My dad recently put this song while we where working late night together. I used to hear this song when i was a little kid back when mom and dad where together...with brother and sisters..i was happy and didnt even realize it at the time...i got really teary eyed..what a great song this is...god bless everyone who reads this :)
I've known this song since I was like 2 years old. I thought they were saying, "beyond the leaf.", so I ran around my house singing that at the top my of lungs.
I listened to these songs growing up. My dad had a CD of this music. I remember telling my dad "Daddy please put on Petra!" Then once i asked him, "Where did you get this CD Daddy." He said "A long time ago on my birthday your mom gave it to me since i love the music alot." About a year later our red Van broke down.. My mom turned in the broken Van, forgetting the CD was in there. 1 day later i ask my dad "Put on beyond beilef please! Its my favourite one!" My dad says "WHERE IS THE CD!!??" I think with tears in my eyes "In the Van, daddy.." My dad says "Oh my the Van is crushed into pieces now." I say "Is the CD Crushed??!!?" 6 years later here I am now, my dad put Petra on his phone and i smile. Then I say "Well never know if the CD was actually in the Van or not."
I'm a metalcore/deathcore guy but Petra will always hold a special place in my heart. By the time I got into them as a kid, they'd already been split up for a while. My mom told me about them, how she listened to them a lot in high school. I ended up finding their CD's at goodwill's when I was like 9 or 10 or something. I instantly loved them. I own a few of their albums now, especially this one and Unseen Power. My friends and I are big fans of them especially Bob Hartman. Dude was a big influence on me when I started guitar. Now I'm a technical/Progressive metal player. Thanks Bob. These guys are the best. Rooted in the solid rock, the word of God!
Manuel Rodea stryper wasn't first, they were just the first to have major crossover success. Petra actually started in the early seventies, and there was a Christian rock underground for as long as there was rock music.
I love petra i have loved them since i was a teenager 30 years ago with the release of unseen power then beyond belief awsome that i found it again cause i had the cassette of them
Thank for God for Petra! They're still the best and the greatest out of Classic Christian Rock along with Stryper. Today's Colton Dixon is taking Christian Rock back to the Rock ;)!
My School days:This album x movie of the album i bought,, storyline:with cancer of a friend,, was ❤everything the future held in relationship with to my sister. God heals i pray
Desde luego que los cantantes cristianos son de los 70 80' que fue la generación de jóvenes de mucho talento musical,donde comenzaban con guitarras,hasta que fueron incorporando otros,lo cierto es que fue dificil, que sembraron en buena tierra,e que esos muchachos hoy siguen realizando producciones,Dios bendiga USA y la enorme familia cristiana en Jesús ❤️♾️🌎💪🎵🌅
We're content to pitch our tent When the glory's evident Seldom do we know The glory came and went Moving can seem dangerous In this stranger's pilgrimage Knowing that you can't stand still You cross the bridge There's a higher place to go Beyond belief, beyond belief Where we reach the next plateau Beyond belief, beyond belief And from faith to faith we grow Towards the center of the flow Where He beckons us to go Beyond belief, beyond belief Leap of faith without a net Makes us want to hitch our bed Waters never part Until our feet get wet, whoa There's a deeper place to go Where the road seems hard to hoe He who has begun this work Won't let it go (let it go!) There's a higher place to go Beyond belief, beyond belief Where we reach the next plateau Beyond belief, beyond belief And from faith to faith we grow Towards the center of the flow Where He beckons us to go Beyond belief, beyond belief And it takes so long to see the change But we look around, and it seems so strange We have come so far, but the journey's long And we once were weak, but now we are strong There's a higher place to go Beyond belief, beyond belief Where we reach the next plateau Beyond belief, beyond belief And from faith to faith we grow Towards the center of the flow Where He beckons us to go Beyond belief, beyond belief.
