1. Came to My Limit

Came to my limit

Didn’t realize I was caged in a prison

Be he came and delivered

Buried in the grave now I’m raised with the living

Made him my vision 

How could I not, when I’m made in his image?

Played in the scrimmage, now I’m in the game 

With a little bit of faith and his grace 

And some bass and a mission (X2)

I found myself at the end of myself 

Gotta be bankrupt to receive his wealth

Pearl with a price

Nothing’s worth more than him giving his life 

He’s breaking my fall

But what’ll it take to break and then call?

Stalling in place, then fall on my face? 

Tolerate sin then I’m caught in disgrace? 

I don’t wanna be the one to read about it 

And not be about it

Ain’t no time to beat around it either 

Evil’s creepin ‘round here

My power is limited 

I would be giving in

If not for the infinite living in me

With the Spirit I’m free

Came to my limit

Didn’t realize I was caged in a prison

Be he came and delivered

Buried in the grave now I’m raised with the living

Made him my vision 

How could I not, when I’m made in his image?

Played in the scrimmage, now I’m in the game 

With a little bit of faith and his grace 

And some bass and a mission (X2)

I am a product of sovereign providence over my story

Even my flaws and sin though appalling it’s all working for me

Like the prophets could foresee 

The fall and it’s folly

Became the cause of the cross 

And now we can see it was all for his glory!

Came to my limit

Didn’t realize I was caged in a prison

Be he came and delivered

Buried in the grave now I’m raised with the living

Made him my vision 

How could I not, when I’m made in his image?

Played in the scrimmage, now I’m in the game 

With a little bit of faith and his grace 

And some bass and a mission (X2)

2. The Gift of Desperation

Make haste 

Will you please

Come and save me

From me

While I’m down 

On my knees

Come quickly now

Done saying I’m fine

I can’t fake it and lie

Like a break in my spine

I am falling 

There’s something here

Inside of me

It’s deeper

Than what I can say

The spirit groaning

When I pray

Lord, do not delay!

I can see now

I need you 

To give me life

Desperation is a gift

When you open your eyes

I am humble and needy

So don’t hide when you see me

I will give myself freely

If you’ll make me yours

You’re the bread 

That can feed me

Give the yoke

If it’s easy

For as long as I’m breathing

And forevermore

I had to die 

So I could raise

The only way

That I would praise 

The one that’s over all my days

Yes, I have been saved!

I can see now

I need you 

To give me life

Desperation is a gift

When you open your eyes

May all who seek you

Rejoice and be glad

I’ve made my decision

I’ve planted my flag

I would have it all

If you’re all that I had

So I give you all that I have 

I can see now

I need you 

To give me life

Desperation is a gift

When you open your eyes

3. Can’t Let Go

Why do we go back?

Why do we ALWAYS go back?

We know it won’t satisfy

But we still feel like we have to try 

Like maybe time will be different 

But I can see crime in the distance 

Why does my mind get so twisted 

It’s sitting in front of my eyes when I miss it 

I’m sicker than sick but I’m fixin’ to kick it

If it weren’t for pride I’d admit I’m addicted 

Led through the water you said that we’re free

So why aren’t we willing to be

When I’m hungry I freak

I still want the meat 

Even if it means I’m pharaoh’s to beat

How long are we willing to be

In the wilderness feeling the heat

Like a dog to his vomit 

I’m back to feed upon it 

Has my heart been so hardened 

That I can’t feel my conscience

How will I ever make it to the land of your promise 

I’m trusting your promise 

We made bricks

We laid them down

When he said let my people go 

We still looked back

We can’t let go (X2)

Maybe it wasn’t so bad

When trouble was all that I had 

No matter the feeling I had in my gut

Back to cistern, I’m filling it up 

Watching it drain to the floor 

Can’t you see that I need MORE MORE MORE 

LET ME HAVE YOURS 

COME ON I’LL PAY YOU BACK 

YEA OF COURSE

(JUST OPEN THE DOOR)

What happened to integrity 

I’m living in the dark 

And expecting the light will never see

Confession is the remedy 

But will I ever be done with the enemy 

I’m looking for the 12 and the 70 

Will I ever be…

In the land of promise 

I need the bread 

I need the water

I need the rock 

I need God

If I’m ever really gonna stop 

(Am I gonna stop?)

Like a dog to his vomit 

I’m back to feed upon it 

Has my heart been so hardened

That I can’t feel my conscience

How will I ever make it to the land of your promise 

I’m trusting your promise 

We made bricks

We laid them down

When he said let my people go 

We still looked back

We can’t let go (X2)

4. In the Day of My Trouble

(I don’t even know what to say…)

I don’t even have any words

So I cry

Crying aloud

Father, can you hear me?

I’m in trouble, clearly

This is so hard

Please don’t be far

Be near me

(Are you near me?)

