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  The Beauty of the Earth seas and skies These three sing in one accord The good the beautiful and true All sing of the beauty of the Lord And it’s more than just a story Its more than just a tale It’s the witness of His glory And it will never fail Till He returns And so I will yearn To see with eyes of faith And to feel our passions burn To you oh Lord we raise A song of hope a song of praise We’ll sing that song for all our days So we sing of the beauty of the Lord In the earth and in the starfields The beauty of the Lord is revealed To whomever ever has eyes to see It’s glorious picture it will yield And it’s more than just a story Its more than just a tale It’s the witness of His glory And it will never fail Till He returns And so I will yearn To see with eyes of faith And to feel our passions burn To you oh Lord we raise A song of hope a song of praise We’ll sing that song for all our days So we sing of the beauty of the Lord After Folliott Sandford Pierpoint September 2005/M...

  Here in this cradle, here in this manger,  Here in this lowly place Here in this danger, he is no stranger Here we can see God’s face Now glory is a human Now glory pays a cost The glory that we dreamed of Looks like weakness and loss  We dreamed of glory, how could we know? The Lord of Hosts could stoop so low And heaven would come to earth To declare His matchless worth We dreamed of glory, how could we know? The Lord of Hosts could stoop so low And heaven would come to earth To declare His matchless worth December 2005/March 9, 2021 Anthony Foster

What kind of love is this That saves me from Hell’s dark abyss? I pray a prayer to this bold end My Savior’s kiss to apprehend. Precious love, precious lover  Of my soul- there is none other  This my passion, this my pleasure This is my perfect priceless treasure What kind of love is this The depths of which I dare not miss Are its heights known only above Oh this marvelous and matchless love Precious love, precious lover  Of my soul- there is none other  This my passion, this my pleasure This is my perfect priceless treasure July 25, 2010/March 8, 2021 Anthony Foster

  Let us sing our devotion to the Lord Let us sing with emotion to the Lord He is worthy Now to be adored So let us sing unto the Lord Every flower shall open Every rock cry out We will place our hope in You and sing and shout Oh we’ll laugh together as we dance and sing Of all the mercies we have ever known We’ll become an offering to our Lord and King Bringing glory to our Lord alone Let us sing our devotion to the Lord Let us sing with emotion to the Lord He is worthy Now to be adored So let us sing unto the Lord May 2009/March 9, 2021 Anthony Foster

Speak Lord and let me hear Give me a listening ear That I may apprehend The voice of my Lord,  That Your word may it rend My heart like a sword Separate between the marrow and bone Until all I perceive is You alone Lord help me hear  Lord help me fear My heart will rejoice When I hear your voice I want to obey  Every word that you say So Lord help me hear Make your voice clear I would do your will I would walk your way Write your words on my heart  Each and every day I seek your word And I seek your will My mind your thoughts you fill Lord out of the chaos and out of the noise Make a silent place in my heart to rejoice That the way is obvious As we go from dust to dust In your Word Lord may I trust When I hear your Word Help me to hear  And help me to fear With humble attention As you draw near Make your pleasure clear Lord help me hear July 25, 2010. March 8, 2021 Anthony Foster

  In the silence of the lonely night In the fulsome glow of day’s clear light Through life’s strange windings, dark or bright We will follow YOU Strengthened by  You we forward go Midst smile of scoff or friend or foe In pleasure of pain or joy or woe We will follow YOU So Master point to us the way Oh suffer not our steps to stray Reveal the path that leads today We will follow YOU With enemies on every side We lean on You, the crucified Forsaking all on earth beside We will follow YOU You have passed on before our face Your footsteps on the Way we trace Oh keep us, aid us by Your grace We will follow YOU Who have we in heaven above? And who on earth save You to love? Still in Your light we onward move We will follow YOU So Master point to us the way Oh suffer not our steps to stray Reveal the path that leads today We will follow YOU July 20, 2010/March 8, 2021 after Horatius Bonar update and music by Anthony Foster

This world will leave you a widow all alone If you would wander away from the throne It will leave you an orphan in the street And you will never be quite complete. For this hard world forsakes its own It really don’t care and it makes it known But the orphan and widow can be restored There is a husband and Father in the Lord The widow becomes a part of His bride ‘Neath the shelter of glorious wings you may hide The orphans are adopted as daughters and sons There will be a new birth and new life has begun And all will be reconciled If you come to him like a child. Behold what manner of love the Father Has given unto us Now we might be called sons and daughters If we will learn to trust We gain a heritage and we become heirs The Father and Bridegroom take us in their  care For the forsaken woman and the forsaken man Can have their names written on the palm of His hand July 25, 2010/March 8, 2021 Anthony Foster

