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Praise to the Lord

Author: Joachim Neander; Catherine Winkworth Appears in 396 hymnals Topics: Presentation of Offerings First Line: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation Lyrics: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation. Used With Tune: [Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation]

Take My Gifts

Author: Shirley Erena Murray Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: The Church at Worship Offering; God's Church The Church at Worship: Offering; Offering First Line: Take my gifts and let me love you Lyrics: 1 Take my gifts and let me love you, God who first of all loved me, gave me light and food and shelter, gave me life and set me free, now because your love has touched me, I have love to give away; now the bread of love is rising, loaves of love to multiply! 2 Take the fruit that I have gathered from the tree your Spirit sowed, harvest of your own compassion, juice that makes the wine of God; spiced with humor, laced with laughter-- flavor of the Jesus life, tang of risk and new adventure, taste and zest beyond belief. 3 Take whatever I can offer-- gifts that I have yet to find, skills that I am slow to sharpen, talents of the hand and mind, things made beautiful for others in the place where I must be: take my gifts and let me love you, God who first of all loved me. Used With Tune: TALAVERA TERRACE

Living for Jesus

Author: Thomas O. Chisholm Meter: 10.10.10.10 with refrain Appears in 156 hymnals Topics: Dedication and Offering; Offering First Line: Living for Jesus a life that is true Refrain First Line: O Jesus, Lord and Savior Lyrics: 1 Living for Jesus a life that is true, striving to please him in all that I do, yielding allegiance glad hearted and free this is the pathway of blessing for me. Refrain (may be sung after stanza 3 only): O Jesus, Lord and Savior, I give myself to you, for you in your atonement did give yourself for me. I own no other master my heart shall be your throne: my life I give, henceforth to live, O Christ, for you alone. 2 Living for Jesus, who died in my place, bearing on Calvary my sin and disgrace: such love constrains me to answer his call, follow his leading, and give him my all. Refrain 3 Living for Jesus wherever I am, doing each duty in his holy name, seeking the lost ones he died to redeem, bringing the weary to find rest in him. Refrain Used With Tune: LIVING FOR JESUS

Brightest and Best

Author: Reginald Hebee Meter: 11.10.11.10 D Appears in 920 hymnals Topics: Offering First Line: Brightest and best of the stars of the morning Lyrics: 1 Brightest and best of the stars of the morning, dawn on our pathway, and lend us your aid. Star of the east, the horizon adorning, guide where our infant Redeemer is laid. 2 Shall we give Jesus our costly devotion, fragrance of Edom, and off'rings divine, gems of the mountain, and pearls of the ocean, myrrh from the forest, or gold from the mine? 3 Vainly we offer each ample oblation, vainly with gifts Jesus' favor secure. Richer by far is the heart’s adoration. Dearer to God are the gifts of the poor. 4 Brightest and best of the stars of the morning, dawn on our pathway, and lend us your aid. Star of the east, the horizon adorning, guide where our infant Redeemer is laid. Used With Tune: STAR IN THE EAST

When I survey the wondrous cross

Author: Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2,042 hymnals Topics: Offering of self Lyrics: 1 When I survey the wondrous cross where the young Prince of Glory died, my richest gain I count but loss, and pour contempt on all my pride. 2 Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: all the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood. 3 See, from his head, his hands, his feet, sorrow and love flow mingled down; did e’er such love and sorrow meet, or thorns compose so rich a crown? 4 Were the whole realm of nature mine, that were an offering far too small; love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all. Scripture: Galatians 6:14 Used With Tune: ROCKINGHAM (COMMUNION)

Take My Life

Author: Frances Ridley Havergal Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 1,241 hymnals Topics: Offering First Line: Take my life and let it be Lyrics: 1 Take my life and let it be consecrated, Lord, to thee; take my moments and my days; let them flow in ceaseless praise; let them flow in ceaseless praise. 2 Take my hands and let them move at the impulse of thy love; take my feet and let them be swift and beautiful for thee, swift and beautiful for thee. 3 Take my voice and let me sing always, only, for my King; take my lips and let them be filled with messages from thee, filled with messages from thee. 4 Take my silver and my gold; not a mite would I withhold; take my intellect and use every power as thou shalt choose, every power as thou shalt choose. 5 Take my will and make it thine; it shall be no longer mine. Take my heart, it is thine own; it shall be thy royal throne, it shall be thy royal throne. 6 Take my love; my Lord, I pour at thy feet its treasure store; take myself and I will be ever, only, all for thee, ever, only, all for thee. Scripture: Numbers 6:1-12 Used With Tune: HENDON

All for Jesus, all for Jesus!

Author: W. J. Sparrow-Simpson (1859-1852) Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 32 hymnals Topics: Pentecost 18 The Offering of Life Used With Tune: ALL FOR JESUS

What Does the Lord Require for Praise

Author: Albert F. Bayly Meter: 6.6.6.6.6.6 Appears in 31 hymnals Topics: Offering First Line: What does the Lord require Scripture: Micah 6:6-8 Used With Tune: BISHOP TUCKER

Lord, it belongs not to my care

Author: Richard Baxter (1615-1691) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 264 hymnals Topics: Self-offering Lyrics: 1 Lord, it belongs not to my care whether I die or live: to love and serve thee is my share, and this thy grace must give. 2 Christ leads me through no darker rooms than he went through before; he that into God's kingdom comes must enter by this door. 3 Come, Lord, when grace hath made me meet thy blessed face to see; for if thy work on earth be sweet, what will thy glory be! 4 Then shall I end my sad complaints and weary, sinful days, and join with the triumphant saints that sing my Saviour's praise. 5 My knowledge of that life is small, the eye of faith is dim; but 'tis enough that Christ knows all, and I shall be with him. Scripture: John 14:6 Used With Tune: ST HUGH

What shall we offer our good Lord

Author: August Gottlieb Spangenberg, 1704-92; John Wesley, 1703-91 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 14 hymnals Topics: Worship The Offering Lyrics: 1 What shall we offer our good Lord, poor nothings, for his boundless grace? Fain would we his great name record and worthily set forth his praise. 2 Great object of our growing love, to whom our more than all we owe, open the fountain from above, and let it our full souls o’erflow. 3 So shall our lives thy power proclaim, thy grace for every sinner free, till all the world shall learn thy name, shall all stretch out their hands to thee. 4 Open a door which earth and hell may strive to shut, but strive in vain; let thy word richly in us dwell, and let our gracious fruit remain. 5 O multiply the sower’s seed! and fruit we every hour shall bear, throughout the world thy gospel spread, thy everlasting truth declare. Scripture: 1 Peter 1:22-25 Used With Tune: DUKE STREET