AnthonyFosterPhD

Over the chaos your Spirit hovered A formless and void nothing your presence covered You called light out of darkness Tamed the monstrous deep You began the promise you promised to keep From what sleeping rocks dream of sprang reality And tohu va vohu begat boundless beauty You spoke into chaos- lo, your will was done Creation was sourced in Father Spirit and Son Chorus You still speak to dark waters, change chaos to rhyme You speak your Good Word in and out all of time In every  conflict the victory's won You speak to dark waters, lo, your will is done... The One Eternal Word was spoken in grace To every danger and wildness and waste For every life that seems formless and void Now even death by that Word is destroyed To whatever darkness and chaos you face The Lord will speak power and mercy and grace He'll  speak into the darkness and light issues forth And faith comes by hearing and knowing its worth Chorus You still speak to dark waters, change chaos to rhyme You speak you...

Lord you make a way  for us And guide us with your light through the shadows in the valley And on through the darkest night Lord we want to bless your name Your mercies overflow Abounding love shall be our guide And all we need to know. Your grace is sufficient More than sufficient It burst the boundaries we set It floods our soul with deep content Your grace is sufficient More than sufficient Your grace is sufficient for me. All that is in me, all that I am There is nothing I would withhold Power is perfected in my weakness Your presence Lord will make me bold Your grace is sufficient More than sufficient It burst the boundaries we set It floods our soul with deep content Your grace is sufficient More than sufficient Your grace is sufficient for me. I want to live with grace I want to die with grace Like a chariot of fire I want to fly to your embrace Your grace is sufficient More than sufficient It burst the boundaries we set It floods our soul with deep content Your grace is suf...

Every prayer is a psalm unto the Lord He hears each petition that's outpoured When to the Lord we turn He hears the hearts that yearn In prayer His good pleasure we afford For when I learn to sing my prayer A new song of praise my lips shall bear As I learn to raise This sacrifice of praise It becomes a fragrance beyond compare. Chorus Lord turn my prayer into a song That I might sing it all day long And your perfect peace Will never cease To make this frail child strong. As prayer turns to praise his presence God imparts This peaceable fruit becomes a work of His art The Lord is glorified As His name is lifted High And in turn The Lord lifts up our hearts. Bridge His presence provides a healing balm When our prayer becomes a psalm Our minds  and spirits  Christ will calm I will pray with my spirit, I will pray with my mind I will sing  with my spirit, I will sing with my mind Chorus Lord turn my prayer into a song That I might sing it all day long And your perfect peace ...

Taste and see -Taste and see the Lord, the Lord He is good... Let your heart come and savor righteousness Taste and see-Tune your heart and mind till you have understood Partake of the holy flavor of blessedness Come enjoy the pleasures this world can't replace Come develop a palate for mercy and grace Don't be satisfied with morsels,  come to His feast Savor the flavor of glory and see it released. Taste and see-For of the shadows you have had a foretaste For echoes of glory are everywhere Taste and see-Now savor the substance on which they are based For in Christ is every answer to your prayers You have basked in His warm rays, now look at the Son Let your heart heed the music and be overcome Oh don't let your deepest hunger be denied. Go on to the banquet and be satisfied Taste and see...-Focus your eyes and His splendor you'll face I pray you'll pursue with all your might Taste and see-At the cross is displayed mercy truth and great grace Now taste of pure glory...

There's a light shining in the darkness so men might have sight In our hearts - it overcomes the darkest night There's a light-driving out the darkness from eternity May it shine-So that everyone might see. There's a hope in a word that is true In this hope, we can all be made new For it proves itself faithful throughout all of time We believe in this light, light so sublime In this light-The knowledge of great glory is now revealed   Op'n our eyes  to see what was once concealed There is love By the Spirit shed abroad in our hearts And a hope that springs eternal it imparts. There is hope in this light that is true There is joy in a dawn ever new There is peace and the promise of permanent release There is love for the very least of these There is light  Shining from the glory of His face So we walk  In the marvelous light of this grace  And this light Illumines  souls who his name confess We are lights of the world destined to bless Bridge: Now as our hea...

Your Word is light and hope to us Your promise and commands Make our hearts to burn in us Help us understand! Light our paths with radiance Reveal to us the way For with this gift our heart repents Now teach us how to pray Oh Lord where else can we go? You are the Living Word You are the Light we need to know The Word of Life that must be heard Your word is like a two edged sword Striking to our core Dividing truth from error It stands forevermore. Your word is truth unvarnished Good news for us to hear It never returns void To those with a list'ning ear. Oh Lord where else can we go? You are the Living Word You are the Light we need to know The Word of Life that must be heard May 10, 2020 Anthony Foster 

There is a time, I know not when, A place, I know not where, Which marks the destiny of men To heaven or despair. There is a line by us not seen Which crosses every path, The hidden boundary between God’s patience and His wrath. How long may men go on in sin? How long will God forbear? Where does hope end, and where begin The confines of despair? One answer from those skies is sent, “You who from God depart, Now hear the Good News and repent, and harden not your heart.” Oh trust  in a dear Savior whose work made wrath relent Receive the gift of grace fall on your knees and now repent. Confess your sin to Jesus  for He is faithful He is true He'll cleanse all your unrighteousness, forgive and  make you new. Touch our hearts, Oh God- Your touch is what we need For sin sick souls require-from sin to be freed. Come now still and  small-or touch us with your fire When we receive your touch-You are our heart's desire. Touch us anew with glory for this glory we pray  T...

Help me for I am fallen and I cannot get up The dust that I am made of is calling unto dust  Help me for I am broken and But all I see is pain  Blinded by lesser graces the Grace of God I fain I sang a Christian song I prayed a Christian prayer Heard countless Christian sermons  In a building burning with despair Is any lostness worse than remaining lost  while believing that you’re found?  Is there a greater obscene cost than being hell bound Strip away distractions Take away dissatisfactions I fill my life with, to my loss I cannot discern the cost Now let it all be sacrificed, if it will get me more of Christ.  Now let it all be sacrificed, if it will get me more of Christ. Drinking sand in a desert While thinking it was wine To play the saint to play the game, faining pearls just like the swine  I sat in my finest church clothes Running straight to hell Lost in a dire delusion Sinking at perditions well Feeding fatal dreams while hiding my contempt...

He who made the Pleiades and Orion,  and darkens day to night, and it is done  and turns deep darkness into the dawn who calls the waters of the sea His pawn and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name- the name of matchless worth! We name the sovereign name that we exalt and we adore  The name above all names-the Name of Christ our Lord  We lift your Name on High as we declare your fame So if we live or if we die we hallow your great name He who made the seashores and the dry land  And knows the number of the grains of sand  He who made the Scylla and Charibdis He made the tender mother's kiss He wove the wondrous warp and woof of woe  And made the blind and lame and deaf also. We name the sovereign name that we exalt and we adore  The name above all names-the Name of Christ our Lord  We lift your Name on High as we declare your fame So if we liv...