Higher Love

There is a higher love
There is a deeper joy
Right here at our fingertips
Open our eyes, God
Show us the life we can have
The life you can touch
Need to feel how it is to dance in the rain
Need to know how it feels not to be in pain
Wanna shout out your name and feel the devotion
Course through me in a flood of tears
'Cause, oh, to feel the joy
Just dancing- just praising
Not caring, just daring to hope
Rekindle the joy that used to burn
Renew the hope that hangs by a thread
Reignite the passion that lies untouched
Help me forget about the world
Grant us grace, whisper peace
Not caring- just daring to hope
I'm gonna reach for the higher love
I'm gonna dive for the deeper joy
So let us pray...

Extraordinary

Help me find the answers
Let me ask the questions
Show me truth
Take me through
Teach me how to stand.
I’m not the shell they think they see
I’m not the one I hoped to be
The glass reflects my image
I’m no angel, can’t they see?
All I am is just me.
My life is reckless
My heart - it proves restless
I can’t settle in one place no more
Gotta keep movin’ on.
Can anyone hear me
In all this silence -
Through this mess that’s in my head?
Can anyone tell me
I’m not what they say?
Someone, please step up.
I hear the voices in the chorus
Chanting truth
Hoping it breaks through.
But I close my ears to the noise
And fall to my knees
Cause I just don’t know.
Brother, I’ll be the one
To step up for you.
I’m there in the chorus of voices.
I hear you - I’ll catch you.
I’ll show you truth
And take you through
And let Him teach you
How to stand.

I Don't Know Which Way Is Up

Hear me calling
Watch me falling
Lift Your gaze
Upon my face.
I can’t keep going
Or lift my head.
It’s just too hard
To endure everything.
Let me go
Or tell me truly
That You love me.
Mean what You say.
Tears are flowing
Life is going on.
I just don’t know
Which way is up.

Refinement

Oh, the Lord
God of all
Help me make it
Help me fall.
I can’t stop it
I need You now.
I can’t deny it,
I’m drowning.

Catch Me

Can You hear the children praying -
Falling on their knees
Before Your throne of grace?
Do You see them dying -
Falling to Your arms
Because they won’t back down?
Will You catch the tears
We’re crying
For the fallen ones…

Realize

I hear the voices
In the chorus
Chanting Truth
Hoping it gets through
And yet I close
My ears
To the noise.
I hide my eyes
From the glare.
I still don’t understand….
How can it be real?
How can it be…

Desire

I need to want You
But I don’t know
How to climb up to You
Just to fall before You
And break apart.
Chance beckons
Through impossibility,
Calling me to come
Telling me to fall,
To shed everything
Holding me back.
The only hindrance that remains
Is my fear of failure
And lingering regret.
Take me up, O Lord
Break me down, my Savior
Hold me close forever.
God, I just need to want You
Please, Jesus, light that fire!

Obedience

No choice to make
I know what’s true
I just can’t seem
To struggle through
All this pain
And endless doubt
Trying to shake
Satan out
Just livin’ like
A sinner
Only prayer can
Make me better
Strengthen my
Desire
Come and
Light my fire

Faith Undone

When darkness hangs over
The life we think we know
Sometimes, it seems inadequate
To take us through.
Keep us safe, give us peace,
Unleash the grace that holds us captive.
Come and show us, take us in,
Hold us to You.

To Be Free

Walking through each day alone
I feel the weight of chains
Upon me.
People won’t look deeper than
The surface of my heart,
They don’t see
What I carry underneath -
The fractured heart, the pain -
This can’t be…
I see it; I am breathless.
His hand reaches for me
And I fall.
Blood He shed upon the cross
Descends to my shackles
Through it all…
That’s everything, my friend
Let’s embrace truth again
To be free!

Without Walls

I can’t understand
How Your love is so pure -
So unconditional.
Here, I live, and the world
Screams the stipulations
From the highest peak -
They echo in the darkest valley.
The word “if” clings like
A veil blinding us
To the truth of love -
Of Your love.
So when I slip
I want to hide.
But I’m going on
I’m staying in
Shedding this conditionality
For limitless love.

Been Here Before

I’ve been here before
Somehow, my mind tells me.
This place is familiar
The truth has escaped.
“It’s okay, I’ll walk with you,”
A voice says - it sounds sure
But it leads you astray
Down a path you ignore.
As long as someone’s here
Holding my hand,
I’ll walk anywhere,
Even sink in the sand.
I’ve been here before.
Yes, I’ve been here before.
So let Him lift you up
Let Him take you in
He sees all you carry
You’ll be back again.
He’ll show you truth
You’ll see the light
I promise you
It’ll turn out right.
You’re not alone
He’ll walk beside you
Deep inside you
I know you’re there.
Let surrender take you over
Forgiveness is here for you.
Holiness is waiting…
Jesus Christ is waiting.
You are not alone
Because I’ve been here before.
I’ll walk with you,
Yes, I’ve been here before.

Silent Cries

So much lies within me,
Untouched by the flame
Of passion You can ignite
Without a second thought.
I don’t know how I can go on
Living like a hypocrite,
Falling out of sight
Without hesitation.
How can I endure this -
Such daunting tasks
While just a flicker
Dies within me?
I can’t stand up from my knees
Nor can I speak the truth
When I don’t live it
In its entirety.
Lord, help me to be
Who You’re calling me to be
Without regard for the world
That surrounds me.
Take me in,
Clean me out,
Set my feet upon the rock,
Wash me in Your blood,
Break down my walls with
Your mighty hand…
Please, O God
Hear the plea
Inside the prison
Of my heart.

Convicted

Held fast by revelation
The mask has fallen.
Now everyone can see the truth
About me.
I’m just a mess
Without holiness.
Can’t understand how my life
Got so twisted.
Convicted of hypocrisy -
Living life outside the lines.
Now all that remains of me
Is a mere disguise.
Been convicted of a crime -
I feel the weight of chains.
Father, give me that fire,
And take away the shame.
I live it on the outside
But within me it’s a lie.
Oh, I cry out
For a clean heart.
Just a hypocrite
Convicted