We have battled all night Lord
Like Simon Peter and his companions
Against the stormy sea and the violent wind
With the treacherous waves
Breaking into our frail boat
And threatening violence and death
We are all adrift at sea
And are paralysed with fear
As chaos and disaster
Stare us in the face
For, abandoned to our own resources
We are powerless and helpless
Before the storm
And are face to face
With the futility
Of our ability
Walk over the waters Lord
Calm the violent storm
Come towards our boat
And transform our frightful circumstances
Into a Theophany, an Epiphany
That like Moses in the desert
We may recognise your voice of assurance
In the blazing fire that surrounds us
Like a rampart
And heal our collective fear
Of storms and tornadoes
And earthquakes and wild fires
Walk over the waters Lord
March firm on the turbulence
Come towards our boat
And let the stormy sea of disorder and chaos
Be a place of providential encounter
With the One who calms the storm
And stills the sea
Let the turbulent waters
Of armed robbery and banditry
Be the divine milieu
For a privileged revelation
Of the One
Who commands the troubled waters
And walks tall over the abyss of death
Walk over the waters Lord
Quieten the sea
Come towards our boat
And take away the tension and strife
That have been our lot in these climes
From the low lands of the Niger Delta
To the high lands of Taraba
And from the forest regions of Sagamu
To the sandy plains of Kano
Calm the storm of ethnic violence
From the Ivory Towers of Ife and Ibadan
To the academic villages of Ekpoma and Abraka
Conquer the whirlwinds of secret cultism
Walk over the waters Lord
Let the troubled sea obey your word
Come towards our boat
That from the port city of Lagos
To the capital city of Abuja
And from the commercial city of Onitsha
To the political city of Kaduna
There will be an end
To hired assassinations
Armed robbery and street thuggery
Walk over the waters Lord
Rebuke the wind
Come towards our boat
And let the tempestuous waves
Of trials and tribulations
Against which our frail boat
Must battle today
Be the harbinger of the Incarnate One
Who conquers evil
By His majestic presence
