Break Up the Fallow Ground
Words by Dean Close and Music by Debbie Stacy
© 1994 HIM Music
Key: C
Chorus:
G7 Fm Gm/F C
Break up your soul’s fallow ground
G7 Fm Gm/F C
Soften your heart’s hardened soil
Em Gm A7
God’s righteous rain will bring blessing
Dm G7
If in faith in your field you will toil
Fm Gm/F C
Break up your soul’s fallow ground
Fm C
Soften the soil of your hearts
Em Gm A7
You will soon have a harvest
Dm Dm/G C/G G7 C
Of holiness when the rain starts
Verse I:
Fm C
If the field of your faith has grown fallow
Fm C
Hardened by seasons of sin
Bb F C
If the soil of your heart won’t allow
Eb G
The water of life to flow in
Bb F
If the seeds of God’s Word just gets stolen
Bb C
Before its growth in your begins
F G Ab
Put your hand to the plow of repentance
Ab/F G7
And break up your ground once again
Verse II:
Fm C
God wants your life to be fruitful
Fm C
He wants His grace in you to grow
Bb F C
He wants your friends and your family
Eb G
To be fed with the fruit of your soul
Bb F
God’s able to give you a harvest
Bb C
That will meet one’s every need
F G Ab
But first you must break up your heart’s soil
Ab/F G7
And fill it with God’s fertile soil