Come and take Your Place

I choose to believe You are faithful and true
Your love endures today
Oh soul, praise the Lord
In You I take rest
All I need is You

So won’t You come and take Your place
At the center of my heart?
Won’t You bring me in?
All I need is found in You Presence

Oh my soul, oh my heart
Oh words and outstretched hands
Sing now, cry out, and prophesy
In a dry place?
In a weary land?
This soul longing now for
The author of salvation
The writer of redemption
The One who did not consider equality with God something to be grasped
The One who came, who died, who rose again
For the One who is faithful
The only true sovereign
Come and take Your place
Here, at the center of this heart!

Oh heart, oh flesh, cry out!
Your Spirit is water to my soul
Come again to me
Constantly drawing near
Always closer
Like the ever arising dawn
Like the relentless waves
Like love more jealous than the grave
Like the pouring of oil and wine

What goes up must come down
So I lift these prayers to Heaven
Expectantly looking for them to return
Your Word does not return void
So I claim Your Word again and again
Come and do exceedingly and abundantly
Come and do more than enough
I lift my eyes to Heaven

Asking for great and mighty things
The dreams, purpose, and desire from Your Throne
Let Your Word run swiftly upon the earth
Let Salvation spring up from the ground
Come, Heavenly Father and rend hearts
Even for the apple of Your eye
Even for Your covenant people
Even now, and even today

So lead me to Your Heart
If all I need is only found there
I can only find it in You
There is all I need
There is all I ever wanted
Just come
Come and take up Your place
Chief at the center of my heart!

I still want You
Ever have I loved You
You are the only One I can’t get away from
You are the only One from whom I can’t stray
My heart has been given completely over
I have been ruined to this world
It cannot entice
It cannot seduce
My eyes have seen beauty
My heart has been enthralled
Fascination
More than affection
More than desire
Divine Love

And this soul has found satisfaction
Not needing to try to earn
The closer we go, the better You are
There is always something even more glorious
Even more wonderful
Even higher exhilaration
In the King of Kings
In the Lord of Lords

So won’t You come?
Won’t You move?
Taking up Your place in this one
This one who was made for You

You are not far away
You are near, You are near
Let Your Word go forth like a hammer
Running swiftly throughout the earth
Prevailing over the plans of men

The Lord is my Shepherd
And that’s all I need to know
The King is my protector
And my hope is not disappointed
I hear Him speaking
Saying, to walk in the way
The Lord’s hand is upon me
I will never live in darkness
So come and take Your place
Here at the center of my heart