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your hands swift to welcome, your arms to embrace, be there at our homing, and give us, we pray, your love in our hearts, Lord, at the eve of the day. 4. Lord of all gentleness, Lord of all calm, whose voice is contentment, whose presence is balm, be there at our sleeping, and give us, we pray, your peace in our hearts, Lord, at the end of the day. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
at whose creative word in nature's first primeval hour our formless being stirred, you made the light to shine, Ó shine on us, we pray, renew with light and life divine your church in this our day. 2. Lord of the fertile earth who caused the world to be, whose life alone can bring to birth the fruits of land and sea, teach us to use aright and share the gifts you give, to tend the earth as in your sight that all the world may live. 3. Lord of the cross and grave who died and lives again, who came in love to seek and save and then to rise and reign, we share, as once you shared, in mortal birth and breath, and ours the risen life that dared to vanquish sin and death. 4. Lord of the wind and flame, the promised Spirit's sign, possess our hearts in Jesus' name, come down, O Love divine! Help us in Christ to grow, from sin and self to cease, and daily in our lives to show your love and joy and peace. 5. Lord of the passing years whose changeless purpose stands, our lives and loves, our hopes and fears we place within your hands; we bring you but your own, forgiven, loved and free, to follow Christ, and Christ alone, through all the days to be. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
Most mighty your working, most wondrous your ways! Your glory and might are beyond us to tell, and yet in the heart of the humble you dwell. 2. Lord of all power, I give you my will, in joyful obedience your tasks to fulfil. Your bondage is freedom; your service is song; and, held in your keeping, my weakness is strong. 3. Lord of all wisdom, I give you my mind, rich truth that surpasses my knowledge to find; what eye has not seen and what ear has not heard is taught by your Spirit and shines from your word. 4. Lord of all bounty, I give you my heart; I praise and adore you for all you impart, your love to inspire me, your counsel to guide, your presence to shield me, whatever betide. 4. Lord of all being, I give you my all; if e'er I disown you, I stumble and fall; but, led in your service your word to obey, I'll walk in your freedom to the end of the way. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
and God of our salvation, star of our night, and hope of ev’ry nation, hear and receive thy Church's supplication, Lord God almighty.
when earthly armour faileth, Lord, thou canst save when deadly sin assaileth; Christ, o'er thy rock nor death nor bell prevaileth; grant us thy peace, Lord.
our evil thoughts assuaging; peace in thy Church, where people are engaging; peace, when the world its busy war is waging: calm all our raging.
through trial and temptation, grant us thy truth, thy promise of salvation, grant us thy peace in ev'ry heart and nation, and in thy heaven. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index 414 Ian D. Craig © Daybreak Music Ltd 1. Lord of the future, Lord of the past, Lord of our lives, we adore you. Lord of forever, Lord of our hearts, we give all praise to you. 2. Lord of tomorrow, Lord of today, Lord over all, you are worthy. all Lord of creation, Lord of all truth, we give all praise to you. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
with rev'rence and with fear; though fallen sinners in thy sight, we may, we must, draw near. 2. Our spirits fail through lack of prayer: O grant us pow'r to pray, and, when to meet thee we prepare, Lord, meet us by the way. 3. God of all grace, we bring to thee a broken, contrite heart; give what thine eye delights to see, truth in the inward part; 4. Faith in the only sacrifice that can for sin atone, to cast our hopes, to fix our eyes, on Christ, on Christ alone. 5. Patience to watch and wait and weep, though mercy long delay; courage our fainting souls to keep, and trust in thee alway. 6. Give these, and then thy will be done; thus, strengthened with all might, we, through thy Spirit and thy Son, shall pray, and pray aright. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
in the midst of the darkness, shining; Jesus, Light of the World, shine upon us, set us free by the truth you now bring us. Shine on me, shine on me.
from the shadows into your radiance; by the blood I may enter your brightness, search me, try me, consume all my darkness. Shine on me, shine on me.
