'If I Stand' and "Hold Me, Jesus"--Rich Mullins

'There's more that rises in the morning than the sun
and more that shines in the night than the moon
It's more than this fire here that keeps me warm
in a shelter that is larger than this room

and there's a loyalty that's deeper than mere sentiment
and a music higher than the songs that I can sing
The stuff of earth competes for the allegiance
I owe only to the Giver of All Good Things

So if I stand let me stand on the promise You will pull me though
and if I can't, let me fall on the grace that first brought me to you
If I sing, let me sing for the joy that has borne in me these songs
and if I weep, let it be as a man who is longing for his home

There's more that dances on the prairies than the wind
and more that pulses in the ocean than the tide
There's a love that is fiercer than the love between friends
More gentle than a mother's, when her baby's at her side

and there's a loyalty that's deeper than mere sentiment
and music higher than the songs that I can sing
The stuff of earth competes for the allegiance
I owe only to the Giver of All Good Things

So if I stand, let me stand on the promise that You will pull me though
and if I can't, let me fall on the grace that first brought me to You
and if I sing, let me sing for the joy that has borne in me these songs
and if I weep, let it be as a man who is longing for his home."







"Sometimes my life just don't make sense at all
When the mountains look so big, and my faith just seems so small

So hold me, Jesus, 'cause I'm shakin' like a leaf
You have been King of my glory, won't You be my Prince of Peace?

And I wake up in the night and feel the dark
it's so hot inside my soul, I swear there must be blisters on my heart

So hold me, Jesus, 'cause I'm shakin' like a leaf
You have been King of my glory, won't You be my Prince of Peace?

Surrender don't come natural to me.
I'd rather fight You for something I don't really want
than to take what You have that I need.
and I beat my head against so many walls
I'm fallin' down, I'm fallin' on my knees...

And the Salvation Army band is playing this hymn
and Your grace rings out so deep, it makes my resistance seem so thin

So hold me, Jesus, 'cause I'm shakin' like a leaf
You have been King of my glory, won't You be my Prince of Peace

I'm singin', Hold me, Jesus, 'cause I'm shakin' like a leaf
You have been King of my glory, won't You be my Prince of Peace
You have been King of my glory, won't You be my Prince of Peace