50 Best Worship Songs About Freedom

Worship Songs That Carry the Sound of Freedom

There’s a weird thing that happens when you finally breathe again. Not the big movie moment kind, but the smaller shift. The weight comes off in pieces, an old fear, a buried shame, some pressure you’ve carried so long you forgot it was there. And suddenly the room feels different. It’s not always fireworks and hallelujahs. Sometimes it’s one verse that cuts through the noise. Or a slow build that reaches the part of you that’s been locked up. These songs get that. Not the clean version of freedom with a filter slapped on, but the kind that’s raw and uneven and sometimes still stings.

You don’t glide into it. You stumble there. With your shoulders still tense, with prayers half-mumbled, with a heart that still flinches a little. But there’s this sound, something in the voice, or the way the chords rise like they’ve been carrying your weight too, and it shifts you. A drumline that shakes the dust off. A lyric that finally hits like truth instead of wishful thinking. These aren’t neat worship tracks. They don’t try to resolve everything in the bridge. They live in that middle place, where pop, rock, country, and R&B songs have sat before too, where the walls break down just enough to let the light crawl in.

So if you’re there, if you’re standing in that in-between space, part breakthrough, part breakdown, these worship songs won’t rush you out of it. They’ll hold that space with you. Here’s a list of freedom songs that sound like they’ve been there.

1. 'Break Every Chain'—Tasha Cobbs Leonard

2. 'No Longer Slaves'—Jonathan David & Melissa Helser

3. 'Freedom'—Jesus Culture ft. Kim Walker-Smith

4. 'This Is Freedom (Ain't No Rock)'—The Belonging Co ft. Natalie Grant

5. 'Freedom Is Coming'—Hillsong Young & Free

6. 'My Deliverer'—Chris Tomlin

7. 'What Freedom Feels Like'—Cody Carnes

8. 'Freedom Song'—Christy Nockels

9. 'We The Redeemed'—Hillsong Worship

10. 'Chain Breaker'—Zach Williams

11. 'Goodness of God'—Bethel Music & Jenn Johnson

12. 'Living Hope'—Phil Wickham

13. 'Raise a Hallelujah'—Jonathan David & Melissa Helser

14. 'Way Maker'—Sinach

15. 'What a Beautiful Name'—Hillsong Worship

16. 'The Blessing'—Kari Jobe, Cody Carnes & Elevation Worship

17. 'Forever'—Kari Jobe

18. 'Open Up the Heavens'—Meredith Andrews

19. 'Death Was Arrested'—North Point Worship

20. 'Do It Again'—Elevation Worship

21. 'Build My Life'—Pat Barrett

22. 'Cornerstone'—Hillsong Worship

23. 'Glorious Day'—Passion

24. 'This Is Amazing Grace'—Phil Wickham

25. 'Holy Spirit'—Kari Jobe ft. Cody Carnes

26. 'O Praise the Name (Anástasis)'—Hillsong Worship

27. 'Mighty to Save'—Hillsong Worship

28. 'God of Wonders'—Third Day & Caedmon's Call

29. '10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)'—Matt Redman

30. 'How Great Is Our God'—Chris Tomlin

31. 'Lion and the Lamb'—Leeland

32. 'Stand in Your Love'—Josh Baldwin

33. 'You Say'—Lauren Daigle

34. 'There Was Jesus'—Zach Williams & Dolly Parton

35. 'Graves Into Gardens'—Elevation Worship ft. Brandon Lake

36. 'See a Victory'—Elevation Worship

37. 'Fresh Wind'—Hillsong Worship

38. 'Promises'—Maverick City Music ft. Joe L Barnes & Naomi Raine

39. 'My Jesus'—Anne Wilson

40. 'Firm Foundation (He Won't)'—Cody Carnes

41. 'Gratitude'—Brandon Lake

42. 'Honey In The Rock'—Brooke Fraser & Brandon Lake

43. 'Jireh'—Maverick City Music & Elevation Worship ft. Chandler Moore & Naomi Raine

44. 'King of My Heart'—Steffany Gretzinger & Jeremy Riddle

45. 'Amazing Grace'—Various Artists (Traditional Hymn)

46. 'Because He Lives'—Bill & Gloria Gaither

47. 'It Is Well With My Soul'—Horatio Spafford (Traditional Hymn)

48. 'The Freedom We Know'—Hillsong Worship

49. 'Song Of The Redeemed'—Charlie Hall

50. 'Take My Life and Let It Be'—Frances Ridley Havergal (Traditional Hymn)