OzThoughts - Sunday Hymns and Psalms. Sunday 20th December 2009

OzThoughts - Sunday Hymns and Psalms. Sunday 20th December 2009

FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT

This is the day the LORD has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it. (Psalm 118:24 New International Version)

Almighty God,
to whom all hearts are open,
all desires known
and from whom no secrets are hidden:
cleanse the thoughts of our hearts,
by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit,
that we may perfectly love you,
and worthily magnify your holy name,
through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Psalm 80:1-7 (The Message)

1-2 Listen, Shepherd, Israel's Shepherd—
Get all your Joseph sheep together.
Throw beams of light
from your dazzling throne
So Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh
can see where they're going.
Get out of bed—you've slept long enough!
Come on the run before it's too late.

3 God, come back!
Smile your blessing smile:
That will be our salvation.

4-6 GOD, God-of-the-Angel-Armies,
how long will you smolder like a sleeping volcano
while your people call for fire and brimstone?
You put us on a diet of tears,
bucket after bucket of salty tears to drink.
You make us look ridiculous to our friends;
our enemies poke fun day after day.

7 God-of-the-Angel-Armies, come back!
Smile your blessing smile:
That will be our salvation.

The Salvation Army Song Book: Song Number: 84
Authors: Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
[Listen: Songsters: http://www.salvoaudio.com/audio/music/mus_3204.mp3
or
Congregation: http://salvoaudio.com/audio/music/mus_3253.mp3 ]

Joy to the world! the Lord is come;
Let earth receive her King,
Let every heart prepare him room
And Heaven and nature sing.

2.
Joy to the world! the Saviour reigns;
Let men their songs employ,
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy.

3.
He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of his righteousness
And wonders of his love.


Psalm 113 (The Message)
Psalm 113

1-3 Hallelujah! You who serve GOD, praise GOD!
Just to speak his name is praise!
Just to remember GOD is a blessing—
now and tomorrow and always.
From east to west, from dawn to dusk,
keep lifting all your praises to GOD!

4-9 GOD is higher than anything and anyone,
outshining everything you can see in the skies.
Who can compare with GOD, our God,
so majestically enthroned,
Surveying his magnificent
heavens and earth?
He picks up the poor from out of the dirt,
rescues the wretched who've been thrown out with the trash,
Seats them among the honored guests,
a place of honor among the brightest and best.
He gives childless couples a family,
gives them joy as the parents of children.
Hallelujah!

The Salvation Army Song Book: Song Number: 20
Author: James Montgomery (1771-1854)

[Listen: http://salvoaudio.com/audio/music/mus_2972.mp3 ]

Stand up and bless the Lord,
Ye people of his choice;
Stand up and bless the Lord your God
With heart and soul and voice.
Chorus
Praise ye the Lord, hallelujah!

2.
Though high above all praise,
Above all blessing high,
Who would not fear his holy name,
And laud and magnify?

3.
O for the living flame
From his own altar brought,
To touch our lips, our minds inspire,
And wing to Heaven our thought!

4.
God is our strength and song,
And his salvation ours;
Then be his love in Christ proclaimed
With all our ransomed powers.

5.
Stand up and bless the Lord,
The Lord your God adore;
Stand up and bless his glorious name
Henceforth for evermore.


Meditation: Selection of Carols and Christmas Songs
(The Pasadena Tabernacle Songsters)

http://www.salvoaudio.com/audio/music4/mus_6072.mp3

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