Devotinal Hymns
1 - HAVE COME TO THEE
- Ref. I have come to thee to take thy touch before I begin my day.
- Let thy eye rest upon my eyes for a while.
- Let me take to my work the assurance of thy comrade Ship, my friends.
- Fill my mind with Thy music to last through thy desert of noise.
- Let thy love's sunshine kiss the peaks of my thoughts.
- And linger in my life's Valley where the harvest ripens.
2 - THIS WORLD YOU HAVE MADE
- Ref. This world you have made is a beautiful place.
- It tells the power of your love.
- We rejoice in the beauty of your world.
- From the seas to the heavens above.
- 1. The morning whispers purity;
- The evening of your peace
- The thunder booms your exuberance
- In the awesome power you release.
- 2. The tenderness of new born Child
- The gentleness of your rain
- Simplicity in a single cell
- And complexity in a brain.
3 - MAKE ME A CHANNEL OF YOUR PEACE
- 1. Make me a Channel of your peace.
- Where there is hatred let me bring your love.
- Where there is injury your pardon Lord.
- And where there's doubt true faith in you.
- Ch. O master grant that I may never seek/So much to be consoled as to console,
- To be understood as to understand,
- To be loved as to love with all my soul
- 2. Make me a channel of your peace.
- Where there's despair in life, let me bring hope
- Where there is darkness, only light
- And where there's sadness, ever joy,
- 3. Make me a channel of your peace
- It is in pardoning that we are pardoned
- In giving to each one that we receive,
- And in dying that we're born to eternal life.
4 - THIS LITTLE GUIDING LIGHT OF MANE
- 1. This little guiding light of mine
- I'm going to let is shine (3)
- Let it shine all the time, let it shine
- 2. Hide it under a bushel, Oh no!
- I'm going to let it shine (3)
- Let it shine all the time let it shine
- 3. Take this light round the world
- I'm going to let it shine (3)
- Let it shine all the time, let it shine
5 - JUST LIKE A CHILD
- 1. Just like a Child who trusts his father dear
- And who delights to feel his presence near
- Just like a Child whose mind has not a doubt
- And whose heart is never proud.
- Ch. Here I come, O Lord,
- Here come just like a child
- Here I come, a Lord
- Here I come just like a child.
- 2. Just like a Child so weak he cannot stand,
- But who holds firm and tight his mother's hand,
- Just like a Child who sings in bright daylight,
- Fearing not the long dark night.
- 3. Just like a Child that quality deeds oppress
- With mind and heart in trouble and distress
- Who throws himself into his mother's arms
- Sure she I'll free him from his Qualms.
6 - KEEP ME IN THE HOLLOW OF YOUR HANDS
- 1. Keep me in the hollow of your hands
- Lead me through this wild and stormy land
- You who guide my feet through the path may be steep.
- Keep me in the hollow of your hands.
- Ch. Keep me keep me day by day
- Guide me guide me all the way
- Never let me stray.
- Keep me in the hollow of your Hands.
- 2. Keep me in the centre of your will.
- All Your plans for me may I fulfill
- As I go my way help me Lord from day to day
- Keep me in the centre of your will
- 3. Keep me in the centre of your love
- Looking down to comfort from above
- Help me see your face as I pray for daily grace
- Keep me in the centre of your love.
7 - RING OUT YOUR JOY GIVE GLORY TO GOD
- Ch.Ring our your joy give glory to God.
- Lift up your hearts and sing
- Let all creation tell of His name praise
- Him for ever more.
- 1. Blessed are you, God of our fathers
- Glory and praise for evermore
- Blessed you great and glorious holy name
- Glory and praise for evermore
- 2. Blest in the temple of your glory .
- Glory and praise for ever more
- Blessed are you who gaze into the depth
- Glory and praise for evermore.
- O GIVE THANKS TO THE LORD, FOR HE IS GOOD (3)
YES, ETERNAL IS HIS LOVE. - 1. I will sing to my God never ceasing,
- All my life, I will tell of his wonders:
- He's the maker of all earth and heaven,
- Of the ocean, the seas and all they hold.
- 2. The Almighty is faithful for ever
- He is just to the poor and the outraged:
- It is He who gives bread to the hungry
- Who delivers the captives from their chains
- 3. He gives sight to the blind in his mercy;
- And he raises the lowly, the humble.
- It is he, who gives shelter to strangers,
- Every orphan and widow he defends.
- 4.To the just he is gracious and loving.
- But the wicked he foils and they stumble.
- Yes, the Lord reigns for ever and ever,
- He is king over Sian without end.