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My Hope is Built

Author: Edward Mote Appears in 1,092 hymnals Topics: Adversity First Line: My hope is built on nothing less Refrain First Line: On Christ the solid Rock I stand Lyrics: 1 My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus' name. [Refrain:] On Christ the solid Rock I stand; all other ground is sinking sand; all other ground is sinking sand. 2 When darkness veils his lovely face, I rest on his unchanging grace. In every high and stormy gale my anchor holds within the veil. [Refrain] 3 His oath, his covenant, his blood support me in the whelming flood. When all around my soul gives way he then is all my hope and stay. [Refrain] 4 When he shall come with trumpet sound, O may I then in him be found! Dressed in his righteousness alone, faultless to stand before the throne. [Refrain] Used With Tune: THE SOLID ROCK

Jesus, Lover of My Soul

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 3,237 hymnals Topics: Adversity Lyrics: 1 Jesus, lover of my soul, let me to thy bosom fly, while the nearer waters roll, while the tempest still is high; hide me, O my Savior, hide till the storm of life is past; safe into the haven guide; O receive my soul at last! 2 Other refuge have I none; hangs my helpless soul on thee; leave, ah! leave me not alone, still support and comfort me. All my trust on thee is stayed, all my help from thee I bring; cover my defenseless head with the shadow of thy wing. 3 Plenteous grace with thee is found, grace to cover all my sin; let the healing streams abound; make and keep me pure within. Thou of life the fountain art, freely let me take of thee; spring thou up within my heart, rise to all eternity. Used With Tune: ABERYSTWYTH

It Is Well with My Soul

Author: Horatio G. Spafford Meter: 11.8.11.9 with refrain Appears in 483 hymnals Topics: Adversity First Line: When peace, like a river, attendeth my way Lyrics: 1 When peace, like a river, attendeth my way, when sorrows like sea billows roll; whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say, "It is well, it is well with my soul." Refrain: It is well with my soul, it is well, it is well with my soul. 2 Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come, let this blest assurance control, that Christ has regarded my helpless estate, and has shed His own blood for my soul. [Refrain] 3 My sin - oh, the bliss of this glorious thought: my sin, not in part, but the whole - is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more, praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul! [Refrain] 4 And, Lord, haste the day when the faith shall be sight, the clouds, be rolled back as a scroll, the trump shall resound and the Lord shall descend, "Even so" - it is well with my soul. [Refrain] Used With Tune: VILLE DU HAVRE

Precious Lord, Take My Hand

Author: Thomas A. Dorsey Meter: 6.6.9 D Appears in 114 hymnals Topics: Adversity Used With Tune: PRECIOUS LORD

How Firm a Foundation

Author: "K" Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 2,144 hymnals Topics: Adversity, Affliction & Tribulation First Line: How firm a foundation, you servants of God Lyrics: 1 How firm a foundation, you servants of God, is laid for your faith in his excellent word! What more can be said than to you has been said, to you who for refuge to Jesus have fled? 2 "Fear not, I am with you; O be not dismayed! For I am your God and will still give you aid; I'll strengthen and help you, and cause you to stand, upheld by my righteous omnipotent hand. 3 "When through the deep waters I call you to go, the rivers of sorrow shall not overflow; for I will be with you, your troubles to bless, and sanctify to you your deepest distress. 4 "When through fiery trials your pathway shall lie, my grace, all-sufficient, shall be your supply: the flame shall not hurt you, I only design your dross to consume, and your gold to refine. 5 "The soul that on Jesus has leaned for repose I will not -- I will not desert to his foes; that soul, though all hell should endeavour to shake, I'll never -- no, never -- no, never forsake!" Used With Tune: ST DENIO Text Sources: Rippon's A Selection of Hymns, 1787

Come, thou long-expected Jesus

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-88 Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 749 hymnals Topics: Adversity Lyrics: 1 Come, thou long-expected Jesus, born to set thy people free, from our fears and sins release us, let us find our rest in thee. 2 Israel's strength and consolation, hope of all the earth thou art; dear desire of every nation, joy of every longing heart. 3 Born thy people to deliver, born a child and yet a king, born to reign in us for ever, now thy gracious kingdom bring. 4 By thine own eternal Spirit rule in all our hearts alone; by thine all-sufficient merit raise us to thy glorious throne. Scripture: Haggai 2:7 Used With Tune: STUTTGART

