I WANT TO FOLLOW YOU FOREVER

I WANT TO FOLLOW YOU FOREVER

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the songs from I Want to Follow You Forever are about:

a faith of asking questions, dreaming,
and feeling His pleasure as we run

the church as the living, resurrected, Body of Jesus
instead of a place or a brand

the loving-kindness of the Lion of Judah
adopting and transforming people,

difficult calling and deep love from our friend, Jesus,

hymns that are worship and prayers I love,

the power of Love and His
grace to kill sin and change our form,

and God giving us children to teach us His Love.

WHAT IF MY

QUESTIONS

what if my questions
are the strongest things I’ve thought?
what if my heartaches
are the truest feelings that I ever got?

I’ve been looking for a perfect answer
I’ve been looking for a perfect home
I’ve been trying to tell you how I’m feeling
To know I’m not alone

what if my failures
are what teach me who I am?
what if my trials
take me one step closer to what makes me a man?

I’ve been looking for a perfect answer
I’ve been looking for a perfect home
I’ve been talking up through the ceiling
To know I’m not alone

I’m learning how to dream again
hands open, will you show me something more?
I’m running like your child again
Son of man, throw my weights off to the floor

what a mystery undone
like a seed Your Kingdom comes

what if my healing
is perfected through my pain?
what if my tears fall
and I think You can’t hear me when I call Your name?

I’ve been looking for a perfect answer
I’ve been looking for a perfect home
I’ve been working for a life of meaning
To know I’m not alone

I DON’T WANT TO “GO

TO CHURCH” ANYMORE

I don’t want to “go to church” anymore
but I want to know the Holy Ghost
and I want to commune with the Body of the Word

I don’t want to hear my voice on the megaphone
telling everybody what I know
in a room full of people but I’m all alone

Holy, holy, holy
separate me from the life I’m leaving

Holy, holy, holy
resurrect me with your Body’s breathing

I don’t want to “go to church” anymore
paying pastor for a better show
but I want to be filled with the Spirit of the Lord

I don’t want to make a sales call at your door
but I really want to love you more
arms wide like a father saying “come on home”

oh, priests of the kingdom
parts of the Body
come together

oh, sisters and brothers
love one another
come together

oh, shepherds and teachers
prophets and preachers
come together

oh, temples and people
filled with the Spirit
come together

He is coming to judge me
He gives a fair trial
He knew every law I trampled
And I knew the guilt was flooding over me

I was dead to the jury
I was a poor sinner
But my dad is rich in mercy
And the blood of Jesus covered everything

He is not safe, but He is good
My father and my King
Singing over me

I’m a child of the Lion of Judah
I’m a child of the Lion of Judah
Adopted in His family
Seated with the King

He pulled me from the darkness
I am a new creation
And in my fear and in my trembling
He is working to complete the light in me

Put your hope in the love of the Father
Be still in the love of the Father

I’M A CHILD OF THE

LION OF JUDAH

JESUS, WHAT

A FRIEND

must I hate my family to give my heart to You?
this cross seems pretty heavy
can my body take it too?

I have counted up the cost
and I'm gonna follow through

Jesus, what a friend, Jesus, what a friend
closer than a brother
closer than my mother
even though I love her

can I be a rich man
and call Your kingdom home?
I'd rather be with You
Than live in selfishness alone

so I'll give You my comforts
and I'll lay down at Your throne

how could You still love me
through everything I've done;
when You see me outside of time
like a father sees his son?

Your love is understanding
it's the power in Your blood

Jesus, what a friend, Jesus, what a friend
closer than a lover
the delight of any other
closer than a brother
closer than my mother
even though I love her