so our faces display your likeness, ever changing from glory to glory; mirrored here may our lives tell your story. Shine on me, shine on me. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index 417 Nick Fawcett (b. 1957) © 2004 Kevin Mayhew Ltd. 1. Lord, there are times when I have to ask, `Why?' times when catastrophe gives faith the lie. Innocents suffer and evil holds sway, grant me some answers, Lord, teach me your way. 2. Lord, there are times when I have to ask, `Where?' times when it seems that you simply don't care. Though I call out, you seem distant, aloof, grant me some answers, Lord, show me some proof. 3. Lord, there are times when I have to ask, `What?'– times when your love is not easy to spot. What is life's purpose and what of me here? Grant me some answers, Lord, make your will clear. 4. Lord, there are times when I have to ask, `How?'– times when what's preached doesn't square with life now. Wrestling with doubt I ask, 'How can this be?' Grant me some answers, Lord, help me to see. 5. Lord, there are times when the questions run fast times when I fear that my faith may not last. Help me, support me, Lord, help me get through. Lead me through darkness till light shines anew. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
and our footsteps guideth; who its truth believeth light and joy receiveth. 2. When our foes are near us, then thy word doth cheer us, word of consolation, message of salvation. 3. When the storms are o'er us, and dark clouds before us, then its light directeth, and our way protecteth. 4. Who can tell the pleasure, who recount the treasure, by thy word imparted to the simple-hearted? 5. Word of mercy, giving succour to the living; word of life, supplying comfort to the dying. 6. O that we, discerning its most holy learning, Lord, may love and fear thee, evermore be near thee. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
lifting thoughts to things above; life is wonderful, enthralling, touched by your unfailing love. Suddenly I see the beauty often hidden from my gaze, so I come, not out of duty, but with glad and grateful praise. 2. Lord, I sometimes fail to value all your blessings as I should. Slow to make the time to thank you, blind to so much that is good. Days are lived in such a hurry there's no time to stop and stare, joy is crushed by weight of worry, happiness obscured by care. 3. Lord, today I come rejoicing, vowed to waste your gifts no more; bringing praise and gladly voicing what I should have voiced before. Pouring out my adoration, scarcely knowing where to start, with a song of exultation, Lord, I thank you from the heart. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
teach us of love; all unspoken shame revealing, teach us of love. Take our selfish thoughts and actions, petty feuds, divisive factions, hear us now to you appealing, teach us of love. 2. Soothe away our pain and sorrow, hold us in love; grace we cannot buy or borrow, hold us in love. Though we see but dark and danger, though we spurn both friend and stranger, though we often dread tomorrow, hold us in love. 3. When the bread is raised and broken, fill us with love; words of consecration spoken, fill us with love. As our grateful prayers continue, make the faith that we have in you more than just an empty token, fill us with love. 4. Help us live for one another, bind us in love; stranger, neighbour, father, mother bind us in love. All are equal at your table, through your Spirit make us able to embrace as sister, brother, bind us in love. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
seen in ev'ry human birth: you have planned each new beginning - who could hope for greater worth? Hear our pray'r for those we cherish; claim our children as your own: in the fertile ground of childhood may eternal seed be sown. 2. Lord, we thank you for the vigour burning in the years of youth: strength to face tomorrow's challenge, zest for life and zeal for truth. In the choice of friends and partners, when ideas and values form, may the message of your kingdom be the guide, the goal, the norm. 3. Lord, we thank you for the harvest of the settled, middle years: times when work and home can prosper, when life's richest fruit appears; but when illness, stress and hardship fill so many days with dread, may your love renew the vision of a clearer road ahead. 4. Lord, we thank you for the beauty of a heart at last mature: crowned with peace and rich in wisdom, well-respected and secure; but to those who face the twilight frail, bewildered, lacking friends, Lord, confirm your gracious offer: perfect life which never ends. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
