GOD FIXATION

01 If I Had To Die For Someone
Words: Bob Hartman
Music: Lonnie Chapin and John Elefante

I wear my seatbelt in the car I buckle up for safety
I run for cover from the storm
I wear a Band-Aid on my knee I look both ways when crossing and I flee
Any danger I can see
And if I try each day to save my life in every way I can
How could I understand the way
You died for me

Cause I don't know if I could even if I think I would
If I had to die for someone
If I had to die for someone else
How could I ever give my life to set the guilty free
When I cannot imagine
If I had to die for someone else like me
Someone else like me

I keep away from falling rocks and I don't play with matches
I lock the door I don't know why
It seems to me I'm much too old to wear a scarf out in the cold but
I want to live until I die
I guess I love my life a little more than I should love it
And if I had to I don't know if I could
Lay it down

And I am glad that You are not at all like me
Cause You laid down Your life and did it willingly
It still amazes me to know
It's me that You were thinking of
No one else could have a greater love
A greater love

02 Hello Again
Words: Bob Hartman
Music: Brian Wooten and John Elefante

Everybody has to say their goodbyes
While they wipe away the tears from their eyes
Everybody bids a fonder farewell
When they know there won't be any sequel
Everybody says a Sayonara
When they know they won't be back tomorrow
Everybody hopes to have reunions
Back together with the ones they knew once

There's a salutation that's reserved for heaven's own

Hello again - we're back together
Hello again - we're here forever
Hello again - rejoined in heaven
Hello again

Everybody's gonna be there waiting
They just want to see you graduating
Gonna see the ones who've gone before us
They'll be cheering in a mighty chorus
Everybody will be glad to see ya
Even if it wasn't their idea
Every argument will be forgotten
We remember them for now but not then

When we see each other there'll be just one thing to say

Say goodbye to the loneliness forever
Say hello to the garden once again
Say goodbye to this world of stormy weather
Say hello to the One who calls you 'friend'

I can't wait until we're reunited and we say

03 A Matter Of Time
Words: Bob Hartman
Music: Bob Hartman, John Elefante and Brian Wooten

Do you ever think about the ways you're getting older?
You sit around and realize your heart is colder
There'll come a time you'll think your youth is almost over
Where did it go, you'll never know so you'll just wonder
Did you ever want to turn the hands of time back to you childhood?
Back to the time you had it made you had it so good
What would it take to see mistakes before they happen?
What would you do with all the choices that you made then?

It's just a matter of time
It'll all be over
It's just a matter of time
Better think about it
It's just a matter of time
You know you're getting older
It's just a matter of time

You sit around, you're all alone, the party's over
You think about it all again, your thoughts are sober
You waste away another day and then it happens
You're old and grey, you dream away about your past sins

It's just a matter of time
And it makes you wonder
It's just a matter of time
How did it go so fast
It's just a matter of time
You know you're getting older
It's just a matter of time

God has a plan worth listening to
Not built on sand that is sifting through
It's not too late for redeeming the time

04 Falling Up
Words: Bob Hartman
Music: Pete Orta and John Elefante

Standing on the corner I was losing track of time
When away in the distance saw an old friend of mine
He was smiling when he walked up held a tract out in his hand
Then he told me Jesus loved me and said 'so do I, man'
Told me Jesus wants to save me from the fiery pit of hell
Then I told him I was livin' there and I knew that place well
I was just about to leave when a love came over me
Like nothin' I had felt then we kneeled and we prayed
Right there in the street we prayed

And now after all those years of falling down
I fell up in the arms of Love
When I heard Him call

He was there and I could hear Him calling
I was falling up into His arms
Love was catching me that day and somehow
I was falling up then
And I'm falling up now
I'm falling up now

I remember that same feeling I'm reminded everyday
See Jesus lives inside me and I know He's there to stay
Sometimes I start to fall down just like any other man
But His arms are there to catch me
And lift me up again

After all those years falling down
I fell up in the arms of Love
When I heard Him call

He was there and I could hear Him calling
I was falling up into His arms
Love was catching me that day and somehow
I was falling up then
And I'm falling up
Now - couldn't live without Him
Now - wanna know more about Him
Now - I'm falling once again
Now - falling up to heaven

05 Over The Horizon
Words: Chelsea Brandow
Music: Pete Orta and John Elefante

Traveling far from home
Out into the unknown
Nothing familiar around me
This journey seems so long
As I await the dawn
All alone and so weary

There's a Light over the horizon
I'll keep walking down this road of hope
Faithful in my prayer
There's a Light over the horizon
Though I may not know what lies ahead
I trust that You'll be there

I spend too many days
Lost in a mindless haze
Not really sure of my purpose
And I may question You
And what I'm going through
When life seems so uncertain

There's a Light over the horizon
As I'm walking down this road of hope
Faithful in my prayer
There's a Light over the horizon
Though I may not know what lies ahead
I trust that You'll be there

Some days are a mystery to me
But I believe that answers are revealed in time
Even when the path is just not clear
I'm anticipating what I'll find

There's a Light over the horizon
I'll keep walking down this road of hope
Faithful in my prayer
There's a Light over the horizon
Though I may not know what lies ahead
I know that You'll be there
You'll be there

06 God Fixation
Words: Bob Hartman
Music: Pete Orta, Lonnie Chapin and John Elefante

He's got a straight head in a world of brain dead
He's got a clean nose even when the wind blows
He's got a backbone even when he's all alone
Ain't taken no chances following the masses
He's got his mind set
On high with his affections
He's got the jones
He makes no bones

