AnthonyFosterPhD

Beloved of the Lord,  faithful and true Redeemed by love, we abide in You Preserved in Christ, and called by grace, We are dwelling in your firm embrace Accepted in the Beloved we stand Chosen  in Christ before time  began  Hid with Christ in God for e’re One with Him as a joint heir… We are in Him and He is in God above We have everlasting Everlasting love We are accepted in the Beloved We have everlasting Everlasting love If we love Him we obey Taking refuge every day In union now with Christ alone In our hearts he makes His home  No tribulation, or distress,  or persecution, or nakedness,  or famine, or danger, or sword Shall separate us from our Lord Bridge For I am sure that neither life nor death  Nor powers, nor height nor depth  Nor angels nor rulers and their dominions Nor things present nor things to come,  Nothing in all of creation can suffice To separate us from the Love of  God in Christ Nothing can ever separate Us-no...

Our Great High Priest to this day stands  Our names Etched on His nail scarred hands There in his flesh  our names are graven Before th’eternal throne in heaven My shepherd ever intercedes For this poor sinner ever pleads My hope is in the blood he shed His call has raised me from the dead. Your everlasting goodness never fails Your everlasting goodness Still prevails Your goodness frames eternity And you are good so good to me. If  Father God spared not His son And the shepherd’s done all that must be done How then would Abba e’re withhold Any good thing from his fold? His goodness ever follows me And leads me with His good mercy This truth for all of time has stood What is for God’s glory is for our good Your everlasting goodness never fails Your everlasting goodness Still prevails Your goodness frames eternity And you are good so good to me. Anthony Foster December 14, 2020

400 hundred years of silence Is broken by a cry A baby is born in Bethlehem-Beneath the Christmas sky. A child has come into the world-In a cattle trough he lies And now he sleeps there, silently-Beneath the Christmas sky The shepherds and the angels-All wonder at the why That glory should come down like this-our wisdom to defy He came to pay the price of Sin-Sent from above to die The prophecy’s fulfilled this night Beneath the Christmas sky Here he lies in a forlorn stable Praised by the heavenly hosts This little babe more than able To save us to the uttermost For His goings forth are from of old He is the Christ that was foretold And now he has become Emmanuel God with us, for us, in us to dwell. The heavens now break forth in Song-Glory to God most High And angel armies all rejoice-Beneath the Christmas sky The hope of all the World has dawned-Salvation has drawn nigh Glory is clothed in human flesh-Beneath the Christmas sky. Anthony Foster December 14, 2020

We are waiting, anticipating That the horn of our  redemption should be raised.,  Our consolation, our great salvation Shall come to us at last, Oh Lord be praised! We are going without knowing And we’ve languished in the darkness of the night Expectation of your visitation Yields the hope that our faith will turn to sight Come again, come again Come again oh Lord Jesus to this earth Return to us as we return to you We wondered at your birth Now Help us to reckon and repent As we celebrate your first advent. Show us our need, Oh you, the woman’s seed You who wrote all history’s pages Your blood was shed because we were dead Come bring the living hope of all the ages Lord we long to sing the song Of your hosannahs in the highest once again Come Lord Jesus, come and free us Come redeem your people once for all from sin. Bridge You give to us the gift of faith that we should hope in you Trusting that your promises are faithful and so true We are waiting for your glory to fully be...

The wheels of time grind slowly-But they grind extremely fine Time crushes and consumes and brings us low. There is a lover of the lowly-Whose heart is loving-kind He gives the greatest grace this world can know, This world is not a friend to grace-But your loving eyes Rove throughout the earth to bless the meek Penitence and confession-Can serve to make us wise If after your own heart we will seek Oh lover of the lowly-Lift up the humble heart Oh lover of the lowly-May love set us apart The contrite heart you’ll not cast out For your compassion reigns Have mercy and  remove our doubt- Reaffirm your presence once again Oh let us be the least of these-Help us renew our mind The last shall be first in your eyes To understand that we might please-Our God by being kind Taking joy in what your love denies To love the Lord with all our strength-And heart and mind and soul This is the first and greatest command And loving others too at length-Let this be our highest goal The lower we bow ...

Lord of Heaven we adore you We exalt your glorious Name Lord we bow our hearts before you You are Age to Age the same You are the Magnificent God You are forever magnified You are the foundation Oh Lord of Creation In your presence may we abide. You are perfect by your Nature Boundless your immensity You are over every creature We exalt your majesty Of and through You and to You In you all the world consists Above and beyond all that is True The reason why all things exist  Bridge: Magnificent majestic there Reigning from your Throne above Your might and power we declare  But the greatest grace is your Hesed Love You are the Magnificent God You are forever magnified You are the foundation Oh Lord of Creation In your presence may we abide. Anthony Foster December 2, 2020

My shepherd is the Breaker-King Captain of the Lord’s army With countless hosts at his command He routs the enemy. So we fight the good fight We’ll war against the wrong This conflict in the heavenlies Will be o’er ere long. Born on a Battlefield-We conquer by the cross We cannot lose or yield-We cannot suffer loss The Battle is the Lord’s-We shall not know defeat The Battle is the Lord’s-His victory is complete We’ll put our armor on Contend against the foe The Word of Life has WON His victory here below We’ll raise His banner high And sharpen up our swords If we live or if we die The battle is the Lord’s Born on a Battlefield-We conquer by the cross We cannot lose or yield-We cannot suffer loss The Battle is the Lord’s-We shall not know defeat The Battle is the Lord’s-His victory is complete Micah 2:13 December 2, 2020 Anthony Foster