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There's a Wideness in God's Mercy
Author: Frederick W. Faber, 1814-1863 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 902 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:18-39 Lyrics: 1 There’s a wideness in God’s mercy
Like the wideness of the sea;
There’s a kindness in God's justice
Which is more than liberty.
There is plentiful redemption
In the blood that has been shed;
There is joy for all the members
In the sorrows of the Head.
2 For the love of God is broader
Than the measures of our mind,
And the heart of the Eternal
Is most wonderfully kind.
If our love were but more simple
We should take him at his word,
And our lives would be thanksgiving
For the goodness of our Lord.
3 Troubled souls, why will you scatter
Like a crowd of frightened sheep?
Foolish hearts, why will you wander
From a love so true and deep?
There is welcome for the sinner
And more graces for the good;
There is mercy with the Savior,
There is healing in his blood.
Used With Tune: IN BABILONE
There's a Wideness in God's Mercy
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire
Author: James Montgomery (1771-1854) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 850 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:26-28 Lyrics: 1 Prayer is the soul's sincere desire,
unuttered or expressed,
the motion of a hidden fire
that trembles in the breast.
2 Prayer is the burden of a sigh,
the falling of a tear,
the upward glancing of an eye
when none but God is near.
3 Prayer is the simplest form of speech
that infant lips can try;
prayer the sublimest strains that reach
the Majesty on high.
4 Prayer is the Christian's vital breath,
the Christian's native air,
their watchword at the gates of death,
they enter heaven with prayer.
5 Prayer is not made by us alone:
the Holy Spirit pleads,
and Jesus, on the eternal throne,
for sinners intercedes.
6 O Christ, by whom we come to God,
the Life, the Truth, the Way,
the path of prayer yourself have trod,
Lord, teach us how to pray. Topics: Life in Christ Our Response to Christ - In Devotion; Prayer Used With Tune: COLESHILL
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire
Spirit of God, Who Dwells within My Heart
Author: George Croly Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 341 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:26 Lyrics: 1 Spirit of God, who dwells within my heart,
wean it from sin, through all its pulses move.
Stoop to my weakness, mighty as you are,
and make me love you as I ought to love.
2 I ask no dream, no prophet ecstasies,
no sudden rending of the veil of clay,
no angel visitant, no opening skies;
but take the dimness of my soul away.
3 Did you not bid us love you, God and King,
love you with all our heart and strength and mind?
I see the cross– there teach my heart to cling.
O let me seek you and O let me find!
4 Teach me to feel that you are always nigh;
teach me the struggles of the soul to bear,
to check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh;
teach me the patience of unceasing prayer.
5 Teach me to love you as your angels love,
one holy passion filling all my frame:
the fullness of the heaven-descended Dove;
my heart an altar, and your love the flame.
Topics: Love Our Love to God; Pentecost and Holy Spirit; Holy Spirit; Love Our Love to God; Pilgrimage & Conflct Used With Tune: MORECAMBE
Spirit of God, Who Dwells within My Heart
Christ is Coming! Let Creation
Author: John R. MacDuff Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.7 Appears in 117 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:22 Lyrics: 1 Christ is coming! Let creation bid her groans and travail cease;
let the glorious proclamation hope restore and faith increase;
Christ is coming! Christ is coming!
Come, O blessèd Prince of Peace! (Prince of Peace!)
Come, O blessèd Prince of Peace!
2 We can now but tell the story of your bitter cross and pain;
we shall yet behold your glory in your coming back to reign;
Christ is coming! Christ is coming!
Let each heart repeat the strain. )sing the strain.)
Let each heart repeat the strain.
3 With that "blessèd hope" before us, let no harp remain unstrung;
let the mighty advent chorus onward roll from tongue to tongue:
Christ is coming! Christ is coming!
Come, Lord Jesus, quickly come! (quickly come!)
Come, Lord Jesus, quickly come!
Topics: Believing Faith; Hope; Jesus Christ Exaltation; Jesus Christ Names; Jesus Christ Passion; Jesus Christ Reign; Jesus Christ Return (Coming in Glory) Used With Tune: CWM RHONDDA
Christ is Coming! Let Creation
For Your Gift of God the Spirit
Author: Margaret Clarkson Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 10 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:26 Lyrics: 1 For your gift of God the Spirit,
power to make our lives anew,
pledge of life and hope of glory,
Savior, we would worship you.
Crowning gift of resurrection
sent from your ascended throne,
fullness of the very Godhead,
come to make your life our own.
2 He who in creation's dawning
brooded on the lifeless deep,
still across our nature's darkness
moves to wake our souls from sleep,
moves to stir, to draw, to quicken,
thrusts us through with sense of sin;
brings to birth and seals and fills us
saving Advocate within.
