Build Your House In Me

Lyrics

[Intro]

I have made room for many voices
Let them tell me who to be
Now I am clearing out the noise
Build Your house in me

[Verse 1]

I laid foundations on approval
Built whole rooms around applause
Hung my worth on people’s answers
Then watched every wall come off

I kept one room for hidden habits
One for anger, one for fear
Called the house surrendered
While deciding where You could come near

But You are not a weekend visitor
You are not a passing guest
You did not come to decorate me
You came to claim the address

[Pre-Chorus]

Search the beams
Test the ground
Pull down anything unsound

I would rather lose the structure
Than keep living where You’re not found

[Chorus]

Build Your house in me
Lay Your truth beneath my feet
Let obedience be the doorway
Let Your peace become the beams

Build Your house in me
Not a room, but everything
Make my life a place where You are welcome
Build Your house in me

[Verse 2]

There are habits in the hallway
That I learned before I knew
Family patterns dressed as normal
That have never looked like You

There are words I heard in childhood
That still echo when I fail
There are ways I guard affection
Like love must always be withheld

So rebuild how I respond
When I feel cornered or unseen
Teach my mouth a different language
Teach my hands what mercy means

Let my children find no altar
Raised to ego, rage, or pride
Let them know this home is governed
By the Spirit, not our wounds inside

[Pre-Chorus]

Set the table
Light the rooms
Make this life belong to You

Where resentment had permission
Let forgiveness take its place

[Chorus]

Build Your house in me
Lay Your truth beneath my feet
Let obedience be the doorway
Let Your peace become the beams

Build Your house in me
Not a room, but everything
Make my life a place where You are welcome
Build Your house in me

[Bridge]

Remove the doors I keep locked
Open every private place
Take the portraits of ambition
That have occupied Your space

Break the windows sealed by sorrow
Let the morning enter in
Wash the walls of old offenses
Do not leave the mold beneath

Set Your word above the entrance
Let it govern who comes through
May my choices tell the neighbors
This whole house belongs to You

[Build]

Brick by brick
Truth by truth
Tear it down
And make it new

Room by room
Name by name
Drive out fear
And silence shame

Be the center
Be the frame
Be the fire
Be the flame

Not a guest
Not passing through
This whole life
Belongs to You

[Final Chorus]

Build Your house in me
Let my motives come out clean
Let compassion fill the windows
Let integrity be seen

Build Your house in me
Till my private life agrees
With every song I raise in public
Build Your house in me

Build Your house in me
Make my table wide with grace
Let the tired find a refuge
Let the wounded find a place

Build Your house in me
And when all my years are through
May the ones who walked beside me
Say they found Your presence too

[Outro]

I have made room for many voices
Now I know which one I need

Take the keys
Take every room

Build Your house in me