Open up the skies of mercy   And rain down the cleansing flood   Healing waters rise around us   Hear our cries lord let 'em rise   Open up the skies of mercy   And rain down the cleansing flood   Healing waters rise around us   Hear our cries lord let 'em rise      It's your kindness lord   That leads us to repentance   Your favor lord, is our desire   It's your beauty lord   That makes us stand in silence   Your love   Your love   Is better than life      We can feel   Your mercy falling   You are turnin our hearts back again   Hear our praises rise to heaven   Draw us near lord   Meet us here      It's your kindness lord   That leads us to repentance   Your favor lord, is our desire   It's your beauty lord   That makes us stand in silence   Your love   Your love      It's your kindness lord   That leads us to repentance   Your favor lord, is our desire   It's your beauty lord   That makes us stand in silence   Your love   Your love   Is better than life   Is better than life      Your love      Open up the skies of mercy   And rain down the cleansing flood   Healing waters rise around us   Hear our cries lord let 'em rise      (praying)   Lord,    We stand here,    As the desperate people   Hungry for the things of you   Come quiet the storms,   That rage all around us   So that we hear   The passion that    Beats through your heart   Spirit put healing in our hands   Put life in our words    And drive a passion   For the lost deep   In the hearts of your people   Inhabit the praises of us   Through children   And father send us out   With a reckless passion   Deliver us from evil   And set a standard of unity   To break down laws   And to heal your people   Unity is the cry of your church, Lord   Reckonsile the children to the fathers   And with forgiveness and mercy    Rush through the hearts of our land   We cry out our deep need for you Jesus   Oh God come in power   And bring glory to your name