may our pray'rful words express something of our heartfelt sorrow for the sins we now confess. 2. We have trusted far too often in our human strength and skill; we have proudly disregarded what we knew to be your will. 3. Yet by your immense compassion you invite, accept, restore, leading us to greater wholeness than we ever knew before. 4. Your forgiveness lifts our burdens, setting heart and spirit free to fulfil our true potential, all that we were meant to be. 5. For you teach a way of wisdom we may clearly understand: walking with the God of mercy step by step, and hand in hand. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
the fears and darkness grow. I need you, oh, I need you, Lord, to show me where to go. 2. With you beside me, Lord, I find the evils that I face become instead a joyfulness, a fountain of your grace. 3. So shape me to your purpose, Lord, and tell me what to do; and if I start to turn away, then turn me back to you. 4. And when the world is over, Lord, or over just for me, there is nowhere but with you, Lord, that I would rather be. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
to a never ending quest; always seeking new horizons, always reaching for the best. 2. Young or old, it makes no difference, still the journey's just begun, keep on looking in the distance, never dream the race is run. 3. Let the search for truth continue, may its flame for ever burn - what we know is only partial, there is more we need to learn. 4. Do not fear what seems to challenge, do not cling to what is dead. Let the voice of God disturb you - by the way of Christ be led. 5. Faith must always be evolving, if it is to stay alive not viewed as some destination, where one day we must arrive. 6. Lord, you call us to a journey, always taking one step more. Help us then to keep believing t hat you hold the best in store. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
touched by a beauty no words can express. Able to move us to outbursts of wonder, so much to thrill us and so much to bless. 2. Mountains and moorlands rise up to the heavens, rivers and streams tumble down to the sea, gifts that amaze in profusion surround us, each a reflection of your majesty. 3. Promise of springtime and harvest of autumn, cold winter mornings and warm summer days, season by season brings new joys to greet us, reason to thank you and reason to praise. 4. Deep in the forest, remote in the desert, down in the ocean or high in the air; life in abundance is ev'rywhere round us, proof of your power and sign of your care. 5. Lord, you have given a world rich in splendour, touched with a beauty that fills us with awe; hear now our praises, we bring you our worship, with all creation we kneel and adore. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
and I will search for yours; Jesus, take my life and lead me on. Lord, you have my heart, and I will search for yours; let me be to you a sacrifice. And I will praise you, Lord (I will praise you, Lord). And I will sing of love come down (I will sing of love come down). And as you show your face (show your face), we'll see your glory here. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index 427 Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) 1. Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love divine; Love was born at Christmas, star and angels gave the sign. 2. Worship we the Godhead, Love incarnate, Love divine; worship we our Jesus: but wherewith for sacred sign? 3. Love shall be our token, love be yours and love be mine, love to God and all men, love for plea and gift and sign. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
joy of heav'n, to earth come down, fix in us thy humble dwelling, all thy faithful mercies crown. Jesu, thou art all compassion, pure unbounded love thou art; visit us with thy salvation, enter ev'ry trembling heart. 2. Breathe, O breathe thy loving Spirit into ev'ry troubled breast; let us all in thee inherit, let us find thy promised rest. Take away the love of sinning, Alpha and Omega be; end of faith, as its beginning, set our hearts at liberty. 3. Come, almighty to deliver, let us all thy grace receive; suddenly return, and never, never more thy temples leave. Thee we would be always blessing, serve thee as thy hosts above; pray, and praise thee without ceasing glory in thy perfect love. 4. Finish then thy new creation, pure and spotless let us be; let us see thy great salvation perfectly restored in thee. Changed from glory into glory, till in heav'n we take our place, till we cast our crowns before thee, lost in wonder, love, and praise. 8 Verse Version 1. Love divine, all loves excelling, joy of heav'n, to earth come down, fix in us thy humble dwelling, all thy faithful mercies crown. 2. Jesu, thou art all compassion, pure unbounded love thou art; visit us with thy salvation, enter ev'ry trembling heart. 3. Breathe, O breathe thy loving Spirit into ev'ry troubled breast; let us all in thee inherit, let us find thy promised rest. 4. Take away the love of sinning, Alpha and Omega be; end of faith, as its beginning, set our hearts at liberty. 5. Come, almighty to deliver, let us all thy grace receive; suddenly return, and never, never more thy temples leave. 6. Thee we would be always blessing, serve thee as thy hosts above; pray, and praise thee without ceasing glory in thy perfect love. 7. Finish then thy new creation, pure and spotless let us be; let us see thy great salvation perfectly restored in thee. 8. Changed from glory into glory, till in heav'n we take our place, till we cast our crowns before thee, lost in wonder, love, and praise. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
