God will break you to position you
Break you to promote you
And break you to put you in your right place
But when He breaks you He doesn't hurt you, He doesn't
When He breaks you He doesn't destroy you, He does it with grace
Anybody been gracefully broken?
Thank You Lord, Thank You
So Father tonight, we're broken before You
Thank You for handling us with grace
Just lift your worship right there in this moment
Everybody has a rock bottom. Some of you might not hit it because you will either have really strong support systems that don't allow you to get broken or maybe you're not living life right? Who knows. But you will know you've hit rock bottom when you don't think you can get any lower to the ground, you have lost everything that you thought was of value and you don't think you can recover. This first part of the song is spoken and available on the album track, but the clip on this video goes straight into the singing. The speech part of the song sets the scene for the rest of the song. You're probably wondering, how do you know you've been broken by God and not by Satan? Well, that's easy. You know God breaks you when He finds a way to install you again, in a position to serve Him and to use your gifts and talents for His glory. What parts of your life has He touched with His grace?
All I have in these hands and multiply
God, all that I am and find my heart
On the altar again set me on fire, set me on fire
Take all I have in these hands and multiply
God all that I am and find my heart
On the altar again set me on fire, set me on fire
What do you have in your hands? We can easily get lost in the rat race of life and forget that we have unique gifts that are often under-utilised in our daily lives. Instead, we try to steal away time to work on our little passion projects in private, in secret. What would we be able to do if we could multiply our gifts? How much more would you be willing to share of yourself? When you allow God to locate your heart, to seek it out and fill it with the fullness of His love, what more could you need? We often hear the phrase 'looking for love in all the wrong places' - why do we persist with that? When we set ourselves on fire, we do so with the intention that we are fulfilling a promise that was made before we were born to live the destiny that we were born to deliver.
Here I am God
Arms wide open
Pouring out my life
Gracefully broken
Where are you at with God? Do you try to hide from Him and His calling for you? I don't know how many times I've read in the Bible, the reluctant heroes that God calls forth to win over His people, to shine a light on His Word and to hold us accountable. How are you going to acknowledge how broken you really are? I don't know about you, but I'm sick of being someone who is meant to be strong all the time. When do you get to be weak? When do you get to be vulnerable? You might be wondering how many more hoops am I meant to jump through? We can't afford to give up, can we? Accept that it is alright to be weak. I know people will often pressure you to just be ok and to push past it, but man, sometimes, you just need to be standing out there with your arms wide open waiting for God to drop a blessing your way. Show Him how broken you are. He already knows. He's waiting on you.
My heart stands in awe of Your Name
Your mighty love stands strong to the end
You will fulfill Your promise in me
You won't forsake me, You will be with me
Have you had that feeling of awe where you feel like your heart is about to burst? We take for granted how good we have it, in comparison to others who are not able to provide for themselves, to fend for themselves. We take for granted so many blessings and instead focus on the burdens. I'm not saying that we should forget about the burdens either, but you need to approach things with the intention to resolve and bring them to its natural fruition. What promise does He have in you? Do you even know? You might be ignoring a calling in you that you have been dreading. You might be delaying the process for the blessings that are supposed to come your way. As much as we celebrate the good times, we should be mindful of the stillness that is sometimes required to assess where to go next.
Here I am, God (say)
Arms wide open
Pouring out my life
Gracefully broken
Say again, here I am, here I am, God
Arms wide open
Pouring out my life (pouring out my life)
Gracefully broken
What would it look like to pour out your life? What would come out? When you go somewhere how do you present yourself? Do you make some kind of grand entrance? Do people feel your presence and energy in the room? I've been to a few events over the years and I think the more that you know yourself, the more that you know how you want to be in the world, and how you would like to engage with people. Sometimes others won't appreciate what you have to pour out of your life. Instead, they make assumptions and make disparaging statements about what you have done, or what they have perceived you have (or haven't) done. They make these comments to break you down and to make you think less of yourself. But you know who you are. You know what the best course of action is because you've been to those places before. Stretch your arms wide open and stay strong in your broken state. You show your vulnerability to be left open to be attacked - take it on the chin. Then go out and one-punch them back (just kidding, save your words for that lol).
All to Jesus now
All to Jesus now
I'm holding nothing back
Holding nothing back
I surrender (I surrender)
Y'all throw your hands up and sing I surrender (I surrender)
Say I surrender (I surrender)
All that I am, I surrender (I surrender)
Have your way, use me Lord, I surrender (I surrender)
Do Your way, it's all Your way, I surrender (I surrender)
Use my life for Your glory, say I surrender all (I surrender)
You want to tell Him right where you are (I surrender)
You shouldn't be holding anything back. When people come at you - sometimes they are the type of people that require the same level of force to be redirected at them, because that's all that they understand. I don't know about you, but if you continually have to defend yourself and have an answer ready for everything that you're doing, is this a way to live? No amount of deep breathing and meditation can help, if that's not the language of communication that they understand. I put my faith and trust in the Lord to guide me through all of these obstacles that keep coming to trip me up. Satan doesn't rest - so how can we? Surrender everything that needs to be surrendered. I trust that God breaks me so that I can commune with Him to understand how to be put back together again. It's just that for now, I need to understand what it means to be gracefully broken . . .
