Spirit on the Tools — The First One Filled Was a Craftsman

Spirit on the Tools | Sons of Thunder Gospel USA The first one filled with the Spirit… was a craftsman. Exodus 31. Before kings. Before warriors. Before the pulpit. God filled Bezalel with His Spirit — wisdom, understanding, knowledge, and skill — to build a house for His presence. Same Spirit. Same invitation. Shop floor. Highway. Board. Desk. Stage. The work of your hands can be holy ground. ▶ Southern Rock Gospel Words and Music by Christopher Lex Poteet Inspired by Exodus 31:1–5 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE WORD Exodus 31:1–5 The LORD filled Bezalel with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge, and with all kinds of skill — to make artistic designs, to work in gold, silver and bronze, to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in every kind of craft. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LYRICS VERSE 1 Moses came down off that mountain with fire God said “I already picked the man I require” No crown on his head, no sword in his hand Just a craftsman the Spirit had already planned Filled him with wisdom, with knowledge and skill Gold and the silver, the wood and the mill Every last stone and every last line So the glory of God would have somewhere to shine CHORUS He filled Bezalel with the Spirit of God Not just the pulpit — the work of his hands Holy Ghost fire on the hammer and saw Raising a house where His presence would stand Don’t have to happen behind stained-glass walls The Spirit still moves when the faithful one calls Spirit on the tools, fire in the plan God’s still filling craftsmen across this land VERSE 2 Same Spirit that hovered when the dark turned to light Rests on the wheel and the board and the night Music and business, the ride and the trade Ain’t no small thing when the Lord’s in the grade You don’t need a steeple to do holy work Just willing hands and a heart that won’t shirk The Tabernacle rose by a Spirit-filled man And that same power’s moving in the work of our hands CHORUS BRIDGE Wisdom and understanding, knowledge and might He still anoints what we do in the light Shop floor or highway, the stage or the desk Every good gift can be used for His best FINAL CHORUS He filled Bezalel with the Spirit of God Not just the pulpit — the work of our hands Holy Ghost fire on the hammer and saw Raising a house where His glory will stand Don’t have to happen behind stained-glass walls The Spirit still moves when the faithful one calls Spirit on the tools… fire in the plan… God’s still filling craftsmen All across this land ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ IF THIS BLESSED YOU Share it with a craftsman, a driver, a musician, a builder, a business owner — anybody whose “pulpit” is the work of their hands. Subscribe for more Sons of Thunder Gospel USA. AOTR — All Over The Road mzbcnc.org ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #SpiritOnTheTools #SonsOfThunderGospelUSA #AOTR #Bezalel #Exodus31 #SouthernRockGospel #WorkOfOurHands #HolyGhostFire #ChristianMusic #GospelRock #SoliDeoGloria © 2026 AOTR-AllOverTheRoad • Sons of Thunder Gospel USA All Rights Reserved. Words and Music by Christopher Lex Poteet Inspired by the Holy Scriptures Unauthorized reproduction, distribution, or commercial use without express written permission is prohibited. All glory, honor, and praise belong to Jesus Christ alone. “To God be the glory, great things He hath done!” Soli Deo Gloria