Glorious Jesus

Glorified in all your suffering

You bring meaning to the realm of time

Glorified in your obedience

You change the mundane into the sublime

Glorified  in your affliction

So we might be healed by hope and freed

All honor, praise, and adoration

Rise up to glorify You in word and deed

Glorious Jesus

How may we glorify you more

Glorious Jesus

Lord we would worship and adore

The one who is all glorious-

Glorious Jesus!

The one who is from age to age the same

How can we add to your fame?

The one to whom belongs all glory now

We would magnify you more, but how?

By Your glorious grace

We will continually fill this place

With your glorious name

Glorious Jesus!

Mercy has flowed on every one

Who would glorify His name

Freely bestowed in your beloved son

In Christ we’ll  never be the same

Glorious Jesus

How may we glorify you more

Glorious Jesus

Lord we would worship and adore

The one who is all glorious-

Glorious Jesus!

Eph 1:6

Psalm 134

Anthony Foster

March 20, 2014

Bread of Heaven

They loathed the bread of heaven

That came to the house of bread

They will call it worthless

And they will go unfed

In every generation

Taste and see that He is good

The provision of salvation

In this one eternal food.

Bread of Heaven

Bread of Heaven

Fall on us in this wilderness!

Bread of Heaven

Bread of Heaven

Our hungering souls to bless!

Bread of life now broken for us

Manna fall on us this day

Take our hunger and our longiing

And our leavening away

All the stirrings of our hard hearts

All the strangers bread we’d taste

Multiply yourself among us

And let nothing go to waste.

Bread of Heaven

Bread of Heaven

Feed us lest we die!

Bread of Heaven

Bread of Heaven

Only You can satisfy!

Anthony Foster

March 11, 2014

Echo His Glory

We are here to echo his glory

Celebrate the love that was proved on the cross.

We are here to echo his glory

Sing to the one who paid the cost.

We are here to surrender our passions

Take up our cross and follow today

We are here to surrender our passions

Pursuing the path of the narrow way

For from him and through him and to him

Are all things in heaven and earth

For from him and through him and to him

Give glory and honor and praise of His matchless worth

Declaring the end from the beginning

Here to bring near your righteousness

Work your mysterious redemption.

Here to be reconciled as we confess.

We gain better desires than we have known

Dwelling in glory’s unfolding foretaste.

Our blessed hope and blessed assurance

Is that we will see Him soon face to face.

For from him and through him and to him

Are all things in heaven and earth

For from him and through him and to him

Give glory and honor and praise of His matchless worth

Anthony Foster

March 10, 2014

Arise and behold the glory

Arise and behold the glory

Wonder at the holy mystery

Behold the fullness of the Godhead

Incarnate in humble humanity

To be our ransom and reward

He took on flesh as living Word

So ever may he be adored

And ever may our praise be heard!

Arise and behold the glory

Of the suffering Son of Man

Who presents us with God’s image

Pure and undefiled by Sin.

All the first Man failed to do

The second Adam has fulfilled

He has overcome temptation

And true Israel’s revealed.

Arise and behold the glory

Of the lamb for sinners slain

How his death has led to victory

How there’s healing in His pain.

See the sacrificial proxy

In this the perfect substitute

For the redemption of our souls

This is love, immense and true

Those who dwell in the darkness of night

Turn your eyes and lift your gaze

Now in His advent, behold life and light

In the condescending Ancient of Days

Arise and behold the glory

His before the creation’s dawn

Though forsaken, dead and buried

Here true mystery’s reborn

Now in resurrection power

See him crush the serpent’s skull

See his enemies now conquered

And the curse is void and null.

Arise and see the glory

Of our interceding priest

The hIgh and holy Son of God

May His government increase

Yea forever and forever

Will will yield up all our praise

To the mystery revealed to us

Christ in us for all our days

Anthony Foster

March 10, 2014

Deep

Deep is the fountain of promise

Deep is the mystery of death

Deeper still is the river of life

That calls us into its depths.

Down, down into the deep

The blood calls out to those who sleep

Plunge into its undertow

And into its life-giving flow.

Cover us Lord, cover us

With the water of your Word

The cleansing power poured out on us

Wash us  as it is heard.

Cover us, Lord cover us

With lovingkindness’ flood

Until we are clean again

Purged by your cleansing blood.

Deep is the river of mercy

That flows from the storehouse of grace

Each time one steps into its current

The guilt of sin is erased.

So down into the deep

There your own you will keep

And none may ever fathom  this

None may plumb the depths of bliss­­­

Cover us Lord, cover us

With the water of your Word

The cleansing power poured out on us

Wash us  as it is heard.

Cover us, Lord cover us

With lovingkindness’ flood

Until we are clean again

Purged by your cleansing blood.

Anthony Foster

March 5, 2014

Lifted Up

I will lift up my eyes

Fix them upon your throne

I will lift up my eyes

Set my sights on you alone.

I will lift up my heart

From the depths of the earth

You will lift up my heart

And fill it with new worth.

I will lift up my hands

Reaching out to now receive

I lift up empty hands to you

Open and ready to receive.

You will lift up my soul

Set my feet on your high place

You will lift up my soul

Through depths of love to heights of grace

Through depths of love to heights of grace

I will lift up my voice

To give praise as you receive

My worship is conformed

When by faith I believe

I lift up my hands

My eyes, my heart, my voice

My offering, my very soul,

With my spirit I now rejoice

You will lift up my soul

Set my feet on your high place

You will lift up my soul

Through depths of love to heights of grace

Through depths of love to heights of grace

Anthony Foster

March 5, 2014

Peace-Speaking Blood

When the darkness draws nigh And doubt and fear assail

When depression rages And your faith seems to fail

As you pray for endurance and for wisdom and peace

There is one who will faithfully cure and release

Infinite love gives rise

To infinite praise

For the one who in dying

Puts all my transgressions away

So seek to realize with all your heart

Now in the Lord place your trust

To know anew the power of peace

In the peace-speaking blood of Jesus.

For within His wounds our only true healing is found

It was for us he bled and wore a thorny crown

And we will find no better cure

Than the one who can cleanse and make us pure

Infinite love gives rise

To infinite praise

For the one who in dying

Put all my transgressions away

So seek to realize with all your heart

Now in the Lord place your trust

To know anew the power of peace

In the peace-speaking blood of Jesus.

Oh the peace-speaking blood

For His glory and our good

Redemption’s full release

The fruit of righteous peace

After a quote from Spurgeon

Anthony Foster

March 1, 2014