Break you to promote you
And break you to put you in your right place
But when He breaks you He doesn't hurt you, He doesn't
When He breaks you He doesn't destroy you, He does it with grace
Anybody been gracefully broken?
Thank You Lord, Thank You
So Father tonight, we're broken before You
Thank You for handling us with grace
Just lift your worship right there in this moment
Everybody has a rock bottom. Some of you might not hit it because you will either have really strong support systems that don't allow you to get broken or maybe you're not living life right? Who knows. But you will know you've hit rock bottom when you don't think you can get any lower to the ground, you have lost everything that you thought was of value and you don't think you can recover. This first part of the song is spoken and available on the album track, but the clip on this video goes straight into the singing. The speech part of the song sets the scene for the rest of the song. You're probably wondering, how do you know you've been broken by God and not by Satan? Well, that's easy. You know God breaks you when He finds a way to install you again, in a position to serve Him and to use your gifts and talents for His glory. What parts of your life has He touched with His grace?
All I have in these hands and multiply
God, all that I am and find my heart
On the altar again set me on fire, set me on fire
Take all I have in these hands and multiply
God all that I am and find my heart
On the altar again set me on fire, set me on fire
What do you have in your hands? We can easily get lost in the rat race of life and forget that we have unique gifts that are often under-utilised in our daily lives. Instead, we try to steal away time to work on our little passion projects in private, in secret. What would we be able to do if we could multiply our gifts? How much more would you be willing to share of yourself? When you allow God to locate your heart, to seek it out and fill it with the fullness of His love, what more could you need? We often hear the phrase 'looking for love in all the wrong places' - why do we persist with that? When we set ourselves on fire, we do so with the intention that we are fulfilling a promise that was made before we were born to live the destiny that we were born to deliver.
Here I am God
Arms wide open
Pouring out my life
Gracefully broken
Where are you at with God? Do you try to hide from Him and His calling for you? I don't know how many times I've read in the Bible, the reluctant heroes that God calls forth to win over His people, to shine a light on His Word and to hold us accountable. How are you going to acknowledge how broken you really are? I don't know about you, but I'm sick of being someone who is meant to be strong all the time. When do you get to be weak? When do you get to be vulnerable? You might be wondering how many more hoops am I meant to jump through? We can't afford to give up, can we? Accept that it is alright to be weak. I know people will often pressure you to just be ok and to push past it, but man, sometimes, you just need to be standing out there with your arms wide open waiting for God to drop a blessing your way. Show Him how broken you are. He already knows. He's waiting on you.
My heart stands in awe of Your Name
Your mighty love stands strong to the end
You will fulfill Your promise in me
You won't forsake me, You will be with me
Have you had that feeling of awe where you feel like your heart is about to burst? We take for granted how good we have it, in comparison to others who are not able to provide for themselves, to fend for themselves. We take for granted so many blessings and instead focus on the burdens. I'm not saying that we should forget about the burdens either, but you need to approach things with the intention to resolve and bring them to its natural fruition. What promise does He have in you? Do you even know? You might be ignoring a calling in you that you have been dreading. You might be delaying the process for the blessings that are supposed to come your way. As much as we celebrate the good times, we should be mindful of the stillness that is sometimes required to assess where to go next.
Here I am, God (say)
Arms wide open
Pouring out my life
Gracefully broken
Say again, here I am, here I am, God
Arms wide open
Pouring out my life (pouring out my life)
Gracefully broken
What would it look like to pour out your life? What would come out? When you go somewhere how do you present yourself? Do you make some kind of grand entrance? Do people feel your presence and energy in the room? I've been to a few events over the years and I think the more that you know yourself, the more that you know how you want to be in the world, and how you would like to engage with people. Sometimes others won't appreciate what you have to pour out of your life. Instead, they make assumptions and make disparaging statements about what you have done, or what they have perceived you have (or haven't) done. They make these comments to break you down and to make you think less of yourself. But you know who you are. You know what the best course of action is because you've been to those places before. Stretch your arms wide open and stay strong in your broken state. You show your vulnerability to be left open to be attacked - take it on the chin. Then go out and one-punch them back (just kidding, save your words for that lol).
All to Jesus now
All to Jesus now
I'm holding nothing back
Holding nothing back
I surrender (I surrender)
Y'all throw your hands up and sing I surrender (I surrender)
Say I surrender (I surrender)
All that I am, I surrender (I surrender)
Have your way, use me Lord, I surrender (I surrender)
Do Your way, it's all Your way, I surrender (I surrender)
Use my life for Your glory, say I surrender all (I surrender)
You want to tell Him right where you are (I surrender)
You shouldn't be holding anything back. When people come at you - sometimes they are the type of people that require the same level of force to be redirected at them, because that's all that they understand. I don't know about you, but if you continually have to defend yourself and have an answer ready for everything that you're doing, is this a way to live? No amount of deep breathing and meditation can help, if that's not the language of communication that they understand. I put my faith and trust in the Lord to guide me through all of these obstacles that keep coming to trip me up. Satan doesn't rest - so how can we? Surrender everything that needs to be surrendered. I trust that God breaks me so that I can commune with Him to understand how to be put back together again. It's just that for now, I need to understand what it means to be gracefully broken . . .