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When We All Get to Heaven

Author: Eliza E. Hewitt Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 298 hymnals Topics: New Heaven and a New Earth Death and Eternal Life; Heaven First Line: Sing the wondrous love of Jesus Lyrics: 1. Sing the wondrous love of Jesus; sing his mercy and his grace. In the mansions bright and blessed he'll prepare for us a place. Refrain: When we all get to heaven, what a day of rejoicing that will be! When we all see Jesus, we'll sing and shout the victory! 2. While we walk the pilgrim pathway, clouds will overspread the sky; but when traveling days are over, not a shadow, not a sigh. (Refrain) 3. Let us then be true and faithful, trusting, serving every day; just one glimpse of him in glory will the toils of life repay. (Refrain) 4. Onward to the prize before us! Soon his beauty we'll behold; soon the pearly gates will open; we shall tread the streets of gold. (Refrain) Used With Tune: HEAVEN

In the Sweet By and By

Author: Sanford F. Bennet, 1836-1898 Meter: 9.9.9.9 with refrain Appears in 658 hymnals Topics: Heaven and Eternity First Line: There's a land that is fairer than day Used With Tune: SWEET BY AND BY

Heaven is my home

Author: Thomas R. Taylor Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.6.6.4 Appears in 626 hymnals Topics: Heavenly Mind First Line: I'm but a stranger here Lyrics: 1 I'm but a stranger here, Heaven is my home; Earth is a desert drear; Heaven is my home. Danger and sorrow stand Round me on every hand, Heaven is my fatherland, Heaven is my home. 2 What though the tempest rage? Heaven is my home; Short is my pilgrimage, Heaven is my home; And time's wild wintry blast Soon shall be overpast, I shall reach home at last; Heaven is my home. 3 There at my Savior's side, Heaven is my home; I shall be glorified, Heaven is my home; There are the good and blest, Those I love most and best, Grant me with them to rest; Heaven is my home. 4 Therefore I murmur not, Heaven is my home; Whate'er my earthly lot, Heaven is my home. And I shall surely stand There at my Lord's right hand, Heaven is my fatherland: Heaven is my home! Used With Tune: [I'm but a stranger here]

Blessed Assurance

Author: Fanny J. Crosby, 1820-1915 Meter: 9.10.9.9 with refrain Appears in 1,059 hymnals Topics: Heaven, Eternal Life First Line: Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! Refrain First Line: This is my story, this is my song Lyrics: 1 Blessed assurance: Jesus is mine! Oh, 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 blest; watching and waiting, looking above, filled with his goodness, lost in his love. [Refrain] Scripture: Genesis 28:10-17 Used With Tune: ASSURANCE

On Jordan's Stormy Banks

Author: Samuel Stennett Meter: 8.6.8.6 with refrain Appears in 1,331 hymnals Topics: Eternal Life, Heaven First Line: On Jordan's stormy banks I stand Refrain First Line: I am bound for the promised land Lyrics: 1 On Jordan's stormy banks I stand And cast a wishful eye To Canaan's fair and happy land, Where my possessions lie. Chorus: I am bound for the promised land, I am bound for the promised land; O who will come and go with me? I am bound for the promised land. 2 All o'er those wide-extended plains Shines one eternal day; There God the Son forever reigns And scatters night away. [Chorus] 3 No chilling winds nor pois'nous breath Can reach that healthful shore; Sickness and sorrow, pain and death Are felt and feared no more. [Chorus] 4 When shall I reach that happy place And be forever blest? When shall I see my Father's face And in His bosom rest? [Chorus] Used With Tune: PROMISED LAND

The Unclouded Day

Author: J. K. A. Appears in 201 hymnals Topics: Heaven and Home First Line: O they tell me of a home far beyond the skies Refrain First Line: O the land of cloudless day Used With Tune: [O they tell me of a home far beyond the skies]

O for a thousand tongues to sing

Author: C. Wesley Appears in 1,736 hymnals Topics: Christ Heavenly Lamb; Lamb Christ, the Heavenly Lyrics: 1. O for a thousand tongues to sing My great Redeemer's praise, The glories of my God and King, The triumphs of His grace! 2. My gracious Master and my God, Assist me to proclaim, To spread through all the earth abroad The honours of Thy Name. 3. Jesus! the Name that charms our fears, That bids our sorrows cease; 'Tis music in the sinner's ears, 'Tis life, and health, and peace. 4. He breaks the power of cancelled sin, He sets the prisoner free; His blood can make the foulest clean, His blood availed for me. 5. See all your sins on Jesus laid: The Lamb of God was slain, His soul was once an offering made For every soul of man. Used With Tune: WINCHESTER OLD

What a Day That Will Be

Author: Jim Hill, 1930- Meter: Irregular Appears in 14 hymnals Topics: Heaven and Eternity First Line: There is coming a day when no heartaches shall come Refrain First Line: What a day that will be when my Jesus I shall see Used With Tune: WHAT A DAY

Precious Lord, Take My Hand

Author: Thomas A. Dorsey, 1899-1993 Meter: 6.6.9 D Appears in 112 hymnals Topics: Heaven Scripture: Psalm 139:10 Used With Tune: PRECIOUS LORD

How Great Thou Art

Author: Carl Boberg, 1850-1940; Stuart K. Hine, 1899-1989 Meter: 11.10.11.10 with refrain Appears in 137 hymnals Topics: Eternal Life/Heaven; Eternal Life/Heaven; Eternal Life/Heaven First Line: O Lord my God! When I in awesome wonder Refrain First Line: Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to thee Scripture: Deuteronomy 3:23 Used With Tune: O STORE GUD