• Parachute

    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)

     
  • Grateful

    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)

     
  • Engrave

    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)

     
  • Plane

    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)

     
  • Home

    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)

     
  • Love

    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

     
  • Outward

    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)

     
  • Before

    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)

     
  • Set free

    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.

     
  • When I have nowhere to go

    So many places people turn to, so many
    times they ask what will this do? There
    are so many things in this world that have
    got people singin’, but if you slow down
    just to catch the cell phone ringin’
    When I’ve ran out of options
    get sick and tired of reading newspaper captions.
    Help me understand I am the salt shaker.
    When I live for you make you the center of all I do
    I know you will hold me tight
    so please dear Lord teach me not to fight.
    When the world is shakin’ I’d best not
    be fakin’, it says in your word I will not
    be forsaken, for I know when the
    rapture comes comes that I will be taken
    You gave your son to die for me
    upon the cross for all to see, when
    I ask myself the question why do
    my devotions, help me not listen
    to my feelings and emotions and help me to always remember
    you are the one who put this Earth into motion
    You created the oceans, you
    parted the red sea. all the while you were
    thinkin’ of me. When I can not see
    you grab me by the hand amidst the raging
    sea. When the waves of life crush the
    boat I am in I know you came to save
    me from all my sins.
    When my life is the pits you
    will help me see where the pieces fit. When you
    come back, Ya’ don’t know Jack, with
    accepting You there is no turning back so
    pick the Bible off your rack and
    find out how you too can be
    saved from death and destruction
    how to survive the demolition of people
    who don’t listen to the one true
    source of life
    When the Bible says Jesus
    bought you with a price it doesn’t really
    matter if you have head lice. When
    the price was paid, there was no Kate Spade
    the decision was made God told
    Jesus the price must be paid, He died
    and rose again he moved the stone from
    the grave He was laid, this set up the foundation
    for us to tell the nation about that Jesus
    who saves
    The word states it so plainly
    there is one way to heaven, it also tells
    us to forgive 70X7. That it is not 490
    cuz if it is you’re missing the
    point, Jesus is tellin’ us to forgive
    unconditionally, so don’t get stuck
    in the trap when He told us that
    He didn’t mean literally. The
    pharisees tried to trap Him
    but they were shut down every
    time they tried Jesus told them
    just how wrong they were and there
    on the spot Jesus would tell them more
    I may not know how to rap
    So I just put on a cap
    Busy singin’ to my Lord All I want
    is to be proclaiming His word. Every song
    has its message good or bad does it really
    matter what the lyrics say? It matters
    because the message is there in your
    head, song or spoken words are often
    read. He died for your sins so His blood was shed
    The message of the cross is a great
    one that needs to be proclaimed in Jesus’ name
    The lyrics of a song matter even if you say you
    won’t do what they say in the song you may even
    say I am that strong. Right and wrong
    theres a difference What Jesus says is right
    clear as day and night. You gotta live
    by faith one day at a time because you don’t
    know for a fact that you’ll remain intact
    More saline for my contacts am I seein
    this clearly this clearly this God thing is happenin’
    all the time not just yearly?
    When it feels Christ is all up in your grill that’s cuz He wants
    you to trust His name still. Don’t steal, don’t kill, these
    are two commandments he has given to us so please take a leap of faith
    and learn to trust. The time is now the game is
    life, this isn’t blackjack but if you don’t play your cards right, You will surely bust, trust in Jesus with all you might you will complain that you may go insane livin’ every second for selfish gain. By calling on Jesus by depending on Him, You will win in the end cuz He has already won the fight. With the end in sight, cast your yoke on Him
    for His burden is light.
    When Christ returns up in the
    clouds, your ears may hear it cuz it’ll
    be loud. When the time is right and we
    need to remember it maybe 2 at night. This is not a TV show no one even
    knows when Christ will come back Jack, so don’t be sacked for a loss when
    the time comes you will know for a fact that it really matters now the way you act.
    When Jesus comes back He will take the believers so you’d be better off not tryin’ to fake, if you don’t have Jesus you might end up in a firery lake, I tell you this cuz I realize it’s your life at stake it matters each day the choices you make
    Jesus knows everything about you and me and everything we do He can see.
    When we are caught in the middle wonderin’ would this be right we must always
    remember He is holding us tight and every move we make is in His sight.
    The world tries to tell us you’ve got to
    be without sin just to get in to heaven
    but Jesus is tellin’ you You just got to repent and accept
    the gift that He so freely sent. I don’t need the world’s consent to tell me
    How I can be me what they are missing is how to be free
    You don’t need glasses to be among the masses of people
    who seem to be stuck in molasses, students busy takin’ classes,
    who are always askin’ for passes, the answer is Jesus so I’ll say it again.
    He came to save the world from the mess it is in He came to redeem is
    from this thing called sin.
    The world is searchin’ let me inform of Jesus’ whole life mission,
    Oh Lord please give us your vision. Jesus is on a rescue mission
    but because of who He is He leaves it your decision whether to ignore Him
    or let Him come into your heart for He offers a brand new start. He sees you as a
    work of art, like nothing you would see in any Wal-mart. You and me are worth
    more than a penny, Jesus died on the cross to buy us from sin, so if you’re on
    Christ’s team you will always win.
    The life Jesus offers is abundant
    It is in God’s word and is fire retardant. To live forever is an offer that one can’t resist,but the choice remains yours God must exist. You may reference Him every single day, but He is calling you to use His name only when you pray. Sugar Ray won’t save the day when you wake up to a brand
    new day. The way you live today matters for eternity right now and even when you’re 30.
    turn gray Jesus Christ is the way He has come to save the day. He is the potter
    We are His clay He is busy molding us when we do as He say.
    Snoop Dogg, Vanilla Ice, Eminem all tell us in there songs to smoke big bongs
    Then I look to Jesus and He says their ways are wrong, so I have written this
    song void of foul language, dirty messages can not be found this song offers a fresh
    new sound about this guy named Jesus who simply astounds.