1. RESISTANCE

I won't allow it
I won't let it happen
This weakness will be strengthened

Take away this battle
Let our fire burn within
Purify (x2)
Don't release your hand from me
I must surrender, must lay it down
What's to gain from my selfishness?
What will I promote, and what will be pushed back?
My hope must rise, strength come forward
Linking my hand in yours
Let your chains uphold me
I won't break the bond
No more will I remain the same
My God has ever loved himself in me
I am convinced
I must stay


2. IN LOVING KINDNESS

We are the new creation, the old has gone, the new has come
Reconcild us to
Himself, through Christ Jeasus
We will be free, forever knowing what will become… of us
Thank you for the cross
Trusting in the balance has tilted me towards righteousness
Lifting my spirit once again, sinking not in my functioning
Striving to tell them the truth
Inhale, exhale this is over and over again
Looking for tomorrow forgetting about today
Striving to tell them the truth...
Dying, dying, dying, dead
Through prayer and sacrifice into all the earth, with love and understanding
Now I look to importance, standing here steadfast, to renew the spirit within me
Do not cast me from Your presence, or take Your Holy Spirit from me


3. ENDURE

I will endure
It will endure in me
Until the end, forever
I will endure

If we continue in these ways, rebellion bends towards hatred
We rise up for our cause, and forsake the outsiders
Where is this love, this understanding? Who will stand?
What will break down
If this uprise of self is left to reign?
This age screams for a standard to uphold, and an answer for the questions
The wavering of beliefs lead to destruction
Nothing remains constant to its origin but the unchange faith of Christ
The one stable since creation
Thoughts have come, and theories have gone
Nothing has lasted through resistance
But who can deny, who can dispute the faith that's been throughout since the foundation of the beginning?
It has always ben and always will be
Forever
It has been proven
It shall remain
This faith has stood the test
It persists through the conflict
Through the revolt against its ways, nothing has held true like this
No other has revealed such strength
The roots run deep within
Entangling around my rock
Never letting go of this truth
The power that has sustained me
I will endure in what I believe and what I believe wil endure in me...


4. GROWING IN GRACE

He is God (x4)
He is with us, He is God (x2)
In His purpose I will stand
I've been renewed by the Maker
In His purpose I will stand
I've been renewed by Him alone
Been made by the Maker
Been bought by the Buyer
Broken by the Breaker
I am His. I am His
In His purpose I will stand
I've been renewed by Him alone
Made by the Maker
Bought by the Buyer
Broken by the Breaker
I am His. I am His
In refuge and strength,
Ever present help in trouble,
Without fear
As the nations uproar and the kingdoms fall
He lifts His voice-melting,
He is with us. He is God (x4)
Been made by the Maker
Been bought by the Buyer
Broken by the Breaker
I am His. I am His.


5. FORESIGHT

With open arms I'll be held down by the Spirit of God
I refuse to turn away
By the world and its lies
Everlasting words like water that fllows through my heart
As the wisdom runs deep within
Forseen throuh my savior

The completion has been done
With wisdom and truth inside
No reflections from the past will come, and there will be no misconception
That would turn my faith away when You are not with me
I will lift up my spirit to be with you
Life the endless maze will not be so narrow
Soon time will not have to wait
For soon I will go against what awaits me...


6. PS. 77

I cried out to God for help
I cried out to God to hear me
When I was distressed, I sought theLord
At night I stretched out my hand, but saw no comfort
I remembered you God and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint
You kept my eys from closing
I was too troubled to speak
I thought about the former days the years long ago
I remember my songs in the night

My heart mused and my spirit inquired
Will the Lord reflect forever?
Will He never show his favor again
Has this unfailing love vanished forever
Has his promise failed for all time
Has God forgotten to be merciful
Has the anger withheld his compassion
Then I thought, "To this I will appeal-the years of the right hand of the Most High
I will remember the deeds of the Lord
Yes I remember Your deedsof long ago
I will meditate on all Your works, and consider all Your mighty deeds
Your ways oh God are holy
What God is so great as our God!"


7. EXCHANGE

Revelation, unknowing has been taken
Why had I waited so long? Refrained for this love
Never open to the hope He has
How could reject this? He was calling my name
Searchin for me
I always turnd away
Not anting to believe
I have a need for Him
Feling this emptiness
Not knowing he could fill

Drowning in my efforts to find comfort
I searched and strived for the answer
But every step I fell and the earth crumbled underneath me
Now I found this rock
This stable place
The pain has gone away
I place my hope in no other
My heart, it cries, it toils inside me
Wantin all to have this life
Wanting all to know this love, but I'm reminded of my turning
Closing my eyes
Running the other way, but I've decided
I open my eyes to find more than I was looking for
My mind screams
Knowing this is for all, but not all I want I've found
Now I found this rock
This stable place.
The pain has gone
I place in no other


8. IN THESE TIMES OF SILENCE

What else is there
After the slipping away
When everything is silent, and nothing is around, alone
Looking dep inside, Hearing the echo of my soul

Noone can know
In these tims of silence, these times of seperation
I find there is a voice that rises up
A peace that brings my tears
A comfort that no one else can offer
So why do people turn away?
Why do they look elsewhere and base their self on opinions?
When the truth is so evident that this God of love is so constant
When everything is gone
Destruction and storms
My Jesus stands to help


9. A SIMPLE REMINDER

Hoping to scratch him
As we bleed to death
As we have a shepherd we do not want
I run on a treadmill that never stops
My reflection in the wading pool is dirty, and I'm sickened.
It hurts
I'm sick of repetition
An illness, spreading
Blinding my eyes
Erase my thoughts
Cancel my subscription to the things of this world
In heopen eyes of delivereance
I'm color blind
Waiting to see
Wanting to finally say no and walk away with a smile
Time after time my call is game over; But again and again this cancer spreads
Bleeding and spitting guilt and convictions
As Ilay in this pit of defeat...
(Once again to strive)
To beat itout over and over
So worn
I will defeat this
Workedover
With intention to kill
To watch Him die and smile
At His dismay
His pain
My deliverance
My cleanliness a gift of freedom
My walk purified
My peace given by God


10. ALL ELSE FAILED

(A throne in Heaven sat empty for 33 years)
Why? For what do we strive that will bring us closer
No human deed will show us approved
For two thousand years we've chokedon our efforts
Only tolay down and die
Things change, and things stay the same
Through allthese trials I cannot compose myself

Till there is a time no heaviness fillsmy heart
I canot ompose myself
So in all this, there must arise a plan
A strategy to subdue the schemes
For generation upon generation God retained a silence that shattered the hearts of men
And for a season, all else failed
There is no other name, given among men whereby they might be saved
In all these years when men crawled the earth choking on his tears, no composure, nor completion reigned
No self righteous cleansing
Leaning on the strength of self or another man...

No human effort can bring holiness or even the strength to stand
There is no explanation for this reasoning
The only thing in life that is constant is Jesus