the hebrew word Hosanna

7 They brought the colt to Jesus and put their coats on it; and He sat on it.
8 And many spread their coats on the road, and others spread leafy branches which they had cut from the fields.
9 Those who went in front and those who followed were shouting:"Hosanna! (E)BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD;
10 Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David;Hosanna (F)in the highest!"
(Mark 11: 7-10)

Brooke Fraser was talking about how the Holy Spirit led her in writing the song Hosanna in the most recent Hillsong- Saviour King album. Hymns relate very much to her.. Shes continued saying that the core of the song is that the scene where when Jesus entered the village on a donkey, and the people laying down the palm leaves and coats before him. The song talks about- "Hosanna" the "eternal cry of praise" which were shouted and sung by the people who went before Jesus, (ie. the prophets of old, the many people whom God had revealed His plan of sending the Messiah, the One that would be sent to save Israel and the world), even the generation of people before us AND the people who followed after who are the generations to come.. These all will praise the name of Jesus.

This is the whole song:

I see the King of Glory
Coming down in clouds with fire
The whole earth shakes, the whole earth shakes
I see His love and mercy
Washing over all our sins
The people sing, the people sing

Chorus:
Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna in the Highest!
Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna in the Highest!

I see a generation
Rising up to take their their place
With selfless faith, with selfless faith
I see a new revival
Stirring as we pray and seek
We're on our knees, we're on our knees

Many song writers have been going about this same line in many songs.. prophets have prophesised about the rising of this generation, taking up their places as armies in the Kingdom of God, soldiers who stand with God in the battle field, taking back the people into the Lord's family, these.... are people who are of selfless faith.. These are the people who followed after Jesus in Mark 11:9.

Bridge:
Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
show me how to love like You have loved me
Break my heart for what breaks Yours
Everything i am for Your Kingdom's cause
As i walk from earth into eternity

The bridge is very personal to me. As i asked God for revival in my cell group, for Him to do a great thing and move in the lives of my cell members, to teach them Himslef. I asked him to heal our hearts and make it clean before Him, to open up our eyes to the things of the Kingdom which we cannot see with our natural eyes, and show me how to love, like how He loved me.. and by this time. with tears streaming down.. ask Him to break our hearts, for everything wrong thing we did and horrible things that people do in this world that broke His. Giving my everything: time, money, petrol, family time, gifts and talents, strengths and weaknesses, everything i am for His Kingdom's cause...

It is a statement and a call- an eternal cry of praise that was sung by the generations years and years before us , and will continue to be sung by the rising generation till eternity.

This song has been speaking to me for months together. i was facinated by the significance of the meaning of the word "Hosanna" at first...Wikipedia states it as a Hebrew word meaning "Lord that saves" or "the Saviour God". God the Hero came to my rescue and saved me, from my sins.