Just a Closer Walk with Thee

Author: Anonymous Appears in 118 hymnals Topics: Adversity First Line: I am weak, but thou art strong Lyrics: 1 I am weak, but thou art strong; Jesus, keep me from all wrong; I’ll be satisfied as long as I walk, let me walk close to thee. [Refrain:] Just a closer walk with thee, grant it, Jesus, is my plea, daily walking close to thee: let it be, dear Lord, let it be. 2 Through this world of toil and snares, if I falter, Lord, who cares? Who with me my burden shares? None but thee, dear Lord, none but thee. [Refrain] 3 When my feeble life is o’er, time for me will be no more; guide me gently, safely o’er to thy kingdom shore, to thy shore. [Refrain] Used With Tune: CLOSER WALK

There's Within My Heart a Melody

Author: Luther B. Bridgers Meter: 9.7.9.7 with refrain Appears in 202 hymnals Topics: Adversity Refrain First Line: Jesus, Jesus, Jesus Lyrics: 1 There's within my heart a melody Jesus whispers sweet and low: "Fear not, I am with thee, peace, be still," in all of life's ebb and flow. Refrain: Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, sweetest name I know, fills my every longing, keeps me singing as I go. 2 All my life was wrecked by sin and strife, discord filled my heart with pain; Jesus swept across the broken strings, stirred the slumbering chords again. [Refrain] 3 Feasting on the riches of his grace, resting 'neath his sheltering wing, always looking on his smiling face-- that is why I shout and sing. [Refrain] 4 Though sometimes he leads through waters deep, trials fall across the way, though sometimes the path seems rough and steep, see his footprints all the way. [Refrain] 5 Soon he's coming back to welcome me far beyond the starry sky; I shall wing my flight to worlds unknown; I shall reign with him on high. [Refrain] Used With Tune: SWEETEST NAME

Through all the changing scenes of life

Author: Nahum Tate, 1652-1715; Nicholas Brady, 1659-1726 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 476 hymnals Topics: Adversity Lyrics: 1 Through all the changing scenes of life, in trouble and in joy, the praises of my God shall still my heart and tongue employ. 2 Of his deliverance I will boast, till all that are distressed, when learning this, will comfort take and calm their griefs to rest. 3 O magnify the Lord with me, with me exalt his name; when in distress to him I called he to my rescue came. 4 The hosts of God encamp around the dwellings of the just; deliverance he affords for all who in his mercy trust. 5 O make but trial of his love; experience will decide how blest are they, and only they, who in his truth confide. 6 Fear him, you saints, and you will then have nothing else to fear; if in his service you delight, your wants shall be his care. Scripture: 1 Peter 5:6-11 Used With Tune: WILTSHIRE

Fight the Good Fight

Author: John Samuel Bewley Monsell Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 485 hymnals Topics: Adversity, Affliction & Tribulation First Line: Fight the good fight with all your might Lyrics: 1 Fight the good fight with all your might, Christ is your strength and Christ your right; lay hold on life, and it shall be your joy and crown eternally. 2 Run the straight race, through God's good grace, lift up your eyes and seek Christ's face. Life with its way before us lies; Christ is the way, and Christ the prize. 3 Cast care aside, lean on your guide; God's boundless mercy will provide; trust, and the trusting soul shall prove Christ is its life, and Christ its love. 4 Faint not nor fear, God's arms are near; God changes not and you are dear. Only believe, and Christ shall be your all in all eternally. Used With Tune: PENTECOST

Now Thank We All Our God

Author: Martin Rinkart; Catherine Winkworth Meter: 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6 Appears in 690 hymnals Topics: Adversity Lyrics: 1 Now thank we all our God with heart and hands and voices, who wondrous things hath done, in whom His world rejoices; who, from our mothers' arms, hath blessed us on our way with countless gifts of love, and still is ours today. 2 O may this bounteous God through all our life be near us, with ever joyful hearts and blessed peace to cheer us; to keep us in His grace, and guide us when perplexed, and free us from all ills in this world and the next. 3 All praise and thanks to God the Father now be given, the Son, and Him who reigns with them in highest heaven, the one eternal God, whom heaven and earth adore, for thus it was, is now, and shall be evermore. Used With Tune: NUN DANKET

