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Spirit Divine, Attend Our Prayers

Author: Andrew Reed Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 399 hymnals Topics: Holy Spirit Praise and Invocation; Christian Year Pentecost; God House, Home; Holy Spirit; Holy Spirit Illumination; Holy Spirit Presence; Holy Spirit Work; Light; Petition; Prayer; Sacrifice; Lent 5 Year A; Pentecost Year A; Epiphany 2 Year B; Epiphany 7 Year B; Pentecost Year B; Proper 15 Year B; Proper 21 Year B; Pentecost Year C 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 wind: sweep clean away what dead within us lies, and search and freshen all our souls with living energies. 4 Come as the fire and purge our hearts like sacrificial flame; let our whole soul an offering be to our Redeemer's name. 5 Spirit divine, attend our prayers; make a lost world your home; descend with all your gracious powers, O come, great Spirit, come! Used With Tune: GRÄFENBURG

Stand up, stand up for Jesus

Author: G. Duffield (1818-1888) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 1,846 hymnals Topics: God's Church Conflict and Endurance; Lent 2, The King and the Kingdom Conflict; Pentecost 9 The Whole Armour of God; Pentecost 13 The Suffering Community; Pentecost 20 Endurance Scripture: 1 Corinthians 16:13 Used With Tune: MORNING LIGHT

Lord, you can make our spirits shine

Author: J. Armstrong (1813-1856) Appears in 46 hymnals Topics: Pentecost 2 The People of God Used With Tune: ST. LAURENCE

Lord your word shall guide us

Author: H. W. Baker (1821-1877) Meter: 6.6.6.6 Appears in 209 hymnals Topics: Advent 2 The Word of God in the Old Testament; Epiphany 6, Revelation Parables; God, Spirit Word of Truth, the Scriptures; Pentecost 22 The Two Ways Used With Tune: RAVENSHAW

Light of the minds that know him

Author: Augustine (354-430); Timothy Dudley-Smith (born 1926) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 11 hymnals Topics: Easter The Resurrection of Christ; Easter 2 The Emmaus Road; God's Church Love and Devotion; Pentecost 7 The More Excellent Way Lyrics: 1 Light of the minds that know him, may Christ be light to mine! my sun in risen splendour, my light of truth divine; my guide in doubt and darkness, my true and living way, my clear light ever shining, my dawn of heaven's day. 2 Life of the souls that love him, may Christ be ours indeed! the living bread from heaven on whom our spirits feed; who died for love of sinners to bear our guilty load, and make of life's brief journey a new Emmaus road. 3 Strength of the wills that serve him, may Christ be strength to me, who stilled the storm and tempest, who calmed the tossing sea; his Spirit's power to move me, his will to master mine, his cross to carry daily and conquer in his sign. 4 May it be ours to know him that we may truly love, and loving, fully serve him as serve the saints above; till in that home of glory with fadeless splendour bright, we serve in perfect freedom our strength, our life, our light. Used With Tune: AURELIA

O Worship the King

Author: Robert Grant Meter: 10.10.11.11 Appears in 1,180 hymnals Topics: God Praise and Thanksgiving; Adoration and Praise; Adoration and Praise; God Creator; God Eternity and Power; God Glory; God Images; God Kingdom, Majesty, Realm; God Majesty; God Mercy; God Name; God Power/Might; God Protection; Harvest; Heaven(s)/Paradise; Jesus Christ Friend; Jesus Christ Kingship, Conqueror; Light; Nature; Opening Hymns; Processionals (Opening of Worship); Providence; Testimony; Trust; Trust; Worship; Christmas 2 Year A; Lent 1 Year A; Pentecost Year A; Proper 17 Year A; Thanksgiving Year A; Christmas 2 Year B; Pentecost Year B; Trinity Sunday Year C; Proper 6 Year C; Proper 19 Year C; Thanksgiving Year C First Line: O worship the King, all glorious above Lyrics: 1 O worship the King all glorious above, O gratefully sing God's power and God's love; our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of Days, pavilioned in splendour and girded with praise. 2 O tell of God's might! O sing of God's grace, whose robe is the light; whose canopy space; whose chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form, and broad is God's path on the wings of the storm. 3 The earth with its store of wonders untold, Almighty, your power has founded of old; has stablished it fast by a changeless decree, and round it has cast, like a mantle, the sea. 4 Your bountiful care what tongue can recite? It breathes in the air, it shines in the light; it streams from the hills, it descends to the plain, and sweetly distills in the dew and the rain. 5 Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail, in you do we trust, nor find you to fail; your mercies how tender, how firm to the end, our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend. Used With Tune: HANOVER