feasting with all, fasting alone, living and dying, rising again, love, only love, is his way. Richer than gold is the love of my Lord: better than splendour and wealth. 2. Love is his way, love is his mark, sharing his last Passover feast, Christ at the table, host to the twelve, love, only love, is his mark. 3. Love is his mark, love is his sign, bread for our strength, wine for our joy, `This is my body, this is my blood.' Love, only love, is his sign. 4. Love is his sign, love is his news, `Do this,' he said, 'lest you forget all my deep sorrow, all my dear blood.' Love, only love, is his news. 5. Love is his news, love is his name, we are his own, chosen and called, family, brethren, cousins and kin. Love, only love, is his name. 6. Love is his name, love is his law, hear his command, all who are his, `Love one another, I have loved you.' Love, only love, is his law. 7. Love is his law, love is his word: love of the Lord, Father and Word, love of the Spirit, God ever one, love, only love, is his word. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
longing for our lowliness, longing for our lowliness, searching for our meekness: Jesus is our joy, Jesus is our joy.
hope within our helplessness, hope within our helplessness, love within our loneliness: Jesus is our joy, Jesus is our joy.
tiny hands are raised to bless, tiny hands are raised to bless, touching us with God's caress: Jesus is our joy, Jesus is our joy.
peace comes with gentleness, peace comes with gentleness, filling hearts with gladness: Jesus is our joy, Jesus is our joy. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index 431 Charles Wesley (1707-1788) 1. Love's redeeming work is done; fought the fight, the battle won: lo, our Sun's eclipse is o'er, lo, he sets in blood no more. 2. Vain the stone, the watch, the seal; Christ has burst the gates of hell; death in vain forbids his rise; Christ has opened paradise. 3. Lives again our glorious King; where, O death, is now thy sting? Dying once, he all doth save; where thy victory, O grave? 4. Soar we now where Christ has led, foll'wing our exalted Head; made like him, like him we rise; ours the cross, the grave, the skies. 5. Hail the Lord of earth and heav'n! praise to thee by both be giv'n; thee we greet triumphant now; hail, the Resurrection thou! _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
keep me, Lord, in safety keep; nothing can thy pow'r withstand, none can pluck me from thy hand. 2. Loving Shepherd, thou didst give thine own life that I might live; may I love thee day by day, gladly thy sweet will obey. 3. Loving Shepherd, ever near, teach me still thy voice to hear; suffer not my steps to stray from the straight and narrow way. 4. Where thou leadest may I go, walking in thy steps below; then, before thy Father's throne, Jesu, claim me for thine own. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
Jesus, my Saviour; waiting the coming day, Jesus, my Lord. Up from the grave he arose, with a mighty triumph o'er his foes; he arose a victor from the dark domain, and be lives for ever with his saints to reign. He arose! He arose! Hallelujah! Christ arose! 2. Vainly they watch his bed, Jesus, my Saviour; vainly they seal the dead, Jesus, my Lord. 3. Death cannot keep its prey, Jesus, my Saviour; he tore the bars away, Jesus, my Lord. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
unto Jesus be glory, honour and praise. Majesty, kingdom, authority flow from his throne unto his own: his anthem raise. So exalt, lift up on high the name of Jesus; magnify, come glorify Christ Jesus the King. Majesty, worship his majesty, Jesus who died, now glorified, King of all kings. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index 435 Sebastian Temple (1928-1997) based on the Prayer of St Francis © 1967 OCP Publications 1. Make me a channel of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me bring your love. Where there is injury, your pardon, Lord; and where there's doubt, true faith in you. O, Master, grant that I may never seek so much to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love with all my soul. 2. Make me a channel of your peace. Where there's despair in life, let me bring hope. Where there is darkness, only light, and where there's sadness, ever joy. 3. Make me a channel of your peace. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, in giving of ourselves that we receive, and in dying that we're born to eternal life. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