I can’t sleep 

I can’t speak 

My hands reach 

To the sky

Asking why did this happen to me?

Have I done something to deserve this? 

Is there a purpose

For this suffering I’m cursed with? 

Have you

Forgotten

Your promises 

For all time?

Are you 

Still Gracious?

Has your patience 

Drained for my kind? 

Are you lacking compassion?

Sorry, I’m just asking 

Isn’t that an appropriate reaction

When I’m backed into a corner 

Mourning until the day is dawning 

Speak, please 

The silence is haunting 

I don’t even know what to say 

I don’t even know what to pray 

I don’t even know if you’re the same

So I just lay awake 

Day and night 

Afraid that I’m right

(I don’t even know what to say…)

In the day of my trouble

To what shall I appeal?

I’ll scour my mind

To remember what is real

(What is real?)

I remember when I slept on the sidewalk

Itching for a hit

The only thing that made my mind stop

I hated you while debating 

To say you don’t exist 

But I still looked to sky in my pride 

Shaking my fist 

I was a thief, hater, manipulator and liar 

But you saved me, and gave me a life instead of the fire 

I’ll remember 

What you did for me

You died but to rise up in victory

I’ll remember 

You revealed the mystery 

The gospel that changed human history

I’ll remember

You’re condescension

You were made low

Before the ascension 

I’ll remember 

Even in the tension 

For your might works 

Are too many to mention!

When I don’t even know what to say

And I don’t even know what to pray

Still I will praise 

You’re worthy always 

My days and nights were changed 

By your grace 

When you gave me your life 

(I don’t even know what to say…)

5. Stained

I had a stain

No matter what I tried 

Still it remained 

Afraid so I hide 

To cover the shame

But wearing a mask 

Just won’t last

If my past 

Can outlast me 

I am a fiend

Can’t even recall 

When I was clean 

Born into the fall 

You’ve already seen 

All of my sin 

While I crawl in my skin 

I carry the blame 

As a transgressor

Don’t send me away 

I know I’m not right

Spirit is broken and contrite

I know that I have done 

What is evil in your sight 

I am a worm 

Who am I 

That you would be so concerned?

When I was in the dirt 

You heard me 

Even though it’s you that I was hurting 

So purge me

According to your mercy 

I have a stain

Over my sin

Washed it away

Left by the Son 

Who came to take my blame 

Naked and maimed 

humiliated and shamed 

To save me  

Nailed to a tree

Received our curse 

As the worst would be 

The cup wasn’t taken

He was forsaken 

Partaking in death 

To remake his creation

The kingdom is nigh

We all need a king

Who has suffered and died 

Atonement was made

The debt has been paid 

A ransom for many 

His glory displayed 

His blood is the wine

Come and take a drink

And be sober in mind

The savior is inclined 

To erase all your crimes 

Embrace him through faith 

And you’ll be made alive

6. When He Died

Long ago a prophet told a story written on a scroll

So all would know the providence of God in how the plot unfolds 

He’s watching for the moment that he made

From the garden where he prayed 

And was betrayed for the price of a slave 

He scripted it, depicted and predicted it’d come 

So that we would that he was from the infinite one 

The gift of the Son, given at the fullness of time  

When he died the pages came alive 

When he came and rode before the day

They shouted Hosanna for Messiah to come and save 

Quoted from a psalm they were singing for giving praise 

For the one that would come bearing the name 

What he claimed 

When he said they would see him riding the clouds 

So they would understand that he ain’t the average son of man 

It was the plan from the beginning to be given over 

Only after he showed he was the last Passover 

Prophecy given is finally filling to full now

Lies and derision ain’t stopping the mission 

A full crowd watching and listening

While at the place of the skull now 

Taught by the wish of his sovereign decision

Apocalyptic visions come to fruition so don’t miss it

The apostles were locked in to witness

To give this description, kept and transmitted

“It was all to fulfill what was written”

Long ago a prophet told a story written on a scroll

So all would know the providence of God in how the plot unfolds 

He’s watching for the moment that he made 

From the garden where he prayed 

And was betrayed for the price of a slave 

He scripted it, depicted and predicted it’d come 

So that we would know that he was from the infinite one 

The gift of the Son, given at the fullness of time  

When he died the pages came alive 

May have taken clothes and casted lots

But when he cried out from the cross

It didn’t mean that he lost

Paid the cost and called out, “why have you forsaken me?”

