Steve Crown - You Are Great Lyrics
Lyrics
You are great, yes you are Holy one Walked upon the sea Raise the dead Reign in majesty Mighty God Everything written about you, is great [Repeat]
[Chorus:] You are great You are great You are great You are great!!! [Repeat] Everything written about you, is great [Repeat]
Worship you today! Give you all the praise Mighty mighty God Worship you today Give you all the praise As we lift our hands to you With pleasure in our heart We raise our voice to say Everything written about you, is great Isi ike'ndu Worship you today Give you all the praise As we lift our hands to you With pleasure in our heart Raise our voice to say Everything written about you, is great
Demon trembles at your presence What a mighty God we serve Glory, glory Alleluia Everything written about you, is great [Repeat]
[Chorus]
You are great, so great We worship you lord, king of kings And lord of lords Oh so great you are Doing marvelous things Everything written about you is great
Video
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Meaning & Inspiration
"Everything written about you, is great."
I find myself repeating that line while standing behind the pulpit, checking the mic levels before a service. It’s simple—maybe deceptively so. In a room full of people carrying heavy, complex burdens, this phrase does something curious. It strips away the nuance of our personal grievances and forces us to look at the canon of Scripture as a whole. When Steve Crown sings this, he isn’t asking us to inventory our current feelings or list off the favors we’re hoping for. He’s asking us to look at the historical record of God’s character.
When we sing, "Walked upon the sea / Raise the dead / Reign in majesty," we are anchoring the congregation in the Gospel of Mark and the resurrection accounts. We’re moving the focus away from our own fluctuating internal states. Too many modern songs turn into a mirror, reflecting our own needs back at us until we’re just singing about our own feelings. This song, however, acts like a window. It pushes the gaze outward.
But here is where the liturgical friction hits. As a leader, I’m constantly looking at the faces in the room. When we hit the refrain—"You are great / You are great"—I wonder: are we using these words as a shortcut because we don't have the language for the mystery of God, or are we truly exhausted by the size of the room and the noise of our own lives? There is a certain repetitive quality here that can either lead to a shallow trance or a genuine clearing of the mind.
"Demon trembles at your presence." That line is sharp. It’s a reality check. We often like to view God in safe, aesthetic terms—as a comfort to our weary souls. But the truth of the Incarnation and the Cross is that God is a violent disruption to the kingdom of darkness. When we sing that, we aren't just engaging in a nice church activity; we are affirming a spiritual reality that is far bigger than our Sunday morning attendance figures.
If I’m being honest, I struggle with the "landing" of this song. After the chorus stops, where does the congregation end up? If we simply stop singing and go straight to the announcements, we’ve missed the point. The challenge for me, and for those standing in the pews, is to take that specific phrase—"Everything written about you is great"—and force it to collide with the stuff we don't want to talk about. Does the story of the cross, the suffering, the blood, and the humiliation fit into our definition of "great"? Because if our definition of greatness is just "everything going well," we’ve missed the Gospel entirely.
True greatness in the biblical sense is found in the upside-down kingdom where the King dies on a tree. That is where I want the people to land. Not in a high-energy shout, but in the quiet, terrifying realization that the God who reigns in majesty is the same God who bore the shame. That is the only "great" that actually changes a human heart.