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Stand Up and Bless the Lord

Author: James Montgomery Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 409 hymnals Topics: God the Father, Creator Praise Lyrics: 1 Stand up and bless the Lord, ye people of His choice; stand up and bless the Lord your God with heart and soul and voice. 2 Though high above all praise, above all blessing high, who would not fear His holy name, and laud and magnify? 3 O for the living flame, from His own altar brought, to touch our lips, our minds inspire, and wing to heav'n our thought. 4 God is our strength and song, and His salvation ours; then be His love in Christ proclaimed with all our ransomed pow'rs. 5 Stand up and bless the Lord; the Lord your God adore. Stand up and bless His glorious name henceforth forevermore. Scripture: Nehemiah 9:5 Used With Tune: ST. MICHAEL

Come, Ye Thankful People, Come

Author: Henry Alford Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 751 hymnals Topics: God the Father, Creator Thanksgiving First Line: Come, ye thankful people come Lyrics: 1 Come, ye thankful people, come, raise the song of harvest home; all is safely gathered in, ere the winter storms begin; God, our Maker, doth provide for our wants to be supplied; come to God's own temple, come, raise the song of harvest home. 2 All the world is God's own field, fruit unto His praise to yield; wheat and tares together sown, unto joy or sorrow grown; first the blade, and then the ear, then the full corn shall appear. Lord of harvest, grant that we wholesome grain and pure may be. 3 For the Lord our God shall come, and shall take the harvest home; from His field shall in that day all offenses purge away; give His angels charge at last in the fire the tares to cast; but the fruitful ears to store in His garner evermore. 4 Even so, Lord, quickly come, to Thy final harvest home; gather Thou Thy people in, free from sorrow, free from sin; there, forever purified, in Thy presence to abide. come, with all Thine angels, come, raise the glorious harvest home. Scripture: Psalm 65:9-13 Used With Tune: ST. GEORGE'S WINDSOR

Children of the Heavenly Father

Author: Caroline V. Sandell-Berg; Ernst W. Olson Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 108 hymnals Topics: God the Father, Creator Praise First Line: Children of the heav'nly Father Lyrics: 1 Children of the heav'nly Father safely in His bosom gather; nestling bird nor star in heaven such a refuge e’er was given. 2 God His own doth tend and nourish; in His holy courts they flourish. From all evil things He spares them; in His mighty arms He bears them. 3 Neither life nor death shall ever from the Lord His children sever; unto them His grace He showeth, and their sorrows all He knoweth. 4 Though He giveth or He taketh, God His children ne’er forsaketh; His the loving purpose solely to preserve them pure and holy. Scripture: Psalm 92:12-13 Used With Tune: TRYGGARE KAN INGEN VARA

Come, We That Love the Lord

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 1,866 hymnals Topics: God the Father, Creator Praise Lyrics: 1 Come, we that love the Lord, and let our joys be known; join in a song with sweet accord, and thus surround the throne. 2 Let those refuse to sing who never knew our God; but children of the heav'nly King may speak their joys abroad. 3 The hill of Zion yields a thousand sacred sweets before we reach the heav'nly fields, or walk the golden streets. 4 Then let our songs abound, and ev'ry tear be dry; we're marching through Emmanuel's ground, to fairer worlds on high. Scripture: Psalm 149:2 Used With Tune: ST. THOMAS

Great Is Our Redeeming Lord

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.7.7.6 Appears in 20 hymnals Topics: God the Father, Creator Praise Lyrics: 1 Great is our Redeeming Lord, in pow'r, and truth, and grace; Him, by highest heav'n adored, His church on earth shall praise. In the city of our God, In His holy mount below, publish, spread His name abroad, and all His greatness show. 2 For Your loving kindness, Lord, we in Your temple stay; here Your faithful love record, Your saving pow'r display. With Your name Your praise is known, glorious Your perfections shine; earth’s remotest bounds shall own Your works are all divine. 3 See the gospel church secure, and founded on a rock; all her promises are sure; her bulwarks who can shock? Count her every precious shrine; tell, to after ages tell: fortified by pow'r divine, the church can never fail. 4 Zion’s God is all our own, who on His love rely; we His pardoning love have known, and live to Christ, and die. To the new Jerusalem He our faithful guide shall be; Him we claim, and rest in Him, through all eternity. Scripture: Psalm 147:1-5 Used With Tune: AMSTERDAM

