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Precious Lord, take my hand

Author: Thomas A. Dorsey, 1899-1993 Meter: Irregular Appears in 114 hymnals Topics: Longing for God and Christ Scripture: Matthew 14:22-33 Used With Tune: PRECIOUS LORD

Author: Ricky Manalo, CSP, b. 1965 Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: Longing for God First Line: Come, O Spirit from above Used With Tune: [Come, O Spirit from above] Text Sources: Verses based on the Pentecost Sequence, Veni, Sancte Spiritus

How lovely is your dwelling-place

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 53 hymnals Topics: Longing for God Lyrics: 1 How lovely is your dwelling-place, O Lord of hosts, to me; my thirsting soul longs eagerly within your courts to be. 2 Beside your altars, Lord of all, the swallows find a nest; happy are those who dwell with you and praise you without rest, 3 and happy those whose hearts are set upon the pilgrim ways: you are the water when they thirst, their guide towards your face. 4 How blest are they that in your house for ever give you praise: one day with you is better spent than thousands in dark ways. 5 The Lord will hold back no good thing from those who justly live; to all who trust, the Lord of hosts will all his blessings give. Scripture: Psalm 84 Used With Tune: HARINGTON Text Sources: Scottish Psalter, 1650, alt.

Praise to the Saviour

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,747 hymnals Topics: Longing for God First Line: O for a thousand tongues to sing

O Christ, Our Hope, Our Heart's Desire

Author: John Chandler Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 56 hymnals Topics: Longing for God or Christ Lyrics: 1 O Christ, our hope, our heart's desire, Redemption's only spring! Creator of the world art Thou, Its Savior and its King. 2 How vast the mercy and the love Which laid our sins on Thee, And led Thee to a cruel death, To set Thy people free. 3 But now the bonds of death are burst, The ransom has been paid; And Thou art on Thy Father's throne, In glorious robes arrayed. 4 O Christ, be Thou our lasting joy, Our ever great reward! Our only glory may it be To glory in the Lord. Used With Tune: BRADFORD Text Sources: Latin hymn, 7th or 8th Century

Steal Away to Jesus

Appears in 119 hymnals Topics: Longing for God; Longing for God; Longing for God First Line: My Lord, he calls me Refrain First Line: Steal away, steal away Lyrics: Refrain: Steal away, steal away, steal away to Jesus! Steal away, steal away home, I ain't got long to stay here. 1 My Lord, he calls me, He calls me by the thunder; The trumpet sounds within my soul; I ain't got long to stay here. [Refrain] 2 Green trees are bending, Poor sinners stand a trembling; The trumpet sounds within my soul; I ain't got long to stay here. [Refrain] 3 My Lord, he calls me, He calls me by the lightning; The trumpet sounds within my soul; I ain't got long to stay here. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [My Lord, he calls me] Text Sources: Traditional

When in the Night I Meditate

Appears in 15 hymnals Topics: Longing for God First Line: When in the night I meditate Lyrics: 1 When in the night I meditate on mercies multiplied, my grateful heart inspires my tongue to bless the LORD, my guide. 2 Forever in my thought the LORD before my face shall stand; secure, unmoved, I shall remain, with God at my right hand. 3 My inmost being thrills with joy and gladness fills my breast; because on him my trust is stayed, my flesh in hope shall rest. 4 I know that I shall not be left forgotten in the grave, and from corruption, thou, O LORD, thy holy one will save. 5 The path of life thou showest me; of joy a boundless store is ever found at thy right hand, and pleasures evermore. Scripture: Psalm 16 Used With Tune: MAITLAND Text Sources: Psalter, 1912

Come, let us to the Lord our God

Author: J. Morrison Appears in 108 hymnals Topics: The Christian Life Longing for God Used With Tune: ST. MARGUERITE

Thou art near, O Lord

Author: Holmes Appears in 274 hymnals Topics: Afflictions; Christians Love for the Savior; God Omnipresence; Longing For Christ; Love For the Savior; Nearness To God First Line: O love divine, that st6ooped to share Scripture: Psalm 119:151

Jesus, where’er your people meet

Author: Willam Cowper, 1731-1800 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 515 hymnals Topics: Longing for God Lyrics: 1 Jesus, where'er your people meet there they behold your mercy seat, where'er they seek you, you are found and every place is hallowed ground. 2 For you, within no walls confined, are present in the humble mind; such ever bring you where they come, and, going, take your to their home. 3 Dear Shepherd of your chosen few, your former mercies here renew; here to our waiting hearts proclaim the sweetness of your saving name. 4 Here may we prove the power of prayer to strengthen faith and sweeten care, to teach our faint desires to rise, and bring all heaven before our eyes. 5 Lord, we are few, but you are near, your arm can save, your ear can hear; O rend the heavens, come quickly down, and make a thousand hearts your own. Scripture: Acts 17:22-28 Used With Tune: WAREHAM