Fill My Heart

Fill my heart with wisdom

Lord I pray, Lord I pray

Fill my heart with wisdom , Lord I pray

Fill my heart with wisdom And then all I do and say

Will serve to bring you glory day by day.

 

Fill my heart with mercy

Lord I pray, Lord I pray

Fill my heart with mercy, Lord I pray

Fill my heart with mercy for those who’ve gone astray

Fill my heart as mercy leads the way

 

Bridge

Lord fill our hearts to breaking

with wonder as we stand amazed

fill our mouths with songs we’re making

with eternal joy and praise.

 

Fill my heart with joy

Lord I pray, Lord I pray

Fill my heart with joy, Lord I pray

Fill my heart with joy and put it on display

And all will know the Truth the Life and Way

 

Fill my heart with music

Lord I pray, Lord I pray

Fill my heart with music Lord I pray

Fill my heart with music And my soul will truly sing

And songs will be my perfect offering

 

Lord fill our hearts to breaking

with wonder as we stand amazed

fill our mouths with songs we’re making

with eternal joy and praise.

 

Fill my heart with wisdom

Fill my heart with mercy

Fill my heart with joy

Fill my heart with music

Lord I pray

 

Anthony Foster

August 30, 2020

Headlong on Grace

When I am broken and confused

When by the world I am abused

I'll recall what  time will not erase

I will cast myself headlong on grace

When I'm broken by the weight of loss

When I'm too dumb to count the cost

When between a rock and a hard place

I will cast myself headlong on grace

When at the end of my sad self

At the end of my rope  I've lost my health

When no one here will hear my case

I will cast myself headlong on grace

When trouble comes and comfort flees

When devils pick apart my peace 

Jesus is my hiding place

I will cast myself headlong on grace

When in the morning when I rise

Till when the darkness deep draws nigh

I will run to my God's embrace

I will cast myself headlong on grace

There in my weakness I am strong

There where my mourning turns to song

I abandon other dreams I chase

I will cast myself headlong on grace

When I'm helpless in my plight

When right seems wrong and wrong seems right

When I'm fainting as I run this race

I will cast myself headlong on grace

When I'm undone by many woes

When overwhelmed by worldly foes

Then I will fall down on my face

I will cast myself headlong on grace

When I'm betrayed by those I trust

When all my plans  turn into dust

When props are gone without a trace

I will cast myself headlong on grace

Then I will rise and overcome

I'm not a victim, I'll not succumb

Jesus is my hiding place

I will cast myself headlong on grace

Jesus is my hiding place

I will cast myself headlong on grace

August 21, 2020

Anthony Foster

How Can It Be?

Can it be, how can it be 

That  the Savior died for me?

How can it be that I should gain

Healing from one who bore my pain

Amazing, this is amazing, I stand in awe at the very thought

Amazing, So amazing, The price He paid that my soul might be bought

An interest in His blood divine

Is given to me, it is mine

Though I was still his enemy

He bore my sin and died for me!

Amazing, this is amazing, I stand in awe at the very thought

Amazing, So amazing, The price He paid that my soul might be bought

This is a holy mystery

How very God  hung on the tree

This paradox of pain and peace

The wonders of it never cease

Amazing, this is amazing, I stand in awe at the very thought

Amazing, So amazing, The price He paid that my soul might be bought

Angels inquire into the scene

To Understand what it should mean

To see the heart of God now rent

Twas for this moment Christ was sent.

Amazing, this is amazing, I stand in awe at the very thought

Amazing, So amazing, The price He paid that my soul might be bought

The eternal immortal Son

Gives up his breath and it is done

Now with His death Sin now  dies

But on the third day He will rise.

Amazing, this is amazing, I stand in awe at the very thought

Amazing, So amazing, The price He paid that my soul might be bought

Amazing, this is amazing, I stand in awe at the very thought

Amazing, So amazing, The price He paid that my soul might be bought

Anthony Foster

August 20, 2020

I Wonder

I think on the days gone by and I wonder.

Think of things beyond my eye and I wonder

Think of what I have been spared

Think of what I have not dared

And I wonder.

 

I stand astonished and amazed and I wonder.

At how I can remain unphased and I wonder.

By glories that I may yet gain

As I  marvel at the mere mundane

And I wonder

And I ponder

And I wonder.

 

There are miracles awaiting me

If the unseen I will see

For truth will surely set me free

As I wonder.

 

There is knowing in the doing and I wonder.

In the thing I am pursuing if I wonder

There is  awe in what’s been done

Is that beauty that’s begun

And I wonder.

 

I hear a glory in the call and I wonder.

