📝 LYRICS Verse 1 (Calm, strong, clear — no fear) Full of faith… full of grace… Signs and wonders… in the public place… They argued… they lied… they stirred up hate… But my face… shone like an angel’s… unshaken… straight… They set false witnesses… spoke against the Law… But I saw deeper… what they were fighting for… Hearts stiff-necked… uncircumcised… Always resisting the Spirit… before their eyes… Verse 2 (Voice steady, bold — speaking truth) Which of the prophets… did your fathers not persecute? They killed the ones… who foretold the coming of the Just One… And now… you have become His betrayers… His murderers… You received the Law… but did not keep it… your honourers… They gnashed their teeth… cut to the heart… Furious… enraged… tearing apart… But I… lifted up my eyes… and I saw… Something no darkness… could ever withdraw… Pre-Chorus (Awestruck, slow — the vision) I looked up… and the heavens opened wide… The glory of God… standing there… inside… And at His right hand… the Son of Man… Standing… ready… to receive me home again… Chorus (Radiant, peaceful — not fighting back, just seeing) I SEE THE HEAVENS OPEN! 🕊️🔥 I SEE MY LORD… STANDING THERE… WAITING! STONES MAY FALL… BUT I SEE HOME! THEY CAN KILL THIS BODY… BUT THEY CANNOT TOUCH MY SOUL! JESUS… STANDING… AT THE FATHER’S SIDE… I AM GOING… TO BE WITH HIM… ABIDE… 🙏✨ Verse 3 (Slow, heavy — the stones come) They dragged me out… beyond the city gate… They laid their coats… at Saul’s feet… full of hate… The first stone… then another… raining down… Pain… but distant… fading… drowning out the sound… I did not curse… I did not fight… I knelt… and prayed… with my last sight… “Lord Jesus… receive my spirit… I come to You…” And then… I cried out… loud and true… Bridge (Soft, forgiving — the final prayer) “LORD… DO NOT HOLD THIS SIN AGAINST THEM!” 💔 Forgive them… they do not understand… Then I fell asleep… in perfect peace… Into His arms… my soul released… Stephen… faithful… first of the slain… But the gates of hell… could not prevail… For every stone… for every life laid down… The gospel spread… to every town… Final Chorus (Soaring, eternal — victory beyond death) I SEE THE HEAVENS OPEN! I SEE MY LORD… STANDING THERE… WAITING! DEATH HAS NO STING… THE GRAVE HAS NO VICTORY! I AM WITH HIM… ETERNALLY! FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH… AND I RECEIVE… THE CROWN OF LIFE… THAT WILL NEVER LEAVE… 👑🕊️ Outro (Whisper — fading into light) He knelt down… Fell asleep… And Saul… was there… Approving… But the seed was sown… And it would grow… ✨ Who this is: Stephen — not fighting back, not angry, not afraid. He saw heaven open before anyone else. He prayed the same prayer Jesus prayed: “Father, forgive them.” And the young man watching — Saul — would one day carry the torch Stephen lit. Blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
