The heart
The heart of the song is awe, adoration and declaration. It gives that posture a simple musical home so the listener can enter the theme without needing a long explanation.
Gathered Praise Worship song
Holy Is the Lord
Holy Is the Lord sits within the Holy Is the Lord EP as a anchor song. It carries holiness through awe, adoration and declaration, giving listeners a focused way to pray, reflect and respond in worship.
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Purpose
Why this song exists.
Holy Is the Lord exists to give listeners and gathered worshippers a clear way into holiness. The main theme statement, carrying the release's holiness focus with a clear and memorable congregational hook.
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 holiness 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 awe, adoration and declaration, making room for personal devotion and shared congregational response.
The heart behind it
A focused worship response within a wider EP journey.
The main theme statement, carrying the release's holiness focus with a clear and memorable congregational hook.
The reason
The song is placed where it is because the EP needs this particular voice in the journey. As a anchor 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.
Holy Is the Lord carries one of the central statements of the EP. It gathers the theme into a form that can be remembered and sung, helping the listener hear the heart of the release with particular clarity.
Within Holy Is 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 holiness needs to be remembered and sung, not merely understood.
For churches and worship leaders, it is shaped as a anchor song: clear in focus, connected to the wider EP, and intended to serve gathered voices as well as personal prayer.
Lyrics
Holy Is the Lord 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
There is wonder in Your presence There is mercy in Your name There is glory all around You Like a never-ending flame You are higher than the heavens Yet You meet Your people here And the more we see Your beauty The more our hearts draw near
Chorus
Holy is the Lord Holy is the Lord Full of glory, full of wonder Holy is the Lord Holy is the Lord Holy is the Lord Let the earth be still before Him Holy is the Lord
Verse 2
Saints and angels bow before You Heaven sings around Your throne Every nation, every generation One day will call You Lord You are set apart in splendour You are faithful, just, and true And no other name is worthy Of the praise that belongs to You
Chorus
Holy is the Lord Holy is the Lord Full of glory, full of wonder Holy is the Lord Holy is the Lord Holy is the Lord Let the earth be still before Him Holy is the Lord
Bridge
We lift You higher We lift You higher King eternal, God of glory We lift You higher We cry holy We cry holy All creation sings before You We cry holy
Bridge
We lift You higher We lift You higher King eternal, God of glory We lift You higher We cry holy We cry holy All creation sings before You We cry holy
Final Chorus
Holy is the Lord Holy is the Lord Full of glory, full of wonder Holy is the Lord Holy is the Lord Holy is the Lord Let the earth be still before Him Holy is the Lord
Outro
Holy is the Lord Holy is the Lord
More from Holy Is 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.
Before Your Throne
Awe, reverence and humility
The opener sets the gathered posture, inviting worshippers to come before God with reverence and humility.
Set Apart
Surrender and reverence
A response song that asks what holiness means for the people of God: belonging to Him and living for His glory.
Crowned in Glory
Wonder, nearness and worship
A warmer devotional track that keeps the EP reverent while bringing the worshipper close in adoration.
Only You Are Holy
Awe and lifted praise
The finale gathers the holiness theme into the EP's broadest congregational declaration of God's worthiness.
Worship for the gathered church
Explore the full Holy Is the Lord EP.
Holy Is the Lord is one part of a wider worship journey shaped for everyday listeners, local churches and worship leaders.