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Lo! God is Here; Let Us Adore

Author: Gerhard Tersteegen; John Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 289 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Lo, God is here; let us adore, and own how dreadful is this place; let all within us feel His pow'r, and humbly bow before His face. Who knows His pow'r, His grace who proves, serve Him with awe, with rev'rence love. 2 Lo, God is here, whom day and night united choirs of angels praise; to Him, enthroned above all height, the host of heav'n their anthems raise. Disdain not, Lord, our meaner song, who praise Thee with a stamm'ring tongue. 3 Almighty Father, may our praise Thy courts with grateful fragrance fill; still may we stand before Thy face, still hear and do Thy sov'reign will. To God whom earth and heav'n adore, be praise and glory evermore. Topics: Revelation and Adoration Used With Tune: VATER UNSER

Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above

Author: Johann J. Schütz; Frances E. Cox Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 Appears in 194 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Sing praise to God who reigns above, the God of all creation; the God of pow'r, the God of love, the God of our salvation; with healing balm my soul He fills, and ev'ry faithless murmur stills - to God all praise and glory! 2 What God's almighty pow'r has made in mercy He is keeping, by morning glow or evening shade His eye is never sleeping; within the kingdom of His might, lo! all is just and all is right - to God all praise and glory! 3 The Lord is never far away, but through all grief distressing, an ever-present help and stay, our peace and joy and blessing; as with a mother's tender hand He leads His own, His chosen band - to God all praise and glory! 4 Thus all my toilsome way along, I sing aloud His praises, that all may hear the grateful song my voice unwearied raises: "Be joyful in the Lord, my heart! Both soul and body bear your part - to God all praise and glory! Topics: Revelation and Adoration Used With Tune: MIT FREUDEN ZART

God Himself Is with Us

Author: Gerhard Tersteegen Meter: 6.6.8.6.6.8.6.6.6 Appears in 121 hymnals Lyrics: 1 God Himself is with us; let us now adore Him and with awe appear before Him! God is in His temple; all within keep silence, prostrate lie with deepest rev'rence. Him alone God we own, Him, our God and Savior; praise His name forever! 2 God Himself is with us; hear the harps resounding; see the hosts the throne surrounding! "Holy, holy, holy!" Hear the hymn ascending, songs of saints and angels blending. Bow Your ear to us here: hear, O Christ, the praises that Your church now raises. 3 Light of light eternal, all things penetrating, for Your rays our soul is waiting. As the tender flowers, willingly unfolding, to the sun their faces holding: even so would we do, light from You obtaining, strength to serve You gaining. 4 Come, celestial Being, make our hearts Your dwelling, every carnal thought dispelling. By Your Holy Spirit sanctify us truly, teaching us to love You only. Where we go here below, let us bow before You and in truth adore You. Topics: Revelation and Adoration Used With Tune: ARNSBERG Text Sources: Tr. composite

My God, How Wonderful Thou Art

Author: Frederich W. Faber Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 344 hymnals Lyrics: 1 My God, how wonderful Thou art, Thy majesty how bright, How beautiful Thy mercy seat, in depths of burning light! 2 How dread are Thine eternal years, O everlasting LORD; by prostrate spirits, day and night, incessantly adored. 3 How wonderful, how beautiful, the sight of Thee must be, Thine endless wisdom, boundless pow'r, and awful purity. 4 O how I fear Thee, Living God, with deepest, tend'rest fears, and worship Thee with trembling hope, and penitential tears. 5 Yet I may love Thee too, O LORD, Almighty as Thou art; for Thou hast stooped to ask of me the love of my poor heart. 6 No earthly father loves like Thee, no mother e’er so mild, bears and forbears, as Thou hast done with me, Thy sinful child. 7 Father of Jesus, love's reward, what rapture will it be, prostrate before Thy throne to lie, and ever gaze on Thee! Topics: Revelation and Adoration Scripture: Psalm 113 Used With Tune: ST. ETHELDREDA

As Longs the Deer for Cooling Streams

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 321 hymnals Lyrics: 1 As longs the deer for cooling streams in parched and barren ways, so longs my soul, O God, for Thee and Thy refreshing grace. 2 For Thee, my God, the living God, my thirsty soul doth pine; O when shall I behold Thy face, Thou majesty divine? 3 Why restless, why cast down, my soul? Hope still, and thou shalt sing the praise of Him who is thy God, thy health’s eternal spring. 4 To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the God whom we adore, be glory as it was, is now, and shall be evermore. Topics: Revelation and Adoration Scripture: Psalm 42:1-7 Used With Tune: BELMONT Text Sources: New Version of the Psalms of David, 1969