in splendour arrives; fling wide the gates and welcome him into your lives. Make way (make way), make way (make way), for the King of kings (for the King of kings); make way (make way), make way (make way), and let his kingdom in! 2. He comes the broken hearts to heal, the pris'ners to free; the deaf shall hear, the lame shall dance, the blind shall see. 3. And those who mourn with heavy hearts, who weep and sigh, with laughter, joy and royal crown he'll beautify. 4. We call you now to worship him as Lord of all, to have no gods before him, their thrones must fall. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
for the Son of God who came ruined sinners to reclaim! Alleluia! What a Saviour! 2. Bearing shame and scoffing rude, in my place condemned he stood; sealed my pardon with his blood; Alleluia! What a Saviour! 3. Guilty, vile and helpless we; spotless Lamb of God was he: full atonement - can it be? Alleluia! What a Saviour! 4. Lifted up was he to die: `It is finished!' was his cry; now in heav'n exalted high; Alleluia! What a Saviour! 5. When he comes, our glorious King, all his ransomed home to bring, then anew this song we'll sing: Alleluia! What a Saviour! _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
waiting by the cross of shame, through your patient, prayerful vigil, kindle hope's eternal flame; crying in the pains of earth, singing of redemption's birth. 2. Where the crosses of the nations darken still the noonday skies, see the sad madonna weeping through a million mothers' eyes. Holy Mary, full of grace, all our tears with yours embrace. 3. Standing with the suffring Saviour, still oppressed by hate and fear, where the gentle still are murdered and protesters disappear: mother of the crucified, call his people to your side! 4. Holy mother, watching, waiting, for the saving of the earth; in the loneliness of dying, speak of hope and human worth, there for all the world to see, lifted up at Calvary! _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
Mary had a baby, yes, my Lord, Mary had a baby, yes, Lord,
_________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index 440 Nick Fawcett (b. 1957) © 2004 Kevin Mayhew Ltd. 1. Mary kneeling at the angel's word, Joseph reeling at the news he's heard, church bells pealing, hearts again are stirred;
people singing of the Saviour's birth, church bells ringing, sound for all they're worth;
Magi coming, offer gifts in awe, church bells humming, come now and adore;
voices climb in soaring hymns of praise, church bells chime on this most blessed of days; _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index 441 Cliff Barrows © 1982 Cliff Barrows. Used by permission May God's blessing surround you *each day (*Alternative – tonight) as you trust him and walk in his way. May his presence within guard and keep you from sin, go in peace, go in joy, go in love. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
(May the fragrance of Jesus fill this place.) May the fragrance of Jesus fill this place. (Lovely fragrance of Jesus), rising from the sacrifice of lives laid down in adoration. 2. May the glory of Jesus fill his church. (May the glory of Jesus fill his church.) May the glory of Jesus fill his church. (Radiant glory of Jesus), shining from our faces as we gaze in adoration. 3. May the beauty of Jesus fill my life. (May the beauty of Jesus fill my life.) May the beauty of Jesus fill my life. (Perfect beauty of Jesus), fill my thoughts, my words, my deeds; may I give in adoration. Fill my thoughts, my words, my deeds; may I give in adoration. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
and the Father's boundless love, with the Holy Spirit's favour, rest upon us from above. 2. Thus may we abide in union with each other and the Lord, and possess, in sweet communion, joys which earth cannot afford. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
live in me from day to day, by his love and pow'r controlling all I do and say. 2. May the word of God dwell richly in my heart from hour to hour, so that I may triumph only in his saving pow'r. 3. May the peace of God my Father rule my life in ev'rything, that I may be calm to comfort sick and sorrowing. 4. May the love of Jesus fill me, as the waters fill the sea; him exalting, self abasing, this is victory. 5. May I run the race before me, strong and brave to face the foe, looking only unto Jesus, as I onward go. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
in perfect harmony, the Man who is God. Lord of eternity dwells in humanity, kneels in humility and washes our feet. O what a mystery, meekness and majesty. Bow down and worship for this is your God, this is your God. 2. Father's pure radiance, perfect in innocence, yet learns obedience to death on a cross. Suff'ring to give us life, conqu'ring through sacrifice, and as they crucify prays: 'Father forgive.'
