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There's a Wideness in God's Mercy

Author: Frederick W. Faber, 1814-1863 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 900 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:18-39 Lyrics: 1 There’s a wideness in God’s mercy Like the wideness of the sea; There’s a kindness in God's justice Which is more than liberty. There is plentiful redemption In the blood that has been shed; There is joy for all the members In the sorrows of the Head. 2 For the love of God is broader Than the measures of our mind, And the heart of the Eternal Is most wonderfully kind. If our love were but more simple We should take him at his word, And our lives would be thanksgiving For the goodness of our Lord. 3 Troubled souls, why will you scatter Like a crowd of frightened sheep? Foolish hearts, why will you wander From a love so true and deep? There is welcome for the sinner And more graces for the good; There is mercy with the Savior, There is healing in his blood. Used With Tune: IN BABILONE

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire

Author: James Montgomery (1771-1854) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 845 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:26-28 Lyrics: 1 Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, unuttered or expressed, the motion of a hidden fire that trembles in the breast. 2 Prayer is the burden of a sigh, the falling of a tear, the upward glancing of an eye when none but God is near. 3 Prayer is the simplest form of speech that infant lips can try; prayer the sublimest strains that reach the Majesty on high. 4 Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, the Christian's native air, their watchword at the gates of death, they enter heaven with prayer. 5 Prayer is not made by us alone: the Holy Spirit pleads, and Jesus, on the eternal throne, for sinners intercedes. 6 O Christ, by whom we come to God, the Life, the Truth, the Way, the path of prayer yourself have trod, Lord, teach us how to pray. Topics: Life in Christ Our Response to Christ - In Devotion; Prayer Used With Tune: COLESHILL

Spirit of God, Who Dwells within My Heart

Author: George Croly Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 340 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:26 Lyrics: 1 Spirit of God, who dwells within my heart, wean it from sin, through all its pulses move. Stoop to my weakness, mighty as you are, and make me love you as I ought to love. 2 I ask no dream, no prophet ecstasies, no sudden rending of the veil of clay, no angel visitant, no opening skies; but take the dimness of my soul away. 3 Did you not bid us love you, God and King, love you with all our heart and strength and mind? I see the cross– there teach my heart to cling. O let me seek you and O let me find! 4 Teach me to feel that you are always nigh; teach me the struggles of the soul to bear, to check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh; teach me the patience of unceasing prayer. 5 Teach me to love you as your angels love, one holy passion filling all my frame: the fullness of the heaven-descended Dove; my heart an altar, and your love the flame. Topics: Love Our Love to God; Pentecost and Holy Spirit; Holy Spirit; Love Our Love to God; Pilgrimage & Conflct Used With Tune: MORECAMBE

Christ is Coming! Let Creation

Author: John R. MacDuff Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.7 Appears in 117 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:22 Lyrics: 1 Christ is coming! Let creation bid her groans and travail cease; let the glorious proclamation hope restore and faith increase; Christ is coming! Christ is coming! Come, O blessèd Prince of Peace! (Prince of Peace!) Come, O blessèd Prince of Peace! 2 We can now but tell the story of your bitter cross and pain; we shall yet behold your glory in your coming back to reign; Christ is coming! Christ is coming! Let each heart repeat the strain. )sing the strain.) Let each heart repeat the strain. 3 With that "blessèd hope" before us, let no harp remain unstrung; let the mighty advent chorus onward roll from tongue to tongue: Christ is coming! Christ is coming! Come, Lord Jesus, quickly come! (quickly come!) Come, Lord Jesus, quickly come! Topics: Believing Faith; Hope; Jesus Christ Exaltation; Jesus Christ Names; Jesus Christ Passion; Jesus Christ Reign; Jesus Christ Return (Coming in Glory) Used With Tune: CWM RHONDDA

For Your Gift of God the Spirit

Author: Margaret Clarkson Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 10 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:26 Lyrics: 1 For your gift of God the Spirit, power to make our lives anew, pledge of life and hope of glory, Savior, we would worship you. Crowning gift of resurrection sent from your ascended throne, fullness of the very Godhead, come to make your life our own. 2 He who in creation's dawning brooded on the lifeless deep, still across our nature's darkness moves to wake our souls from sleep, moves to stir, to draw, to quicken, thrusts us through with sense of sin; brings to birth and seals and fills us saving Advocate within. 3 He, himself the living Author, wakes to life the sacred Word, reads with us its holy pages and reveals our risen Lord. He it is who works within us, teaching rebel hearts to pray, he whose holy intercessions rise for us both night and day. 4 He, the mighty God, indwells us; his to strengthen, help, empower; his to overcome the tempter ours to call in danger's hour. In his strength we dare to battle all the raging hosts of sin, and by him alone we conquer foes without and foes within. 5 Father, grant your Holy Spirit in our hearts may rule today, grieved not, quenched not, but unhindered, work in us his sovereign way. Fill us with your holy fullness, God the Father, Spirit, Son; in us, through us, then, forever, shall your perfect will be done. Topics: Intercession of Christ; Illumination; Temptation & Trial; Will of God; Pentecost and Holy Spirit; Church; Creation; Holy Spirit; Illumination; Intercession of Christ; Temptation & Trial; Will of God; Word of God Used With Tune: BLAENWERN

