Praise the Eternal With A Psalm

Text: Psalm 81 Music: Dwight Armstrong

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Praise the E-ter-nal with a psalm; sing to the God of Ja-cob;

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Raise the cho-rus, make a joy-ful noise; bring out the harp and tim-brel.

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Blow on the trum-pet, sound the drum,

on our sol-emn feast day;

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This is a stat-ute and a law which God has or-dained for Is-r'el.

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"Hear, O my peo-ple, hear My voice;I will ad-mon-ish Is-r'el;

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You shall have no oth-er, for-eign gods; I am the God who freed you.

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When you were trou-bled you did call;I de-liv-ered Is-r'el.“

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God an-swer'd in the se-cret place; with thun-der He did com-mand them.

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"I am the God who brought you out,out from the land of E-gypt;

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Hear, O Is-r'el, o-pen wide your mouth; I sure-ly then will fill it."

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But Is-ra-el would not heed God;they would have their own ways;

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O, if they on-ly had o-beyed, their God would have sure-ly freed them.

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Praise the E-ter-nal with a psalm; sing to the God of Ja-cob;

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Raise the cho-rus, make a joy-ful noise; bring out the harp and tim-brel.

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Blow on the trum-pet, sound the drum,

on our sol-emn feast day;

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This is a stat-ute and a law which God has or-dained for Is-r'el.

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O God of Every Nation

Text: William W. Reid, Jr. Music: Welsh folk melody; arr. D. Evans, 1865

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O God of ev-'ry na-tion, of ev-'ry race and land,

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Re-deem the whole cre-a-tion with Your al-might-y hand;

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Where hate and fear di-vide us and bit-ter threats are hurled,

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In love and mer-cy guide us and heal our strife-torn world.

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From search for wealth and pow-er and scorn of truth and right,

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From trust in bombs that show-er de-struc-tion through the night,

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From pride of race and sta-tionand blind-ness to Your way,

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De-liv-er ev-'ry na-tion, E-ter-nal God, we pray.

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Lord, strength-en those who la-bor that all may find re-lease

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From fear of rat-tling sa-ber, from dread of war's in-crease;

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When hope and cour-age fal-ter,Lord let Your voice be heard;

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With faith that none can al-ter, Your ser-vants un-der-gird.

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Keep bright in us the vi-sion of days when war shall cease,

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When ha-tred and di-vi-sion give way to love and peace,

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‘Til dawns the morn-ing glo-riouswhen peace on earth shall reign,

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And Christ shall rule vic-to-ri-ous o'er all the world's do-main.

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Seek You First the Kingdom of God

TEXT: 1 Chronicles 28; Isaiah 55;Matthew 6:33;7:7 MUSIC: Ross Jutsum

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Seek you first the King-dom of God and all His righ-teous-ness.

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All these things He’ll add to you,and He will rich-ly bless.

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Ask, and it shall be giv-en; seek, and you shall find;

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Knock, and it shall be o-pened; our God is gra-cious and kind.

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Seek you first the King-dom of God and all His righ-teous-ness.

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All these things He’ll add to you, and He will rich-ly bless.

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Serve the Lord with per-fect heart and with a will-ing mind.

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Lis-ten now and do your part; seek Him and you shall find.

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You, the Lord has cho-sen; do the Work; be strong;

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Build your house for His tem-ple; to God sal-va-tion be-longs.

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Serve the Lord with per-fect heart and with a will-ing mind.

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Lis-ten now and do your part; seek Him and you shall find.

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Seek the Lord while He may be found, and call while He is near.

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Turn to Him, for-sake your way, and He will sure-ly hear.

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For His thoughts are not our thoughts, nor His ways our ways.

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God will mer-ci-f’lly par-don and bless us all of our days.

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Seek the Lord while He may be found, and call while He is near.

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Turn to Him, for-sake your way, and He will sure-ly hear.

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I Hate the Thoughts of Vanity

Text: Psalm 119; The Scottish Psalter, 1650 Music: Dwight Armstrong

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I hate the thoughts of van-i-ty but I do love Thy law.

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Thou art my shield and hid-ing place; I on Thy word re-ly.

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All ye who e-vil-do-ers are, from me de-part a-way;

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Be-cause the pre-cepts of my GodI pur-pose to o-bey.

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Up-hold and strength-en me ac-cord-ing to Thy faith-ful word;

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That I may live and of Thy hope, may nev-er be a-shamed.

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O, hold me safe, and ev-er in Thy will let me de-light;

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That for the stat-utes of my GodI may have deep re-spect.

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My God will set at naught all those who from His pre-cepts stray;

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For their own lies are all in vain, and they them-selves de-ceive.

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For all the wick-ed of the earthare count-ed but as dross;

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And there-fore do I love Thy law and test-i-mon-ies pure.

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The New Jerusalem

Text: Revelation 21 & 22; Mark Graham; alt.Music: Mark Graham

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When the judg-ment years are end-edand death is cast a-way,

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The first heav'n and the first earth in fire shall pass a-way.

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From new heav-en to new earth shall come the new Je-ru-sa-lem.

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And the dwell-ing of the Fa-ther at last shall be with men.

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Like a bride dressed for thebride-groom the city of God shall be.

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Her walls shall shine like jas-per of gold shall be her streets.

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Her gates are twelve in num-ber,an an-gel at each one,

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And each of her foun-da-tions is set with pre-cious stones.

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From the Fa-ther's throne, a ri-veras clear as crys-tal flows,

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And on its banks for-ev-er the tree of life shall grow.

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Its leaves shall heal the na-tions,its fruit shall be for food.

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And there shall be no more curse there, but all shall be for good.

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They shall need no sun by day there,nor moon to shine by night,

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For the glo-ry of their God and the Lamb shall be its light.

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His saints shall reign for-ev-er,from death they shall be free.

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God will dwell a-mong His peo-ple for all e-ter-ni-ty.

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Praise Ye the Lord!

Text: Psalm 148Music: Dwight Armstrong

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Praise ye the Lord!Praise ye the Lord!

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Praise from the heav-ens and praise in the heights!

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Praise Him, ye an-gels,praise Him, ye hosts, O

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Praise Him, ye sun, moon and stars in the heights!

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Heav-en of heav-ens,wa-ters a-bove,

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Praise the E-ter-nal, let all praise His name!

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When He com-mand-ed theywere cre-at-ed, and

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By a de-cree fixed theirbounds ev-er-more!

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Praise ye the Lord! Ye mam-malsand deeps, too,

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Fire, hail and wind-storms ful-fill-ing His word!

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Va-pors and snow, all hills,too, and moun-tains, all

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Ce-dars and fruit trees, let all praise His name!

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Wild beasts and cat-tle, wingedbirds and rep-tiles,

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Earth's kings and judg-es, all peo-ple and chiefs;

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Young men and maid-ens,old men and chil-dren, O

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Praise ye the name of ourGod ev-er-more!

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Praise ye the Lord!Praise ye the Lord!

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Praise from the heav-ens and praise in the heights!

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Praise Him, ye an-gels, praise Him,ye hosts, for His

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Glo-ry is high-er thanheav-en a-bove.

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God lift-ed high thehorn of His peo-ple;

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He has ex-alt-ed the praise of His saints;

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They are a peo-ple nearun-to God; they’re the

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Chil-dren of Is-ra-el, praise ye the Lord!

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