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We meet to part and part to meet The parting’s mostly bittersweet When one is absent from our space It leaves a hole one can’t replace When loved ones are called away To new horizons and can’t stay In the familiar anymore to remain We still miss them dearly clear and plain But there can be no regrets And we will nevermore forget The blessed tie that binds us still While they seek their calling to fulfill. Whether absent from the body  Or absent from this place The tie that binds us transcends time and space. The ties that bond us are the stuff of grace. I want to go there, where we shall never part A place where new beginnings find their start  Where memories and sweet endings dwell Together they  say “All is well!” I want to go there to those places in the heart… We meet to part and part to meet The parting’s mostly bittersweet We miss what never mattered much When one is absent from our touch But there can be no regrets And we will nevermore forget The blessed tie that ...

Lord crush me by the memories of my sin And train my heart to see sin that remains Search me and reveal to me Open my eyes that I might see And wash away all those filthy stains Lord give to me the gift of true repentance Quicken my heart to hear and heed your Word Make holiness the main value That while I live I will pursue The righteousness you’ve already conferred Then my sinful soul is changed forever And the seeds of holiness will come to flower For I will be transformed And to Jesus be conformed Supernaturally changed by your power Anthony Foster October 17, 2021

Sing, sing of the glories of the Lord The many faceted glories of the Lord The wonders of His grace The beauty of the Face That outshines every light this world affords. Sing sing of the glories of the Lord For His glory He abroad has shed Before the Glorious One Our souls become undone When from glory unto glory we are led Glory, glory, Hallelujah Revel in the Glory God reveals The glory of the Cross Exchanges gain for loss As our wounds He gloriously heals Sing sing of the glories of the Lord In the shekina of His presence now adore With your soul it is well When you come to dwell In the presence of His Glory evermore. Glory, glory, Hallelujah Revel in the Glory God reveals The glory of the Cross Exchanges gain for loss As our wounds He gloriously heals October 17, 2021 Anthony Foster  

We will worship the One who is worthy For You have changed our willful hearts of stone You have transformed us with quickened hearts of flesh And shown our minds what we had never known You have crushed us by the memories of our sin You have opened eyes to see sin that remains You have healed our broken spirits with your Word You have turned our deepest losses into gains Exalted One, Your name is Holy Write Your Word upon our hearts that we might know All the blessings now of dwelling in your presence And the glories of  residing in your temple here below Bridge Holy Holy Holy is your Name Your goodness and your mercy fuel your fame So we cast our souls upon you and proclaim You are the One from Age to Age the Same We will worship  as we come to stand boldly Before your high, majestic throne of Grace We shall revel in the knowledge of your person As we’re undone by the glory of your Face We will walk in wonder with your Holy Spirit And the holiness you author we’ll pursue...

A glorious symphony conceives inside my soul It wells up and my spirit raises up a sacred solo A melody joins in harmony-and music is formed With tempo and rhythm a newsong is born At first it may seem like an improvisation, They’re derived as part of the Creator’s creation A motif of mercy- makes a joyful noise As this music of myst’ry the Spirit employs I will sing with my spirit, I will sing with my mind I will sing with my spirit songs that are divine I will sing I will sing, with all that is in me All I am will echo with a soul symphony Like a furious, furtive fire in my bones A song is released as my spirit groans Sacrifices of praise become my offerings I am lifted up and my spirit sings Compositions authored by the Holy Ghost Ring out and are joined by the heavenly hosts Their angelic voices are lifted and raised To join with my song as I offer my praise I will sing with my spirit, I will sing with my mind I will sing with my spirit songs that are divine I will sing I will sing...

Too much of a good thing Too little of the bad Can both come to harm you They can drive you quite mad ‘Cause idols aren’t obvious Like a bad attitude  They can steal right up on you -They’re subtle and shrewd The lust of the flesh The lust of the eyes The pride of life Can be a surprise So man, pick your poison but better beware They’ll bring you down low and you’ll come to despair In the mind is the battle and that’s where it’s won Take every thought captive and when the day is done Next day there’s the conflict between right and wrong The poison will find you cause you ain’t that strong Each man has a cancer and there is no cure It started in Eden  and still it endures There’s only one treatment and only one plan ‘Cause God gets the glory  when in Him you stand The lust of the flesh The lust of the eyes The pride of life Can be a surprise So man, pick your poison but better beware He’ll take all Your poison –He’s your only prayer. Anthony Foster October 12, 2021  

The Lord declares His Word is like  A mighty a hammer in his  hand The stone shall break with every blow The rocks cannot withstand The Lord declares His Word is like A devastating fire That consumes  his enemies With ever righteous ire God’s wheels grind finely, this wood stubble and hay He will winnow them and a gale will blow them away.  He will thresh the mountains and crush them like chaff. These wheels are instruments of God’s righteous wrath. The hammer strikes and fire consumes One molds and shapes or means your doom The fire, it  burns or purifies The wheels are there to make you wise To what you are made of in God’s eyes. So in the hammer, fire and wheels The righteous rods of God reveal Whether wrath or grace attain When Man’s deep motives are made plain October 11, 2021 Anthony Foster  

