Jordan Mentz

The storms in my life seem to be upon me…So many times I tend to get discouraged…I didn’t know what to do but i tried hard on my own…I was getting discouraged…when I heard your voice…calling out to me…Take courage…in this world you will have trouble…but in me you will find true peace…calmness for the journey…For I have overcome the world was what you told me…

I tried to understand…the comfort in your words…I looked at the waves of this life…and have seen where they have tossed me…I lost my focus…on what I knew was true…I closed my eyes and cried…for someone to come and save me…Then you came…out of the stormy sea…told me not to be afraid…told me that it was for a reason…this world has its’ troubles…

Even though I can’t see right now…I trust and hope for a future…a heart of pure contentment…and a life with peace throughout…I tried to say I love you…but all I could get out was ahhh…I wanted to tell you how much I need you…but I couldn’t get past myself…A docile hand of a Savior…gently stroking my face…a voice asking where I had been…

33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
John 16:33 (NIV)

Another trial in my life…another day filled with questions
Trying to sift through the confusion…looking for the answers
A hope that is real I am trying to grasp…I try to reach but I grab a handful of air…
Trying to hold onto something…Coming away with nothing…Conversing this desertland while my throat is parched…scorched and thirsty for water…

I try to hold onto hope…Jesus you are my hope…I know my hope will never let me go…
My heart gets tired…from crying tears of pain…but I know there is hope out there somewhere…I have trouble getting past my fears…but you bring me near…when I cry out for you to save me…Praying for something to happen…but I get so discouraged sometimes…I forget what I need to ask for…But my life is secure…knowing my Jesus is bigger…than my my circumstances…

Jesus I know you answer my cries…but sometimes it is hard to listen…when you tell me things…that are hard for me to hear…the deeper things in my life…the truth remains the same…regardless of my past…You give me something I can reach for…Jesus you are my hope…when the things of this world seem hopeless…I reach for the light switch…to try to make sense of the darkness…but I lose my step and hold onto your hand as you lead me…

You are my hope…for my future…your life has spoken mercy…over my life…the grace you gave to me on the cross…I am trying to take it in…a love so rich…so full of tenderness…so unconditional that nothing can separate me…from the place you have me…as I reach help me to take your hand…I rest in your never failing promises…as you help me to rest…put me to sleep in your arms…

Inspired by Jason Patchett’s song “Home” off the Album “Are you ready to go”?

You remain faithful…even when I am faithless…teach me to be hopeful…when I feel so hopeless…
Everything that happens…and I seem to turn fearful…teach me oh Lord the way to live fearless…
When I start justifying…bring me to my knees…when I feel unworthy of receiving your grace…wipe these tears away…that I may see your face…as the world draws slowly…help me to turn from my sin…
again and again Lord I fall back on things that aren’t there…on my knees with my heart laid out…when I have nothing else to give…may I draw on your strength Jesus…as I rest help me never to settle for second best…when temptation comes…help me to stand…I’m asking Lord help me to pass this test…
As I’m believing…your promises are all I need…to put all my hope in…seeing you as you are…nothing hiding as I am…fully trusting that you care…knowing that you are always there…as I get help up…keep me on the right track…draw me back as hear you calling me home…in your arms I’m free…as I sleep in your presence…as I sleep in your presence…
You remain faithful

This life gets so intense with so many different things…so many different motives and intentions…these things tend to pry our focus off God, and put it on ourselves…This world is so content, saying there is no reason you need to repent…to hate others and they say we need to learn to resent…

God your ways are so much different than what the world thinks…this is a not an illusion we aren’t just seeing things…the message the world portrays to us is a watered down delusion of the truth… it matters the things we say, how we conduct ourselves today… When we live in an eternal mindset…

We are living in true freedom…living a life intensified with Jesus…I pray that you would make me so intent on keeping you first in my life…Not that I would be seen, but as others see you in my life, may you be magnified in my life…