The key to holiness is falling in love with Jesus. By "falling in love" I don't mean mindless mush. I have in mind having in one's mind a passionate delight in the infinite excellencies of God in Christ. Falling in love with Jesus means having your heart and mind entranced, bedazzled, and captivated by the superlative beauty and sweetness of the Son of God. This experience begins at conversion, for the essence of being born again, is to give the heart a Divine taste or sense; to cause it to have a relish of the loveliness and sweetness of the supreme excellency of the Divine nature. This is no static deposit, however, but a living seed that comes to full flower and blossoms throughout the course of one's life in Christ. It is a live coal, if you will, on which the Holy Spirit deigns to blow and bring to white-hot intensity. This new taste for the sweetness of the Savior, developed and cultivated, is the only thing that turns sin sour in our souls. That's why falling in love with Jesus is the key to holiness. Another way of putting it is that our fight for happiness in God must fuel our fight against sin. Delight in God will alone dislodge sin from our hearts. Delight in God is therefore the aim of all our thoughts and efforts and appetites. Long term, this alone will undermine our delight in sin. In other words, this facebook study focuses on the preeminent passion of our hearts, namely, joy in God. If this passion for God does not consume us, sin will. What I now want to suggest is that our glad-hearted passion for God is exceeded only by God's glad-hearted passion for God, and that the latter is foundational to the former. Let me put it in for a question. What is the preeminent passion in God's heart? What is God's greatest pleasure? How does the happiness of God manifest itself? In what does God take supreme delight? I want to suggest that the preeminent passion in God's heart is His own glory. God is at the center of His own affections. The supreme love of God's life is God. God is preeminently committed to the fame of His name. God is Himself the end for which God created the world. Better still, God's immediate goal in all He does is His own glory. God relentlessly and unceasingly creates, rules, orders, directs, speaks, judges, saves, destroys, and delivers in order to make known who He is and to secure from the whole of the universe the praise, honor, and glory of which He and He alone is ultimately and infinitely worthy. The chief end of God is to glorify God and to enjoy Himself forever. Apart from this decidedly theocentric view of the universe, all our efforts at holiness, be they ever so much in the grace of God, will be seriously deficient. Two objections are often voiced to this assertion. First, this sounds terribly selfish and egocentric. And second, if God loves Himself preeminently, how can He love me at all? How can we say that God is for us and that He desires our happiness if He is primarily for Himself and His own glory? I want to argue that it is precisely because God loves Himself that He loves you. I want to argue that it is precisely in seeking His own happiness that He seeks yours. The only answer that the Bible gives to questions that begin: 'Why did God . . . ?' is: 'For his own glory.' Everything God does is for His own glory. Everything God permits is for His own glory. Everything God pursues is for His own glory. When God acts, it is for the sake of His name. And all this graciously redounds to our happy benefit. To put it more directly, the aim of God in creation and redemption is His delight in our delight in Him! facebook.com/lovejoypeaceforever
Not much of a Christian and never have been, but loved this album when it came out and bought a copy of it. Didn't realize until then that the singer was former Head East vocalist John Schlitt. Pretty cool.
I doubt it will ever happen but my dream is for this song to be included in a future Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack! THIS SONG DESERVES TO BE IN PETER QUILL'S AWESOME MIX! :)
A primeira música do Petra que ouvi foi "First Love". Foi o primeiro CD que comprei "On Fire". Amo seus louvores, faz me lembrar da minha juventude ❤❤❤.
I love this CD. It’s my favorite Petra CD and first one I ever heard. My best friend let me borrow hers in the mid 90s and I’ve been listing to them ever since. This was my ringtone for about 15-20 years. I still look for my phone when it comes on! 😂
This album was so classy and professional and with such Godly lyrics. At the time it came out, it established contemporary music by showing, with songs like Creed, that the gospel message could really be portrayed in heavier styles of music. Such a great song and a challenging message.
@larryskoreyko Heck yeah! I like to call them the Journey of Christian music. With Journey being my favorite band of all time, it makes sense that Petra's my favorite Christian band of all time.
