In 2002, the band released their popular second album, Spoken For, which produced two more Top 10 hits. The combined success of the band's first two albums garnered a nomination for the Favorite Contemporary Inspirational Artist at the American Music Awards.
In 2004, MercyMe released Undone which produced two Top 10 hits: Here With Me which also hit Billboard's Top 100 chart that same year, and In The Blink of an Eye which, as of the end of 2005, was at #5 on R&R's top Christian hits. In 2005 they also released their Christmas album titled The Christmas Sessions.
2006 saw the release of the album Coming Up to Breathe, which peaked at number one on the Billboard Top Christian Albums, and #13 on the Billboard 200 album chart. Also released was Coming Up to Breathe Acoustic.
In 2007, MercyMe released their newest album, All That Is Within Me, which debuted at #15 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart.
In 2010 they released The Generous Mr. Lovewell. The album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 and number one on the Christian Albums chart.
August 30, 2011 they released an album titled The Worship Sessions; it's currently exclusive to Family Christian Bookstores and can not be found on iTunes or Amazon.
The The Hurt & The Healer Songfacts says that their eighth major label studio album, The Hurt & Tye Healer, will be released on May 22, 2012. The record was produced by Brown Bannister and Dan Muckala and is centered around the concept of bringing healing to the hurting.
I Can Only Imagine
MercyMe Lyrics
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When I walk by your side
I can only imagine what my eyes will see
When Your face is before me
I can only imagine
Yeah
Surrounded by Your glory
Will I dance for you, Jesus
Or in awe of You be still
Will I stand in your presence
Or to my knees, will I fall?
Will I sing hallelujah
Will I be able to speak at all
I can only imagine
I can only imagine
I can only imagine when that day comes
And I find myself standing in the sun
I can only imagine when all I would do is forever
Forever worship You
I can only imagine, yeah
I can only imagine
Surrounded by Your glory
What will my heart feel
Will I dance for You, Jesus
Or in awe of you, be still
Will I stand in your presence
Or to my knees, will I fall
Will I sing hallelujah
Will I be able to speak at all
I can only imagine, yeah
I can only imagine
Surrounded by Your glory
What will my heart feel
Will I dance for You, Jesus
Or in awe of you, be still
Will I stand in Your presence
Or to my knees, will I fall?
Will I sing hallelujah
Will I be able to speak at all
I can only imagine, yeah
I can only imagine
I can only imagine, yeah
I can only imagine
I can only imagine
I can only imagine
I can only imagine when all I would do
Is forever, forever worship You
I can only imagine
The song "I Can Only Imagine" by MercyMe is a powerful mediation on what it will be like to meet Jesus Christ face-to-face in heaven. The song presents a series of questions and reflections on the experience of being in the presence of God. The chorus repeats the phrase "I can only imagine" as a way of acknowledging that the human mind can only begin to grasp the wonder and mystery of this encounter.
The first verse imagines what it will be like to see Jesus for the first time. The singer wonders what he will feel and what he will see when he finally stands next to God. The second verse asks what it will feel like to be in the presence of God's glory. Will the singer dance for Jesus or be struck dumb with awe? Will he stand or fall to his knees in worship? Will he be able to sing praises or be speechless in adoration?
The song concludes with a repetition of the chorus, "I can only imagine," which invites the listener to join the singer in anticipating this encounter with God. It is a powerful expression of faith and longing that has resonated with millions of listeners since it was first released.
Line by Line Meaning
I can only imagine what it will be like
I can only dream or fantasize about what it will be like
When I walk by your side
When I am next to you, close to you
I can only imagine what my eyes will see
I can only imagine what my eyes will perceive
When Your face is before me
When I am able to see your face directly, when you look into my eyes
I can only imagine
I can only imagine, I can only dream
Surrounded by Your glory
In the midst of your brightness, your awe-inspiring presence
What will my heart feel
What emotions will I feel deep within my heart
Will I dance for you, Jesus
Will I express my joy and happiness by dancing before you
Or in awe of You be still
Or will I be so amazed by your presence that I can't move, I can only stand in silent admiration
Will I stand in your presence
Will I be able to stand tall and confident in your holy presence
Or to my knees, will I fall?