3 He, himself the living Author,
wakes to life the sacred Word,
reads with us its holy pages
and reveals our risen Lord.
He it is who works within us,
teaching rebel hearts to pray,
he whose holy intercessions
rise for us both night and day.
4 He, the mighty God, indwells us;
his to strengthen, help, empower;
his to overcome the tempter
ours to call in danger's hour.
In his strength we dare to battle
all the raging hosts of sin,
and by him alone we conquer
foes without and foes within.
5 Father, grant your Holy Spirit
in our hearts may rule today,
grieved not, quenched not, but unhindered,
work in us his sovereign way.
Fill us with your holy fullness,
God the Father, Spirit, Son;
in us, through us, then, forever,
shall your perfect will be done.
Topics: Intercession of Christ; Illumination; Temptation & Trial; Will of God; Pentecost and Holy Spirit; Church; Creation; Holy Spirit; Illumination; Intercession of Christ; Temptation & Trial; Will of God; Word of God Used With Tune: BLAENWERN
For Your Gift of God the Spirit
Spirit Divine, Inspire Our Prayer
Author: Andrew Reed Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 394 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:26 Lyrics: 1 Spirit divine, inspire our prayer
and make our hearts your home;
descend with all your gracious power;
come, Holy Spirit, come!
2 Come as the light; reveal our need,
our hidden failings show,
and lead us in those paths of life
whereon the righteous go.
3 Come as the fire and cleanse our hearts
with purifying flame;
let our whole life an offering be
to our Redeemer's name.
4 Come as the dove and spread your wings,
the wings of peace and love,
until your church on earth below
joins with your church above.
Topics: Illumination; Pentecost and Holy Spirit; Holy Spirit; Illumination; Pentecost; Prayer; Sanctification Used With Tune: GRÄFENBERG
Spirit Divine, Inspire Our Prayer
"Comforter Divine!"
Author: George Rawson Appears in 85 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:26 First Line: Holy Ghost, the Infinite! Lyrics: 1 Holy Ghost, the Infinite!
Shine upon our nature's night
With thy blessed inward light,
Comforter Divine!
2 We are sinful: cleanse us, Lord;
We are faint: thy strength afford;
Lost,--until by thee restored,
Comforter Divine!
3 Like the dew, thy peace distill;
Guide, subdue our wayward will,
Things of Christ unfolding still,
Comforter Divine!
4 In us, for us, intercede,
And with voiceless groanings, plead
Our unutterable need,
Comforter Divine!
5 In us "Abba, Father," cry,--
Earnest of our bliss on high,
Seal of immortality,--
Comforter Divine!
6 Search for us the depths of God;
Bear us up the starry road,
To the height of thine abode,
Comforter Divine! Topics: The Holy Spirit; Abba, Father Used With Tune: TREVES
"Comforter Divine!"
Lord, Bring the Day to Pass
Author: Ian Fraser Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Appears in 10 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:22 Lyrics: 1 Lord, bring the day to pass
when forest, rock and hill,
the beasts, the birds, the grass
will know your finished will:
when we attain our destiny,
and nature its lost unity.
2 Forgive our careless use
of water, ore, and soil--
the plenty we abuse,
supplied by others' toil:
save us from making self our creed:
turn us towards each other's need.
3 Give us, when we release
creation's secret powers,
to harness them for peace,
our children's peace and ours:
teach us the art of mastering
which makes life rich and draws death's sting.
4 Creation groans, travails;
futile its present plight,
bound till the hour it hails
the newfound heirs of light
who enter on their true estate.
Come, Lord! new heav'ns and earth create! Topics: In The Beginning The Earth is the Lord's Used With Tune: CAMANO
Lord, Bring the Day to Pass
Joy to the World! the Lord is Come
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 1,867 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:22 Lyrics: 1 Joy to the world! the Lord is come;
let earth receive her King;
let every heart prepare him room,
and heaven and nature sing,
and heaven and nature sing,
and heaven, and heaven and nature sing.
2 Joy to the earth! the Savior reigns:
let all their songs employ;
while fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains
repeat the sounding joy,
repeat the sounding joy,
repeat, repeat the sounding joy.
3 No more let sins and sorrows grow,
nor thorns infest the ground;
he comes to make his blessings flow
far as the curse is found,
far as the curse is found,
far as, far as the curse is found.