Yours for ever! God of love

Author: Mary F. Maude (1819-1913) Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 353 hymnals Topics: God's Church Commitment and Character; Easter 2 The Good Shepherd; Easter 4 The Way, the Truth, and the Life; Pentecost 18 The Offering of Life; Pentecost 20 Endurance Used With Tune: NEWINGTON

Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 1,907 hymnals Topics: Jesus Christ Praise and Thanksgiving; Adoration and Praise; Christian Perfecction; Christian Year Advent; Compassion; Consummation; Conversion; Creation; Freedom; Funeral Vigil; Funerals and Memorial Services; God Adoration and Praise; God Love; God Presence; Heaven(s)/Paradise; Installation Services; Jesus Christ Adoration and Praise; Jesus Christ Love of; Jesus Christ Praise; Jesus Christ Presence; Jesus Christ Saviour; Jesus Christ Second Coming; Joy; Life; Love; Mercy; New Creation; Petition; Processionals (Opening of Worship); Purity; Recessionals; Salvation; Second Coming; Service Music Following Lord's Supper; Supplication; Surrender; Union With God/Christ; Weddings; Worship; Advent 2 Year A; Christmas 1 Year A; Lent 2 Year A; Easter 6 Year A; Proper 9 Year A; Proper 11 Year A; Proper 13 Year A; Proper 18 Year A; Reign of Christ Year A; Epiphany 6 Year B; Lent 4 Year B; Holy Thursday Year B; Easter 5 Year B; Easter 6 Year B; Proper 6 Year B; Proper 7 Year B; Proper 11 Year B; Proper 16 Year B; Proper 27 Year B; Reign of Christ Year B; Advent 2 Year C; Epiphany 3 Year C; Epiphany 9 Year C; Epiphany Last/Transfig. Year C; Lent 4 Year C; Easter 5 Year C; Pentecost Year C; Proper 5 Year C; Proper 6 Year C; Ash Wednesday Year ABC Lyrics: 1 Love divine, all loves excelling, joy of heaven, to earth come down, fix in us thy humble dwelling, all thy faithful mercies crown. Jesus, thou art all compassion, pure, unbounded love thou art; visit us with thy salvation, enter every trembling heart. 2 Come, almighty to deliver, let us all thy life receive; suddenly return, and never, nevermore thy temples leave. Thee we would be always blessing, serve thee as thy hosts above, pray, and praise thee, without ceasing, glory in thy perfect love. 3 Finish then thy new creation; pure and spotless let us be; let us see thy great salvation perfectly restored in thee, changed from glory into glory, till in heaven we take our place, till we cast our crowns before thee, lost in wonder, love, and praise. Used With Tune: HYFRYDOL

'Take up your cross,' the Saviour said

Author: C. W. Everest (1814-1877) Appears in 302 hymnals Topics: God, Saviour Growing, Teaching, Serving; Epiphany 2, Revelation The First Disciples; Lent 2, The King and the Kingdom Conflict; Lent 3, The King and the Kingdom Suffering; Lent 5, The King and the Kingdom The Victory of the Cross; Easter 4 The Charge to Peter; Pentecost 18 The Offering of Life Lyrics: 1 'Take up your cross,' the Saviour said, 'if you would my disciple be; deny yourself, forsake the world, and humbly follow after me.' 2 Take up your cross — let not its weight fill your weak soul with vain alarm; his strength shall bear your spirit up, and brace your heart, and nerve your arm. 3 Take up your cross, nor heed the shame, nor let your foolish pride rebel; the Lord for you the cross endured to save your soul from death and hell. 4 Take up your cross, then, in his strength, and calmly every danger brave; he guides us to a better home, and leads to conquest of the grave. 5 Take up your cross and follow Christ, nor think till death to lay it down; for only they who bear the cross may hope to win the glorious crown. Scripture: Mark 8:34 Used With Tune: BRESLAU

Help us, O Lord, to learn

Author: William Reid, junior (born 1923) Appears in 21 hymnals Topics: Pentecost 2 The Church's Unity and Fellowship Lyrics: 1 Help us, O Lord, to learn the truths your word imparts, to study that your laws may be inscribed upon our hearts. 2 Help us, O Lord, to live the faith which we proclaim, that all our thoughts and words and deeds may glorify your name. 3 Help us, O Lord, to teach the beauty of your ways, that yearning souls may find the Christ and sing aloud his praise. Used With Tune: SANDYS