The heart
The heart of the song is gratitude, joy and reverence. It gives that posture a simple musical home so the listener can enter the theme without needing a long explanation.
Gathered Praise Worship song
Every Breath
Every Breath sits within the Bless the Lord EP as a opening praise song. It carries praise through gratitude, joy and reverence, giving listeners a focused way to pray, reflect and respond in worship.
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Purpose
Why this song exists.
Every Breath exists to give listeners and gathered worshippers a clear way into praise. A scene-setting opener that turns the simple gift of breath into worship and thanksgiving.
The song does not try to explain every part of the EP at once. It holds one worship task with care, giving the listener language that can be sung honestly in a service, during prayer, or in the quiet of ordinary life.
Meaning
What the song carries.
At its heart, the song treats praise as something to be received before it is performed. The focus is not on musical display, but on helping attention turn towards Jesus with language that feels plain, prayerful and singable.
The title gives the song its centre of gravity. Around that centre, the words and movement of the song hold gratitude, joy and reverence, making room for personal devotion and shared congregational response.
The heart behind it
A focused worship response within a wider EP journey.
A scene-setting opener that turns the simple gift of breath into worship and thanksgiving.
The reason
The song is placed where it is because the EP needs this particular voice in the journey. As a opening praise song, it helps shape how the wider release is heard and received.
The purpose
The purpose is worship: words and melody that can carry prayer, reflection and response towards Jesus in a way that remains clear and congregational.
In the EP arc
Where the song sits.
Every Breath opens the EP by giving the listener a first doorway into praise. It sets the emotional and spiritual ground for everything that follows, so the release begins with a clear worship posture rather than a rushed conclusion.
Within Bless the Lord, the song belongs to a wider five-song journey. It stands on its own, but it also helps the EP move with purpose from the opening posture to the final response.
For listening and worship
How the song serves.
For everyday listening, the song offers worship language for moments when praise needs to be remembered and sung, not merely understood.
For churches and worship leaders, it is shaped as a opening praise song: clear in focus, connected to the wider EP, and intended to serve gathered voices as well as personal prayer.
Lyrics
Every Breath lyrics.
Read and reflect on the full lyric in its sung shape, following the repeated choruses, bridges and final response as the song unfolds.
Verse 1
With the morning comes Your kindness With the daylight comes Your grace Every mercy You have given Calls our hearts to praise Your name From the rising of the sun now To the stillness of the night You are worthy in each moment You are faithful, You are light
Chorus
Every breath Every breath Let every breath become Your praise Every heart Every voice Jesus, we will bless Your name You have filled our lungs with mercy You have filled our days with grace King of heaven, God so worthy Let every breath become Your praise
Verse 2
When the road is full of gladness When the tears have left their mark Still Your goodness stays before us Still Your light outshines the dark For the gifts that You have given For the cross and empty grave For the hope that stands among us We will rise and bless Your name
Chorus
Every breath Every breath Let every breath become Your praise Every heart Every voice Jesus, we will bless Your name You have filled our lungs with mercy You have filled our days with grace King of heaven, God so worthy Let every breath become Your praise
Bridge
As long as we are breathing We will sing of who You are As long as we are standing We will lift our song to God As long as we are breathing We will bless Your holy name For the mercy of our Saviour Let every breath become Your praise
Bridge
As long as we are breathing We will sing of who You are As long as we are standing We will lift our song to God As long as we are breathing We will bless Your holy name For the mercy of our Saviour Let every breath become Your praise
Final Chorus
Every breath Every breath Let every breath become Your praise Every heart Every voice Jesus, we will bless Your name You have filled our lungs with mercy You have filled our days with grace King of heaven, God so worthy Let every breath become Your praise
Outro
Every breath Every breath Let every breath become Your praise
More from Bless the Lord
Hear the song within the full EP.
The song belongs to a five-song worship journey. These companion songs carry the same release theme from different angles.
Bless the Lord
Thanksgiving, joy and praise
The main congregational statement of the EP, carrying the title hook and the clearest praise response.
Lift Up Your Praise
Exhortation and gathered confidence
A stronger outward praise song that widens the room after the title-track declaration.
Sing, My Soul
Remembrance and self-exhortation
An inward devotional moment where the worshipper calls their own soul back to praise.
House of Praise
Joy, confidence and gathered exaltation
The finale gathers the release into its fullest church-wide praise moment.
Worship for the gathered church
Explore the full Bless the Lord EP.
Every Breath is one part of a wider worship journey shaped for everyday listeners, local churches and worship leaders.