4 He rules the world with truth and grace,
and makes the nations prove
the glories of his righteousness,
and wonders of his love,
and wonders of his love,
and wonders, wonders of his love. Topics: Christmas Season Used With Tune: ANTIOCH
Joy to the World! the Lord is Come
And Can It Be
Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 291 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8 First Line: And can it be that I should gain Refrain First Line: Amazing love! How can it be Lyrics: 1 And can it be that I should gain
an interest in the Savior's blood?
Died he for me, who caused his pain–
for me, who caused his bitter death?
Amazing love! How can it be
that you, my Lord, should die for me?
Refrain:
Amazing love! How can it be
that you, my Lord, should die for me?!
2 He left his Father's throne above–
so free, so infinite his grace–
emptied himself of all but love,
and bled for Adam's helpless race!
What mercy this, immense and free,
for, O my God, it found out me! [Refrain]
3 Long my imprisoned spirit lay
fast bound in sin and nature's night.
Your sunrise turned that night to day;
I woke– the dungeon flamed with light!
My chains fell off, your voice I knew;
I rose, went out, and followed you. [Refrain]
4 No condemnation now I dread,
for Christ, and all in him, is mine!
Alive in him, my living Head,
and clothed in righteousness divine,
bold I approach the eternal throne
and claim the crown, through Christ, my own. [Refrain]
Topics: Biblical Names & Places Adam; Deliverance; Love God's Love to Us; Profession of Faith; Suffering of Christ; Confession and Forgiveness; Assurance; Atonement; Biblical Names & Places Adam; Blood of Christ; Christmas; Confession of Sin; Deliverance; Forgiveness; Freedom; Hope; Love God's Love to Us; Mercy; Profession of Faith; Redemption; Suffering of Christ Used With Tune: SAGINA
And Can It Be
Blessed Jesus, At Your Word
Author: Tobias Clausnitzer, 1619-1684; Catherine Winkworth, 1827-1878 Meter: 7.8.7.8.8.8 Appears in 146 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:18-30 Topics: Gathering of the Community; Jesus Christ, Light; Light; Trust Used With Tune: LIEBSTER JESU
Blessed Jesus, At Your Word
Holy Spirit, hear us
Author: William Henry Parker (1845-1929) Meter: 6.5.6.5 Appears in 67 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:26 Lyrics: 1 Holy Spirit, hear us;
help us while we sing;
breathe into the music
of the praise we bring.
2 Holy Spirit, prompt us
when we try to pray;
nearer come, and teach us
what we ought to say.
3 Holy Spirit, teach us
through the words we read;
bring to life the Bible
with the light we need.
4 Holy Spirit, give us
each a lively mind;
make us more like Jesus,
gentle, pure, and kind.
5 Holy Spirit, help us
daily, by your might,
what is wrong to conquer,
and to choose the right. Topics: Our Response to God in the worship of God's house; The Holy Spirit in the Church Illumination of God's Word; Church Worship; Music and Song; Scripture Used With Tune: GLENFINLAS
Holy Spirit, hear us
Christ is the world's true Light
Author: George Wallace Briggs (1875-1959) Meter: 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6 Appears in 47 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:22 Topics: Life in Christ Christ Risen - Reign and Priesthood; Justice and Peace; Unity of Humanity Used With Tune: RINKART (KOMMT SEELEN)
Christ is the world's true Light
Like the Murmur of the Dove's Song
Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr. Meter: 8.7.8.7.6 Appears in 36 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:26 Topics: Church Nature and Unity; Holy Spirit Comforter; Holy Spirit Power of; Pentecost Day of Used With Tune: BRIDEGROOM
Like the Murmur of the Dove's Song
In the bulb there is a flower
Author: Natalie Allyn Wakeley Sleeth (1930-1992) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 25 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:18-25 Lyrics: 1 In the bulb there is a flower;
in the seed, an apple tree;
in cocoons, a hidden promise:
butterflies will soon be free!
In the cold and snow of winter
there's a spring that waits to be,
unrevealed until its season,
something God alone can see.
2 There's a song in every silence,
seeking word and melody.
There's a dawn in every darkness,
bringing hope to you and me.
From the past will come the future,
what it holds, a mystery,
unrevealed until its season,
something God alone can see.
3 In our end is our beginning;
in our time, infinity;
in our doubt there is believing:
in our life, eternity.
In our death, a resurrection;
at the last, a victory,
unrevealed until its season,
something God alone can see. Topics: The Church Celebrates Death and Grieving; Change; Eternal Life; Funerals general; Spring; Winter Used With Tune: HYMN OF PROMISE
In the bulb there is a flower
Holy Spirit, come, confirm us
Author: William Brian Foley (1919-2000) Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 24 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:26-27 Topics: The Holy Spirit The Church Celebrates - Confirmation; God in Trinity; Holy Spirit gifts of; Holy Spirit name and images for; Renewal Used With Tune: ALL FOR JESUS
Holy Spirit, come, confirm us
Eternal Spirit of the Living Christ
Author: Frank von Christierson, 1900-96 Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 14 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:26-27 Lyrics: 1 Eternal Spirit of the living Christ,
I know not how to ask or what to say;
I only know my need, as deep as life,
And only You can teach me how to pray.
