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Stir the Fire — Dirt Road Gospel Music

CallingComplacencyPurposeSurrender

Stir the Fire" traces a single, sustained image across its five sections: discovering an ember still glowing in ashes long assumed cold, circling a hearth without knowing what to pray for, asking God directly to breathe on those embers, remembering the specific hands and words that once prayed a gift into being, trusting that gift is still alive beneath years of smolder, naming that gift precisely in Paul's own words to Timothy — power, love, and a sound mind rather than fear — and closing with quiet confidence that God never let the ember die, even through every stage of the ashes gathering around it.

"Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands."
2 Timothy 1:6

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Lyrics

Stir the Fire
Dirt Road Gospel Music
DirtRoadGospelMusic.com

[Verse 1]
There's an ember in the ashes
Of everything I used to burn for
I've been circling this cold hearth
Wondering what I even pray for

[Chorus]
Stir the fire — that's been sleeping in me
Stir the fire — breathe upon these embers
Stir the fire — You put Your gift inside me
Stir the fire — till it burns like the first time again

[Verse 2]
I still feel the hands upon my head
The words they prayed over my shoulders
Whatever You lit in me that night
Is still alive beneath the smolder

[Chorus]
Stir the fire — that's been sleeping in me
Stir the fire — breathe upon these embers
Stir the fire — You put Your gift inside me
Stir the fire — till it burns like the first time again

[Bridge]
You did not give me a spirit of fear
But of power, and of love, and a sound mind
So I'll fan into flame what You placed in here
And step out of the ashes one more time

[Final Chorus]
Stir the fire — that's been sleeping in me
Stir the fire — breathe upon these embers
Stir the fire — You put Your gift inside me
Stir the fire — till it burns like the first time again

[Outro]
There's an ember in the ashes
And You never let it die