Love this song taken me through through those times. Still has the same effectiveness back then as right now. Love love the sweet anointing that spreads to reach the hearts and lives of people. Still touched by the love and inspiration of this song.
His ministry was incredible. Truly a gift to us from God. He wrote some of the most powerful Gospel music ever created in my opinion. Forever RIP Bishop Walter Hawkins.
Still listening in January 2021! Awesome song sung by the Hawkins Family! I’ve been listening to the later version sung at GE Patterson’s tribute with Shontelle Norman and Stefanie Bolton, and I’m so glad I finally discovered the original here!! Thank you Bishop Walter Hawkins! RIP
❤ yess carrying on this profoundly inspiring song in 2024 everyday and night . Our world is in peril this song keeps me inspired and gives me strength to go forward in Jesus name.❤❤
What a marvelous thing God did in Bishop Walter L. Hawkins. God stirred up the gifts in our pastor. I am thankful to God for loaning him to us for the time. My pray today as we give honor to whom honor is due on his birthday, that we move forward and remember what we've been taught. Put into action the messages he shared of Christ's love. Lord, Give Us Time.
I miss this era 1980's and 1990's. This era had a clear-cut message about Jesus. Bishop Hawkins and Edwin S Hawkins left a legacy of music to radiate throughout eternity. Play that organ!! Lady Tramaine and Lynette - beasts all by themselves.
The Legend I grew up with the Hawkins music they we're the best we will never get anything as great as this again I miss bishop Walter Hawkins and Edwin Hawkins true legends ❤❤
What ever it is, I'm just in a Walter Hawkins mood this rainy morrning. One of my all time Walter Hawkins songs. I believe this is the first time seeing this live version. Just WOW!
I'm glad I had the honor to meet him My pastor years ago right before he passed away he came to Arizona for a few days to dedicate our church he was our Bishop and my pastor took me with him to his funeral.iits to much to tell but I got a chance to meet Tramaine and Carlton Pearson and a lot of great gospel singers I will never forget it ❤❤❤
Walter is so smooth in his music. Nobody is directing anybody. Walter isn't making signals or getting overly sweaty. The singers are tight as well as the musicians. I hate to sound like I'm looking down on today's music but something is missing in Gospel music.
The first time I saw Love Center perform in person, they opened for the Winans at Center of Hope Church. I kept looking for a choir director but there wasn't one. From the organ, just a tilt of his head or a nod and that great choir was on que.
Forever Gospel RIP Bishop Walter Hawkins you live on through many......I love for sharing your talent with us and Lord thank you for using him to reach ME personally...
Wow.. Nostalgia at it's best.. I remember when this song was released..(the good ol days) loved it! Dude on the Hammond was Killin it! Who was he?? ..and Tremaine OMG!! One hot sexy-singing beautiful black woman.. love her!! .. and her very powerful unique voice. I can never get tired this song.. and if you can bear witness to the wordings of this song, that makes it all the more better!
I grew up in Chicago during the sixties listening to herb Kent on the radio. He would close each night with this song. What a blessing it is to still listen to this anointed song.
Younger hip hop kids could learn something about this! Yes this is how it was.. You were not in a modern day church (Night Club) setting. This was Holy Spirit filled Praise..
Truly amazing singers! His was a beautful instrument for Christ. No other voice like Walter Hawkins. He was by far my favorite gospel performer/singer. Still get happy every time I hear him sing! I grew up to the Hawkins Family, the Clark Sisters and Shirley Ceasar, true gospel legends. Anointed and truly blessed. RIP Bishop Walter Hawkins! Your music will live on forever!, a testimony in itself!
What is is this this is a throwback song for Walter Hawkins and I love that song and I wish you could be here today and you know sometimes we got the ground all to what they ain't going to be Yas love is gospel song
I was introduced to #walterhawkins music as a boy then my Mother Lillian Parks started singing with the Hawkins Singers in 1980 and sang on their Love Alive 4 project. She traveled with the Hawkins Singers and shared the stage with many other Gospel singers and I knew who they were and how amazing their voices were (I was and am a fan) #clark sisters #shirleycaeser #mightycloudsofjoy #darylcoley.
Rest in Peace my Christian Brother, Let our Lord take you in His Kingdom and bless you and allow you to sing your beautiful songs that He annointed you with.. God Bless you..........