I need you to live a life fulfilled…I need you to make me truly focused on you…
You can make me who I was meant to be…others may see how much you mean to me…
Intensify my walk with you please show me different views… People all around may hear the good news…may you use my life this offering in a way that you choose…

Intensify my walk with you…so that I may know you in a deeper way…
As I yearn to follow your precepts laid down for me…as I grow closer to my Father…teach me Lord what it means to be loved by you… As I walk in the way of righteousness, may you show me your greatness…

Show me how you plan to intensify my life…how I long to make a difference…because You’re telling me the ways of this world are wrong…So I offer you this song…may you use my life make me clean again…

Forgiveness is not a feeling…but it is rather a choice we get to make…
When we offer forgiveness…it begins a healing process…in the way we think…
It is so hard but we were forgiven for so much…and we have been hurt so many times…but God forgave us when He died on the cross…

How could this man…bear all this pain for me…died on the cross for me…
Do we need to bleed…to realize we need forgiveness…so that we may forgive…
We need to forgive even when we don’t want to… for this is what Christ is calling us to do…

Thank you Lord you forgive unconditionally…help me to do the same even when it is hard…It only hurts us when we don’t forgive…and it keeps a wall between You and me…Please God help me see if there is anything between you and me…

I need let go of all this bitterness…inside of me is getting the best of me…
When I truly forgive those who hurt me…I pray for those who have wounded me so deep…I pray that those who have wounded me that you would daily keep…As I learn the freedom that forgiveness brings…

I need to forgive…so I may grow closer God to you…Teach me how to heal, from those who’ve tried to hurt and steal… My wounded spirit I give to you, please love me as I am trying to forgive others for hurting me… I know you will hold me sustain me…I know that your strength will be more than enough for the pain that I will face, teach me the way to see your face…to love people who have hurt me to show them mercy and grace…

I feel as though my heart is ripped and torn…Relationships I thought were good and healthy…But then you showed me something better…pursuing you with my all is so much more rewarding…when I have you no one can take you away from me…Jesus is my everything…

Sometimes I feel hurt, feel abandoned feel alone…but I can’t find what I need in things of this world…for this world will always let me down…but when I seek you first you will sustain me…always be there for me…loving on me when I am lonely…you are my soul; salvation and strength…

I know when my heart feels ripped, I see this thing called sin in my life God it got you whipped…I am so sorry for the pain I have caused you with all my sin…I need you to rip out the things in my life…that cause you pain, the things that are in my life that aren’t of you…

It may hurt sometimes to let go of things that have become habits…but I know that this is what I need to do…the pain I’ve caused you hurts me so much…I want sin out of my life…please rip the sin out…because of what you did on the cross… I am no longer enslaved to the sinful man…

It is so essential to let you into my secret places…so you can rip the sin out of my life so I may let you guide me… I need to ask for healing from times I feel my heart has been stomped on…I look at your example of humbleness…and I see an attitude of brokenness…I need for you to rip away the sin from my life…please heal my heart from the relationships I have been a part of…

Please rip me from this world, wrap your healing arms around me…as you rip out the things in my life that aren’t of you…please help me to see things that aren’t of you…please heal every wound…as I look to you for words of healing…Your death has taught me how to love…

Life is raging outta my control…You Oh Lord please take my life…
That I may give the reins to You…You are my God please help me through…
It does not make sense…trying to control my own destiny…For you know I cannot live life on my own…

Outta control is my life without You…I want to give you my secrets…
Everything I have is yours…I don’t know how You do it…But please work me through it…There are so many problems I see in this world going astray…Please teach me how to show them that there is no other way…

This world is getting outta control…Please Lord keep it from crashing…
Please show me something so I know you are in control…
Kinda…sick of bein in control…because God is my guide…
I don’t know how to explain this song inside of me…I just want others to see what God has done for me…

I don’t know how I am gonna make it…Outta control I sail into the darkness…
But I know you are the giver of light…the author of my life…
Please come quickly…I give you full control…I want nothing more…My life is mine no longer…I fully surrender all I am to you…I know you can steer me in the right direction…

