50 Best Worship Songs About Awakening
Worship Songs That Echo Spiritual Renewal and Restless Faith
There’s a strange kind of quiet that hits before something shifts inside you. Not a big, cinematic kind of moment, but the slower stuff. You’re up before the sun for the first time in weeks, sitting with a half-drunk cup of coffee, unsure why your chest feels heavier than it should. That low hum in the background, the tired ache that usually blends into the noise, suddenly has room to speak. And that’s when one of these tracks finds you. The kind that doesn’t feel polished or triumphant, more like someone waking up confused and clinging to a flicker of something better.
It’s not clean. Some of these songs carry that friction, like someone toeing the line between faith and doubt with their jaw clenched. You hear it in the raw piano notes, in the way the vocals fray at the edges. A little worn down. But still reaching. These aren’t the perfectly lit, Sunday-best kind of worship tracks. They feel more like trying to pray in a car that smells like takeout and regret. Like yelling at the sky from the bottom of a hill you’re not sure you’ll get over. These are the ones that make you stop and listen because something in them feels cracked open in a way pop, rock, country, and R&B songs sometimes never manage to get near.
There’s no guarantee of clarity. But the tension in these songsthe quiet swell before the chorus hits, the unfinished thoughts in the bridgemirrors the way awakening actually feels. Like stumbling awake in the middle of the night and needing to move even though you’re still half asleep. They carry the dust and the weight and the maybe of it all. Here are the best worship songs that feel like spiritual awakening without smoothing out the edges.
Top 10 Awakening Songs
1. 'Awaken Me'—Casting Crowns
2. 'Fall Afresh (Spirit of the Living God)'—sxxnt
3. 'Awake My Soul (Psalm 57)'—The Worship Initiative
4. 'Breathe Miracles'—Red Rocks Worship
5. 'God of Awakening'—Lakepointe Music
6. 'Bring an Awakening'—People & Songs
7. 'Pure Thing (Live)'—UPPERROOM
8. 'New Day (Radio Version)'—Danny Gokey
9. 'Live Again'—ONE HOUSE
10. 'You Never Let Go'—Matt Redman
Songs about Spiritual Renewal #11—20
11. 'Good Good Father'—Chris Tomlin
12. 'Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)'—Hillsong UNITED
13. 'What a Beautiful Name'—Hillsong Worship
14. 'Reckless Love'—Cory Asbury
15. 'Build My Life'—Pat Barrett
16. 'Hosanna'—Hillsong UNITED
17. 'Living Hope'—Phil Wickham
18. 'Great Are You Lord'—All Sons & Daughters
19. 'Broken Vessels (Amazing Grace)'—Hillsong Worship
20. 'Do It Again'—Elevation Worship
Christian Songs for New Beginnings #21—30
21. '10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)'—Matt Redman
22. 'Holy Spirit'—Francesca Battistelli
23. 'No Longer Slaves'—Bethel Music
24. 'Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)'—Chris Tomlin
25. 'In Christ Alone'—Keith Getty & Stuart Townend
26. 'Open Up the Heavens'—Vertical Worship
27. 'Come Alive'—Charity Gayle
28. 'Revive Us Again'—William Paton Mackay & John Jenkins Husband
29. 'Create In Me a Clean Heart'—Andy Gilbert
30. 'Redeemed'—Big Daddy Weave
Worship Music About Revival #31—40
31. 'Holy Forever'—Chris Tomlin
32. 'Your Love Awakens Me'—Chris Quilala
33. 'Rise Up Believer'—Various Artists
34. 'This Is Amazing Grace'—Phil Wickham
35. 'Give Me Jesus'—Fernando Ortega
36. 'Your Presence Is Heaven'—Israel Houghton
37. 'Breathe'—Michael W. Smith
38. 'We Fall Down'—Chris Tomlin
39. 'Cornerstone'—Hillsong Worship
40. 'Goodness of God'—Bethel Music & Jenn Johnson
More Awakening Christian Songs #41—50
41. 'Glorious Day'—Passion
42. 'The Lion and the Lamb'—Big Daddy Weave
43. 'Open The Eyes Of My Heart'—Paul Baloche
44. 'You are Holy'—Michael W. Smith
45. 'Forever (We Sing Hallelujah)'—Kari Jobe
46. 'I Give Myself'—William McDowell
47. 'Come Now Is the Time to Worship'—Brian Doerksen
48. 'Lord Send Revival'—Elevation Worship
49. 'O Come to the Altar'—Elevation Worship
50. 'Raise A Hallelujah'—Bethel Music
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