Text 1Lord of all good, our gifts we bring You now;Use them Your holy purpose to fulfill.Tokens of love and pledges they shall beThat our whole life is offered to Your will. 2We give our minds to understand Your ways;Hands, voices, eyes to serve Your great design;Hearts with the flame of your own love ablaze:Thus…
Category: SDA HYMNAL (1985)
Text 1Come, all Christians, be committedTo the service of the lord;Make your lives for him more fitted,Tune your hearts with one accord.Come into His courts with gladness,Each his sacred vows renew,Turn away from sin and sadness,Be transformed with life anew. 2Of your time and talents give ye,They are gifts from God above;To be used by…
Text 1Sing the wondrous love of Jesus;Sing his mercy and his grace.In the mansions bright and blessedHe’ll prepare for us a place. RefrainWhen we all get to heaven,What a day of rejoicing that will be!When we all see Jesus,We’ll sing and shout the victory! 2While we walk the pilgrim pathway,Clouds will overspread the sky;But when…
Text 1My heart can sing when I pause to remember,A heartache here is but a stepping stone.Along a trail, that’s winding always upward,This troubled world, is not my final home. RefrainBut until then, my heart will go on singing,Until then, with joy I’ll carry on,Until the day my eyes behold the city,Until the day God…
Text 1When on life a darkness falls,When the mist flows chilling,Paths and sign posts lost in doubt,Loveless, unfulfilling,Reach us, Jesus, from Your cross,Though we feel forsaken;Keep us through the aching nightTill new dawns awaken. 2When the dreams and vows of youthPainfully accuse us,Stab our conscience, steal our worth,Christ will not refuse us:Peace the world cannot…
Text 1Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings,thy better portion trace;Rise from transitory things toward heaven,thy native place;Sun, and moon, and stars decay;time shall soon this earth remove;Rise, my soul, and haste awayto seats prepared above. 2Rivers to the ocean run,nor stay in all their course;Fire ascending seeks the sun;both speed them to their source;So…
Text 1O happy band of pilgrims,If onward ye will treadWith Jesus as your fellow,To Jesus as your Head! 2O happy if ye laborAs Jesus did for men;O happy if ye hungerAs Jesus hungered then! 3The trials that beset you,The sorrows ye endure,The manifold temptationsThat death alone can cure, 4What are they but His jewelsOf right…
Text 1As Jacob with travel was weary one day,At night on a stone for a pillow he lay;He saw in a vision a ladder so highThat its foot was on earth and its top in the sky. RefrainAlleluia to Jesus who died on the tree,And has raised up a ladder of mercy for me,And has…
Text 1We are climbing Jacob’s ladder,We are climbing Jacob’s ladder,We are climbing Jacob’s ladder,Soldiers of the cross. 2Every round goes higher, higher,Every round goes higher, higher,Every round goes higher, higher,Soldiers of the cross. 3Sinner, do you love my Jesus?Sinner, do you love my Jesus?Sinner, do you love my Jesus?Soldiers of the cross. 4If you love…
Text 1Let us sing a song that will cheer us by the way,In a little while we’re going home.For the night will end in the everlasting day,In a little while we’re going home. RefrainIn a little while, In a little while,We shall cross the billow’s foam;We shall meet at last, When the stormy winds are…