Tasha Cobbs Leonard - No Longer Slaves Lyrics
Released: 02 Nov 2018
Lyrics
I'm no longer a slave to fear
For I am a child of God
(Let's raise that loud, say)
I'm no longer a slave to fear (Yeah)
(For I am) For I am a child of God
(Let's raise it loud)
You unravel me with a melody
You surround me with a song (shout it out, sing)
Of deliverance
From my enemies
Till all my fears are gone
(I'm no longer)
I'm no longer a slave to fear
(Let's declare it together, sing)
(For I am) For I am a child of God
I'm no longer a slave to fear (I'm no longer)
(For I am) for I am a child of God
(I love this when y'all insist)
From my mothers womb
You have chosen me
Your love has called my name (yeah)
And I've been born again
Into your family
Your blood flows through
(Let's do that one more time, say from my mother's womb)
From my mothers womb
You have chosen me
(Your love) Your love has called my name
And I've been born again (I've been born again)
To my family (Your blood)
(Now shout it out)
Your blood flows through my veins
I'm no longer
I'm no longer a slave to fear
(Somebody declare it over your life)
(For I am) For I am a child of God
I'm no longer a slave to fear
(For I am) for I am a child of God
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh (Shout that out 'til here)
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
You split the sea
So I could walk right through it
My fears are drowned in perfect love
You rescued me so I could stand and sing
(Sing it)
I am a child of God
You split the sea
So I could walk right through it
My fears are drowned in perfect love
You rescued me so I could stand and sing
I am a child of God
You split the sea
So I could walk right through it
My fears are drowned in perfect love
You rescued me so I could stand and sing
(Somebody shout it)
I am a child of God
(Yes I am)
Yes I am
I am a child of God
I am a child of God
(Somebody raise their hands say it)
I am a child of God
A child of God
(show your praise in this room)
(Show your praise)
I am a child of God
I am a child of God
I am (I know who I am, I know who I am, I know who I am)
I am a child of God
If you know who you are
Just lift your voices in this room
And scream a praise to Jesus
Oh somebody scream and praise to Jesus
I know who I am...
He calls me the head and not the tail
He calls me above and not beneath
He calls me a lender and not a borrower
I know who I am
And so because of that I don't have to walk in fear
I walk in faith
If you're walking in faith shout Hallelujah to Jesus
So I grew up in a Pentecostal, holiness church
Oh there's some more of us in here
And we used to have the hand clapping, foot stomping songs
That just made you real, real, real, real happy
And it made you feel good
So we have one of those songs
It's called The river of the Lord
Anybody remember that moment when you received Jesus
As your personal saviour?
And the blood of Jesus washed all of your sins away
And you got up feeling brand new
Well we gonna go back to that moment
And we gonna thank Jesus for his blood
That saves us, every single day
Video
Tasha Cobbs Leonard - No Longer Slaves (Live At Passion City Church)
Meaning & Inspiration
When I hear Tasha Cobbs Leonard digging into these lines, I don’t think about clean pews or organized religion. I think about the pig pen. I think about the grit under my fingernails that didn't come off for a long time after I decided to head back home.
There’s this one part she sings: “You split the sea, so I could walk right through it. My fears are drowned in perfect love.”
See, most people want to talk about the water being split like it’s some cool parlor trick. But when you’ve been living in the mud, you know that splitting the sea is a violent, messy business. It’s not just a path; it’s an impossible gap carved out of nothingness. For someone like me—who spent years running, hiding in shadows, and letting the "fear" mentioned in the song dictate every single move—that image hits different. I’ve lived in fear. I’ve let it sleep in my bed, eat at my table, and whisper lies about who I am while I was trying to patch up a broken life.
But then she sings about being “drowned in perfect love.” That’s the part that catches me off guard. You’d think the fear would just vanish, right? But fear is sticky. It clings to your clothes like the smell of a fire you didn’t mean to start. When she says the fear is drowned, it reminds me of the passage in 1 John 4:18—that perfect love casts out fear because fear has to do with punishment. And man, I spent a lifetime waiting for the hammer to drop. I spent years convinced the Father was holding a whip, not a robe.
But the song isn't about me getting my act together. It’s about being "chosen" from the womb. That’s a hard thing to swallow when you’ve burned every bridge you ever crossed. It implies that before I even started walking away, before I squandered everything, I was already marked as His.
I’m still shaking off the dust. I’m still learning how to stand straight without waiting for a blow to the back of the head. When Tasha pushes the room to shout that they are children of God, it doesn't sound like a victory lap to me. It sounds like a lifeline. It’s the sound of someone realizing they aren't a slave to the past, even if the past still leaves a trace on their skin.
I don’t know if I’ll ever feel “worthy.” Probably not. But that’s the scandal of it, isn't it? The blood flowing through the veins—the lineage of the cross—it doesn't ask for a resume. It just demands the freedom to exist. I’m still standing here, a little singed, a little worn, but realizing that the sea didn't split so I could admire the walls of water. It split so I could finally leave the slavery behind and walk on dry ground.