There's a Hopson Family version of "Hand of God" in WFMU Sinner's Crossroads archived show of Oct 20 2005, and (also at WFMU), a Witchman ("artist") song "Hand of God" from their Heavy Traffic album on The Push Bin with Lou, Nov 27, 2004 show.

The Hopsons recorded for the Jewel label, but this one is on the HSC label (HSE?) that also recorded them, from the 60's-70's. It starts:

REFRAIN:
I say the hand of God is leading me,
Hand of God is leading me.
Everywhere I go, wherever I may be,
I see the Hand of God is leading me.


I'll transcribe more from it later. It has verses retelling Bible stories (such as Daniel in the lion's den), when the hand of God was leading whoever is in the story. The Mahalia verse above might be one of the verses they're singing. It will be interesting to hear if they are relatively the same tune. Anyway, this is about 35 minutes into the archived 1-hour show. The DJ has a few words about it before the song starts.

IMO the Witchman piece is hardly music at all, but the short piece of "text" from it I listened to comes at about 3 hours and 14 minutes in. I recorded about a minute; I did not listen long enough to determine whether I was at the end or the start of the "song." They seem to be ranting, "Can't you see the Hand of God?" Or maybe "I can see..." Man, that is some UGLY stuff.

~Susan