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Cycles
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Sep 11, 2026 updated
Make Room album
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Song Meaning
Jonathan McReynolds starts "Cycles" with genuine confusion rather than a tidy testimony — "didn't I conquer this last year? Tell me what I missed 'cause I fear that it's coming back up again" — naming relapse as the actual experience rather than pretending victory is always linear.
The song's sharpest insight is about the enemy's method, not just his goal: "the devil, he learns from your mistakes, even if you don't — that's how he keeps you in cycles." That's a specific claim about strategy, not just spiritual opposition in the abstract. "I'm a different fighter now, and I have God to thank, 'cause His joy is my strength" borrows Nehemiah's line directly, crediting a specific source for the shift rather than generic self-improvement.
By the song's second half the repeated word "cycles" starts functioning almost like a spoken renunciation, especially once it widens beyond personal struggle to "generational cycles, financial cycles, painful cycles" — the song ends by naming the categories most testimonies leave vague, insisting the same power that breaks one kind of pattern breaks all of them.
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Didn't I conquer this last year?
Tell me what I missed 'cause I fear
That it's coming back up again
Must be something I ate
Some song, some show, some hate
The devil wants to extend the game, free throws
And when it ends he wants to make the sequel
'Cause if he has another chance
He feels like he can take
My joy, my peace, my faith
See the devil, he learns from your mistakes
Even if you don't
That's how he keeps you in cycles, cycles
Cycles, cycles
But I'm not going in cycles, cycles
Cycles, cycles
This will end like I want it to, I win
The enemy will have to lose again
See, I'm a different fighter now
And I have God to thank
'Cause His joy is my strength
See the devil will learn it's a mistake
When I am sure
That I'm not going in cycles
I'm not going in cycles
I'm gonna break these cycles
I'm not going in cycles
I'm gonna break these cycles
I'm not going in cycles
Cycles, cycles
I'm not going in cycles
Ooh, so Lord, help me
Be free from all of my past sins
See, Your love is enough
To make me new
And help me in these cycles, cycles
Help me in these cycles, ooh Lord, cycles
I need You to help me in these cycles
I rebuke him in the name of Jesus, oh
Cycles, cycles
See I'm not going in cycles
I refuse it, cycles
I refuse it, cycles
Oh, refuse it, cycles
Oh, woe, depression, cycles
Oh, all I'm saying, cycles
Oh, I'm not going in cycles
Yeah, cycles
See, there is power in the name of Jesus
There is power in the name of Jesus
See, there is power in the name of Jesus
To break every cycle, to break every cycle
See, there is power in the name of Jesus
See, there is power in the name of Jesus
There is power in the name of Jesus
To break every cycle, to break all these cycles
To break all these cycles, to break all these cycles
Generational cycles, financial cycles
Painful cycles, oh, cycles