Lift Every Voice and Sing

Author: James Weldon Johnson Meter: Irregular Appears in 48 hymnals Topics: Adversity Lyrics: 1 Lift every voice and sing, till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise, high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; facing the rising sun of our new day begun, let us march on till victory is won. 2 Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet, come to the place for which our people sighed? We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. 3 God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way; Thou who hast, by Thy might, led us into the light, keep us forever in the path, we pray. Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee. Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee; shadowed beneath Thy hand, may we forever stand, true to our God, true to our native land. Used With Tune: LIFT EVERY VOICE

There Is a Balm in Gilead

Meter: Irregular Appears in 108 hymnals Topics: Adversity First Line: Sometimes I feel discouraged Lyrics: There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole; there is a balm in Gilead to heal the sin-sick soul. 1 Sometimes I feel discouraged, and think my work’s in vain, but then the Holy Spirit revives my soul again. There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole; there is a balm in Gilead to heal the sin-sick soul. 2 If you cannot preach like Peter, if you cannot pray like Paul, you can tell the love of Jesus, and say "He died for all!" There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole; there is a balm in Gilead to heal the sin-sick soul. 3 Don't ever feel discouraged, for Jesus is your friend; and if you lack for knowledge he'll ne'er refuse to lend. There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole; there is a balm in Gilead to heal the sin-sick soul. Scripture: Jeremiah 8:22 Used With Tune: BALM IN GILEAD Text Sources: African-American spiritual

Eternal Father, Strong to Save

Author: William Whiting Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 428 hymnals Topics: Adversity, Affliction & Tribulation Lyrics: 1 Eternal Father, strong to save, whose arm has bound the restless wave, who bade the mighty ocean deep its own appointed limits keep: O hear us when we cry to thee for those in peril on the sea. 2 O Christ, whose voice the waters heard and hushed their raging at thy word, who walked upon the foaming deep, and calm amid the storm didst sleep: O hear us when we cry to thee for those in peril on the sea. 3 O Holy Spirit, who didst brood upon the chaos dark and rude, and bade its angry tumult cease, and gave for wild confusion peace: O hear us when we cry to thee for those in peril on the sea. 4 O Trinity of love and power, all travellers guard in danger's hour. From rock and tempest, fire and foe, protect them whereso'er they go: thus evermore shall rise to thee glad hymns of praise from land and sea. Used With Tune: MELITA

In Conflict, Turmoil, War, and Strife

Author: Cheryl McMurray Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Adversity Lyrics: 1 In conflict, turmoil, war, and strife, we see our loved ones fall. We seek for justice, hope for life, and pray for peace for all. 2 We weep for everyone who dies as endless wars increase and in their mem'ry realize that we must work for peace. 3 Of all the lives cut short by strife, we think of you, Lord Christ, in awe recalling that your life for us was sacrificed. Used With Tune: QI WANG

Lord, let your face shine on us

Author: The Grail Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Adversity First Line: When I call, answer me, O God of justice Scripture: Psalm 4 Used With Tune: GELINEAU PSALM 4

What though no flowers the fig-tree clothe

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 60 hymnals Topics: Adversity, rejoicing in; Rejoicing in Adversity Text Sources: Burder's Coll.

In Suffering Love the Thread of Life

Author: Rob Johns Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: Adversity Used With Tune: LAND OF REST

All my hope on God is founded

Author: Robert Bridges, 1844-1930; Joachim Neander Meter: 8.7.8.7.3.3.7 Appears in 70 hymnals Topics: Adversity Scripture: 1 Timothy 6:17-19 Used With Tune: MICHAEL