Or will I be so overwhelmed by your majesty and power that I will sink to my knees in adoration
Will I sing hallelujah
Will I sing out in praise to you, shouting 'hallelujah'
Will I be able to speak at all
Will I even have the words to express what I'm feeling, or will I be speechless in your presence
I can only imagine when that day comes
I can only imagine when the day arrives, when I am face-to-face with you
And I find myself standing in the sun
And I find myself in a place of pure light, surrounded by your brightness
I can only imagine when all I would do is forever
I can only imagine when all there will be for me to do is worship you forever
Forever worship You
Worshiping you for eternity
I can only imagine, yeah
I can only imagine, I can only dream, yes
I can only imagine
I can only imagine, I can only dream
Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
Written by: Bart Marshall Millard
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@MD-hg9dq
My objective using wonderful words of life found in the attached prayer for unity is to encourage the disheartened and help the weak by being patient with everyone because our contract with life is brokered with fragility, sadness and anxiety. I am using caps as emphasis to show the honest reverence for GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY.
On a balcony of space STEPPED A PURE AND HOLY GOD. IN AWESOME SOLITUDE YOU STOOD ALONE. Not one faint star to give YOU light; just endless darkness, it was blackest night. But somehow in the darkness YOU COULD SEE.
YOU SAW mountains high and lofty, YOU SAW valleys lush and green. YOU SAW babbling brooks, and wildflowers grow, YOU EVEN HEARD a robin sing. Then through YOUR COMPASSION STANDING OUT THERE IN YOUR TOMORROW, YOU SAW forum's visitors. 🥰
YOU SAW them as sinners because there is no intrinsic righteousness in any of us due to Adam’s sin. YOU SAW them as they grew from a baby into adulthood due to YOUR HANDS OF MERCY. 🥰 YOU SAW them pursuing a career path for the purpose of obtaining the gains of the world not realizing that it is a loss compared to what YOU DID on the cross. YOU SAW them working long and laboring hard to receive the grace by justification even though YOU stated, "This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent."(John 6:29 KJV) YOU SAW the unwillingness to accept YOUR PLAN OF SALVATION THROUGH YOUR SON JESUS CHRIST. YOU SAW them living with the guilt of committing crimes to the heart. YOU SAW them enduring personal crisis. YOU SAW the weight of the burden on their hearts with each tribulation. YOU SAW them seeking comfort from the above mentioned topography, ONE OF THE MANY MARVELS YOUR PERFECT HANDS HAVE MADE. 👏👏👏 YOU SAW their worries about tomorrow.
If their hearts were a window that they could look through, oh the pains and scars they would see. What a cruel fate the skin gives as a mask to the inward pain. But the skin couldn’t cover THE SUFFERING YOUR ONE AND ONLY SON BORED on the cross as PAYMENT for all our sins because HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ALONE HAD THE MERIT TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF YOUR HOLINESS. Indeed, ONLY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS IS SUFFICIENT TO SAVE us from this present evil world as evidenced by Mary's song of praise. "And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." (Luke 1:46-47 KJV) Awesome thanks to YOUR GREAT PARDON for being easy on the heart. 🥰
They have seen a lot of crazy things done in YOUR NAME. For example, the father of lies futile attempts to make crooked the right ways of the LORD to turn people away from faith in the WORKS OF JESUS CHRIST ALONE. How can anyone bear the thought of his or her life story detracting from the GLORY AND HONOR KNOWN TO BELONG TO CHRIST ALONE? As a consequence, YOU ARE A MYSTERY OF GREAT MYSTERY to them. Despite this conviction, YOU ARE MINDFUL of them as evidenced by the fact that YOUR JUDGEMENT is not speedy, allowing them to pursue the desires of the flesh.
