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Week 1 Songs

Music is one good way to let the Good News enter our hearts. Throughout this series we are suggesting some songs from a variety of genres for reflecting on the Kingdom. Take a listen and see what speaks to your tastes and heart. View all songs for the series here.

The Power of One (Change the World) - Israel Houghton

Christian worship leader Israel Houghton sings this compelling call to action for changing the world by starting with ourselves. Shown here is a live acoustic performance of the song.
Written by Israel Haughton and Ricardo Sanchez
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What if it all depended on me
To change the world, to change the world?
What if my only responsibility was
To change the world, change the world?

Let me be the one to start a revolution
Let me sing my song to the people of the world

It all begins with one, the power of one
Joining the hundreds of millions of people believing
In one, the power of one
Don't hang around, stand up or sit down and believe

We can change the world together
We can change the world together

What kind of love can conquer disease?
And change the world, change the world?
What I can do to make poverty history
And change the world, change the world?

Let me be the one to start a revolution
Let me sing my song to the people of the world
To the children of the world

It all begins with one, the power of one
Joining the hundreds of millions of people believing
In one, the power of one
Don't hang around, stand up or sit down and believe
We can change the world together
We can change the world together

Please don't close your eyes, please don't turn away
Let your voices rise, put love on display
And make a difference now
I believe you and me can make a difference now

It all begins with one, the power of one
Joining the hundreds of millions of people believing
In one, the power of one
Don't hang around, stand up or sit down and believe

We can change the world together (3x)

It all begins with one
It all begins with one

You and me can make it, you and me can make it
You and me can make it better together
You and me can make it, you and me can make it
You and me can make it better together with one

Build Your Kingdom Here - Rend Collective

This raucous number by Northern Ireland's Rend Collective brings to mind Mumford & Sons and the Lumineers.
Come set Your rule and reign
in our hearts again.
Increase in us we pray.
Unveil why we're made.
Come set our hearts ablaze with hope
like wildfire in our very souls.
Holy Spirit, come invade us now.
We are Your church.
We need Your power in us.

We seek Your kingdom first.
We hunger and we thirst.
Refuse to waste our lives
for You're our joy and prize.
To see the captive hearts released.
The hurt, the sick, the poor at peace.
We lay down our lives for Heaven's cause.
We are Your church.
We pray revive this earth.

Refrain:
Build Your kingdom here.
Let the darkness fear.
Show Your mighty hand.
Heal our streets and land.
Set Your church on fire.
Win this nation back.
Change the atmosphere.
Build Your kingdom here.
We pray.
Unleash Your kingdom's power
reaching the near and far.
No force of Hell can stop
Your beauty changing hearts.
You made us for much more than this!
Awake the kingdom seed in us!
Fill us with the strength and love of Christ.

We are Your church.
We are the hope on earth.
From the recording Homemade Worship by Handmade People by Rend Collective.
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Kingdom Comes - Sara Groves

Christian singer-songwriter Sara Groves offers this song of the Kingdom growing in us from small beginnings and against the challenges of life.
When anger fills your heart 
When in your pain and hurt
You find the strength to stop
You bless instead of curse

When doubting floods your soul
Though all things feel unjust
You open up your heart
You find a way to trust

Refrain:
That's a little stone that's a little mortar
That's a little seed that's a little water
In the hearts of the sons and the daughters
The kingdom's coming
When fear engulfs your mind
Says you protect your own
You still extend your hand
You open up your home

When sorrow fills your life
When in your grief and pain
You choose again to rise
You choose to bless the name

In the mundane tasks of living
In the pouring out and giving
In the waking up and trying 
In the laying down and dying
Written by Sara Groves © 2005 Sara Groves Music (admin. by Music Services) ASCAP.
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