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These are the lyrics to my current album 'Isn't It Good'
  1. Perfecting Your Praise
  2. Melt it
  3. Oh Father
  4. Isn't it Good
  5. After all These Years
  6. Is it Really You
  1. I find my Happiness
  2. Reach Up
  3. When I look at You
  4. Yes, Lord
  5. You're the Only One
  6. Fisherman
Perfecting Your Praise

What is my life but a mirror
Reflecting Your glory all through my days
And what are my lips but sanctified instruments
Yielded to You Lord, perfecting Your praise

I’m only here to reflect You
Your life must increase while mine slowly fades
So here, take my life – a sanctified instrument
Yielded to You Lord, perfecting Your praise

By the time I get to heaven I wanna be ready
My heart, my hands and my voice to You I’ll raise
So I’ll do the reflecting and You do the perfecting
Do Your work in my life
Perfecting Your praise

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Melt it

Search me, know me, know when I sit and when I rise
Good thoughts, bad thoughts - there’s nothing I can disguise

‘Cause You know when I go out. You know where I lie down
There’s nowhere I can go that You will not be found

So hide me, guide me, night is like daylight to You
Lead me, test me, see everything that I do

And before I speak a word You know what I’ll say
Such knowledge is too wonderful, it just blows me away – Hey!

You search me and You know me
You test me - see everything

So take it, break it, do what You will with my heart
Melt It, mould it, take every motive apart

Yes, take me, make me all that You want me to be
Oh, search me and try me - there’s nothing You cannot see

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Oh Father

Oh Father, Hallelujah
Oh Jesus, praise Your name
Oh Spirit, I surrender
To Your brightly burning flame

Oh brother, hallelujah
Oh sister, praise His name
Oh dear friends, let’s stand together
We are one in Jesus’ name

Oh harvest, you are ready
Oh labourers, praise His name
Oh revival, sweep upon us
Come to us in power again

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Isn't it Good

Isn’t it good to be part of Your family?
Isn’t it good to belong to Someone?
Isn’t it good to be part of what’s close to Your heart?
You will finish what You have begun

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After all These Years

Something’s gone, it lifted from me
As the dawn appears
Now Your glory rises on me after all these years

As Your Spirit falls upon me
Shining through my tears
Feel the burden taken from me after all these years

How could I forget agony and sweat
Crown of thorns upon Your head?
Now my heart just longs for to You belongs
A glorious crown of majesty instead

Something’s gone, it lifted from me
As the dawn appears
Now Your glory rises on me after all these years

How bad can it get? It’s not over yet
Waiting for You King of Kings
I can’t right all these wrongs but I can sing my songs
Yearning for the beauty only You can bring

As Your Spirit falls upon me
Shining through my tears
Feel the burden taken from me after all these years

Something’s gone, it lifted from me
As the dawn appears
Now Your glory rises on me after all these years
As the dawn appears
After all these years

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Is it Really You?

We were all alone Lord
We thought that You had gone Lord
And we wanted to be strong but we were too afraid
And time was getting shorter
As You came walking on the water
But even then we just ignored You
We were just dismayed

Is it really You Lord?
We don’t know what to do Lord.
Is it really You Lord? we don’t know
Is it really You Lord?
We don’t know what to do Lord
If it’s really You then please don’t go

Now walking on the sea Lord – You know it isn’t really me Lord
And I really don’t feel free Lord, I don’t think that I can
Is there no other way Lord?
Do I have to obey Lord?
Well,OK if You say Lord, but I am just a man

I’m feeling quite afraid Lord
I’ve been looking at those waves Lord
You know I really wish I’d stayed Lord, I’m sure I’m being missed
Whatever was I thinking
I’m sure my clothes are shrinking
Oh no! I think I’m sinking! Lord get me out of this!

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I find my Happiness

I find my happiness
I find my happiness
I find my happiness
In keeping Your commands

I find my happiness - oh yes!
I find my happiness
I find my happiness
In keeping Your commands

Don't make gods of earthly idols
Don't envy other's gain
Keep one day special for the Lord
Don't take His name in vain

Do not murder, do not steal
Be faithful to your wife
Love your mother and your father
Do not cheat or lie

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Reach Up

Reach up, reach in and reach out!
Reach up, reach in and reach out!

We reach up in worship, we reach up in prayer
We reach up believing that You’re really there

Reach up, reach in and reach out!
Reach up, reach in and reach out!

We reach in to find the potential You give
The fruits of Your Spirit, Your power to live

Reach up, reach in and reach out!
Reach up, reach in and reach out!
Yeah! That’s what it’s all about!

Yeah! Alright! Yeah,we’re reaching up to seek and find
Come on, leave the past behind
God is good and God is kind – reach up, reach up, reach up!

Reaching in to find your dream. Welcome to the greatest team
Jesus gives you self esteem – reach in, reach in, reach in!

