Jordan Mentz

If you had a heart, that could be a start to something that would go beyond words
If you thought you had enough gas in the tank…only to find out ya was runnin on fumes
If you thought about what would happen…the consequences of your actions…would life be any different…
If you had everything you ever wanted…but were missin’ the cross…count it all as loss
If you had the brains…to make it on your own…what would make you good enough to be called from above?

The truth is Bro’; you gotta let your love for Jesus show
The truth is Bro’; you gotta let others in on what changed you
The truth is Bro’; you gotta let your walls down
The truth is Bro’; you gotta let your actions speak louder than you words
The truth is Bro’; you gotta give credit where credit is due
The truth is Bro’; you gotta realize it’s ok to be set apart

If you had the knowledge of something greater
If you had the joy of the Lord in the midst of a hurting world
If you had realized that your God has all the answers
Would you live your faith out any differently
Would you wish you had all the pleasures of this world?

If you had known…the sacrifice He made to love ya
If you had known…the love He had when He made ya
Would your actions scream…there is a higher purpose for ya?
Would you try to hide…the joy that has your heart…and His arms open wide…
On the Cross…we so often dismiss it…because it has become so cliche’ a fad…

The truth is that He took your shame…
The truth is that He took your sin…
The truth is that He conquered death…so you could live
The truth is that He took it on the chin…to make you alive again…
The truth is that He looks into your eyes…He sees you as His Child…A pure and spotless lamb…
On that day…upon Calvary…the tomb could not contain Him…
The insults thrown at him…did not phase Him…When He came lookin’ for the lost…
The choice was the made for Him…you and me were the reason…for such a high cost…
The truth be known…
The cross was the beginning…
The beginning of a journey…
The beginning of an upside down kingdom…

In order to live you gotta die…
In order to be first you gotta be the last…
In order to be greatest in the kingdom; you gotta be the least…
In order to be found…you gotta admit you was lost…
The Lamb of God don’t stay deceased…
The Word brings healing; and mends the brokenhearted…
If you’re havin’ trouble seein’ Him; you gotta just turn around…
If you feel like you’ve strayed; He is waitin’ for you to return…
When you feel like you’ve been abandoned…He was for you…

Listen to Rap
to view the words of the song as you listen hold down CTRL and then click on Rap
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.

Going to walrus with all my friends
I didn’t want it to end
Sleepin’ in a room with guys who believe me
Showing me what it means to live life free
Going shopping and tryin’ to figure out the food situation
My head was spinnin’ I need a vacation
I didn’t know that you could have so much fun just talkin’ as men
Then rating girls on scales from one to ten
On a scale of 1 to ballin’ I would question the one you are callin
I didn’t know that forgiveness included pain
It drove me crazy and made me insane
If there was one thing I wish I could change
I wish my cell phone wasn’t out of range
If there was one thing I learned since I’ve been here
The Holy of Holies is drawing me near
When we share with eachother the things in the past
And can laugh about relationships that just didn’t last

You need to get it together, or you will be dropped like a feather
Floating in the reality, no one is safe from fatality
It seems like thoughts are flooding my mind
Trying whatever I can do, to help my me unwind
I have been writin for so long
I don’t even question the reason
There is a God behind all the seasons
I didn’t know what love was til I saw the man on the cross
Up on Golgotha, the place of the skull,
I tried to explain the fact that I’ve been on a joy ride
Come running to my savior to his arms opened wide
You say that I be trippin while I am Bible flippin,
Like the frosting on the cake,
Its your choice to make.
Who you gonna follow,
Are you gonna leave this world so hollow
I didn’t want to rap the gospel
because I thought this music be wrong
Only the the lyrics, changes I come to you with this song

I wanted to be different, I wanted to make a splash
When I am living in his word, I don’t care about whiplash
Trying to survive on the road of the life full of twists and turns
Then I open up my eyes, and my soul yearns for nonbelievers
So hard to understand why its a crime
To come up with a Christian rhyme
I wanted to tell people all around the world
Why they were livin’ with their feathers furled
Like a sparrow flies in the wind
Like a dove wanting to descend
Wings spread, I am flying high
I don’t need drugs to keep me fly
Like an eagle soars in the heavens
So will I mount up on wings, in the seventy times seven
How can you find me,
How can you see me
When your eyes be closed
And your body decomposed
I got a rhythm that is catchy to the ears
with a message that will free you from your fears
I didn’t want to stop my rap,
Didn’t want you to fall into a trap
Hows it goin’ to end,
Where’s it goin to be,
when the world will be done
Only one knows exactly when
I know him and that is all that matters

