Jordan Mentz

Bridge:
You love me, You hold me, You comfort me, You’re there for me (14)
As we lay in your lap You whisper I love you my child (14)
You hold my hand You are my provider my loving dad (14)
You watch me when I am sleeping and cry on your shoulder (14)

Chorus:
Please hold my life in your infinite hands so big so wide (14)
As I discover how dependent a newborn is Lord (14)
Help me become as a newborn fully dependent Lord (14)
As I realize I can’t live my life on my own help me (14)

Verse 1:
As I look around help me find true rest (10)
As you gently hold me while I lay down (10)
You provide my spiritual milk then meat (10)
You never give me more than I can chew (10)

Verse 2:
Jesus help me become more dependent on you (12)
I long to look around and discover new things (12)
As I grow in my walk with You I love you Lord (12)
I need you; remind me I can depend on you (12)

Verse 3:
As I turn to you for answers teach me draw me close (13)
I want to know you as I see you every day (13)
I need your hand to guide me show me the only way (13)
I spit up, I mess up my sin is invading me (13)

Verse 4:
You clean me You wash me in your blood upon the cross (13)
I want to glorify magnify your holy name (13)
Change my heart from within me make me more like you Lord (13)
I long to find fulfillment when I turn to your words Lord (13)

Dreams slipping out of my grasp, I seem to be losing hold(14)
I know I don’t fall through your hands, you have a hold of me (14)
So hard to grasp the concept your true undeserving love (14)
I need you to help me let the things of this world to slip (14)

Knowing I have my life ahead of me, I find I am in your grasp (17)
I don’t need to grasp the things of this world for they pass away like dust (17)
I never slip out of your grasp, you will never let me go; hold me (17)
The concepts you lay before me, I need to learn how to truly grasp (17)

My thoughts, my dreams, all of which I had a grip on (12)
I surrender to you I need love and grace Lord (12)
All the things I thought I had a grasp on take Lord (12)
All I have to hold onto is you, you’re my all (12)

You have taken me within your grasp (9)
I have taken a hold of your love (9)
Sin has no grasp on me anymore (9)
You died on the cross to set me free(9)

I want to feel the same things you feel (9)
These hands were made to bring you glory (9)
Shape me into the person you want (9)
The hands that bled hold me with your love (9)

Everything is in your hands, things that are unseen, thoughts that are left unsaid (18)
I don’t know how to hold onto something that I can’t see, but I trust you
(18) Your watching me, your holding my hand, your hands created me so complex
(18) I long to grab a hold of your hand, I long to grasp your mercy and love (18)

Your palms show me what true sacrifice really is (12)
Your life has taught me the true meaning of love Lord (12)
Your hands have crafted me with loving tender care (12)
Hands that remind me that for my sins blood was shed (12)

In your hands I find this special kind of love (11)
A love so rich so real so freeing so big (11)
I look around when I feel I am dying (11)
I feel your embrace, when I feel your touch on me (11)

Sometimes I feel as if my faith is only skin deep (13)
Sometimes I need something much bigger than myself Lord (13)
Sometimes I feel as if good works make me what I am (13)
I don’t know how to keep this faith real not just a fix (13)

Tired of thinking of what I could’ve been (11)
I don’t want to think of what I should’ve been Lord (11)
When all is said and I stand before you spent (11)
Break this phase that I’m in, I turn and repent (11)

A roller coaster of emotion, I need to sort things out (14)
I want this life to be all it was created to be (14)
When I stand; judgment day, I long to hear you say well done (14)
This is the person I was called to be after your heart (14)

The relationship I have with God, is not just a one way street (16)
The real fulfillment starts; I ask myself how I can live for him (16)
After I get over it not being about myself but you (16)
So many times I try to find true joy, in what I have to gain (16)

(Dedicated to Kristin Noonan)

I have been lost for so long, I have strayed so far (11)
You have found me, please take my life and use it for your glory (15)
Lost without purpose is how I felt before (11)
Even though I was lost, you never stopped looking for me Lord (15)

Lost before in this world of mystery, lost within my own destiny (17)
Lost in my own little world, looking in all the wrong places to find love (18)
I have been found; when I wasn’t looking for you, You pursued me (17)
Lost is what this world is, sometimes I think they aren’t looking to be found soon (18)

You come to ease away the pain; you have come to gather your people to your side (20)
As I grow closer to you, please give me your heart to reach the lost; Lord this I pray (20)
You found me as I was; please use me as I am; please give me this day the strength Lord (20)
You are my comforter, my sustainer, my refuge, my shepherd, my Lord and friend (20)

I am no longer lost; but I see the hurting people in this lost world (18)
Thank you Jesus for finding me when I wanted nothing to do with you (18)
I know that the world is searching, but they don’t like to admit they need you (18)
The world doesn’t like giving up control; show them direction for their lives (18)

Do they really know that they need to be found, or has sin blinded them from the truth (20)
This world lies to us all the time, please open up the world’s eyes to see through all deception (22)
What breaks my heart is that the lost don’t know they are being lied to and deceived Lord (20)
So many lies; people believe because they are blinded by the ways of this world I pray (22)

The evil one has captured so many hearts, and made them blind to what is true (19)
The Lord is pursuing them and longs to call them His own; why can’t they find the light Oh Lord (22)
Please show them how they can find true love; true purpose for their lives now forever (19)
This world has fallen behind the mask of deception; so easily accepting lies as facts (22)

