Songs of My Heart
So, music is a big part of my life...I tend to always be humming or singing something in my head unless I am deeply concentrating on something. It's just how my mind works. Also, I have the habit of hearing a song and it speaking to me and I love it so I sing it constantly for a week, sometimes more, until a new song comes up (and yes, that includes memorizing it, usually).
Some of the songs speak so deeply to my soul that they are a sort of theme song for my life for a week or two or however long.
Here are some songs that have spoken to my heart this year and become a part of me and why. May they bless your heart as you listen to them (I've linked each title to a YouTube song).
1) Behold (Then Sings my Soul)
Yes, I loved Hillsong's "What a Beautiful Name" also, but when I heard this song from the same album I liked it even more. I love how it speaks in a timeless way of each part of the Godhead - and especially how it all gets tied together in the end. I'd have to say that my favorite lines are as follows:
"Watch as the clouds He rides swing low
Lift up the sound
As He makes our praise His throne
Behold the Lord our God will lead us home."
2) Take Courage
I never really paid much attention to Kristene DiMarco's specific work in music until this song. Then I started paying a little more attention. At the time of first listening to this song, it really spoke to the waiting in my heart, and the fact that the God who breathed the stars will keep His promises to me and I will rise in His victory! I really can't pick favorites from this song...it's all so good!! For example...
"Find strength in joy
Let His words lead you on
Do not forget
His great faithfulness
He'll finish all He's begun
...
Take courage my heart
Stay steadfast my soul
He's in the waiting"
3) There is a Cloud
I first heard this live when a friend and I went to Outcry Tour 2017 in a city near us - it was a great mix, with Jesus Culture, Hillsong Young & Free, and of course, Elevation Worship, who sang this song. This song spoke so loudly to the time of my life - and of course, of promises to come! It's hard to pick my favorite lyrics, but I guess I'll pick two - the first and last verses:
"Hear the word roaring as thunder
With a new future to tell
For the dry season is over
There is a cloud beginning to swell.
...
And with great anticipation
We await the promise to come
Everything that You have spoken
Will come to pass, oh let it be done!"
4) Do it Again
This is another Elevation song that I first heard live. This is an incredible song of testimony, and how God has never failed any of us and He will perform miracles and do incredible things again! It is a song of deep faith in the faithfulness of God. Again, very hard to pick favorite lines, but I'll do my best.
"Your promise still stands
Great is Your faithfulness, faithfulness
I'm still in Your hands
This is my confidence, You never failed me yet
...
I've seen You move, You move the mountains
And I believe, I'll see You do it again
You made a way, where there was no way
And I believe, I'll see You do it again."
5) Where Were You?
I LOVE this song. (And yes, I did memorize the whole thing.) It takes Job's question and the chapters of God's answers and puts it in a song. The majesty of God hits so hard when you listen to this. Though the whole song is incredible and awakens those chapters in Job, I love the ending:
"I spoke of things I did not understand
Things too wonderful for me
Although I had no right to ask
My God knelt and answered me."
We love and serve a God who is big beyond our comprehension but makes Himself small enough to kneel before us and look into our eyes when we cry out to Him.
6) Abraham
If I never paid much attention to Kristine DiMarco, I really had no idea about Josh Baldwin (I mean, let's be honest, Bethel Music is a huge group and the two of them were some of the few I didn't really follow). But when I heard his song "Abraham," I listened to it and sung it a ridiculous amount of times. It fit in perfectly with what God was teaching me and opening my eyes about and it just hit me hard. I really don't think I have a favorite here, because each nuance of phrasing in this song are so important. But I think I'll choose the second verse, because it put to lyric and music so eloquently the new insight from God:
"Here on this mountain
I have climbed
Wrestling doubts that flood my mind
When ashes and dust are all that remain
Can hope for the world still come from my veins?"
7) I Am No Victim
Don't worry, I now keep an eye on Kristine DiMarco's songs, too, which is how I found this song off of her album this year. I heard it when I got home from Thailand, where I was on a short-term mission trip with ZOE, an organization that focuses on preventing child trafficking, rescuing kids, and restoring them, as well as spreading Jesus everywhere they go. When I heard this song I immediately thought of the kids at ZOE and how they are no victims now in Christ Jesus. It was a beautiful image as I listened to this song thinking of them. I'll have to choose verse two and the bridge.
