Gloria Gaither (b. March 4, 1942) is a songwriter for gospel music, along with her husband, Bill Gaither. She also sang in the Bill Gaither Trio, one of the most influential groups in recent Christian music.
He's Worthy
Bill & Gloria Gaither Lyrics
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We do
Do you feel the shadows deepen
We do
But do you know that all the dark
Won't stop the light from getting through
We do
Do you wish that you could see it all made newWe do
2. Is all creation groaning
It is
Is a new creation coming
It is
Is the glory of the Lord
To be the light within our midst
It is
Is it good that we remind ourselves of this
It is
Chorus 1
Is anyone worthy
Is anyone whole
Is anyone able to break the seal and open the scroll
The Lion of Judah who conquered the grave
He is David's Root
And the Lamb who died to ransom the slave
Is He worthy
Is He worthy
Of all blessing and honor and glory
Is He worthy of this
He is
3. Does the Father truly love usHe does
Does the Spirit move among us
He does
And does Jesus our Messiah
Hold forever those He loves
He does
Does our God intend to dwell again with us
He does
Chorus 2
Is anyone worthy
Is anyone whole
Is anyone able to break the seal and open the scroll
The Lion of Judah who conquered the grave
He is David's Root
And the Lamb who died to ransom the slave
From ev'ry people and tribe every nation and tongue
He has made us a kingdom and priests
To God to reign with the Son
Is He worthy
Is He worthy
Of all blessing and honor and glory
Is He worthy
Is He worthy
Is He worthy of this
He is
The lyrics of "He's Worthy" by Bill & Gloria Gaither delve deeply into the themes of human suffering, spiritual yearning, and the hope of divine redemption. In the opening lines, there is an acknowledgment of the brokenness of the world. The questions posed invite listeners to confront the darker aspects of existence—brokenness, shadows, and the absence of renewal. This sense of despair is universally relatable; it resonates with those who feel the weight of the world's injustices. However, the refrain of "We do" serves as a collective affirmation of understanding and shared experience. The powerful assertion that "all the dark won't stop the light from getting through" speaks to an underlying hope and resilience. It emphasizes that despite the pervasive darkness, there is an unwavering light that ultimately prevails. The yearning for renewal—the desire to see things made new—hints at a profound spiritual longing for restoration, suggesting that faith can transform despair into hope.
The subsequent verses expand on this hope, suggesting that all of creation itself is in a state of longing and anticipation. This "groaning" of creation reflects a biblical motif where the physical and spiritual realms are intertwined in their collective yearning for redemption. The new creation referred to implies a transformative future where the glory of God becomes a tangible presence among us. This presence is characterized as a comforting light amidst turmoil, reinforcing the theme of divine assurance. By questioning the goodness of reminding ourselves of God's glory, the lyrics encourage believers to maintain their focus on faith and divine grace, even when circumstances appear bleak. This call to remember and recognize God's glory serves to uplift the weary spirit, affirming that there is a profound good to be found in acknowledging divine purpose in the midst of suffering.
The first chorus asks critical questions about worthiness and ability—a reflective inquiry directed toward the Lion of Judah, a biblical symbol of power, majesty, and sovereignty. By referencing the Lion of Judah and its conquest over death, the lyrics paint a portrait of Jesus as the victorious redeemer who bears the weight of humanity's burdens. The juxtaposition of the Lion and the Lamb emphasizes both strength and sacrifice, portraying Jesus as the embodiment of both justice and mercy. The repeated assertion of His worthiness asks listeners to consider the magnitude of what has been achieved through His sacrifice. This chorus serves as a triumphant proclamation of faith, recognizing Jesus' entitlement to worship, honor, and glory. It encapsulates the symmetry of His identity—both a powerful leader and a tender savior—reflecting a theology that embraces both reverence and love.
Finally, the song culminates in a powerful reiteration of God's relational nature with humanity. The lines concerning the Father's love, the Spirit's movement, and Jesus’ enduring embrace depict a God deeply invested in the lives of His creation. These affirmations remind believers that they are not abandoned but are recipients of divine love and presence. The mention of the Messiah holding onto those He loves resonates with themes of everlasting commitment and hope. The second chorus broadens the scope to encompass all of humanity—every people, tribe, nation, and tongue—unifying them under God’s kingdom and purpose. The calls for Jesus' worthiness are again expressed, emphasizing the collective gratitude and recognition of His transformative power. Thus, the song encapsulates the essence of Christian hope—a hope grounded in love, redemption, and the ultimate majesty of God, making it a profound anthem of resilience amidst the trials of life.
Line by Line Meaning
Do you feel the world is broken
Are you aware of the pain and suffering that permeates our existence?