How can we expect to see with our hands over our face
Watching tv, and then I realize I need grace
So many times we go through life not showin’ no emotion
Havin’ it all put together, play it back in slow motion.
I need to show God to others, not just in my daily devotions
I want to tell them how they can be saved from demolition
Settin’ you back with your premonitions,
Trying to decipher what is true and what is wrong
Then I ask you to listen to this song
Keepin’ up with the trend, and keepin the fad
aint all they are put up to be aint all bad
Keep your focus on Christ and all will be fine
Remember his first miracle the water turned to wine

I keep trying to make sense of the world today
Trying to show others that I mean what I say
I want to show the world Jesus is the way
The message that I preach in my song
Can show you right from wrong
I know with the world telling you you gotta’ live strong
What does it mean to be a Christ follower
With so many people today, their walk couldn’t be shallower
I am not trying to say that I am perfect, but I know the man who is
Walking the walk is not as easy as one may be led to think
This life like the Titanic is beginning to sink

Grab a life boat a hold of the real sin Savior
The message that I speak of requires a drastic change in behavior
If you want to get up and walk away from sin
Not sayin’ you won’t fall down again
I am telling you to listen
Try to explain the message of salvation
So simple yet so complex, yet so freeing it can feed a starvin’ nation
I want you to hear me, asking God to open up your eyes and free you from a life of lies
I know that He hears us when we cry
Then why you askin’ what makes you so fly
Emotions sometimes grip us and we seem to try this life on our own
Often ignoring the love that you’ve shown

On the cross he died for you and me,
Up on Calvary for all to see
Trying to comprehend
Why time was suspended
You rose from the dead and told me to come
You told me that you died for me
You came to save the world, to set the captives free
I can’t fathom  love bein’  more than just what you feel
and yet so freeing you told me to keep it real.

You have shown me what it means to live
A life of freedom a life with a purpose
I tried to let you know that my life was a wreck
You told me you would lift me up when I hit the deck
I was drowning in the sea of doubt

Not thinking any one could save me, I was down and out
There is one God in whom you should trust
He’ll remove from your bein’ your greed and your lust

Do you realize this story can become a reality
all you have to do is believe and he will save you from fatality
I really didn’t know what it meant to be saved
Then I found what all my life I had craved
One savior, one God, one reality, one mission, one view of the earth
One way, one salvation, one cross, one second birth
How could I realize that I had been so blind
to the truth, trusting in other things to help me unwind

I wanted to learn from my mistakes
Look at the world I see a whole bunch of fakes
Have you ever wondered if there is a God who cares
A God who loves you if you may dare
To believe in Him in the death and resurrection
Remember the church full of persecution
If you don’t believe me its there in the Word
Jesus took the fall for all of man’s sins and Peter the sword

How many times must I forgive my brother
Take a slap on the cheek and turn the other
Jesus told me to love my enemies and pray for those who curse you
With that being said what’s the least you can do
He gave you His life, and wants to be yours
The only one who doesn’t care if you do all your chores
We must love one another and show His love to all
That is what He wants that is our call

How many times have you stumbled
Only to look ahead and see your whole life has crumbled
Broken down with my face on the ground
Crying myself to sleep when no one is around
I didn’t know what it means to be called His own Son
When I get to heaven I hope to hear the words job well done.

Joined as one and beckoned to come
At the cross He called me, when I thought I was scum
I wanted to be there and ask Him why can’t life be fair
Only to show me 3 nail marks later that he cares
He called us to life different than the others
You hear me homie g’s my soul brothers?

I want to tell you guys a story, about the love and glory
I didn’t ask for permission, all He asks for is submission
Wanted to let you know how the story goes
In the darkness of the alley, He already knows
Have you met my friend who walked in the heat of the day
There were people who thought there was a better way
I want to state the truth in the Bible
Just between you and me we are both held liable
Have you heard of my savior
He doesn’t just love you based on behavior
You tell us to care for the hungry,
But what are we thinkin’ ignorin’ the needy
Locked inside my own realm of reality
Forgetting the road in the end leads to fatality
I want people to be aware that this life isn’t fair
I want to let others know by this song that I care
Have you examined the life that you are livin’
I am free to be, because eachday I remember that I’ve been forgiven
I didn’t know what it meant to live til I was taught how to die
Sometimes I want to curl up and cry
Looking around me I see as if nobody loved thee
I didn’t want to admit that the one with the problem turned out to be me
So many times people speak against hypocrisy
Then they think we are crazy setting up a type of bureaucracy
If we could make a make a difference in this world by changing ourselves
There could be books written that wouldn’t be stored up on shelves
We can let God take all the sorrow, pain and hurt away
Saving us from a life that rots and decays.
Stop a moment and think about the decisions you make
The life that you live is not yours to take
Wanted to be cool and drop out of school then I realized that it wasn’t going to easy
Resting up and sleeping all day is making me weezy
Wanting to be someone but turning up empty
Falling off the wall like little Ol Humpty
I wanted to bust out all of my moves
Only to sit back and watch me lose
I am so thankful that by my savior’s blood I have been redeemed
Then I realized there was more to life than it had seemed
I don’t like being stuck up, but I am just about fed up with the lies of the media
I want to take a stand and shutdown the Wikipedia
I am floatin’ amidst the stormy sea waiting for you
I see no light, but I am longing to be rescued
From the waves of life that are crushing me
Then I looked up and all I could see
Is a reminder of love a rainbow above me.

