil, refuse to be polite
Women who will not be silenced by injustice
Women who will pace and pray
For their neighbors and family and country and world
Women who will bind up the wounds of the sick
Women who will dig our hands in the dirt and build wells.
Who will love, and accept, and be ourselves
God is saying to us, the same thing he said to Mary, and Abraham, and Mary Magdalene, and Hagar, and Moses, and Joshua,
Do not be afraid, Be strong, and courageous.
Do not be afraid, Be strong and courageous.
Do not be afraid, Be strong and courageous.
When you lead and when you work,
When you love
When you care,
When life seems like too much to bear
When you write, speak, create
When you have to wait,
When you wanna cuss
When it's hard to trust,
When God tells you to start, and begin, and move and
When he says stay, and finish, and plant roots.
When you reject the lie and speak the truth
When your fear yells so loudly that it's difficult to think
When you need to ask for help
When the calling of God beats quick in your chest
When the answer is no, when all the doors close
Be strong, and Courageous.
Be strong, and Courageous.
Because God is with you.
Because there is no obstacle, difficulty, challenge, pain, fear, failure, disease
That is bigger than Him
Because if God is with us, now is not the time to worry about what other people think
If God is with us now is not the time to be worried about how unworthy or how inadequate you feel
If God is with us, we have to remember that we walk with Him.
In His strength, through His suffering, full of His courage,
So cast aside the lies that wanna weave themselves around your ankles, and attempt to trip you up.
Get rid of that weight that lays so heavy on your lungs.
Walk and dance and lead and run
Just remember the One
The One who calls us, and saves us, and loves us, and leads us
Do not be afraid, Be strong and courageous
Do not be afraid, Be strong and courageous
Do not be afraid, Be strong, and courageous.
