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Spirit Divine, Attend Our Prayers

Author: Andrew Reed Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 393 hymnals Scripture: Genesis 1:2-4 Lyrics: 1 Spirit divine, attend our prayers, and make this house your home. Descend with all your gracious powers. O come, great Spirit, come! 2 Come as the light. To us reveal our emptiness and woe. And lead us in those paths of life where all the righteous go. 3 Come as the fire and purge our hearts like sacrificial flame. Let our whole soul an offering be to our Redeemer's name. 4 Come as the dove and spread your wings, the wings of peaceful love. And let the church on earth become blest as the church above. 5 Spirit divine, attend our prayers. Make a lost world your home. Descend with all your gracious powers. O come, great Spirit, come! Topics: The Church; Gathering; Kingdom of God; Light; Redemption Used With Tune: NUN DANKET ALL’ UND BRINGET EHR’

Begin, my tongue, some heavenly theme

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 299 hymnals Scripture: Genesis 1:6-8 Lyrics: 1 Begin, my soul, some heavenly theme, awake, my voice, and sing the mighty works, or mightier name, Of our eternal King. 2 Tell of his wondrous faithfulness, And sound his power abroad; sing the sweet promise of his grace, the quickening word of God. 3 Engraved as in eternal brass, the mighty promise shines; nor can the powers of darkness rase those everlasting lines. 4 His every word of grace is strong, as that which built the skies; the voice that rolls the stars along speaks all the promises. 5 Now shall my fainting heart rejoice to know thy favour sure: I trust the all-creating voice, and faith desires no more. Used With Tune: ST MAGNUS

This is the day of light

Author: J. Ellerton (1826-1893) Appears in 280 hymnals Scripture: Genesis 1:3 Lyrics: 1 This is the day of light — let there be light today! Arise, O Christ, to end our night and chase its gloom away. 2 This is the day of rest — our inner strength renew; on lives by many cares oppressed send your freshening dew. 3 This is the day of peace — with peace our spirits fill; bid all the blasts of discord cease, the waves of strife be still. 4 This is the day of prayer - let earth to heaven draw near! Lift up our hearts to seek you there; come down to meet us here. 5 This is the first of days: come with your living breath and wake dead souls to love and praise, O Victor over death! Topics: God's Church The Lord's Day; Easter The Resurrection of Christ; Easter 1 The Upper Room; Pentecost 5 The New Law Used With Tune: DOMINICA

Praise ye the Lord! 'Tis good to raise

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Appears in 222 hymnals Scripture: Genesis 1:6-28 Topics: The Glory of God In Creation and Providence Used With Tune: JUSTIFICATION

Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise

Author: Walter Chalmers Smith, 1824-1908 Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 211 hymnals Scripture: Genesis 1:26-28 Lyrics: 1 Immortal, invisible, God only wise, in light inaccessible hid from our eyes, most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days, almighty, victorious, thy great name we praise. 2 Unresting, unhasting, and silent as light, nor wanting, nor wasting, thou rulest in might; thy justice like mountains high soaring above thy clouds, which are fountains of goodness and love. 3 To all life thou givest, to both great and small; in all life thou livest, the true life of all; we blossom and flourish as leaves on the tree, and wither and perish but naught changeth thee. 4 Great Father of glory, pure Father of light, thine angels adore thee, all veiling their sight; all praise we would render, O help us to see 'tis only the splendor of light hideth thee. Used With Tune: ST. DENIO

Another Year Is Dawning

Author: Frances R. Havergal Meter: 13.13.13.13 Appears in 177 hymnals Scripture: Genesis 1:14 First Line: Another year is dawning, dear Father, let it be Lyrics: 1 Another year is dawning, dear Father, let it be In working or in waiting, another year with Thee; Another year of progress, another year of praise, Another year of proving Thy presence all the days. 2 Another year of mercies, of faithfulness and grace, Another year of gladness in the shining of Thy face; Another year of leaning upon Thy loving breast; Another year of trusting, of quiet, happy rest. 3 Another year of service, of witness for Thy love, Another year of training for holier work above; Another year is dawning, dear Father, let it be On earth, or else in Heaven, another year for Thee. Used With Tune: AURELIA Text Sources: Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Another_Year_Is_Dawning); The Cyber Hymnal (http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/a/n/anothery.htm)