I thank God that again and again  He has awakened my heart  to desire him,  I thank God that again and again  He has awakened my heart  to see him,  I thank God that again and again  He has awakened my heart  to sit down to His feast  And worship the King of Glory. I can see  What I might come to be If I sacrifice who I am In my eyes I can see  An eternity spent in resplendent Glory And deepest desires realized I can see The freedom of being set free From the things I renounce and I leave behind I can see With eyes of the heart opened to me A vision to transform my soul and my mind Bridge And I apprehend the unseen  Delights of my King Then the sacrifice I bring  becomes a paltry offering. Through His eyes The view from my window is changed Transformed into a vision of what is to be Through His eyes My window opens on a view so strange Beyond all I could ever have eyes  to see October 10, 2021 Anthony Foster  

The Lord is on His throne in heaven,  He rules and reigns the cosmos  and each soul According to His sovereign decree, it shall be He is working out all things  under His control The living God endures forever; This world He does transcend  His kingdom will not be destroyed,  His dominion will never end.  His kingdom will have no end. His kingdom will have no end. His kingdom will have no end. His kingdom will have no end. According to the counsel of His will (Eph. 1:11),  Even the hard things as he writes the story Directing them to our final good  And always  to His final glory.  The living God endures forever; This world He does transcend  His kingdom will not be destroyed,  His dominion will never end.  His kingdom will have no end. His kingdom will have no end. His kingdom will have no end. His kingdom will have no end.  Daniel 6:26 October 10, 2021 Anthony Foster  

Oh, while I move in You, Lord, go before me  You neither slumber, no, nor never sleep  In thy holy providence, Watch o’er me  All through the darkness I rest in your keep Oh look upon me with the eyes of mercy,  This wretched sinner make into a saint You are near to all who call upon Thee Strengthen me Lord, lest my faith shall faint. I pray  protect me from every danger,   so that neither fallen angels of the devil  nor any wicked enemy or stranger  may have any power to do me evil. Oh look upon me with your eyes of mercy,  This wretched sinner make into a saint You are near to all who call upon Thee Strengthen me Lord,  lest my faith shall faint. After a prayer by Lewis Bayly October 10,2021 Anthony Foster

Cleanse me with hyssop and I will be clean Lord open the book and let all be seen Make me reckon the realities of my soul Then wash me till I am whiter than snow Clear off the fog of my wretched path Filthy rags, fatal glories are storing up wrath Let your hammer and your Fire begin To Break my furious heart of Sin Each futile fatal hope will fail Every idiotic foolish tale Uttered by a dark, depraved mind Lord show light to the bullish and blind. Write my name in the Lamb’s book Cleanse every cranny, sweep every nook Lord I know well that I am not good. So cover me with your precious blood What your mirror reflects is not good news I am the man, there is no excuse Convicted by my own evidence Give me a new life, a life that repents Repent. Confess. Be Forgiven. October 10, 2021 Anthony Foster  

I am a sinner I confess I am one unholy mess Lord fix my heart on righteousness For you can save my soul Teach me Lord how to repent Make my temptations to relent Renew the Spirit you have sent And Lord  please take control Chorus Ever present help Help me your glory to know  Jesus have pity on me Cause my faith to rise and grow I am a fallen sinnerman Keep falling down, I cannot stand But if you take me by the hand I can finally get this right Like a dumb sheep I’ve gone astray Gone time and again to my own way But you can set me straight today And bring me into light Ever present help Help me your glory to know  Jesus have pity on me Cause my faith to rise and grow October 10, 2021 Anthony Foster  

There is a darkness all around underneath a thin veneer A degradation there is found that mortals tend to fear There in this present darkness deep Souls cry for help and for relief They are weeping through the night, And longing for the light But the night is nearly over;  the day is now in sight  So put aside the deeds of darkness  and put on the armor of light. The dawn has come.  Our God shall make the way Nothing can stop the rising  of the Son to fullest day. So Light my path and load my heart Light my path and load my heart Light my path and load my heart With the fiery light of the Lord The closer we draw to the light The clearer we apprehend The darkness that indwells our souls We no longer can pretend So be a lamp unto my feet A light unto my path Lord show me clearly what I am And save me from your wrath Light my path and load my heart Light my path and load my heart Light my path and load my heart With the fiery light of the Lord! October 10, 2021 Ant...

Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, and a new shelter brings It flutters over its young, spreading out its wings,  Catching them, bearing them, on its pinions they arise No other God is WITH us For the LORD alone guides. We are lifted up, lifted up we arise We are lifted up into the sonlit skies And as we soar on high the things of earth will fade Oe’r mountain tops, upon the heights we’re stayed My mighty tower and strong defense-He guards his children’s souls He is our only confidence- When this world takes its toll Ever present help- cause our faith to rise and grow Draw us up beyond the storm that shakes the earth below We are lifted up, lifted up we rise We are lifted up into the sonlit skies And as we soar on high the things of earth will fade Oe’r mountain top upon the heights we’re stayed Deuteronomy 32:11 October 10, 2021 Anthony Foster  

Oh Lord I gaze upon your beauty Compelled and constrained by the sight No longer will I serve out of duty But rather the duty of delight Your beauty is more than fairest I tremble as I seek your face Surpassing the finest and rarest Is the jewel of your beautiful grace Chorus Beautiful heart of Jesus Your glory is to be adored Jesus your heart is so lovely I delight in your beauty my Lord Reveal now the beauty of meekness The beauty of holiness show Disclose the perfect power in weakness The glory of the cross help me know Jesus your beauty astounds me Greater than any work of divine art With your bonny presence surround me I revel in your beautiful heart. Chorus Beautiful heart of Jesus Your glory is to be adored Jesus your heart is so lovely I delight in your beauty my Lord I delight in Your beauty my Lord! October 10, 2021 Anthony Foster  

These times, these times are not by chance There is nothing no, there is no circumstance There is no past nor present act that I have ever done That God cannot redeem- no not even one The weaver weaves His wondrous art From failures’ threads that have fallen apart And our stuff of hay, stubble and wood What men mean for evil He means for the good Oh Weaver of Wonders you weave wondrously Each life is a picture you plan we can’t see All things work together in this tapestry Oh Weaver of wonders you weave life for me I can rest in this  since I have understood God weaves a tapestry that’s beautiful and good Glorious images these threads can assume The warp and the woof of a life on His loom Oh Weaver of Wonders you weave wondrously Each life is a picture you plan we can’t see All things work together in this tapestry Oh Weaver of wonders you weave life for me Anthony Foster October 9, 2021

I recall I had the best laid plans -That I thought that I could understand And they led me to where I’d have never gone But though I sought my heart’s desire-God used that spark to start a fire That would cleanse and purify me to the bone. There are trials that transform a man-There’s a seminary in the sand God gives a new heart for a heart of stone Though I thought I knew how to trust-But wandering a wilderness of dust Teaches us how to discern we’re not our own. The backside of the desert is a classroom Where the lessons of the heart come to be known Things no seminary in the world can yield On the backside of the desert there ‘s revealed The battles of the heart aren’t fought alone There I found my Midian it seems-There I traded all my dreams There is where I lost and found my self My faith had so much more to learn-By losing all the things for which I’d yearned When I realized that God is all my help For in the desert is a place-Where lessons learned are those of grace And our valu...

Thoughout all the ages In history’s pages  In all of life’s stages My Jesus is King While sin pays its wages  Every nation still rages Christ dumbfounds the sages And Wisdom He brings Chorus Lord and King of the Earth The universe declares your worth You Who rules from all eternity Now you come to rule over me He is the King of Love He reigns from above In each heart that receive Who His love will believe The Lord over all Who will answer His call And to their knees fall And declare Him their King Yet Men fail to confess The truth they suppress That True righteousness Is the gift that He brings The King won’t be denied By their anger and pride He shall be satisfied He will demand His dues But His beloved He rules Though the world calls them fools But they are the King’s jewels Who receive His good news Lord and King of the Earth The universe declares your worth You Who rules from all eternity Now you come to rule over me You are the King of Love You who reigns from above In ea...

Gentle and lowly is the heart Of the Savior of our soul Humble and meek Yet He comes to seek And save us from Sin’s control. He sits down to eat with the drunkard He reaches and heals the blind They are given new sight The lame are put right  And all those that seek Him shall find.  Bridge He reaches out to the unclean He touches the corrupt and vile He weeps for the decadent sinner He comes to us to reconcile The whore and the thief and the vandal The self righteous rulers of men All face the same test Will they choose to be blessed Or to continue to die in their sin Jesus carries our sins and our sorrows And puts it to death on His cross He defeats all our foes When from the grave he rose He secured  all the hope we had lost. Gentle and lowly is the heart Of the Savior of our soul Humble and meek Yet in power He seeks To save us and make us whole. October 6, 2021 Anthony Foster

Things don’t fall together they just fall apart And leave you bereft and alone Weary and burdened  with a broken heart Reaping the bad seeds that you’ve sown When Life wants to take its terrible toll-This one very thing is for certain There is a real rest for your suffering soul-So come now and lay down your burden Come to Jesus,  Come and let it all go Go to Jesus  Lay it down and get low He lives here in our place of need His great desire is to see us freed And His heart of compassion to know Our filthy righteous rags he rends-For he does what he set out to do The dirt of our soul he will cleanse-His compassion is faithful and true So take on his glorious easy yoke-And your sick soul can finally find  rest Our fallenness Christ can revoke-In his embrace we’re forever blessed. Come to Jesus,  Come and let it all go Go to Jesus  Lay it down and get low He lives here in our place of need His great desire is to see us freed And His heart of compassion to know...