Ask Your King for the Impossible

Ask Your King for the Impossible
Lyrics by Nathan Crockett, PhD

(loosely based on a poem by John Newton)

(Verse 1 The Bold Invitation)
Come, my soul, your plea prepare,
Jesus loves to hear your call;
He has bid you seek Him there,
Hasten now, and tell Him all.
You are coming to a King,
Ask the impossible of Him;
To His throne your spirit bring,
Grace that overflows the brim.

(Refrain)
Hear us, Savior, as we cry,
Lifting up our eyes to You;
On Your promise we rely,
Faithful, merciful, and true.
In Your name, we venture near,
Finding grace to conquer fear.

(Verse 2 The Load of Guilt)
With my burden I begin:
Lord, remove this heavy weight;
Cleanse the deepest stains of sin,
Open wide the mercy-gate.
Let Your blood, for sinners spilt,
Set my weary conscience free;
Wash away my grief and guilt,
Grant Your peace to dwell in me.

(Verse 3 The Sovereign Heart)
Lord, I come to find my rest,
Take the throne within my soul;
Rule the kingdom of my breast,
Every passion now control.
There your blood-bought right maintain,
Purge away each rebel trace;
Without a rival, come and reign,
By the triumph of Your grace.

(Verse 4 The Faithful Journey)
While a pilgrim here below,
Be my Guard, my Guide, my Friend;
Daily strength and faith bestow,
Lead me to my journey’s end.
Show me what I ought to do,
Keep me on the narrow path;
Till I wake to life anew,
Safe from sorrow, sin, and death.

(Outro, sung quietly)
Without a rival, come and reign,
Without a rival, take Your place.
Until my heart is Yours alone,
A temple of Your grace.
Without a rival, come and reign,
Without a rival, take Your place.
Until my heart is Yours alone,
A temple of Your grace.
In a world dominated by AI, I feel obliged to describe in detail my method of creating modern hymn lyrics and music. I realize it differs from the traditional approach of a few decades ago.

For research, I rely heavily on Perplexity Sonar Pro, Anthropic's Claude 4 (Sonnet and Opus), Gemini 2.5 Pro, and ChatGPT 4.1 (I experimented periodically with Grok 3, Pixtral, DeepSeek, and Llama). Galaxy.ai is a great tool that offers access to some of the best AI tools for one monthly fee.
For creation of carousels and PowerPoints, I enjoy Gamma AI.
For video work, I enjoy Kling AI 2.1, Runway ML Gen4 and Google VEO 3. Suno AI (Suno.com, not to be confused with Sunoai.ai) is my go to for audio production.

When writing a modern hymn, I have multiple back and forth sessions with my favorite LLMs (usually Gemini Pro, ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity). I find that switching between LLMs gives me better results. I use the LLM like a research assistant.

When I'm stuck on a line, I'll give feed my conceptual idea into a LLM and ask for 10 potential lines to communicate that idea. The LLMs usually help with rough draft creation, research, and especially word-by-word refinement of the hymn text.

I believe AI can be a crutch or an incredible assistant depending on how you use it. From a copyright standpoint, I am the author, but multiple LLMs helped me get to the finish product (just like my LinkedIn posts) or website content that I write.

I rely much more heavily on AI for the music.
I work with Suno AI, letting it know the exact instrumental feel that I want, and from that point it's a process of trial and error getting the exact sound (instrumental and voice) that I want.

My understanding is that I'm still they copyright holder of the music, because I'm using the commercial version of the software. AI can also produce the sheet music from a finished composition (which saves a ton of time).
For the music videos, I either create AI video footage or use stock footage (I've paid for commercial use) from ArtList.

I hope that you find the song to be a blessing.

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