About 2 years ago we started playing instrumental intros to open service and have folks read Puritan Prayers over them. It was a really powerful season for our church and some of those prayers really took hold in the body. One of them was a prayer called The Great God, so much so that I thought it would be a good idea to try and write a song around it.
The initial challenge I ran into was those prayers were written in prose, they have no poetic flow, they aren’t broken into A/B/C sections that would lend itself to any verse/chorus. So structuring a song around it was a challenge. After I found a chord progression that was interesting I went through the somewhat arduous process of moving lyrics around to try and make it work.
We’ve refined the arrangement over time and I think all of us in the band felt after this last arrangement tweak we’d found the song a home. Hope you enjoy, same fine print applies to our live recordings (excuse the roughness). Though I will say I dig the baby cry in the intro, I could have taken it out, but liked it better in. I have no expectation of anyone wanting to play this song in their church, but if you’re interested in chords you can grab them here.






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