Ada Ehi - The Word is Working Lyrics

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Ada Ehi - THE WORD IS WORKING refreshed (The Official Video)

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My clothes still smell like the pig pen. I’m not kidding—there’s a lingering, sour funk that doesn't just wash off with a single dip in the river. I spent so long running, burning bridges, and betting on things that turned to ash in my hands, that I forgot what it felt like to be clean. People around here talk about "transformation" like it’s a quick rinse, but for me, it feels more like surgery. It’s messy.

When I hear Ada Ehi singing, "The word is working on the inside / Flowing through the outside / Making me over," I don’t hear a catchy hook. I hear a terrifying promise.

"Making me over" is a hard pill for someone like me to swallow. It implies that the thing I spent years building—my self-made, disaster-ridden identity—has to be dismantled. It’s like when Paul wrote to the church in Corinth about being a new creation. He didn't say it was a gentle evolution. He said the old is gone. Gone. It’s dead. That’s a violent thought when you’ve spent so much time clutching your own history, even the ugly parts, because it’s the only thing you know.

The song says, "The limitations are broken."

I spent a lot of time behind walls I built myself. Fear of being seen, fear of going back to the trough, fear that the Father wouldn’t actually keep the door unlocked. These walls weren't just stones; they were the habits I picked up in the mud. To hear that they’re broken—not by me, but by this Word working its way through my marrow—is disorienting. I didn't break them. I was busy trying to patch the cracks.

There’s a tension in this for me. I look at my hands, and I see the dirt. I see the mistakes I haven't quite figured out how to fix. But then the music hits, and it’s insistent. It doesn’t ask if I’m ready. It doesn’t wait for me to scrub the smell of the smoke out of my hair. It just pushes.

It makes me think of Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones. Those bones didn’t ask to be put back together. They were just rattling around in the dust, hopeless, forgotten. Then the Word was spoken, and there was a noise—a sound of rushing, of shifting. They didn't put themselves together; they were compelled into life by something outside of their own capability.

That’s where I am. I’m still standing in the ruins of who I was, waiting for the rest of me to catch up to the grace I’ve been handed. I don't know if I'm "fixed" yet. I don't know if I'm fully whole. But there is a pulse under my skin that wasn’t there before. Something is working, even when I’m still trying to find my footing. It’s not smooth, it’s not comfortable, but it’s realer than anything I’ve ever tasted. I guess I’ll keep listening to the noise of the bones coming together and hope I don't look back at the mud.