50 Best Worship Songs About Laying Down Your Life
Worship Songs That Capture the Cost of Surrender
There’s a certain ache that creeps in when you start singing words you know are heavy. “I lay down my life" sounds poetic until it sinks in that it actually means something. Not the cinematic kind where everything clicks and the sky opens up, but the daily stuff. The dying to your own plans. The quiet moments where you give up the thing you were holding onto way too tight. These songs land there. Right in the tension. Not neat, not dramatic. Just the hollowed-out kind of surrender that feels both too small and too much at once.
You hear it in the tremble of a stripped-back piano line or a worship leader whose voice cracks on the bridge. The ones that don’t try to sweeten it. These aren’t your glossy declarations of purpose, or the safe kind of devotion that sounds good in youth group settings. They feel closer to the edge. A little undone. Like pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that tried to follow a similar thread but missed the part where it actually costs something. These tracks remember. They press in. They don’t flinch when the lyrics get uncomfortable.
Laying down your life isn’t a crescendo moment. It’s usually a quiet Tuesday. No spotlight. No clean outcome. These worship songs sit in that space and let the weight stay put. They don’t rush to resolve it. They hold that pause before the next step, when surrender feels more like being emptied out than filled up. Here are the ones that carry that kind of depth.
Top 10 Surrender Songs
1. 'I Surrender All'—Judson W. Van DeVenter
2. 'Take My Life and Let It Be'—Frances Ridley Havergal
3. 'Not My Will but Yours'—Original Christian Worship Song
4. 'I Surrender'—Hillsong Worship
5. 'Make Room'—Community Music
6. 'Everything and Nothing Less'—Chris McClarney
7. 'Run to the Father'—Cody Carnes
8. 'Have It All'—Bethel Music
9. 'Give It All'—Aaron Shust
10. 'Living Sacrifice'—UPPERROOM
Christian Songs on Dedication to God #11—20
11. 'All to Jesus I Surrender'—Judson W. Van DeVenter
12. 'Build My Life'—Pat Barrett
13. 'Follow You Anywhere'—Passion
14. 'One Pure and Holy Passion'—Shane & Shane
15. 'Let My Life Be Worship'—Bethel Music
16. 'The Cost'—Rend Collective
17. 'Not My Own'—Aaron Keyes
18. 'Here I Am to Worship'—Tim Hughes
19. 'Lay Me Down'—Chris Tomlin ft. Matt Redman
20. 'Worthy, Worthy'—Vertical Worship
Worship Music About Giving Everything to Jesus #21—30
21. 'Give Them All to Jesus'—Bill & Gloria Gaither ft. Candy Christmas
22. 'Give It All Away'—Gaither Vocal Band
23. 'I Give Myself Away'—William McDowell
24. 'My Sacrifice'—Vertical Church Band
25. 'All I Have Is Yours'—CityAlight
26. 'Only by Your Grace'—New Life Worship
27. 'You Are Worthy of It All'—David Brymer
28. 'All to Him'—Phil Wickham
29. 'Broken Vessels (Amazing Grace)'—Hillsong Worship
30. 'Gracefully Broken'—Tasha Cobbs Leonard
Songs About Total Surrender in Christian Faith #31—40
31. 'Here as in Heaven'—Elevation Worship
32. 'What a Beautiful Name'—Hillsong Worship
33. 'Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)'—Hillsong UNITED
34. 'No Longer Slaves'—Jonathan David & Melissa Helser
35. 'Goodness of God'—Bethel Music
36. 'This Is Amazing Grace'—Phil Wickham
37. 'Reckless Love'—Cory Asbury
38. 'The Heart of Worship'—Matt Redman
39. 'Cornerstone'—Hillsong Worship
40. 'Way Maker'—Sinach
Worship Songs About Self-Sacrifice #41—50
41. 'You Say'—Lauren Daigle
42. 'Trust in You'—Lauren Daigle
43. 'Draw Me Near'—Passion
44. 'Lord, I Need You'—Matt Maher
45. 'Open Up the Heavens'—Meredith Andrews
46. 'Your Will Be Done'—CityAlight
47. 'Surrender'—Natalie Grant
48. 'Here's My Heart'—Casting Crowns
49. 'Send Me Out'—Vertical Worship
50. 'I Am Thine, O Lord'—Fanny Crosby
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