The heart
The heart of the song is exhortation and gathered confidence. It gives that posture a simple musical home so the listener can enter the theme without needing a long explanation.
Gathered Praise Worship song
Lift Up Your Praise
Lift Up Your Praise sits within the Bless the Lord EP as a congregational lift. It carries praise through exhortation and gathered confidence, giving listeners a focused way to pray, reflect and respond in worship.
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- Bless the Lord
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- Exhortation and gathered confidence
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Purpose
Why this song exists.
Lift Up Your Praise exists to give listeners and gathered worshippers a clear way into praise. A stronger outward praise song that widens the room after the title-track declaration.
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 exhortation and gathered confidence, making room for personal devotion and shared congregational response.
The heart behind it
A focused worship response within a wider EP journey.
A stronger outward praise song that widens the room after the title-track declaration.
The reason
The song is placed where it is because the EP needs this particular voice in the journey. As a congregational lift, 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.
Lift Up Your Praise deepens the journey by bringing another angle to praise. It keeps the release moving, not by changing subject, but by allowing the same worship focus to be held with fresh language and a slightly different weight.
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 congregational lift: clear in focus, connected to the wider EP, and intended to serve gathered voices as well as personal prayer.
Lyrics
Lift Up Your Praise 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
Come with thankful hearts before Him Come with songs of joy and grace For the Lord has kept His people So we lift to Him our praise He is worthy in the morning He is worthy in the night He is steadfast, He is holy He is mercy, truth, and light
Chorus
Lift up your praise Lift up your praise To the One who reigns forever Lift up your praise Lift up your praise Lift up your praise Let the name of Jesus be exalted Lift up your praise
Verse 2
When the burden has been heavy When the road was hard to see Still His goodness stayed before us Still His hand has carried us Now with gladness we remember All the kindness of our God And with every breath He gives us We will raise our song to Him
Chorus
Lift up your praise Lift up your praise To the One who reigns forever Lift up your praise Lift up your praise Lift up your praise Let the name of Jesus be exalted Lift up your praise
Bridge
Praise Him in the gathering Praise Him in the quiet place Praise Him for His faithful mercy Praise the glory of His grace Praise Him all you weary hearts now Praise Him all who’ve been restored Let the people He has rescued Rise and bless the Lord
Bridge
Praise Him in the gathering Praise Him in the quiet place Praise Him for His faithful mercy Praise the glory of His grace Praise Him all you weary hearts now Praise Him all who’ve been restored Let the people He has rescued Rise and bless the Lord
Final Chorus
Lift up your praise Lift up your praise To the One who reigns forever Lift up your praise Lift up your praise Lift up your praise Let the name of Jesus be exalted Lift up your praise
Outro
Lift up your praise Lift up your praise
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The song belongs to a five-song worship journey. These companion songs carry the same release theme from different angles.
Every Breath
Gratitude, joy and reverence
A scene-setting opener that turns the simple gift of breath into worship and thanksgiving.
Bless the Lord
Thanksgiving, joy and praise
The main congregational statement of the EP, carrying the title hook and the clearest praise response.
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.
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Lift Up Your Praise is one part of a wider worship journey shaped for everyday listeners, local churches and worship leaders.