Jordan Mentz

Bridge:
You call your children to love the world differently (13)
Through all tping and pranks that are being played on us (13)
You have commanded us to love others all the way (13)
Trusting you to show us how to love differently (13)

Chorus:
I am loved in such a different way than I could ever imagine (18)
I can love the people who try to get us back for all we’ve said or done (18)
Then look back and remember all the times we’ve poked fun at others (18)
And you will teach us to make you number one in in the lives lived (18)
We need to love everyone and in this case the ones who tped our house (18)

Verse 1:
I know you will come through for us in time of need (12)
You have taught us to love all differently (12)
You have placed in our lives those who tease non stop (12)
We need to laugh and move on knowing they were jokes (12)
But we can hurt others by the way we tease (12)
Sarcasm can kill like a deathly ill disease (12)
So when we learn to love differently we are yours (12)

Verse 2:
Teach me to love in a different way the way you love (13)
Teach me guide me show me how to set the example (13)
So others may come and have an encounter with you (13)
May it flow like a river may it be a spring Lord (13)
May others see the way we tease is different clean (13)
As I use humor in my life please show me limits (13)
Please wake me up from sleep that I may see your children (13)
As I grow close to you teach me to have fun in you (13)

Bridge:
Take a leap of faith if you can’t see take a parachute (14)
I can’t see what is coming when my life is so unknown (14)
In the air when I am sailing forever closer to fate (14)
You will catch us in mid air You are my parachute of love (14)
Falling is much safer knowing where you will be going (14)

Chorus:
You are my parachute teach me dear Lord to jump out of the plane (15)
I remember when I am falling catch me in your arms wide (15)
Your arms hold me tight help me rest in complete security (15)
You are gentle you care for your children you are calling me home (15)
You are my loving Father who cares sacrificing your son (15)

Verse 1:
Help me to step out of the things I know so well (11)
Help me step out knowing you’re a parachute Lord (11)
Knowing I will never need to wonder no (11)
Help me step out in faith trusting your arms there (11)
No matter what you will catch me in your love (11)
When I am falling you give me a landing (11)
You are my parachute of healing water (11)

Verse 2:
You will never let me fall to the bottom rung (12)
You are a loving compassionate father (12)
You will protect us and sustain us when all fails (12)
You will provide me with the encouragement I need (12)
When I feel no one is listening to what I say (12)
I want my life to reflect you every moment (12)
You are there as my acting parachute of love (12)

Bridge: Teach me to remain grateful for what you’ve done (11)
I pray for an attitude of gratitude (11)
I pray I may never forget to show thanks (11)
So grateful for what you did on the cross (11)

Chorus: Help me remain grateful and help me remain true to you (14)
So many things we can be grateful to you every day (14)
I look around and there is so much I have been given (14)
All I have is yours and I commit my life to you now (14)
There is so much I can be grateful for the life I live (14)

Verse 1: You teach me to be grateful when I give you today (11)
The point is crystal clear You are great (11)
There is so much in this life I don’t get it (11)
How to be thankful through life’s many trials (11)
Every breath I take I am so grateful for (11)

Verse 2: You are so beautiful so grateful for my life (12)
Help me keep on the path of perfect righteousness (12)
I often forget to express my love for you Lord (12)
Help me remain grateful every step of by faith (12)
The trials in my life teach me to be grateful (12)

Verse 3: Gratefulness is very real and I have trouble (12)
Realizing I am not always grateful now (12)
The gratefulness I have for all I’ve been through (12)
Help me remember to be grateful for all hard times (12)
Times I need to trust you show me the next step Lord(12)

I wrote this song as I was graduating from Highschool on 11/11/05 I found in the book of Isaiah the exact verse.

Bridge: I look at your hands and I see my name engraved (11)
Show me your wounds that I may find true healing (11)
My name is engraved on the palms of my Lord (11)
Please engrave in my heart your love for the world (11)

Chorus: Please engrave my heart to love with grace (9)
Engrave your characteristics Lord (9)
Within my heart that I may love more (9)
That I may show how vast true love is (9)

Verse 1: May my heart reflect your love for this falling world (12)
Engrave within me a heart for the lost people (12)
It’s hard to see you go through all this pain for me (12)
The pain this sin has caused you really breaks my heart (12)
As you continue to show me how you’ve loved me (12)
The love you have given to me is amazing (12)
As I learn to follow your example Lord (12)

Verse 2: Please give me a heart that hurts for the lost (10)
Teach me to follow you with all my life (10)
I long to be the man you created (10)
As I look at your hands I see your blood (10)
You have washed me clean in your cleansing blood (10)
Please show me that your love is like a flood (10)
I am clean no longer in chains of sin (10)
You have set me free from the sin I’ve done (10)
I rest in your arms I come running home (10)

Bridge:
Flying high in a plane soaring high as an eagle (13)
Then I begin to see different views of the world (13)
Anticipating where and when I will land; take off (13)
But as I read your word then I begin to fly high (13)
Knowing when I depart from this earth I will arrive (13)

Chorus:
My life may be filled with storms and turbulence (11)
But I can no longer face life on a fence (11)
I know that with my arrival in Heaven (11)
Comes complete satisfaction when my life’s done (11)
I don’t want to spend my life up in a plane (11)