They are aware of hypocrisy in religious assemblies that like to be seen and heard. In addition, secular education teaches that there is no right and wrong, if GOD exists there is no way of relating to HIM, and moral standards shift according to the whims of fashion. Therefore, their minds are conditioned to question everything this world has to offer including “THY POWER THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE DISPLAYED.” They have accepted the heavy burden of dealing with the troubles of this life and seeks to know another way, YOU THE GREAT COMFORTER TO ALL who did receive YOU as their personal SAVIOR. Still, YOU have shown them NEW MERCY every day with each thought they make and each breath they take.
Unfortunately, like the prodigal son, we are all guilty of wandering far from YOU LORD because the negative experiences of our lives tend to build roadblocks to the TRUTH. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them to identify the way, truth, and eternal life (that is YOU). Since to know and follow your SPIRIT is more exciting than any 007 movie, and YOU DELIGHT MAKING the ordinary into extraordinary. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST MAKE them understand that there is no way around YOUR TRUTH, and that there is something about YOUR NAME. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them defeat in their minds what is false in YOUR EYES.
LORD GUIDE their thoughts to know that the path of sin is hard on their hearts for the purpose of crying out to YOU to know the joy, peace of having the heavy burden LIFTED by THE GOD OF PEACE I AM, and ANCHOR their souls in THE HAVEN OF REST. In other words, LORD use the storms in their lives to get a hold of them to trust YOU and believe. In truth, YOU ARE THE JOY that seekest them through pain.
LORD HELP their fainting hearts to believe that YOU, who was slain on the cross over 2000 years ago has the POWER TO CHANGE lives today through the INSTANTANEOUS GREAT FAVOR from GOD to the house of Israel made known in believers by YOU to make YOUR NAME EVERLASTING. 🥰 For as the statue liberates the citizens so the cross liberates the soul. ONLY YOU can calm the trouble waters of the mind when one admits to wanting salvation from one’s sinful nature, JESUS IS LORD, and believes in the heart that GOD RAISED HIM from the dead TO LIFT the heavy burden of sin's guilt away from the heart in accordance to YOUR WORD found in Psalm 51:1-10 KJV. 👏👏👏👏👏👏 O, the wonder of it all to experience within the flesh the feeling of a tree being cut back/pruned inorder for it to grow stronger and more beautiful after meditating on the words of said Psalm. 🥰🙌
LORD MAKE them know that ONLY YOUR HOLY SPIRIT, through the experience of a new birth within believers, can prevent the family circle from being broken because THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE YOU HAVE GRANTED means a chapter of their lives is decided. Creation sings the rebirth song for them yearly, through YOUR PROMISE of springtime, giving rise to the idea that by the mention of YOUR NAME flowers grow, and the desert blooms again. 🥰
LORD GUIDE their understanding of words to use to come into YOUR PRESENCE with an honest reverence of WHO YOU ARE to experience the beauty that time can't erase YOUR WISDOM resting on their faces. LORD STRENGTHEN their determination to never waiver in efforts to search for YOU because the wages of sin is too high for anyone to pay. Additionally, THE KING OF KINGS is needed in their hearts to learn how to expand their capacity to love for YOU are LOVE in any language. 🥰 Once they learn to speak it with boldness through YOUR WONDERFUL COUNSELING all the world will hear, and know that LOVE is the language of their hearts. So LORD, KEEP KNOCKING on their doors until they let YOU in to know hardships and struggles will end with a GREAT CELEBRATION WITH YOU. 🥰🙌
If one believes faith cannot be forced, YOU WILL GIVE that individual over to the stubborn heart to follow own counsel which will surely fail him or her to the extent that the punishment will last forever found in Psalms 81 NIV. Given this, I pray that YOU WILL MAKE that person see that this feeling is wasted for a world in which we become strangers as we age, gives us thrills instead of peace, aims to solve a problem but creates another, and unrest surges with each passing generation. Shed some light into their broken hearts for YOU ARE THE GREAT JEHOVAH, THE GOD THAT HEALETH thee.