"He is my Father
I do not wonder
If His plans for me are good
If He'll come through like He should
'Cause He is provision
And enough wisdom
To usher in my brightest days
To turn my mourning into praise
...
I am who He says I am
He is who He says He is
I'm defined by all His promises
Shaped by every word He says."
8) Reckless Love
Cory Asbury (another Bethel Music member that I hadn't paid too much attention to) wrote this song and sang it first. Of course, I am partial to Steffany Gretzinger, so....the link is to her version. :) I first heard it when I was visiting another church and I had to go home and look it up, and it is just such a beautiful picture of God's love for us. In fact, there are too many good lyrics to choose favorites, but I'll try...
"Before I spoke a word, You were singing over me
You have been so so good to me."
"When I was your foe, Your love fought for me"
"There's no shadow You won't light up
Mountain You won't climb up
Coming after me
There's no wall You won't kick down
Lie You won't tear down
Coming after me."
9) Balsam Trees
This song didn't have quite as large an impact as the others on this list, but I love the picture Godfrey Birtill paints of seeing in the spiritual before it comes to pass in the natural. What a testimony.
"In the wilderness can you see Eden?
On the barren land, the garden of the Lord?
All along the banks of the beautiful river
See the good fruit grow.
...This is your time to arise..."
10) Seasons
And lastly, the song that I am still singing, from Hillsong. This song speaks to me so deeply I can't even explain it well enough for you, so I won't even try. But perhaps, when you see how many of the lyrics I've chosen to put here, you might get an inkling of what it means to me. I also think they will make a sufficient end to this post.
"Like a seed in the snow
I've been buried to grow
For Your promise is loyal
From seed to sequoia.
...
I believe that my season will come
...
I can see the promise
I can see the future
You're the God of seasons
I'm just in the winter
If all I know of harvest
Is that it's worth my patience
Then if You're not done working
God I'm not done waiting
...
And when I finally see my tree
Still I believe there's a season to come."
Some of the songs speak so deeply to my soul that they are a sort of theme song for my life for a week or two or however long.
Here are some songs that have spoken to my heart this year and become a part of me and why. May they bless your heart as you listen to them (I've linked each title to a YouTube song).
1) Behold (Then Sings my Soul)
Yes, I loved Hillsong's "What a Beautiful Name" also, but when I heard this song from the same album I liked it even more. I love how it speaks in a timeless way of each part of the Godhead - and especially how it all gets tied together in the end. I'd have to say that my favorite lines are as follows:
"Watch as the clouds He rides swing low
Lift up the sound
As He makes our praise His throne
Behold the Lord our God will lead us home."
2) Take Courage
I never really paid much attention to Kristene DiMarco's specific work in music until this song. Then I started paying a little more attention. At the time of first listening to this song, it really spoke to the waiting in my heart, and the fact that the God who breathed the stars will keep His promises to me and I will rise in His victory! I really can't pick favorites from this song...it's all so good!! For example...
"Find strength in joy
Let His words lead you on
Do not forget
His great faithfulness
He'll finish all He's begun
...
Take courage my heart
Stay steadfast my soul
He's in the waiting"
3) There is a Cloud
I first heard this live when a friend and I went to Outcry Tour 2017 in a city near us - it was a great mix, with Jesus Culture, Hillsong Young & Free, and of course, Elevation Worship, who sang this song. This song spoke so loudly to the time of my life - and of course, of promises to come! It's hard to pick my favorite lyrics, but I guess I'll pick two - the first and last verses:
"Hear the word roaring as thunder
With a new future to tell
For the dry season is over
There is a cloud beginning to swell.
...
And with great anticipation
We await the promise to come
Everything that You have spoken
Will come to pass, oh let it be done!"