Teach Me Your Way

Author: B. Mansell Ramsey Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.6.6.4 Appears in 39 hymnals Topics: Adversity Lyrics: 1 Teach me Your way, O Lord, teach me Your way! Your guiding grace afford, teach me Your way! Help me to walk aright, more by faith, less by sight; lead me with heavenly light, teach me Your way! 2 When I am sad at heart, teach me Your way! When earthly joys depart, teach me Your way! In hours of loneliness, in times of dire distress, in failure or success, teach me Your way! 3 When doubts and fears arise, teach me Your way! When storm clouds fill the skies, teach me Your way! Shine through the wind and rain, through sorrow, grief, and pain; make now my pathway plain, teach me Your way! 4 Long as my life shall last, teach me Your way! Where’er my lot is cast, teach me Your way! Until the race is run, until the journey’s done, until the crown is won, teach me Your way! Used With Tune: CAMACHA

Your hand, O God, has guided

Author: Edward Hayes Plumptre, 1821-91 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 55 hymnals Topics: Adversity Lyrics: 1 Your hand, O God, has guided your flock from age to age; the wondrous tale is written full clear, on every page. your people owed your goodness, and we their deeds accord; and both of this bear witness: one church, one faith, one Lord. 2 Your heralds brought glad tidings to greatest, as to least; they bade them rise, and hasten to share the great king's feast; and this was all their teaching, in every deed and word, to all alike proclaiming one church, one faith, one Lord. 3 Through many a day of darkness, through many a scene of strife, the faithful few fought bravely to guard the nation's life. Their gospel of redemption, sin pardoned, earth restored, was all in this enfolded: one church, one faith, one Lord. 4 Your mercy will not fail us, nor leave your work undone; with your right hand to help us the victory shall be won; and then by all creation your name shall be adored, and this shall be our anthem: one church, one faith, one Lord. Scripture: Ephesians 4:1-6 Used With Tune: THORNBURY

For the Troubles and the Sufferings

Author: Rodolfo Gaede Neto; Simei Monteiro ; Jorge Lockward Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 7 hymnals Topics: Adversity First Line: For the troubles and the sufferings Refrain First Line: We pray for peace Used With Tune: PELAS DORES DESTE MUNDO

Jesus, Walk Beside Me

Author: Mary R. Bittner Meter: 6.6.5.6.6.5.7.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Adversity Used With Tune: BEULAH

Lord, you have been our dwelling-place

Author: Thomas Hornblower Gill, 1819-1906 Meter: 8.7.87.8.8.7 Appears in 22 hymnals Topics: Adversity Lyrics: 1 Lord, you have been our dwelling-place in every generation; your people have received your grace, and blessed your consolation; through every age you heard our cry; through every age we found you nigh, our strength and our salvation. 2 Persisting sins we long have wept, your patience long have tested; but steadfast faith in you we kept, still to your name devoted: for you have kept and loved us well, and granted us in you to dwell, from your love never parted. 3 Lord, nothing from your arms so sure shall your own people sever; our helper ever will endure, God's love will fail us never. Your people, Lord, have dwelt in you; and you remain our dwelling true for ever and for ever. Scripture: 1 Peter 2:1-8 Used With Tune: LUTHER

In you is gladness

Author: Johann Lindemann, 1549-1631; Henry F. W. Proeve, 1918-; David Arthur Schubert, 1942- Meter: 5.5.7.5.5.7.5.5.5.5.9.5.5.5.5.9 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Adversity Scripture: 1 Peter 2:24-25 Used With Tune: IN DIR IST FREUDE

Seek, O seek the Lord, while he is near

Author: James Phillip McAuley, 1917-76 Meter: 7.7.7.5 with refrain Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Adversity First Line: God be with us in our lives Scripture: 1 John 3:14-17 Used With Tune: VENANTIUS

Sing to the Lord a new song

Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Adversity Scripture: Psalm 81 Used With Tune: PSALM 81 Text Sources: Tr.: Uniting in Worship

That Cause Can Never Be Lost or Stayed

Author: Kristian Ostergaard; J. C. Aaberg Meter: 9.9.10.10 Appears in 25 hymnals Topics: Adversity Lyrics: 1 That cause can never be lost nor stayed which takes the course of what God has made, and is not trusting in walls and towers but slowly growing from seeds to flowers. 2 Each noble service that we have wrought was first conceived as a fruitful thought; each worthy cause with a future glorious by quietly growing becomes victorious. 3 Thereby itself like a tree it shows: that high it reaches, as deep it grows; and, when the storms are its branches shaking, it deeper root in the soil is taking. 4 Be then no more by a storm dismayed, for by it the full grown seeds are laid; and though the tree by its might it shatters, what then, if thousands of seeds it scatters! Used With Tune: OSTERGAARD

