Shape Our Lives

Shape our lives upon your anvil

With your Holy Word, Lord form our minds

Shield our hearts from the roaring devil

Mold our souls to the plan you have designed

We are clay in the Holy Potter’s hands

So what we become is what He will reveal 

We become whatever He has planned

Turning ever turning on His wheel

We are precious metal in your fire

In your crucible, there we are purified

All the dross removed along with vain desires

You burn away our boasts and foolish pride

Bridge

We are destined for this before creation

For those God foreknew this surely comes to pass

To be conformed to the image of the beloved Son

This is our purpose from our first day to the last.

We are clay in the Holy Potter’s hands

So what we become is what He will reveal 

We become - whatever He has planned

Turning ever turning on the wheel…

Turning ever turning on the wheel…

Romans 8:29

April 2, 2025

Anthony Foster

Trouble

Trouble may come and trouble may go

Trouble is its part of life don’t you know 

You can run but you cannot hide

Can't afford to nurse your woes

Put your hand to the plow

Take trouble in stride

Trouble, trouble trouble enough for the day

Trouble, trouble trouble enough for the day

Troublesome times troublesome days

Thing is with trouble there’s a troublesome phase

And it may or may not last 

Those troubling troublesome ways

Maybe not today 

But it will come to pass

Trouble, trouble trouble enough for the day

Trouble, trouble trouble enough for the day

Trouble will find you- yes find you it will

It might just make you stronger if it doesn’t kill

But if kill you it doesn't yet, its plain

Guaranteed-one day it will

But you may find 

The loss may just be gain.

Trouble, trouble trouble enough for the day

Trouble, trouble trouble enough for the day

Matthew 6:34

March 25, 2025

Anthony Foster

Love One Another

Mark our souls with mercy

Mark our hearts with love

May these be the marks men see

That turn their eyes above.

Mark our minds with justice

And true humility

Cause others to trust us

As living proof they see

And we will love one another

Love one another

We are sisters and brothers in Christ

As we love one another

Love one another

We show your love will ever suffice

Mark our lives with kindness

Mark our selves with sight

Overcome our blindness

Help us know what’s right

And we will love one another

Love one another

We are sisters and brothers in Christ

As we love one another

Love one another

We show your love will ever suffice

John 13:34-35; 1 John 4:7, 11, 20; 

Romans 13:8; Micah 6:8

March 26, 2025

Anthony Foster

Satisfied

The thirst of our souls is satisfied

The desires of our hearts are fulfilled

At the end of our quest where we shall abide

In the center of God’s perfect will.

In His very presence we all shall remain

Where the pleasure of sin’s nullified

By His Glory and Grace we shall be sustained

As He draws us all close to His side

The deepest longing of  souls who believe

Are satisfied with what we obtain 

When we drink of this water our thirst is relieved

And we’ll never be thirsty again

The inexhaustible fountain flows free

So we’re freed from what has deceived

Illusions that captivate you and me

Are cast out if we only believe

Yes the deepest longing of souls who believe

Are satisfied with what we obtain 

When we drink of this water our thirst is relieved

And we’ll never be thirsty again

We’ll never be thirsty again.

John 6:35

March 25, 2025

Anthony Foster

Amazing Grace, Abundant Love, Astounding Peace

There is a grace Beyond our comprehension

A grace far greater than desires that we hold dear

This gift of grace in Jesus’ intervention

For underserving captives of sin and fear

Amazing grace is evermore abounding

This blessed gift was once a mystery

And still it never fails to be confounding

That with our Lord we live in harmony

There is a love beautiful and bewild’ring

Abundant love that ever overflows

Where enemies become adopted children

This is its sign- when God’s love within us grows

What manner of love is this that overtakes us?

Love that pursues us to the very end

And once it’s caught us,  it surely remakes us

As the Holy Love of God we apprehend 

We feel the arms of God’s embrace

When we set our minds above

Peace forever flows from Grace

And Grace is bound in Love

These gifts of God shall ever more increase

Amazing grace, abundant love, astounding peace

There is a peace that passes understanding

A Holy Peace that only Christ can give

Where enemies are given a right standing

In reconciliation with our Father now to live

This blessed gift in believers’ hearts is reigning

Where there was turmoil once within the soul

It is cast out with tranquility remaining

And deep assurance that God is in control

We feel the arms of God’s embrace

When we set our minds above

Peace forever flows from Grace

And Grace is bound in Love

These gifts of God shall ever more increase

Amazing grace, abundant love, astounding peace

Amazing grace, abundant love, astounding peace

March 25, 2025

Anthony Foster

Clean Before Our Lord

What a marvelous mystery 

Inconceivable but true

We can now stand boldly at the throne

At the mighty mercy seat

We who are born anew

Stand clean and without blemish at our home

Clean before our Lord

Clean before our Lord

Clean before our Lord we stand

Clean before our Lord

Clean before our Lord

Clean before our Lord we stand

Once we were like a filthy rag 

In our own righteousness

But by the blood of Jesus we are clean

Whiter than the silent snow

Awash in holiness

Purified and blood bought and redeemed

Clean before our Lord

Clean before our Lord

Clean before our Lord we stand

Clean before our Lord

Clean before our Lord

Clean before our Lord we stand

Washed clean by the blood of the lamb

A royal  priesthood- now we stand

Here by declaration we are just

It is by faith and not by sight we trust

Standing boldly at the throne of grace

We rejoice and tremble in that place

Beholding glory we have never seen

We come to understand what  mercy means

Clean before our Lord

Clean before our Lord

Clean before our Lord we stand

Clean before our Lord

Clean before our Lord

Clean before our Lord we stand

March 8, 2025

Anthony Foster