So I’ve decided that I’m going to be reviewing new music that I’m listening to each and every Friday. So far with things like this, it doesn’t last very long, but I’m going to try my best.

I am completely enamored with this CD right now. I received this record from a friend at church a long time ago, and I remember listening to it once, maybe twice and then putting it away. Then just the other day, my friend Michelle Armstrong posted the song “Follow You” on her facebook page. It was a cool live version of them singing it with Brandon Heath. I was telling Susan the other day that a lot of times I’ll hear a record and listen to it, then put it down for a couple months, and then when I pick it up again, it just blows me away!

Here’s what the Leeland site (http://www.leelandonline.com) has to say about the record:

Leeland’s passionate, progressive music is well known for creating a stir among a new generation of worshipers. Love Is On The Move continues the band’s mission of calling believers toward an active role in being God’s hands and feet on earth so that His kingdom can continue to press into the world. With a collection of epic vertical songs, Leeland’s powerful anthems and penetrating melodies are poised to spark a new revival in the church.

Now, I could review each and every song on this album, as Leeland and the bands words are just AMAZING and inspiring than any other band out there today. But I’m going to focus on “Follow You” for now, since it was the first song to really stick out to me.

Hear the cry of their hearts in their chorus of this song:

You lived among the least of these
The weary and the weak
And it would be a tragedy for me to turn away.

All my needs you have supplied.
When i was dead you gave me life.
How could i not give it away so freely?

And i’ll follow you into the homes that are broken.
Follow you into the world.
Meet the needs for the poor and the needy god.
Follow you into the world.

Use my hands use my feet
To make your kingdom come
Through the corners of the earth
Until your work is done
’cause faith without works is dead
And on the cross your blood was shed
So how could i not give it away so freely?

And i`ll follow you into the homes that are broken.
Follow you into the world.
Meet the needs for the poor and the needy god.
Follow you into the world.
(x2)

I give all myself.
I give all myself
I give all myself.to you.

And i give all myself.
Yes i give all myself.
And i give all myself.to you.

And i’ll follow you into the homes that are broken
Follow you into the world.
Meet the needs for the poor and the needy god.
Follow you into the world.
(x2)

Now these words may be impacting me more than others, as I’m freshly off of a mission trip to Africa and I’ve seen this first hand, but these are really powerful words. I think my favorite “concept” of the song, is how the bridge says, “I give all myself. I give all myself. I give all myself. to you.” Then it says, “And I’ll follow you into the homes of the broken.” The idea that we have to first give our ourselves and empty ourselves of us, before we can be used by God to go into the homes of the broken is just amazing. This was my biggest lesson I learned on my way to Africa, and will hopefully continue to learn.

Do yourself a favor, and instead of going to Starbucks today and Panara for lunch, buy this record!

Here’s the video I was talking about: