The Power of Your Love by Hillsong Worship

The Power of Your Love is Hillsong's 1992 album, the first live worship record from the Sydney church that went on to shape modern praise music. Written largely by Geoff Bullock and led with the young Darlene Zschech, it set a template followed for decades. I came to it long after it was recorded and heard where so much later worship began.

Why listen?

The sound is simple and earnest, a live band and a singing room with little polish in the way. The production is plain by later standards, but the warmth carries it. The lyrics are direct and devotional, fixed on surrender, mercy, and the power of love named in the title. There is a clear flow across the set, building from welcome to release. It is the honest start of a long story.

Favourite song: The Power of Your Love

The title track became a standard for good reason, a slow and open prayer of surrender that still moves a room. It is the heart of the whole record.

Hold me close, let Your love surround me
Bring me near, draw me to Your side
And as I wait, I'll rise up like the eagle
And I will soar with You, Your Spirit leads me on
In the power of Your love

The way the song opens and rises feels like resting at the top of a long climb and simply taking in the air. It reminds me that worship, like a hike, is as much about stopping to look as it is about pressing on. The record carries that unhurried honesty throughout.

Key takeaway

The Power of Your Love is a plain, heartfelt debut where modern worship took shape. A gentle recommendation for anyone curious about the roots of the genre.

Tracklist

• The Time Has Come
• We Will Rise
• You Placed Your Love
• Your Love
• Blessed Be
• You Are My Rock
• Hear Me Calling
• Refresh My Heart Lord
• The Power Of Your Love
• Lord We Come
• I Will Worship You
• You Are My God
• Holy Spirit Rise
• Glory
• Latter Rain
• The Great Southland

Details

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• Apple Music
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• Spotify

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