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“Keep Me In Your Heart” – (Live)
I know it’s been over 3 months since I was last able to upload a new song, so here at last is a new song! I started writing this song back in June of 2012 and just finished it this month. It pulls from several scriptures that talk about hiding God’s word in our heart and making room for Jesus in our heart. As it says in Ezekiel, God will replace our hearts of stone with a new one of flesh and put his Spirit in us, where he will come and dwell.
Here are some of the scriptures I pulled from directly in writing the lyrics for this song. For the musical style I was inspired by my good friends Satellites & Sirens and hope to maybe collaborate with them on a recording of this song in the future.
How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word. I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands. I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.
—Psalm 119:9-11
Pay attention and turn your ear to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what I teach, for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have all of them ready on your lips. So that your trust may be in the Lord, I teach you today, even you.
—Proverbs 22:17-19
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.
—Deuteronomy 6:5, 6
My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you. Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye. Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
—Proverbs 7:1-3
Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
—2 Corinthians 1:21, 22
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
—Ezekiel 36:26, 27
Lyrics
Keep Me In Your Heart
There is coming a day
When you won’t have me here with you
Just keep me in your heart
We’ll never be apart
For you know the place I go to
And I’ll make a space for you
Just keep me in your heart
We’ll never be apart
Keep, keep me in
Keep me in your heart
Oh, I’ll never depart
Just keep, keep me in
No, I will never leave
Just make room for me
In your heart
If you abide in me and I in you
They’ll know you by your love
Just keep me in your heart
We’ll never be apart
Not by bread alone does man live
But by every Word of God
Just keep me in your heart
We’ll never be apart
Hide my Word in your heart
To keep you from sin
Seek me with your whole heart
And your feet won’t slip
Write my Word on your heart
To keep my commands
And I will give you a new heart
Where I’ll come and live
Deuteronomy 6:5, 6; Deuteronomy 30:6; Deuteronomy 31:8; 1 Kings 8:57, 58, 61; Psalm 37:30, 31; Psalm 119:9-11; Proverbs 3:3; Proverbs 22:17-19; Ezekiel 36:26, 27; Matthew 6:19-21; John 14; 2 Corinthians 1:21-22
Copyright © 2012 Dawson Cowals.
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