Helpful Text for Worship

June 4, 2023

This is My Father’s World

Verse 1
This is my Father’s world
And to my list’ning ears
All nature sings and ’round me rings
Music of the spheres

This is my Father’s world
I rest me in the thought
Of rocks and trees of skies and seas
His hand the wonders wrought

Verse 2
This is my Father’s world
The birds their carols raise
The morning light the lily white
Declare their Maker’s praise

This is my Father’s world
He shines in all that’s fair
In the rust’ling grass I hear Him pass
He speaks to me ev’rywhere

Verse 3
This is my Father’s world
O let me ne’er forget
And though the wrong seems oft so strong
God is the Ruler yet
And though the wrong seems oft so strong
God is the Ruler yet

This is my Father’s world
Why should my heart be sad
The Lord is King let the heavens ring
God reigns let the earth be glad
The Lord is King let the heavens ring
God reigns let the earth be glad

His Mercy is More

Verse 1
What love could remember no wrongs we have done
Omniscient all knowing He counts not their sum
Thrown into a sea without bottom or shore
Our sins they are many His mercy is more

Verse 2
What patience would wait as we constantly roam
What Father so tender is calling us home
He welcomes the weakest the vilest the poor
Our sins they are many His mercy is more

Verse 3
What riches of kindness He lavished on us
His blood was the payment His life was the cost
We stood ‘neath a debt we could never afford
Our sins they are many His mercy is more

Chorus
Praise the Lord His mercy is more
Stronger than darkness new every morn
Our sins they are many His mercy is more

O Love that Will Not Let Me Go

Verse 1
O Love that will not let me go
I rest my weary soul in thee
I give thee back the life I owe
That in thine ocean depths its flow
May richer fuller be

Verse 2
O Light that follows all my way
I yield my flick’ring torch to thee
My heart restores its borrowed ray
That in thy sunshine’s blaze
Its day may brighter fairer be

Verse 3
O Joy that seekest me through pain
I cannot close my heart to thee
I trace the rainbow through the rain
And feel the promise is not vain
That morn shall tearless be

Verse 4
O Cross that liftest up my head
I dare not ask to fly from thee
I lay in dust life’s glory dead
And from the ground there blossoms red
Life that shall endless be

June Memory Verse

Psalm 130

¹Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord;

²    Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive
    to my cry for mercy.

³If you, Lord, kept a record of sins,
    Lord, who could stand?
⁴But with you there is forgiveness,
    so that we can, with reverence, serve you.

⁵I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits,
    and in his word I put my hope.
⁶I wait for the Lord
    more than watchmen wait for the morning,
    more than watchmen wait for the morning.

⁷Israel, put your hope in the Lord,
    for with the Lord is unfailing love
    and with him is full redemption.
⁸He himself will redeem Israel
    from all their sins.

Prayer Pad

The Power to Love: the Holy Spirit and the Beloved Community

Ryan Waalkes

Ephesians 3:14-21

For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

Build My Life

Verse 1
Worthy of ev’ry song we could ever sing
Worthy of all the praise we could ever bring
Worthy of ev’ry breath we could ever breathe
We live for You

Verse 2
Jesus the name above ev’ry other name
Jesus the only one who could ever save
Worthy of ev’ry breath we could ever breathe
We live for You
We live for You

Chorus
Holy there is no one like You
There is none beside You
Open up my eyes in wonder and show me who You are
And fill me with Your heart
And lead me in Your love to those around me

Bridge
We will build our church upon Your love
It is a firm foundation
We will put our trust in You alone
And I will not be shaken

East/West (Psalm 103)

Verse 1
Bless the Lord O my soul
All that is within me bless His name
He’s forgives all our sin
He is slow to anger full of grace

Chorus
As high as the heavens are up above
So is the greatness of his love
As far as the east is from the west
He removes our sin from us
As far as the east is from the west
As far as the east is from the west

Verse 2
For the lord knows our frame
Short our days from dust to dust we fade
But His love will remain
Merciful to those who fear his name
The steadfast love of the Lord
Is from everlasting to everlasting

Bridge
The steadfast love of the Lord
Is from everlasting to everlasting

Digital Prayer Pad

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All lyrics reprinted with permission.

CCLI Song # 6167640
Aaron Purdy | Franklin Lawrence Sheppard | Jennie Lee Riddle | Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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