We declare your majesty

Authors:
Themes:
Scriptures:
  • Exodus 15:1-2
  • Exodus 15:18
  • Deuteronomy 32:3-43
  • 1 Chronicles 29:11
  • Psalms 145:5
  • Psalms 46:10
  • Psalms 81:1-2
  • Psalms 89:9
  • Psalms 95:6
  • Micah 5:4
  • Jude 25
Book Number:
  • 201

We declare your majesty,
we proclaim that your name is exalted;
for you reign magnificently,
rule victoriously
and your power is shown throughout the earth.
And we exclaim our God is mighty,
lift up your name for you are holy.
Sing it again, all honour and glory,
in adoration we bow before your throne.

© 1984 Kingsway's Thankyou Music
Malcolm Du Plessis

Approaching God - Adoration and Thanksgiving

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Tune

The story behind the hymn

A further short item, drawing on snatches of NT text, comes from Malcolm du Plessis in the early 1980s. The du Plessis family were prominent in the early 20th-c ‘classic’ pentecostal movement; this, the most popular of Malcolm du Plessis’ songs, entered MP in 1987. The tune WE DECLARE YOUR MAJESTY is by the author and is inseparable from the words.

A look at the author

Plessis, Malcolm du

b Durban, S Africa 1956, to an English-speaking mother and an Afrikaans-speaking father. Members of the du Plessis family were prominent in the early 20th-c years of Pentecostalism in the USA, but in 1976 Malcolm was converted ‘by accident’ as he tried to counsel a Christian friend ‘out of his faith’! As a late 20th-c member of the global clan, Malcolm has worked with ‘Worship Together’, Promise Keepers and the Maranatha Singers, and at various times with Graham Kendrick and Steve McEwan (qv). But as the founder of ‘Friends First’, one of his most significant moments came in 1986, when he launched their song ‘We see a new Africa’. He sees this as prophetic of the imminent ending of apartheid, demonstrating how black, brown and white Christians can belong and work together. He has continued in that witnessing, reconciling and song-writing ministry. No.201.