Ntokozo Mbambo - We Pray For More Lyrics
Lyrics
God we need more, more
Lord We pray for more, more
God we need more, more
We pray for more, more
God we need more, more
Lord We pray for more, more
God we need more, more
We pray for more, more
God we need more
More of You and less of us
May we decrease as You increase
God we need more
As the deer pants for the waters
So our souls long for You
We pray for more
Would You pour out Your Spirit
And let it fall afresh on Your people
Let them see more of You in us
God we need more
As we yield to Your purpose
As we yield to Your ways
Would you pour afresh on us
God we need more
Do what You think God
Something we’ve never felt before
Something we’ve never experienced before
We want to see Your Glory
We want to see Your Glory
Pour from Yourself God
We want to see Your Glory
More! More! More! More! More, God
We want more
We hunger and we thirst for more
Would you fill us oh God
Fill us oh God, Fill us with more of you
We’ve got to have more of You
We wanna have more of You
And nothing else would do
We got to have more of You
We wanna have more of You
We gotta have more of You
Nothing less would do
Father we surrender
We surrender
Have Your way in this place
We want more of You
Daddy, we want more
Nothing less would do
We want more of You
Video
Ntokozo Mbambo - We Pray for More [Live at Emperor's Palace]
Meaning & Inspiration
I’ve been sitting here with this track from Ntokozo Mbambo’s 2018 record, Moments in Time, and honestly, the repetition in "We Pray For More" kind of hit me in a weird way. At first, I just thought, "okay, we’re asking for more," but then the lines started settling in. When she says "more of You and less of us," it’s hard not to think of John the Baptist saying he must decrease while Jesus increases. It’s that old, uncomfortable truth that we can’t really be full of God if we’re still so crowded by ourselves. It feels biblical, but it also feels like a heavy thing to actually pray for, because "less of me" usually means giving up the stuff I like hanging onto.
Then she brings in the imagery of the deer panting for water, which goes straight back to the psalmist in Psalm 42. It’s not just a polite request; it’s desperate. That’s the part that catches me. We talk a lot about wanting God, but the song treats it like a survival instinct, like a thirsty animal needing to drink or it’s done for. It feels right, but then I stop and wonder if I’m really as thirsty as the lyrics suggest or if I’m just singing along with the emotion of it.
The part where she asks for a fresh outpouring of the Spirit makes me think of the early church in Acts, where they were just waiting and expecting something real to move through them. There’s a shift toward the end where it’s all about wanting to see His glory, and it makes me question—are we asking for more because we really want Him, or are we asking for more because we want a new experience or a feeling we haven't had yet? It says "something we've never felt before," and that kind of worries me, actually. Scripture usually points us to the unchanging nature of who God is, not necessarily the novelty of our own feelings. I’m left wondering if the "more" we’re praying for is actually the quiet, hard work of sanctification, or if we’re just chasing the rush of something new.