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My World Needs You

By Kirk Franklin + Tamela Mann + Tasha Cobbs + Sarah Reeves

2,606 views Sep 29, 2026 updated Losing My Religion album Verified editorial review

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Kirk Franklin opens this one as a plea stripped down to four lines — 'show me your face, fill up this space, my world needs you right now' — repeated so often it works almost like a communal chant rather than a verse-chorus structure. The request itself echoes Psalm 27:8's 'seek my face' language, turned around into an ask rather than a resolve: instead of declaring intent to seek God, the singers are asking God to be the one who shows up first.

The bridge shifts from asking to declaring, stacking titles onto Jesus's name — 'the great I Am,' 'king of kings,' 'lord of lords' — a near-direct pull from Revelation 19:16's description of the one whose name is written 'King of Kings and Lord of Lords.' 'Storms may come but when we call your name, all things change' turns the earlier vulnerability (being 'afraid,' unable to 'escape') into confidence, without ever pretending the storms themselves go away — only that calling the name changes what happens inside them.

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Show me your face
Fill up this space
My world needs you right now
My world needs you right now
I can't escape
Being afraid
Fill me with you right now
My world needs you right now

Power fall down
Bring with it a sound
That points us to you right now
Erase substitutes right now
Fix what I see
And God please fix me
My world needs you right now
Let us see you right now

Every heart in the world, God, needs you to rescue
Storms have come and torn our hearts in two
We need you

Show me your face
Fill up this space
My world needs you right now
My world needs you right now

Storms may come but when we call your name
All things change
Kingdoms fall, one thing
Forever reigns is your name
The anchor that holds me in my pain stays the same
Oh how sweet to know that your great name
Will never change

Jesus (oh)
Jesus (nobody like you Jesus)
Jesus (power is in the name Jesus)
Jesus (yes I need you)
Jesus (that's where the power is)
Jesus (you have all of the authority)
Jesus (only you are the great I am, you're the king of kings, you're the lord of lords)
Jesus

Storms may come but when we call your name all things change
Kingdoms fall, one thing
Forever reigns is your name
Oh how sweet to know that your great name
Will never change
It's stays the same

Show me your face
Come fill this space
My world needs you right now
My world needs you right now

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