Jordan Mentz

Sometimes I find it so easy to give up
But I find it hard to give up the control of my life to you
I will gladly give up the world if it means I can gain you
To live my life for anything other than you is pointless
For the treasures of this world will become worthless
The time to act is now
Teach me to never give up when I spread your word
Teach me to give up on my own
Teach me to lay it at your feet
I can do all things through Him who strengthens me
Teach me to give up my desires
That I may be filled with your desires
That I may be filled with your heart
I give you my secrets that I may be healed
May I never forget your faithfulness
Please clothe me in righteousness
The same righteousness Abraham had
The same power you gave to them is available to
us if we give up the reigns in our lives and
let you steer me, no more holding back secrets I’ve
been prone to hide from you while I give you
what is left. I feel so bad you want all
of my life or none of it, so I offer you
my fears my darkest moments my scariest
concerns my most vulnerable times

Image is not everything, for images can get distorted lost in the confusion
Image the outside persona that the world tells us to portray each day
I have been created in Christ’s image, I am a living representation of my Creator
I love to bring You all I am in You for you.
I have been scarred by the negativity the world has of what has become of image

Self image is what so many people struggle with, and the world tells us we aren’t good enough to look the best
We are created in the image of God. This is the way I was created to live, so much more that you have in store for my life that I can’t see
The image we portray I pray would reflect you
As you illustrate my life, as you work in my heart show me take me to new depths as I grow closer to Jesus
I pray your image would be magnified, never to be distorted never to be abandoned never to be recreated
In your image I was meant to live, that I may be concealed in your love, mercy, your grace

I want my life to be more than a way to build good self image, want my life to count for more
The amount of self, I want to diminish the amount of you evident in my life is something I want more of
Can’t seem to get a hold of the lost picture, when all the images become distorted because of the sin in this world.
It scares me to see the image of God this world has, it is so distorted and clouded over with a sin like haze

I want to live the high life so that your image may be evident. I can’t stand this misinterpretation sin has caused.
It helps me to remember that I am created in your image. I can live because your love has freed me, Your blood has covered my sins so I come before
You clean.

I pour out my heart to you so I can begin healing,
I know oh Lord I have lost all sense of touch and feeling
If I come to you and confess my sins to you let you in on all my deepest hurts and pain
Then I will see your love for me freely pours through your wounds
I can’t believe you are madly in love with me, I am praying for your healing
Don’t know how to deal with all that’s within my life
As I seek your face, show me your undying grace
Pour your love out on me, healing my heart my scariest moments laying in your arms

Pour out your love
Pour out your grace
I long to find true satisfaction
When I look to you and my salvation
I will pour out my heart as you continue to pursue me
I long to be healed for I am a broken man,
When I look to the cross, I see your love for me a broken heart longing to see your will for me

I don’t know the way to go, but as You are guiding me I feel your hand upon me
As I long to be healed, I see true healing flow from your scars
I can’t help but question my self, why do I keep on sinning when my heart I know it is killing my savior
Words can not express, the way I feel when I am resting in your presence.

Pre Chorus:
I have so many questions about what heaven will be like
So many answers lay with in your word and I long to catch a glimpse
Heaven is my eternal place and I rest in the fact you know everything about it
Are there really streets paved with gold and will I able to walk on them

Chorus:
Will I see my king and fall face down to worship Him
Heaven is not like this earth at all I want to know what paradise is like
I long to worship Him in all his righteousness, to see Him in all his greatness
I want to pray and talk to Him and hear His name glorified

Verse 1:
Will I be able to ask a question like why did Jesus love a sinner like me
And why did He choose me and give me the privilege to know Him and praise him
Heaven is so mysterious and yet so many times people have the wrong view
I am asking to make my mind renewed about the Heaven you describe to me

Verse 2:
Will I stand up and sing or will I fall before the lamb
To meet with the one I gave my life to the one the great I AM
I cannot imagine what it will be like because I have lived with sin all my life
In heaven will it be like Eden or will it be better than the garden

