This week’s featured song story comes to us from Meredith Andrews & We Are Messengers. We’re excited to share with you the story behind their song “Needing You Now.”
“We had just had a bus crash just before we started writing the song and we were pretty raw and hurting real bad. The hurt is always chasing us. It’s always following us and eventually it catches up with us. In those moments my tendency is to despair, to forget about God. But it was just this oversensing that we needed to re-focus our attention. What am I going to do with my hurt What are you going to do with yours and your disappointment other than go to Him in desperation and say, ‘God you’re in the middle of this, in the middle of my disappointments, in the middle of all my expectations. God in the middle of loss and life and my only response is to go ‘I need you.’ Cause I can’t do anything without him.” – Darren Mulligen (We Are Messengers)
Click on the video below to hear Meredith and We Are Messengers share the story. Scroll down to listen and read the full lyrics of the song.
From the album My Utmost For His Highest.
“Needing You Now” Lyrics
[Verse 1]
In the shadow of my hurt
It’s been hard to see Your face
When the wreckage and the failure
Feel like more than I can take
[Chorus]
O how I need You, yes, I still do
O how I’m needing You now
O how I need You, yes, I still do
O how I’m needing You now
[Verse 2]
Disappointment stole my song
But I choose to sing again
Of the kindness You have shown
When I could barely lift my hands
[Chorus]
O how I need You, yes, I still do
O how I’m needing You now
O how I need You, yes, I still do
O how I’m needing You now
[Bridge]
You are my hope, You are my future
If I can have You, nothing but You
I have it all, now I let go
And now I surrender, if I can have You
Nothing but You, I have it all
You restore every broken thing
You return ever melody
You’re the calm in my raging sea
My healing, healing
In Progress…
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