Verse 1:
When will I fly like the eagle above the clouds (12)
Just me and my savior most wonderful maker (12)
We will be playing in the sunshine together (12)
As I fall to my knees in awe of your power (12)
I need you to help me level the plane I’m in (12)
This turbulence this thing called sin makes me so sick (12)
The world is lost and confused don’t know what to do (12)

Verse 2:
The way to fly smoothly is to give the control to you (14)
You are the ultimate pilot, true navigating guide (14)
You know my destination by faith I choose precision (14)
You will take me to my final destination Heaven (14)
Teach me to forgive others seventy times seven now (14)
As I know you will take me to my final arrival (14)
As I walk by faith one step at a time as it’s cloudy (14)

Bridge:
I am longing for you to call me home (10)
This earth serves as a resting place (10)
Longing yearning to see you face to face (10)
Heaven is my home for eternity (10)

Chorus:
I want my life to reflect eternal life (11)
Knowing a better place is waiting for me (11)
A place that sin no longer entangles me (11)
In heaven I will be able to live free (11)
Home for breakfast, lunch and dinner I pray (11)
You will lead me to a life of completion (11)

Verse 1:
As I stop and listen I hear you calling (10)
As I listen and grow closer to you (10)
I am forever growing close to home (10)
Each step of faith I take I grow closer (10)
Each time I spend reading your words to me (10)
I slowly understand where my home is (10)
The steps I take today help me see you (10)

Verse 2: You are calling me home when I run away (11)
When I stray from you, You gently call my name (11)
You give me another chance you wash me clean (11)
May I remember I am on fire for you (11)
Tune me in teach me to listen to your call (11)
Home is where I want to be your arms of love (11)
Hidden in Your infinite love so deep (11)

Show me the way teach me to love
In a world that teaches you to push and shove
As tender as a dove, yet very evident
May we remember the reason your son was sent
The world wants us to seek revenge on our own
But the Bible says we will reap what we’ve sewn
Teach me Lord the meaning of true love
There is more to loving than saying I don’t shove
Deeper emotions have me all worked up and confused
Teach me to love and minister to those who’ve been abused
The meaning of true life
To carry me through all life’s strife
You are the living word
Your word is sharper than any 2 edged sword
Your love is perfect and complete
Teach me as I fall at your feet
To learn how to live against the current
This world because of sin is so bent
I love you Lord the love you’ve shown to me
Is so radiant it radiates for all to see
How to be the person you’re calling me to be
When I live following your decree
I want to love you more
As I look to you to heal every sore

Bridge:
My faith is more than just an act (8)
The way I live is more concrete (8)
I want my life to be inward (8)
The outward way I may be cool (8)

Chorus:
My faith is more than an outward sign (10)
I want others to know Jesus is mine (10)
My life is not all about writing songs (10)
Outward appearance doesn’t really matter (10)
Of course this world could be a safer place (10)

Verse 1:
On the outside things may look alright (9)
This is so typical in the world now (9)
Daily outward appearances deceive (9)
So outward we may look out and see (9)
This outward persona has gotta go (9)
People can only see outwardly (9)

Verse 2:
Faith is more than an outward decision (10)
The outward doesn’t matter in Heaven (10)
Faith is much too strong so you can not see (10)
You never know when you will use your faith (10)
There are so many things to consider (10)
So many options things that we can’t see (10)
You don’t need anymore than a mustard seed (10)
But that faith is a hard thing to grab hold (10)
No asking questions just take a huge leap (10)

Bridge: Before You can use me I need to repent (10)
Before I was saved I had no life purpose (10)
I want to kneel before your throne (10)
Before I leave this world I need to show love (10)
Before I was born you already knew me (10)
Before you made me You have chosen me (10)

Chorus: Before there was this thing called time (9)
I want my life to count for more (9)
You were before all time created (9)
I love you Lord with all my heart (9)
You loved me before I was on Earth (9)

Verse 1: I need you now more than ever before (10)
Every breath I take I want to know you (10)
I love you I want to live now, alive (10)
Before a word is on my lips you know (10)
May the love that you give me overflow (10)

Verse 2: Please help me see you more than before (10)
Living for Jesus is not always easy (10)
To see you working is a lot of fun (10)
I give my life to you in all I do (10)

Verse 3: Help me tell others how much you love them (10)
Please show me how to communicate with you (10)
Others need the answers only you give (10)
After your heart I choose to daily live (10)

Forgiveness you offer to me when I feel dirty you have died for me, you blood has covered me.

Chorus: In this life, we can live in bondage, or we can be eternally set free, and then I can really live the way you have meant for me. I need to see, need to remember you have paid the price for all my sin you forgive me again and again when I want to go into the same old sin again help me realize your forgiveness has set me free from anything I could ever do.

Verse 1: I want to experience a life that’s not tethered by the ropes of this world, the ropes of this world by the ties that keeps is from coming to see you. So many people are weighted down because of their own sin, can’t seem to shake the notion that the solution is Jesus, and they can’t believe it is free and more potent than any true love potion.

Verse 2: When we are living free knowing who you created us to be, we will rise up like the eagles and will soar higher than the trees. knowing that you hold nothing against us when we come clean we will be untethered for you say “You will be free indeed” when you confess your sins above, never to be seen by the world again your blood has set me free has allowed me to run with freedom, so that one day I may see your kingdom come.