Carman - Serve The Lord (Raising The Standard) Chords

You [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _
[Cm] may be seated.
_ [Ab] _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [Bb] _
I [Eb] believe in God the Father, Jesus Christ his only [G] Son,
And the [Cm] blessed Holy Spirit, [F] distinct yet three in one.
[Bb] I [Eb] believe there is forgiveness for everything [G] we've done,
That is [Bb] why all the [Fm] more I [Eb] will serve him.
[Cm] _ _ [Ab] _ _ I [Eb] believe the Son of God was crucified [Bb] upon a [G] tree,
[Cm] Laid within a [Ab] borrowed tomb not [F] far from Calvary.
[Bb] I [Eb] believe he rose up [F] from the grave [Bb] alive,
For [G] all to see, that is [Ab] why all [Fm] the more I [Eb] will serve him.
_ _ And I have [Bb] made my [C] decision, I've [Ab] staked my [Eb] claim,
I've drawn a line in [Eb] the sand, I won't be [Bb] ashamed.
With the world behind me and the [Ab] cross before,
By [Cm] the grace of God I will [Eb] serve the Lord. _
[Abm] How many know what I'm talking [B] about here tonight?
I [E] believe you must be born again, [B] John 3, 16, do [Ab] you know that it's true?
[Dbm] The old life can [A] be washed away, [Gb] everything [B] made new.
And I [E] believe the love [Dbm] of God can somehow [Db] find its way [Ab] to you,
That [A] is why all [B] the more I [E] will serve [A] him.
And I [Db] have made my decision, [E] I've staked [E] my claim,
[A] I've drawn a line [E] in the sand, [Gbm] I won't be [B] ashamed.
With the world behind me [A] and the cross before,
By the grace of God [Gb] I will [E] serve the Lord.
And [A] I know when Satan [B] and his minions [Gb] come to torment me,
When I invoke the [B] name of Jesus, [Gb] every demon, every demon [E] has to flee.
And [Gbm] I know the time will [B] come when Christ returns again someday,
[D] Till then there's just [E] one name on earth [Gb] where a byman can [B] be saved. _ _
[E] There are many of you here tonight that have never made a decision to serve the [Db] Lord,
To make Jesus Christ [Ab] the Lord of your life.
[Dbm] What I'm going to do is ask you [E] to do something that I did [Gb] 18 years ago,
That [Db] radically changed my life forever,
[E] And that's make a public confession of faith to the Lord Jesus Christ.
[B] Jesus says, if you will [Ab] confess me before man, I will confess [A] you before my Father which is in heaven.
[B] If you will deny me before man, [E] I will deny you before my Father which [Db] is in heaven.
Jesus [Ab] Christ is the only way.
[Dbm] No man can get to God except it be through him.
He is the way, [Bb] the truth, and the life, and the only way to get [Abm] to God.
What we're going to do is we're going to open up the perimeters of this stage,
As we [B] have done so many times before.
[Ab] If you've never been born again, [A] never made Jesus Christ the Lord [B] of your life,
As we begin to sing, [E] I'm going to ask you to make your way out into those aisles,
And come on down here to the edge of this platform, and I'm going to pray with you.
[B] We have made our decision, we have stayed,
[E] We [A] have drawn the [E] line, we won't [D] be ashamed,
[B] The world behind us, the world [Ab] across before,
[A] And the cross, [E] _
[Dbm] the grace of God [A] we will serve. _ _ _
[Gb] _ _ I [Db] have _ made my decision, [Gb] I have stayed my claim,
[B] I've drawn the [Gb] line, they have said, [Abm] and I won't [Db] be ashamed,
With the world behind me, [B] and the [Gb] cross before,
[Ebm] By the grace of God, I will [Gb] serve the Lord.
By the [B] grace of God, [Abm] I will serve [Ebm] the Lord.
[Gb] By the [B] grace of God, I will serve [Gb] the Lord.
_ [Ebm] _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ [Abm] How many have made your decision to serve the [Db] Lord here tonight?
_ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _