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Note: "Yah yireh" is the Hebrew for "God [Yah] will provide".


Queen Makedah - Yah Yireh


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Open up your heart, open up your mind
Open up your heart, you'll be sure to find
 
Yah yireh, He'll show us, make a way
Yah yireh, He'll provide a better day
Yah yireh, Yah yireh
Genesis 22:14 (King James Version) -
And Abraham called the name of that
place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.
[
Compare New International Version:
Genesis 22:14
- So Abraham called that place
The LORD Will Provide. And to this day it is said,
"On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided."]


He's the light of this whole wide world
John 8:12 - Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying,
I am the light of the world: he that followeth me
shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light
of life.
John 9:5 - As long as I am in the world, I am the light
of the world.
Trouble not yourself over what is small
For He's the great Father, He's Father to us all
He hears your every cry, yes He does
And He knows your every desire
 
He never suffers the righteous to hunger
Psalm 55:22 - Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he
shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the
righteous to be moved.
Proverbs 10:3 - The LORD will not suffer the soul of
the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the
substance of the wicked.
And you won't be ashamed if you trust Him
Psalm 25:2 - O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be
ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.
Psalm 25:20 - O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me
not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
Yah yireh... etc

He's the light of this whole wide world
 
Sufficient is the day and the evil it brings
Tomorrow takes care of itself, don't be anxious
Matthew 6:34 - Take therefore no thought for the morrow:
for the morrow shall take thought for the things of
itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Birds of the air, they know they're gonna eat
Yah provide for them, they don't have to worry
Matthew 6:26 - Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow
not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your
heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than
they?
He rises, just to show you that He loves you
He rises, just to show you that He care for you

Open up your heart, open up your mind
Open up your heart, you'll be sure to find

Yah yireh... etc

He's the light of this whole wide world
He never suffers the righteous to hunger
 
Lead me beside still waters
Psalm 23:2 - He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
he leadeth me beside the still waters.
Even in the presence of my enemies
Blessed, so many blessings
Psalm 23:5 - Thou preparest a table before me in the
presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil;
my cup runneth over.
Even in the shadow of death
I will not fear
Psalm 23:4 - Yea, though I walk through the valley of the
shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me;
thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Yah yireh... etc

 



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