Lastly, LORD when they call on YOU in earnest prayer to come into their hearts to be born again, I pray that YOU WILL GIVE them the blessed assurance of their salvation because nothing breaks YOUR HEART, or tears YOU apart like when they cry from the trials of the devil who comes to slander, falsely accuse, steal, kill & destroy. Only by drawing nearer to YOU LORD will put them on a path to a glorious one way trip winding upward to YOU where pain is not welcome because the heart will never break anymore. For ONLY YOU UNDERSTANDS our tears since YOU LOOK at the heart, while humans look at the flesh.
O LOVE that will not let them go. When they don't have the strength to try, and have cried all they can cry hear their hearts that need YOU more today than yesterday. Many thanks LORD for speaking TRUTH in our lives TO BLESS those who are not offended by THEE. LET YOUR WILL BE DONE because YOUR LOVE ALONE CONQUERS everything by WAITING for them to cease struggling, and finally surrender to YOUR EMBRACE to learn about YOUR LOVE AND PROMISE TO TAKE CARE of your children exquisitely. 🥰 Since... "at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore"... (Psalms 16:11 KJV), and the nail print for them to know YOU by answering the following question. How did CHRIST LOVE people into a relationship with HIM? 🥰
@ryanflanagan9624
@@mariacordova3289 great videos of encouragement and hope God bless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZdv-TtiMkg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?vBdHogVWU9p0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soLhahpZMgI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESsvMxUQmPU&t=0s
@ryanflanagan9624
great videos of encouragement and hope God bless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZdv-TtiMkg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?vBdHogVWU9p0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soLhahpZMgI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESsvMxUQmPU&t=0s
@slimfrinky
To the tune of "I can only imagine" by MercyMe
We can only imagine
What it would be like
To stand, by his side
We can only imagine
What our eyes would see
Lucifer, now before me
We can only imagine
Yeah
In the Morning Star's glory
What would our hearts feel?
Would we dance for the devil
Or in awe of him be still?
Would we kneel in his presence
Or leap up and stand tall?
Would we cry "Hail Satan"?
Would we be able to speak at all?
We can only imagine
We can only imagine
We can only imagine
a day that won't come
when We'd find ourselves
Standing by Satan
We can only imagine
What we want to do
to forever, forever walk with You
We can only imagine, yeah
We can only imagine
In the Morning Star's glory
What would our hearts feel?
Would we dance for the devil
Or in awe of him be still?
Would we kneel in his presence
Or leap up, and stand tall?
Would we cry "Hail Satan"?
Would we be able to speak at all?
We can only imagine
We can only imagine
In the Morning Star's glory
What would our hearts feel?
Would we dance for the devil
Or in awe of him be still?
Would we kneel in his presence
Or leap up, and stand tall?
Would we cry "Hail Satan"?
Would we be able to speak at all?
We can only imagine
We can only imagine
We can only imagine, yeah
We can only imagine
We can only imagine, yeah-yeah
We can only imagine
We can only imagine
We can only imagine
We don't have to imagine
Other nice things we could do
Like being friends, friends with you
We don't have to imagine
@pktheviking
Who is here to listen to this song in 2024?
@careycohill
Me!!!
@sarakeith5480
Yes! Praise Jesus!!!
@jordanangel143
Me!!!!!!!
@lorettawalker2637
Just heard it did the first time. Love it!
@gordonlutz742
I AM ❤❤❤
CRYING LIKE A BABY 😢
@dantemasini1996
I was an atheist 4 years ago, there was no convincing me otherwise.. now I tear up to this song.. so that’s how life has been lately. God bless everyone.
@renebrewer9895
God bless you 🙏
@michael245
welcome my brother in christ
@kendricksteward3206
May God bless and be with you!!!!❤