Stand Firm

 

Be on the alert, standing firm in the faith, 

Stand firm and Act like men, and be strong.- 

But let all that you do be done with love (1 Cor 1:13-14)

Stand firm for this fallen world is all wrong 

Stand firm in the Good News

Stand firm-do not be confused

Stand firm in God’s reality

Stand firm in the truth that sets you free

All the world offers is shifting sand

But here on the Rock you must stand.

We destroy every lofty argument

Against the knowledge of God that is raised

Take every thought captive to obey Christ, (2 Cor 10:5)

Imagined delusions have left men crazed

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Stand firm against the devil’s dark schemes (Eph :11)

Nothing on this earth is as it seems

Put on the armor, and stand your ground (Eph :14)

Be steadfast, immovable- abound!-(1 Corinthians 15:58)

Stand firm in one spirit  

Striving together now in this place

Stand firm, firm with one mind 

 the faith of the gospel of grace (Philippians 1:27)

Stand firm in the Good News

Stand firm-do not be confused

Stand firm in God’s reality

Stand firm in the truth that sets you free

All the world offers is shifting sand

But here on the Rock you must stand.

March 2, 2023

Anthony Foster

The Heart of the Gospel

The heart of the Gospel is the Good News

That Christ Jesus died for our Sins

So that His own could be raised  to new life

From the grave He arose again

He accomplished a perfect righteousness

Before His Father’s Holy Throne

He suffered a perfect condemnation

These become ours through faith alone

We proclaim the Gospel, we tell of the Good News

There‘s  no condemnation– Now Satan can’t accuse

This is Good News-This is Good News

For we are the instruments God’s chosen to use

We don’t know the chosen, Truth’s not for us to choose

This is Good News-This is Good News

This is Good News

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Eternal life we have in the Spirit

Because of the work of God’s Son

Now we are becoming God’s righteousness

By the Father’s will it is done

The free and unmerited gift is ours

Who Confess His name and believe

The price he paid is not the gift itself

But Christ is the gift we receive

Now what God requires He has provided

His  holiness is ours to own

Now all who call on His glorious name

Can stand faultless before God’s throne

We proclaim the Gospel, we tell of the Good News

There‘s  no condemnation– Now Satan can’t accuse

This is Good News-This is Good News

For we are the instruments God’s chosen to use

We don’t know the chosen, Truth’s not for us to choose

This is Good News-This is Good News

This is Good News

March 26, 2023
Anthony Foster 

Crucified With Christ

Oh  the utter realness of the judgment

Oh the horror as I apprehend

Oh the  reckoning as I stand before

The Holy God who will not look on sin

As I see and feel it for the first time

The undeniable reality

Of a sordid, sin sick guilty conscience

Meeting face to face with the Almighty

I was cast into the all engulfing darkness

There the searing light consumed my soul

Utterly lost and guilty and  depraved

Deserving for the wrath to take its toll

But oh the glory, rapture sweet

As my only hope comes from the mercy seat

I see the all engulfing darkness flee

Before the blessed cross of Calvary

For I have been crucified with Christ. 

It is no longer I who live, 

But Christ who lives in me. 

And the life I now live in the flesh 

I live by faith in the Son of God, 

who loved me and gave himself for me. 

My Redeemer is my Creator

My Substitute becomes my mediator

I had nothing to commend me

But my Savior will defend me

My desperate and only need

Is for Christ to intercede

Can my gratitude be any greater?

I have been crucified with Christ. 

It is no longer I who live, 

but Christ who lives in me. 

And the life I now live in the flesh 

I live by faith in the Son of God, 

Who loved me and gave himself for me. 

Jesus loved me and gave himself for me. 

Galatians 2:20

March 20, 2023

Anthony Foster

Everlasting

Everlasting Father, You are our everlasting King

An everlasting kingdom is your domain 

Its shall never be destroyed, it shall never pass away.

For with an everlasting dominion  you reign

You are from everlasting to everlasting. 

For though our times will quickly pass away,

The grass has grown and withered, the flower fades 

But You are the Rock that forever remains.

You have saved us with an everlasting salvation.

Your everlasting victory is won

You have given us an everlasting righteousness 

Through work of the everlasting Son 

You have kept us in Your everlasting love 

You have given us an everlasting name 

You are our eternal hope of everlasting life 

For You are from age to age the same

O Lord Jesus, come quickly! In Your great and everlasting name, we pray,

Amen and Amen, come quickly And bring with you the everlasting day.

You have provided an everlasting possession 

of an everlasting home and dwelling place 

in the presence of Your everlasting light

By your mercy and your neverending grace

There with everlasting singing and gladness 

and everlasting  joy upon our heads 

All sorrow and sighing shall be no more.

As on the  everlasting way we are led…

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By the blood of an everlasting covenant.

You have made the everlasting offering

Now you hold us fast us in Your everlasting arms.

Till in glory a neverending song we shall sing!

Where there’s everlasting joy with our everlasting King.

O Lord Jesus, come quickly! In Your great and everlasting name, we pray,

Amen and Amen, come quickly And bring with you the everlasting day.

O Lord Jesus, come quickly! In Your great and everlasting name, we pray,

Amen and Amen, come quickly And bring with you the everlasting day.

March 20, 2023

Anthony Foster

Sovereign of Sovereigns

Sovereign of sovereigns

You have all authority

You have the right to everything

You have the right to me.

Sovereign of sovereigns 

You can do anything

Ruler of the universe

You are the King of kings

You are seated in the heavens

Your rule from glory’s throne

You do whatever pleases you

You reign and reign alone

Sovereign of Sovereigns

Lord, may Your kingdom come

Come fill the earth with glory

As we see your will be done

Sovereign of Sovereigns

Lord, may Your kingdom come

Come fill the earth with glory

As we see your will be done

March 19, 2023

Anthony Foster

You Called My Name

I was a dead man chained in my sin

Thought I was good but that could not begin

To set me free

For  a dead man cannot decide

To awaken and become alive

That is a fantasy

As a prisoner of death I was bound

I was so lost,  a way could not be found

And oh the darkness was deep

My soul did not even know it should weep

For dead in my iniquities

A slave with no hope to be free

There in my grave

No way to conjure saving faith

It could only attain by God’s Grace

But my God, He is mighty to save

He called my name-He called my name

Raise me to life and I will never be the same

He called my name-He called my name

By his resurrection life He overcame

I am born again  for the sake of His name

The Lord Almighty drew me

Created a clean heart

Appointed me to believe

Chose me and set me apart

He worked faith within me

And tore down the tomb’s wall

Granted me repentance

When I heard His call

He called my name-He called my name

Raise me to life and I will never be the same

He called my name-He called my name

By his resurrection life He overcame

I am born again  for the sake of His name

March 18, 2023

Anthony Foster