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Commit Now All Your Griefs

Author: Paul Gerhardt; John Wesley Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 246 hymnals Topics: Cast Out Fear Lyrics: 1 Commit thou all your griefs and ways into his hands; to his sure truth and tender care, who earth and heav'n commands. Who points the clouds their course, whom winds and seas obey, he shall direct your wand'ring feet, hHe shall prepare your way. 2 Give to the winds your fears; hope, and be undismayed; God hears your sighs and counts your tears, God shall lift up your head. Through waves and clouds and storms he gently clears your way; wait for his time, so shall the night soon end in joyous day. 3 Still heavy is your heart? Still sink your spirits down? Cast off the weight, let fear depart, and every care be gone. He everywhere has sway, and all things serve his might; his every act pure blessing is, his path unsullied light. 4 Far, far above your thought his counsel shall appear, when fully he the work has wrought that caused your needless fear. Leave to his sovereign sway to choose and to command; with wonder filled, you then hall own how wise, how strong his hand. Scripture: Psalm 37:5 Used With Tune: DIADEMATA

Such Perfect Love My Shepherd Shows

Author: Henry Williams Baker Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 687 hymnals Topics: Fear; Freedom from Fear Lyrics: 1 Such perfect love my Shepherd shows, whose goodness fails me never, whose hand all things I need bestows and watches me forever. 2 Where streams of living water flow, my loving Shepherd leads me, and where the verdant pastures grow with food from heaven feeds me. 3 When vain and foolish I have strayed, you, faithful Shepherd, sought me, and on your shoulder gently laid, then home, rejoicing, brought me. 4 I do not fear death's shadowed vale when you are here beside me; your rod and staff and strength prevail to comfort and to guide me. 5 You spread a table in my sight, your gifts of grace bestowing; and from your chalice I delight to taste your mercy flowing. 6 And so through all the length of days your goodness fails me never; Good Shepherd, may I sing your praise within your house forever. Scripture: Psalm 23 Used With Tune: DOMINUS REGIT ME

The foundation standeth sure

Author: Kirkham Appears in 2,205 hymnals Topics: Fearfulness First Line: How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord Used With Tune: PORTUGUESE HYMN

What Shall I Render to the LORD

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 18 hymnals Topics: Fear Lyrics: 1 What shall I render to the LORD for all his benefits to me? How shall my life, by grace restored, give worthy thanks, O LORD, to thee? 2 Salvation's cup of blessing now I take and call upon God's name. Before his saints I pay my vow and here my gratitude proclaim. 3 His saints the LORD delights to save; their death is precious in his sight. He has redeemed me from the grave, and in his service I delight. 4 With thankful heart I offer now my gift and call upon God's name. Before his saints I pay my vow and here my gratitude proclaim. 5 Within his house, the house of prayer, I dedicate myself to God. Let all his saints his grace declare and join to sound his praise abroad. Scripture: Psalm 116 Used With Tune: ROCKINGHAM Text Sources: Psalter, 1912, alt.

Come, thou Fount of every blessing

Author: R. Robinson, 1735-1790 Appears in 2,245 hymnals Topics: Backsliding Fear of; Backsliding Fear of Lyrics: 1 Come, thou Fount of every blessing Tune my heart to sing Thy grace, Streams of mercy, never ceasing, Call for songs of loudest praise. Teach me some celestial measure, Sung by ransomed hosts above; O the vast, the boundless treasure Of my Lord's unchanging love! 2 Here I raise my Ebenezer; Hither by Thy help I've come; And I hope, by Thy good pleasure, Safely to arrive at home. Jesus sought me when a stranger, Wandering from the fold of God: He, to rescue me from danger, Interposed His precious blood. 3 O to grace how great a debtor Daily I'm constrained to be! Let Thy goodness, like a fetter, Bind my wandering heart to Thee. Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, Prone to leave the God I love; Here's my heart, O take and seal it, Seal it for Thy courts above! Used With Tune: NETTLETON

Hear what the voice from heaven proclaims

Author: Dr. Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Appears in 289 hymnals Topics: Death Fear of removed; Fear of death removed Lyrics: 1 Hear what the voice from heaven proclaims For all the pious dead! Sweet is the savour of their names, And soft their dying bed. 2 They die in Jesus, and are blest; How calm their slumbers are! From sufferings and from woes released, And freed from every snare: 3 Till that illustrious morning come, When all Thy saints shall rise, And, decked in full immortal bloom, Attend Thee to the skies. 4 Their tongues, great Prince of Life, shall join With their recovered breath, And all the immortal host ascribe Their victory to Thy death. Used With Tune: WARWICK

