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Invocation
Author: Charles Wesley Appears in 143 hymnals Topics: Darkness Spiritual First Line: Light of life, seraphic Fire Lyrics: 1 Light of life, seraphic Fire,
Love divine, thyself impart;
Every fainting soul inspire;
Enter every drooping heart;
Every mournful sinner cheer;
Scatter all our guilty gloom;
Father! in thy grace appear,
To thy human temples come.
2 Come, in this accepted hour,
Bring thy heavenly kingdom in;
Fill us with thy glorious power,
Set us free from all our sin:
Nothing more can we require,
We will covet nothing less;
Be thou all our heart's desire,
All our joy, and all our peace. Used With Tune: SABBATH
Invocation
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
Author: Horatius Bonar Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 1,237 hymnals Topics: Darkness Lyrics: 1 I heard the voice of Jesus say,
"Come unto me and rest;
Lay down, thou weary one,
Lay down Thy head upon my breast."
I came to Jesus as I was,
Weary, and worn, and sad;
I found in him a resting-place,
And he has made me glad.
2 I heard the voice of Jesus say,
"Behold, I freely give
The living water; thirsty one,
Stoop down and drink, and live."
I came to Jesus, and I drank
Of that life-giving stream;
My thirst was quenched, my soul revived,
And now I live in him.
3 I heard the voice of Jesus say,
"I am this dark world's light;
Look unto me, thy morn shall rise,
And all thy day be bright."
I looked to Jesus, and I found
In him my Star, my Sun;
And in that light of life I'll walk
Till traveling days are done. Scripture: Matthew 11:29 Used With Tune: THIRD MODE
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
Jesus Our Only Hope
Appears in 28 hymnals Topics: Darkness, Spiritual First Line: To God my earnest voice I raise Scripture: Psalm 142:1-4 Used With Tune: [To God my earnest voice I raise]
Jesus Our Only Hope
The Load of Sin
Author: Anne Steele Appears in 233 hymnals Topics: Darkness Spiritual First Line: How helpless guilty nature lies Lyrics: 1 How helpless guilty nature lies,
Unconscious of its load!
The heart, unchanged, can never rise
To happiness and God.
2 Can aught, beneath a power divine,
The stubborn will subdue?
'Tis thine, almighty Spirit! thine,
To form the heart anew.
3 'Tis thine, the passions to recall,
And upward bid them rise;
To make the scales of error fall
From reason's darkened eyes;--
4 To chase the shades of death away,
And bid the sinner live;
A beam of heaven, a vital ray,
'Tis thine alone to give.
5 Oh, change these wretched hearts of ours,
And give them life divine;
Then shall our passions and our powers,
Almighty Lord! be thine. Scripture: Ezekiel 11:19 Used With Tune: BALERMA
The Load of Sin
Let There be Light
Author: William M. Vories Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 78 hymnals Topics: Darkness and Light First Line: Let there be light, O God of hosts! Lyrics: 1 Let there be light, O God of hosts!
Let there be wisdom on the earth!
Let broad humanity have birth!
Let there be deeds instead of boasts.
2 Within our passioned hearts instill
the calm that endeth strain and strife.
Make us your ministers of life.
Drive out the urge to curse and kill.
3 Give us the peace of vision clear
to see each other’s good, our own,
to joy and suffer not alone:
the love that casts aside all fear.
4 Let woe and waste of warfare cease,
that useful labor yet may build
its homes with love and laughter filled!
God, give your wayward children peace! Scripture: Psalm 43:3 Used With Tune: MISSIONARY CHANT Text Sources: Advocate of Peace, 1909, alt.
Let There be Light
Now, on Land and Sea Descending
Author: Samuel Longfellow Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.6.8.7 Appears in 123 hymnals Topics: Darkness and Light Lyrics: 1 Now, on land and sea descending,
brings the night its peace profound.
Let our vesper hymn be blending
with the holy calm around.
Jubilate! Jubilate!
Jubilate! Amen!
Let our vesper hymn be blending
with the holy calm around.
2 Soon as dies the sunset glory,
stars of heav’n shine out above,
telling still the ancient story
their Creator’s endless love.
Jubilate! Jubilate!
Jubilate! Amen!
Telling still the ancient story
their Creator’s changeless love.
3 Now, our wants and burdens leaving
to our God who cares for all,
cease we fearing, cease we grieving;
touched by God our burdens fall.
Jubilate! Jubilate!
Jubilate! Amen!
Cease we fearing, cease we grieving;
touched by God our burdens fall.