Whether I'm going through something or not, I just have to give Jesus thanks as I awake, all throughtout my day, & before I go to sleep. This song & the annointed (Bishop Walter Hawkins & the wonderful singers) gives me hope that all is not lost , God has the final say, & the Devil can & will be defeated. This song brings a calmness to my heart, & a relief over my soul. I love this song. may God bless Bishop Hawkins & his family. Amen.
my ,my,my. what an anoiting and moving sing. what a gift that we had in our mist. Bishop Hawkins your music ministry will continue to move people and bring them into the kingdom of God.all of these song are bringing back wonderful memories of my teen years. thanks and may you ,R.I.P. love,peace and joy. i pray that God will bring peace of mind and joy to your family.
Feeling thankful tonight for a lot of things, including those that are mentioned in this song by Walter Hawkins and the Hawkins Family. I saw them perform this song and the entire album that’s titled “The Hawkins Family” during a concert in West Virginia in the fall of 1981. What a blessing *that* was! I found out about this concert through members of the Shiloh Baptist Church choir. I was part of that choir and attended that church during the year I lived and worked in/near Charleston, WV. They even convinced me to lead a song once. *Once*…
I miss Walter Hawkins! But, I'm glad that he has overcome this world. I thank God for using him to minister to the world. I'm glad Walter's music is here for all time. I pray every generation will experience it and be blessed by it. 15nov17
i believe when a artist has a moment like this where the song touches your heart...it is the father speaking to the us..I love this song just like it was new
All of the Hawkins singers are talented, but when you look at Tramaine, in the back or on lead...very few singers that touch your spirit..that i her. I heard this when i was out in the world and i remember hearing her stirred something in me, later i found that is was the God speaking throughher voice....we need more of that today.
A gem of a song from Walter Hawkins RIP. As we note his passing, we are reminded we give thanks for his legacy, his life and music that touched all of us and will live on via all the vehicles of communication that we have today. AMEN AMEN.
R.I.P. Walter Hawkins! You brought some of the best and most inspiring gospel ever. You were modern and innovative,, but traditional and 'churchy' at the same time. Thank you!!!
This is one of my favorite gospel songs. This is a clear illustration of the struggle with black people trying to separate their sensual and spiritual lives. In our original spirituality, before being colonized, we didn't separate the two. We didn't "know" being naked was sinful/shameful because we were not aware of the Jewish scripture (i.e. Genesis, original sin) It is a long complex story, but, Whatever It Is, hopefully we will figure it out.
Thank you Lord for your blessings and your mercy!! This is the music that picks you up and helps you deal with life's troubles. I can feel this in my core Jesus!!!
The best Gospel Music IMHO was from the late 70's starting with Andre Crouch, the Hawkins Family, the Clark Sisters, the Winans Family, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Commissioned, Witness, Yolanda Adams and it ended with Fred Hammond as a solo artist. I wouldn't walk across the street to hear much more than these that I just named. No, not even for FREE. Just a few more people happened to slip through the crack such as; Tonex, Kim Burrell, Donnie McClurkin Kikki and LeAndria Johnson who IS the best thing to happen in Gospel since the early 2000's when Kim & Donnie showed up.
The Hawkins family will always be my favorite Gospel Singing family until death takes me away. I have followed them for soooooo long and will continue to do so.
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Still listening to this in 2024❤
Me too 👏 ...
tramaine hawkins has one of the richest voices ever. it's so beautiful.
I totally agree.
And I agree with you both.
Out of all gospel singing virtuosos, she is my absolute fav!!!!💖🖤
Yes!!
She always used the voice to God's glory, could have went into secular music.
HIS MUSIC WILL ALWAYS BE "TIMELESS".
Brings back my Sunday mornings listening to the radio as a teenager… great timeless music 👏👏👏
Walter Hawkins, Lynette Hawkins Stephens, Tramaine Hawkins and Edwin Hawkins are the most richest Purest Gospel voices in Gospel History
I agree Walter, Edwin, Tramaine, Lynette best gospel voices to me until this day. Natural gifted voices
After all this time, Bishop Hawkins is still relevant!
This song puts a HUGE smile on my face.
My god! Walter had some serious vocals.
Love this song taken me through through those times. Still has the same effectiveness back then as right now. Love love the sweet anointing that spreads to reach the hearts and lives of people. Still touched by the love and inspiration of this song.
Yes, the man was bad. He's one of a kind.
