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What To Do When You Have An Audience With a Pharaoh

What do you do when you have an audience
with a man intoxicated by power and control? 
What do you say to a man
who has no heart nor a soul?  
What do you tell the man 
who continues to oppress? 
How do you articulate 
when delivering your address? 

Do you have the courage to stand up 
and boldly speak out loud? 
Or maybe you need some supporters 
and a favorable crowd 
Do you cry out about the 
Brokenness and all the pain? 
Or do you just shuck and jive
And act all lame?
God hears our cries 
and God sees our plight 
God understands that 
we need His guiding light 

First, just remember it was God
who sent you on this mission 
And you need God's approval 
and God's permission 
For to be bolstered by the power of 
the Heavenly Throne 
Is to know that God's stamp on your passport 
will surely set the tone 
To be sent is to be dispatched 
to be ordained in place 
As an invite is a gesture
for someone who's desperate to embrace
As God's truth has to be sent 
to address evil power
And an invite is for weaklings 
to come at a requested hour
As the only expectation 
for one who's been dispatched by the Lord 
Is to stand strong in the face of evil 
armed with the Spirit of the Sword 

Two, never forget whom you're there
to represent 
To never forget the people 
nor the precedence 
Now don't get it twisted 
you need to understand 
That its not about you 
but about God's plans 
And don't think that the reason 
why you're at the table 
Its not to become a celebrity 
thus making you unable 
To accomplish the task for
which you've chosen to do 
For its all about the message 
and not about you 

So don't come walking in acting like 
you're attending a gala or a ball 
Its a confrontation where you might have to
flip over some tables and smash some stalls 
For its not required that you be nice
As you didn't come by an invite

Now transformed in the presence of God 
when He sent you on this mission 
Now fortified by the Holy Spirit 
in order to fulfill this commission 
Now to speak truth to power 
talking with the heart of God 
To call evil what it is
and that's how you should start 

So when you have an audience 
with a pharaoh you need to comprehend 
That you're meeting with oppression personified
towards all men

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