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How lovely is thy dwelling-place

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 48 hymnals Topics: Approach to God The House of God Lyrics: 1 How lovely is thy dwelling-place, O Lord of hosts, to me! The tabernacles of thy grace How pleasant, Lord, they be! 2 My thirsty soul longs vehemently, Yea faints, thy courts to see: My very heart and flesh cry out, O living God, for thee. 3 Behold, the sparrow findeth out An house wherein to rest; The swallow also for herself Hath purchased a nest; 4 Even thine own altars, where she safe Her young ones forth may bring, O thou almighty Lord of hosts, Who art my God and King. 5 Blest are they in thy house that dwell, They ever give thee praise. Blest is the man whose strength thou art, In whose heart are thy ways. 6 To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, The God whom we adore, Be glory, as it was, and is, And shall be evermore. Amen. Scripture: Psalm 84:1-5 Used With Tune: HARINGTON (RETIREMENT)

New every morning is the love

Author: John Keble, 1792-1866 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 377 hymnals Topics: Approach to God Morning Lyrics: 1 New every morning is the love Our wakening and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life, and power, and thought. 2 New mercies, each returning day, Hover around us while we pray,— New perils past, new sins forgiven, New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven. 3 If, on our daily course, our mind Be set to hallow all we find, New treasures still, of countless price, God will provide for sacrifice. 4 The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we need to ask,— Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us daily nearer God. 5 Only, O Lord, in thy dear love, Fit us for perfect rest above; And help us, this and every day, To live more nearly as we pray. Used With Tune: MELCOMBE

O come let us sing unto the Lord

Appears in 473 hymnals Topics: Approach to God The Majesty of God Lyrics: 1 O come let us sing unto the Lord: Let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation. 2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving: And show ourselves glad in him with psalms. 3 For the Lord is a great God: And a great King above all gods. 4 In his hand are the corners of the earth: And the strength of the hill is his also. 5 The sea is his and he made it: And his hands formed the dry land. 6 O come let us worship and fall down: And kneel before the Lord our Maker. 7 For He is our God and we are his people: He is our shepherd and we are his flock. Glory be to the Father: And to the Son and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning: is now and ever shall be world without end. Amen. Scripture: Psalm 95:1-7 Used With Tune: [O come let us sing unto the Lord]

Lord Jesus, be thou with us now

Author: Edith Florence Boyle Macalister, 1873-1950 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Approach to God The House of God Lyrics: Lord Jesus, be thou with us now, As in thy house in prayer we bow; And when we sing, and when we pray, Help us to mean the words we say, Help us to listen to thy word, And keep our thoughts from wandering, Lord. Used With Tune: SURREY (CAREY'S)

Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation

Author: Joachim Neander, 1650-80; Catherine Winkworth, 1827-78 Meter: 14.14.4.7.8 Appears in 411 hymnals Topics: Approach to God The House of God Lyrics: 1 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation; O my soul, praise him, for he is thy health and salvation; All ye who hear, Now to his temple draw near, Join me in glad adoration. 2 Praise to the Lord, who o'er all things so wondrously reigneth, Shieldeth thee gently from harm, or when fainting sustaineth; Hast thou not seen How thy heart's wishes have been Granted in what he ordaineth? 3 Praise to the Lord, who doth prosper thy work and defend thee; Surely his goodness and mercy here daily attend thee; Ponder anew What the Almighty can do, Who with his love doth befriend thee. 4 Praise to the Lord! O let all that is in me adore him! All that hath life and breath, come now with praises before him! Let the Amen Sound from his people again: Gladly for aye we adore him. Scripture: Psalm 103 Used With Tune: LOBE DEN HERREN (HAST DU DENN, JESU)