What is this(HOLY SPIRIT)...makes me want to RUN ON IN JESUS NAME; HALLELUJAH 😇💃🏾🦁❤🤣🤗!!!
Amen I to love his music.
His ministry was incredible. Truly a gift to us from God. He wrote some of the most powerful Gospel music ever created in my opinion. Forever RIP Bishop Walter Hawkins.
I was so privileged to meet Walter Hawkins once and to tell him how much his music meant to me. Rest in peace, Angel Walter.
This just doesn't get old....which indicates to me just how inspired by Him this must be. Makes me want to shout about it!
I'm here in 2023 🙂
I'm here in 2024
Listen to this song daily.
We need more songs like this. No show or fashion just loving on God. :-)
amen
That's not say they must look shabby to fit our religious obligations....
Will never get old.
Nope listening in 2020
Walter was an absolute musical genius! He totally inspired my life.
i listen to this song over and over, 30 years after this was recorded.
Still listening in January 2021! Awesome song sung by the Hawkins Family! I’ve been listening to the later version sung at GE Patterson’s tribute with Shontelle Norman and Stefanie Bolton, and I’m so glad I finally discovered the original here!! Thank you Bishop Walter Hawkins! RIP
Listening 6/7/2022: Aloha from Hawaii👍🏾 Maranatha!!! RAPTURE READY2022
January 2023
Maranatha
❤ yess carrying on this profoundly inspiring song in 2024 everyday and night . Our world is in peril this song keeps me inspired and gives me strength to go forward in Jesus name.❤❤
This song always makes me cry... Why I don't know, but I just love how it ministers to me... Thank God for Bishop Hawkins... RIP Man of God!
REMEMBERING WALTER HAWKINS (MAY 18, 1949 - JULY 11, 2010 [07/11/2015]
I love this song I can listen to this all day and on some days I do
What a marvelous thing God did in Bishop Walter L. Hawkins. God stirred up the gifts in our pastor. I am thankful to God for loaning him to us for the time. My pray today as we give honor to whom honor is due on his birthday, that we move forward and remember what we've been taught. Put into action the messages he shared of Christ's love. Lord, Give Us Time.
REGAL, CLASS, DIGNITY, STYLE & SOPHISTICATION at it's Best!!
I miss this era 1980's and 1990's. This era had a clear-cut message about Jesus. Bishop Hawkins and Edwin S Hawkins left a legacy of music to radiate
throughout eternity. Play that organ!! Lady Tramaine and Lynette - beasts all by themselves.
Is some is absolutely timeless.
I know what it is
It makes me fill soooooo
Good on the inside it is Jesus !!!!!
That makes me happy
Lord Have Mercy !!!!
The Legend I grew up with the Hawkins music they we're the best we will never get anything as great as this again I miss bishop Walter Hawkins and Edwin Hawkins true legends ❤❤
What ever it is, I'm just in a Walter Hawkins mood this rainy morrning. One of my all time Walter Hawkins songs. I believe this is the first time seeing this live version. Just WOW!
I am too. Started with "Hold on old soldier " and now I can't stop...👏
sounds like Sunday morning!!
My absolute FAVORITE Hawkins song!!!! The singing,the harmony,music, lyrics everything just incredible!!!
Reminds me of waking up Sunday mornings getting ready for church and my jamming this I miss those days
JESUS... Please God take us back to this type of Gospel music. It had a stronger message. #Timeless
+Entertainment Lust No problem. This song really took me back to when gospel music was this sweet.
Not just sweet,bu actually had meaning. You wanted to do right! Thank both of you!!!
you all have validated points,,todays gospel is strange sounds and strange dancing
Karress Yvette amen
hahahahahahahahahahahah
Pure anointing and pure vocal excellence. None better
I'm glad I had the honor to meet him My pastor years ago right before he passed away he came to Arizona for a few days to dedicate our church he was our Bishop and my pastor took me with him to his funeral.iits to much to tell but I got a chance to meet Tramaine and Carlton Pearson and a lot of great gospel singers I will never forget it ❤❤❤
When you have a personal relationship with GOD you understand the song completely
He has a very beautiful voice.
Walter is so smooth in his music. Nobody is directing anybody. Walter isn't making signals or getting overly sweaty. The singers are tight as well as the musicians. I hate to sound like I'm looking down on today's music but something is missing in Gospel music.
The first time I saw Love Center perform in person, they opened for the Winans at Center of Hope Church.
