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Words and Music by Daniel Bashta
Performed by The Newsboys
© 2011, Inpop Records, EMI Christian Music Group
Youtube video uploaded by NewsboysVEVO
Let love explode and bring the dead to life.
A love song bold to see a revolution
Some how
Let love explode and bring the dead to life.
A love song bold to bring a revolution
Some how
Now I’m lost in your freedom
And this world I’ll overcome
My God’s not dead he’s surely alive
He’s living on the inside roaring like a lion
Our God’s not dead he’s surely alive
He’s living on the inside roaring like a lion
He’s roaring he’s roaring he’s roaring like a lion
Let hope arise and make the darkness hide
When faith is dead I need a resurrection
Some how
Now I’m lost in your freedom
And this world I’ll overcome
My God’s not dead he is surely alive
He is living on the inside roaring like a lion
Our God’s not dead he is surely alive
He’s living on the inside roaring like a lion
He’s roaring he is roaring he’s roaring like a lion
He’s roaring he is roaring he’s roaring like a lion
Let heaven roar and fire fall
Come shake the ground with the sound of revival
Let heaven roar and fire fall
Come shake the ground with the sound of revival
Let heaven roar and fire fall
Come shake the ground with the sound of revival
My God’s not dead he’s surely alive
He’s living on the inside roaring like a lion
My God’s not dead he’s surely alive
He’s living on the inside roaring like a lion
Our God’s not dead he’s surly alive
He’s roaring he’s roaring he’s roaring like a lion
Our God’s not dead he’s surly alive
He’s roaring he’s roaring he’s roaring like a lion
He’s roaring like a lion
Are there any areas of your life where your hope or faith has died and needs a resurrection? What causes you to think God is dead? List some ways God roars like a lion.
Impassioned to wake this generation with his 2011 debut, The Sounds of Daniel Bashta, which sparked the worship anthem “God’s Not Dead (Like A Lion)” that was also recorded by Newsboys, David Crowder Band and others, Daniel Bashta writes songs during a season of hope and healing in his family’s life and in his new role: fatherhood. Song after song, he gives voice to the faith of a generation willing to open the door for the miraculous, redemptive work of God to infiltrate everything.
Married five years, Daniel and his wife, Taylor, like millions of young couples, had experienced infertility and were checking into their medical and adoption options. Creating their family profile and turning it in to Bethany Christian Services, within a few weeks they received a call from a birth mother that had chosen the Bashtas to be her baby’s family.
Months later, in the hospital on the day of their son, Phoenix’s birth, the Bashtas would begin to get a glimpse of the care with which God had been writing their story. “We were sitting there with the birth mother, and my sisters brought in a little stuffed lion. I told Phoenix’s birth mom, ‘We don’t do teddy bears in our family, we do lions.’ And then she told us a part of her story we had not heard. She’d been given an ultimatum: either have an abortion or get out of the house. So she moved to Atlanta, heard about Bethany Christian Agency on MTV and had the courage to walk in and check it out.
Around that same time, a friend took her to a church called Passion City, she said, and some guy on stage (Chris Tomlin) started singing some song about a lion and a roar. She remembered it clearly because during that song, she felt a presence come over her. ‘I never knew you could feel God, like I felt God in that moment,’ she said. She sat down and started journaling the lyrics to the song, ‘Like A Lion.’
“We all started crying in the hospital room,” Daniel says. I looked at her and said well actually I wrote that song. Then she jumped up and started crying and saying what an impact the words and presence of this song had on her “To know that my son has such a calling in this life, even before he was born and that his dad’s song was being sung over him before he even knew who his father was… I thought I knew what God was capable of, but we experienced His faithfulness in such a miraculous way.”
And that miracle led straight to another. Within a few months, the Bashtas were pregnant, later giving birth to a daughter, Bravery Annette.