It's a God fixation
A singleness of heart, an undistracted mind
It's a God fixation
Addiction of a different kind

He's got 20/20 vision making a decision
He's so unaffected by what he has rejected
Rooted and grounded - he's standin' up to be counted
He's already proved that he will not be moved
He will not bend to
The pressures and persuasions
He knows the lies
He won't compromise

Fascinations
In the heavenlies
Imaginations
In captivity

07 Set For Life
Words: Bob Hartman
Music: Kevin Brandow, Brian Wooten and John Elefante

He likes caviar he likes champagne
Calls his broker just to check his gain
He made a profit of considerable size
Don't ask him no questions he will tell you no lies
He kept thinking that he had it made
Never considering the price he paid
Earth bound treasures that will fade away
There ain't nothin' that will last him through the judgement day
Then he heard somebody say
There's a true Way

You'll be set for life
If you give your heart and believe what He's done for you
You'll be set for life
With your treasure stored up in heaven when you're through
Woah, woah
Never have another care as long as you are there
Woah, woah
Rich in God beyond compare

Now these days he's like a different man
He's got a heart of gold he lends a helping hand
All he has he knows is never his
His heart is up in heaven where his treasure is
And now you'll hear him say
In his own way

You'll be set for life
If you give your heart and believe what He's done for you
You'll be set for life
With your treasure stored up in heaven when you're through
You'll be set for life
You'll have all you need just receive with a willing heart
You'll be set for life
You'll be on your way any day you decide to start
Set for life
You've got it made

Now he has the right to say
In a true way

08 Magnet Of The World
Words: Bob Hartman
Music: Bob Hartman and John Elefante

There are things that look attractive on the surface of despair
There are things that hold my interest when I really shouldn't care
I have felt intoxicated viewing pleasures from afar
But I've been illuminated when they're seen for what they are
Keep me ever closer
Save me from this strong seducing...

Magnet of the world
It reaches to my heart and pulls me
Magnet of the world
Wants to keep me far from You
If it wasn't for Your love that holds me
I would give in to
The magnet of the world

When a compass pulled by magnetism points a different way
It's not hard to lose your bearings, it's not hard to go astray
Guide me with Your lighthouse
And keep me from the rocks and from this

When will I be free from this
The unfulfilling counterfeit
When will I learn to resist
The constant pull that does exist
Take me farther from this path
Of least resistance now
Will You show me how?

09 Shadow Of A Doubt
Words: Bob Hartman
Music: Bob Hartman and John Elefante

Shadows of a different kind
Come and cloud my mind and make me wonder
Am I still in touch with You
Or could it be my doubting point of view
Seems like only yesterday
I was seeing clearly through the haze
Now I find I'm not so sure
When a shadow casts its doubt upon my ways

Beyond a shadow of a doubt
I seem to find You waiting there
Behind the wall of my own reason
I discover how You care
Lord, I know You won't ignore my prayer
Through faith I'll find You waiting
Beyond a shadow of a doubt

I know You are waiting there
I can hear You when I'm listening
I can't see You clearly now
And I know that I am missing all You have...

I will follow You although I cannot see my way
Cast Your light upon these shadows
Make them go away
If I hear Your voice I will obey
Help my unbelief and help me go...

10 St. Augustine's Pears
Words and music: Bob Hartman

St. Augustine was a 4th century bishop who, in his classic The Confessions of St. Augustine, recounted an incident in his youth where he stole some pears from an orchard. He was haunted his whole life because he realized the only reason he stole this pears was because it was wrong.

Late one night I heard a knock at the door
The boys were really painting the town
I was just another bored teenage boy
Kickin' up and actin' the clown
One dare led to another dare
Then things were getting out of control
We hopped the fence and we stole the pears
And I threw away a part of my soul

Now it's haunting me how I stole those pears
'Cause I loved the wrong
Even though I knew a better way
Not for hunger or poverty
It was more than pears that I ended up throwin' away

Time goes by - now I'm old and grey
Those pears are just a memory
I would gladly pay all I have today
But that's just not the problem you see

'Cause it's haunting me...

Why do we love all the things that are wrong
Forbidden fruit has a strange siren song
Why do we do what we don't want to do
When we live with regrets our whole life through

And it's haunting me...

And I don't even like pears that well

11 The Invitation
Words: Bob Hartman
Music: Kevin Brandow, Brian Wooten and John Elefante

The King has planned the supper for the wedding of His Son
And He sent out His servants to invite the chosen ones
But they would not receive them and they all refused to come
So He sent them to the highways inviting everyone
They came from every direction
They entered into the gates of the One
The One who called them and gave them
The right to sit next to His Son

Do you see...
It's your invitation
Your presence is requested at the marriage of the Lamb
It's your invitation
To be the guest of honor at the wedding of the Great I Am

They'll come from every nation, tribe and tongue
All those with the ears to hear Him knocking
There will be rich and poor alike there will be old and young
He stands outside of the door
Not all will hear Him but there will be some
They'll hear the voice of the Bride and the voice of the Spirit say, 'come'

Do you hear...

Oh, He's Gods worthy Lamb
We'll drink from the Water of Life
In garments of white
With no end in sight

Did you know...
It's your invitation
Your presence is requested at the marriage of the Lamb
It's your invitation
To be the guest of honor of the Great I Am