I kept looking for a choir director but there wasn't one. From the organ, just a tilt of his head or a nod and that great choir was on que.
It's the real instruments not the new Age technology instrument the realness of that makes the singer sang a little bit harder too me
Ahhhh! So classy! There is none like the Hawkins Singers!
Forever Gospel RIP Bishop Walter Hawkins you live on through many......I love for sharing your talent with us and Lord thank you for using him to reach ME personally...
one of the greatest gospel songs
The whole entire family can sannng!
This song gets me threw the day its deep inside me oh how I LOVE GOD
The whole family have a great voice and Bishop Walter sang until he couldn't anymore, he's singing in heaven.
This was my mother's jam!!!! God rest her soul, I came to ters hearing this thinking about my precious mother
This one was written by Edwin Hawkins. We lost him today at 74. Both brothers are resting in Heaven now. What a legacy!
All time favorite remember singing this song in church as a kid back in the chi
Wow.. Nostalgia at it's best.. I remember when this song was released..(the good ol days) loved it! Dude on the Hammond was Killin it! Who was he?? ..and Tremaine OMG!! One hot sexy-singing beautiful black woman.. love her!! .. and her very powerful unique voice. I can never get tired this song.. and if you can bear witness to the wordings of this song, that makes it all the more better!
Daniel Hawkins on that organ!
Real Gospel Music and anointed vessel of God, Bishop Walter Hawkins and Hawkins Singers,
Praise THE LORD!!! HALLELUJAH! HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH
Timeless classic
2022 in the house. Definitely a top 10 gospel hit for me. Hallelujah!! 🙌🏽🎶😌
The song is so awesomely beautiful
I grew up in Chicago during the sixties listening to herb Kent on the radio. He would close each night with this song. What a blessing it is to still listen to this anointed song.
sorry but Herb Kent closed with the song by the Gospel Clefs.....Open Our Eyes
+Cecelia Dardon open our eyes wow!! classic too
Man listen to Daniel on that organ. Man I love the concerts we opened up with them back in the day.
LOVE LOVE LOVE this song! I loved Tramaine's adlibs along with Walter at the end. Hawkins singers #GOSPELGOATS
This was a truly magical time. I feel it was when the guard began to change.
Younger hip hop kids could learn something about this! Yes this is how it was.. You were not in a modern day church (Night Club) setting. This was Holy Spirit filled Praise..
Sing y'all, wow, takes me back. Sing Tramine!!
When I'm down low, He gives me a Song.
Love and grace is with this man.
To me the Hawkins Family will always be the First Family of Gospel. Love this. So beautiful.
I praise The Lord for his worthy servant.
Truly amazing singers! His was a beautful instrument for Christ. No other voice like Walter Hawkins. He was by far my favorite gospel performer/singer. Still get happy every time I hear him sing! I grew up to the Hawkins Family, the Clark Sisters and Shirley Ceasar, true gospel legends. Anointed and truly blessed. RIP Bishop Walter Hawkins! Your music will live on forever!, a testimony in itself!
old school gospel.. its nothing like it.. I miss this type of gospel.. gospel music is what created all music..
"whoever it is" on that organ is whippin it!
Rev. Hawkins brother
What is is this this is a throwback song for Walter Hawkins and I love that song and I wish you could be here today and you know sometimes we got the ground all to what they ain't going to be Yas love is gospel song
I was introduced to #walterhawkins music as a boy then my Mother Lillian Parks started singing with the Hawkins Singers in 1980 and sang on their Love Alive 4 project. She traveled with the Hawkins Singers and shared the stage with many other Gospel singers and I knew who they were and how amazing their voices were (I was and am a fan) #clark sisters #shirleycaeser #mightycloudsofjoy #darylcoley.
Rest in Peace my Christian Brother, Let our Lord take you in His Kingdom and bless you and allow you to sing your beautiful songs that He annointed you with.. God Bless you..........
Whether I'm going through something or not, I just have to give Jesus thanks as I awake, all throughtout my day, & before I go to sleep. This song & the annointed (Bishop Walter Hawkins & the wonderful singers) gives me hope that all is not lost , God has the final say, & the Devil can & will be defeated. This song brings a calmness to my heart, & a relief over my soul. I love this song. may God bless Bishop Hawkins & his family. Amen.
What is this is one of my favorite songs. Walter Hawkins and the Love Alive Choir did a fantastic job! R.I.H.Walter Hawkins. Gone but never forgotten.