So they would see

He gave by his own agency 

He was despised and rejected and well acquainted with grief 

Reviled until he was recognized by a thief

He didn’t leave his people to a pair of dice

He beared the lies so we could meet in paradise

Prophecy given is finally filling to full now

Lies and derision ain’t stopping the mission 

A full crowd watching and listening

All at the place of the skull now 

Taught by the wish of his sovereign decision

Apocalyptic visions come to fruition so don’t miss it

The apostles were locked in to witness 

To give this description, kept and transmitted

“It was all to fulfill what was written”

7. CHAMPION

Champion

He’s the Champion

Already won everything that can be won (X2)

He died 

To rise up in victory 

Look what he did for me

He stayed 

With them 40 days

To prove he was raised 

Taken way up in the clouds 

To the right hand

That’s where he sat down

Sitting in position in the heavenly places 

Where everything that’s created and every name is 

Under his authority and everyone is gonna be 

Bowing the knee 

The powers defeated 

How could they beat him now?

No opposition or competition 

Could stop the risen conqueror’s mission

All dominion belongs to him 

To abolish sin 

With no politicking or hollow wisdom  

So follow him 

With all that you’ve got to give him 

Already winning now 

All of his enemies in the ground 

Because he found us a remedy

And just like a third of them fell

Without him I’d be burning in…

The lamb and the lion

Decided that death will be dying 

His people will be with him, flying

In the sky when he’s taking us all back to Zion

If he sits on the throne 

That don’t mean you’re ever alone 

Know that he’s bringing you home 

He’s growing the seed that was sown

He’s the mediator 

Guilt absorbing shame taker 

Blame erasing 

New name proclaiming 

And incarnated saving creator 

Son went up 

The Spirit came down 

Every language made the same sound 

In his name salvation breaks out 

We ain’t the same now 

He came to break ground

On a new earth, but the truth hurts 

Without him we would go back to dirt

He can remake you through a new birth 

Because he’s the one that stepped out the tomb first 

8. One Lord

From the start he dropped the game 

While the nations plot in vain 

Power and humility on display 

On the cross, now the world is not the same 

We’re the body and he’s the head

Living through the flesh that we’ve been fed

Freed the dead while his enemies seeing red

He chose not to fight but to bleed instead 

He’s the only legend that can rise above the lore

He’s the only one that could absorb my flaws

We all need him

He’s the reason that we’re breathing

But there’s only one Savior, one Lord 

Tell me, who’s yours?

He’s the image of the invisible 

Seated at the right hand, invincible 

Over all he is preeminent 

He was the seed that heaven sent 

The serpent under his heel

Took the bite that so we could all heal 

Revealed the mystery to show us what’s real

He could feel for the Lord’s house pouring out zeal

He’s the only one that could fulfill the law

He’s the only one that could absorb my flaws 

Bow the knee or be conceding cosmic treason

Because there’s only one savior, one Lord

Tell me, who’s yours?

The firstborn before it all

Restored what we had before the fall

Sinners acquitted in the court of law 

By the innocent one who bore it all

On the third day he gave the sign

To be saved there is no other name to find

On the day when he comes to fray the sky 

We’ll awake, raised to reign alive 

He’s the only legend that can rise above the lore

He’s the only one that could absorb my flaws

We all need him

He’s the reason that we’re breathing

But there’s only one Savior, one Lord 

Tell me, who’s yours?

9. Praying and Waiting

Can’t even count how many times I’ve prayed for you 

Seems like no matter how much faith I have, I still can’t make it true 

And now you’ve got a sickness you won’t make it through 

I’ve never seen these waters that I’m wading through 

I pray that you’ll be saved but I’m afraid you’ll die first

And not the good death, instead you never would rest

You’ve heard me preach the gospel, you were sitting in the pews

And didn’t know what I was saying was meant directly for you 

And now it’s even more imperative 

To say there’s still time to leave a spiritual heritage 

Words can’t describe how much I’d cherish it 

More valuable than a billion dollar inheritance 

It’s embarrassing the way I treated you

But I’m different now, you’ve seen what Jesus can do

And he could do the same for you

You can call on Christ 

He’ll give you eternal life 

Before you pass away, Dad

Oh, my Father

Can you hear?

I know your end is near

I’m praying and waiting 

In the moment of my fear 

Until it disappears 

I’m praying and waiting 

I’m praying

I’m praying

I’m praying for you 

Can’t even count how many times I’ve prayed to you

Seems like no matter how much faith I have, you still won’t make it true 

And I admit sometimes I get frustrated

When you don’t act even though I just prayed it 

Why can’t you just pay it?

What my father owes you 

I know I was chosen long before I chose you 

You made my heart a living water fountain

But doesn’t feel like I can really move a mountain 

I’m a son

Appealing to the Father 

On behalf of my Father

To be saved by the son 

But when the day comes 

I know one thing’s for sure

You’ll be the same God that you always were before 

Gracious, merciful, infinitely forgiving

For all who are sinning but will call on the risen 

It was always your mission 

To seek and save the lost 

There’s no debt so great, that you won’t pay the cost 

Oh, my Father

Can you hear?

