Jesus I Adore

Since I already blogged “Home” from this collection earlier, this is the last song from the emmanuelworship album, fifteen. All their sheet music is free at their site.

While their style is for the youth rallies of the Ignite conferences, I think we should be looking at the material there a bit like Michael Herry’s archive. They are both large stores of Australian Catholic songs that can be repurposed outside of their originating style and have lots of talent and inspiration locked up inside.

This one has a specific liturgical use, albeit for Adoration rather than the Mass. It was written by Roby Curtis and Liam Desic. It has five verses quietly covering the history of the universe from creation to Pentecost then a noisier chorus and bridge for adoration after which it calms down somewhat for the last verse. There is a rousing send off with bridge and chorus then ending with vocals only. It is Adoration as an emotional roller coaster.

My backing doesn’t go the whole eight plus minutes as I lopped off the extra chorus and bridge at the end. BIAB was exhausted. The tune has a hint of the Irish, which inspired my choice of style.

Verse 1:
The universe
Was still and void
Till our God breathed
And broke the noise
Creation’s pride
In human kind
To live among his earthly life

Verse 2:
And as we failed to honour Him
He picked us up to love again
The prophets sent to speak His words
To tell us of a coming Son

Verse 3:
And He was born in Bethlehem
Jesus Christ, a virgin’s son
A humble man He grew to be
Our God amongst humanity

Verse 4:
With miracles, His powers known
It drew the ire of Roman throne
They strung Him up to breathe His last
Sealed in earth, our King was lost

Verse 5:
With blinding light, and quaking earth
He slayed death, restoring hope
He built our Church, on Peter’s rock
And sent the fire of Pentecost

Chorus:
I will worship thee
All the days of my life
I will praise Thy name forevermore
Glory be Father Spirit and the Son
Jesus I Adore

Bridge:
We press on in the faith of our fathers
We press on through the lives of the saints
Holy Mother pray for us children
Jesus I Adore

Verse 6:
Two thousand years have passed since then
And still we sing and praise His name
Until that day the heavens roar
Salvation of our Christ the Lord

Chorus:
I will worship thee
All the days of my life
I will praise Thy name forevermore
Glory be Father Spirit and the Son
Jesus I Adore

Bridge:
We press on in the faith of our fathers
We press on through the lives of the saints
Holy Mother pray for us children
Jesus I Adore

Chorus:
I will worship thee
All the days of my life
I will praise Thy name forevermore
Glory be Father Spirit and the Son
Jesus I Adore

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