When you strike rock bottom  With a sense helplessness,  You may have struck the Rock of Ages.  Underneath your hopelessness Oh lift up your head From you knees look up Take the wine and the bread  The drink in the cup There on your knees  look up at His feet On the cross Christ decrees Death will die in defeat So I must worship, worship the King His sovereign majesty rules over everything And so I will worship may His praise fill the earth! Lift up your head and declare the savior’s worth A bruised reed he will not break Nor quench the ember,  nor forsake The one who casts himself on grace Lift up your head and seek His face So I must worship, worship the King His sovereign majesty rules over everything And so I will worship may His praise fill the earth! Lift up your head and declare the Savior’s worth May 2009/March 9, 2021 Anthony Foster

  We tread out time, we dance in our doubt We suppress the truth lest it find us out But the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. All we like sheep have gone astray  We have turned every one to his own way But the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. He became sin for us He who knew no sin For he knows that we are but dust But this dust he shall defend And he was cut off on that tree Alone forsaken for you and for me That we might become righteousness Now the substitute scapegoat we confess By his wounds now we are healed By His Spirit we are sealed The suffering servant from above Laid down his life for us in love All we like sheep have gone astray  We have turned every one to his own way But the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. July 25, 2010/March 9, 2021 Anthony Foster

  You are the Lord, you are my King You are the source of everything You are the Lord, to You I pray You’ve given me another day Lord I will praise you Lift my heart up to you Over the heavens For you are the Lord! You are the Lord, in You I trust You formed my body from the dust You are the Lord, my Righteousness You have revealed your holiness! So I will praise you With my voice raise you up! Over the heavens For you are the Lord! July 25, 2010/March 8, 2021 Anthony Foster

Lord help me please, I fall on my knees Lift up my head so my heart sees… What I should do, I want to be through With all these distractions that cloud my view. Help me to follow through. Help me depend on You. Lord I would follow you Lord I would follow you I am but dust. Lord help me trust, Help me repent of what I must. From henceforth I flee my faith’s poverty Lord help me find my destiny Help me to follow through. Help me depend on You. Lord I would follow you Lord I would follow you July 25, 2010/ March 8, 2021 Anthony Foster

Time and trouble take their toll On each weary sinsick soul Beauty breaks and  lustre fades The moth marauds, the thief invades Wrecked and ruined, and disgraced Former glory now a waste This world will steal what’s good and true Things fall apart- that’s nothing new. But the broken can be beautiful again More glorious that it ever  could have been Not one reproach is beyond repair Take it to the Master healer and leave it there Some things just can’t be healed with time Our chaos cannot make a perfect rhyme The missing pieces He’ll replace The deepest wounds can be healed by grace For God can take a mind and make it new He takes a crooked soul and  makes it true He can resurrect a valley  of dry bones So He can change a broken heart of stone Yes, the broken can be beautiful again More glorious that it ever  could have been Not one reproach is beyond repair Take it to the Master healer and leave it there March 19, 2021 Anthony Foster

Jesus is Lord of the Harvest Jesus is Lord of the Spring Lord of the hungry and thirsty Of His mercies we ever shall sing For the truth is , the Truth is Jesus He is the Word of God who frees us Do you know him this way? Do you trust and obey? Do you know, do you know my Jesus? Lord I give everything to you Live by grace now in all I do I’ll do just what you want me to Lord I give everything to you Bridge He breaks our bondage and sets us free To become what we were made to be In the wisdom of wonder for eternity The truth shall set us free The truth shall set us free As the world turns, I will turn too When it turns away, Lord I’ll turn to you When the world turns away Or stops turning some day I will go on, go on with you And the truth is , the Truth is Jesus He is the Word of God who frees us Do you know him this way? Do you trust and obey? Do you know my Jesus? March 17, 2021 Anthony Foster

Heavenly peace is what I need Peace that overwhelms my thoughts and deeds Heavenly peace flows from your grace And is mine as I rest in your embrace You took  the wrath I did the math I had  nihilo and nada But you made a path I was in chains, a prisoner of war I was Your avowed enemy but you settled the score This is my destiny, my release Life’s victory is found in heavenly peace Declared righteous by your work You made the great exchange  Now there is no condemnation No guilt remains! Heavenly peace is what I need Peace that overwhelms my thoughts and deeds Heavenly peace flows from your grace And is mine as I rest in your embrace July 25, 2010/March 8, 2021 Anthony Foster

