Chords for God That Saves // Testimony Feat. Stephen McWhirter

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Can God _ [Dbm] _ [Gb] ransom back a [Gb] life? _ _ _ _ _ _
[Abm] _ Can He ransom back a marriage? _
_ [Bbm] Can He [B] ransom back our [Gb] children?
_ _ Can He ransom [E] back our past, our present, our future, our hopes, our dreams? _
[Dbm] _ [Gb] _ _ _ I love what David says in Psalm 68 [Abm] 20, he says,
Our God is a God who [Bbm] saves.
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And I grew [Bb] up the son of an evangelist, a preacher,
[Gb] and [E] _ in Sunday school I probably heard the phrase,
Jesus is [Gb] my Savior more times than I can count.
_ But the phrase [Abm] was like bones without flesh.
It just never [Ab] took on meaning.
[B] It never sunk in.
It was just a phrase.
_ _ _ [E] And my father and I, we had a rough _ relationship.
It wasn't [Gb] great.
And in my teenage years, when I was 13, I started down a [Abm] path of alcohol and drug addiction.
And [Gb] from when I was 13 on [B] until my early 20s, _ _ it was dark.
It was heavy [E] substance abuse.
In the last five years of this very dark [Gb] chapter, _ I was a crystal meth addict.
And [Abm] every day for those five years, I was using crystal [Bbm] meth.
_ _ [B] And at one point, you know, I [Gb] was just thinking it got so bad [E] that I knew that this is how I would die.
And I remember [Gb] the scary part about it was I was okay with it
because I couldn't _ imagine _ [Abm] ever being [E] able to be free from the hold of this [Gb] spiral that had [B] become my life.
_ _ _ _ But I [E] didn't know that I was about to encounter the God that saves. _
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_ [Abm] _ _ _ _ So, it's [Bbm] good.
_ _ [B] _ _ He is who he says he is.
_ _ And so, [E] let me just capture a moment for you.
It's my story, but [Gb] it's all of our stories. _
_ _ [Dbm] So imagine a room.
[Abm] It's dark.
It's empty.
_ [Bbm] Your thoughts [B] are almost deafening.
_ _ With phrases like, [E] there's no hope. _
_ [B] This situation is [Gb] too far gone.
It's too late. _ _
This is [Abm] unredeemable.
You are unredeemable.
_ _ [Bbm] _ And then [B] a voice _ _ whispers, _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ and it's familiar, _ _ [B] but yet frightening.
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And this voice _ _ _ [Abm] whispers some words, a phrase _ _ [Bbm] that topples every [B] tower of despair, _ _ of shame, of pain, [E] of hurt. _
_ With one phrase, _ _ _
_ _ [Gb] as he begins to say these words to you, this all crumbles.
_ [Abm] _ He says, I am the God that saves.
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From ashes, from ashes I ransom.
_ [E] From rubble I rebuild.
I restore.
I revive.
I [Gb] redeem. I renew. _
_ I'm revealing myself to you. _
[Abm] Do you want to know me? _ _
[Bbm] And like many saints [B] before us, _ _ _ we tremble _ in [E] the presence of this God _ [Db] _ that says these [Gb] words.
_ _ _ And we say, God, _ [Abm] I want to know you.
_ _ I don't know how to let go of all this. _
[B] _ _ I [Abm] don't know how to be anything else.
I don't know how to let go of the [E] hurt, the hopelessness, the destruction.
_ _ _ [Gb] This situation is gone.
It's too [Gbm] much, Lord.
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_ I don't know how to [Bb] let go of this life, this [B] world that I've let surround me like a lifeless tomb, Lord.
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_ I don't know how to do it.
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_ And then the voice _ that spoke [Abm] stars and mountains and all things [Eb] into being _ _ [B] says, _ [Gb] you don't have to, because I will.
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_ Do you believe that I am who I say I am?
[Gb] Do you believe I am [Db] the God that saves?
_ _ _ [Abm] _ And as you agree with his nature and how he's revealed himself [B] to you, _ _ _ _ _ _ like [E] the sun piercing through [B] the trees after a storm,
you [E] see with new [Gb] eyes the one who is beautiful and [Ab] powerful and has [Abm] always been there.
And now [Ab] that thing that [B] seems immeasurable and overwhelming to get past seems so small in [B] his greatness. _ _
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_ _ And I encountered this [B] God, and I know him [Abm] intimately.
This same [Ab] God said to [Abm] me, I transform meth [Ab] addicts into worship [B] leaders. _ _ _
Right?
_ _ _ _ [E] Good.
_ _ _ _ _ _ So [Db] good.
_ _ _ _ _ [Gb] And this same God is revealing himself [Abm] to everyone in this room right now.
_ _ _ [Bbm] He says, I am the God [B] that saves.
Do you want to know me?
I am the Zephaniah [E] 317 God.
I am mighty to [Gb] save.
_ Right?
I delight in you.
I will quiet you with my love.
[Abm] _ _
I will sing over you.
_ It's [Bbm] like a father who [B] has found his long lost child.
_ _ This God is [E] revealing himself to us in this room.
He's saying to you right now, [Gb] _ _ lean in.
_ [E] And if you listen [Abm] carefully, _ _ _ you will hear me [Bbm] sing _ _ [B] over you a song. _ _ _ _
[E] A song of redemption.
_ A song that quiets all the raging [Gb] rivers.
_ _ A [Gbm] song of salvation.
_ [Abm] _ A song of victory.
_ _ _ [Bbm] God, we love you.
[B] _ Because you are the God that [Gb] saves.
And you don't stop there.
It's not just [E] the moment of salvation, Lord.
You redeem the [Dbm] broken [Gb] marriages.
You save us from the situations that we [Abm] think are hopeless, God.
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You are ever [B] faithful at this, Lord. _ _
And we want to love you well [E] in this moment right now.
It's the God that saves.
_ [B] Let's stand.
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