To Follow is to Follow

Righteous and  holy,

Merciful and mighty

You Purchased us out of our sin

We are the slaves of righteousness

Serving our Master as we confess

To follow is to follow again and again.

Help us persevere in worship

Help us persevere in praise

Help us consecrate our lives

All our live-long days.

Give us grace to make this vow

Lord by Your grace our hearts will bow

while we stand

Just as you have planned

Help us understand…

And follow your command.

If you follow your heart

Yopu will surely depart

To your own way

So Lord set us apart

Incline our hearts

To do what you say

This is what we pray…

For we stray away so easily

Our souls pant to be satisfied

But to other lords we incline

Draw us safely to your side

Dispense your showers of grace

Flowing in delight from you

As we abandon our desires

Let us seek your face in all we do

Help us persevere in worship

Help us persevere in praise

Help us consecrate our lives

All our live-long days.

Give us grace to make this vow

Lord by Your grace our heart swill bow

while we stand

Just as you have planned

Help us understand…

And follow your command.

June 24, 2019

Anthony Foster

Another Set of Eyes

Keep the heart with vigilance,

For from it springs of life  flow

Guard it Lord be my defense-

The eyes of my heart want to know

Let the glory of God's Word shine within me

For the Recompense of God  has come

He himself is the reward of the righteous

The reward of every heart that's been undone

Give me another set of eyes that can behold you

Another kind of eyes to see

The things that are hidden but remain true

The eyes of my heart  define me

May the eyes of my heart  remind me

Christ is my prosperity

My portion and my part

For he is treasure to me

The desire of my heart

Give me another set of eyes that can behold you

Another kind of eyes to see

The things that are hidden but remain true

The eyes of my heart  define me

May the eyes of my heart  remind me

Christ is my prosperity

My portion and my part

For he is treasure to me

The desire of my heart

Prov 4:23, Eph 1:18

June 21, 2019

Anthony Foster

Grace Evergreen (Here in the Dry Wood)

Faith is the act of the soul that repents

That connects with Grace,  and receives it,

Faith channels the power of obedience

Unto every one who believes it

Faith is the evidence of what is unseen

Almighty invisible Grace evergreen

Herein the dry wood truth ever shall reign

The light of the world has made it all plain

Faith guards grace from becoming void

Or through human boasts nullified

To understand God is to be overjoyed

Faith is a gift so we never take pride

Lord give us relief

Help our unbelief

Lord have mercy

We are thirsty

We worship you with our thirst.

We seek your face last and first

Lord waken us with Your unseen light

Let us walk by faith and not by sight.

You are the Great Giver of Grace

You give us gifts so free

You give the faith on which they’re based

Give us new eyes to see

Faith is the evidence of what is unseen

Almighty invisible Grace evergreen

Here in the dry wood truth ever shall reign

The light of the world has made it all plain...

Anthony Foster

June 19, 2019

For His Name’s Sake

Make me know Your path, O Lord;

lead me in Your truth and Your way

You are the God of my salvation,

I wait  for You all of the day

Your word is a lamp to my feet

Your word is to my path a light

By Your Spirit Your paths you teach

And give me a heart for what's right

He leads me in paths of righteousness

for His name's sake

Tho I walk through the valley

Tho death's shadows beckon me

The bruised reed he shall not break

For His name's sake, for His name's sake.

He knows my every sorrow

He knows my every tear

He gives me strength or overcome

Each trial and each fear

Bridge

My comforter shall be my peace

My deliverer is my release

My joy in Him shall never cease

When I lie down or when I wake

I trust in Him for his name's sake

He leads me in paths of righteousness

for His name's sake

Tho I walk through the valley

Tho death's shadows beckon me

The darkened mind He will remake

For His name's sake, for His name's sake.

Psalm 23:3

Psalm 25: 4-5

Psalm 119:105:

Psalm 119:9

Anthony Foster

June 10, 2019

Holy is His Name

Our souls shall sing the greatness of our God

Our spirits will exult in Christ alone

For He has done great things in all the earth

And we live to make the fame of His name known

For the Mighty God has become our Savior

His mercies are from age to age the same

To his children he has bestowed great favor

And His glories we continually proclaim

For Holy holy holy is His name

Holy holy holy is His name

We declare His love and grace

We lift His name up in this place

For holy holy holy is His name!

