All Who Take Refuge in You

We would surely be undone

But for our Savior, God’s Son

Our great blessing  and great need 

Today he stands to intercede

Comfort the grieving

Convict the complacent

Fill the lonely with the very

Sense of your presence

Show us your steadfast Love

Work in our hearts

Transform us anew

Show us your kindness Lord

All those who take refuge in You

Shine light  on the hidden

Revive the backslidden

Who in darkness languish 

Save us from sin’s anguish

We pray to you Oh Lord

As the beloved in Christ proclaim

Do these things and more for

Those who truly fear your name

Show us your steadfast Love

Work in our hearts

Transform us anew

Show us your kindness Lord

All those who take refuge in You

Anthony Foster

March 29, 2022

 

Put Fire in my Bones (Jeremiah 20:9)

I don’t wanna be lukewarm

Don’t want to vascillate

Don’t want apathy to be my norm

Or hellfire to be my fate

So fan the spark within me

Until the flame’s full grown

Consume me with your burning love

Put fire in my bones.

Put fire, fire, fire, fire in my bones.

Put fire, fire, fire, fire in my bones.

Burn in me and stoke the flame

This is my burning desire Lord

Put fire in my bones

Put fire, fire, fire, fire in my bones.

Set afire my fervency

An inferno deep inside

Let ardor burn down every wall

And purge me of my pride

Kindle the conflagration

On your  altar of firestone

Purify my wayward heart

And put fire in my bones

Put fire, fire, fire, fire in my bones.

Put fire, fire, fire, fire in my bones.

Burn in me and stoke the flame

Receive the incense of your praise

This is my burning desire Lord

Put fire in my bones

Put fire, fire, fire, fire in my bones.

Yeah, purify me with your flames

Until my spirit groans

Your word will set my soul ablaze

And put fire in my bones

Put fire in my bones.

March 29, 2022

Anthony Foster

Higher Level

You call me to a higher level

You take me to that place

You call me to a higher level

I am empowered by Grace

Lord you met me where I was

Groveling in the dust

Living beneath my privilege

Not knowing how to trust

You call me to a higher level

You do not leave me where I was found

You call me to a higher level

You lead us to glory, we are heaven bound.

By  grace you did not abandon me

To wander in that night

Love lifted me and set my feet

Upon a rock and set me right.

The miry clay may drag me down

But you’ll deliver me

You take me to that mountain

Where new horizons I can see

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Lord give me this mountain

Destroy the works of the devil

Move on up move on up

Take me to that higher level

You call me to a higher level

You raise me up each day

To stand before the throne of grace

That’s where I want to stay.

You call me to a higher level

You do not leave me where I was found

You call me to a higher level

You lead us to glory, we are heaven bound.

Anthony Foster

March 28, 2022

 

Yes and Amen

Come drink  from the well that will never run dry

Living water flows deep and flows wide

There is nothing better and nothing beyond

Our soul-thirst is finally satisfied

For once we are quenched by this water

It fills us and then overflows

Obedience  to love comes by faith in this word

And out of that heart mercy grows

The presence and promise of Jesus

Frees us from the bondage of sin

The deepest longings of the soul

Find their yes and amen in Him

For He is the end of our quest 

We are among men the most blessed

Christ is the inexhaustible fountain 

Of life that forever lasts

Through faith  it will lead us to heaven

He blesses our future and redeems our past

Be set free from the sinful illusions 

Other satisfactions cannot yield

This he does by sending us his Spirit

Wherein by His grace we are sealed .

The presence and promise of Jesus

Frees us from the bondage of sin

The deepest longings of the soul

Find their yes and amen in Him

John 6:35; John 7:37–39; John 4:14; Romans 6:14

Anthony Foster

March 26, 2022

The Name Above All Names

Our Great God eternal, Virgin born

Lived a life devoid of Sin and Pride

Beloved Son, forsaken and forlorn

Our substitute in the death He died

His was the Bodily resurrection 

Now He is arisen from the grave

Taken up in Glorious ascension 

He ever lives to intercede and save

For Yahweh is Salvation

This endgame was Christ’s holy aim

Creator of One Holy Nation

Jesus Christ who bore our shame

To destroy the Devil’s works He came

His people now declare His fame

His is the name above all names

Of  the sovereign Lord we sing

He the final sacrifice

He is coming as judge and King

The One and Only Jesus Christ

For Yahweh is Salvation

This endgame was Christ’s holy aim

Creator of One Holy Nation

Jesus Christ who bore our shame

To destroy the Devil’s works He came

His people now declare His fame

His is the name above all names

March 20, 2022

Anthony Foster

Oh Mighty King

 