That is exactly my same idea. I love Journey, I love Petra, I have a play list on my iPod called Journey to Petra, where it is just Journey and Petra songs.
His Glory has already came and went ,,, when all the nations gather against Jerusalem then you'll see all the king's horses and All the King's Men riding down from heaven from where they've been
One thing that bothers me is that even though Petra has a very explicit Christian message (their songs mention the name of Jesus even more than Hillsong Worship and Jesus Culture), many rock fans just overlook this and enjoy the song without appreciating the message. If this describes you, I urge you to accept Christ in your heart. Only then can you truly understand His power and see why Petra needed to write this music
My dad recently put this song while we where working late night together. I used to hear this song when i was a little kid back when mom and dad where together...with brother and sisters..i was happy and didnt even realize it at the time...i got really teary eyed..what a great song this is...god bless everyone who reads this :)
I remember back in 1990 when I was 5 they played this on the radio 📻 allot
This was my childhood
thanks so much !! Jesus bless you !!! Jesus is the reason !!!
Omg could you have written a more perfect comment. I love what you wrote.
God bless you guys
I just confessed my sins too Christ and rededicated my life to Him. I needed music, thank you for making this available!!
D. C. Talk, Audio Adrenaline. Newsboys. The Kry. DeGarmo and Key, the pledge. Bloodgood.
Also stay hard in the word of God, you need to feed your soul with it daily.
🙏🙏🙏 Amen!
My dad used to listen to Petra when I was kid. Miss him everyday.
Petra is one of the better if not the best Christian bands of this era. May Petra's music lift up all who listen to their powerful message.
Been a Fan of Petra since the early 90's! Love the version of this song where they redid this with Dan Vasc!
My dad got saved at a Petra concert 💜
2024 anyone?
2024 ..... 😊
✌️
2024 and 2025
Yep! Brings me back to being 13 yo. Lol😂
A year too late, idiot.
I've known this song since I was like 2 years old. I thought they were saying, "beyond the leaf.", so I ran around my house singing that at the top my of lungs.
this comment made my day.....lol.....:)
I USED TO THINK IN "BAD MOON RISING" , THEY WERE SAYING "BATHROOM ON THE RIGHT"....LOL
@@claudiakristjanson2432 me too lol
What a memory 😂😂❤
This song is an important song to many millenial Christians and Gen Xers.
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My friends in college and I would drive two hours plus to see Petra at Six Flags over Mid-America back in the late 80s. Fun fun!
Jeff Summers I remember that. Good times😎
I listened to these songs growing up. My dad had a CD of this music. I remember telling my dad "Daddy please put on Petra!" Then once i asked him, "Where did you get this CD Daddy." He said "A long time ago on my birthday your mom gave it to me since i love the music alot." About a year later our red Van broke down.. My mom turned in the broken Van, forgetting the CD was in there. 1 day later i ask my dad "Put on beyond beilef please! Its my favourite one!" My dad says "WHERE IS THE CD!!??" I think with tears in my eyes "In the Van, daddy.." My dad says "Oh my the Van is crushed into pieces now." I say "Is the CD Crushed??!!?" 6 years later here I am now, my dad put Petra on his phone and i smile. Then I say "Well never know if the CD was actually in the Van or not."
I love this lol
I'm a metalcore/deathcore guy but Petra will always hold a special place in my heart. By the time I got into them as a kid, they'd already been split up for a while. My mom told me about them, how she listened to them a lot in high school. I ended up finding their CD's at goodwill's when I was like 9 or 10 or something. I instantly loved them. I own a few of their albums now, especially this one and Unseen Power. My friends and I are big fans of them especially Bob Hartman. Dude was a big influence on me when I started guitar. Now I'm a technical/Progressive metal player. Thanks Bob. These guys are the best. Rooted in the solid rock, the word of God!
This rivals any secular song out there! The harmonics at the end are some of the best I have ever heard.