From Heaven Above to Earth I Come

Author: Martin Luther; Catherine Winkworth Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 145 hymnals First Line: From heav'n above to earth I come Lyrics: 1 From heav'n above to earth I come, to bear good news to ev'ry home; glad tidings of great joy I bring, whereof I now will say and sing: 2 To you, this night, is born a Child of Mary, chosen mother mild; this tender Child of lowly birth, shall be the joy of all the earth. 3 'Tis Christ our God, who far on high had heard your sad and bitter cry; Himself will your Salvation be, Himself from sin will make you free. 4 Now let us all, with gladsome cheer, follow the shepherds, and draw near to see this wondrous Gift of God, who hath His own dear Son bestowed. 5 Glory to God in highest heav'n, who unto man His Son hath giv'n, while angels sing, with pious mirth, a glad New Year to all the earth. Topics: Jesus Christ Incarnation Used With Tune: VOM HIMMEL HOCH

See Amid the Winter's Snow

Author: Edward Caswall Meter: 7.7.7.7 with refrain Appears in 164 hymnals Refrain First Line: Hail! Thou ever-blessed morn! Lyrics: 1 See, amid the winter's snow, born for us on earth below, see the tender Lamb appears, promised from eternal years. Refrain: Hail! Thou ever-blessed morn! Hail, redemption's happy dawn! Sing through all Jerusalem, "Christ is born in Bethlehem." 2 Lo, within a manger lies He who built the starry skies; He, who throned in height sublime, sits amid the cherubim! [Refrain] 3 Say, ye holy shepherds, say, what your joyful news today; wherefore have ye left your sheep on the lonely mountain steep? [Refrain] 4 "As we watched at dead of night, lo, we saw a wondrous light; angels singing 'Peace on earth' told us of the Savior's birth." [Refrain] 5 Sacred Infant, all divine, what a tender love was Thine; thus to come from highest bliss down to such a world as this! [Refrain] 6 Teach, O teach us, Holy Child, by Thy face so meek and mild, teach us to resemble Thee in Thy sweet humility! [Refrain] Topics: Jesus Christ Incarnation Used With Tune: HUMILITY

Hark! The Voice of Love and Mercy

Author: Jonathan Evans Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.7 Appears in 549 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Hark! the voice of love and mercy sounds aloud from Calvary; see, it rends the rocks asunder, shakes the earth, and veils the sky: "It is finished! It is finished! It is finished!" Hear the dying Savior cry; hear the dying Savior cry. 2 "It is finished!" O what pleasure do these precious words afford; heav'nly blessings, without measure, flow to us from Christ the Lord: "It is finished! It is finished! It is finished!" Saints, the dying words record; saints, the dying words record. 3 Finished all the types and shadows of the ceremonial law; finished all that God had promised; death and hell no more shall awe: "It is finished! It is finished! It is finished!" Saints, from hence your comfort draw; saints, from hence your comfort draw. 4 Tune your harps anew, ye seraphs, join to sing the glorious theme; all in earth, and all in heaven, join to praise Emmanuel's Name: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Glory to the bleeding Lamb! Glory to the bleeding Lamb! Topics: Jesus Christ Resurrection and Exaltation Used With Tune: BRYN CALFARIA

Spirt of God, Descend upon My Heart

Author: George Croly Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 341 hymnals First Line: Spirit of God, descend upon my heart Lyrics: 1 Spirit of God, descend upon my heart, wean it from earth, through all its pulses move. Stoop to my weakness, mighty as Thou art, and make me love Thee 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 op'ning skies, but take the dimness of my soul away. 3 Hast Thou not bid us love Thee, God and King; all, all Thine own--soul, heart, and strength, and mind? I see Thy cross; there teach my heart to cling. O let me seek Thee and O let me find! 4 Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh. Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear, to check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh. Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer. 5 Teach me to love Thee as Thine angels love, one holy passion filling all my frame; the baptism of the heav'n-descended Dove, my heart an altar, and Thy love its flame. Topics: The Holy Spirit Used With Tune: MORECAMBE

Not What These Hands Have Done

Author: Horatius Bonar Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 119 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Not what these hands have done can save this guilty soul; not what this toiling flesh has borne can make my spirit whole. Not what I feel or do can give me peace with God; not all my pray'rs and sighs and tears can bear my awful load. 2 Thy work alone, O Christ, can ease this weight of sin; Thy blood alone, O Lamb of God, can give me peace within. Thy love to me, O God, not mine, O Lord, to Thee, can rid me of the dark unrest, and set my spirit free. 3 Thy grace alone, O God, to me can pardon speak; Thy pow'r alone, O Son of God, can this sore bondage break. I bless the Christ of God; I rest on love divine; and with unfalt'ring lip and heart, I call this Savior mine. Topics: Salvation Used With Tune: LEOMINSTER