Sovereign over creation

You order all things in their time

Guardian over the nations

All peoples will bless your design

You govern all what has been

Writer of all history

You determine the what and the when

Oh author of Reality

You, oh Mighty King are Loving Kind

We see you in the world that you designed

We can know truth because you speak your mind 

To know You is the treasure we may find

Oh Mighty King 

Oh Mighty King 

There are no accidents 

No caprice in your economy 

By Your power all things consist

You ordain all that comes to be.

None may resist your sovereign Will 

You decree and you ordain

You define that which is real

For You are the Lord who reigns.

You, oh Mighty King are Loving Kind

We see you in the world that you designed

We can know truth because you speak your mind 

To know You is the treasure we may find

Oh Mighty King 

Oh Mighty King 

Anthony Foster

March 17, 2022

Master of Reality

All things that come to pass and come to be

Come by your permission or by your decree

Author and the finisher of this world's destiny

The Master of Reality

Who defines what is false and what is true?

Who reckons what is the right thing to do?

Who created from nothing and makes all things New?

The Master of Reality

None may your sovereign Will resist

To every thing there is a season

For every purpose a time exists

For You are the purpose and the reason

Who makes a holy purpose from our pain?

Who defines what is loss and what is gain?

Who is the One who every Good ordains?

The Master of Reality

You are the one who writes all history

Whose is the only one whose will is free?

The determines the depths and degree

The Master of Reality

None may your sovereign Will resist

To every thing there is a season

For every purpose a time exists

For You are the purpose and the reason

Master of Reality

Master of Reality

Anthony Foster

March 17, 2022

Come in Faith, Poor Pilgrim (The Triumph Is Sure)

Though we’re one little light shining in some darkened place

Nothing done in the cause of this kingdom is in vain.

The triumph is sure  as we run the holy race

For our God is the Mighty One who rules and reigns!

Come in faith, come in faith, poor pilgrim

To the banquet on God’s holy mountain.

Come in faith, come in faith, you pilgrim

Come drink deeply from the living fountain

The reproach of God’s people nevermore shall be 

See  the veil of sorrow finally severed

For death shall be swallowed up in victory

And trials and tears shall be gone forever.

Come in faith, come in faith poor pilgrim

To the banquet on God’s holy mountain.

Come in faith, come in faith you pilgrim

Come drink deeply from the living fountain

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For the triumph is sure, the vict’ry is secure

For the fear of the Lord will rule the nations

God will be glorified –He’ll no longer be defied 

As they taste of the Gospel of salvation…

Though we’re one little light shining in some darkened place

Nothing done in the cause of this kingdom is in vain.

The triumph is sure  as we run the holy race

For our God is the One who rules and reigns!

Come in faith, come in faith poor pilgrim

To the banquet on God’s holy mountain.

Come in faith, come in faith you pilgrim

Come drink deeply from the living fountain!

Isaiah 25:3

March 14, 2022

Anthony Foster 

Your Grace is Sufficient

Your grace is sufficient -Always sufficient 

The only sufficiency

Your grace is sufficient -Wholly sufficient 

Your grace is sufficient for me

Though my flesh bears many a thorn

Though by trials  and temptations my soul is torn

I know that I will never be forsaken or forlorn

Your Grace is sufficient for me

Your grace is sufficient -Always sufficient 

The only sufficiency

Your grace is sufficient -Wholly sufficient 

Your grace is sufficient for me

Though burdens and battle- scars I have borne

And my wearisome way becomes weathered and worn

You say blessed so blessed are they that mourn

Your Grace is sufficient for me

Your grace is sufficient -Always sufficient 

The only sufficiency

Your grace is sufficient -Wholly sufficient 

Your grace is sufficient for me

No matter the cost, no matter the price

No matter what I am called to sacrifice

I know mercy will lead and Your Grace will suffice

For your grace is sufficient for me. 

Your grace is sufficient 

Always sufficient 

The only sufficiency

Your grace is sufficient 

Wholly sufficient 

Your grace is sufficient for me

Your Grace is Sufficient for me

Your Grace is Sufficient for me

Anthony Foster

March 13, 2022