4) Do it Again
This is another Elevation song that I first heard live. This is an incredible song of testimony, and how God has never failed any of us and He will perform miracles and do incredible things again! It is a song of deep faith in the faithfulness of God. Again, very hard to pick favorite lines, but I'll do my best.
"Your promise still stands
Great is Your faithfulness, faithfulness
I'm still in Your hands
This is my confidence, You never failed me yet
...
I've seen You move, You move the mountains
And I believe, I'll see You do it again
You made a way, where there was no way
And I believe, I'll see You do it again."
5) Where Were You?
I LOVE this song. (And yes, I did memorize the whole thing.) It takes Job's question and the chapters of God's answers and puts it in a song. The majesty of God hits so hard when you listen to this. Though the whole song is incredible and awakens those chapters in Job, I love the ending:
"I spoke of things I did not understand
Things too wonderful for me
Although I had no right to ask
My God knelt and answered me."
We love and serve a God who is big beyond our comprehension but makes Himself small enough to kneel before us and look into our eyes when we cry out to Him.
6) Abraham
If I never paid much attention to Kristine DiMarco, I really had no idea about Josh Baldwin (I mean, let's be honest, Bethel Music is a huge group and the two of them were some of the few I didn't really follow). But when I heard his song "Abraham," I listened to it and sung it a ridiculous amount of times. It fit in perfectly with what God was teaching me and opening my eyes about and it just hit me hard. I really don't think I have a favorite here, because each nuance of phrasing in this song are so important. But I think I'll choose the second verse, because it put to lyric and music so eloquently the new insight from God:
"Here on this mountain
I have climbed
Wrestling doubts that flood my mind
When ashes and dust are all that remain
Can hope for the world still come from my veins?"
7) I Am No Victim
Don't worry, I now keep an eye on Kristine DiMarco's songs, too, which is how I found this song off of her album this year. I heard it when I got home from Thailand, where I was on a short-term mission trip with ZOE, an organization that focuses on preventing child trafficking, rescuing kids, and restoring them, as well as spreading Jesus everywhere they go. When I heard this song I immediately thought of the kids at ZOE and how they are no victims now in Christ Jesus. It was a beautiful image as I listened to this song thinking of them. I'll have to choose verse two and the bridge.
"He is my Father
I do not wonder
If His plans for me are good
If He'll come through like He should
'Cause He is provision
And enough wisdom
To usher in my brightest days
To turn my mourning into praise
...
I am who He says I am
He is who He says He is
I'm defined by all His promises
Shaped by every word He says."
8) Reckless Love
Cory Asbury (another Bethel Music member that I hadn't paid too much attention to) wrote this song and sang it first. Of course, I am partial to Steffany Gretzinger, so....the link is to her version. :) I first heard it when I was visiting another church and I had to go home and look it up, and it is just such a beautiful picture of God's love for us. In fact, there are too many good lyrics to choose favorites, but I'll try...
"Before I spoke a word, You were singing over me
You have been so so good to me."
"When I was your foe, Your love fought for me"
"There's no shadow You won't light up
Mountain You won't climb up
Coming after me
There's no wall You won't kick down
Lie You won't tear down
Coming after me."
9) Balsam Trees
This song didn't have quite as large an impact as the others on this list, but I love the picture Godfrey Birtill paints of seeing in the spiritual before it comes to pass in the natural. What a testimony.
"In the wilderness can you see Eden?
On the barren land, the garden of the Lord?
All along the banks of the beautiful river
See the good fruit grow.
...This is your time to arise..."
10) Seasons
And lastly, the song that I am still singing, from Hillsong. This song speaks to me so deeply I can't even explain it well enough for you, so I won't even try. But perhaps, when you see how many of the lyrics I've chosen to put here, you might get an inkling of what it means to me. I also think they will make a sufficient end to this post.
"Like a seed in the snow
I've been buried to grow
For Your promise is loyal
From seed to sequoia.
...
I believe that my season will come
...
I can see the promise
I can see the future
You're the God of seasons
I'm just in the winter
If all I know of harvest
Is that it's worth my patience
Then if You're not done working
God I'm not done waiting
...
And when I finally see my tree
Still I believe there's a season to come."
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