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This is another song that began several years ago. I had just read an article by John Wimber in a Vineyard publication in which he described a vision he had of a beautiful lake of water on a mountain. It looked so refreshing and wonderful, but it was contained. Then he saw the water from this reservoir pouring out, down into the valley below, bringing life and refreshment. He compared this to the blessings God has given the church and how the church should not hold these blessings to her self but so often does. He closed with the following quote from John Wesley: Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

This article really stirred my heart. Shortly after reading it, I was in my car, in line for a Virginia car inspection, and a certain song on the radio caught my attention. The feel of it sent me into an improvisation, and I starting singing some of the words to this song. I started scratching the words out and could see it was headed into these concepts in Wimber’s vision. It did not take too long to finish the song.

The second verse is very much about the vision of this CD, too, but it should be said that its first line, “The Lily of the Midnight Sky is calling,” comes directly from the title of a song by Canadian singer/songwriter extraordinaire Bruce Cockburn, off of his World of Wonders album. I love that imagery, which I take to represent Jesus Christ. In this song, using it as a picture of Christ, like the moon, calling forth His church like a rising tide on the beachfront of the world, His purpose is to pour out His healing on a hurting world. The sense is that the end of the age is coming soon in keeping with the urgency of Wesley’s Rule. Embedded in this verse is the idea that though God will use all of us for this, He is raising up a new generation, the faceless and righteous one Paul Cain prophesied about, in the phrase “the water in this healing wave is breaking.” The reference is to the breaking of the water on the shore but also that which precedes a birth … of this new generation …and of the new Jerusalem. I felt God told me during this time around 1995 that the head of this new generation was crowning as a baby’s before birth. God bless all you parents and youth workers out there who are helping to raise this generation up.

An interesting PS to this song is that several years later, I found myself singing this song for a few people in the home of Rev. Sandy Millar, then the Vicar of Holy Trinity Brompton, London. A few months later, in the Fall of 1997, John Wimber died. The Sunday of that week I was back at HTB and Sandy Millar devoted his sermon to the work and legacy of John Wimber in the UK. In this sermon he mentioned how he had given a quote by John Wesley to Wimber, who put it in his Bible and referred to it often. It began, “Do all the good you can …”

When God pours out His Spirit on His people,
The ordinary things of life can fade away;
But don't you lose perspective when it hits you
'Cause ordinary people like you need what you could give away.

With everything in you, as hard as you can, as soon as you can,
Wherever He leads you, as well as you can, as long as you can, go.
To the hurting, go, to the weak, go,
To the hungry, to the blind,
To the lonely, go, to the shy, go,
To the naked, to the lost, go.

The Lily of the Midnight Sky is calling,
The ocean on the sandy beach is rising high,
The water in this healing wave is breaking,
Messiah Jesus and the New Jerusalem is drawing nigh.

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