Whatever it Takes (Help me to Rest in your Grace)

So many times I take the world on my shoulders

I still wander and wonder how I got there

I don’t seem to learn though I am getting older

To cast on You the burdens I never could bear

Teach me, reprove me, Correct me,  and prove me

Holy Spirit make me bold

Help me ferret out every dubious doubt

That manifests as a stronghold

Whatever idols need to be shattered,

Shatter them by your might

My lies need to be broken and battered,

Take them  and set me aright,

Discomfort me, realign me,

Unsettle me, refine me

Whatever it takes to bring me to you face to face

Whatever it takes -help me to rest in your grace.

Tho I may distrust and doubt that God will fulfill

All the promises He has made,

He is faithful to do just what he says he will-

He is not hindered by my weak faith

Teach me, reprove me, Correct me,  and prove me

Holy Spirit make me bold

Help me ferret out every dubious doubt

That manifests as a stronghold

Whatever idols need to be shattered,

Shatter them by your might

My lies need to be broken and battered,

Take them  and set me aright,

Discomfort me, realign me,

Unsettle me, refine me

Whatever it takes to bring me to you face to face

Whatever it takes -help me to rest in your grace.

Whatever it takes

Whatever it takes

Whatever it takes

2 Timothy 3:16

October 11, 2019

Anthony Foster

The Excellencies of His Great Name

We shall sing of the excellence of his glory,

Of a glory mingled with humility.

We will laud his uncompromising justice,

Justice that is tempered with mercy.

We must sing of his absolute transcendence,

Mingled with  his condescending love

We  take courage in his incarnate immanence

And His ever present presence from above

Clothed in a spirit of submission.

In obedience and willingness He came

We sing of sovereign dominion

Over the world he rules and reigns

In all His attributes our Lord is excellent

We sing the excellencies  of His great name!

We sing the excellencies  of His great name!

We admire how worthy he is of all good,

While suffering all evil at men’s hand

We admire the majesty of Christ Jesus

This majesty in meekness — For He is lion and lamb.

We admire how he could still the storm with a word,

yet he refused  to come down from the cross.

Despised the shame for the joy set before Him

And in His poverty He paid our ransoms cost

Clothed in a spirit of submission.

In obedience and willingness He came

We sing of sovereign dominion

Over the world he rules and reigns

In all His attributes our Lord is excellent

We sing the excellencies  of His great name!

We sing the excellencies  of His great name!

October 10, 2019

Anthony Foster

The Final Feast

There’s a longing in the soul

That  the Lord alone must fill

He comes and lifts the load

Of the sins he has revealed

Then gladness and gratitude

He infuses  by his grace-

With His very presence in our hearts

The void with hope he will replace

So we delight ourselves in the Lord

And we see our joy increased

As we gaze upon His beauty

We’re moved beyond mere duty

To sup at the soul’s final feast.

At the end of all our days

At the end of our times

The heart longs for God

This our purpose defines

The unspeakable joy

Of knowing His ways

That we might dwell with Him

For our eternal days

Bridge:

With thanksgiving we would enter His gates

Lifting  praises yet unheard

We wait for the Lord, our souls wait,

As we put our hope in His Word

So we delight ourselves in the Lord

And we see our joy increased

As we gaze on His beauty

We’re moved beyond mere duty

To sup at the soul’s final feast.

And joy will be ever increased

As we sup at the soul’s final feast.
This will be glory so complete
In God's presence at His feet.

Psalm 27:4; Psalm 16:11; Psalm 130:5

October 3, 2019

Anthony Foster

Oaks of Righteousness

God’s Spirit was poured on the Annointed One

Bearing good news, to the captives He came

He has come the broken hearts to bind

And freedom  to the prisoner to proclaim

He has opened up the prisons

Of the ones who were bound in the night

To declare the time of God’s favor

And God’s vengeance in power and might

He came to comfort those who mourn

And beauty for ashes to to give

To exchange the oil of gladness

For the sadness in which we live.

And so put on the garment of praise

And the spirit of heaviness fain

He has planted you as Oaks of Righteousness

So you may glorify His great name

So you Oaks of Righteousness arise

In  your garments of praise now rejoice

With your heads anointed with gladness

Proclaim the Lord's year with One Voice.

And so put on the garment of praise

And the spirit of heaviness fain

He has planted you as Oaks of Righteousness

So you may glorify His great name

So you Oaks of Righteousness arise

In  your garments of praise now rejoice

With your heads anointed with gladness

Proclaim the Lord's year with One Voice.

Isaiah 61:1-3; Isaiah 9:2

October 3, 2019

Anthony Foster