How Lord, do I give my life to you…and make you all I pursue…the center of all I do…
I don’t know how I am gonna do it…it will be so hard…but I wanna do it…
There is not a moment…I know where I am headed…But you know exactly where I am going with my life…

I am so tired…I am so weak…
I need more strength…I need perseverance…
I can’t seem to carry on…Because I am so exhausted…

You give me a second wind…there is something that keeps me going…
When I feel like my body is failing…I can put my hope in you…
When I feel like crying out to you in pain…when I stop living for selfish gain
Then will you use me…then will you strengthen me…
You have heard my cries for help…You have broke the shell I hide in…

You are my deliverer…When I feel abandoned…
I want you…I need you Lord to come and make me new…
There are so many things I need for you to change…but I need to give those to you…
I cannot change this life on my own…I want to be a witness to this love you’ve shown…

Enough is enough, when will it be true…You are drawing your children to you…
I want you to work in me…before you can work through me…
I come with an attitude…of thankfulness…for what you’ve done for me…
Your gift of love is so great…I cannot grasp just how infinite…
You are my song…the reason why I breathe…then will You rise up please heal my heart…

So many emotions…so many heartaches…I am tired of living a life as a fake…
You have become real to me…Teach me to be the man you want me to be…
When I feel like I have strayed away…You are calling me back…into your family…
When I deny you…You don’t deny me…because of your love I am born again free…
You are the music…you are my song…the reason I write is because I want to glorify you…

Emotionally I am drained…Physically I am spent…
My throat is dried…When my flesh has died…
Upon the cross you were killed…we are to die to ourselves…
Stretch me Lord…in areas I am afraid to let others into…
Teach me who I am…on the inside…
Not letting pride get in my way…may I put my hope in you today

I don’t like stepping out of my comfort zone…as I come humbly before your throne…
Teach me what it’s like…to step into the real world…As I am really excited to go…
I am so scared…people will find out…who is underneath this pride…
Under the mask I try to hide behind…when people ask who I am on the inside…
Oh Lord please help me remember that my flesh today has died…

Daily I need to take up my cross…and give you my all…
This is the way to follow you…I lay before you offering you my all…
Everything that hurts, when I feel alone in the dirt…God will sustain me as I come…
Don’t know why…you loved me so much to die…but I can’t believe I am yours…
I love you…no one else will take your place…no one else fills this void…
Others may get annoyed…Others may get angry…may get upset…

I don’t know this love so great…Greater love I have never known…
How is this love…so real to me…so powerful to set me free…
I am scared of where I would…be if you had not captured me…
Don’t stop now…this life is just beginning…Eternally living starts now…
The moment I accept the invitation…let you come in…I love you Lord now…

Bring me to BAR…Burial of my flesh…help resurrect my spirit… I ask you now…
You have made me who I am…You have been my closest friend…when you have stripped everything away…I open up my eyes and I see you cry…Your son to die because of all my sin…

We are the leaders…this world is in search of…
God has given us a task to spread His word to everyone…
I want all to experience the same kind of joy that I have…
This love inside of me…I want the world to know

This is not going to be easy…to step up and take the lead…
We are called to live as leaders…for this generation so lost…
God has blessed us with so many opportunities to make a difference…
Yet God leaves the choice to us…We can take it or let it slip away…

If we want to show God’s love to others…We need to take the lead…
Because so many people…listen to the lies of this world…
People need someone…to follow someone who is different than others…
May my life make a difference in society today…

Lead me in the way I should go…Help me lead others to You…
Lead me in paths of righteousness…Lead I will follow wherever you want me
I am Yours, livin’ for your glory…Livin’ to bring you praise…Livin’ a full life right now…

Don’t know where you’re goin’ to lead me…or where I am going to end up…
I don’t know why…I didn’t have to die, You went through it all for me…
I never seem to give you my all, wonderin’ why you had to take my fall…
I didn’t take you seriously when you offered me your gift…So rich in healing… How can it be true??? You did it all for me to be with me…