Land of Revival
In Micah 4:6-7 the Lord declares, “I will gather the lame; I will assemble the exiles. I will make the lame my remnant, those driven away a strong nation.”
This song is an outpouring of our thanks, acknowledging that we get to live in this day, right in the middle of this promise. We’ve followed as He’s led us deeper into His promised land of revival and we absolutely cannot help but pour out our gratitude to the King who makes good on every word He has ever said.
Make Way
Habakkuk 3:2 says, “I have heard all about You Lord. I am filled with awe by Your amazing works.”
In a writing session as a team, we really started to press into that reality; this mighty, awesome, wonderous, source-of-all-glory God chooses to come into our midst. All of creation longs for Him, looks to Him, waits for Him. What does it look like for us as His children to join in this awareness of His presence and prepare the way for Him to enter in? We’ve found that as we worship and declare the greatness of our Father, our hearts become postured to welcome Him in along with His truth and His mercy. This song is a call to let the glory of His presence awaken your spirit, to declare the greatness of who our Father is, and to bring you into a radical joy and a hope filled expectancy that only comes in knowing Him.
Altar
Who Else
Your Presence
The presence of God is our deepest desire. There is nothing like it that empowers, guides, nurtures and refines. This song came from a spontaneous moment in a prayer service when that deep well of desire for a greater awareness of His presence flowed through as we worshipped Him. There is nothing more precious than relationship with Him and the sweetness and power in His Presence is worth seeking out forever.
Worship is an act of sacrifice. David says in 2 Samuel 24:24, “I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord which cost me nothing.” By the blood of Jesus, God takes our humble offerings and turns them into a fragrance pleasing to Him. We are met with a beautiful exchange, all of us for all of Him. Altar is a heart’s cry to the Father that we will lay down everything, no matter the cost, to remain at His feet and in His presence.
Trading My Sorrows
The first time we worshipped to this song as a church, the Presence of the Lord came in such a powerful way, giving a new sense of clarity to the purpose in all we do. It has quickly become an anthem that carries our hearts’ cry. Who else could possibly be worthy of every breath, every step, every act of sacrifice and worship? No one, only You Jesus.
Chroma has been marked by profound joy that infiltrates hearts every time we enter into worship. This deep joy isn’t an absence of pain and difficulties, it’s the awareness of our Father’s presence and promises right in the middle of them. This song has become a family favourite for our church as we declare the power in laying every sorrow of the night at the foot of the cross to pick up the joy that is promised to us every morning!
Even More Than This
We wanted a song that would encapsulate the Lord’s call over our church to carry this undignified, rid-of-all-pride, laid-down-for-Jesus joy and praise. We began writing from Psalm 100, entering His gates with praise, and as the song progressed we moved to 2 Samuel where David says, “I will be even more undignified than this”. The original note for this song was titled “Joy and High Praise in Chroma” and when we found the line “even more than this” we could immediately see our entire church doing our thing, lost in ecstatic praise repeating this line over and over. This song is an anthem declaring the freedom in praise God has called us to walk in and an encouragement to worship free from the fear of the opinion of the person next to you and lose yourself in the holy adoration of our King and Saviour.
Dance Like David Did
After we wrote our song Even More Than This, we knew there was something more. We needed to end with a response that our church could join in on and that’s when we had the idea to try a praise break. We stripped it back all the way down to drums and slowly added instruments back in until the defining keys moment allowing our church to dance and worship like mad in response to that call to praise. We ran through it in rehearsal and for the service told Aearon to sing something over the final instrumental and we’ll just see what happens. In a true Holy Spirit moment, Aearon came out with “I’m gonna dance like David danced” and right there we found our response. Our church, called to be a place of joy and high praise, was absolutely overflowing with undignified praise.
Angels Ever Sing
Worshipping together as a team at the start of a writing week, the Lord’s presence came in such a beautiful moment and we began to sing, “Angels ever sing how good You are. We join in the chorus singing Holy”. We turned to Revelation 5 and reached out to our pastor Tim who sent us numerous voice notes about the meaning of the passage and the depth of what he gave us blew us away. With those insights we set out to write a song that would carry the tender heart of God alongside the worthy magnitude of our Saviour. We could never fully comprehend the weight of what Jesus bore for us, but this song is a declaration that we will forever choose to be a part of the heavenly chorus giving all glory and honour to the King. He really is so worthy!
Most Beautiful Face
This song was born out of a moment during a writing retreat with some friends when one of them, staring at a crucifix on the wall, began to tear up and said, “I just can’t stop thinking about how beautiful His face is”. We sang that reprise over and over again, “You have the most beautiful face, You have the most beautiful face.” As we began to lead the song in our home church, this song really started to take shape. God spoke to Pastor Steve about worshipping to the same song over our ministry time every Sunday so that as people worshipped the Spirit of testimony would be released and faith would arise in the room to see the miraculous come to earth. “Most Beautiful Face” has become that healing anthem over our church. This song was produced with the intention of smashing through the barriers of unbelief, making way for His healing power to move and the Lord is always so faithful to come as we focus on His glory.
Holy Spirit - Live From The Call Back
The journey to writing Holy Spirit began for Joel on a trip to Avivamiento, Colombia with his dad Steve. Joel was massively impacted by the honour and the emphasis that the church gave to all three members of the Holy Trinity, of whom the Holy Spirit is one. Avivamiento sang songs that specifically lifted praise and worship to Holy Spirit. Their songs were deeply personal and intimate. When Joel asked them about why they wrote the songs they did they replied “why would we sing someone else’s love song? We want to sing our love songs.” On the journey home, Steve turned to Joel and said “we need our Holy Spirit song.” He was right. From there the team started jamming around with some chords and just started singing “Holy Spirit, we love You”. The rest of the song was written around it, describing what Holy Spirit was doing in our midst. We then spent a lot of time trying to nail the production, wanting to create a piece that somehow captured the intimacy with Holy Spirit we were stepping into. This is our love song to Holy Spirit. We want to honour Him, exalt Him and adore Him forever.
I Thank God - Live From The Call Back
Come Home
Come Home speaks of God’s heart for the prodigal children, whom He waits with a desperate longing to welcome home. It is a reminder that His endless love pursues us, that we are chosen and called and that in His new life we are cleansed and redeemed. Writing this song, we found ourselves coming up with lyrics that felt empty until we were given the writingprompt, “Listen to that still, small voice.” Immediately, a friend came to mind.They were in a difficult space, had experienced Christianity in their childhood but did not know Jesus. That didn’t matter, because He knew them and He was calling them home.As we began to write on a personal level, the heart and truth in the song finally began to unfold. Our friend has since surrendered to the Father and given their life to Jesus. This song has become a prophetic declaration that the lost will Come Home.
