Lyrics
Emmanuel, my King
What a price You paid for love
Just for love, just for love
What a price You paid for love, for love, for love
Oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh
What a price You paid for love (What a price You paid)
You paid a debt You did not owe
I owe a debt I did not pay
But here's my heart, here's my heart
Here's my life, here's my life (It was a price You paid)
Here's my everything (Here's my all, my everything)
Here's my heart, here's my heart
And here's my life, here's my life
You can have it all (You can have it all, You can have it)
Oh-oh-oh-ooh how great Your love (How great Your love)
How great Your love
So, here I am returning what's Yours, here I am
Here I am returning what's Yours, here I am
Oh, God, here I am returning what's Yours, here I am
Here I am, here I am (Here I am, here I am)
Just give yourself to the Lord
Oh, You can have it all
Here I am returning what's Yours, here I am, here I am
You paid the price for me, for me, for me
How great is Your love, how great
Oh, how great, how great, how great
Show me Your face Lord
Show me Your face
And gird up my legs
That I might stand in this holy place
Show me Your face Lord
Your power and grace
I can make it to the end
If I could just see Your face
Show me Your face Lord
Show me Your face
And gird up my legs
That I might stand in this holy place
Show me Your face Lord
Your power and grace
I can make it to the end
If I could just see Your face
I can make it to the end
If I could just see Your face
Your face, Your face
It's all I wanna see
It's all I wanna see
It's all I need to see
It's all I wanna see
All I need to see
So, show me Your face Lord
Would You show me Your face
And gird up my legs
That I might stand in this holy place
Ooh-oh-oh show me Your face Lord
Your power and grace
I know I'll make it to the end
If I could just see Your face
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Meaning & Inspiration
“Show Me Your Face” joins gratitude for Christ’s sacrificial love with a prayer for God’s presence. Its opening reflects on a debt paid by Christ and answers that gift with the offering of heart, life, and everything the worshiper possesses. The repeated act of returning what belongs to God presents surrender as a response to grace rather than a means of earning it.
The title prayer asks to see the Lord’s face and receive strength to stand in a holy place. That request resembles Moses’ desire to behold God’s glory, while the language of seeking God’s face appears throughout the Psalms. The song treats divine presence as the source of endurance: power and grace enable perseverance to the end. Its movement from the price of love to complete surrender and then to a longing for God’s face connects redemption, worship, and steadfastness in one sustained prayer.
Related Scripture
- Exodus 33:18-20 Moses asks God to show him his glory and is told that no one may fully see God’s face.
- Psalm 27:8 The psalmist responds to God’s call by seeking his face.
- 1 Corinthians 6:20 Believers are urged to honor God because they were bought at a price.