Listen to Have I explained
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Want to tell you guys a story
About God gettin’ a hold of my life for His glory
Can’t believe that I wanted to disappear from society
Got a picture in my mind of shaded reality
Didn’t know the reason that I breathed
But there are times in our lives when it hurts to bleed
I didn’t want to let others into my life and let others see
There was something different about the man I was created to be
I wanted to stay hidden out of the mainstream,
But I realized I had been pushed into the jetstream
God’s love is different no need to push and shove,
All you gotta know is the man up above
Easy to say, easy to talk but so many times it is hard to walk
We want to move in the world but we’re standin’ on a moving sidewalk
Can’t explain the emotion that I feel when I am rappin’
Happens so fast words spoken so fast you can’t understand them if you are nappin’
I wanted to try to describe this heart inside of me,
Nobody around wanna cry myself to sleep
Each night praying to the Lord, my soul to keep
Try to stop me from preachin’ the message
My message is blunt and to the point, trying to tell you can’t get a massage
I want you to know the blessing, not sayin’ you need to stop cussing
But where you are at, I am asking you to step up to plate
Walk through the open gate, trying to hook up with the ladies on a date
won’t bring you true satisfaciton and if not done right will become a distraction
From your one true love, the one who gave you life the one who wants you to be His
Now I am asking you the question are you cool with this
Doesn’t matter if you are but if you aren’t I want you to know the outcome
Heaven is real, and so is hell but God wants to see you in kingdom come
Didn’t want to hurt your feelings, but I will shoot with you straight
My past so messed up it seems like it doesn’t have a single human trait
I used to be living in sin, would fall down repent and do it again
This is the real thing, I didn’t want to live my life in sin but now I have the answer
I don’t need no pills or some pole dancer to make me happy
I can have the time of my life without becoming nappy
Didn’t know what it meant to live above the rest,
Trying to be cool and ending the night getting arrested
You trying to blame me for the way I am
Wanting to tell you my homeboy grew up in Bethlehem
Didn’t think you cared didn’t think it was anyone’s business
When I like Judas betrayed the master with a kiss
I try to live a life with no regrets
Tryin’ so hard to get out of debt
I can’t believe this life that was given
A time to repent and be forgiven
I wanted to tell you
But I didn’t because I assumed you already knew
I thought you already heard
How Jesus can change you when you read His word.
I fall down I get up, I trip up and keep messin’ up
Thinkin’ to myself why don’t I just give up
At the same time I don’t want to give up this amazing opportunity
I realize I have been given a chance of a life time
A chance to be free no time for crime
I didn’t want to keep it from you
Had to express there is forgiveness, from a past your afraid of
Knowing all along the thing you needed is love
Wanting to know you, wanting to be there
This song is to show you there is someone who cares

We serve one God, and one God do we praise
I serve one God who thinks about me all the time
I live for one God, doesn’t matter what the world tries to tell me I will serve Him only
Can’t seem to relocate, my GPS is going crazy
God will steer me in the right direction
This song isn’t censored, but you choose the truth at your discretion
I don’t understand the lies people believe,
They think they can get better by taking Alieve
This sin going to desroy us, please don’t destroy us
I live for one purpose, not my own but it isn’t my will
But I can’t get by on my own,
Help me show others the love You’ve shown
One God, one purpose, one reality, one fatality, one person endured all brutality
You did it for me, to pay for my sin, I don’t want to live in this any more free from fatality
I want You in my life, I love You Lord, My God will be there when no one else seems to care
One God, one way, one savior, one truth, one light, one life,
One Flame, One passion, One desire
One God who can rescue me, who can take my pain for me
One God who can make me free, who can change me from within

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.