OzThoughts- Sunday Hymns and Psalms.
Susan Lehmann
SUNDAY OF ADVENT
This is the day the LORD has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it. (Psalm
118:24 New International Version)
PRAYER:
Almighty God,
to whom all hearts are open,
all desires known
and from whom no secrets are hidden:
cleanse the thoughts of our hearts,
by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit,
that we may perfectly love you,
and worthily magnify your holy name,
through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Psalm 80:1-7 (The Message)
1-2 Listen, Shepherd, Israel's
Shepherd-
Get all your Joseph sheep together.
Throw beams of light
from your dazzling throne
So Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh
can see where they're going.
Get out of bed-you've slept long enough!
Come on the run before it's too late.
3 God, come back!
Smile your blessing smile:
That will be our salvation.
4-6 God,
God-of-the-Angel-Armies,
how long will you smolder like a sleeping
volcano
while your people call for fire and
brimstone?
You put us on a diet of tears,
bucket after bucket of salty tears to
drink.
You make us look ridiculous to our friends;
our enemies poke fun day after day.
7 God-of-the-Angel-Armies, come back!
Smile your blessing smile:
That will be our
salvation.
The
Salvation Army Song Book: Song Number: 84
Authors:
Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
[Listen: Songsters: http://www.salvoaudio.com/audio/music/mus_3204.mp3
or
Congregation: http://salvoaudio.com/audio/music/mus_3253.mp3
]
Joy to the world! the Lord is come;
Let earth receive her King,
Let every heart prepare him room
And Heaven and nature sing.
2.
Joy to the world! the Saviour reigns;
Let men their songs employ,
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and
plains
Repeat the sounding joy.
3.
He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of his righteousness
And wonders of his love.
Psalm 113 (The Message)
1-3 Hallelujah! You who serve God,
praise God!
Just to speak his name is praise!
Just to remember God
is a blessing-
now and tomorrow and always.
From east to west, from dawn to dusk,
keep lifting all your praises to God!
4-9 God is higher
than anything and anyone,
outshining everything you can see in the
skies.
Who can compare with God,
our God,
so majestically enthroned,
Surveying his magnificent
heavens and earth?
He picks up the poor from out of the dirt,
rescues the wretched who've been thrown out
with the trash,
Seats them among the honored guests,
a place of honor among the brightest and
best.
He gives childless couples a family,
gives them joy as the parents of children.
Hallelujah!
The
Salvation Army Song Book: Song Number: 20
Author: James Montgomery (1771-1854)
[Listen: http://salvoaudio.com/audio/music/mus_2972.mp3
]
Stand up and bless the Lord,
Ye people of his choice;
Stand up and bless the Lord your God
With heart and soul and voice.
Chorus
Praise ye the Lord, hallelujah!
2.
Though high above all praise,
Above all blessing high,
Who would not fear his holy name,
And laud and magnify?
3.
O for the living flame
From his own altar brought,
To touch our lips, our minds inspire,
And wing to Heaven our thought!
4.
God is our strength and song,
And his salvation ours;
Then be his love in Christ proclaimed
With all our ransomed powers.
5.
Stand up and bless the Lord,
The Lord your God adore;
Stand up and bless his glorious name
Henceforth for evermore.
PRAYER:
O
Lord, raise up your power, and come among us, and with great might comfort
us;
that whereas, through our sins and wickedness, we are tired and hindered in
running the race that is
set before us, your bountiful grace and mercy may speedily help and deliver
us;
through the sacrifice of your Son our Lord, to whom with you and the Holy
Spirit be honor and glory, world without end. Amen.
Meditation: Selection of Carols and
Christmas Songs
(The Pasadena Tabernacle Songsters)
http://www.salvoaudio.com/audio/music4/mus_6072.mp3
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Veil
Ministries
presents
a
Carol Service
for
18th December 2011
http://www.veilministries.org/3rd_sunday.html
(OzThoughts has no connection with Veil
Ministries but believes it is a great concept in ministry)
Veil Ministries was originally produced for
those who, for any reason, were unable to attend a church service. If
regular
church-goers also find the site useful, we are pleased to welcome you, too.
The
ministry welcomes Christians of all denominations and seeks to share the
Christian way of life with those who find they can identify with its
ministry.
The title of the web site, 'Veil Ministries' was chosen as a reminder that
the
sacrifice of Jesus made it possible for us all to have access to God through
him. The veil beyond which only the High Priest had been allowed to go, was
now
torn to give us all access to the holy of holies.
(And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the
bottom -Matt. 27:51)
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