STORY BEHIND THE SONG: All I Want

'All I Want' is a culmination of confession, declaration, and earnest prayer for transformation.  I had been wrestling quite a bit with passages like Matt 10:38, Luke 9:23, Mark 8:34, and Luke 14:27 (the die to self/take up your cross verses)Through prayer and A LOT of scripture, I realized that my priorities were changing, and that the things that I once held so close, didn't really seem to bear much weight in my life anymore.  I began resonating with scripture so much, and began rejoicing in the truth of Ezekiel 36:26.  I started praying crazy things like "break my heart God, for the things that break Yours" and "ruin me for Your glory and fame".  Now don't get me wrong, I know to people outside of the faith this sounds fairly grotesque, (maybe even to people in the faith) but it's simply God changing my heart to care about His plans and purposes instead of my own.  'Putting to death self' or 'mortification' as the Puritans would call it, is putting sin to death, the selfish desires of our hearts and putting on the things of God.  (see Eph. 4 & Phil. 4).  That's what 'All I Want' is about.

Here are the lyrics:

I'm falling at Your feet, clinging to the cross

With all that I have I'm chasing You

Abandoning all just to love

So break me, consume me with Your name

Unglue me, ruin me for Your fame

Cause You're all I want and You're all I'll ever need

You're all I want and You're all I'll ever need

I'm falling at Your feet, clinging to the cross

With all that I have I'm chasing You

Abandoning all just to love

So break me, consume me with Your name

Unglue me, ruin me for Your fame

Cause You're all I want and You're all I'll ever need

You're all I want and You're all I'll ever need

Come show Your face, come show Your face to me

Fall on this place, come show Your face to me

Cause You're all I want and You're all I'll ever need

You're all I want and You're all I'll ever need

Lyrics by Jason Dunton

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