We do
We recognize and share this sentiment of brokenness.
Do you feel the shadows deepen
Are you conscious of the growing darkness in our lives and communities?
We do
We acknowledge this encroaching shadow together.
But do you know that all the dark
However, are you aware that despite all this darkness,
Won't stop the light from getting through
it cannot prevent the light of hope and truth from breaking through?
We do
We understand that light will ultimately prevail.
Do you wish that you could see it all made new
Do you long for a renewal of all things, a restoration to perfection?
We do
This desire resonates deeply within us.
Is all creation groaning
Is the entirety of creation in anguish for redemption?
It is
Yes, all of creation expresses this deep yearning.
Is a new creation coming
Is there hope for a transformative new existence on the horizon?
It is
Indeed, such a new creation is on its way.
Is the glory of the Lord
Is the magnificence of God
To be the light within our midst
intended to shine brightly among us?
It is
Yes, it serves as a guiding light in our lives.
Is it good that we remind ourselves of this
Is it beneficial to continually reflect on these truths?
It is
Absolutely, it nourishes our faith and hope.
Is anyone worthy
Is there anyone deserving of honor and respect?
Is anyone whole
Is there anyone who is truly complete and unblemished?
Is anyone able to break the seal and open the scroll
Is there anyone capable of unveiling the mysteries of God?
The Lion of Judah who conquered the grave
The powerful leader from the line of Judah who triumphed over death.
He is David's Root
He is the origin and fulfillment of God’s promise through David.
And the Lamb who died to ransom the slave
And the sacrificial Lamb who gave His life to liberate those in bondage.
Is He worthy
Is He deserving of our utmost reverence and devotion?
Is He worthy
Is He truly worthy of our praise and loyalty?
Of all blessing and honor and glory
Of every kind of blessing, respect, and glory we can bestow?
Is He worthy of this
Is He worthy of such adoration and recognition?
He is
Yes, without a doubt, He is.
Does the Father truly love us
Is the Creator genuinely caring and loving towards us?
He does
Indeed, His love for us is unwavering.
Does the Spirit move among us
Is the Holy Spirit actively present and working within our community?
He does
Yes, the Spirit moves powerfully amongst us.
And does Jesus our Messiah
And thus, does Jesus, our Savior,
Hold forever those He loves
eternally embrace and safeguard those He cherishes?
He does
Yes, He holds us dear without end.
Does our God intend to dwell again with us
Is it God's purpose to once again live in close fellowship with humanity?
He does
Indeed, that is His holy intention.
Is anyone worthy
Is there anyone deserving of admiration and praise?
Is anyone whole
Is there anyone fully complete and without defect?
Is anyone able to break the seal and open the scroll
Can anyone fulfill the divine mission of unveiling ultimate truths?
The Lion of Judah who conquered the grave
The triumphant leader from Judah who overcame death.
He is David's Root
He embodies the fulfillment of God's covenant through David.
And the Lamb who died to ransom the slave
And the Lamb of God who sacrificed Himself to free those imprisoned.
From ev'ry people and tribe every nation and tongue
Gathering followers from all nations, cultures, and languages.
He has made us a kingdom and priests
He has elevated us to be a royal priesthood under Him.
To God to reign with the Son
So that we can serve God and reign alongside His Son.
Is He worthy
Is He deserving of our full respect and admiration?
Is He worthy
Does He truly merit such acknowledgment and reverence?
Of all blessing and honor and glory
Of every blessing, respect, and glory we can give?
Is He worthy
Is He deserving of all this acknowledgment and praise?
Is He worthy
Is He truly worthy of our dedication and worship?
Is He worthy of this
Is He worthy of our ultimate commitment?
He is
Yes, without doubt, He is.
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@mamiralte4397
He's worthy, God's worthy,
Almighty Creator,
Alpha, Omega, Beginning and the End.
Holy, holy, Lord God Almighty,
which was and is,
and is to come.
Hallelujah,
hallelujah.
Hallelujah,
hallelujah.
Chorus 2
Blessing and glory,
wisdom and power,
God is my rock,
in Him will I trust.
My strong tower and my refuge,
Savior, Deliverer and Soon Coming King.
Hallelujah,
hallelujah.
Hallelujah,
hallelujah.
Verse
The King will come in the clouds
with great power and glory with Him.
Oh, but no man knows the day nor the hour,
but we await His soon return.
Bridge
Hallelujah,
glory, glory,
hallelujah,
praise His name.
Hallelujah,
glory, glory,
hallelujah,
praise His name
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A prayer requiring faith to know who GOD THROUGH THE PERSON OF JESUS CHRIST WAS OR STILL IS.