The song whatever it is by Walter Hawkins is so amazing when I here him singhis song it's keeps me out of trouble when it comes to people
He is definitely one of my favorite gospel singers. Favorite male gospel singer for sure!
my ,my,my. what an anoiting and moving sing. what a gift that we had in our mist. Bishop Hawkins your music ministry will continue to move people and bring them into the kingdom of God.all of these song are bringing back wonderful memories of my teen years. thanks and may you ,R.I.P. love,peace and joy. i pray that God will bring peace of mind and joy to your family.
Thank you Jesus!!! This feeling I have is deep down inside of me!
What a song. Uplifting and spiritual. Never hold you peace.
Hard to believe only 500,000 thousand views of this...I must account for 100,000 of them myself. Love this song!!!
truly what Gospel Music is all about!!!!
They had some real chemistry back in the day. What a blessing to so many.
Feeling thankful tonight for a lot of things, including those that are mentioned in this song by Walter Hawkins and the Hawkins Family. I saw them perform this song and the entire album that’s titled “The Hawkins Family” during a concert in West Virginia in the fall of 1981. What a blessing *that* was! I found out about this concert through members of the Shiloh Baptist Church choir. I was part of that choir and attended that church during the year I lived and worked in/near Charleston, WV. They even convinced me to lead a song once. *Once*…
Anointed voices, full of God's harmonies.
AND IT WONT LET ME BE ASHAMED TO TELL THE WORLD IVE BEEN BORN AGAIN!!!
LOVE IT...I WANNA SHOUT ABOUT IT;-)
I miss Walter Hawkins! But, I'm glad that he has overcome this world. I thank God for using him to minister to the world. I'm glad Walter's music is here for all time. I pray every generation will experience it and be blessed by it. 15nov17
My grandmother approved -- truly a testament to the value of this music! Still causes me to simply sit and listen for the message.
This song gives me joy,joy,joy thank you God.
This song is so true to my soul!!!!!! Love you always, Walter Hawkins
i believe when a artist has a moment like this where the song touches your heart...it is the father speaking to the us..I love this song just like it was new
All of the Hawkins singers are talented, but when you look at Tramaine, in the back or on lead...very few singers that touch your spirit..that i her. I heard this when i was out in the world and i remember hearing her stirred something in me, later i found that is was the God speaking throughher voice....we need more of that today.
We miss you Bishop!
A gem of a song from Walter Hawkins RIP. As we note his passing, we are reminded we give thanks for his legacy, his life and music that touched all of us and will live on via all the vehicles of communication that we have today. AMEN AMEN.
R.I.P. Walter Hawkins! You brought some of the best and most inspiring gospel ever. You were modern and innovative,, but traditional and 'churchy' at the same time. Thank you!!!
The great Walter Hawkins
yes... he put in much work for the children of GOD! I must also work while it is still day....one love saints.....
This is one of my favorite gospel songs. This is a clear illustration of the struggle with black people trying to separate their sensual and spiritual lives. In our original spirituality, before being colonized, we didn't separate the two. We didn't "know" being naked was sinful/shameful because we were not aware of the Jewish scripture (i.e. Genesis, original sin) It is a long complex story, but, Whatever It Is, hopefully we will figure it out.
CLASSIC!! Yeeeesssss Lord....smh....can't get enough of the gospel classics...Hawkins Family right at the top
What a gift from God!!!!
R.I.P this was my stepfather favorite song
Thank you Lord for your blessings and your mercy!! This is the music that picks you up and helps you deal with life's troubles. I can feel this in my core Jesus!!!
This was my song back in the day, Donnie McClurkin use to sing this with his group in N.Y. a lot before he was known
The best Gospel Music IMHO was from the late 70's starting with Andre Crouch, the Hawkins Family, the Clark Sisters, the Winans Family, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Commissioned, Witness, Yolanda Adams and it ended with Fred Hammond as a solo artist. I wouldn't walk across the street to hear much more than these that I just named. No, not even for FREE. Just a few more people happened to slip through the crack such as; Tonex, Kim Burrell, Donnie McClurkin Kikki and LeAndria Johnson who IS the best thing to happen in Gospel since the early 2000's when Kim & Donnie showed up.
The Hawkins family will always be my favorite Gospel Singing family until death takes me away. I have followed them for soooooo long and will continue to do so.
I luv Walter Hawkins & his family !!!