Our hearts shall sing the glories of our God

His majesty and mercies know no bounds

He lights the world His presence gives it worth

We exist and move and live on Holy ground

He has sought and found when we were lost

He has bought us with his very blood

He has ransomed us at the most deadly cost

For His names sake, for His glory and our good!

And Holy holy holy is His name

Holy holy holy is His name

We declare His love and grace

We lift our praise for His name's sake

For holy holy holy is His name!

June 4, 2019

Anthony Foster

Wilderness Call

I will lay it down, lay it down at Your feet

Every burden that has vexed,

Every problem that's perplexed.

Desperate for mercy and peace

Longing for the deliverer's release...

I will raise it up raise high and tall

Make an altar in this wilderness

An ebenezer to confess

So seal our hearts once and for all

As we heed your wilderness call.

Chorus:
One day we will take our rest

Having survived the trials and tests

Jesus will remain our all in all

Entering eternal blessedness

But now we wander in the wilderness

As we heed your wilderness call.

Your wilderness call goes out to all

To become God's daughters and sons

In the wilderness wild we can be reconciled

When our power and pride are undone.

Till our journey here is at its end

We sojourn here within the wild

The redeemed and righteous reconciled;

Our great need still is to depend

Upon the provision God will send.

So in His pathways we abide

And each day we partake of grace

Enough for the trouble that we face

Content in Yahweh to confide

And so we shall be satisfied

Chorus:
One day we will take our rest

Having survived the trials and tests

Jesus will remain our all in all

Entering eternal blessedness

But now we wander in the wilderness

As we heed your wilderness call.

Your wilderness call goes out to all

To become Gods daughters and sons

In the wilderness wild we can be reconciled

When our power and pride are undone.

Anthony Foster

May 5, 2019

Till I am Lost in You

Till I am lost in you I will n’er be found

But in the finding there is life beyond my blighted bounds

Utterly dependent, totally subsumed

You give me life abundant for a  life lived in  a tomb.

I heard my name though I was deaf I saw with eyes that were blind

A resurrection beyond death A symphony, a light divine

That raises men up from their graves, and sees sin put to death

To hope of glory we are saved, to breathe immortal breath

To live and move and have our being

Within this light that I am seeing

For without Him  there’s nothing I can do

To gain real life that  makes me new

No there’s nothing I can do

Till I am lost in You

In Him through Him and to Him  All things in Him consist

So worship now is due Him   for In Christ I now exist

For Christ the King abides within  the heart that He has entered in

To transform clay until the day  We are found solely in Him.

To live and move and have our being

Within this light that we are seeing

For without Him  there’s nothing we can do

To gain real life or be made new

No there’s nothing we can do

Till we are lost in You

Anthony Foster

Easter Sunday

April 21, 2019

Prayer

Lord I pray un-sin me

Purify my soul

Spirit work within me

To cleanse and make me whole

Lord I pray undo me

Reform my broken heart

Living you r life through me

I'm a holy work of art.

Father I confess

I am one unholy mess

I need your righteousness

My broken life to bless...

Lord I pray transform me

To the likeness of Your Son

Continue to conform me

Until the work is done.

Lord I pray unbind me

My spirit set it free

And may your advent find me

To be what I'm meant to be.

Anthony Foster

April 15, 2019

Hold Fast

Hold fast your hope-Cling to it to the last

God's gift is the enabling power to hold fast

Hold fast your hope-Your will before Him cast

For Christ renews our mind-With the desire to hold fast

Hold fast to the Father Who holds your very tears

He holds the world together and so we may draw near

He holds onto your right hand firm unto the end

Our hope is in our keeper- Held fast, hold on to Him

Hold fast your hope Today ands in the past

Yet he fulfills his will in us And sees our strength hold fast

Hold fast your hope with assurance sure and vast

Triumph exhorts us ever on And calls us to hold fast

Hold fast to the Father Who holds your very tears

He holds the world together And so we may draw near

He holds onto your right hand Firm unto the end

Our hope is in our keeper Held fast, hold on to Him

Hebrews 3:6,14

Hebrews 6:18

Hebrews 10:23

Isaiah 41:13

Ps 56:8

Ps 121:5

Anthony Foster

March 28, 2019

Look Away

We are shadows, we are echoes

Craving praise and flaunting pride

But the emptiness in our souls

Will ne'er be satisfied.

