Make Me After Your Heart

[Verse 1]
Early in the morning
Before the daylight starts
I’m on my knees just whispering
“Write Your will on my heart”
You said in Your Scripture
You see the inward parts
Make me like David
Lord
A man after Your own heart
[Pre-Chorus]
Search me
O God
Psalm 139
Try me
Know my anxious thoughts
Align my will with Yours this time
[Chorus]
Make me a man after Your own heart
Shape every thought
Every hidden part
Teach me to love like You loved first
Like Christ loves the church
Make me a man who will lay life down
Lead with Your truth
Keep my feet on solid ground
Lord
Let my vows echo Your word
Like Christ loves the church (yeah)
Make me after Your heart
[Verse 2]
You said in Ephesians
Husbands
Love your wives
Just as the Savior gave Himself
Gave His own life
So when my pride is rising
Pull it apart
Give me that servant spirit
Wash her feet with my heart (yeah)
[Pre-Chorus]
Love is so patient
1 Corinthians speaks
Kindness in conflict
Grace when I’m weak
When I am angry
Slow down my tongue
Let every word sound
Like where it came from
[Chorus]
Make me a man after Your own heart
Shape every thought
Every hidden part
Teach me to love like You loved first
Like Christ loves the church
Make me a man who will lay life down
Lead with Your truth
Keep my feet on solid ground
Lord
Let my vows echo Your word
Like Christ loves the church
Make me after Your heart (oh)
[Bridge]
[Music drops
Soft piano and vocal]
Joshua said “as for me and my house”
We will serve the Lord
That’s my promise out loud
When I hold her hand
Let her feel Your grace
Let Your word be the frame of this family You’ve made
Micah 6 and 8
Do justice
Love mercy
Walk humbly in Your way
If I forget
Bring me back to the cross
Where perfect love chose to carry my flaws (yeah)
[Chorus]
Make me a man after Your own heart
Shape every thought
Every hidden part
Teach me to love like You loved first
Like Christ loves the church
Make me a man who will lay life down
Lead with Your truth
Keep my feet on solid ground
Lord
Let my love mirror Your word
Like Christ loves the church (oh yeah)
Make me after Your heart
Make me after Your heart

Warm contemporary R&B ballad, male vocals; gentle Rhodes and soft bass with subtle choir pads; verses stay intimate with close-mic lead and light rimshot groove, chorus blooms with stacked harmonies and airy reverb; middle section drops to almost acapella with sparse piano, then builds back with gospel-style ad-libs and a soaring final hook, r&b