The Word - Steve Schallert

Say the word and there is light Say the word and dead bones rise Every start and end hangs on Your voice For Your word never returns void Written in a billion skies Speaking to this heart of mine All that I am with all creation Hanging on every word that You've spoken And it will not be shaken Clinging for life to all Your promise Hanging on every word that You say It will remain And my soul will hang on every word You say Word made flesh You wrote in grace Promise kept through cross and grave Over words of stone, You spelled out love And when You say, "It is done" It is done Written in a billion skies Speaking to this heart of mine All that I am with all creation Hanging on every word that You've spoken And it will not be shaken Clinging for life to all Your promise Hanging on every word that You've Written in a billion skies Speaking to this heart of mine All that I am with all creation Hanging on every word that You've spoken And it will not be shaken Clinging for life to all Your promise Hanging on every word that You say It will remain And my soul will hang on every word You say 'Cause I know Your word will never ever fail And my soul will hang on every word You say

It's working, working, working The word is working inside of me The spirit of life is alive in me The word is working inside of me Oh the spirit of life is alive in me Hey The word is working inside of me The spirit of life is alive in me The word is working inside of me For the spirit of life is alive in me The word is working on the inside Flowing through the outside, making me over The word is working on the inside Flowing through the outside, making me over again The word is working on the inside Flowing through the outside, making me So I lift my hands tonight The limitations are broken I lift my voice tonight All the walls around me are fallen The word is working The word is working The word is working, oh The word is working The word is working The word is working in me Lift him up It's working, all over oh Here we go again The word is working inside of me Oh the spirit of life is alive in me The word is working inside of me Oh the spirit of life is alive in me The word is working on the inside Flowing through the outside, making me over The word is working on the inside Flowing through the outside, making me over again The word is working on the inside Flowing through the outside, making me over again So I lift my hands tonight The limitations are broken I lift my voice tonight All the walls around me are fallen The word is working The word is working The word is working, oh The word is working The word is working The word is working in me, go All over It's working, all over It's working, all over Oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh The word is working The word is working The word is working, oh The word is working The word is working The word is working, oh The word is working The word is working The word is working, oh The word is working The word is working The word is working, oh The word is working in me Is working through me The word is working on Is working on, is working on, is working in me Here we go Oh oh oh oh oh (it's working) Oh oh oh oh oh (it's working) Oh oh oh oh oh (it's working) Oh oh oh oh (it's working) Oh working, oh Oh working, oh, it's working Oh working, oh Oh working on, it's working Oh working oh, it's working Oh working, oh, it's working Oh working, oh (transforming, renewing) Oh working, oh (and lifting, compelling) Oh working oh Oh working oh Oh prevailing, oh Oh transforming, eh It's working It's the brighten It's lifting Celebrate the working word

Looking out from His throne Father of light and of men Chose to make Himself known And show us the way back to Him Speaking wisdom and truth Into the hearts of peasants and kings He began to unveil The word that would change the course of all things With eyes wide open all who'd see The word is alive And it cuts like the sword through the darkness With a message of life to the hopeless and the frail Breathing life into all who believe The word is alive And the world and its glories will fade But it's truth, it will not pass away It remains yesterday and forever the same The word is alive Simple strokes on a page Eternities, secrets revealed Carried on from age to age It speaks truth to us, even still And as the rain falls from heaven Feeds the earth before it returns Lord, let Your word fall on us And bring forth the fruit You deserve With eyes wide open, let us see The word is alive And it cuts like the sword through the darkness With a message of life to the hopeless and the frail Breathing life into all who believe The word is alive And the world and its glories will fade But it's truth, it will not pass away It remains yesterday and forever the same The word is alive The bible was inscribed over a period of 2000 years In times of war and in days of peace By kings, physicians, tax collectors, farmers Fishermen, singers and shepherds The marvel is that a library so perfectly cohesive Could have been produced by such a diverse crowd Over a period of time which staggers the imagination Jesus is its grand subject, our good is designed And the glory of God is its end The word is alive And it cuts like the sword through the darkness With a message of life to the hopeless and the frail Breathing life into all who believe The word is alive And the world and its glories will fade But it's truth, it will not pass away It remains yesterday and forever the same The word is alive (world and its glories will fade) The word is alive (it's truth, it will not pass away) This word is alive (this word is alive, this word is alive)

Lay me down into the ground I once was lost but never found I have forgotten my own sound And in the void of love I dug myself this hole And I'm here waiting for a stranger Oh I've played the wayfaring stranger Long enough to have tasted all danger Yet Your grace refuses to waver As you take my... burdens on Thee Lay me down into the waves Let your love wash pain away Heal this sickness in my veins There is a light which causes death to die It's a mystery full of wonder Oh I've played the wayfaring stranger Long enough to have tasted all danger Yet Your grace refuses to waver As you take my burdens on Thee I pray lay me down That you might raise me up