I know his end is near

I’m praying and waiting 

In the moment of my fear

Until it disappears

I’m praying and waiting 

I’m waiting

I’m waiting

I’m waiting on you

10. Grateful

(Yeah, gotta stay grateful, name is written in the book of life, check it…)

Way back when I met you, Lord

I knew you’d never let me go

Giving me everything I never knew I needed

And treating me like a friend even when I didn’t believe it

Even when I was an enemy you readily went to the cross 

Everything I ever had I count as loss

I’m the offspring of Abraham

Now I take a stand on the firm foundation 

Living by faith, only by grace

Never earn salvation 

You burnt down hatred and replaced it with love

Now I’m taking it up and denying myself

I’m nothing anyways if I’m denying your help

Because I need you 

Let me soak in your blood until it bleeds through

Until they don’t see me, they see you 

(Yeah, it’s all about you, you, you

Just want to be like a window that they look through and see you

And all of your beauty in salvation)

All I can do is trust in your faithfulness

Praying everyday that you’ll forsake me not 

That’s why I keep texting out my grateful list

Because I’m grateful 

Even when it’s painful, you paid for me

Man, I’m overtaken

By the gospel, do you know the statement?

I’m going to be bold and say it

To all the world, because HE overcame it

JESUS SAVES

Every sinner, trust in him

And you will be delivered 

Come with me 

If you want to see a man

That has been redeemed

I got victory 

Because he’s got me like a father and son

Adopted me when I was off on the run

Died for me so I’d be counted among

The children of God through the begotten one

I was an embarrassment 

Now I’ve got an inheritance

So I’m going to cherish it

Because he earned the right for me

With eternal life there won’t be no perishing

(Yeah there won’t be no perishing

Talking about eternal life, talking about eternal life, come on…)

All I can do is trust in your faithfulness

Praying everyday that you’ll forsake me not 

That’s why I keep texting out my grateful list

Because I’m grateful 

Even when it’s painful, you paid for me (X2)

You paid for me, yeah you paid for me

You paid for me, so I stay grateful

Know what I’m saying? 

11. The Depths

I was down so low

For so long

He loves saving

Yes he does

What a Savior

There’s a paradox in providence 

Sometimes it violates my common sense 

When life’s intense and I’m in the depths 

And it’s too dark to even see my steps 

I’m not impressive, far too wretched 

Ran so long in the wrong direction

And it might seem odd 

But when I’m at my lowest I feel closest to God

Before I knew the good Father

All I could do was try harder 

Now I pay homage, not in bondage

Even though I still smell like vomit 

Your promise will stand 

When I walk in the sand 

Little did I know it was in your divine plan

To swallow me then spit me back out on the dry land 

Thought I was too low to see

With the waves crashing over me 

But your hand was still holding me 

Lifting me up to where I’m supposed to be 

When it’s the darkest, that’s when your close to me 

Taking my heart, tearing it open

Revealing the places where healing is needed 

And letting me feast on your grace like a meal

And I’m feeling so free, this life ain’t for me

Body and soul I belong to the 3 in 1 

Son in me and I in him 

Revived within, given life but died to sin

So I begin every day

Thanking the one that had mercy on me 

Clung to the one that loves me always 

So check my tongue, what’ll come is all praise

I was down so low

For so long

He loves saving

Yes he does

What a Savior

I became his, he became mine

United with the one who’s alive for all time (X4)

I was down so low

For so long

He loves saving

Yes he does

What a Savior 

12. Reach Across the Sky

(Show me how to reach across the sky

Give me peace of mind

I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna die…)

Death was not defeat

You were raised to life 

On the 8th day of the week

The maker wasn’t through

You were just waiting

Until you made something new

This is what we testify

If you weren’t resurrected 

Then all of it is a lie 

But you did in fact

Get up out the grave 

So our faith is intact 

Like a seed in the ground

We will be raised 

When we hear the horn sound

Ever since our first breath

We have all been waiting 

For the day we face death 

Enslaved by the fear

Wondering where to turn 

When it draws near 

Who can we trust 

For what’ll come next 

When we return to the dust 

But because Christ reigns 

Death will one day die

We will see you in the sky 

When every eye will see

And every knee will bow

You are living in your people

We can see you even now

First you had to come down 

Left a throne for a manger

Our own creator 

Exposed to danger

In the throws of anger

We nailed you to a tree

Now we’re back to chapter three 

It was your plan from the start

That’s why eternity 

Is written in our heart 

What’s wrong is made right

When you come to take us

Like a thief in the night 

You are faithful to give

Awake or asleep 

You have made us to live

So we hold fast to the truth

No one comes to the Father

Except through you 

(Show me how to reach across the sky

I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna die

Show me how to reach across the sky

Why don’t you just put your hand in mine

Just put your hand in mine

Show me how to reach across the sky

Give me peace of mind

I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna die…)

“Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.”

‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭15‬:‭12‬-‭14‬