Category: Hymns
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“Search Me, O God” by J. Edwin Orr; Imagery from Jeremiah 17:9 of the heart as a great, turbid deep
Hymnal Page Scan: Our Great Redeemer’s Praise page 343 | Hymnary.org Keyboard Recording: I have been writing about heart energy on here. In my last post, I wrote about how we do not know what is in other people’s hearts or our own heart. God alone can truly search the human heart and know it.…
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“Thou Thinkest, Lord, of Me” by Edmund S. Lorenz
Hymnal Page Scan: Hymns for Worship 419. Amid the trials which I meet | Hymnary.org Keyboard Recording: This is a hymn we can sing to God when we are walking with Him in the quiet valley of prayer. The message of this hymn is that there is something that can lift our spirits when we…
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“Cleanse Thou My Heart” by Edith Tillotson; Notes on Chapter 14 of The Expositor’s Bible: The Book of Proverbs by Robert F. Horton; Imagery of God cleansing the heart in order to heal a broken spirit
Hymnal Page Scan: His Worthy Praise page 77 | Hymnary.org Keyboard Recording: Todays’ post begins after the words to the hymn, so please keep scrolling. 1 Cleanse Thou my heart from secret sin,From any hidden wrong,That to a loyal child of thine,O Lord, must not belong. Refrain:Oh, make me white and pure within,A temple bright…
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“The Quiet Vale of Prayer” by Maria Wheeler; Notes on Proverbs 18:14; Imagery of going to the valley of prayer for healing of a broken spirit
Hymnal Page Scan: Spiritual Songs No. 2: for Gospel Meetings and the Sunday school page 2 | Hymnary.org Keyboard Recording: Here are the words to this hymn. I’m going to put them at the beginning of the post so that it will be easier for you to read them when you are listening to the…
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“His Little Ones” by Cecilia Havergal
Hymnal Page Scan: Royal Praise for the Sunday School: a collection of new and selected gospel songs. With a clear and concise course of instruction in the elements of music page 48 | Hymnary.org Keyboard Recording: This is a hymn you can use when you are meditating on the imagery of Jesus as the Good…
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“O Breath of Life” by Bessie Porter Head
Hymnal Page Scan: Trinity Psalter Hymnal page 659 | Hymnary.org Keyboard Recording: This is a hymn that we can sing as a prayer to God for renewal. As you are singing through it, envision the breath of life sweeping down from heaven and reviving you…renewing your thoughts, your will, and your heart. When I was…
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“Moment by Moment” by Daniel W. Whittle
Hymnal Page Scan: Hymns of Glorious Praise page 296 | Hymnary.org Piano Recording: This hymn talks about what I was writing about in yesterday’s post. When you are singing through the chorus, try to envision moving moment by moment…step by step…along the pathway with Jesus. He carries us from moment to moment. Yesterday we prayed…
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“Oh For That Flame” by W. H. Bathurst
Hymnal Page Scan: Gospel Melodies and Evangelistic Hymns page 102 | Hymnary.org Keyboard Recording: 1 O for that flame of living fire,which shone so bright in saints of old;which bade their souls to heav’n aspire,calm in distress, in danger bold. 2 Where is that Spirit, Lord, which dweltin Abram’s breast, and sealed him Thine?Which made…
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“‘Tis Burning in My Soul” by Delia T. White
Hymnal Page Scan: Light and Life Songs: adapted especially to sunday schools, prayer meetings and other social services 68. God sent His mighty power | Hymnary.org Keyboard Recording: 1. God sent His mighty pow’rTo this poor, sinful heart,To keep me ev’ry hour,And needful grace impart;And since His Spirit came,To take supreme control,The love enkindled flameIs…
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“Is Thy Heart Right With God?” by Elisha Hoffman
Hymnal Page Scan: Praise for the Lord (Expanded Edition) page 267 | Hymnary.org Keyboard Recording: 1 Have thy affections been nailed to the cross?Is thy heart right with God?Dost thou count all things for Jesus but loss?Is thy heart right with God? Refrain:Is thy heart right with God,Washed in the crimson flood,Cleansed and made holy,…
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