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Rise up, sweet child, and sing,
For the victory I will bring.
Like a rising tide within,
I wash you free from the bindings of sin.
Where once was naught but gloom and self-despair,
I plant a garden of faith, power, praise and prayer.
Though you have walked the valley of death and worldly care.
Wondrous lessons have you learned there:
That I love you,
That My Word is true,
That there is naught that your flesh can do.
Still, all things are possible in Me through you.

I Don't Know How to Love You

Tell Me

If you are passionately in love with someone who you've been away from for a time, and they are now standing a hundred feet away from you, is your determination or interest in reaching them lessened if the room is crowded with people, rather than if the room were empty?

If that love and desire are real, hindrances will only heighten your determination and cause you to redouble your efforts, won't they? If other factors distract you, is it not simply because your love is not as great as it should be? So it is with meditation. If your love for Jesus is what it should be, then outside factors may slow you down in reaching your goal, but they could never prevent you from reaching it.

Outlaw

music&lyrics: Jason Lawrence

Go on honey, take a chance!

You wonder, has it come just to pass, or is it here to stay?
Will it be with you a lifetime, or only a few days?
Can you put your weight down and trust that it will hold?
Will it be a fire that warms you, or will it leave you feeling cold?
Well, you don't know now, but you can know.

If you take a chance on My love, you can know My fire.
Take a chance on us, let Me fulfill your heart's desire.
Give to Me your heart that's aching and broken.
I will warm and heal you with My love,
There'll be no regrets.

If you'd share with Me your heart for just five minutes,
Share your warmth, your love, you'd see,
And know the joy that there is in it.
It's not a game, I know; opening up is always tough,
But if you let the loving flow, you'll find My love is enough.
And that I know, and that you can know.

Please don't close up your heart and push My love aside,
Even if it don't make sense to you.
I just can't hide the way I feel here inside Me,
And how I care for you.
Let Me have a chance to show you that My love is true.

Take a chance on My love, you can know My fire.
Take a chance on us, let Me fulfill your heart's desire.
Give to Me your heart that's aching and broken.
I will warm and heal you with My love,
There'll be no regrets.

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composed by: Paul Hart

All I Can Think Of

All I can think of is loving You, when my gaze reaches Your lips then I do
And all I can dream of is holding You, when I hold You I know I'm supposed to
When Heaven's halls open like this I come into Your presence and leave with a kiss, and I praise
Every part of Your glory and beautiful grace, I love You

I can't close my heart when You love me, every touch is surrounded by majesty,
I know I was made to adore You, now my soul is awake to explore You
When Heaven's halls open like this I come into Your presence and leave with a kiss, and I praise
Every part of Your glory and beautiful grace, I love You

The birds they dance, the trees they sing, You're Master over everything
I don't know how this came to be, but my heart I believe

And all I can think of is loving You, when my gaze reaches Your lips then I do
And all I can dream of is loving You, when I hold You I know I'm supposed to
When Heaven's halls open like this I come into Your presence and leave with a kiss, and I praise
Every part of Your glory and beautiful grace, I love You

'Cause all I can think of is loving You.

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sung by: Julie Greeneyes

A Prayer of George Matheson

No part of my being needs Thee like my heart.
All else within me can be filled with Thy gifts.
My hunger can be satisfied by daily bread.
My thirst can be allayed by earthly waters.
My cold can be removed by household fires.
My weariness can be relieved by outward rest.
But no outward thing can make my heart pure.
The calmest day will not calm my passions.
The fairest scene will not beautify my soul.
The richest music will not make harmony within.
The breezes can cleanse the air, but no breeze can cleanse a spirit.
This world has not provided for my heart.
It has provided for my eyes, it has provided for my ears, it has provided for my touch, it has provided for my taste, it has provided for my sense of beauty-but it has not provided for my heart.
Provide Thou for my heart, O Lord!
It is the only unwinged bird in all creation.
Give it wings! O Lord! Give it wings!
Earth has failed to give it wings; its very power of loving has often drawn it into the mire.
Be Thou the strength of my heart.
Be Thou its fortress in temptation, its shield in remorse, its covert in the storm, its star in the night, its voice in the solitude.
Guide it in its gloom, help it in its faintness, prompt it in its perplexity, lead it through its labyrinth, raise it from its ruins.
I cannot rule this heart of mine; keep it under the shadow of Thy Own wings.