Can you feel that something's changing?
Something’s stirring in the room
All this Holy expectation
Of how the Lord is gonna move
Do you feel the bondage breaking?
Freedom catching up to you
Do you feel the joy returning?
God exchanging old for new
Wake up, wake up He’s in our midst
On our song He’s riding in
This Holy, wild, rushing wind
There’s no containing it
The rain is coming hear the sound
Feel His thunder, see the cloud
His glory’s falling all around
Spirit have Your way, do what You want to
Take Your rightful place, make this Your throne room
Fire of Heaven, we want Your presence
Calling on Your name, Spirit have Your way
Wake up, wake up He’s in our midst
On our song He’s riding in
This Holy, wild, rushing wind
There’s no containing it
The rain is coming hear the sound
Feel His thunder, see the cloud
His glory’s falling all around
Spirit have Your way, do what You want to
Take Your rightful place, make this Your throne room
Fire of Heaven, we want Your presence
Calling on Your name, Spirit have Your way
(Have Your way)
Wild rushing wind
Come and breathe on us again
Holy Spirit fan the flame
We don’t want to leave the same
Wild rushing wind
Come and breathe on us again
Holy Spirit fan the flame
We don’t want to leave the same
(Wild wind)
Wild rushing wind
Come and breathe on us again
Holy Spirit fan the flame
We don’t want to leave the same
Wild rushing wind
Come and breathe on us again
Holy Spirit fan the flame
We don’t want to leave the same
Wild rushing wind
Come and breathe on us again
Holy Spirit fan the flame
We don’t want to leave the same
Wild rushing wind
Come and breathe on us again
Holy Spirit fan the flame
We don’t want to leave the same
We don’t want to leave the same
(Spirit have Your way)
Spirit have Your way, do what You want to
Take Your rightful place, make this Your throne room
Fire of Heaven, we want Your presence
Calling on Your name, Spirit have Your way
Spirit have Your way
Spirit have Your way, do what You want to
Take Your rightful place, make this Your throne room
Fire of Heaven, we want Your presence
Calling on Your name, Spirit have Your way
Songwriters:
Caylie Bryant, Austin Davis, Jonathan Gamble
Wild Rushing Wind
Song Meaning
A room full of expectation sets the scene: "Something's stirring," bondage is breaking, joy is returning, and God is "exchanging old for new." The verses speak as if the congregation can already sense the change, and the pre-chorus calls the room awake: "Wake up, wake up, He's in our midst."
Weather supplies the imagery. A "holy, wild, rushing wind" rides in on the song itself, followed by rain, thunder and a cloud of glory. The picture draws on Pentecost in Acts 2, where a rushing wind filled the house, and on Jesus' comparison of the Spirit to wind that nobody contains or controls. The lyric agrees: "There's no containing it."
The bridge turns into surrender, "Spirit have Your way, do what You want to," inviting the Spirit to take the room as a throne room. The long closing refrain asks him to "fan the flame," a nod to 2 Timothy 1:6, with the request that no one "leave the same."