love indestructible in frailty appears. Lord of infinity, stooping so tenderly, lifts our humanity to the heights of his throne. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
of the coming of the Lord. He is tramping out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored. He has loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword. His truth is marching on.
of a hundred circling camps. They have gilded him an altar in the evening dews and damps. I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps. His day is marching on.
that shall never sound retreat. He is sifting out all human hearts before his judgement seat. O, be swift my soul to answer him, be jubilant my feet! Our God is marching on.
Christ was born across the sea, with a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me. As he died to make us holy, let us live that all be free, whilst God is marching on. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index 447 Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965) © David Higham Associates. Used by permission from 'The Children's Bells; Oxford University Press 1. Morning has broken like the first morning, blackbird has spoken like the first bird. Praise for the singing! Praise for the morning! Praise for them, springing fresh from the Word!
like the first dew-fall on the first grass. Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden, sprung in completeness where his feet pass. 3. Mine is the sunlight! Mine is the morning born of the one light Eden saw play! Praise with elation, praise ev'ry morning, God's re-creation of the new day! _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
`You're going to work out my plan,' the Lord said. `Lead all the Israelites out of slavery, and I shall make them a wandering race called the people of God.'
`Each step is only a phase,' the Lord said. `I'll go before you and I shall be a sign to guide my travelling, wandering race. You're the people of God.'
`I shall be faithful and true,' the Lord said. `My love will strengthen you as you go along, for you're my travelling, wandering race. You're the people of God.'
`They fly unhampered by care,' the Lord said. `You will move easier if you're trav'lling light, for you're a wandering, vagabond race.' You're the people of God.'
`but I've no home here below,' the Lord said. `So if you want to be with me all your days, keep up the moving and travelling on. You're the people of God.' _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index 449 Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) © Timothy Dudley-Smith 1. Most glorious God, for breath and birth receive our thankful prayer, that we, as children born of each, your life and image share. 2. We praise for all your grace imparts, the human spirit's pow'rs, to sense and know within our hearts the love that wakens ours. 3. While in this fallen world we move, a world estranged, self-willed, our weakness and our fraily prove God's purpose unfulfilled. 4. Yet God in Jesus loves and cares, and makes his promise known; the wounded healer feels and shares the griefs we call our own. 5. For out of death shall life arise, and glory spring from loss, when all shall see with wond'ring eyes the triumphs of the cross. 6. As with the dawn the dreamer wakes from earthbound sin and pain, so resurrection morning breaks on Christ's unclouded reign. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
thou Lamb of Calvary, Saviour divine! Now hear me while I pray, take all my guilt away, be wholly thine.
strength to my fainting heart, my zeal inspire. As thou hast died for me, O may my love to thee pure, warm and changeless be, a living fire.
and griefs around me spread, be thou my guide; bid darkness turn to day, wipe sorrow's tears away, nor let me ever stray from thee aside.
