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O Love of God, How Strong and True

Author: Horatius Bonar Meter: 8.8.8.8 D Appears in 112 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O love of God, how strong and true! eternal and yet ever new, uncomprehended and unbought, beyond all knowledge and all thought! O love of God, how deep and great, far deeper than man's deepest hate; self-fed, self-kindled like the light, changeless, eternal, infinite. 2 O heav'nly love, how precious still, in days of weariness and ill, in nights of pain and helplessness, to heal, to comfort, and to bless! O wide-embracing, wondrous love! We read you in the sky above, we read you in the earth below, in seas that swell, and streams that flow. 3 We read you best in him who came to bear for us the cross of shame; sent by the Father from on high, our life to live, our death to die. We read your pow'r to bless and save, e'en in the darkness of the grave; still more in resurrection light we read the fulness of your might. 4 O love of God, our shield and stay through all the perils of our way! Eternal love, in you we rest, forever safe, forever blest. We will exalt you, God and King, and we will ever praise your name; we will extol you ev'ry day, and evermore your praise proclaim. Topics: God His Love and Grace; Christ Substitute; God Incomprehensibility of; God Infinity of; God in Nature; Preparatory Service; Union with Christ Scripture: Ephesians 3:17-19 Used With Tune: JERUSALEM (PARRY)

Sweet Hour of Prayer

Author: William Walford Meter: 8.8.8.8 D Appears in 1,321 hymnals First Line: Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer Lyrics: 1. Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer, That calls me from a world of care And bids me at my Father's throne Make all my wants and wishes known! In seasons of distress and grief, My soul has often found relief, And oft escaped the tempter's snare By Thy return, sweet hour of prayer. 2. Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer, Thy wings shall my petition bear To Him whose truth and faithfulness Engage the waiting soul to bless: And since He bids me seek His face, Believe His word and trust His grace, I'll cast on Him my ev'ry care, And wait for Thee, sweet hour of prayer. 3. Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer, May I Thy consolation share, Till, from Mount Pisgah's lofty height, I view my home and take my flight: This robe of flesh I'll drop and rise To seize the everlasting prize; And shout, while passing thro' the air, "Farewell, farewell, sweet hour of prayer!" Scripture: Acts 1:14 Used With Tune: SWEET HOUR

Upon the holy hills of God

Author: C. W. E. Siegel Meter: 8.8.8.8 D Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Calvary; Christ Exemplar; Christ Love of; Christ Work of; Love; Love to others; Poverty; Redemption; Storms

Within the Shelter of the Lord

Author: Martin Leckebusch Meter: 8.8.8.8 D Appears in 2 hymnals

My Heavenly Home is Bright and Fair

Author: William Hunter Meter: 8.8.8.8 D Appears in 702 hymnals First Line: My heav'nly home is bright and fair Refrain First Line: I'm going home Topics: Future Life and Heaven Scripture: Hebrews 11:10 Used With Tune: I'M GOING HOME

On Christ the solid rock I stand

Author: Edward Mote Meter: 8.8.8.8 D Appears in 1,104 hymnals First Line: My hope is built on nothing less Topics: Faith; Praise General; Refuge Used With Tune: SNELLING

Exalt the Lord, His Praise Proclaim

Meter: 8.8.8.8 D Appears in 11 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Exalt the Lord, his praise proclaim; all ye his servants, praise his name, who in the Lord's house ever stand and humbly serve at his command. The Lord is good, his praise proclaim; since it is pleasant, praise his name; his people for his own he takes and his peculiar treasure makes. 2 I know the Lord is high in state, above all gods our Lord is great; the Lord performs what he decrees, in heav'n and earth, in depths and seas. He makes the vapors to ascend in clouds from earth's remotest end; the lightnings flash at his command; he holds the tempest in his hand. 3 Exalt the Lord, his praise proclaim; all ye his servants, praise his name, who in the Lord's house ever stand and humbly serve at his command. Forever praise and bless his name, and in the church his praise proclaim; in Zion is his dwelling place; praise ye the Lord, show forth his grace. Topics: God His perfections; Church Covenant People; God Praise of; God Sovereignty of ; Ministry Ordinations; Servants of Christ of God; Servants of Christ or God Scripture: Psalm 135:1-7 Used With Tune: CREATION Text Sources: The Psalter, 1912

Higher Ground

Author: Johnson Oatman, Jr. Meter: 8.8.8.8 D Appears in 349 hymnals First Line: I'm pressing on the upward way Refrain First Line: Lord, lift me up and let me stand Lyrics: 1. I'm pressing on the upward way, New height I'm gaining ev'ry day; Still praying as I onward bound, "Lord, plant my feet on higher ground." Refrain: Lord, lift me up and let me stand, By faith, on heaven's table-land, A higher plane than I have found; Lord, plant my feet on higher ground. 2. My heart has no desire to stay Where doubts arise and fears dismay; Though some may dwell where these abound, My prayer, my aim is higher ground. [Refrain] 3. I want to live above the world, Though Satan's darts at me are hurled; For faith has caught the joyful sound, The song of saints on higher ground. [Refrain] 4. I want to scale the utmost height And catch a gleam of glory bright; But still I'll pray till heav'n I've found, "Lord, lead me on to higher ground." [Refrain] Scripture: Micah 4:2 Used With Tune: [I'm pressing on the upward way] Text Sources: Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Higher_Ground); Anonymous/Unknown, The Blue Book (62)

O God, You Gave Your Servant John

Author: Joy F. Patterson Meter: 8.8.8.8 D Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 O Lord, you gave your servant John a vision of the world to come: a radiant city filled with light, where you with us will make your home; where neither grief nor pain shall dwell, since former things have passed away, and where they need no sun nor moon; your glory lights eternal day. 2 Our cities wear great shrouds of pain; beneath our gleaming towers of wealth the homeless crouch in rain and snow, the poor cry out for strength and health. Youth’s hope is dimmed by ignorance; unwilling, workers idled stand; indifference walks unheeding by as hunger stretches out its hand. 3 Come, Lord, make real John’s vision fair; come, dwell with us, make all things new; we try in vain to save our world unless our help shall come from you. Come, strengthen us to live in love; bid hatred, greed, injustice cease. Your glory all the light we need, let all our cities shine forth peace. Topics: A New Heaven and A New Earth Completion of Creation and City of God; Biblical Characters John; Church Triumphant; City/City of God; Eternal Life; Funerals and Memorial Services; Glory; God House, Home; Heaven(s)/Paradise; Hunger; Pain; Peace (World); Poverty; Vision/Dream; World; Youth; All Saints Year B Used With Tune: CANDLER