Listen to the song; #7 on CHRISTIAN FOLKS
1986 - It was sometime between midnight and one AM and I was having a hard time getting to sleep. We were still living in the apartment in El Cajon. I had this song idea spinning around in my head and soul. It was a call to worship, and I wanted it to be a confession of faith in the desire of the collective Body of Christ to worship Him. The worship music movement was having a profound impact on us and on me personally. The focus had gone past singing about God to coming directly before his throne and bowing down before Him. And we had the awareness that this beautiful movement was happening all over the world. So as we came before His throne, all divisions were gone and all peoples were as one; worshipping Him. It truly was our desire to worship Him, and we spent a lot of our time doing so in song.
The lyrics of this song conjure up the image of such a scene for me, and it was my hope that they would help usher others into the Throne Room as well, as we sang “multitudes cry worthy is the Lamb”. The song was very successful in our home group and mildly popular in the main body. Every now and then I run into someone with an elephant’s memory that asks me to play it! I decided to put it on my WORSHIP FOLKS album since it has a decidedly folksy feel to it. It sounds a bit like the song LOVER’S CROSS by Jim Croce. One interesting tidbit about the lyrics; originally I had this line “As we enter in where angels fear to tread”, which just came to me while singing it. But I wasn’t sure if that was a biblical concept, so I ran it by Mark Crafford, and he said, “I don’t know, it might not be. I’ve heard it said that ‘fools rush in where angels fear to tread’”, which incidentally is a quote from Alexander Pope. We both chuckled about that one and I changed the lyric to “surrendering our hearts” instead of “where angels fear to tread.” I was always very cautions of not putting something unbiblical into my song lyrics. But I always liked the idea- kind of emphasizes the awesome access we have to the holy of holies through Christ.
IT IS OUR DESIRE
Words & music by Reggie Michaud © 1986 (ref: Revelation 5:12, Nehemiah 9:6)
It is our desire to worship You
It is our desire to call upon Your Name
It is our desire to honor You
As we enter in where angels fear to tread
Before Your throne, gather all the peoples
Before Your throne, sing with one accord
Before Your throne, strongholds are no longer
Before Your throne, multitudes cry “Worthy is the Lamb!”
It is our desire to worship You
It is our desire to call upon Your Name
It is our desire to honor You
As we enter in surrendering our hearts
Before Your throne, gather all the peoples
Before Your throne, sing with one accord
Before Your throne, strongholds are no longer
Before Your throne, multitudes cry “Worthy is the Lamb!”
1986 - It was sometime between midnight and one AM and I was having a hard time getting to sleep. We were still living in the apartment in El Cajon. I had this song idea spinning around in my head and soul. It was a call to worship, and I wanted it to be a confession of faith in the desire of the collective Body of Christ to worship Him. The worship music movement was having a profound impact on us and on me personally. The focus had gone past singing about God to coming directly before his throne and bowing down before Him. And we had the awareness that this beautiful movement was happening all over the world. So as we came before His throne, all divisions were gone and all peoples were as one; worshipping Him. It truly was our desire to worship Him, and we spent a lot of our time doing so in song.
The lyrics of this song conjure up the image of such a scene for me, and it was my hope that they would help usher others into the Throne Room as well, as we sang “multitudes cry worthy is the Lamb”. The song was very successful in our home group and mildly popular in the main body. Every now and then I run into someone with an elephant’s memory that asks me to play it! I decided to put it on my WORSHIP FOLKS album since it has a decidedly folksy feel to it. It sounds a bit like the song LOVER’S CROSS by Jim Croce. One interesting tidbit about the lyrics; originally I had this line “As we enter in where angels fear to tread”, which just came to me while singing it. But I wasn’t sure if that was a biblical concept, so I ran it by Mark Crafford, and he said, “I don’t know, it might not be. I’ve heard it said that ‘fools rush in where angels fear to tread’”, which incidentally is a quote from Alexander Pope. We both chuckled about that one and I changed the lyric to “surrendering our hearts” instead of “where angels fear to tread.” I was always very cautions of not putting something unbiblical into my song lyrics. But I always liked the idea- kind of emphasizes the awesome access we have to the holy of holies through Christ.
IT IS OUR DESIRE
Words & music by Reggie Michaud © 1986 (ref: Revelation 5:12, Nehemiah 9:6)
It is our desire to worship You
It is our desire to call upon Your Name
It is our desire to honor You
As we enter in where angels fear to tread
Before Your throne, gather all the peoples
Before Your throne, sing with one accord
Before Your throne, strongholds are no longer
Before Your throne, multitudes cry “Worthy is the Lamb!”
It is our desire to worship You
It is our desire to call upon Your Name
It is our desire to honor You
As we enter in surrendering our hearts
Before Your throne, gather all the peoples
Before Your throne, sing with one accord
Before Your throne, strongholds are no longer
Before Your throne, multitudes cry “Worthy is the Lamb!”
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