SONGS IN THE NIGHT

FROM JESUS

VOLUME 2

MORE EARLY CHURCH CHANT STYLE SONGS

2008

WAYNE O’CONNER
EVERAYONE KNOWS IT’S JESUS! (last line of each stanza is group chorus)

Who is I Am That I AM?

Everyone knows it’s Jesus!

Who was to be the Shiloh to come?

Everyone knows it’s Jesus!

Who was begotten by God the Father?

Everyone knows it’s Jesus!

Who was born without human father?

Everyone knows it’s Jesus!

Who was born to a young virgin?

Everyone knows it’s Jesus!

Who was the only man without sin?

Everyone knows it’s Jesus!

Who was crucified for our sin?

Everyone knows it’s Jesus!

Who was in the grave for three days, but rose again triumphant?
Everyone knows it’s Jesus!

Who is the life, the truth and the way?

Everyone knows it’s Jesus!

Who by His blood cleanses our sin?

Everyone knows it’s Jesus!

Who by His blood gives life eternal?

Everyone knows it’s Jesus!

Who by His blood frees us from demons?

Everyone knows it’s Jesus!

Who is worthy of all honor?

Everyone knows it’s Jesus!!

Who is worthy of all praise?

Everyone knows it’s Jesus! (Last line, one more time, slower.)
EVERYONE KNOWS IT’S JESUS!

I (Wayne O’Conner) had a song in a dream on the evening of December 5th 2007
that sounds similar to the old pop tune “Every One Knows It’s Wendy.”

I should have recorded the tune, right away, when I recorded the words, but it
seemed such a simple tune. I skipped that part of the process. When I tried to
sing the new song the next day I had lost the tune. I prayed, became frustrated
as I tried unsuccessfully to remember the tune, and was about to go on to
something else, when my friend Mark Wilkinson called. He knew the tune to that
old pop song, “Every One Knows It’s Wendy.” I only needed to hear the first bar
of music and the tune came back.

When I shared this song publicly the first time, a lady in the group said that the
chorus stanza wasn’t really true. According to a very narrow definition that
comment has merit. However, even many unbelievers, having heard Christmas &
Easter messages, have at least a rudimentary knowledge of Jesus being born of a
virgin and being crucified for the sins of mankind. Although there may be
exceptions, for the most part, one has to travel to the most remote places of the
world to find a man or woman who has absolutely no knowledge whatsoever
about Jesus Christ. Many know Jesus only as a curse word or vague religious
concept. Many others know Jesus Christ as a name not to be uttered, as it will
lead to imprisonment or execution. But for those who truly love J.C. it doesn’t
matter because their love for Him is stronger than their fear.

Many Americans have heard salvation messages and know about Jesus and his
gift of eternal life. Multitudes of people know about Jesus. Of that multitude a
lesser number know a great deal of specific information about Jesus. A still
smaller number of people know Jesus personally! Now if you know about Jesus
that is good, but it is much better to know Him personally as Savior and Master.

Also, it is written that one day every knee shall bow and every tongue confess
that Jesus is Lord!

Rom 14:10-11
10 … For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. 11 For it is written:
"As I live, says the LORD, Every knee shall bow to Me, And every tongue shall
confess to God."
NKJV

Phil 2:5-11
5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form
of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no
reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. 8
And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became
obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. 9 Therefore God also
has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, 10
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those
 on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. NKJV

The Overcomers Song (September 08)

This dream song has been very elusive. Like my other dream songs, it is
stylistically much like the Early Church chants and is quite different from the
hymns that came in later centuries or modern melodies. I have had this dream a
few times in the last several years but I could never quite get it. Recently I had
another song in the dream and I only received one line and couldn’t get that one
either. I prayed about it just before I visited the Darren & Amy Lang’s for the first
time and also talked to them about this issue during the visit. It seemed as if I
heard in my Spirit that the Lord was saying, “You haven’t sought Me earnestly
enough about the “Overcomers Song.” Finish that and I will give you the song “I
have given you every thing you need. ”

What has made “The Overcomers Song” a bit more challenging than usual is that
sometimes it kind of sounds like the secular song “Holding Out For a Hero,” sang
by Bonne Tyler and some sections sounded like a song by a male vocalist (Gordon
Lightfoot perhaps) with the lyrics, “just like an old time novel, about a ghost from
a wishing well.” To make it more complicated at one time the dream may have
had a certain section that sounded like the tune from the female vocalist and the
next time that section would sound like the tune from the male vocalist’s song.
Additionally, I remembered certain concepts like kingdom, the Lord’s Prayer,
overcomers, sin, self, Satan, and continuing to walk, rather than just making an
initial pledge, and having a relationship more than just an association with Jesus
and the Holy Spirit, but not consistent specific lyrics. I became frustrated with it
and just gave up and more than once in the last several years. But after visiting
the Lang’s I was able to write the lyrics with very little editing, much like when I
received the poetry for THE FORGOTTEN PROPHET’S BOOK OF DREAMS.