  Your lovingkindness is my confidence Your lovingkindness forms my sure defense So in your kindness I will rest And seek to bless as I am blessed Your lovingkindness flows over me It heals my blindness and makes me see. Unto repentance your kindness shall lead Your lovingkind blood I will plead Your lovingkindness Lord is what I need Bridge The kindness of my Father changes everything It is the ground I stand on and the song I sing It fills the earth with glory and softens the hard heart It has become my portion and my part Your lovingkindness flows over me It heals my blindness and makes me see. Unto repentance your kindness shall lead Your lovingkind blood I will plead Your lovingkindness Lord is what I need July 25, 2010/March 8, 2021 Anthony Foster

Only You can make me holy You the source, the One and only Perfect provider, help me stand For you provide what you command Here on my knees, here on my face I enter in and receive grace Set me apart- Lord change my fate Open my heart and consecrate Me only to you Holy to you I will stand and enter in Placed in Your Son, you cast out my sin So I am holy in your eyes I hope to never compromise Here on my knees, here on my face I enter in and receive grace Set me apart- Lord change my fate Open my heart and consecrate Me only to you Holy to you Holy to You , Lord. Holy to You July 2010/March 2021 Anthony Foster

When this old world wraps up, what will you do? What will you do with Jesus when this life is through? The day is dawning,  You know its coming So what will you do with Jesus, Lord of Glory? He’s coming to you What will you do with Jesus- will you serve him Before this life is through? He’s all we have When this old world is wrapping up He’s all we have So eat from His table, drink from His cup When this old world wraps up, what will you do? What will you do with Jesus when this life is through? May 2010/March 2021 Anthony Foster

We need green growth in this wormwood A resurgence of the flame Lord we need more than revival Resurrection is our aim For the bones of former glories Have descended to the dust Our sepulchres are whitened And our swords are red with rust Chorus To see the glory of the Lord arise Putting the old man to shame Bring the sacrifice to the altar And see it consumed by your flame Where is new life from this cesspool? And new passion to spark the fire? From the culture’s conflagration Birth a holy new desire! Lord in this generation  Raise a remnant filled with power Who will call upon the nations To repent in this dark hour Bridge For the smoke is on the water And the workmen wear their wage But our Lord is at the rudder As we navigate this age Chorus To see the glory of the Lord arise Putting the old man to shame Bring the sacrifice to the altar And see it consumed by your flame May 19, 2010/March 8, 2021 Anthony Foster  

God of all my consolations In you perfect peace is found I will take my rest  Lay my head on your breast I will lay my body down God of satisfying solace As I abide I will abound When nightfall takes its toll My heart you console As I lay my body down  God who is my fortress refuge To my dwelling-place I’m bound I am safe from harm In everlasting arms Where I’ve laid my body down God of all my heavenly comfort When I’m laid into the ground Even then I’m blessed Entered into rest When they lay my body down The eternal God is your dwelling place,  and underneath are the everlasting arms.” (Deuteronomy 33:27) Nov 20, 2009/ March 7, 2021 Anthony Foster

For our souls are dry as dust Give us new ears to hear Lord and draw us near As you declare us just. For a dead man to believe And your holy grace receive By the work of your Spirit Alone we will hear it And a new life is conceived. Chorus By Your Word and your Will A vacant heart is filled It’s impossible until you come We are dead in our sin And we cannot begin Till to us your kingdom comes. And then your will is done. Turn our hearts to You alone As we kneel before your throne For it’s not up to us In Your work we must trust In the kindness you have shown Then we’ll know as we are known. So turn our hearts to You Make our hard hearts new Lord waken the dead Bring life to dry bones Then our spirits are fed By the mercies you’ve shown August 25, 2009/March 8, 2021  

Take me to your side Lord It’s there I want to hide, Lord Beneath your sheltering wondrous wings Above the turmoil sinning brings Here in your Holy presence Here in your holy presence Coram Deo Here before your face Coram Deo To stand by your amazing grace Coram Deo Boldly now I come  To stand before your throne For I have been undone By the kindness you have shown. I’ve been wandering in my wilderness Lord I just want to come home! To know the fullness of the glory To behold it in your face Oh the fullness of the glory As I melt in your embrace! October 3, 2005 renewed 3/6/2021 Anthony Foster