[Intro]
Oh-whoa, oh-whoa, oh-whoa
Oh-whoa, oh-whoa, oh-whoa
Oh-whoa, oh-whoa, oh-whoa
Oh-whoa, oh-whoa, oh-whoa
[Verse 1]
What are the reasons you feel I'm qualified?
What are your deepest fears that hold you tight?
Don't wait, hesitate, take a step in faith
Even if it's out on a limb
Just remember we're called to be light
[Chorus]
He doesn't need the powerful
He doesn't need the beautiful
He doesn't need the capable
But He'll use the available
He'll give you the words to speak
He'll give you the strength when you are weak
He'll do the incredible
And He'll use the available
Oh-whoa, oh-whoa, oh-whoa
Oh-whoa, oh-whoa, oh-whoa
[Verse 2]
He calls the unlikely, the ones like you and me
And He'll use the willing to be His hands and feet, oh no
Just don't wait, hesitate, take a step in faith
Even if it's out on a limb
He calls the unlikely, the ones like you and me
[Chorus]
He doesn't need the powerful
He doesn't need the beautiful
He doesn't need the capable
But He'll use the available
He'll give you the words to speak
He'll give you the strength when you are weak
He'll do the incredible
And He'll use the available
[Bridge]
Who gives a man his mouth and words to speak?
Who lights his way and gives eyes to see?
His power is made perfect in the weak
[Pre-Chorus]
Don't wait, hesitate, take a step in faith
Even if it's out on a limb
[Chorus]
He doesn't need the powerful
He doesn't need the beautiful
He doesn't need the capable
But He'll use the available
(So God I'm making myself available)
Just say the word and I'll speak
And be my strength when I am weak
You are incredible
And I am available
[Outro]
Listen
Have you looked in God's word?
Take a look at the people He chose
It wasn't always the strongest
Or the ones with the most gifts
But it was the ones willing to do His work
The ones that made themselves available, yeah
Whoa-oh, oh-oh
Whoa-oh, oh-oh
Available
Song Meaning
Chris August opens "Available" with a question aimed at self-doubt rather than confidence — "what are the reasons you feel I'm qualified? What are your deepest fears that hold you tight?" — letting the hesitation stand before answering it: "don't wait, hesitate, take a step in faith, even if it's out on a limb."
The chorus's list works by subtraction rather than addition — "He doesn't need the powerful, He doesn't need the beautiful, He doesn't need the capable, but He'll use the available" — removing every qualification a listener might assume is required before naming the one that actually matters.
"He calls the unlikely, the ones like you and me, and He'll use the willing to be His hands and feet" restates the same point from Moses' own excuse — "who gives a man his mouth and words to speak?" borrows Exodus almost directly — and "His power is made perfect in the weak" quotes Paul's answer to his own thorn. The closing parenthetical, "(so God I'm making myself available)," shifts the song from describing a principle to enacting it, and the outro's plain historical claim — "it wasn't always the strongest or the ones with the most gifts" — closes the argument with precedent rather than persuasion.