2 Come, pray in me the prayer I need this day;
Help me to see Your purpose and Your will--
Where I have failed, what I have done amiss;
Held in forgiving love, let me be still.
3 Come with the strength I lack, bring vision clear
Of human need; O give me eyes to see
Fulfillment of my life in love outpoured,
My life in You, O Christ; Your love in me.
Used With Tune: FARLEY CASTLE
Eternal Spirit of the Living Christ
Rise Up, O Saints of God!
Author: Norman O. Forness Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 10 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:22 Topics: Social Justice Used With Tune: FESTAL SONG
Rise Up, O Saints of God!
Womb of life, and source of being
Author: Ruth C. Duck (b. 1947) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 10 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:19-25 Topics: The Church Celebrates Family, Friendship, and Marriage; The Being of God Holy and One; God in daily living; God in Trinity; Jesus Word of God Used With Tune: LADUE CHAPEL
Womb of life, and source of being
Blessed Assurance
Author: Fanny J. Crosby Meter: 9.10.9.9 with refrain Appears in 1,067 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8 First Line: Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! Refrain First Line: This is my story Lyrics: 1 Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
O what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
born of his Spirit, washed in his blood.
Refrain:
This is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long.
This is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long.
2 Perfect submission, perfect delight,
visions of rapture now burst on my sight.
Angels descending bring from above
echoes of mercy, whispers of love. [Refrain]
3 Perfect submission, all is at rest,
I in my Savior am happy and blessed,
watching and waiting, looking above,
filled with his goodness, lost in his love. [Refrain] Topics: Trust and Guidance; Assurance; Heart--Surrender of Used With Tune: ASSURANCE
Blessed Assurance
We Are Living, We Are Dwelling
Author: A. Cleveland Coxe Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 203 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:22 Lyrics: 1 We are living, we are dwelling,
In a grand and awful time,
In an age on ages telling;
To be living is sublime.
Hark! the waking up of nations,
Hosts advancing to the fray;
Hark! what soundeth is creation’s
Groaning for the latter day.
2 Will ye play, then? will ye dally
Far behind the battle line?
Up! it is Jehovah’s rally;
God’s own arm hath need of thine.
Worlds are charging, heav'n beholding;
Thou hast but an hour to fight;
Now, the blazoned cross unfolding,
On, right onward for the right!
3 Sworn to yield, to waver, never;
Consecrated, born again;
Sworn to be Christ’s soldiers ever,
On! for Christ at least be men!
On! let all the soul within you
For the truth’s sake go abroad!
Strike! let every nerve and sinew
Tell on ages, tell for God.
Amen.
Topics: Conflict; Faithfulness of the believer; Warfare, Christian Used With Tune: AUSTRIAN HYMN
We Are Living, We Are Dwelling
Come to our poor nature's night
Author: George Rawson Meter: 7.7.7.5 Appears in 71 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:26 Topics: God: His Attributes, Works and Word The Holy Spirit Used With Tune: IRENE
Come to our poor nature's night
Kum Ba Yah
Appears in 38 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:26 First Line: Kum ba yah, my Lord Lyrics: 1 Kum ba yah, my Lord, kum ba yah.
Kum ba yah, my Lord, kum ba yah.
Kum ba yah, my Lord, kum ba yah.
O Lord, kum ba yah!
2 Someone’s singing, Lord, kum ba yah.
Someone’s singing, Lord, kum ba yah.
Someone’s singing, Lord, kum ba yah.
O Lord, kum ba yah.
3 Someone’s praying, Lord, kum ba yah.
Someone’s praying, Lord, kum ba yah.
Someone’s praying, Lord, kum ba yah.
O Lord, kum ba yah.
4 Someone’s crying, Lord, kum ba yah.
Someone’s crying, Lord, kum ba yah.
Someone’s crying, Lord, kum ba yah.
O Lord, kum ba yah.
5 Someone's hungry, Lord, kum ba yah.
Someone's hungry, Lord, kum ba yah.
Someone's hungry, Lord, kum ba yah.
O Lord, kum ba yah.
6 Someone’s hurting, Lord, kum ba yah.
Someone's hungry, Lord, kum ba yah.
Someone's hungry, Lord, kum ba yah.