when death's cold sullen stream shall o'er me roll, blest Saviour, then in love, fear and distrust remove; O bear me safe above, a ransomed soul. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index 451 Philip Doddridge (1702-1751), alt. v. 3 Michael Forster (b. 1946) © 1996 Kevin Mayhew Ltd. 1. My God, and is thy table spread, and does thy cup with love o'erflow? Thither be all thy children led, and let them all thy sweetness know. 2. Hail, sacred feast, which Jesus makes! Rich banquet of his flesh and blood! Thrice happy all, who here partake that sacred stream, that heav'nly food. 3. What wondrous love! What perfect grace for Jesus, our exalted host, invites us to this special place who offer least and need the most. 4. O let thy table honoured be, and furnished well with joyful guests; and may each soul salvation see, that here its sacred pledges tastes. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
your majesty how bright; how beautiful your mercy-seat, in depths of burning light! 2. Creator from eternal years and everlasting Lord, by holy angels day and night unceasingly adored! 3. How wonderful, how beautiful the sight of you must be your endless wisdom, boundless power, and awesome purity! 4. O how I fear you, living God, with deepest, tenderest fears, and worship you with trembling hope and penitential tears! 5. But I may love you too, O Lord, though you are all-divine, for you have stooped to ask of me this feeble love of mine. 6. Father of Jesus, love's reward, great King upon your throne, what joy to see you as you are and know as I am known. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
I hope for heav'n thereby, nor yet because who love thee not are lost eternally. Thou, O my Jesus, thou didst me upon the Cross embrace; for me didst bear the nails and spear, and manifold disgrace. 2. And griefs and torments numberless, and sweat of agony; yea, death itself - and all for me who was thine enemy. Then why, O blessed Jesu Christ, should I not love thee well? Not for the sake of winning heav'n, nor of escaping hell. 3. Not from the hope of gaining aught, not seeking a reward; but as thyself halt loved me, O ever-loving Lord. So would I love thee, dearest Lord, and in thy praise will sing; solely because thou art my God, and my most loving King. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
because of your great love, a love so rich, so pure, a love beyond compare; the wilderness, the barren place, become a blessing in the warmth of your embrace.
the light of knowing you, or if my search for understanding clouds your way, to you I fly, my hiding-place, where revelation is beholding face to face. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index 455 Darlene Zschech © 1993 Darlene Zschech / Hillsongs Publishing Kingsway Music My Jesus, my Saviour, Lord, there is none like you. All of my days I want to praise the wonders of your mighty love. My comfort, my shelter, tower of refuge and strength, let ev'ry breath, all that I am, never cease to worship you. Shout to the Lord, all the earth, let us sing power and majesty, praise to the King. Mountains bow down and the seas will roar at the sound of your name.
at the work of your hands. For ever I'll love you, for ever I'll stand. Nothing compares to the promise I have in you. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
that pays so dearly, that I, the guilty one, may go free! Amazing love, O what sacrifice, the Son of God, giv'n for me. My debt he pays, and my death he dies, that I might live, that I might live. 2. And so they watched him die, despised, rejected; but O, the blood he shed flowed for me! 3. And now this love of Christ shall flow like rivers; come, wash your guilt away, live again! _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
my Saviour's love to me, love to the loveless shown, that they might lovely be. O who am I, that for my sake, my Lord should take frail flesh and die? 2. He came from his blest throne, salvation to bestow; but men refused, and none the longed-for Christ would know. But O, my friend, my friend indeed, who at my need his life did spend! 3. Sometimes they strew his way, and his sweet praises sing: resounding all the day hosannas to their King: then 'Crucify!' is all their breath, and for his death they thirst and cry. 4. Why, what hash my Lord done? What makes this rage and spite? He made the lame to run, he gave the blind their sight. Sweet injuries! Yet they at these themselves displease, and 'gainst him rise. 5. They rise, and needs will have my dear Lord made away; a murderer they save, the Prince of Life they slay. Yet cheerful he to suff'ring goes, that he his foes from thence might free. 6. Here might I stay and sing, no story so divine; never was love, dear King, never was grief like thine. This is my friend in whose sweet praise I all my days could gladly spend. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
fathomless mystery, King of the ages by angels adored; power and authority, splendour and dignity, bow to his mastery Jesus is Lord! 2. Child of our destiny, God from eternity, love of the Father on sinners outpoured; see now what God has done sending his only Son, Christ the beloved One, Jesus is Lord! 3. Saviour of Calvary, costliest victory, darkness defeated and Eden restored; born as a man to die, nailed to a cross on high, cold in the grave to lie, Jesus is Lord! 4. Source of all sov'reignty, light, immortality, life everlasting and heaven assured; so with the ransomed, we praise him eternally, Christ in his majesty, Jesus is Lord! _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
nearer to thee! E'en though it be a cross that raiseth me: still all my song would be, `Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee.'