Spirit Divine, Inspire Our Prayer

Author: Andrew Reed Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 390 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:26 Lyrics: 1 Spirit divine, inspire our prayer and make our hearts your home; descend with all your gracious power; come, Holy Spirit, come! 2 Come as the light; reveal our need, our hidden failings show, and lead us in those paths of life whereon the righteous go. 3 Come as the fire and cleanse our hearts with purifying flame; let our whole life an offering be to our Redeemer's name. 4 Come as the dove and spread your wings, the wings of peace and love, until your church on earth below joins with your church above. Topics: Illumination; Pentecost and Holy Spirit; Holy Spirit; Illumination; Pentecost; Prayer; Sanctification Used With Tune: GRÄFENBERG

"Comforter Divine!"

Author: George Rawson Appears in 85 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:26 First Line: Holy Ghost, the Infinite! Lyrics: 1 Holy Ghost, the Infinite! Shine upon our nature's night With thy blessed inward light, Comforter Divine! 2 We are sinful: cleanse us, Lord; We are faint: thy strength afford; Lost,--until by thee restored, Comforter Divine! 3 Like the dew, thy peace distill; Guide, subdue our wayward will, Things of Christ unfolding still, Comforter Divine! 4 In us, for us, intercede, And with voiceless groanings, plead Our unutterable need, Comforter Divine! 5 In us "Abba, Father," cry,-- Earnest of our bliss on high, Seal of immortality,-- Comforter Divine! 6 Search for us the depths of God; Bear us up the starry road, To the height of thine abode, Comforter Divine! Topics: The Holy Spirit; Abba, Father Used With Tune: TREVES

Lord, Bring the Day to Pass

Author: Ian Fraser Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Appears in 10 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:22 Lyrics: 1 Lord, bring the day to pass when forest, rock and hill, the beasts, the birds, the grass will know your finished will: when we attain our destiny, and nature its lost unity. 2 Forgive our careless use of water, ore, and soil-- the plenty we abuse, supplied by others' toil: save us from making self our creed: turn us towards each other's need. 3 Give us, when we release creation's secret powers, to harness them for peace, our children's peace and ours: teach us the art of mastering which makes life rich and draws death's sting. 4 Creation groans, travails; futile its present plight, bound till the hour it hails the newfound heirs of light who enter on their true estate. Come, Lord! new heav'ns and earth create! Topics: In The Beginning The Earth is the Lord's Used With Tune: CAMANO

Joy to the World! the Lord is Come

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 1,854 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:22 Lyrics: 1 Joy to the world! the Lord is come; let earth receive her King; let every heart prepare him room, and heaven and nature sing, and heaven and nature sing, and heaven, and heaven and nature sing. 2 Joy to the earth! the Savior reigns: let all their songs employ; while fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains repeat the sounding joy, repeat the sounding joy, repeat, repeat the sounding joy. 3 No more let sins and sorrows grow, nor thorns infest the ground; he comes to make his blessings flow far as the curse is found, far as the curse is found, far as, far as the curse is found. 4 He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove the glories of his righteousness, and wonders of his love, and wonders of his love, and wonders, wonders of his love. Topics: Christmas Season Used With Tune: ANTIOCH

And Can It Be

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 285 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8 First Line: And can it be that I should gain Refrain First Line: Amazing love! How can it be Lyrics: 1 And can it be that I should gain an interest in the Savior's blood? Died he for me, who caused his pain– for me, who caused his bitter death? Amazing love! How can it be that you, my Lord, should die for me? Refrain: Amazing love! How can it be that you, my Lord, should die for me?! 2 He left his Father's throne above– so free, so infinite his grace– emptied himself of all but love, and bled for Adam's helpless race! What mercy this, immense and free, for, O my God, it found out me! [Refrain] 3 Long my imprisoned spirit lay fast bound in sin and nature's night. Your sunrise turned that night to day; I woke– the dungeon flamed with light! My chains fell off, your voice I knew; I rose, went out, and followed you. [Refrain] 4 No condemnation now I dread, for Christ, and all in him, is mine! Alive in him, my living Head, and clothed in righteousness divine, bold I approach the eternal throne and claim the crown, through Christ, my own. [Refrain] Topics: Biblical Names & Places Adam; Deliverance; Love God's Love to Us; Profession of Faith; Suffering of Christ; Confession and Forgiveness; Assurance; Atonement; Biblical Names & Places Adam; Blood of Christ; Christmas; Confession of Sin; Deliverance; Forgiveness; Freedom; Hope; Love God's Love to Us; Mercy; Profession of Faith; Redemption; Suffering of Christ Used With Tune: SAGINA