We Need Jesus Now

(Verse 1)
Turn on the six o’clock, same old scene
Headlines burning up my TV screen
Neighbors fighting over red and blue
Families breaking over what is “true”
Prices rising at the grocery line
Single moms just tryin’ to buy some time
Kids glued to a world on a phone
Feeling more alone than we’ve ever known

(Pre-Chorus)
We got more opinions than we got grace
More online rage than face-to-face
We’re shouting loud but we’re losing sound
Somewhere we let love hit the ground

(Chorus)
This country needs Jesus now
Not just Sunday words we shout
We need mercy in these streets
We need prayer on our knees
From the White House to a small-town plow
From the schoolyard to the courthouse crowd
We’ve tried it every other way somehow
Yeah, this country needs Jesus now

(Verse 2)
Protests marching down main street
Broken windows and broken peace
Young men sent to foreign lands
Mothers praying with folded hands
Border towns and city lights
Everybody’s picking sides
We argue about who’s to blame
But nobody’s calling on His name

(Pre-Chorus)
We got freedom, but we lost our way
Trading truth for what trends today
If love thy neighbor still means what it did
Then tell me why we’re fighting like this

(Chorus)
This country needs Jesus now
Not just hashtags and talking loud
We need forgiveness back in style
A little faith could go a mile
From the factories to Wall Street vows
From the church pew to the jailhouse crowd
We’ve tried it every other way somehow
Yeah, this country needs Jesus now

(Bridge)
He said blessed are the peacemakers
Turn the cheek, don’t throw the stones
Love your enemy, pray for strangers
Build His kingdom in your homes
Maybe change don’t start in D.C.
Maybe it starts in you and me

(Breakdown)
It ain’t about a party line
Or drawing battle lines in the sand
It’s about a cross on a hillside
And loving your fellow man

(Final Chorus – Big & Strong)
This country needs Jesus now
More than ever, here and now
We need hope in the hopeless fight
We need truth in the darkest night
From sea to shining sea somehow
Let revival shake this ground
If we humble hearts and bow
Maybe He’ll heal us somehow
Yeah, this country needs Jesus now

(Outro)
So I’m praying on this front porch swing
For healing that only Heaven brings
Lord, hear us cry, we’re calling out—
This country needs You now.*

Country, male, deep voice