“Crush me so there may flow new wine. LORD Jesus, crush me so there may flow new wine.”
“And no man putteth new wine into old bottles… but new wine must be put into new bottles.”
– Luke 5:37–38
“Crush Me” is a prayer of surrender — an invitation for Jesus to do the work within us that we cannot do ourselves. Like grapes beneath the winepress, the song embraces the breaking that allows something new to flow: “Like the vintner with the presser, won’t You press into my heart?”
But the prayer does not end with being crushed. It moves from new wine, to new life, to true rest. “Fill me so there may flow new life” becomes a prayer for His living water to flow through us like a river to the city — what He produces within becoming life that can pour outward.
And then comes perhaps the gentlest surrender of all: “Hush me so I sleep through the night.” In darkness and confusion, the same Jesus we trust to crush and fill us is the One we trust to quiet us and give the soul rest.
“Crush Me” is not a prayer for hardship for its own sake. It is a willingness to be worked upon by God — emptied of what must go, filled with what comes from Him, and brought into the rest that only He can give.
Crush me. Fill me. Hush me. Whatever You must do within me, LORD Jesus, let something new flow.
"Vol. 3: Back To Eden" is the latest in the series of the powerful AO1 sound.
Each lyric was birthed in secret places of prayer and offered through voices who yielded to the Spirit’s leading. Together, they form a testimony of true fellowship, of full confidence in God's original intention, and of what Eden represents.
This volume carries the sound of return — of surrender, restoration, and becoming again what we were always meant to be. From the breaking and remoulding of Clay, to the childlike surrender of Like a Child, to the longing for restoration in Back to Eden, every song draws us away from what we have made of ourselves and back to the One who made us.
Here, to return is to surrender. To return is to be restored. To return is to become again what we were always meant to be — wholly His, living for an audience of One.
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