The Beauty of the Lord

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/March 9, 2021

Anthony Foster

We Dreamed of Glory

 

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

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!

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

Lord Help Me Hear

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

We Will Follow YOU

 

Horatius Bonar

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

Widows and Orphans

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

Lift up your Head

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

All We Like Sheep

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 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 I Would Follow You

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

From Broken to Beautiful (The Master Healer)

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

Do You Know My Jesus?

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

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

Lovingkind Blood

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

Enter In (Song of Consecration)

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

Wrap it Up

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

Raise a Remnant

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

 

I Will Lay My Body Down

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