Youths For Christ - Uliyotenda Baba Uliyotenda Tenda Sasa Lyrics

"Uliyotenda Baba, Uliyotenda Tenda Sasa" ("What You Did, Father, Do It Now") repeats a single request throughout, asking God to repeat past action in the present moment rather than treating former deeds as finished history. That repeated structure frames the entire song around continuity between remembered faithfulness and hoped-for renewal.

Its closing section names a series of specific divine titles, Emmanuel, Ebenezer, El Shaddai, Adonai, each addressed directly with the same short command to act. That accumulation of names, drawn from different biblical contexts describing God's presence, provision, and authority, ties the song's central request to the full range of what those titles represent.

Sung in Swahili within East African worship tradition, the song functions as a brief, repeated prayer for renewed divine action, its structure allowing corporate worship to move through God's remembered names while asking that each aspect of his character be demonstrated again in the present.