Reaching out with one accord, bringing others to the Lord
Holy Spirit shed abroad – reach out!

We reach out to others. We want them to know
That You really love them. Your family will grow

Reach up, reach in and reach out!
Reach up, reach in and reach out!
Yeah! That’s what it’s all about!

Reach up, reach up, reach up!
Reach in, reach in, reach in!
Reach out, reach out, reach out!
Yeah! That’s what it’s all about!

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When I look at You

They say the world is changing but it isn’t for the good ,no
And I’d love to contradict them – oh, but don’t think that I could
‘Cause I look at the papers and I watch the TV, yeah
It don’t seem to get no better,oh no, sad to say, I must agree

But when I look at You I see something good
You know I see the world, oh, the way I should
When I look at You everything begins to change
And I see something new – oh, when I look at You

Just look at all the people - they’re only trying to get along, yeah
To rise above the ashes - it seems you have to be so strong
And some of us just don’t make it,do we?
Well, are you hearing what I say?
You know I never saw the answer, oh no, not until I turned away

But when I looked at You I saw something good
You know I saw the world, oh, the way I should
When I looked at You everything began to change
And I saw something new - when I looked at You

Ooh, You put sunshine in my darkness
You put a crown upon my head, yeah
You know, I’d be so lost without You, like a dried up river bed

Now I can face tomorrow and I know You’re gonna stay
‘Cause I know that You’ll be with me whatever comes my way
You know, I’m really just so grateful that You ever came along, yeah
‘Cause if it wasn’t for You,oh no, well I just couldn’t sing this song

But when I look at You I see something good
You know I see the world, oh, the way I should
When I look at You everything begins to change
And I see something new,oh, when I look at You

Yes, when I look at You I see something good
You know I see the world, oh, the way I should
When I look at You everything begins to change
And I see something new, oh, when I look at You
I look at You – oooh yeah………

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Yes, Lord

Yes Lord, glorify Your Name
Yes Lord, fan us into flame

For we want Your church to grow
And we want Your love to show
There’s so much we need to know
So Lord come and teach us

Yes Lord, glorify Your Name
Yes Lord, fan us into flame

For we know that You are here
So we come and we draw near
And we don’t want any fear To come between us

Yes Lord, glorify Your Name
Yes Lord, fan us into flame

Bless the work that You’ve begun
May Your Kingdom really come
Let Your will on earth be done
As it is in heaven

Yes Lord, glorify Your Name
Yes Lord, fan us into flame
Oh, yes Lord, glorify Your name
Yes Lord, fan us into flame
Fan us into flame
And glorify Your name
Fan us into flame

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You're the Only One

Take my wine and water, Lord, and bless them to my body
Take my food and the very air I breathe
In every little thing may I give You the glory
‘Cause You’re the Only One I’ll ever need

Take my love and living, Lord, and use it for Your glory
Take my way of life and let it be
A shining light to others saying that I’m trusting only
Upon the Only One I’ll ever need

Take my gold, my giving, Lord, and use it in Your service
Use it, Lord, to spread Your precious seed
That others may find love, that others may find Jesus
To be the Only One they’ll ever need

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Fisherman

I heard You talk, watched You walk on the sea
Oh and I saw You give, watched You live perfectly
And it’s breaking my heart
Because I can’t believe that You’re dying
And it’s breaking my heart because I can’t believe that it’s true
Oh I heard You say, ‘watch and pray, fisherman’

I remember it was cold that night I was standing by the firelight
Somebody said that I was Your friend
But I denied Your name and then I did it again
I know You said that it would be so
I was scared and I couldn’t let it show
But my heart nearly broke in two when I heard the cock crow

Oh I heard you say, ‘watch and pray, fisherman’

I remember the night so well, we were riding the boat on a swell
And then the waves came overboard and we woke You up
We said ‘help us Lord!’You stood up and you took command
Stilled the waters with a wave of Your hand
And all You said was, ‘peace, be still.’ What a wonderful man!

Oh,I heard You talk, watched You walk on the sea
Oh and I saw You give, watched You live perfectly
And it’s breaking my heart because I can’t believe that You’re dying
And it’s breaking my heart because I can’t believe that it’s true
Oh I heard You say, ‘watch and pray, fisherman’

Three days, they went drifting past. How long they seemed to last
But what a day when we went to Your tomb
And found that it was empty
Oh, I don’t believe I ever ran so well
We went back with the news to tell
I could hardly believe it. Could it really be true
that You came back alive?

Oh, I heard You talk, watched You walk on the sea
Oh and I saw You give, watched You live perfectly
And it’s breaking my heart when I think about how I deny You
And it breaks my heart when I think of what I’ve done to You
Oh I heard You say, ‘just watch and pray, fisherman’
Fisherman, fisherman

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