the sun gone down, darkness be over me, my rest a stone; yet in my dreams I'd be nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
steps unto heav'n; all that thou sendest me in mercy giv'n: angels to beckon me nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
bright with thy praise, out of my stony griefs Bethel I'll raise; so by my woes to be nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
cleaving the sky, sun, moon and stars forgot, upwards I fly, still all my song shall be, `Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee.' _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index 460 John Keble (1792-1866) based on Lamentations 3:23 1. New ev'ry morning is the love our wak'ning and uprising prove; through sleep and darkness safely brought, restored to life and pow'r and thought. 2. New mercies, each returning day, hover around us while we pray; new perils past, new sins forgiv'n, new thoughts of God, new hopes of heav'n. 3. If on our daily course our mind be set to hallow all we find, new treasures still, of countless price, God will provide for sacrifice. 4. Old friends, old scenes, will lovelier be, as more of heav'n in each we see; some soft'ning gleam of love and prayer shall dawn on ev'ry cross and care. 5. The trivial round, the common task, will furnish all we need to ask, room to deny ourselves, a road to bring us daily nearer God. 6. Only, O Lord, in thy dear love fit us for perfect rest above; and help us, this and ev'ry day, to live more nearly as we pray. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
to him who has great wonders done. Love sits enthroned in ageless splendour: come and adore the mighty one. He has made known his great salvation which all his friends with joy confess: he has revealed to ev'ry nation his everlasting righteousness. 2. Joyfully, heartily resounding, let ev'ry instrument and voice peal out the praise of grace abounding, calling the whole world to rejoice. Trumpets and organs, set in motion such sounds as make the heavens ring; all things that live in earth and ocean, make music for your mighty King. 3. Rivers and seas and torrents roaring, honour the Lord with wild acclaim; mountains and stones look up adoring and find a voice to praise his name. Righteous, commanding, ever glorious, praises be his that never cease: just is our God, whose truth victorious establishes the world in peace. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
if ris'n with Christ we stand, in him to life reborn, and held within his hand; no more we fear death's ancient dread, in Christ arisen from the dead. 2. The human mind so long brooded o'er life's brief span; was it, O God, for naught, for naught that life began? Thou art our hope, our vital breath; shall hope undying end in death? 3. And God, the living God, stooped down to share our state; by death destroying death, Christ opened wide life's gate. He lives, who died; he reigns on high; who lives in him shall never die. 4. Unfathomed love divine, reign thou within my heart; from thee nor depth nor height, nor life nor death can part; my life is hid in God with thee, now and through all eternity. 5. Thee will I love and serve now in time's passing day; thy hand shall hold me fast when time is done away, in God's unknown eternal spheres to serve him through eternal years. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
renewed in body, mind and soul; with Christ we die and rise again, his selfless love has made us whole. 2. With minds alert, upheld by grace, to spread the Word in speech and deed, we follow in the steps of Christ, at one with all in hope and need. 3. To fill each human house with love, it is the sacrament of care; the work that Christ began to do we humbly pledge ourselves to share. 4. Then grant us grace, Companion-God, to choose again the pilgrim way, and help us to accept with joy the challenge of tomorrow's day. _________________________________________ Back to First Letter Index
of the glorious body sing, and the blood, all price excelling, which the Gentiles' Lord and King, in a virgin's womb once dwelling, shed for this world's ransoming. 2. Giv'n for us, for us descending of a virgin to proceed, he, with us in converse blending, scattered here the gospel seed, till his sojourn drew to ending, which he closed with wondrous deed. 3. At the last great supper lying, circled by his chosen band, meekly with the law complying, first he finished its command. Then, immortal food supplying, gave himself with his own hand. 4. Word made flesh, by word he maketh very bread his flesh to be; we, in wine, Christ's blood partaketh, and if senses fail to see, faith alone the true heart waketh, to behold the mystery. Yüklə 4,64 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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