4 As the darkness deepens o’er us,
lo! Eternal stars arise.
Hope and faith and love rise glorious,
shining in the Spirit’s skies.
Jubilate! Jubilate!
Jubilate! Amen!
Hope and faith and love rise glorious,
shining in the Spirit’s skies. Scripture: Psalm 19:1-6 Used With Tune: VESPER HYMN Text Sources: Vespers, 1859
Now, on Land and Sea Descending
Oh, How Shall I Receive Thee
Author: Paul Gerhardt; Arthur T. Russell Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 95 hymnals Topics: Darkness and Light Lyrics: 1 Oh, how shall I receive thee,
how meet thee on thy way,
bless’d hope of ev’ry nation,
my soul’s delight and stay?
O Jesus, Jesus, give me
now by thine own pure light
to know whate’er is pleasing
and welcome in thy sight.
2 Love caused thine incarnation;
Love brought thee here to me.
Thy thirst for my salvation
procured my liberty.
Oh, love beyond all telling,
that led thee to embrace,
in love, all love excelling,
our troubled human race.
3 Thou comest, Christ, with gladness,
in mercy and goodwill,
to bring an end to sadness
and bid our fears be still.
We welcome thee, our Savior;
come gather us to thee,
that in thy light eternal
our joyous home may be. Scripture: Luke 1:68-79 Used With Tune: ST. THEODULPH (VALET WILL ICH DIR GEBEN) Text Sources: “Wie soll ich dich empfangen,” Praxis Pietatis Melica, 1653; trans. Arthur T. Russell (England), Psalms and Hymns, 1851, alt.
Oh, How Shall I Receive Thee
Our salvation near
Author: A. M. Toplady Appears in 356 hymnals Topics: Darkness Spiritual First Line: Your harps, ye trembling saints Lyrics: 1 Your harps, ye trembling saints,
Down from the willows take:
Loud to the praise of love divine
Bid every string awake.
2 Though in a foreign land,
We are not far from home;
And nearer to our house above
We every moment come.
3 His grace will to the end
Stronger and brighter shine;
Nor present things, nor things to come,
Shall quench the spark divine.
4 When we in darkness walk,
Nor feel the heavenly flame,
Then is the time to trust our God,
And rest upon his name.
5 Soon shall our doubts and fears
Subside at his control;
His loving-kindness shall break through
The midnight of the soul.
6 Blest is the man, O God,
Who stays himself on thee;
Who waits for thy salvation, Lord,
Shall thy salvation see. Scripture: Psalm 63:3 Used With Tune: ALEXANDER
Our salvation near
God, who madest earth and heaven
Author: Bp. R. Heber, 1783-1826; Archbp. R. Whately, 1787-1863 Appears in 476 hymnals Topics: Darkness Natural Lyrics: 1 God, who madest earth and heaven,
Darkness and light;
Who the day for toil has given,
For rest the night;
May Thine angel-guards defend us,
Slumber sweet Thy mercy send us,
Holy dreams and hopes attend us,
This livelong night.
2 Guard us waking, guard us sleeping;
And, when we die,
May we, in Thy mighty keeping,
All peaceful lie.
When the last dread call shall wake us,
Do not Thou, O God, forsake us;
But to reign in glory take us
With Thee on high. Used With Tune: NUTFIELD
God, who madest earth and heaven
See Whose Glory Fills the Skies
Author: Charles Wesley; George D. Elderkin Meter: 7.7.7.7 with refrain Appears in 483 hymnals Topics: Darkness and Light Refrain First Line: We’ll walk in the light! Lyrics: 1 See whose glory fills the skies:
Jesus, the light of the world!
Sun of righteousness, arise:
Jesus, the light of the world!
Refrain:
We'll walk in the light!
Beautiful light!
Shine where the dewdrops of mercy shine bright.
Oh, shine all around us by day and by night,
Jesus, the light of the world.
2 Pierce the gloom of sin and grief,
Jesus, the light of the world!
Scatter all my unbelief,
Jesus, the light of the world! [Refrain]
3 More and more thyself display,
Jesus, the light of the world!
Shining to the perfect day,
Jesus, the light of the world! [Refrain]
4 Visit, then, this soul of mine,
Jesus, light of the world!
Fill me, Radiancy divine!
Jesus, the light of the world! [Refrain] Scripture: Isaiah 60:1-3 Used With Tune: WE’LL WALK IN THE LIGHT Text Sources: Adapt. from Charles Wesley (England), “Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies,” Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740
See Whose Glory Fills the Skies
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