He who has begun this work won't let it go
Philipians 1:6
:)
this song is wonderful, I cried when I heard.
You made my fuckin day.
Me too buddy, awesome song
Petra are the Beatles of Christian music.
Stryper, because they were the first in make christian rock, so, more exactly, Petra should be like Rolling Stones of christian rock
Manuel Rodea stryper wasn't first, they were just the first to have major crossover success. Petra actually started in the early seventies, and there was a Christian rock underground for as long as there was rock music.
Petra is so much better then the Beatles
@@dancerelle5020 DEFINITELY!!
Petra Is Not The Beetles Petra Band Stands For Truth For Jesus
My name is Petra! I love this song!
Hyde
This is the best Christian rock song ever written from the best Christian rock band. As a lover of music, i thank you Lord for your servants...Petra
Ahhh! I remember coming home from school and jammin out to this band with my reheated ellios pizza hahaha (mom was a cafeteria lady). Wow, good times.
That's awesome
Still gives a warm glow after all these years. Love it. Praise the Lord.🙏
I love petra i have loved them since i was a teenager 30 years ago with the release of unseen power then beyond belief awsome that i found it again cause i had the cassette of them
Thank for God for Petra! They're still the best and the greatest out of Classic Christian Rock along with Stryper. Today's Colton Dixon is taking Christian Rock back to the Rock ;)!
Yes
Brilliant!
I think that Petra good Christian music Praise God
This is one of my favorite Petra songs
My School days:This album x movie of the album i bought,, storyline:with cancer of a friend,, was ❤everything the future held in relationship with to my sister. God heals i pray
This song brings back memories of when I was 5
My favorite Petra song.
Its in my top 5!!! Ask me about the top 5 lol okay... 5 the coloring song ........4 love
This song is their best for sure. :)
2020 wow long time I listen to this since I was young girl
Same here.....something spoke to my heart tonight.
Here I am back after 5 months.
this takes me back! love it!
Petra was anointed
My new favorite song. God Bless the Lord.
And where is this Lord?
God bless everyone who loves this band and this song. 🥲
Great song. There's a place with God that's so good it IS beyond belief 👏👏 Go Petra!! Love 80s/90s Christian music
Still in 2024. Still loving it
John Schlitt was the Sebastian Bach of Christian music! These guys were the best! God blessed them with a beautiful ministry and an awesome sound!
I didn't know what to think when he replaced greg. He turned out to be great. I met him at a concert in 1998. He was 50ish then.
these guys Rock Jesus style.
Fuck yeah!
Wow I first heard this song wen I was 9 brings bak good memories
thank you God Bless
Desde luego que los cantantes cristianos son de los 70 80' que fue la generación de jóvenes de mucho talento musical,donde comenzaban con guitarras,hasta que fueron incorporando otros,lo cierto es que fue dificil, que sembraron en buena tierra,e que esos muchachos hoy siguen realizando producciones,Dios bendiga USA y la enorme familia cristiana en Jesús ❤️♾️🌎💪🎵🌅
When ever I hear this song it enlighten me..
We're content to pitch our tent
When the glory's evident
Seldom do we know
The glory came and went
Moving can seem dangerous
In this stranger's pilgrimage
Knowing that you can't stand still
You cross the bridge
There's a higher place to go
Beyond belief, beyond belief
Where we reach the next plateau
Beyond belief, beyond belief
And from faith to faith we grow
Towards the center of the flow
Where He beckons us to go
Beyond belief, beyond belief
Leap of faith without a net
Makes us want to hitch our bed
Waters never part
Until our feet get wet, whoa
There's a deeper place to go
Where the road seems hard to hoe
He who has begun this work
Won't let it go (let it go!)