The Lord is King! lift up thy voice

Author: Josiah Conder, 1789-1855 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 261 hymnals Topics: Approach to God The Majesty of God Lyrics: 1 The Lord is King! lift up thy voice, O earth, and all the heavens, rejoice; From world to world the joy shall ring, "The Lord Omnipotent is King!" 2 The Lord is King! who then shall dare Resist his will, distrust his care, Or murmur at his wise decrees, Or doubt his royal promises? 3 The Lord is King! child of the dust, The Judge of all the earth is just; Holy and true are all his ways: Let every creature speak his praise. 4 Come, make your wants, your burdens known; Christ will present them at the throne; For he is at the Father's side, The Man of Love, the Crucified. 5 One Lord, one empire, all secures: He reigns, and life and death are yours. Through earth and heaven one song shall ring, "The Lord Omnipotent is King!" Used With Tune: CHURCH TRIUMPHANT

The Lord's my light and saving health

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 19 hymnals Topics: Approach to God The Majesty of God Lyrics: 1 The Lord’s my light and saving health, Who shall make me dismayed? My life’s strength is the Lord, of whom Then shall I be afraid? 2 Against me though an host encamp, My heart yet fearless is: Though war against me rise, I will Be confident in this. 3 One thing I of the Lord desired, And will seek to obtain, That all days of my life I may Within God’s house remain; 4 That I the beauty of the Lord behold may and admire, And that I in his holy place May reverently enquire. 5 For he in his pavilion shall Me hide in evil days; In secret of his tent me hide, And on a rock me raise. 6 Wait on the Lord, and be thou strong, and he shall strength afford Unto thine heart; yea, do thou wait, I say, upon the Lord. 7 To Father,Son, and Holy Ghost, To God whom we adore, Be glory, as it was and is, And shall be evermore. Amen. Scripture: Psalm 27:1 Used With Tune: FARRANT

O Lord of life, thy quickening voice

Author: George MacDonald, 1824-1905 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 34 hymnals Topics: Approach to God Morning Lyrics: 1 O Lord of life, thy quickening voice Awakes my morning song! In gladsome words I would rejoice That I to thee belong. 2 I see thy light, I feel thy wind, The world, it is thy word; Whatever wakes my heart and mind Thy presence is, my Lord. 3 Therefore I choose my highest part, And turn my face to thee; Therefore I stir my inmost heart To worship fervently. 4 Lord, let me live and will this day— Keep rising from the dead; Lord, make my spirit good and gay— Give me my daily bread. 5 Within my heart speak, Lord, speak on, My heart alive to keep, Till comes the night, and, labour done, In thee I fall asleep. Used With Tune: NATIVITY

Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee!

Author: Sarah F. Adams Appears in 2,618 hymnals Topics: Approach to God Lyrics: 1 Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; Still all my song shall be-- Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee! 2 Though, like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, My rest a stone; Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee! 3 There let the way appear, Steps unto heaven; All that thou sendest me, In mercy given; Angels to beckon me Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee! 4 Then, with my waking thoughts Bright with thy praise, Out of my stony griefs, Bethel I'll raise; So by my woes to be Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee! 5 Or if on joyful wing, Cleaving the sky, Sun, moon, and stars forgot, Upward I fly; Still all my song shall be, Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee! Scripture: Genesis 28:10-22

Before Jehovah's awesome throne

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748; John Wesley, 1703-91 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 985 hymnals Topics: Approach to God The House of God Lyrics: 1 Before Jehovah’s awesome throne, Ye nations, bow with sacred joy; Know that the Lord is God alone; He can create, and he destroy. 2 His sovereign power, without our aid, Made us of clay, and formed us men; And when like wandering sheep we strayed, He brought us to his fold again. 3 We are his people, we his care,— Our souls and all our mortal frame: What lasting honours shall we rear, Almighty Maker, to thy Name? 4 We’ll crowd thy gates with thankful songs, High as the heavens our voices raise; And earth, with her ten thousand tongues, Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise. 5 Wide as the world is thy command, Vast as eternity thy love; Firm as a rock thy truth shall stand, When rolling years shall cease to move. Scripture: Psalm 100 Used With Tune: [All people that on earth do dwell]