Gratitude

Siyabulela

I know that

I promised you verses

It had to be true verses

Not just written on any day

I had to wait for a day

Where a way

Had been made for my heart to be able to say

Without a single hint of ingratitude

Siyabulela

You see gratitude

Is not an attitude

Found in the pit of hell

Gratitude

Is what set apart the one leper

From the other nine lepers Jesus healed

Gratitude

Is what multiplied the loaves and the fishes

Gratitude is what fed the five thousand and the four thousand

Siyabulela

I could not just write you verses

I had to wait for a day

Where my heart was overflowing with gratitude

Gratitude is an attitude of heaven

My heart had to be sanctified

My thoughts had to be rectified

My language had to be a mirror of heaven

Do you know

That gratitude

Attracts

Angelic attention

When they see it

When they hear it

They position themselves

To multiply loaves and fishes

This is why I had to wait for my heart to be true

It opens the gates of heaven

It opens the very gates of God’s heart

How then can impurity be found

In my heart

When I say

Siyabulela

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*Siyabulela is a Xhosa word that means "We are grateful". It is also used as a name.
Xhosa is a South African language spoken in the Eastern Cape, also Mandela's mother tongue and many other amazing heroes,