OzThoughts Sunday Hymns and Psalms
Susan Lehmann
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THIRD
SUNDAY OF ADVENT
This is the day which the Lord has made. We
will rejoice and be glad in it.
(Psalm 118.24).
PRAYER:
Eternal God and Father, by whose power we are created and by whose love we
are redeemed: guide and strengthen us by your Spirit, that we may give
ourselves to your service, and live this day in love to one another and to
you;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (A
Prayer Book for Australia).
The
Salvation Army Song Book: Song Number: 17
Authors:
Henry Francis Lyte (1793-1847)
[Listen: Choir: http://www.salvoaudio.com/audio/music3/mus_4785.mp3
or
Listen: Band: http://www.salvoaudio.com/audio/music3/mus_4959.mp3
or
Look and listen: Congregation and choir:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxavNfM6jXw
or
Look and listen: Band; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wATmh5ovndI
]
Praise, my soul, the King the Heaven,
To his feet thy tribute bring;
Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven,
Who like thee his praise should sing?
Praise Him!
Praise the everlasting King.
2.
Praise him for this grace and favor
To our fathers in distress;
Praise him still the same as ever,
Slow to chide and swift to bless;
Praise him!
Glorious in his faithfulness.
3.
Father-like he tends and spares us;
Well our feeble frame he knows,
In his hands he gently bears us,
Rescues us from all our foes.
Praise him!
Widely as his mercy flows.
4.
Angels in the heights adore him,
Ye behold him face to face;
Sun and moon bow down before him:
Dwellers all in time and space,
Praise him!
Praise with us the God of grace.
Psalm
146 (The Message)
1-2 Hallelujah! O my soul, praise God!
All my life long I'll praise God,
singing songs to my God as long as I live.
3-9 Don't put your life in the hands of experts
who know nothing of life, of salvation
life.
Mere humans don't have what it takes;
when they die, their projects die with
them.
Instead, get help from the God of Jacob,
put your hope in God and know real
blessing!
God made sky and soil,
sea and all the fish in it.
He always does what he says-
he defends the wronged,
he feeds the hungry.
God frees prisoners-
he gives sight to the blind,
he lifts up the fallen.
God loves good
people, protects strangers,
takes the side of orphans and widows,
but makes short work of the wicked.
10 God's in
charge-always.
Zion's
God is God for good!
Hallelujah!
The
Salvation Army Song Book: Song Number: 438
Authors:
Charles Wesley (1707-88)
[Listen:
http://www.salvoaudio.com/audio/music3/mus_4440.mp3
or
Look and Listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfo1WSjwM5Y
Or
Look and Listen: (Cathedral Choir):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAJbMcQRfy0]
Love divine, all loves excelling,
Joy of Heaven, to earth come down,
Fix in us thy humble dwelling,
All thy faithful mercies crown.
Jesus, thou art all compassion,
Pure, unbounded love thou art;
Visit us with thy salvation,
Enter every longing heart.
2.
Come, almighty to deliver,
Let us all thy grace receive;
Suddenly return, and never,
Never more thy temples leave.
Thee we would be always blessing,
Serve thee as thy hosts above;
Pray and praise thee without ceasing,
Glory in thy perfect love.
3.
Finish then thy new creation,
Pure and spotless let us be;
Let us see thy great salvation,
Perfectly restored in thee.
Changed from glory into glory,
Till in Heaven we take our place,
Till we cast our crowns before thee,
Lost in wonder, love and praise.
Isaiah 35:1-10 (The Message)
1-2 Wilderness and desert
will sing joyously, the badlands will celebrate and flower-
Like the crocus in spring, bursting into blossom,
a symphony of song and color.
Mountain glories of Lebanon-a
gift.
Awesome Carmel,
stunning Sharon-gifts.
God's resplendent glory, fully on display.
God awesome, God majestic.
3-4Energize the limp hands,
strengthen the rubbery knees.
Tell fearful souls,
"Courage! Take heart!
God is here, right here,
on his way to put things right
And redress all wrongs.
He's on his way! He'll save you!"
5-7Blind eyes will be opened,
deaf ears unstopped,
Lame men and women will leap like deer,
the voiceless break into song.
Springs of water will burst out in the wilderness,
streams flow in the desert.
Hot sands will become a cool oasis,
thirsty ground a splashing fountain.
Even lowly jackals will have water to drink,
and barren grasslands flourish richly.
8-10There will be a highway
called the Holy
Road.
No one rude or rebellious
is permitted on this road.
It's for God's people exclusively-
impossible to get lost on this road.
Not even fools can get lost on it.
No lions on this road,
no dangerous wild animals-
Nothing and no one dangerous or threatening.
Only the redeemed will walk on it.
The people God has ransomed
will come back on this road.
They'll sing as they make their way home to Zion,
unfading halos of joy encircling their heads,
Welcomed home with gifts of joy and gladness
as all sorrows and sighs scurry into the night.
PRAYER:
Almighty God, you have made us and all
things to serve you: come quickly to
save us, so that wars and violence shall
end and your children may live in peace,
honouring one another with justice and
love; through Jesus Christ, your Son our
Lord, who lives with you in the unity of
the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for
ever. Amen
MEDITATION:
Once in Royal David
City:
http://www.salvoaudio.com/audio/music/mus_3120.mp3
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