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Praise

Ephesians 5 ¹⁸ ' ...  but be filled with the Spirit; ¹⁹ speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; ²⁰ giving thanks always for all things to God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ ...'

'O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise'

Hymn by Charles Wesley
St Michael's Singers and orchestra
From the album 'Alleluia, Sing!'
Full list of credits on YouTube.

'In the Beauty of Holiness' Psalm 96

Words by John S B Monsell, to tune by William H Cooke, 'Sanctissimus'.

Psalm 22:22

I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

Hebrews 2

11 For both he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, 12 saying,

'I will declare thy name to my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise to thee.'

Psalm 40

¹ I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined to me, and heard my cry.

² He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

³ And he has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

⁴ Blessed is that man that makes the LORD his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

God is love

Tune: Walton  http://www.billysloan.co.uk/songs/we_sing_the_praise_of_him_who_died.html

1 We sing the praise of Him who died,

Of Him who died upon the cross.

The sinner's hope let all deride;

For this we count the world but loss.

2 Inscribed upon the cross we see

In shining letters, "God is love."

He bears our sins upon the tree;

He brings us mercy from above.

3 The cross! It takes our guilt away;

It holds the fainting spirit up;

It cheers with hope the gloomy day

And sweetens ev'ry bitter cup.

4 It makes the coward spirit brave

And nerves the feeble arm for fight;

It takes the terror from the grave

And gilds the bed of death with light;

5 The balm of life, the cure of woe,

The measure and the pledge of love,

The sinner's refuge here below,

The angels' theme in heav'n above.

6 To Christ, who won for sinners, grace,

By bitter grief and anguish sore,

Be praise from all the ransomed race

Forever and forevermore.

Words by Thomas Kelly

' That Man of Calvary...'

Words and tune by Manie P Ferguson

Luke 4

¹⁶ And he [Jesus] came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath [rest] day, and stood up for to read.

¹⁷ And there was delivered to him the book of the prophet Esaias [Isaiah]. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,

[Isaiah 61 vv 1, 2 ( and 3)]

¹⁸ 'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, ¹⁹ to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.'

²⁰ And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.

²¹ And he began to say to them, 'This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.'

Hebrews 12

²² But you all are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

²³ To the general assembly and church of the firstborn [ones], which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

²⁴ And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant

[Hebrews 9 vv 14, 15]

and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.

²⁵ See that you all refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him who speaks from heaven ...'

Acts 3 [Peter speaking]

¹⁹ 'Repent, all of you, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

²⁰ And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached to you: ²¹ whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.

²² For Moses truly said to the fathers,

'A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up to you of your brethren, like to me; him shall you all hear in all things whatsoever he shall say to you. ²³ And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.'

²⁴ Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.

²⁵ You all are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham,

'And in your seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.'

[Galatians 3 v 8

Hebrews 2 vv 16, 17]

²⁶ To you, first, God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities [sins].

Psalm 137 v 2 and Psalm 63 vv 3 & 4

I've taken my harp down from the willow tree.

My heart is singing the victory.

My past is forgiven.

My home is in heaven.

All sorrow has gone,

The glory has come,

And now I am free.

1 Thy lovingkindness is better than life, x 2

My lips shall praise Thee, thus will I bless Thee.

Thy lovingkindness is better than life.

2 I lift my hands up in Thy name, x 2

My lips shall praise Thee, thus will I bless Thee.

Thy lovingkindness is better than life.