O Lord, kum ba yah.
7 Someone’s dying, Lord, kum ba yah.
Someone’s dying, Lord, kum ba yah.
Someone’s dying, Lord, kum ba yah.
O Lord, kum ba yah.
8 Someone’s lonely, Lord, kum ba yah.
Someone’s lonely, Lord, kum ba yah.
Someone’s lonely, Lord, kum ba yah.
O Lord, kum ba yah.
[Kum ba ya means "Come by here."] Topics: Meeting with God's People Prayer; African-American Used With Tune: [Kum ba yah, my Lord] Text Sources: African-American spiritual
Kum Ba Yah
Healer of Our Every Ill
Author: Marty Haugen, b. 1950 Meter: 8.8.9 with refrain Appears in 28 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:26-27 First Line: You who know our fears and sadness Refrain First Line: Healer of our ev'ry ill Topics: Christian Hope; Comfort, Rest; Forgiveness, Healing Used With Tune: HEALER OF OUR EVERY ILL
Healer of Our Every Ill
View the present through the promise
Author: Thomas H. Troeger (b. 1945) Meter: 8.5.8.5.8.8.8.5 Appears in 8 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:19-25 Topics: Christ Risen Coming Again; Our Response to Christ In Discipleship; Discipleship Used With Tune: FRANKLIN PARK
View the present through the promise
God of the Bible
Author: Shirley Erena Murray Meter: 5.5.5.4 D with refrain Appears in 8 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:22-27 Refrain First Line: Fresh as the morning, sure as the sunrise Lyrics: 1 God of the Bible,
God in the Gospel,
hope seen in Jesus,
hope yet to come,
you are our center,
daylight or darkness,
freedom or prison,
you are our home.
Refrain:
Fresh as the morning,
sure as the sunrise,
God always faithful,
you do not change.
Fresh as the morning,
sure as the sunrise,
God always faithful,
you do not change.
2 God in our struggles,
God in our hunger,
suffering with us,
taking our part,
still you empower us,
mothering Spirit,
feeding, sustaining,
from your own heart. [Refrain]
3 Those without status,
those who are nothing,
you have made royal,
gifted with rights,
chosen as partners,
midwives of justice,
birthing new systems,
lighting new lights. [Refrain]
4 Not by your finger,
not by your anger
will our world order
change in a day,
but by your people,
fearless and faithful,
small paper lanterns,
lighting the way. [Refrain]
5 Hope we must carry,
shining and certain
through all our turmoil,
terror, and loss,
bonding us gladly
one to the other,
till our world changes
facing the cross. [Refrain]
Topics: Anger; Bonding; Change; Unchanging; Community; Darkness; Dawn; Human Empowerment; Faith; Feeding; Freedom and Liberation; Freshness; Goodness of God; Gospel (Good News); Hearts; Holy Bible; Holy Spirit; Home and Family; Hope; Hunger; Light; Loss; Morning; Mothers; Human Needs; Peoples; Power and Might; Prisoners; Righteousness; Strength and Courage; Struggles and Strife; Sun; Sustaining; Terrors; Timelessness; Turmoil; Wings; God's Nature; Anger; Bonding; Change; Unchanging; Community; Darkness; Dawn; Human Empowerment; Faith; Feeding; Freedom and Liberation; Freshness; Goodness of God; Gospel (Good News); Hearts; Holy Bible; Holy Spirit; Home and Family; Hope; Hunger; Light; Loss; Morning; Mothers; Human Needs; Peoples; Power and Might; Prisoners; Righteousness; Strength and Courage; Struggles and Strife; Sun; Sustaining; Terrors; Timelessness; Turmoil; Wings Used With Tune: FRESH AS THE MORNING
God of the Bible
Through Our Fragmentary Prayers
Author: Thomas H. Troeger Appears in 4 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8 First Line: [Through Our Fragmentary Prayers] Text Sources: Supplement 99 (Hope Publishing Company, 1999)
Through Our Fragmentary Prayers
On Holy Ground
Author: Donna Peña, b. 1955 Appears in 4 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:18-23 First Line: The heavens embrace the earth Refrain First Line: Do you believe in freedom? Topics: Captivity Used With Tune: [The heavens embrace the earth]
On Holy Ground
Neither Death nor Life
Author: Marty Haugen, b. 1950 Appears in 4 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:11-38 First Line: Dwell in the One who raised Christ from the dead Refrain First Line: Neither death, nor life Topics: Second Coming Used With Tune: [Dwell in the One who raised Christ from the dead]
Neither Death nor Life
Go in grace and make disciples
Author: Mary Louise Bringle (b. 1953) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D irregular Appears in 4 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:22 Topics: The Church Celebrates Ordination; Our Response to God in mission and service; Gospel Call; Mission Used With Tune: ABBOT'S LEIGH
Go in grace and make disciples
God Whose Love is Always Stronger
Author: Carolyn Winfrey Gillette Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 4 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:22 First Line: God whose love is always stronger Than our weakness, pride and fear Lyrics: God whose love is always stronger Than our weakness, pride and fear,
In your world, we pray and wonder How to be more faithful here.
