With a musical journey that has crisscrossed all kinds of rock music, folk music, and electronic music, he carries a songwriting sense that aims to capture dense images of life with God,
in compositions that can be carried with the listener. He aims to tell the old story of the Gospel in an ever-shifting world, without resorting to easy truisms, or lazy language. His new collection of songs, The Bright Sadness, echoes a journey pressed to the chest of God, joyful and sorrowful at once, with God's heart clear and pulsing in each note and word. It wraps liturgy with the unexpected, and daily mundanity with daily surprise.
As many of the Passion collegiate gatherings were recorded live, Hall was quickly dubbed "a voice" for the Passion movement, performing on all eight Passion albums, which have sold more than one million units.
Charlie expresses the desire to be "honed into God, where I'm not part of a culture where I'm trying to make the people around me think, 'Hey, that's a good Christian.' I'm just trying to pursue God and not pursue being accepted into a club...I'm more honed into my pursuit of God in Christ and how he's forming me and changing and helping me love him and know him.
Renewing and encouraging local churches, engaging young and old with social justice action, widening hearts to see God at work in the whole world, spurring local artists on to imaginative and creative expression, and offering songs of rest to those who are simply tired are some of the hopes of Charlie, and his band of gypsies. Hall's band, in which he performs vocals and guitar, consists of Kendall Combes (electric guitar), Brian Bergman (keyboard), Dustin Ragland (drums), and Quint Anderson (bass guitar).
Let Everything That Has Breath
Charlie Hall Lyrics
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Everything that has breath
Praise the Lord
Let everything that, everything that
Everything that has breath
Praise the Lord
Let everything that, everything that
Everything that has breath
Praise the Lord
Let everything that, everything that
Everything that has breath
Praise the Lord
Praise You in the morning
Praise You in the evening
Praise You when I'm young and when I'm old
Praise You when I'm laughing
Praise You when I'm grieving
Praise You every season of the soul
If we could see how much You're worth
Your power, Your might, Your endless love
Than surely we would never cease to praise, praise You
Yeah, yeah
Let's cry out from our hearts, let everything - spoken
Let everything that, everything that
Everything that has breath
Praise the Lord
Let everything that, everything that
Everything that has breath
Praise the Lord
Praise You in the heavens
Joining with the angels
Praising You forever and a day
Praise You on the Earth now
Joining with creation
Calling all the nations to Your praise
If we could see how much You're worth
Your power, Your might, Your endless love
Than surely they would never cease to praise, praise You, Jesus
Jesus
Let everything - spoken
Let everything that, everything that
Everything that has breath
Praise the Lord
Let everything that, everything that
Everything that has breath
Praise the Lord
From your hearts - spoken
Let everything that, everything that
Everything that has breath
Praise the Lord
Let everything that, everything that (let everything that)
Everything that has breath (let everything that has breath)
Praise the Lord
Praise the Lord
Praise the Lord
With all your heart, and all your soul, and all your mind, and all your strength
Jesus, we lift You up
The lyrics of Charlie Hall's song Let Everything That Has Breath are an invitation to all creation to praise the Lord. The repetition of the phrase "Let everything that has breath, praise the Lord" emphasizes the universal nature of this call to worship, as every living thing on earth is summoned to give glory to God. The song then goes on to describe different ways in which we can praise the Lord, from morning to evening, in joy and in sorrow, and with our entire being, heart, soul, mind, and strength. The lyrics acknowledge the worthiness of God, His power, might, and endless love, and invite us to join the angels in heaven and all nations on earth in giving Him praise.
Line by Line Meaning
Let everything that, everything that
Everything that has breath
Praise the Lord
Every living creature with the ability to breathe should offer praise to the Lord.
Let everything - spoken
A call to action to allow everything to offer praises to the Lord.
Praise You in the morning
Praise You in the evening
Praise You when I'm young and when I'm old
Praise You when I'm laughing
Praise You when I'm grieving
Praise You every season of the soul
Offering praise to the Lord in all of life's circumstances, whether in joy or sorrow, youth or old age.
If we could see how much You're worth
Your power, Your might, Your endless love
Than surely we would never cease to praise, praise You
Yeah, yeah
An acknowledgement that if we truly understood the worth and power of the Lord, we could never stop offering Him praise.
Let's cry out from our hearts, let everything - spoken
A call to action to proclaim praises to the Lord from the heart.
Praise You in the heavens
Joining with the angels
Praising You forever and a day
Praise You on the Earth now
Joining with creation
Calling all the nations to Your praise
An exhortation to join with both heavenly and earthly beings in offering praise to the Lord and calling all nations to do the same.
Let everything - spoken
A continued call to action to allow everything to offer praises to the Lord.
From your hearts - spoken
Further emphasis on the importance of offering genuine praises from the heart.
Let the everything that, everything that
Everything that has breath (let everything that)
Praise the Lord (let everything that has breath)
Praise the Lord
Praise the Lord
With all your heart, and all your soul, and all your mind, and all your strength
Jesus, we lift You up
A final affirmation of the importance of all living creatures offering sincere and wholehearted praises to the Lord, lifting Jesus up with every fiber of their being.
Contributed by Christopher O. Suggest a correction in the comments below.