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SPIRITUAL / CONTEMPLATIVE - 9 pieces

Heavenly Father

Let No Man Despise Your Youth

Let Us Rejoice

Lord God and Gracious Father

Peer Pressure

Purpose

The Dear Departed

The Genesis Question

Wonder of Creations

 

BEYOND THE VEIL OF FLESH

 

Wonder of Creations

 

When I see the wonder of the Creation;

I tremble to think of a Creator so Great.

When I perceive the endless Patience

Of my Lord; His Grace I cannot rate.

 

When I am lonely and grieved;

I know He Loves the Disconsolate.

When I consider the Promise He made;

For the new Kingdom, I cannot wait.

 

 

The Genesis Question

 

Night and Day

Who's to say

When dark, it's night

It's day, when light.

2 Billion or Six?

We are in a mix.

Was it counted by the setting sun?

Where our Creator is, there has been not one!

 

 

The Dear Departed

 

A captive in the land of the unseen,

He realised, then, what had been told him.

How man may try to live his life clean

But be completely covered in sin.

 

But far away in the land he had conquered:

He saw a small shining light.

It was a sign of hope for him

Yet, how to get to that light so bright?

 

He's fellow citizens did tell him about a "bridge"

For all whose souls are yearning,

Was through prayers of the true and faithful,

Dear brother is your beacon light burning?

 


Peer Pressure

 

Let me be the one to decide my life

Let me be the one to attain what I love

Amongst the people of this world confusion is rife

So I govern my life according to the "One Above."

 

If others should decide the things I do

Then "real friends" I'd have, would be so few

For then I wouldn't have to be in any of life's quarrels

Because I would have no principals or morals.

 

 

Let Us Rejoice

 

Let us rejoice and give thanks unto the Lord

Let our voices loud in heav'n be ringing.

For our Lord and Father who from heaven,

Blessings in abundance now is bringing.


He sent his son our Saviour to redeem us,

To elevate us from this world of sin.

So we invite into our hearts and ask him:

"Dear Father make thy dwelling, Lord come in."

 

 

Lord God and Gracious Father

 

Lord God and Gracious Father, King of all creation.

Who offers love and grace, On earth to every nation.

 

Thy only Son was sent, Whose death and resurrection

Opened the door where we’ll be, Moulded to perfection.

 

Teach us Thy way dear Father, Show us how to follow

Thy servants leading us, Out of this land of sorrow.

 

Keep us upon the narrow way, To our salvation.

So we’ll be taken as the, Bridal congregation.

 


Heavenly Father

 

Our dear heavenly Father, grant peace and grace today;

Refreshment from Thine altar, within our souls do lay.

We want to overcome, the lust for earthly things

So that we desire more, for the bread that Thy Spirit brings.

 

Make us always alert, that this blessing we do not lose;

But allow Thine hand of grace, to mould us as Thou should choose.

We strive from day to day, like Jesus Christ to be;

So at the marriage of the Lamb, we will our Saviour see.

 

 

Purpose

 

Is it valid what you shewed me

That life is not what meets the eye.

It was said "To be or not to be"

But what happens in eternity.

 

We toil and labour every day

Trying to find another way

But while upon the earth we stay,

Let us speak out loud, what we have to say.

 

My life unfolds before my eyes

And I see what words were filled with lies.

I see how fluently the eagle flies

But shall we e'er soar above the skies.

 

 

Let No Man Despise Your Youth

first stanza from 1 Timothy 4:12

 

Let no man despise your youth;

But be an example of the believers,

In word, in conversation, in charity,

In spirit, in faith, in purity.

 

Remain in the first love of which you were shown

And know that with God you are never alone.

Lift up your heads and keep your eyes on the goal

While our Father completes his work on your soul.

 

Don't let satan convince you into dispute,

But give to the Master the best of your youth.

Let your mouths speak to men the Gospel of Truth,

Let no man despise your youth.

 

 

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