On the Mountain of the Lord
Posted: April 27, 2012 Filed under: Monday Morning Music 10 CommentsReally looking forward to the World Discipleship Summit this summer. The theme is “On the Mountain of the Lord” which is taken from Genesis 22, the story of Abraham and Isaac on Mount Moriah.
Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yireh (which means “the Lord will provide”). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”
– Genesis 22:14
Here is a song I wrote for the conference based on this story. In the video below I share more detail about the story and the song. Also below is a demo recording I put together for our worship band to learn it. For those of you who are worship leaders, it would be great if you could sing the song with your congregation before we come together in San Antonio this summer, so folks could be a little familiar with it.
Look forward to seeing you this summer!
[UPDATE – see this new post that goes through the song on guitar and gives the capo chords. See my new CD that has studio version of this song plus lots of other uplifting tunes.]
On the Mountain of the Lord – demo recording
ON THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD
(Genesis 22)
They were walking up the mountain
Isaac asked of Abraham
“Here I see the wood and fire
But for the offering, where’s the Lamb?”
Abraham thought for a moment
The question must have pierced him deep
But then he gave his son the answer
Still is true for you and me
“God Himself is here to help us
There is an offering in store
All we need will be provided
On the Mountain of the Lord”
On the Mountain of the Lord
It will be provided
On the Mountain of the Lord
On the Mountain of the Lord
It will be provided
On the Mountain of the Lord
They were walking up the mountain
Two thousand years, the time had come
The wooden cross, the Lamb of God
The offering of an only Son
God Himself came down to help us
Hands were pierced, His blood was poured
All we need has been provided
On the Mountain of the Lord
On the Mountain of the Lord
It will be provided
On the Mountain of the Lord
On the Mountain of the Lord
It will be provided
On the Mountain of the Lord
You say, ask in Your name
And we will receive
Faith can move a mountain
If we will believe
ON THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD
Intro
Bm A / D G
Bm A / D
Bm A / D G
Bm A / D
Verse 1
Bm / A / G / D
Bm / A / G / D
Bm / A / G / D
Bm / A / G / D
Verse 2
Bm / A / G / D
Bm / A / G / D
Bm / A / G / D
Bm / A / G / Asus A
Chorus
Bm G / D A
Bm G / D
Bm G / D A
Bm G / D
verse 3 (same as verse 2 above)
chorus
repeat intro
Bridge
Bm A / D G
G Bm / A
Bm A / D G
G Bm / A
repeat bridge
A…
Chorus 2x
Monday Morning Music 
Brian,
Great job on the song.
Scott
I love this song..I can’t wait to learn the words and sing it with my brothers and sisters in Texas…may the Lord provide and make this come to pass, in accordance to His will. Thanks Brian, God bless 🙂
Great Job brother!
Lovely song bro. I am ready to sing along at the conference. Keep up the great work. God bless.
I loved this song!!! I’m so glad I found it to hear it again! Thanks for writting this song brother!!! It was great to sing it all along at the conference! God bless!
Brian! I really fell in love with the song… at first I thought it would be a song more to listen to than to sing… but no! It is both 🙂 W are interpreting it into Russian! Hope you do not mind! I will send you the recording of it as soon as we sing it with the church!
Also Ivan will post an article on this song on DT with the reference to this page 🙂
Awesome! Thanks Masha! I will post another video with how I play it on guitar.
By the way, I do have a recording that teaches the harmony parts. It’s at this location:
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hi Brian,
is there a way that I can get/buy the sheet music?
I have watched the video of this song in WDS 2012, and it’s great.
Sorry, I don’t have any sheet music – just the chord charts for now. Will work on putting some sheet music together at some point…