There's a higher place to go
Beyond belief, beyond belief
Where we reach the next plateau
Beyond belief, beyond belief
And from faith to faith we grow
Towards the center of the flow
Where He beckons us to go
Beyond belief, beyond belief
And it takes so long to see the change
But we look around, and it seems so strange
We have come so far, but the journey's long
And we once were weak, but now we are strong
There's a higher place to go
Beyond belief, beyond belief
Where we reach the next plateau
Beyond belief, beyond belief
And from faith to faith we grow
Towards the center of the flow
Where He beckons us to go
Beyond belief, beyond belief.
My Pastor just introduced us to this group... pretty awesome 😎
#vintagegoodness☺️
Been a FAN since 1983ish,,,, Thanks!
Love this song it's their best.
I went to 2 concerts of their’s when they came to Canada. Remember White heart? Remember Petra? Love and miss them.
🙏✝️♥️
This is a lovely song. I think I will learn to play it on my bass guitar so the neighbors can enjoy it, too.
Makes me feel young again
HEY I LOVE THIS SONG, CRANK IT UP...
The key to holiness is falling in love with Jesus. By "falling in love" I don't mean mindless mush. I have in mind having in one's mind a passionate delight in the infinite excellencies of God in Christ.
Falling in love with Jesus means having your heart and mind entranced, bedazzled, and captivated by the superlative beauty and sweetness of the Son of God.
This experience begins at conversion, for the essence of being born again, is to give the heart a Divine taste or sense; to cause it to have a relish of the loveliness and sweetness of the supreme excellency of the Divine nature.
This is no static deposit, however, but a living seed that comes to full flower and blossoms throughout the course of one's life in Christ. It is a live coal, if you will, on which the Holy Spirit deigns to blow and bring to white-hot intensity.
This new taste for the sweetness of the Savior, developed and cultivated, is the only thing that turns sin sour in our souls. That's why falling in love with Jesus is the key to holiness.
Another way of putting it is that our fight for happiness in God must fuel our fight against sin. Delight in God will alone dislodge sin from our hearts. Delight in God is therefore the aim of all our thoughts and efforts and appetites.
Long term, this alone will undermine our delight in sin. In other words, this facebook study focuses on the preeminent passion of our hearts, namely, joy in God.
If this passion for God does not consume us, sin will. What I now want to suggest is that our glad-hearted passion for God is exceeded only by God's glad-hearted passion for God, and that the latter is foundational to the former. Let me put it in for a question.
What is the preeminent passion in God's heart? What is God's greatest pleasure? How does the happiness of God manifest itself? In what does God take supreme delight?
I want to suggest that the preeminent passion in God's heart is His own glory. God is at the center of His own affections. The supreme love of God's life is God.
God is preeminently committed to the fame of His name. God is Himself the end for which God created the world. Better still, God's immediate goal in all He does is His own glory.
God relentlessly and unceasingly creates, rules, orders, directs, speaks, judges, saves, destroys, and delivers in order to make known who He is and to secure from the whole of the universe the praise, honor, and glory of which He and He alone is ultimately and infinitely worthy.
The chief end of God is to glorify God and to enjoy Himself forever. Apart from this decidedly theocentric view of the universe, all our efforts at holiness, be they ever so much in the grace of God, will be seriously deficient.
Two objections are often voiced to this assertion. First, this sounds terribly selfish and egocentric. And second, if God loves Himself preeminently, how can He love me at all?
How can we say that God is for us and that He desires our happiness if He is primarily for Himself and His own glory?
I want to argue that it is precisely because God loves Himself that He loves you. I want to argue that it is precisely in seeking His own happiness that He seeks yours.
The only answer that the Bible gives to questions that begin: 'Why did God . . . ?' is: 'For his own glory.' Everything God does is for His own glory. Everything God permits is for His own glory.
Everything God pursues is for His own glory. When God acts, it is for the sake of His name. And all this graciously redounds to our happy benefit.
To put it more directly, the aim of God in creation and redemption is His delight in our delight in Him!
facebook.com/lovejoypeaceforever
Petra rocks Christian metal awesome glory to god
Not much of a Christian and never have been, but loved this album when it came out and bought a copy of it. Didn't realize until then that the singer was former Head East vocalist John Schlitt. Pretty cool.