If we are getting pleasure

From our own sufficiency

And not seeking truer treasure

Lord- we need to be set free

Look away, look away, look away from your self

Look to Jesus Look to Jesus as your treasure and your wealth

Look away, look away, look away from this world

Look to Jesus Look to Jesus as your priceless pearl

There is nothing more beyond,

He is the end of our quest

There is nothing better,

Christ is all of the best...

His presence and His promise

Fulfills all our desires

Now we are not dominated

By the chains that sin requires

Look away, look away, look away from your self

Look to Jesus Look to Jesus as your treasure and your wealth

Look away, look away, look away from this world

Look to Jesus Look to Jesus as your priceless pearl

If from Christ we feed and drink

He satisfies our soul-thirst

Beyond all we ask or think

If we will seek Him first

Look away, look away, look away from your self

Look to Jesus Look to Jesus as your treasure and your wealth

Look away, look away, look away from this world

Look to Jesus Look to Jesus as your priceless pearl

Anthony Foster

March 26, 2018

In Your Sweet Sweet Presence

I love to dwell in your sweet presence

In the light of your glory to bask

Hid with Christ in this holy residence

Abide with me, dear Lord, is all I ask

We are your temple Lord where you dwell richly

We are the tabernacles of your grace

Yours are the courts where we can all live boldly

Here at your throne we see you face to face

Here in your sweet sweet presence

My poor soul is satisfied

With blessings beyond all I ask or think

At the free flowing fountain of grace I will drink

And forevermore I will abide.

We live in You you live in us

As we hope and trust and confide,

You fashion our clay and transform our dust

As in your presence we abide.

You are our pillar of cloud each day to guide us

Pillar of fire, illuminate our night

Lord to your wounded side you draw and hide us

For you were pierced that we might see Your light!

Here in your sweet sweet presence

My poor soul is satisfied

With blessings beyond all I ask or think

At the free flowing fountain of grace I will drink

And forevermore I will abide.

Boldly to your throne room we enter in

To live in this divine dwelling place

Built by the blood that you shed for men

A finished work accomplished by Your grace

Here in your sweet sweet presence

My poor soul is satisfied

With blessings beyond all I ask or think

At the free flowing fountain of grace I will drink

And forevermore I will abide.

Here where you take me to your side

Forevermore I will abide.

March 26, 2019

Anthony Foster

Your Word

It is not by power, not by might

That the victories of this life are won

It is walking in the Word of Light

By the sword of the Spirit it is done

By this sword the worldly flesh we kill

By this sword we're protected in the war

It will pierce our feelings and our will

Through its precepts, the battle is the Lord’s

Your word I have hidden in my heart

That I might not sin against You

Your word I have hidden in my heart

For Your word is faithful and true

Your word you have written on my heart

My name you have written on your hand

By your word a living way you chart

That your child can begin to understand

A lamp to my feet and to my path, a light

Dividing bone and marrow, defining wrong and right

Giving wisdom to the foolish

And to blind men giving sight

Your word, Lord, your word

Your word I have hidden in my heart

That I might not sin against You

Your word I have hidden in my heart

For your word is faithful and true

Your word you have written on my heart

My name you have written on your hand

By Your word a living way you chart

That your child can begin to understand

Bridge

Heaven and Earth shall pass away

But Your Words will never pass away

A lamp to my feet and to my path, a light

Dividing bone and marrow, defining wrong and right

Giving wisdom to the foolish

And to blind men giving sight

Your word, Lord, your word.

March 6, 2019

Anthony Foster