Hate too often grows inside us; Fear rules what the nations do.
So we pray, when wars divide us: Give us love, Lord! Make us new!
Love is patient, kind and caring, Never arrogant or rude,
Never boastful, all things bearing; Love rejoices in the truth.
When we’re caught up in believing War will make the terror cease,
Show us Jesus’ way of living; May our strength be in your peace.
May our faith in you be nourished; May your churches hear your call.
May our lives be filled with courage As we speak your love for all.
Now emboldened by your Spirit Who has given us new birth,
Give us love, that we may share it Till your love renews the earth. Topics: Justice; Peacemaking Used With Tune: BEACH SPRING
God Whose Love is Always Stronger
"Abba, Abba, Hear Us," We Cry
Author: Andrew Donaldson, b. 1951 Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8 Topics: Intercessory Prayers Used With Tune: ARIRANG
"Abba, Abba, Hear Us," We Cry
God Works for Good
Appears in 1,891 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8 First Line: I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing Topics: Scripture Readings
God Works for Good
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
Author: Joachim Neander; Catherine Winkworth Meter: 14.14.4.7.8 Appears in 389 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8 First Line: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation Lyrics: 1 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation!
O my soul, praise him, for he is your health and salvation!
Come, all who hear; brothers and sisters, draw near,
join me in glad adoration!
2 Praise to the Lord, who o'er all things is wondrously reigning,
sheltering you under his wings, oh, so gently sustaining.
Have you not seen all that is needful has been
sent by his gracious ordaining?
3 Praise to the Lord, who will prosper your work and defend you;
surely his goodness and mercy shall daily attend you.
Ponder anew what the Almighty can do
as with his love he befriends you.
4 Praise to the Lord! O let all that is in me adore him!
All that has life and breath, come now with praises before him!
Let the amen sound from his people again.
Gladly forever adore him!
Topics: Doxologies; Sickness & Health; Opening of Worship; Creation; Doxologies; Mercy; Opening of Worship; Providence; Refuge; Sickness & Health Used With Tune: LOBE DEN HERREN
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
Christ the Lord Ascends to Reign
Author: Michael Wiesse; Catherine Winkworth Meter: 7.7.7.7.4 with refrain Appears in 258 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8 Refrain First Line: Alleluia, alleluia Lyrics: 1 Christ the Lord ascends to reign,
Christ has broken every chain;
hear the angel voices cry,
singing evermore on high:
Alleluia!
Refrain (may be sung after last stanza only):
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
Through the universe it rings
that the Lamb is King of kings:
Alleluia!
2 Christ, who bore all pain and loss,
comfortless upon the cross,
lives in glory now on high,
pleads for us and hears our cry:
Alleluia! Refrain
3 Christ, our paschal Lamb indeed,
all your ransomed people feed;
take our sin and guilt away;
let us sing by night and day:
Alleluia! Refrain
4 Christ now bids us tell abroad
how the lost may be restored,
how the penitent forgiven,
how we all may enter heaven:
Alleluia! Refrain
Topics: Ascension & Reign of Christ; Alleluias; Ascension & Reign of Christ; Lamb of God; Missions; Witness Used With Tune: CHRIST IST ERSTANDEN
Christ the Lord Ascends to Reign
God the Omnipotent! King who ordainest
Author: Henry Fothergill Chorley (1808-1872); John Ellerton (1826-1893) Meter: 11.10.11.9 Appears in 203 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:19-22 Lyrics: 1 God the Omnipotent! King who ordainest
great winds thy clarions, lightnings thy sword:
show forth thy pity on high where thou reignest:
give to us peace in our time, O Lord.
2 God the All-merciful! earth hath forsaken
meekness and mercy, and slighted thy word;
bid not thy wrath in its terrors awaken;
give to us peace in our time, O Lord.
3 God, the All-righteous One! we have defied thee;
yet to eternity standeth thy word;
falsehood and wrong shall not tarry beside thee;
give to us peace in our time, O Lord.
4 God the All-wise! by the fire of thy chastening,
earth shall to freedom and truth be restored;
through the thick darkness thy Kingdom is hastening;
thou wilt give peace in thy time, O Lord.
