Great Things
Phil Wickham · Great Things - Single
Wholehearted worship of a conquering, faithful God
Where the words land
Signal: Edifying.
What do these signals mean?
- Edifying: Points the heart toward God, truth, hope, or love.
- Worth Weighing: Real good and real concern together. Test it before you take it in.
- Strained: Strains against Scripture: leans toward what could dull or mislead.
- At Odds: At odds with Scripture: celebrates what it warns against. Little here builds up.
Weighed against Scripture
“The LORD has done great things for us; we are filled with joy.”
'The Lord has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy' is the psalm's own declaration, and this song is essentially that verse expanded into congregational song.
For all the promises of God are “Yes” in Christ. And so through Him, our “Amen” is spoken to the glory of God.
The lyric 'Your promise is Yes and Amen' draws directly from this verse, grounding the song's confidence in God's faithfulness in the character of Christ himself.
“And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.”
'He has done great things' and 'You conquer the grave, You free every captive' reflect this picture of Christ disarming the powers and triumphing over them through the cross.
In short
This is straightforward, jubilant worship. The song rehearses core gospel truths, the resurrection, freedom from bondage, God's faithfulness across time, and invites the listener into a posture of celebration and trust. The bridge's 'Yes and Amen' anchors the joy in covenant promise rather than mere feeling. There is nothing here that obscures or complicates; it is simply an open invitation to praise.
What do these ratings mean?
- Lyrical content, what the words say on the surface. Clean: nothing coarse, sexual or violent. Mild: a trace of it, by allusion or a rare word. Strong: profanity, sex or violence in plain words. Explicit: graphic, or sin held up to admire.
- Spiritual posture, where the song's heart points. God-honoring: toward God, truth or hope. Searching: honestly reaching or wrestling toward truth, without arriving. Neutral: spiritually indifferent; neither reaches nor rejects. Dark: despairing, nihilistic, self-exalting or hostile to God.
- Apparent intent, what the song is for. Edifying: worship, encouragement, honest lament. Cathartic: letting grief, anger or longing out, told honestly. Ambiguous: hard to say what the song is for. Harmful: celebrates evil, mocks faith or draws toward sin.
As you sing 'we dance in Your freedom, awake and alive,' what specific thing has God done in your own story that makes those words feel personal rather than just familiar?
An AI-assisted reading. It can misread a lyric, a metaphor or a song’s intent.
