GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS

HYMN FOR TODAY - Sunday June 29
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(A suggested hymn for the lectionary today)

"Great is Thy faithfulness,"
O God my Father,
There is no shadow
of turning with Thee;
Thou changest not,
Thy compassions, they fail not;
As Thou hast been
Thou forever wilt be.

"Great is Thy faithfulness!
Great is Thy faithfulness!"
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
All I have needed
Thy hand hath provided -
"Great is Thy faithfulness,"
Lord unto me!


Summer and winter,
and springtime and harvest,
Sun, moon and stars
in their courses above,
Join with all Nature
in manifold witness
To Thy great faithfulness,
mercy and love.

Thomas Obediah Chisholm

1866 - 1960 ( 93 Years )

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ADORNING THE DOCTRINE

 

HYMN FOR TODAY - Saturday June 28
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Are you adorning the doctrine—
The glorious doctrine of God?
Walking so holy before Him,
Following where He hath trod?
So when the world looks upon you,
Nothing but Christ is in view?
So when the world looks upon you,
Nothing but Christ is in view?


Are you adorning the doctrine,
And making attractive the way?
Honoring Christ by your actions,
And by the words that you say?
Are you, my brother and sister,
Proving the Bible is true?
Are you, my brother and sister,
Proving the Bible is true?

Charles Wesley Naylor 

1874 - 1950 ( 75 Years )

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A LITTLE LIGHT

 

HYMN FOR TODAY - Friday June 27
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God make my life a little light
Within the world to glow;
A little flame that burneth bright,
Wherever I may go.

God make my life a little flower
That giveth joy to all,
Content to bloom in native bower,
Although the place be small.

God make my life a little song
That comforteth the sad.
That helpeth others to be strong,
And makes the singer glad.

Matilda Betham-Edwards 1836 - 1919 ( 82 Years )

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HE WAS NOT WILLING

 

HYMN FOR TODAY - Tuesday June 24
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“He was not willing
that any should perish”;
Jesus enthroned in the glory above,
Saw our poor fallen world,
pitied our sorrows,
Poured out His life for us,
wonderful love!

“He was not willing
that any should perish”;
Clothed in our flesh
with its sorrow and pain,
Came He to seek the lost,
comfort the mourner,
Heal the heart broken
by sorrow and shame.

Plenty for pleasure,
but little for Jesus;
Time for the world
with its troubles and toys,
No time for Jesus’ work,
feeding the hungry,
Lifting lost souls to eternity’s joys.

Lucy Jane Rider Meyer 1849 - 1922 ( 72 Years )

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OUR STRENGTH AND REFUGE

 

HYMN FOR TODAY - Thursday June 26
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God will our strength and refuge prove,
In all distress a present aid,
And, though the trembling earth remove,
We will not fear nor be dismayed.

Our trust in God shall still abide
Though hills be shaken from their seat,
And though the ocean’s swelling tide
Against the trembling mountains beat.

A river flows, whose living streams
Make glad the city of our God,
The holy place where glory beams,
Where God Most High has His abode.

1912 The Psalter

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PRAISE MY SOUL THE KING OF HEAVEN

HYMN FOR TODAY - Monday June 23
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Praise, my soul, the King of heaven; 
To His feet thy tribute bring; 
Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven, 
Who like thee His praise should sing? 
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Praise the everlasting King.


Praise Him for His grace and favour
To our fathers in distress;
Praise Him still the same forever,
Slow to chide, and swift to bless:
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Glorious in His faithfulness.


Father-like He tends and spares us;
Well our feeble frame He knows;
In His hands He gently bears us,
Rescues us from all our foes;
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Widely as His mercy flows. 

Henry Francis Lyte 1793 - 1847 ( 53 Years )

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ENCOURAGEMENT

HYMN FOR TODAY - Sunday June 22
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My soul is beset
With grief and dismay,
I owe a vast debt
And nothing can pay:
I must go to prison,
Unless that dear Lord,
Who died and is risen,
His pity afford.


The death that he died,
The blood that he spilt,
To sinners applied,
Discharge from all guilt:
This great Intercessor
Can give, if he please,
The vilest transgressor
Immediate release.


When nailed to the tree,
He answered the prayer
Of one, who like me,
Was nigh to despair;
He did not upbraid him
With all he had done,
But instantly made him,
A saint and a son.

John Newton 1725 - 1807 ( 81 Years )

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AT JESUS' FEET

’Twas good to sit at Jesus’ feet
In Bethany, dear Bethany!
And feel His tender love so sweet,
In Bethany, dear Bethany!