However, even though the lyrics in the dream songs differed, the dream itself was
always the same. I was standing outside a broken down log cabin near a dried up
oasis with sand dunes stretching in all directions as far as the eyes could see. The
Lord would tell me to sing to Him about the rains and the rains would come

In the dream, once the rains came, they came so fast and so fully that the desert
flooded. That was when the Lord commanded me to sing limiting the rains. Then
as the rains diminished and the flooding receded, He commanded a song for
growth. Then the waters receded and both trees and grass began to grow so tall
and thick that one would need machetes or axes to chop a path through it.

Like with the rain, I was commanded to sing a song that began diminishing the
heavy jungle growth. Then the jungle trees (actually the tree were deciduous
rather than normal jungle types) and grasses receded and then the surroundings
became a lush, park-like plain, with ankle high grass.

Last I was commanded to sing a song calling forth the overcomers. The
overcomers began to gather in small groups to rest and train. Some would be
sent out, and come back intermittently for more rest and training.

So there were actually several stages to the song part of the dream. There was a
song about sending the rain and another about growing a lush garden in the
desert. I can’t remember the words for those two songs.

And of course there were editing and pruning type songs for the rains and grass
and tree growth. I can’t remember anything more about those either.

Not only did the rains come, but also the desert turned into a fertile plain at an
unnatural rate of speed. Once the fertile plains came then saints came.

These saints were different than your average Christian. They weren’t at all
religious, but they were totally dedicated to Lord. - overcomers in every sense of
the word.

They would come to the fertile plain for short times of rest and training, and then
go out into the world in service of Christ’s Kingdom.

These saints weren’t militant and demanding, but rather dedicated, disciplined,
and loved others more than themselves, and exhibited a deep and genuine love
and devotion, not only to Jesus, but also to their brothers and sisters. They had a
powerful inner glow that drew some people and repelled others – even within the
so- called “Church.” They weren’t dogmatic or argumentative, or given to thorny
personality types and generally were very humble and kind.

The dream song that I’m recording is actually the last stage – the call to the
overcomers. And that last section actually seems to be two different songs and
an ending stanza that pulled sections from the other two songs. In some of the
dreams they intertwined together while in other dreams they seemed to be
separated.

The Overcomers Song

Where have all the true saints gone?

Why do we pray for our kingdoms?
It’s Your will be done
Your Kingdom come – not mine.

Why do we pray
My kingdom first?
My kingdom first?

Oh-oh-oh-oh my Father
Your Kingdom come
Your will be done
May Jesus have preeminence.
All preeminence.
May the Holy Spirit have freedom
To do Your will.
To do Your will.

Where are the wise ones

Who get beyond the gate?
Where are they?

Where are saints

Who daily walk the path?
Where are they?

Why do we think we can train our flesh

By our strength & intellect?
Why?

Filthy rags and white washed sepulchers

Is all we’ll ever get.
Only the Spirit can change
Our inward man – only the Spirit.

Where are the overcomers

Daily demonstrating our Lord’s victory
Over Satan, Sin & Self?

Where are the overcomers?

Where are they? (2)

Where are the overcomers

Daily demonstrating our Lord’s victory
Over Satan, Sin & Self?

Where are the overcomers?

Where are they?

JESUS I WANT TO SERVE YOU!

Trust you for my basic needs
Not beg or demand You
For worldly goods & luxuries

Jesus I want to love you!

And die to self Every day.

Jesus I want to serve you!

I want to seek Your Kingdom first.
Jesus make me more like you.
Help me hear from your Spirit.

I want to honor Your lordship

But I want to be
As close to you as Peter, James & John.

Jesus I want to serve You!

I want to seek Your Kingdom first!

Jesus I want to be
An overcomer
Lord For You!

Jesus I want to be
An overcomer
Lord For You!
****************************************************************
Everything I Need

You have given me everything I need

Who else has the words of life?
Only you Jesus – you supply everything I need.
That may not be everything I want
But everything I want’s not what I need.

I need you Jesus – not a pricey mansion in New York!

I need you Jesus – not a cushy job with bookoo bucks!
I need you Jesus – not a fashion model for a mate!

You have given me everything I need.

Jesus you are the Word of Life!
You have given me a voice to praise Your name
And tell others who You really are.
You have given me hands & arms & legs,
to serve Your Kingdom here on earth.
If I lose those things, those very precious things,
I still have your eternal love.

I need you Jesus – not the latest Caddie SUV!

I need you Jesus – not adulating fans to wait on me!!
I need you Jesus – not a life of ease and luxury!

You have given me everything I need.

Jesus you are the Word of Life!
You have rescued me and paid my debt of sin.
Your loving Spirit dwells down deep within.
In your sovereign will you answer many prayers.
Sometimes you even make a miracle.