5 So shall thy children, with thankful devotion,
praise him who saved them from peril and sword,
singing in chorus, from ocean to ocean,
peace to the nations, and praise to the Lord. Topics: The Church Celebrates National Life; Our Response to God in intercession and petition; God in judgement and justice; Kingdom of God; Nation and Society; Peace; Remembrance Sunday; Word of God Used With Tune: RUSSIA
God the Omnipotent! King who ordainest
O heil'ger Geist kehr bei uns ein
Author: M. Schirmer, 1606-1673 Appears in 145 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:26 Topics: Pfingsten
O heil'ger Geist kehr bei uns ein
Light of the lonely pilgrim's heart
Author: Sir Edward Denny Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 143 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:19-22 Lyrics: 1 Light of the lonely pilgrim's heart,
Star of the coming day,
Arise, and with thy morning beams
Chase all our griefs away.
2 Come, blessed Lord, bid ev'ry shore
And answ'ring island sing
The praises of thy royal Name,
And own thee as their King.
3 Bid the whole earth, responsive now
To the bright world above,
Break forth in rapturous strains of joy
In mem'ry of thy love.
4 Lord, Lord, thy fair creation groans,
The air, the earth, the sea,
In unison with all our hearts,
And calls aloud for thee.
5 Come, then, with all thy quick'ning pow'r,
With one awak'ning smile,
And bid the serpent's trail no more
Thy beauteous realms defile.
6 Thine was the cross, with all its fruits
Of grace and peace Divine:
Be thine the crown of glory now,
The palms of vict'ry thine.
Amen. Topics: Blessed Hope; Christ, The Lord Jesus; Christ Lord; Christ Second Coming and Judgment of; Gospel Triumph of; Longing for Christ and God Used With Tune: EAGLEY
Light of the lonely pilgrim's heart
Come down, O Love divine
Author: Bianco da Siena, d. 1434; R. F. Littledale, 1833-1890 Meter: 6.6.11 D Appears in 109 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8 Lyrics: 1 Come down, O Love divine,
seek thou this soul of mine,
and visit it with thine own ardour glowing;
O Comforter, draw near,
within my heart appear,
and kindle it, thy holy flame bestowing.
2 O let it freely burn,
till earthly passions turn
to dust and ashes in its heat consuming;
and let thy glorious light
shine ever on my sight,
and clothe me round, the while my path illuming.
3 Let holy charity
mine outward vesture be,
and lowliness become mine inner clothing:
true lowliness of heart,
which takes the humbler part,
and o'er its own shortcomings weeps with loathing.
4 And so the yearning strong,
with which the soul will long,
shall far outpass the power of human telling;
for none can guess its grace,
till he become the place
wherein the Holy Spirit makes his dwelling. Topics: Epiphany II Year C; Third Sunday Before Lent Year C; Pentecost Year B; Proper 6 Year A; Proper 25 Year C Used With Tune: DOWN AMPNEY
Come down, O Love divine
Judge Eternal, Throned in Splendour
Author: Henry Scott Holland, 1847-1918 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 108 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:18-30 Topics: Justice; Nation and City; Peace Used With Tune: RHUDDLAN Text Sources: Rev. Hymns for Today's Church, alt.
Judge Eternal, Throned in Splendour
Author of good! to thee we turn
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 73 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:26 Topics: The Christian Graces; Meekness
Author of good! to thee we turn
An Advocate with the Father
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 62 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:26 First Line: Jesus, my Advocate above Topics: Jesus Christ Priesthood and Intercession
An Advocate with the Father
For the Healing of the Nations
Author: Fred Kaan, 1929-2009 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 58 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:18-30 Topics: Healing; Justice; Nation and City; Stewardship; Peace Used With Tune: WESTMINSTER ABBEY
For the Healing of the Nations
O durchbrecher aller bande
Author: G. Arnold, 1665-1714 Appears in 55 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8 Topics: Christliche Sinn und Wandel Heiligung überhaupt
O durchbrecher aller bande
Every Time I Feel the Spirit
Appears in 42 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:26 First Line: Upon the mountain my Lord spoke Refrain First Line: Ev'ry time I feel the spirit Lyrics: Refrain:
Ev'ry time I feel the spirit
moving in my heart, I will pray.
Ev'ry time I feel the spirit
moving in my heart, I will pray.
