Melanie Hart: Music & Lyrics

From Melanie Hart's book, A New Thing: The Stories Behind the Music... "Depression. I’m not sure when it all caught up with me. But I believe it was the accumulation of years, perhaps decades, of suppressed emotions, guilt I carried, family issues, and several years of intense life circumstances that had been pressing in on me when I hit that wall. You know the wall I’m talking about when you’ve hit it!

Have you been or are you there? I promise you there is life on the other side of it. This is how What You Desire realized a breakthrough for me."

Romans 12:1-2, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”

Romans 13:11-12, “And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of the darkness and let us put on the armor of light.”


What You Desire

Renew my mind,
Oh what vanity and pride I carry,
Restore my soul,
‘cause my past is on the cross!

What is holy, what is acceptable, that’s what You require
A living sacrifice, my entire life,
That’s what You desire from me!

Renew my strength,
For I’m nothing apart from You!
Restore the fire
that burned when I first believed!

Chorus

I cast off the darkness, put on the armor of light
For you are my provision, My Lord, my Christ,
My Salvation is here! My Salvation is here!
My Salvation is in You… my Risen King!