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In an interview with Amanda Cook of Bethel Music, she talked about “When you Stand” as a song that had been begging to be written her whole life:
“It comes out in every little spontaneous moment or thought, and there have been traces of this song in anything I’ve attempted to write or put to music. It is such a personal statement and such a broad visual.
For me, I’ve always been stunned by the very thought of God. The thought of God makes me pause and wonder. If I wonder long enough, I wonder about His greatness and Him being God. It starts to transform my thinking about any situation and thought, or patterns that I am in. It prioritizes everything.
With the imaginative language of picturing the slightest movements of God and being completely complete in Himself, full of love and kindness and never stepping outside of those attributes, the slightest movement by God or whisper of God’s voice creates an earth shattering reality for myself as a human being. I wanted to express that to Him for myself and how I process that, kind of like a personal psalm.”
Therefore, may you enter into the presence of the One who beckons you to stand with Him, and explore the wondrous thing – the mystery of His mindfulness of you – that “there’s no place I can go that You’re love won’t find me – no place I can hide that You don’t see…”
When You stand
I feel the floor of Heaven tremble
As You breathe
We live and have our being
When You speak
Oh I feel it in my chest
When You sing
All my fears are put to restWhat a wondrous thing
I can stand to sing
Cause when I fall to my knees,
You’re the One who pulls me up againWhat a mystery
That You notice me
And in a crowd of ten thousand
You don’t miss a thingWhen You sigh
The wind becomes a sonnet
When You laugh
The storm around me ceases
You whisper
And all my enemies are scattered
You surround me
With angels on assignmentThere’s no place I can go that You’re love won’t find me
No place I can hide that You don’t see
No place I could fall and Your love couldn’t catch me
You see it all, You see it all
Through the eyes of loveSo come and see me, come and know me
Come and search my heart and make me like You, like You
I just want to be like You
Come and see me, come and know me
Come and search my heart, and make me new, make me new
I want it, just like You.
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