On a balcony of space STEPPED A PURE AND HOLY GOD. IN AWESOME SOLITUDE YOU STOOD ALONE. Not one faint star to give YOU light; just endless darkness, it was blackest night. But somehow in the darkness YOU COULD SEE.
YOU SAW mountains high and lofty, YOU SAW valleys lush and green. YOU SAW babbling brooks, and wildflowers grow, YOU EVEN HEARD a robin sing. Then through YOUR COMPASSION STANDING OUT THERE IN YOUR TOMORROW, YOU SAW forum's visitors. 🥰
YOU SAW them as sinners because there is no intrinsic righteousness in any of us due to Adam’s sin. YOU SAW them as they grew from a baby into adulthood due to YOUR HANDS OF MERCY. 🥰 YOU SAW them pursuing a career path for the purpose of obtaining the gains of the world not realizing that it is a loss compared to what YOU DID on the cross. YOU SAW them working long and laboring hard to receive the grace by justification even though YOU stated, "This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent."(John 6:29 KJV) YOU SAW the unwillingness to accept YOUR PLAN OF SALVATION THROUGH YOUR SON JESUS CHRIST. YOU SAW them living with the guilt of committing crimes to the heart. YOU SAW them enduring personal crisis. YOU SAW the weight of the burden on their hearts with each tribulation. YOU SAW them seeking comfort from the above mentioned topography, ONE OF THE MANY MARVELS YOUR PERFECT HANDS HAVE MADE. 👏👏👏 YOU SAW their worries about tomorrow.
If their hearts were a window that they could look through, oh the pains and scars they would see. What a cruel fate the skin gives as a mask to the inward pain. But the skin couldn’t cover THE SUFFERING YOUR ONE AND ONLY SON BORED on the cross as PAYMENT for all our sins because HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ALONE HAD THE MERIT TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF YOUR HOLINESS. Indeed, ONLY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS IS SUFFICIENT TO SAVE us from this present evil world as evidenced by Mary's song of praise. "And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." (Luke 1:46-47 KJV) Awesome thanks to YOUR GREAT PARDON for being easy on the heart. 🥰
They have seen a lot of crazy things done in YOUR NAME. For example, the father of lies futile attempts to make crooked the right ways of the LORD to turn people away from faith in the WORKS OF JESUS CHRIST ALONE. How can anyone bear the thought of his or her life story detracting from the GLORY AND HONOR KNOWN TO BELONG TO CHRIST ALONE? As a consequence, YOU ARE A MYSTERY OF GREAT MYSTERY to them. Despite this conviction, YOU ARE MINDFUL of them as evidenced by the fact that YOUR JUDGEMENT is not speedy, allowing them to pursue the desires of the flesh.
They are aware of hypocrisy in religious assemblies that like to be seen and heard. In addition, secular education teaches that there is no right and wrong, if GOD exists there is no way of relating to HIM, and moral standards shift according to the whims of fashion. Therefore, their minds are conditioned to question everything this world has to offer including “THY POWER THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE DISPLAYED.” They have accepted the heavy burden of dealing with the troubles of this life and seeks to know another way, YOU THE GREAT COMFORTER TO ALL who did receive YOU as their personal SAVIOR. Still, YOU have shown them NEW MERCY every day with each thought they make and each breath they take.
Unfortunately, like the prodigal son, we are all guilty of wandering far from YOU LORD because the negative experiences of our lives tend to build roadblocks to the TRUTH. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them to identify the way, truth, and eternal life (that is YOU). Since to know and follow your SPIRIT is more exciting than any 007 movie, and YOU DELIGHT MAKING the ordinary into extraordinary. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST MAKE them understand that there is no way around YOUR TRUTH, and that there is something about YOUR NAME. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them defeat in their minds what is false in YOUR EYES.
LORD GUIDE their thoughts to know that the path of sin is hard on their hearts for the purpose of crying out to YOU to know the joy, peace of having the heavy burden LIFTED by THE GOD OF PEACE I AM, and ANCHOR their souls in THE HAVEN OF REST. In other words, LORD use the storms in their lives to get a hold of them to trust YOU and believe. In truth, YOU ARE THE JOY that seekest them through pain.
