LEAH, DID YOU KNOW? (Original Music Video)
Credits: Dede Laugesen and Oleg Atbashian
This song is dedicated to Leah Sharibu, who at 14 on February 19, 2018, was abducted at a science and technology school for girls in the town of Dapchi, in Yobe State, Nigeria, with 109 other students, five of whom died on the way to the terrorist hideout.
Leah repeatedly stared down the terrorists and refused to renounce her Christian faith.
Friends, held in captivity with Leah, said that every time the terrorists with their guns demanded, “Who here is a Christian?” Leah’s arm would shoot up even as her peers tried to force it down.
A month later, all the living captives were released save Leah.
Leah was kept as “a slave for life” because of her Christian faith, while the other young captives were released due to government negotiations with ISWAP. The terrorists said, “Based on our doctrines, it is now lawful for us to do whatever we want to do with her.”
She’s still held today, is reportedly married off to an ISWAP commander, and is being forced to bear him children.
Accounts of her fearless faith have encouraged millions of Christians facing extreme persecution.
Save the Persecuted Christians, along with Hon. Frank R. Wolf and ICON, brought Leah’s mom, Rebecca, to Washington, DC, to plead for her rescue.
Many human rights advocates believe the Nigerian government knows where Leah is kept but has not moved to rescue her.
Leah is one of thousands of Christian women and girls held hostage in camps, sold as slaves, or forcibly “married” to jihadists.
Please pray for her rescue as we seek to help her come home again!
Share this song to keep her story alive.
LEAH, DID YOU KNOW?
Leah, did you know
That your faith in Christ would cost you earthly freedom?
Leah, did you know
That your faith in Christ would anger men of darkness?
Did you know,
When you raised your hand and said, “I am a Christian,”
That this faith you hold would be your deliverance?
Leah, did you know
Leah, did you know?
Leah, did you know
That your faith in Christ is leaven in the masses?
Leah, did you know
That your faith in Christ is known across the nations?
Did you know
That your quiet “yes” has strengthened millions?
And when you
Lay your head down to sleep,
You rest a child of God—
Leah, did you know?
The blind will see,
The deaf will hear,
And the captive will be free again.
The lame will leap,
The child will speak
The praises of the Lamb.
Leah, did you know
Leah, did you know
That your faith in Christ is now a witness?
Leah, did you know
That your faith in Christ could help awaken Nigeria?
Did you know
That your steadfast hope is moving many leaders?
This persevering faith you’re showing
Flows from the Great I AM.
Oh, Leah, did you know?
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CHORDS
Intro:
F / Am / Bb /
Dm
Verse:
F / Am / Bb /
F / G /
Dm / Bb /
F / C /
Chorus:
F / C / Dm / Bb /
Bridge:
F / C / Dm / Bb /