I Imagine More - Anthem for a new missionary team
A missionary organization I am close to asked me to write another piece for their workers. It is intended to be part of a commissioning service as they go into their mission field. This send-off service will be using Ephesians 3:13-21 as their text.
A point I attempted to convey is both a turn of a phrase and a petition based on the Ephesians text. As the text reads, He can do even more than we can imagine. Therefore, I hope to show that through His power, we can even imagine more. I tried to make it both declarative and petitioning; like trying to convince yourself while reminding yourself it is God's power rather than yours.
Here is the text:
I Imagine More
By Josh Birkholz
Verse 1
I will not fear for he is near
I kneel before my Father
By strengthening my inmost being
Our journey is together.
Out of His glorious riches
His Spirit burns within me
Through faith, my heart’s a dwelling
My Savior holds securely
Refrain
I imagine more;
His power flows in me
I imagine more;
What He can do through me
I imagine more;
With grace immeasur’bly,
So all the world will see,
His children to set free.
I imagine more.
Verse 2
Now I have sought beyond all thought
To grasp this truth unbending
How long and wide; how deep and high;
The love of Christ unending
All glory to the Father
Throughout all generations
He fills us without measure;
And through us fills all nations.
Refrain
I imagine more;
His power flows in me
I imagine more;
What He can do through me
I imagine more;
With grace immeasur’bly,
So all the world will see,
His children to set free.
I imagine more.
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I imagine more;
With grace immeasur’bly,
So all the world will see,
His children to set free.
I imagine more.