God Made from One Blood

Author: Thomas H. Troeger Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 11 hymnals Topics: Adversity First Line: God made from one blood all the families of earth Used With Tune: ST. DENIO

Spirit of God, Descend upon My Heart

Author: George Croly, 1780-1860 Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 341 hymnals Topics: Adversity Lyrics: 1 Spirit of God, descend upon my heart; wean it from earth, through all its pulses move. Stoop to my weakness, mighty as thou art, and make me love thee 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 Teach me to feel that thou art always nigh; teach me the struggles of the soul to bear, to check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh; teach me the patience of unanswered prayer. 4 Teach me to love thee as thine angels love, one holy passion filling all my frame; the baptism of the heav'n-descended Dove, my heart an altar, and thy love the flame. Amen. Used With Tune: MORECAMBE

When We Are Tested

Author: Ruth Duck Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 7 hymnals Topics: Adversity First Line: When we are tested and wrestle alone Lyrics: 1 When we are tested and wrestle alone, famished for bread when the world offers stone, nourish us, God, by Your word and Your way, food that sustains us by night and by day. 2 When in the desert we cry for relief, pleading for paths marked by certain belief, lift us to love You beyond sign and test, trusting Your presence, our only true rest. 3 When we are tempted to barter our souls, trading the truth for the power to control, teach us to worship and praise only You, seeking Your will in the work that we do. 4 When we have struggled and searched through the night, sorting and sifting the wrong from the right, Savior, surround us with circles of care, angels of healing, of hope, and of prayer. Used With Tune: SLANE

Why Stand So far Away, My God?

Author: Ruth Duck Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: Adversity Used With Tune: MORNING SONG

The Lord has done great things for us

Author: The Grail Appears in 9 hymnals Topics: Adversity First Line: When the Lord delivered Zion from bondage Scripture: Psalm 126 Used With Tune: PSALM 126

Day by Day

Author: Caroline V. Sandell-Berg; A. L. Skoog Meter: 10.9.10.9.10.9.10.7 Appears in 52 hymnals Topics: Adversity First Line: Day by day and with each passing moment Lyrics: 1 Day by day and with each passing moment, strength I find to meet my trials here; trusting in my Father’s wise bestowment, I’ve no cause for worry or for fear. He whose heart is kind beyond all measure gives unto each day what he deems best– lovingly, its part of pain and pleasure, mingling toil with peace and rest. 2 Every day the Lord Himself is near me with a special mercy for each hour; all my cares He gladly bears and cheers me, He whose name is Counselor and Power. The protection of His child and treasure is a charge that on Himself He laid; “As your days, your strength shall be in measure,” this the pledge to me He made. 3 Help me then in every tribulation so to trust Your promises, O Lord, that I lose not faith’s sweet consolation offered me within Your holy Word. Help me, Lord, when toil and trouble meeting, e'er to take, as from a father’s hand, one by one, the days, the moments fleeting, till I reach the promised land. Used With Tune: BLOTT EN DAG

We Shall Overcome

Meter: Irregular Appears in 38 hymnals Topics: Adversity Lyrics: 1 We shall overcome, we shall overcome, we shall overcome someday! Oh, deep in my heart I do believe we shall overcome someday! 2 The Lord will see us through. 3 We'll walk hand in hand. 4 We are not afraid (today). 5 The truth shall make us free. 6 We shall live in peace. Used With Tune: MARTIN Text Sources: African-American spiritual

Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley

Meter: 8.8.10.8 Appears in 39 hymnals Topics: Adversity Lyrics: 1 Jesus walked this lonesome valley, he had to walk it by himself; O, nobody else could walk it for him, he had to walk it by himself. 2 We must walk this lonesome valley, we have to walk it by ourselves; O, nobody else can walk it for us, we have to walk it by ourselves. 3 You must go and stand your trial, you have to stand it by yourself, O, nobody else can stand it for you, you have to stand it by yourself. Used With Tune: LONESOME VALLEY Text Sources: American spiritual