LORD HELP their fainting hearts to believe that YOU, who was slain on the cross over 2000 years ago has the POWER TO CHANGE lives today through the INSTANTANEOUS GREAT FAVOR from GOD to the house of Israel made known in believers by YOU to make YOUR NAME EVERLASTING. 🥰 For as the statue liberates the citizens so the cross liberates the soul. ONLY YOU can calm the trouble waters of the mind when one admits to wanting salvation from one’s sinful nature, JESUS IS LORD, and believes in the heart that GOD RAISED HIM from the dead TO LIFT the heavy burden of sin's guilt away from the heart in accordance to YOUR WORD found in Psalm 51:1-10 KJV. 👏👏👏👏👏👏 O, the wonder of it all to experience within the flesh the feeling of a tree being cut back/pruned inorder for it to grow stronger and more beautiful after meditating on the words of said Psalm. 🥰🙌
LORD MAKE them know that ONLY YOUR HOLY SPIRIT, through the experience of a new birth within believers, can prevent the family circle from being broken because THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE YOU HAVE GRANTED means a chapter of their lives is decided. Creation sings the rebirth song for them yearly, through YOUR PROMISE of springtime, giving rise to the idea that by the mention of YOUR NAME flowers grow, and the desert blooms again. 🥰
LORD GUIDE their understanding of words to use to come into YOUR PRESENCE with an honest reverence of WHO YOU ARE to experience the beauty that time can't erase YOUR WISDOM resting on their faces. LORD STRENGTHEN their determination to never waiver in efforts to search for YOU because the wages of sin is too high for anyone to pay. Additionally, THE KING OF KINGS is needed in their hearts to learn how to expand their capacity to love for YOU are LOVE in any language. 🥰 Once they learn to speak it with boldness through YOUR WONDERFUL COUNSELING all the world will hear, and know that LOVE is the language of their hearts. So LORD, KEEP KNOCKING on their doors until they let YOU in to know hardships and struggles will end with a GREAT CELEBRATION WITH YOU. 🥰🙌
If one believes faith cannot be forced, YOU WILL GIVE that individual over to the stubborn heart to follow own counsel which will surely fail him or her to the extent that the punishment will last forever found in Psalms 81 NIV. Given this, I pray that YOU WILL MAKE that person see that this feeling is wasted for a world in which we become strangers as we age, gives us thrills instead of peace, aims to solve a problem but creates another, and unrest surges with each passing generation. Shed some light into their broken hearts for YOU ARE THE GREAT JEHOVAH, THE GOD THAT HEALETH thee.
Lastly, LORD when they call on YOU in earnest prayer to come into their hearts to be born again, I pray that YOU WILL GIVE them the blessed assurance of their salvation because nothing breaks YOUR HEART, or tears YOU apart like when they cry from the trials of the devil who comes to slander, falsely accuse, steal, kill & destroy. Only by drawing nearer to YOU LORD will put them on a path to a glorious one way trip winding upward to YOU where pain is not welcome because the heart will never break anymore. For ONLY YOU UNDERSTANDS our tears since YOU LOOK at the heart, while humans look at the flesh.
O LOVE that will not let them go. When they don't have the strength to try, and have cried all they can cry hear their hearts that need YOU more today than yesterday. Many thanks LORD for speaking TRUTH in our lives TO BLESS those who are not offended by THEE. LET YOUR WILL BE DONE because YOUR LOVE ALONE CONQUERS everything by WAITING for them to cease struggling, and finally surrender to YOUR EMBRACE to learn about YOUR LOVE AND PROMISE TO TAKE CARE of your children exquisitely. 🥰 Since... "at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore"... (Psalms 16:11 KJV), and the nail print for them to know YOU by answering the following question. How did CHRIST LOVE people into a relationship with HIM? 🥰
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Revelation 4;11
11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
Revelation 1:8
8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Psalm 18:2
2 The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
Rev 19:6
And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Titus 2:13
And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, "KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. Revelation 19:16
Matthew 25:31
When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
Zechariah 14:5,9,16,17
5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
9 And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
@ChristinaMiller-ff4vj
ALLISON'S VOICE IS SO BEAUTIFUL!
@summeransummeran955
So blessed with this one. This song is truly a signature song for her and wonderful praise to our Lord!
@ruthabigaild.nehemie6748
🤗✍️ Uhmmmmm! Stilll....2023. Hallelujah 🎷🙏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏✍️ Hallelujah 🙏
@ruthabigaild.nehemie6748
Praise The True Living God " my Heavenly Father"🙏 AMEEEEEN. Maranatha!!! Thy KINGDOM COME Lord Jesus Christ!!!!! Hallelujah 🙏
@ChristGospelVP
Written by the great Sandra Crouch, who just passed away a few months ago
@ChristinaMarieAngelicque-vc3nx
ALLISON WAS SUPER AWESOME!
@ministersd
Holy Ghost goosebumps. She sings with such spice. Hallelujah!
@joycetaylor525
2:49 0😊
@javonbryan8750
THANK YOU FATHER GOD AMEN 🙏 🙌 ❤️
@tinasattler1
Ys he is glory to god