I need you Jesus – not a pricey mansion in New York!

I need you Jesus – not a cushy job with bookoo bucks!
I need you Jesus – not a fashion model for a mate!
You have given me everything I need.
Jesus you are the Word of Life!
I know you want to bless me.
I know you want me to be healthy.
But when I read your word
It is plain for me to see
You weren’t the millionaire from Galilee
like that preacher preached on my TV.

I need you Jesus – not the latest Caddie SUV!

I need you Jesus – not adulating fans to wait on me!!
I need you Jesus – not a life of ease and luxury!
And when I read your word
It is plain for me to see
that Peter, Paul and John and company
Would preach the Kingdom Gospel
Not get wealthy quickly seminars.

I need you Jesus – not a pricey mansion in New York!

I need you Jesus – not a cushy job with bookoo bucks!
I need you Jesus – not a fashion model for a mate!

And when I read your word

It is plain for me to see
that Peter, Paul and John and company
Would teach the Kingdom Prayer
not begging You for extravagance.

I need you Jesus – not the latest Caddie SUV!

I need you Jesus – not adulating fans to wait on me!!
I need you Jesus – not a life of ease and luxury!

You have given me everything I need.

Jesus you are the Word of Life!

You have given me everything I need.

Jesus you are the Word of Life!

You have given me everything I need.

You -have - given me

Everything - I -need.

You -have - given me

Everything - I - need.

I had the first line of this in a dream just before I visited the Lang’s in Annandale in September 08; a few
 rd
weeks later, I think it was the morning of Tuesday the 23 , I dreamed that I was writing this song. I didn’t
hear it sung, but I already had the tune from when I got the first line. I didn’t remember the song perfectly.
For example, I didn’t figure out until later that the six I need you Jesus lines were divided into two sets of 3
lines and alternated. Also I knew I’d written the Kingdom Gospel and Kingdom Prayer stanzas, in the dream,
was working on the exact wording when the young man sat down. I thought it said apostles in the dream,
but I couldn’t get that to fit, in real life, so I put Peter, Paul & John & company.

Another thing interesting about the dream is that I was meeting with Dick’s fellowship, but we were meeting
at a coffee house. I came early to practice the song. A tall, dark haired young man came and sat down
across from me and said he was visiting the fellowship, but had come early to pray. He asked if I’d brought
anything to share. He began asking if the song needed more work and if it were really scripturally
acceptable. Not long after that he had a phone call and said that something had come up, and that he would
try to visit another meeting. As he was leaving a sticky note fell out of his Bible. It had two notes on it. 1)
Discourage Wayne about singing the song. 2) You’ll meet one of the hosts. An old man named Dick.
Whatever Dick says, whether you agree or not, say, agree with him.

CALLING

Dreamed the morning of January 21st, 2010. Sung to a tune close to the chorus, “He Is Able.”

CALLING

He’s calling, He’s calling,

The Father’s calling,
He’s calling all of those
He’s preordained.

He’s calling, He’s calling,

The Father’s calling,
His compelling voice
Travels ‘round the world.

He’s calling, He’s calling

The Father’s calling,
And those He draws
Will come to Jesus His son.

Jesus is calling, He’s calling.

God’s son is calling,
“Whoever is thirsty
Should come to me!
Jesus is calling, He’s calling.
God’s son is calling,
Call upon My Name
And you’ll be saved.”

Jesus is calling, He’s calling.

God’s son is calling,
“Die to yourself
And fo-l-lo-w me.”

So believe, repent
and seek His favor
And Jesus will give you
Eternal life.

So believe, repent
and seek His favor
And Jesus will give you
Eternal life.

So believe, repent
and seek His favor
And Jesus will give you
Eternal life.

WTO 1.21.2010

Songs In The Night

From Jesus
Volume 2
PEACEFUL GENTLE MORNING

PEACEFUL GENTLE MORNING

RIDING SOFTLY ON MY SOUL--
THE LORD AND I COMMUNING
IN THE CALM WHEN I’M ALONE.

MY SPIRIT SINGS WITHIN ME

SWEET PRAISES TO THE KING.
MY NATURAL EARS CAN’T HEAR
THE HOSANAS THAT I SING.

WAVES OF PEACE SURROUND ME

AND HIS WELL-SPRING BREAKS WITHIN.
PEACE BEYOND UNDERSTANDING
FLOODS MY SPIRIT AND MY SOUL.

EXPECTANTLY I WAIT
ON MY LORD AND GOD AND KING.
JESUS MY PRECIOUS SAVIOR--
I WAIT FOR WORDS FROM HIM.
I’VE LEARNED TO SEEK HIS PRESENCE,
NOT VOICES AND MIRACLES.

PEACEFUL GENTLE MORNING

RIDING SOFTLY ON MY SOUL--
THE LORD AND I COMMUNING
IN THE CALM WHEN I’M ALONE.

SPRING 1981, rerecorded 2/2010