Matthew West - Next Thing You Know

I remember when I was thirteen
I saw a picture on my TV screen
The Reverend Billy Graham and the people sing "Just As I Am"
And I felt like You were talking to me

And the whole world seemed to fade away
Until I heard my mother say
"Son, are you okay? Do you wanna pray?"
And that became the hour I first believed

And next thing you know, I'm high and flying
Next thing you know, my heart is in Your hands
Next thing you know, there is no denying
Next thing you know, I'm a brand new man

Well I wish I could say I always stayed right there
And I did until my freshman year
But the world was pulling me a long way from thirteen
And You were calling but I didn't hear

Still I knew there was something more
So one day my knees hit the dorm room floor
I said "If You're there and if You really care
Come and talk to me like I was thirteen"

I got a picture in my head today
Of how heaven might look someday
I see the people there so I pull up a chair
And their stories they blew me away

'Cause I can see it on every face
Their evidence of grace
And as I listen it occurs to me
Everybody's got their own thirteen

So what's your story about His glory?
You gotta find your place in the history of grace
Yeah what's your story about His glory?
Come on and find your place

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• Thirteen

[EncompassedRunner]

Praise God! I can so relate to this...when I was a teen the one kid I did *not* like gave me a gospel tract by Billy Graham (weird b/c I consider him to have gone apostate now) that led me to invite Christ into my life "if" He really was the Way, the Truth & the Life...& now I'm high & flying too! this song captures that joy, thx!

[MechWomanWarrior15]

I remember when i was 13 ;)

[TheNewEpoch]

@MechWomanWarrior15 

[xxkrazyaznxx]

I've been trying to find this song since '05~'06. lol.

Praise God!

[DJclockbreaker]

i really liked this song when i was like 7 maybe, i had no idea really what it was about, just thought it sounded cool and they were talking about TV (Lol i was more into my video games than God at that age, it took me a long time to find out what was most important in my life) but i accidently ran into this song, and man, it still is awesome lol :)

i was 12 when i had my 13 experience :)

[MsInchristalone]

nice!

[racenuke]

Ahh, much better audio quality... thank you :)

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[reknubkitak]

I actually just found out this was by Matthew West. I used to listen to it on the radio a long time ago but I didn't give a hoot about who wrote what then. And after that I thought it was tobyMac for some reason :)

[CastingCrownsLuver]

@OrangeFantaHS Same here!

[ders16]

@mike11986 Uno Más, one more.