You're either a Christian or you're not. There is no in-between. Even Jesus says to be either hot or cold, not lukewarm.
Perfection.
I doubt it will ever happen but my dream is for this song to be included in a future Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack! THIS SONG DESERVES TO BE IN PETER QUILL'S AWESOME MIX! :)
I second this comment
Petra, aun en 2020!......beyond belief!.....
one of the best songs ever!
my fav Petra song♥️
The first Petra cassette I owned. Now I am looking forward to the movie coming out in August. I am not a movie goer, but I will go see this one
Agnostic none Christian here
This rocks
I still remember seeing Petra on this tour sitting front row. It was awesome.
A primeira música do Petra que ouvi foi "First Love". Foi o primeiro CD que comprei "On Fire". Amo seus louvores, faz me lembrar da minha juventude ❤❤❤.
I love this CD. It’s my favorite Petra CD and first one I ever heard. My best friend let me borrow hers in the mid 90s and I’ve been listing to them ever since.
This was my ringtone for about 15-20 years. I still look for my phone when it comes on! 😂
I believe beyond people's expectation.. For he is with me⛪
god is amazing to all of us that who have accepted him!!!!
amen love this song
Замечательно, что кто-то опубликовал эту песню! Музыка моего детства!
This album was so classy and professional and with such Godly lyrics. At the time it came out, it established contemporary music by showing, with songs like Creed, that the gospel message could really be portrayed in heavier styles of music. Such a great song and a challenging message.
i love the petra songs
they are the best songs for praise God
and they rock to
This song gives me chills
the best song of PETRA......
My FAVORITE SONG BEYOND BELIEF!!!
Gemütliche Musik mit guter Botschaft
저는 한국에서 petra 밴드를 응원하고있는
청소년입니다 아빠께서 좋아하시는 음악들입니다 최고의노래 감사합니다
Maybe ull try BloodGood. Brothers in Christ😇. Blessing from former divded State of Germany.
It's 2021, and this song's lyrics still flow off the cuff like I just listened to the song on repeat in the 90s.
This song changed my whole life!!!! Holden house on Spencer lake you know who you are.....
The best❤
Great song!
This is a Master work of Musicianship I see you Bob Hartman
Beyond that we all need
i love this song!!!!!!!
All time favorite
🙏🙏🙏 Amen!
I learned what this song was from Christian Athlete Hockey Camp put on by Hockey Ministries International... such a classic!
@larryskoreyko
Heck yeah! I like to call them the Journey of Christian music. With Journey being my favorite band of all time, it makes sense that Petra's my favorite Christian band of all time.
Que bonita cancion
The ending is so catchy...
GREAT BAND IS PETRA!!!
Love this song
i 've been Listening for a Looong time
I love this song.
I used to listen to the tape version of this when I was a tiny kid.
PETRA .... FEZ E AINDA FAZ PARTE DA MINHA VIDA . . . ...MUITO BOM. OBRIGADO
That is exactly my same idea. I love Journey, I love Petra, I have a play list on my iPod called Journey to Petra, where it is just Journey and Petra songs.
His Glory has already came and went ,,, when all the nations gather against Jerusalem then you'll see all the king's horses and All the King's Men riding down from heaven from where they've been
❤ 🕊 MuchLove
Love this
Petra Means Rock
One thing that bothers me is that even though Petra has a very explicit Christian message (their songs mention the name of Jesus even more than Hillsong Worship and Jesus Culture), many rock fans just overlook this and enjoy the song without appreciating the message.
If this describes you, I urge you to accept Christ in your heart. Only then can you truly understand His power and see why Petra needed to write this music
Yankee Rose amen!
I wonder how long "Classic Petra" will hang around and If and when they will have a new album of original music sometime in the near future?!
i love this song i us this song at church when we do are songs i am the music dirtier at church
musica muito boa
this is the first christian band that I heard of before I got saved...