You Overwhelm Me

When people look at me, I wonder what they see
And what it means to be me
And Lord, then I look to You, and all those things You do,
I know Your promise is true.

    You overwhelm me with what You’ve done for me
    Such sublime beauty, I cannot comprehend
    When I look upon the cross, all my gain I count as loss
    For all the things I know of God, His love will never end.

When people look at me, I wonder if they see
The One who died to set me free
‘Cause I want to shine forth Christ, and gain eternal life
For with Your blood You’ve paid the price

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Your love will never end, even when I sin,
Your mercy’s there to call me back again
Your goodness is displayed in all the things You’ve made
And most of all, Your death upon the cross.

Lord, when You look at me, tell me what You see,
Am I pleasing in Your sight?
For I know I’m a sinful man before the Great I Am,
And no one’s justified before Your holiness.

Jesus, My Lord, My God, My All!
Lyrics by Frederick Faber and Joseph Gill

    Jesus, my Lord, my God, my All!
    How can I love Thee as I ought?
    And how revere this wondrous gift,
    So far surpassing hope or thought
    Sweet sacrament, we Thee adore
    Oh make us love Thee more!

Had I but Mary’s sinless heart
With which to love Thee, my King
Oh with such bursts of fervent praise
Would I bring, Would I sing.

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I have but little to give to You
You, who died for me!
But my praise and my worship, Lord,
I now bring to Thee!

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So I Let Go

    So I let go, so I let go,
    You are all the truth I could ever want to know
    So I let go, so I let go,
    You’re my one desire, set my life on fire, love of my soul
    So I let go.

I find myself invited through Your Spirit
You’re calling me by name and I hear it
A deep love You offer me, a way to follow oh so free,
To be with You eternally in love.

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You say to truly live I must die
I’ll follow to the cross, not asking why
But questions rising deep in me, I’m wandering I cannot see
But with Thy grace I’ll follow Thee in love.

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For I can see the depth of deepest love
Transcending things that no words can speak of
In loving one another,
We will find, my sisters and brothers
That we all need each other right now.

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Behold This Heart

    Behold this Heart, which has loved men so much
    Behold this Heart, overflowing with grace
    This Heart of mercy, to heal the poor afflicted
    To receive the sinner, and all their sins erase.

I have wept so long, at your rebellion,
But I Am the Way, the Way to salvation.

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I have been so wounded, yet faithful I remain
All your soul desires, in My Heart I contain
And for love of you I Am, from age to age the same
Come rest in Me, you’ll never want again.

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This Heart of Mine so anxious, to shed each drop of blood
If only by this sign, you may know My love
And though you’ve turned from Me,
I’ve paid sin’s awful wage
My love of you will last for endless age.

Wisdom (Wisdom 9:1-11)

    Give me wisdom, the attendant at Your throne
    Reject me not, for I am all alone
    Give me wisdom, for that is what I lack
    Give me wisdom.

God of our fathers, Lord of mercy
In Your wisdom You make all things
You rule the world with faultless justice
You govern all men, Your ways are faultless
You alone are holy, holy Lord.

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It doesn’t matter if I could be perfect
If I didn’t have the Wisdom from on high
I’d be held in no esteem
And all things else, what would they mean
If I had not the wisdom to guide me.

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Now with You is Wisdom, who knows Your works
She was there before You made the world
She understands what makes You pleased
So I must ask, give her to me
That I may learn to follow Your commands.
 

Living Stones (1 Peter 2)
Lyrics by Joseph Gill and Patrick Whittle

    Come to Him, to that living stone,
    Rejected by men, but in God’s sight precious
    And be yourselves like living stones,
    Built into a spiritual house, a holy priesthood.

Behold I lay in Zion a stone,
A cornerstone most precious in God’s eyes
He who believes in the Lord
Will never suffer shame, will never die.

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You yourself are a chosen race,
A royal priesthood, a people set apart
So declare the mighty deeds
The Lord has done for us, in giving us life!
 

Go In Peace

We are the seed, broken, scattered and sown
Heaven and earth meet as one, before the Lamb’s High Throne
And just for a moment, we transcend the human race
Partaking of divinity, drawing from the fount of grace

    To Your Name we sing, hymns of praise and thanksgiving
    That in Your mercy You count us worthy
    To share a glimpse of radiant glory.

A sacrifice once given, unblemished spotless Lamb
Once again given in death to appease the Great I Am
Hoc Est Corpus Meum*, the Blood flows down as wine
But a taste for the human race to share the feast divine!

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We place our crosses on the paten,
Our blood, our flesh, our bone
A most beautiful exchange, to take His Body for my own
Then we hear the solemn words, “Ite Missa Est”,
So ends the foretaste of our heavenly rest.

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Ite Missa Est, Deo Gratia*

**Hoc Est Corpus Meum: “This is My Body”; Ite Missa Est, Deo Gratia: “It is finished, thanks be to God”.**
 

Rise Upon Eagle’s Wings

For life is long, and wearied is my soul
In the eternal song, a song of endless trials
And it continues on, the world cannot comfort me. I need

    Supernatural motivation, Lord come with Your grace
    When I can see the light no more
    All this world is vain, it leaves me empty
    Lord how I need Your strength to rise upon eagle’s wings.
    I will rise upon eagle’s wings.

In this game of life, I fear that I may lose
My soul to sinfulness, I’m weak and I’m abused
Lost in the wilderness, the world leaves me so confused.
I need

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Lord sometimes it feels like grace will never come, Yet
I will wait for You and I will rise up strength
And fly upon eagle’s wings.

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Healer

Long have I seen your cries of despair
Thinking that no one cares
The subtle infusion of such disillusion
Has left in confusion your soul
And you don’t know what makes you whole

    But I can heal with wondrous love
    There is nothing left to explain
    Your desires are no mystery to Me
    I alone can heal all your pain.

You thought that you were alone in your anguish
Or perhaps you just didn’t notice
That your life was void of any meaning
Or, at least, that what it was seeming
Yet I love you beyond your dreaming.

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All your life spent aimlessly
Looking for what fills your need
Yet I have waited patiently for you.

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The Music of Christ

I hear music trickling down amidst the passing of time
Eternal tunes playing, a symphony of reason and rhyme
These lives set to music so deep
Rousing from spiritual sleep

Pieces of beauty reflecting the beauty above
Notes laced with honey, they flow with a bountiful love
Of lives mixed with joy and with tears
Echoing throughout the years

    For the saints of God they sing a million strong
    And I beg the Lord to let me join their song
    And through eternity I will sing on.

Out of wretchedness, they were broken and poor
But God restored their lives, made their music so pure
Loving the mystery of grace
And God whom they chose to embrace!

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The music of Christ, expressed in different ways
I will join in the song of praise all my days.
 

Realms of Endless Light

Angels surrounding the throne
Bathed in radiant light
You draw me into Your fire
Falling onto my knees
Show Your glory to me,
Captivated and I am set free.

    Oh Lord my God, You reign
    In realms of endless love
    I drink of delight from the cup,
    From the draught of Precious Blood
    Upon Your throne, You are robed
    With justice, truth and might
    Oh Lord my God, You reign
    In realms of endless light.

I stand in awe before
All Your glory is more
Than I ever could dream
For all time I’m in awe,
Pondering Your laws,
Glorifying Your Name.

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For the Lamb Who was slain has now opened the gates
And with joy we will enter in
We can access Your house through Your greatness of love
Unto the realms of endless light.

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