Sometimes a light surprises

Author: William Cowper, 1731-1800 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 407 hymnals Topics: Adversity Lyrics: 1 Sometimes a light surprises the child of God who sings; it is the Lord who rises with healing in his wings; when comforts are declining, he grants the soul again a season of clear shining to cheer it after rain. 2 In holy contemplation, we joyfully pursue the theme of God’s salvation, and find it ever new. Set free from present sorrow, we cheerfully can say: 'Now let the unknown morrow bring with it what it may: 3 'it can bring with it nothing but God will bear us through; who gives the lilies clothing will clothe his people, too; beneath the spreading heavens no creature but is fed, and he who feeds the ravens will give his children bread.' 4 Though vine nor fig-tree neither their looked-for fruit should bear, though all the field should wither, nor flocks nor herds, be there, yet, God the same abiding, his praise shall tune my voice; for while in him confiding I cannot but rejoice. Scripture: Habakkuk 3:17 Used With Tune: PETITION

Lord, keep us steadfast in your word

Author: Martin Luther, 1483-1546; Catherine Winkworth, 1827-78 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 78 hymnals Topics: Adversity Lyrics: 1 Lord, keep us steadfast in your word; curb those who by deceit or sword would wrest the kingdom from your Son and bring to nothing all he's done. 2 Lord Jesus Christ, your power make known, for you are Lord of lords alone; defend your holy church that we may sing your praise eternally. 3 O Comforter of priceless worth, grant one mind to our flock on earth; support us in our final strife, and lead us out of death to life. Scripture: 1 John 3:14-17 Used With Tune: ERHALT UNS, HERR

In the cross of Christ I glory

Author: Charles Louis Fouvy, 1928-; John Bowring, 1792-1872 Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 1,519 hymnals Topics: Adversity Lyrics: 1 In the cross of Christ I glory, towering o'er the wrecks of time; all the light of sacred story gathers round its head sublime. 2 Through the cross, Christ's love empowers us worldliness and self deny; by his Spirit it inspires us him, through love, to glorify. 3 When the woes of life o'ertake me, hopes deceive and fears annoy, never shall the cross forsake us, from it shines our peace and joy. 4 Bane and blessing, pain and pleasure, by the cross are sanctified; peace is there that knows no measure, joys that through all time abide. 5 In the cross of Christ I glory, towering o'er the wrecks of time; all the light of sacred story gathers round its head sublime. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 2:1-10 Used With Tune: STUTTGART

Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus

Author: George Duffield, Jr. Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 1,800 hymnals Topics: Adversity Lyrics: 1 Stand up, stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the cross; lift high his royal banner, it must not suffer loss: from vict'ry unto vict'ry his army shall he lead, till every foe is vanquished, and Christ is Lord indeed. 2 Stand up, stand up for Jesus, the trumpet call obey; forth to the mighty conflict, in this his glorious day: "ye that are brave now serve him," against unnumbered foes; let courage rise with danger, and strength to strength oppose. 3 Stand up, stand up for Jesus, stand in his strength alone; the arm of flesh will fail you, ye dare not trust your own: put on the gospel armor, and, watching unto pray'r, where duty calls, or danger, be never wanting there. 4 Stand up, stand up for Jesus, the strife will not be long; this day the noise of battle, the next the victor's song: to those who overcometh, a crown of life shall be; they with the King of Glory shall reign eternally. Used With Tune: WEBB

In heavenly love abiding

Author: Anna Laetitia Waring, 1823-1910 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 570 hymnals Topics: Adversity Lyrics: 1 In heavenly love abiding, no change my heart shall fear; and safe is such confiding, for nothing changes here: the storm may roar without me, my heart may low be laid; but God is round about me, and can I be dismayed? 2 Wherever he may guide me no want shall turn me back, my shepherd is beside me and nothing can I lack: his wisdom ever waking, his sight is never dim, he knows the way he's taking and I will walk with him. 3 Green pastures are before me, which yet I have not seen; bright skies will soon be o'er me where dark the clouds have been; my hope I cannot measure, my path to life is free; my Saviour has my treasure, and he will walk with me. Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 Used With Tune: PENLAN

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