THE BREAD OF ADVERSITY
You have answered my prayers in a way I did not expect | You have answered my prayers in a way I did not anticipate | You have answered my prayers in a way I did not want | But You have answered my prayers in the way that You knew was best
Through the bread of adversity and water of affliction I’ve learned | To trust in You with all my heart and all my soul and all my strength | No longer can I push my Teacher away | For the bread of adversity and the water of affliction are a lesson | Here to stay
BACK AROUND TO YOU
I am lost without You | My heart’s on the run | Turned my back upon You | With everything | Everything I’ve done | Then I try to scramble | Find my way back to You | But every time | This I find | My heart | Is wicked and deceitful
Help me in my weakness | To do the right thing | Help me in this silence | When my soul cannot sing | Help me in the darkness | Lead me in the light | Oh help me, help me Jesus | It all comes back around to You | Every time
Once again I’m shivering | Out in the cold | Told myself a million times | But this state of mind | Never lets me go | Here I am ‘awondering | Why You let me go | But every time | I realize | It’s my heart
How far can I run? | How long can I run? | Why do I run? | From You
IN THE WAY
Lord You have a way | Of making me strong again | When I’m so afraid | And counting You out again | Lord You have a way | Of picking me up again | When I’ve fallen down
Lord You have a way | Of giving me rest again | While it’s still today | That I might enter in | Lord Your way | Gives me hope again | And I’m turned back around
And I know | That I must grow | In the way | That You love me so | Until I trust | You in the way | That You are | My rest today
Lord You have a way | Of calling me home again | When I’m far away | Drifting off course again | Lord You have a way | Of dealing with my sin | When I’ve run aground
And I know | That love can grow | In the place | From which the old man’s flown | I’m not afraid | Of the seeds You sow | In the grace | Of Your rest today
Lord You have a way | Of setting me straight again | When I’m bent out of shape | Crooked and cut within | Lord Your way | Teaches me to begin | Again
WHAT ELSE CAN I DO?
I just don’t know how to love You | Even with so much instruction | There always seems to be a disconnect | I don’t know where this is going | Suddenly my thoughts are flowing | And I am just not so sure what is correct
So I wait for You | What else can I do? | Tell me the truth | Is it really You?
I don’t want to fight the feeling | Thus my cleaver ways of dealing | Circumvent the Spirit | Speaking love to me | A little more than mere ignoring | Yearning yet to be sent soaring | On the wings of eagles | But what does that mean?
Suddenly the time has come to whisk away the fear of Your love | Intimacy softly stealing | Giving way to waves of healing | On a not so distant shore | Afraid I put my hand in Yours | Take me away | Anywhere | Hold me while I stop and stare
GONNA GET BETTER
I thought I saw you in McDonald’s sitting by yourself | And I coulda sworn you were cryin’ | And all the other lonely people at breakfast there | Took a moment to stop and stare | But hey…
Things are gonna get better than this | This are gonna get better
It’s raining so hard | I can barely see the road | But I’m nowhere near my destination | People are pulling off | But I gotta keep on goin’ | You know I got no reservations | But hey…
Things are gonna get better than this | This are gonna get better | You’re out on the top for a while | And then you’re sinking low | Things are gonna get better | Gonna get better, better | Better, better…
Two thousand years ago a man named Paul wrote to the folks in Rome | Told us to rejoice in our suffering | For suffering produces patience | And patience character | Character produces hope | Therefore since we are justified by faith | Hope will not disappoint us | For God has poured His love out | Into our hearts | By the Holy Spirit
ARE MY FEET BEAUTIFUL?
How beautiful are the feet | Upon the mountain | How beautiful are the feet | That bring good news | Good news and peace | And salvation
How beautiful are the feet | Upon the mountain | How beautiful are the feet | That bring good news | Good news and peace | So Lord I’m asking You
Are my feet beautiful?
When Jesus washed Peter’s feet | He made ’em beautiful | So Peter said, “Wash all of me!” | Jesus said, “No.” | ‘Cause He’d already given him the keys | To the kingdom, you know | Yeah, Peter was already clean | ‘Cept his feet
THIS IS A TEST
This is a test | This is only a test | This is a test | Of my strength in Christ | O God, search me | And know my heart | Test me and know my anxious thoughts
The Lord is my strength and my song | He has become my salvation | And I will sing of Your strength | In the morning I will sing of Your love | Your love
This is a test | This is only a test | This is a test | Of my strength in Christ | O Lord, lead me | In the way everlasting | See if there is any offensive way in me
WHAT I WAS CREATED FOR
You don’t need me | To tell You that You’re Holy | ‘Cause Your Word says so | And Your Word is true | And You don’t need me | To tell You that You’re mighty | But God Almighty | Maybe You do
‘Cause isn’t that what I was created for? | To worship You | And sing Your praise | Isn’t that what I was created for? | To know the Son of God | And exalt His Name | Again and again
Do You really need me | To say that You are awesome? | With this mouth | That You shaped for me | Do you really need me to lift my hands to heaven? | When You can already see everything?
But isn’t that what I was created for? | To worship You | And sing Your praise | Isn’t that what I was created for? | To know the Son of God | And magnify Your Name
You don’t need me to finish what You started | You don’t need me to make this world spin | The sun and stars and moon and all of Your creation | They don’t depend on me for anything
But isn’t this what I was created for? | To worship You | And to sing Your praise | Isn’t that what I was created for? | To know the Son of God | And glorify Your Name | Isn’t that what I was created for? | Isn’t that what I was created for?
THE MAN GOD USES