Written after my hard drive crashed

Pre Chorus:
Can I feel the waves of life
My emotions are flooding my mind I feel small and at times crushed
No taller than a pop can on the road

Chorus:
I know it is when my life crashes
Those are the times I come running
I see you through the pain
You have lifted me from the ashes

Verse 1:
My life becomes cluttered with worldly things
I feel like everything was lost
Then I realize all I have is you to sustain me
When I am crashing you are my life

Verse 2:
I have everything when I let go of myself
I give you my all please reprogram my priorities
Line them up with your plan and will for my life
Remove everything within me that doesn’t bring you honor

Prechorus: As a child has faith to move mountains
Believing there is something greater
There must be something bigger than themselves
I have let the misperceptions, and the misinterpretations, get in the way

Chorus: Child like faith is what I long for,
Child like faith is what I want,
how I remember the times, when nothing else mattered
Accepting people for who they are, without passing on judgement to them
Accepting no for an answer, and being satisfied with life

Verse 1: Teach me Lord to ask questions, when I don’t know the answer
An opinion that withstands the cliche’s of this world
Without being afraid of what other people will think of me
The faith that lies behind this calloused heart of mine

Verse 2: The child like tendencies, that once were inside me have seemed to disappear
The questions I am afraid to ask, that children would ask because they don’t know the answer
The answers that you give me, should be ok with me, even if I don’t understand the reason
Questions that I have searching for the answers, finding the deeper treasures buried in your word

Inpsired by Jason Patchett “The Wonder” off the album “Are you ready to go?”

I am trying to grasp the concept You’ve given me a part
In your plan for this dying world
You are calling me to live set apart from the rules of society
May I be constantly sharing your heart for the lost
No more livin’ a life that is secluded but teach me to remain
all inclusive when I share your message of salvation may you
Ignite my passion that I may spread that I may spread your words to all the nations
I am so thankful you’ve given me a part in your plan for reaching the lost for you
Apart from you I am nothing I am looking for you in all the wrong
places, then I look around and I see all the lost faces of those
who’ve been deceived. You have shown me your plan for this
lost world an the biggest obstacle I face is thinkin’ I’m good
On my own apart from your love you’ve shown. Teach me apart
from you I remain dust but if I remain true to you
You will reveal to me where I have a part in your infinite
plan. A part in your plan is so amazing to me I can’t see the
future or where I’ll end up but my prayer today is that you’d
make me aware that in the darkness you provide light,
Teach me how much you love me, teach me the way I
was meant to live free, teach me to live sacrificially, Teach me
to think outside the box I so many times to conceal you in
You are far too big for us to contain for you are my God with
many dimensions You see all You know all You aren’t surprised
with man’s new inventions pleasing you should be our main intention

Wakin’ up on the 3rd floor with a headache and a sore throat
Room is sticky smell is musty rather be sleepin’ on a boat
Feel so congested, feel so exhausted feel so isolated on the 3rd floor.
Each day I step toward the bathroom can’t seem to shake the smell of roast beef
two and a half weeks old. I have the fan on high still the heat is ginormous. The
thought of more guys in the bathroom I can live with
But it really makes me anxious hearin 30 plus girls take showers.
I don’t want to have to take cold water showers then I realize
it isn’t about the shower. God has given me so much and I pray that I
would never seem to lose touch with that fact.
There is a 3rd floor cloud that envelopes all of us when we wake up
from then until midnight I can see how you provide for me, after that experience
I can see what the a/c can do for me on a hot day on a warm night
smellin’ nasty takin’ showers on the 3rd floor smellin’ roast beef turned to
puddin, while the second floor smells like flowers all the girls take care of the second
floor. We clean up after ourselves we will leave the 3rd floor better than we found it.
All the fans on I think it is simply amazing that it feels like someone turned up the
furnace. I am thankful for the 3rd floor, even when I wake up with my throat sore
Then I remember what I’m here for, follow you hard core.