WOLVES AT THE GATE LYRICS

1. We Are The Ones

I consider my life worth nothing to me if only I may finish the race
and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me. The task of testifying
to the Gospel of God's grace. Now I know that none of you whom I have gone
about preaching the Kingdom will ever see me again. Therefore I declare
to you that I am innocent of the blood of all men for I have not hesistated
to proclaim the whole will of God. Keep watch over yourselves and all the
flock to which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of
the church, of God, which He bought with His own blood. I know that when
I leave savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock.
Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to
draw away disciples after them. So be on your guard. We are not the wolves
at the gate, we are the ones who face them.

[Acts 20:26-32; Luke 10:3; Matthew 7:5, 10:6]

2. Vapors

Death awaits us all as we walk this path
Though different endings, in His light or in His wrath
We never know what awaits
For every loved one lost I see the pain in every heart
And still we all must pay the cost our sin has kept us apart

So you've got the world
Gripping your life in your hands
Taking for granted the breath in your lungs
But death has a voice
Singing to us "Make your stand!"
Death is ever certain we all share this fate
I watched you go away Know it was coming
Vanished and we didn't know it We didn't know it
I sat and watched and prayed we didn't know it We didn't know it
God has called your name We didn't know it

In death we see that we are just as vapors
And life has become what we all do savor
When all is lost and taken away
Endless nights to weep and pray
We're letting it all out still it feels so quiet

For every loved one lost I see the pain in every heart
And still we all must pay the cost our sin has kept us apart
Still in these bodies feeling fragile with the same fate
Never knowing if our time fills or death awaits
While our hearts are pounding inside we'll fight and not break
To my King I will confide my everything

In death we see that we are just as vapors
And life has become what we all do savor
When all is lost and taken away
Endless nights to weep and pray
We're letting it all out still it feels so quiet

Still I'll walk Your path for You write my story
And I'll count the days till I see Your glory
You will clothe us in spotless white
I'll sing to Your glories, what a beautiful sight
A host of saints and all the angels
With no constraints and nothing painful
We'll sing these songs and You will listen
In the Book of Life our names are written

[Psalm 39:5, 116:15-16, 144:4; John 5:24, 12:23-26; I Corinthians 15:21-22; II Corinthians 5:1; Hebrews 9:27]

3. Heralds

Check my pulse, am I still breathing?
Will You grasp my wrist and hold it dear to You heart?
To see if I am beating for You and only You my Father

How we live and fight is who we are
"Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?"
"Who you are is all from Me"

I'm leaving behind the things of this world
"Follow me my son and let the dead bury their own"
So test me oh Lord, examine my soul
"Follow me my son for what you reap you will have sown"

Give light to my eyes to see Your glory divine and break through these skies
Hear me when I cry to see Your grace come down and purge these dead lives
"Have I not given you a spirit of power and love?"
I will live to fight for these dead lives
"Have I not given you a spirit of power and love?"
How we live and fight is who we are

And as You dwell inside my heart your burning a fire that's growing
So when I feel the warmth subside rekindle the embers that's burning

Check my pulse, am I still breathing?
Will You grasp my wrist and hold it dear to You heart?
To see if I am beating for You

A herald I am
"A mirror to Me"
For sin is destroyed
"You've been set free"
How we live the fight is who we are
"Who you are is all from Me"
"You will suffer but my strength is enough"
Still send me
"Though You will suffer your strength is in Me"
Still send me

[Isaiah 6:8; Matthew 8:20; Psalm 126:5; Matthew 6:26; II Timothy 1:7]

4. Tonight My Son

Tonight my son, be still and sleep while storms are crashing
On this deep we drop the anchor with the hope
This vessel holds us still
Oh Great Captain, You navigate the storm
My son be still and sleep while storms are crashing
Oh Great Captain, You navigate the storm