Jesus Christ, my sure defence

Meter: 7.8.7.8.7.7 Appears in 58 hymnals Topics: Doubt and Fear Lyrics: 1 Jesus Christ, my sure defence And my Saviour, ever liveth; Knowing this, my confidence Rests upon the hope it giveth, Though the night of death be fraught Still with many an anxious thought. 2 Jesus, my Redeemer, lives! I, too, unto life shall waken; He will have me where He is: Should my courage then be shaken? Should I fear? Or can the Head Rise and leave its members dead? 3 Nay, too closely am I bound Unto Him by hope forever; Faith's strong hand the Rock hath found, Grasped it, and will leave it never: Not the ban of death can part From its Lord the trusting heart. 4 I shall see God with these eyes, Shall behold my blessed Savior; I, the selfsame, shall arise, In my flesh see God forever; Then shall wholly disappear Frailties that oppress me here. 5 What now sickens, mourns, and sighs, Christ with Him to glory bringeth; Earthly is the seed and dies, Heavenly from the grave it springeth; Natural is the death we die, Spiritual, our life on high. 6 Saviour, draw away our heart From all pleasures base and hollow; Let us there with Thee have part, Here on earth Thy footsteps follow; Fix our hearts beyond the skies, Whither we ourselves would rise. Used With Tune: JESUS CHRIST, MY SURE DEFENCE

O how shall I receive Thee

Meter: 7.6 Appears in 95 hymnals Topics: Doubt and Fear Lyrics: 1 O how shall I receive Thee, How greet Thee, Lord, aright? All nations long to see Thee, My hope, my heart's delight! O kindle, Lord, most holy, Thy lamp within my breast, To do in spirit lowly All that may please Thee best. 2 Thy Zion palms is strewing, And branches fresh and fair; My heart, its powers renewing, An anthem shall prepare. My soul puts off her sadness Thy glories to proclaim: With all her strength and gladness She fain would serve Thy name. 3 I lay in fetters groaning; Thou comest to set me free! I stood, my shame bemoaning, Thou comest to honor me; A glory Thou dost give me, A treasure safe on high, That will not fail nor leave me, As earthly riches fly. 4 Love caused Thy incarnation, Love brought Thee down to me. Thy thirst for my salvation Procured my liberty. O love beyond all telling, That led Thee to embrace, In love all love excelling, Our lost and fallen race! 5 Rejoice then, ye sad-hearted, Who sit in deepest gloom, Who mourn o'er joys departed, And tremble at your doom: He who alone can cheer you, Is standing at the door; In pity He is near you, And bids you weep no more. 6 Ye who, with guilty terror, Are trembling, fear no more; With love and grace the Saviour Shall you to hope restore. He comes to heal the spirit That mourneth, sin-oppressed, He comes, that we inherit Eternal joy and rest. 7 He comes to judge the nations, A terror to His foes, A light of consolations And blessed hope to those Who love the Lord's appearing: O glorious Sun, now come, Send forth Thy beams so cheering And guide us safely home! Used With Tune: O SACRED HEAD, NOW WOUNDED

How are Thy servants blest, O Lord!

Author: Joseph Addison Appears in 322 hymnals Topics: Fear Dispelled Lyrics: 1 How are Thy servants blest, O Lord! How sure is their defence! Eternal Wisdom is their guide, Their help Omnipotence, Their help Omnipotence. 2 Though by the dreadful tempest tossed High on the broken wave, They know Thou art not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save, Nor impotent to save. 3 The storm is laid, the winds retire, Obedient to Thy will; The sea, that roars at Thy command, At Thy command is still, At Thy command is still. 4 In midst of dangers, fears and death, Thy goodness I'll adore; And praise Thee for Thy mercies past, And humbly hope for more, And humbly hope for more. 5 My life, while Thou preserv'st my life, Thy sacrifice shall be; And oh, may death, when death shall come, Unite my soul to Thee! Unite my soul to Thee! Amen. Used With Tune: SWANWICK

Father, I know that all my life

Author: Anna L. Waring Appears in 234 hymnals Topics: Fear Dispelled Lyrics: 1 Father, I know that all my life Is portioned out by Thee; The changes that will surely come I do not fear to see: I ask Thee for a present ind, Intent on pleasing Thee. 2 I ask Thee for a thoughtful love, Through constant watching wise, To meet the glad with joyful smiles, And wipe the weeping eyes; A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathize. 3 I would not have the restless will That hurries to and fro, That seeks for some great thing to do, Or secret thing to know; I would be treated as a child, And guided where I go. 4 I ask Thee for the daily strength, To none that ask denied, And a mind to blend with outward life While keeping at Thy side; Content to fill a little space, If Thou be glorified. Amen. Used With Tune: SPOHR