Hymn: Praise to the Lord

Words: Jo­ach­im Ne­an­der, in A und Ω Glaub- und Lieb­es­ü­bung (Stras­lund: 1680); trans­lat­ed from Ger­man to Eng­lish by Cath­er­ine Wink­worth, 1863.
Music: Lobe den Her­ren, An­der Theil des Er­neu­er­ten Ge­sang­buch, se­cond edi­tion (Bre­men, Ger­ma­ny: 1665); har­mo­ny by Wil­liam S. Ben­nett, 1864 (MI­DI, score).


Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation!
O my soul, praise Him, for He is thy health and salvation!
All ye who hear, now to His temple draw near;
Praise Him in glad adoration.
Praise to the Lord, who over all things so wondrously reigneth,
Shelters thee under His wings, yea, so gently sustaineth!
Hast thou not seen how thy desires ever have been
Granted in what He ordaineth?
Praise to the Lord, who hath fearfully, wondrously, made thee;
Health hath vouchsafed and, when heedlessly falling, hath stayed thee.
What need or grief ever hath failed of relief?
Wings of His mercy did shade thee.
Praise to the Lord, who doth prosper thy work and defend thee;
Surely His goodness and mercy here daily attend thee.
Ponder anew what the Almighty can do,
If with His love He befriend thee.
Praise to the Lord, who, when tempests their warfare are waging,
Who, when the elements madly around thee are raging,
Biddeth them cease, turneth their fury to peace,
Whirlwinds and waters assuaging.
Praise to the Lord, who, when darkness of sin is abounding,
Who, when the godless do triumph, all virtue confounding,
Sheddeth His light, chaseth the horrors of night,
Saints with His mercy surrounding.
Praise to the Lord, O let all that is in me adore Him!
All that hath life and breath, come now with praises before Him.
Let the Amen sound from His people again,
Gladly for aye we adore Him.

Predestined

I want that one

It was written long before you were even born

Predestined

You were made to be remade by him

It was written

Long before you were even born

Predestined

He will lose you but by losing you he will win

Predestined

You will be called his chosen

He will display his work through your life as he remodels you

From sinner to saint in Christ

He choose you to wear the banner of his son

That’s his blood

He loved you so much that he decided his son’s life was a good enough price to buy you from the life of death to righteousness

So he sought you

Pursued with vigour

Wooed you

Laboured to birth a gateway for you to eternity

He paid the price with his own family

He loved you, past tense

Loves you present

Will love you, future to come

Just because he can and he does

Not because of no special work you’ve done

Or the good things in this life that you’ve done

Just because He is God and he made saving you his decision

How faithful he is

How merciful he is

How wonderful he is

Predestined

Your life to be intertwined with him

Predestined

The transformation from enemy to son ship through Jesus Christ was, predestined

Let's

An epilogue to time machine

‘Let’s’

Let’s try like the children of God we are meant to be
Let’s allow the power of the word to transform our inner beings
Let’s come in agreement with Paul
Ask the Holy Spirit to help us to no longer conform to this world

We’d been the very one’s buried in inequity
Orgies, wild parties, fornication, everything fleshly
We’d embraced our flesh and everything ungodly
But we were called
So please,
Let’s let old things be

Let’s turn away from this sin, it so easily brings us down
So no matter how much we are left feeling torn
Let’s ask for deliverance from the lust that seems to have us bound
Let’s move forward, let’s not allow our past to come back around

For in our ‘us’ is rebellion
We argue against every argument for righteousness when it comes to’ us’
For in ‘us’ in lust
We fight every conviction to turn away; we seem to find it hard to “seek first”
So we distrust
Our distrust keeps us moving in lust
We refuse to trust when it comes to us
In ‘us’ is the past
In ‘us’ is the lust from the past that we refuse to put to dust
We keep it awaked with our constant flirtation
We keep it awaked with unbiblical justifications

But
Let’s finally surrender
Let’s allow the Holy Spirit to take control of this area
Let’s not grieve him any longer
Let’s trust in his transformative power
Let’s yield ourselves to him come whatever
This may be it for us
But lest say come what may
Let’s trust him anyway
Let’s exalt him higher than our desire to be together
Let’s exalt him higher than our emotions and whatever
Let’s remember who we are again
We’ve been bought from the kingdom of darkness
Let’s not act like we are blind again
Let’s be the salt that we are meant to be
Seek after holiness, inspire somebody
Let’s say no to this inequity
Let’s die to ourselves, I’ll die to you, you die to me
Our old man is dead
Let’s bury the ungodly ‘us’ next to it

Let’s finally admit that our salvation is worth more than is
Let’s call upon the power of the Holy Spirit
Let’s confess our sins
Let’s trust in his merciful power
Let’s repent
shall we....