An angry water surges the waves have taken its toll
While this ship submerges on my tempest soul
And though we've weathered the storm
You know the next one could be much stronger
And I can see the shoreline
Is a mirage or a sign?
I can feel the anchor fast as I meet each sudden blast
And the cable though unseen bears the heavy strain between
Each storm I safely ride until the turning of the tide
As I meet each sudden blast

We drop the anchor with the hope we won't set sail into the storm
We set the sails and tie the rope tonight my son, be still and sleep

My anchor holds until this tempest calms and dies
For this squall's the throne to which He rides
Still this faith will last the waves demise
All these purging skies will never see my end

We drop the anchor with the hope we won't set sail into the storm
We set the sails and tie the rope tonight my son, be still and sleep

As the waves crash over and over
You are my anchor
Every gale I meet
The plight of all the seas can't separate me
For all I have is Yours

[Psalm 23:2, 91:11, 138:7; Isaiah 43:1; Ephesians 4:14; Hebrews 6:18-19]

5. No Rival

Fight the good fight, (the) attempt for the brave
This trek for the lost has brought more than a grave
Bathed in the fire for you hope water's pure
The flames will grow higher it's taste is your cure

I do not fear the world's fire for it (only) burns for a moment
And though it sears my skin I rest for it shall relent
With the world at your feet and the fire on your back
It has nothing to give me for You've claimed my soul
No sacrifice could be too great
Some think I've lost my mind abandoned sanity
To speak of truth to find a saving clarity

For it will cost my/your life
Forsaking comfort and ease to trade it all for a heart with no rival
You will be met with strife
And make you fall to your knees we'll trade it all for a heart with no rival

Throw all your hate and your wrath into the fire and
Cast all your pain and your fear unto the graces
Of our God and King for the evil will attack
Suffer for His love for it (only) burns for a moment
With the world at your feet and fire on your back
For the God above, for His grace will not relent
No sacrifice could be too great
Fight the good fight, you know you must be brave
This trek for the lost to save
Eighteen years I have served the Lord
And He has never let me down

For it will cost your life
Forsaking comfort and ease to trade it all for a heart with no rival
You will be met with strife
And make you fall to your knees we'll trade it all for a heart with no rival

Expect suffering and invite all the pain
Lord you have changed me and I am not the same

[Hebrews 13:6; I Corinthians 6:20, 7:23, I Peter 4:12-19, 5:7; II Corinthians 1:22; I Timothy 6:12]

6. Oh The Depths

Oh the depths of riches, like the water that fills the earth
The knowledge of my Creator who gives me worth
And though I crave to know all of the patterns of this world
Is endless for it's beyond tracing out

So from as far as I've seen there is a great hoard against me
Because I am a man sights see targets on my back
For all our hearts are not clean and the archers fire freely
Because I am a man sights see targets

For every knee will bow and every tongue confess
That you are God! For you are God!
His image bears the sight of the unseen King
His name is ever pleasing for this we do sing
Father of grace and mercy has poured out His wrath
Forever Your name proclaims!

The Father of grace and mercy has poured out His wrath completely
On His Son for our sake we are free who brought the Lamb to slaughter for me

Oh the depths of riches, like the water that fills the earth
The knowledge of my Creator who gives me worth
I have not a gift to bring for all things are from Him and glory forever
But as their arrows are drawn there is refuge in view

Now don't get me wrong I am the least of these
I have no knowledge to give or power to seize
I have not a gift or a planned endeavor
For all things are from Him and glory forever

There is love! Here is love! This is love! There is love!
Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Have they not been made such a
fool in their squalor?
For they desired a sign and sought for the wise
When the precursor of life was right in front of their eyes

Oh death, oh death
Has lost it's sting on me
Oh death, oh death
You've been forever conquored

The Father of grace and mercy has poured out His wrath completely
On His Son for our sake we are free who brought the Lamb to slaughter for me

[Romans 11:33-36; Acts 8:32; I Thessalonians 5:9; Romans 14:11; Isaiah 40:18; I Thessalonians 1:10]







WOLVES AT THE GATE LYRICS