Can’t be anything wrong with this song, I mean Elvis Presley sang it. {sarcasm}
Have A Little Talk With Jesus
I once was lost in sin but Jesus took me in
Well then a little light from heaven healed my soul
Well, he bathed my heart in love, and wrote my name above
Well just a little talk with my Jesus gonna make it rightWe’ll just have a little talk with Jesus
Were gonna tell him all about our troubles
He will hear our fainted cry
He will answer by and by
Oh well, when you feel a little prayer wheel turning
And you will know a little fire is burnin’
You will find a little talk with Jesus makes it rightYou may have doubts and fears
Your eye be filled with tears
Oh well my Jesus is a friend who watches day and night
Well he wrote my name above, and he bathed my heart in love
Oh well just a little talk with my Jesus gonna make it rightLet us have a little talk with my Jesus
Please let us tell him all about our troubles
He will hear our faintest cry
He will answer by and by
Now when you feel a little prayer wheel turning
You’ll know just a little fire is burnin’
And have a little talk with my Jesus gonna make it rightWell you may have doubts and fears
Your eye be filled with tears
Oh well now my Jesus is a friend who watches day and night
Well you go to him in prayer
He answers my every prayer
Oh well just a little talk with my Jesus gonna make it right
Now let us have a little talk with my Jesus
Tell him all about our troubles
He will hear our faintest cry
And I know hes gonna answer by and by
Now when you feel a little prayer wheel turning
You’ll know a little fire is burnin’
And have a little talk with my Jesus gonna make it right
Make it right
There is so much wrong with this song but here is something most people don’t notice.
“when you feel a little prayer wheel turning”
Do you know what that is talking about?
“You’ll know a little fire is burnin’”
I’m amazed that people don’t wonder about those phrases.
The concept of the prayer wheel is a physical manifestation of the phrase “turning the wheel of Dharma,” which describes the way in which the Buddha taught….
Fire Prayer Wheel - This wheel is turned by the heat of a candle or electric light. The light emitted from the prayer wheel then purifies the negative karmas of the living beings it touches.
Think there is a problem here !?!
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Tags: Bad Gospel Songs, Bad Hymns, Hymns, Music, Prayer Wheels
Can’t remember if I have heard of a prayer wheel or not, but the phrase itself doesn’t even sound right.
Elvis sang it? Good enough reason not to.
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Berean Wife Reply:
July 29th, 2010 at 6:25 am
Dora,
I wonder why people don’t check out a phrase or find out what something means. Now granted our grandparents would have had a harder time researching something but even my grandparents who had little money had an encyclopedia set. Me, I tend to question or at least check into new phrases or words.
Berean Wife
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I agree about checking out the theology of songs. I had supposed the “prayer wheel” comment was about an actual wheel used in prayer and wondered if it was Catholic. I’ve heard the lyrics changed to “when you feel a prayer returning.” Wonder if that was the original line and it got changed to “prayer wheel turning?” If you know a little fire is burning could refer to a fire of devotion in our heart.
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Berean Wife Reply:
August 8th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Mr. Watkins,
All the versions of “Have A Little Talk with Jesus” songs I found have the phrase:
“Oh well, when you feel a little prayer wheel turning
And you will know a little fire is burnin’”
Although I’m sure some could have tried to change the song at times there was no obvious version with “a prayer returning”.
The link online, Prayer Wheel, shows pictures of the prayer wheels with a flame burning beneath to get the wheel to turn. That way they could “pray” without actually expending any effort.
I find it very interesting to reevaluate what we’ve always heard and see it it is true according to Scripture.
Berean Wife
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look deeper this song written by african american pastor and the era of the song has more reference to slaves of the south and non-at all to buddist,,,check out the man’s family interpretation before jumping the gun…this is how books get burned and people get pursecuted…talk about misjudged.
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Berean Wife Reply:
August 26th, 2010 at 9:14 am
Anonymous,
You can defend the song all you want but the point is that it is not Scriptural. Give me a verse from the Bible that mentions “prayer wheels”. Prayer wheels, with a flame below to make them turn, is a Buddhist concept. I included a link in the post so you could read about it. If slaves in the south were using prayer wheels that still does not make it right. We Protestants wouldn’t say a little rosary turning would we? It doesn’t matter whether the author is Caucasian, Native American, or African American there is no reason to use unscriptural concepts in singing and worshiping the Lord especially those that refer to pagan religions. This author was not some illiterate who used terms haphazardly. He was college educated in music and theology.
Berean Wife
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