If now our faith and prayers agree,
Our grateful hearts as glad may be
As those that Jesus came to see
In Bethany, dear Bethany!

His welcome voice
with joy they heard
In Bethany, dear Bethany!
They treasured up
each precious word,
In Bethany, dear Bethany!

Whene’er He came
their souls were blest
In Bethany, dear Bethany!
His presence left a hallowed rest,
In Bethany, dear Bethany!

Fanny Jane Crosby 1820 - 1915 ( 94 Years )

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BLESS GOD THE LORD

O thou my soul, bless God the Lord;
and all that in me is
Be stirred up his holy name
to magnify and bless.

Bless, O my soul, the Lord thy God,
and not forgetful be
Of all his gracious benefits
he hath bestow’d on thee.

All thine iniquities who doth
most graciously forgive:
Who thy diseases all and pains
doth heal, and thee relieve.

Francis Rous 1579 - 1659 ( 79 Years )

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THE KING OF LOVE

The King of love my shepherd is, 
Whose goodness faileth never; 
I nothing lack if I am His 
And He is mine for ever. 


Where streams of living water flow
My ransomed soul He leadeth,
And where the verdant pastures grow
With food celestial feedeth.


Perverse and foolish oft I strayed;
But yet in love He sought me,
And on His shoulder gently laid,
And home rejoicing brought me. 

Henry Williams Baker 1821 - 1877 ( 55 Years )

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SHINE

Jehovah, God the Father, bless,
And Thy own work defend!
With mercy’s outstretched arms embrace
And keep us to the end!

Preserve the creatures of Thy love,
By providential care
Conducted to the realms above,
To sing Thy goodness there.

Jehovah, God the Son, reveal
The brightness of Thy face;
And all Thy pardoned people fill
With plenitude of grace!

Charles Wesley 1707 - 1788 ( 80 Years )

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LITTLE CHILDREN BLESS

Jesus, in thy lowliness,
Thou didst little children bless;
Ours, with equal pity see,
Whom we teach to trust in thee.


While we watch for them and pray,
While we bid them thee obey,
Make them all thy goodness learn,
And to thee in childhood turn.


Though by nature prone to sin,
May they a new life begin;
Fill them with thy grace divine,
Saviour, make them wholly thine.

A Selection of Psalms and Hymns 1853

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I TRUST IN THEE

Father of Jesus Christ, my Lord,
My Saviour, and my Head,
I trust in thee, whose powerful word
Hath raised him from the dead.


Thou know'st for my offence he died,
And rose again for me,
Fully and freely justified,
That I might live to thee.


Eternal life to all mankind
Thou hast in Jesus given;
And all who seek, in him shall find
The happiness of heaven.

Charles Wesley 1707 - 1788 ( 80 Years )
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HIGH THANKSGIVING

Lift the strain of high thanksgiving!
Tread with songs the hallowed way!
Praise our fathers’ God for mercies
New to us their sons today:
Here they built for Him a dwelling,
Served Him here in ages past,
Fixed it for His sure possession,
Holy ground, while time shall last.


When the years
had wrought their changes,
He, our own unchanging God,
Thought on this His habitation,
Looked on His decayed abode;
Heard our prayers,
and helped our counsels,
Blessed the silver and the gold,
Till once more His house is standing
Firm and stately as of old.


Entering then Thy gates with praises,
Lord, be ours Thine Israel’s prayer:
“Rise into Thy place of resting,
Show Thy promised presence there!”
Let the gracious Word be spoken
Here, as once on Sion’s height,
“This shall be My rest forever,
This my dwelling of delight.”

John Ellerton 1826 - 1893 ( 66 Years )
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CROWNED WITH THORNS

The head that once was crowned with thorns
Is crowned with glory now:
A royal diadem adorns
The mighty victor’s brow.


The highest place that heaven affords
Is His by sovereign right:
The King of kings and Lord of lords,
He reigns in perfect light.


The joy of all who dwell above,
The joy of all below,
To whom He manifests His love,
And grants His name to know.
Thomas Kelly 1769 - 1855 ( 85 Years )

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THE LIFE ABOVE

How glorious is the life above

Which in this ordinance we taste,

That fullness of celestial love,

That joy which shall for ever last!

That heavenly life in Christ concealed

These earthen vessels could not bear;

The part which now we find revealed

No tongue of angels can declare.

The light of life eternal darts

Into our souls a dazzling ray;

A drop of Heaven o’erflows our hearts,

And deluges the house of clay.

Charles Wesley 1707 - 1788 ( 80 Years )

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