1 Upon the mountain my Lord spoke,
out of his mouth came fire and smoke. [Refrain]
2 All around me looked so fine,
asked my Lord if all was mine. [Refrain]
3 Jordan River, chilly and cold,
chills the body but not the soul. [Refrain]
Topics: Prayer; Songs for Children; Pentecost Used With Tune: [Upon the mountain my Lord spoke] Text Sources: African American spiritual
Every Time I Feel the Spirit
Thanks to God whose Word was spoken
Author: Reginald Thomas Brooks (1918-1985) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 38 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:26-27 Lyrics: 1 Thanks to God whose word was spoken
in the making of the earth.
His the voice that called a nation,
fired her vision, tried her worth.
God has spoken, God has spoken:
praise him for his open word.
2 Thanks to God whose word incarnate
came to save our human race.
Deeds and words and death and rising
testify to heaven's grace.
God has spoken, God has spoken:
praise him for his open word.
3 Thanks to God whose word was written
in the Bible's sacred page,
record of the revelation
showing God to every age.
God has spoken, God has spoken:
praise him for his open word.
4 Thanks to God whose word is published
in the tongues of every race.
See its glory undiminished
by the change of time and place.
God has spoken, God has spoken:
praise him for his open word.
5 Thanks to God whose word is answered
by the Spirit's voice within.
Here we drink of joy unmeasured,
life redeemed from death and sin.
God is speaking, God is speaking:
praise him for his open word. Topics: The Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit in the Church - Illumination of God's Word; God In Creation; Jesus incarnation; Jesus Word of God; Scripture; Word of God Used With Tune: ST. HELEN
Thanks to God whose Word was spoken
Lord God, Your Love Has Called Us Here
Author: Brian Wren Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 32 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:19-22 Lyrics: 1 Lord God, your love has called us here
as we, by love, for love were made.
Your living likeness still we bear,
though marred, dishonored, disobeyed.
We come, with all our heart and mind,
your call to hear, your love to find.
2 We come with self-inflicted pains
of broken trust and chosen wrong,
half free, half bound by inner chains,
by social forces swept along,
by pow'rs and systems close confined,
yet seeking hope for humankind.
3 Lord God, in Christ you call our name
and then receive us as your own
not through some merit, right, or claim,
but by your gracious love alone.
We strain to glimpse your mercy seat
and find you kneeling at our feet.
4 Then take the towel, and break the bread,
and humble us, and call us friends.
Suffer and serve till all are fed
and show how grandly love intends
to work till all creation sings,
to fill all worlds, to crown all things.
5 Lord God, in Christ you set us free,
your life to live, your joy to share.
Give us your Spirit's liberty
to turn from guilt and dull despair
and offer all that faith can do
while love is making all things new.
Topics: Call and Response Used With Tune: ABINGDON
Lord God, Your Love Has Called Us Here
O God of Every Nation
Author: William W. Reid, Jr. 1923- Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 32 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:22 Lyrics: 1 O God of every nation,
of every race and land,
redeem your whole creation
with your almighty hand;
where hate and fear divide us,
and bitter threats are hurled,
in love and mercy guide us,
and heal our strife-torn world.
2 From search for wealth and power
and scorn of truth and right,
from trust in bombs that shower
destruction through the night,
from pride of race and station
and blindness to your way,
deliver every nation,
eternal God, we pray.
3 Keep bright in us the vision
of days when war shall cease,
when hatred and division
give way to love and peace,
till dawns the morning glorious
when truth and justice reign,
and Christ shall rule victorious
o'er all the world's domain.
Topics: Labor & Leisure Used With Tune: LLANGLOFFAN
O God of Every Nation
O Holy Spirit, By Whose Breath
Author: John Webster Grant, 1919- Appears in 25 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:12-25 Topics: Ordination; Pentecost; The Holy Spirit Used With Tune: VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS (1)
O Holy Spirit, By Whose Breath
Holy Spirit, Ever Dwelling
Author: Timothy Rees Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 24 hymnals Scripture: Romans 8:23 Lyrics: 1 Holy Spirit, ever dwelling
in the holiest realms of light;
Holy Spirit, ever brooding
o'er a world of gloom and night;
Holy Spirit, ever raising
those of earth to thrones on high;
living, life-imparting Spirit;
thee we praise and magnify.
2 Holy Spirit, ever breathing
on the church's the breath of life;
Holy Spirit, ever striving
through us in a ceaseless strife;
Holy Spirit, ever forming
in the church the mind of Christ:
thee we praise with endless worship,
for thy fruit and gifts un-priced.
3 Holy Spirit, ever working
through the church's ministry;
quick'ning, strength'ning, and absolving,
setting captive sinners free;
Holy Spirit, ever binding
age to age and soul to soul
in a fellowsip unending,
thee we worship and extol.
Used With Tune: HOLY MANNA
Holy Spirit, Ever Dwelling
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