Come Away to the Skies

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 6.6.9.6.6.9 Appears in 173 hymnals Scripture: Genesis 1:26-31 Lyrics: 1 Come away to the skies, my belovèd, arise And rejoice in the day thou wast born; On this festival day, come exulting away, And with singing to Zion return. 2 For thy glory we were first created to share, Both the nature and kingdom divine, Now created again that our lives may remain Throughout time and eternity Thine. 3 We with thanks do approve the design Of that love that hath joined us to Jesus’ Name; Now united in heart, let us never more part, Till we meet at the feast of the Lamb. 4 Hallelujah! we sing to our Father and King, And our rapturous praises repeat: To the Lamb that was slain, Hallelujah again! Sing all Heaven and fall at His feet! Topics: Burial; Christian Hope; Easter, Vigil of; Holy Week, The Three Days Used With Tune: MIDDLEBURY

In Nature

Author: Anne Steele Appears in 139 hymnals Scripture: Genesis 1:1 First Line: Lord, when my raptured thought surveys Lyrics: 1 Lord, when my raptured thought surveys Creation's beauties o'er, All nature joins to teach thy praise, And bid my soul adore. 2 Where'er I turn my gazing eyes, Thy radiant footsteps shine; Ten thousand pleasing wonders rise, And speak their source divine. 3 On me thy providence has shone With gentle smiling rays; Oh, let my lips and life make known Thy goodness and thy praise. 4 All-bounteous Lord, thy grace impart! Oh, teach me to improve Thy gifts with humble, grateful heart, And crown them with thy love. Topics: God: The Father Used With Tune: NOEL

Sing to the Lord of Harvest

Author: John S. B. Monsell Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 121 hymnals Scripture: Genesis 1 First Line: Sing to the Lord of harvest Lyrics: 1 Sing to the Lord of harvest, sing songs of love and praise; with joyful hearts and voices your allelujahs raise. By him the rolling seasons in fruitful order move; sing to the Lord of harvest a joyous song of love. 2 God makes the clouds drop fatness, the deserts bloom and spring; the hills leap up in gladness, the valleys laugh and sing. God fills from his great fullness all things with large increase; he crowns the year with goodness, with plenty, and with peace. 3 Heap on his sacred altar the gifts his goodness gave, the golden sheaves of harvest, the souls Christ died to save. Your hearts lay down before him when at his feet you fall, and with your lives adore him who gave his life for all. Topics: Occasional Services New Year; Occasional Services Thanksgiving/Harvest; Time Used With Tune: WIE LIEBLICH IST DER MAIEN

God is a name my soul adores

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 82 hymnals Scripture: Genesis 1:9-10 Lyrics: 1 God is a name my soul adores, the almighty Three, the eternal One; nature and grace with all their powers confess the infinite unknown. 2 Thy voice produced the sea and spheres, bade the waves roar, the planets shine; but nothing like thyself appears through all these spacious works of thine. 3 Still restless nature dies and grows; from change to change the creatures run: thy being no succession knows, and all thy vast designs are one. 4 A glance of thine runs through the globe. rules the bright worlds and moves their frame; of light thou form'st thy dazzling robe. thy ministers are living flame. 5 How shall polluted mortals dare to sing thy glory or thy grace? Beneath thy feet we lie afar, and see but shadows of thy face. 6 Who can behold the blazing light? Who can approach consuming flame? None but thy wisdom knows thy might, none but thy word can speak thy name. Topics: Creation Used With Tune: BRESLAU