1. When you pray but cannot get your answer through,
    When you get discouraged, know not what to do;
    Cease to beg and plead – but hallelujahs raise,
    Then you’ll rise on wings of praise.

                    CHORUS

    If you rise and soar in the sunlight rays,
    Making use of both the wings of prayer and praise,
    Sure to mount like eagles, higher in the sky,
    Things look different when you fly.

2. Many baffled birds in vain will wave one wing,
    Drooping prayers they pray, but rarely shout and sing;
    Round and round these earthbound birds go in a maze,
    Stretching not the wings of praise.

3. Some neglect to pray and only shout around,
    Like the beaten brass or cymbal so they sound;
    They too tread a circle and will never share,
    Larger life of praise and prayer.

4. On the ground, the view restricted, in the way,
    Stand a hundred hindrances that will dismay;
    There you fret and fuss and flurry; go up high!
    Vision changes as you fly.

5. Exercise your faith, O Christian – pray and praise,
    We shall have the best revivals these last days!
    Glide aloft and spread the message glad and strong,
    Angels cannot spread this song.