And on my knees I’ll fall as I wonder.

And all my pondering will fail

And the weight of glory will prevail

And I wonder.

 

I can live and move and be

I can live the mystery

In the maker of eternity

And I wonder

Lost in wonder.

Found in wonder.

 

August 19, 2020

Anthony Foster

 

Slaves to Righteousness

Almighty, Holy, Merciful in Majesty, 

Purchase us out of our sin

Help us serve our master, 

Let us not be respecters of men

Now slaves to righteousness we would be

This is the only way to be set free

 

To persevere in worship

To persevere in praise

With gratitude and hope

Help us to fill our days

 

We go astray so easily, 

and in our idols we confide

Draw us now unto your Self 

Our souls pant to be satisfied

We would abandon our desires

To seek  to burn with holy fires

 

All our affections and our trust

We put in your great grace

Finding our delights in You

May we only seek your face

 

Now slaves to righteousness we would be

This is the only way to be set free

Now slaves to righteousness we would be

This is the only way to be set free

 

Anthony Foster

August 12, 2020 

He makes the Crooked Straight

Trust in the Lord with your whole heart

On your own wisdom do not depend

Acknowledge the Lord in all your ways

And your pathways He’ll unbend

and the crooked shall be made straight,

and the crooked shall be made straight,

and the crooked shall be made straight,

and the rough places plain:

For in His glory God shall reign

 

For every valley shall be exalted,

and every mountain shall be made low:

And the glory of the LORD will be revealed,

All mankind will see it and all will know

 

Oh, the depth, oh the depth of the riches

of the wisdom and knowledge of Yahweh

How unsearchable are His judgments

And how  unfathomable His ways!

For from Him and through Him

and to Him are all things.

To Him be the glory forever.

Amen and amen all creation sings!

 

He makes the Crooked Straight

He makes the Crooked Straight

His glory is forever great

He makes the Crooked Straight

 

Isaiah 40:4-5

Proverbs 3:5-6

Romans 11:33,36

 

Anthony Foster

August 11, 2020

Have Mercy on Me, O God

  

According to your steadfast Love

According to your abundant mercy

Blot out my sin and transgressions

Reveal to me- redemption’s mystery

 

You will not count me as guilty

Though I deserve your holy wrath

You have given the gift of repentance

And placed me on the righteous path

 

I turn helpless to the mercy and love of God

And the blood of Christ I will forever plead

I fall on my faithless face

And I cast myself upon His grace

His blood secures all the mercy I need.

 

For the Lord, the Lord, is  merciful

He is gracious, His anger comes slow

He is faithful, my Lord is faithful

And he delights His mercy to show

 

In steadfast love  he  is abounding

and faithfulness, forgiving iniquity

 and transgression and sin,

but who will by no means clear the guilty.

 

I turn helpless to the mercy and love of God

And the blood of Christ I will forever plead

I fall on my faithless face

And I cast myself upon His grace

His blood secures all the mercy I need.

 

Psalm 51:1; Exodus 34:6–7; Micah 7:18

Anthony Foster

August 11, 2020

I Will Go With Heaven’s Glory

I will go with heaven’s glory , I will go, I will go

And the rest of the story the world will know, all will know

When my Jesus comes for me

From beyond the crystal sea

I’ll step into eternity and I will know.

 

I will go with heaven’s glory, I will go

He will take me to his side from here below

When my Jesus he returns

Wood and hay and stubble burns

Every  hope  for which my heart yearns I shall know.

 

I will go with heaven’s glory I will go

When he comes I’ll leave behind death’s dark shadow

As I sing with heaven’s choir,

Like a chariot of fire

I will rise to my desire and I will go.

 

I will go, I will go, I will go

He shall reap the sacred seeds that  He sows

So my life on Him depends

Jesus is my journeys’s end

With my Jesus I’ll ascend and I will know.

 

Anthony Foster

August 20, 2020

In Glory I Would Stand

My joy is found in heaven’s heights-Where my Lord rules on His throne

So on its shores I will set my sights-There I’ll know as I am known

Now I will pursue heaven’s mind-And seek a servant’s heart

Then earthy goodness I might find-As I am set apart.

 

For I would fully apprehend-The presence of my King

And there in glory I would stand-To rejoice give thanks and sing

 

The inheritance I’ll one day own-In one sense now is mine

For His favor Christ has shown-As a seal and as a sign

To bask in glory without end-My boast will be complete

His beauty I will comprehend-In his presence at His feet

 

For I would fully apprehend-The presence of my King

And there in glory I would stand-To rejoice give thanks and sing

 

August 7, 2020

Anthony Foster