We Believe in One True God

Author: Tobias Clausnitzer; Catherine Winkworth Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 51 hymnals Topics: God the Father, Creator Trinity Lyrics: 1 We believe in one true God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ever present help in need, praised by all the heav'nly host; by whose mighty pow'r alone all is made and wrought and done. 2 We believe in Jesus Christ, Son of God and Mary's Son, who descended from His throne and for us salvation won; by whose cross and death are we rescued from sin's misery. 3 We confess the Holy Ghost, who from both fore'er proceeds, who upholds and comforts us in all trials, fears, and needs. Blest and Holy Trinity, praise forever be to Thee! Scripture: John 1:1-18 Used With Tune: RATISBON

Confident Pleading

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: God Creator of All First Line: Bow down Thy ear, O Lord, and hear Lyrics: 1 Bow down Thy ear, O Lord, and hear, For I am poor and great my need; Preserve my soul, for Thee I fear; O God, Thy trusting servant heed, O God, Thy trusting servant heed. 2 O Lord, be merciful to me, For all the day to Thee I cry; Rejoice Thy servant, for to Thee I lift my soul, O Lord Most High, I lift my soul, O Lord Most High. 3 For Thou, O Lord, art good and kind, And ready to forgive Thou art; Abundant mercy they shall find Who call on Thee with all their heart, Who call on Thee with all their heart. 4 O Lord, incline Thy ear to me, My voice of supplication heed; In trouble I will cry to Thee, For Thou wilt answer when I plead, For Thou wilt answer when I plead. 5 There is no God but Thee alone, Nor works like Thine, O Lord Most High; All nations shall surround Thy throne And their Creator glorify, And their Creator glorify. 6 In all Thy deeds how great Thou art! Thou one true God, thy way make clear; Teach me with undivided heart To trust Thy truth, Thy Name to fear, To trust Thy truth, Thy Name to fear. Scripture: Psalm 86 Used With Tune: ROLLAND

Sun and Moon and Stars Above (Hiru sandawa tharu)

Author: Anonymous; Shirley Murray Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: God in Creation and Providence Creator First Line: Hiru sandawa tharu mal bara liya thuru (Sun and moon and stars above, the flowers and the fruits that grow) Refrain First Line: Dev pasasum wewa (Come and let us praise our King) Scripture: Psalm 96:10 Used With Tune: DEV PASASUM

Let the still air rejoice

Author: John Pierpont Appears in 30 hymnals Topics: Creator; Invocation for the Presence of God; Praise General

I Am His, and He Is Mine

Author: George W. Robinson, 1838-1877 Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 100 hymnals Topics: God the Father, Creator God's Love First Line: Loved with everlasting love Lyrics: 1 Loved with everlasting love, led by grace that love to know; gracious Spirit from above, Thou dost taught me it is so! O this full and precious peace! O this transport all divine! In a love which cannot cease, I am His and He is mine. In a love which cannot cease, I am His and He is mine. 2 Heav'n above is deeper blue; earth around is sweeter green; something lives in ev'ry hue Christless eyes have never seen. Birds with gladder songs o'erflow; flow'rs with deeper beauties shine; Since I know, as now I know, I am His and He is mine. Since I know, as now I know, I am His and He is mine. 3 Taste the goodness of the Lord: welcomed home to His embrace, all His love, as blood outpoured, seals the pardon of His grace. Can I doubt His love for me, when I trace that love's design? By the cross of Calvary I am His and He is mine. I am His and He is mine. 4 His forever, only his! Who the Lord and me shall part? Ah, with what a rest of bliss Christ can fill the loving heart! Heav'n and earth may fade and flee, firstborn light in gloom decline; But while God and I shall be, I am His and He is mine. I am His and He is mine. Scripture: Song of Solomon 2:16 Used With Tune: EVERLASTING LOVE