Hosanna

I was humming this song this morning on my way to work, in fact, the past few weeks, this song have really ministered to me.

Last week has been quite bad. Trying to rent a new office. Stress out with selling my flat. Even more stress out with buying my "dwelling place"

Over the weekend, the Lord reminded me to build up my faith in Him. In fact, while i was typing this, the Lord reminded me...

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. John 14:1

We sing Hosanna, but what does it mean? Found this to be interesting.

The Meaning of Hosanna
source: sproutingseeds.wordpress.com

Here is a little misunderstood word.

Hosanna - it means “liberate us!”. Or “Set us free”, “save us”.

Shocking? Lots of people think that it just a praise word, but it is actually more than that. So picture Jesus making his entry into Jerusalem on the back of the donkey and the Jews were shouting”Hosanna!”.

The Jews were acknowledging Jesus as the promised Messiah, whom they thought would free them from the Romans. They were asking Him to liberate them from the Romans (which they thought the promised Messiah was going to do). Imagine their shock when Jesus went instead to clean out their religion.

We of course know that Christ has done much more than the Jews thought He would. He has liberated us from sin and death. He has set us free from legalistic religion. So next time we sing”Hosanna!”, remember the meaning and remember what Christ has done for us.


Hosanna


I see the king of glory
Coming on the clouds with fire
The whole earth shakes
The whole earth shakes
Yeeeah

I see his love and mercy
Washing over all our sin
The people sing
The people sing

[Chorus]
Hosanna Hosanna
Hosanna in the highest [x2]

I see a generation
Rising up to take their place
With selfless faith
With selfless faith

I see a near revival
Stirring as we pray and seek
We're on our knees
We're on our knees

[Chorus]

Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like you have loved me
Break my heart from what breaks yours
Everything I am for your kingdoms cause
As I go from nothing to
Eternity

[Chorus x2]

Hosanna in the highest