Search Me, O God

TEXT: Edwin Orr, alt. MUSIC: Traditional Maori melody

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Search me, O God, and know my heart to-day;

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Try me, O Sav-ior, know my thoughts, I pray.

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See if there be some wick-ed way in me;

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Cleanse me from ev-’ry sin, and set me free.

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I praise You, Lord, for cleans-ing me from sin;

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Ful-fill Your Word and make me pure with-in.

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Fill me with zeal, where once I lived in shame;

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Grant my de-sire to mag-ni-fy Your name.

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Lord, take my life, and make it whol-ly Thine;

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Fill my whole heart with Your great love di-vine.

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Take all my will, my pas-sions, self and pride;

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Lead me, O Lord; I pray in me a-bide.

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We Give Thanks to Our Redeemer

Text: W.G. HopfMusic: Psalmodia Sacra, 1715; Arr. Ann Tannert

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We give thanks to our Re-deem-er;With great joy we praise God's name!

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Praise our Sa-vior, and for-get notAll God's mer-cies to pro-claim.

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God for-gives all our trans-gres-sions;All dis-eas-es gent-ly heals.

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God re-deems us from de-struc-tion,And with all so kind-ly deals.

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Far as east from west is dis-tant,God has put a-way our sin.

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Great-er than the love of par-ents,Has the Lord's com-pas-sion been.

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Praise your Mak-er, all you crea-tures!Sing with joy and praise His name.

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He who is our Lord and Shep-herdWill for-ev-er be the same.

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Now Thank We All Our God

TEXT Martin Rinkart, 1636; translated by Catherine Winkworth, 1858MUSIC: Johann Cruger, 1647; from Felix Mendelssohn’s “Hymn of Praise,” 1840

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Now thank we all our God with hearts and hands and voic-es,

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Who won-drous things hath done, in whom His Church re-joic-es,

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Who from our moth-ers’ arms hath blessed us on our way

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With count-less gifts of love, and still is ours to-day.

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O may this boun-teous God through all our lives be near us,

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With ev-er joy-ful hearts and bless-ed peace to cheer us,

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And keep us in His grace, and guide us when per-plexed,

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And free us from all ills in this world and the next.

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All praise and thanks to God, the Fa-ther, now be giv-en,

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The Son, the One who reigns with Him in high-est heav-en,

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The one E-ter-nal God, whom earth and heav’n a-dore;

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For thus it was, is now, and shall be ev-er-more.

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My Shepherd Will Supply My Need

Text: Isaac Watts, 1719, based on Psalm 23 Music: Joseph Funk, 1832; arr. by David E. Hoover, 2003

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My Shep-herd will sup-ply my need;E-ter-nal is His Name.

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In pas-tures fresh He makes me feed,Be-side the liv-ing stream.

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He brings my wan-d’ring spir-it back,When I for-sake His ways;

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And leads me, for His mer-cy's sake, In paths of truth and grace.

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When I walk through the shades of death Thy pres-ence is my stay;

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One word of Thy sup-port-ing breath Drives all my fears a-way.

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Thy hand, in sight of all my foes,Doth still my ta-ble spread;

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My cup with bless-ings o-ver-flows, Thine oil a-noints my head.

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The sure pro-vi-sions of my GodAt-tend me all my days;

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O may Thy house be my a-bode, And all my work be praise.

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There would I find a set-tled rest,While oth-ers go and come;

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No more a strang-er, nor a guest, But like a child at home.

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By This Shall All Men Know

TEXT: John 13:34-35 MUSIC: Ross Jutsum

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A new com-mand-ment I will give, to mag-ni-fy the way to live;

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Love each oth-er as you do, with the love I’ve giv-en you.

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And by this shall all men know, all a-round the world you’ll show,

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That you are My dis-ci-ples, you’re My sis-ter and My broth-er;

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And by this shall all men know, ev-’ry friend and ev-’ry foe,

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That you are My dis-ci-ples if you love one an-oth-er.

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Not called to be luke-warm or cold, but zeal-ous like the men of old;

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Do the will of God a-bove; grow in His e-ter-nal love.

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And by this shall all men know, all a-round the world you’ll show,

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That you are My dis-ci-ples, you’re My sis-ter and My broth-er;

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And by this shall all men know, ev-’ry friend and ev-’ry foe,

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That you are My dis-ci-ples if you love one an-oth-er.

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I give my life for all man-kind, and call you at this spe-cial time;

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Do the work and feed the flock; build your house up-on the Rock.

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And by this shall all men know, all a-round the world you’ll show,

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That you are My dis-ci-ples, you’re My sis-ter and My broth-er;

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And by this shall all men know, ev-’ry friend and ev-’ry foe,

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That you are My dis-ci-ples if you love one an-oth-er.

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