Rick Lee JamesHealthcare Chaplain, Bon Secours Mercy Health · Husband, Dad, Hospital Chaplain, Recording Artist, Podcast Host, Loyola University IPS Graduate, Alpha Sigma Nu Member, and Recording Academy (GRAMMY®) member - Contributing musician on a Grammy-nomin

Morning Hymn (The Long Night Has Passed) by Rick Lee James

13 Sept 2013 · 4 min

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The video presents a Christian morning hymn titled “The Long Night Has Passed,” written and performed by Rick Lee James. The piece opens with an invitation to worship, urging listeners to open their mouths, hearts, and eyes in unity before the King, acknowledging Christ as the light that dispels darkness. It proceeds with a spoken prayer that asks the Father to grant spiritual insight, to perfect believers’ praises, and to join creation in glorifying God. The hymn then moves into lyrical verses that confess sin, seek forgiveness through Christ, and proclaim the boundless, inseparable love of the Father. Repeated refrains emphasize that no height, depth, devil, or foe can separate believers from God’s love, culminating in a triumphant declaration of that love. The overall purpose is to inspire worship, confession, and assurance of divine love at the start of the day.

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The long night has passed, the dawn has arrived, so open your mouths to sing. Come open your hearts, come open your eyes, in unity before the King. For Christ is the light that's shining on us. Chasing the darkness away. And his open arms are drawing us near. He's calling his people to pray. Our Father in Heaven, it is the delight of angels and saints above. To worship before your glorious throne, announcing your beauty and love. Lord, grant us a glimpse of all they behold, unveil our limited eyes, that we might perfect your praises on earth with all of our hearts open wide. The valleys and hills, the oceans and skies, the trees and the fruitful lands are all telling forth the glory of God, proclaiming the work of his hands. So with all creation, when we lift our voice, filling his world with our praise. May we truly be your people today in all that we do and we say. <LYRICS>So pardon us, Lord, the wrongs we have done, and help us to enter in the kingdom of God, whose doorway is Christ, the path to forgiveness of sin. How great is the love the Father has shown</LYRICS> calling us children of God. No height and no depth, no devil or foe can separate us from his love. No height and no depth, no devil or foe can separate us from his love. No, they can never separate us Can separate us from his love.