Oh Lord my God may my life be a sweet aroma before you (16)
The way I live pursuing you, I long to worship you with my being (17)
There are many directions that my life could take, but you know Lord (16)
Each second I live on this earth, is precious help me not to waste it (17)

May my life reflect you every moment (10)
I want to lie down before your holy throne (11)
As I trust you with my heartache help me (10)
See that everything happens for a reason (11)

The actions of today affect who I am tomorrow (14)
But this life I ask you to use me to advance your kingdom (15)
This is my longing, that you may tell me a job well done (14)
Breathe into me your healing presence so that I may hear you (15)

This life, may it rise as incense before your throne (12)
This is the cry of my heart that I may truly know you (14)
This fragrance I offer to you is my life Lord (12)
May I know you better today I offer this second (14)

May my praise rise as a sweet aroma (10)
May my life rise as a sweet perfume (9)
An offering of love that I offer (10)
When I believe your word I truly see (10)

I place my life in Jesus’ hand as I feel His hand upon me (16)
As I walk with Him daily may I be forever changed (14)
He is holding my hand as I am resting in His promises (16)
As I am held tight, may I grab a hold of Jesus’ hand (14)

Within Jesus’ hand there are answers for me (10)
Within Jesus’ hand there is healing that flows (10)
Jesus’ hand was pierced for our sin so red (10)
Within Jesus’ hand I am accepted (10)
Because of the blood on Calvary Lord (10)
We are no longer slaves to sin death (10)

As I look for healing to flow from my wounds
Love drenches and quenches my thirst
Jesus’ hand is there to guide me
Jesus is my savior and Lord

Written while I was in Jasper on a mission project, for hurricane relief with Teen Mania.

Looks of devastation upon so many faces (10)
There’s someone who cares to listen and understands (12)
Beneath the heartache that destruction brings (10)
Is a heart that’s broken so many times before (12)

The hope that has been dashed and when all seems gone (11)
There is a God that cares for me (8)
The waves are crashing this world is raining lies (11)
I don’t know how to handle this (8)

There are so many times I seem to give up hope (12)
The one who offers hope is only a prayer away (13)
Where’s the hope that comes amidst all the confusion (12)
The one who understands the pain I go through each day (13)

The winds in my life shake my foundation (10)
But you remain solid upon which I lay my life down (14)
This life is not mine but I give my all (10)
The pain this world gives me, I may find your healing hand Lord (14)

The pain I live with is so hard to understand (12)
I don’t know how all these struggles provide me with strength (13)
There is hope in the midst (6)
There’s hope for the broken (6)
Peace in confusion around me (8)

I long to see you in your glory (9)
I long for you to bring me home (8)
I long to grab a hold of your love (9)
Offer me your hand give me grace (8)

Theres hope

Bridge:
Take my life and please completely saturate it Lord (13)
Enough with being caught up in my own little world (13)
So many times media tries to saturate our minds (13)
Saturate my heart, that your word may seap in my soul (13)

Chorus:
Here’s my all here’s my life here’s all of my secrets (12)
Please make me a person saturated with Your love (12)
May my life reflect a life of praise and worship (12)
I long to be saturated with Your healing hand upon me (16)

Verse 1:
I can’t seem to find Christians who are on fire Lord (12)
Good news is to be spread and many people are scared to step out (16)
I can’t understand why so many people don’t know how to live (16)
Teach me Lord how to saturate myself with the love that You give (16)

Verse 2:
I need You so I can live a full life of purpose, on fire for You (16)
I don’t care how others view me because I know who I am (16)
In God’s hands I place my spirit, my life, my thoughts, my emotions Lord (16)
I long to look into Your eyes as I lay in Your arms see Your face (16)

Verse 3:
We need to wake up. This generation is falling asleep, (15)
Because we have been fed so many lies, we lose our feeling (15)
I need You Lord to saturate me with Your mercy, Your grace. (15)
So I need to step up, act now. That is the way I was made (15)

Verse 4:
I can’t be passive, because it is for this generation that you died.(17)
People are dying, time is wasting. Days are passing, moments fleeing. (17)
I can’t believe how much it cost You to love me so deeply Jesus. (17)
I don’t know how to thank you, so I offer You my all, my everything. (17)

Bridge:
Be my motivation from now until forever (13)
May my motivation be to proclaim to all people (13)
You motivate me, captivate my heart with your love (13)
Please continue to motivate me with your message (13)

Chorus:
Sometimes I seem to lose my motivation for writing (14)
Because I can’t sing or play an instrument well for you (14)
Please continue to speak to me provide me with your strength (14)
My motivation is to spread the truth in every tribal tongue (14)

Verse 1:
My hope is that you will continue to motivate me (14)
As you you show me all the lost souls in this world we live in (14)
As I hear my friends try to tell me please don’t try to sing (14)
Then I remember you don’t make mistakes each time I trust (14)

Verse 2:
I know you can use me when I fall in love with you (13)
I need encouragement when I feel abandoned alone (13)
I am upset I know I can always run to you (13)
Not my lyrics but you speaking through my thoughts and prayers (13)

Verse 3:
Reveal to me your plan to encompass the nation (13)
Continue to be my eternal motivation Lord (13)
I long for inspiration motivation to write (13)
I desire to listen to your words hear your voice(13)

Verse 4:
Help me sort out all the things that motivate me (12)
Help open up my eyes that I may bring you praise (12)
As I face tomorrow on very little sleep (12)
I give you my heart please may my soul that you keep (12)