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Christ Our Shepherd

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Today’s song comes from Kenwood Baptist Church’s music ministry in Louisville, Kentucky USA. I love a well written song based on Psalm 23, and I’m sure you’ll love this one too; enjoy!

Christ our Shepherd, ever good and glorious 
giving to His flock good land to graze.
In His pasture we will want for nothing, 
near the waters He will keep us safe.
He restores us with His loving presence, 
goodness and mercy for all our days.
He delivers us from darkest places 
to the pasture of unending grace.

Christ our Shepherd will bind up the wounded, 
giving strength to all the weak and frail.
Straying sheep He has pursued and rescued,
He will hold us in his tender care.
We will feast within His house forever,
free from all harm of the enemy. 
We will drink the cup of life abundant 
in the pasture where He reigns as king.

Christ our Shepherd died to save His lost ones, 
laying down His life of His accord.
See our shepherd on the cross to claim us; 
we may live because His blood was poured.
Rising, He will lead to life eternal; 
our every sin, every grief He bears.
He has broken every bond that held us,
freed to live within His pasture fair.

Christ our Shepherd He will go before us, 
listen to His voice He knows your name.
Through the darkest valley He will bring us,
rod and staff to guide the narrow way.
We are His, oh what a joy to follow
till every tear He has wiped away.
Christ our Shepherd He will lead us homeward 
to the pasture of unending days.  

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Psalm 103

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Today is a rewrite of Psalm 103 to melody, written by Brit Matt Searles on his album “Psalms for Congregations, Vol 1”. He has written new songs to melodies that are familiar to congregations, this one being Come Thou Fount. This song is not on YouTube, but can be enjoyed on Spotify or Bandcamp (link below). I’m sure you’ll be blessed by this one, enjoy!

Bless the Lord, my inmost being
Lift up high his holy name
Bless the Lord, all that’s within me
Ponder all his deeds of grace
He forgives our great transgression
Heals and lifts us from the grave
Crowns our life with love and mercy
Satisfies us all our days

He brings justice for the needy
Makes them rise on eagle’s wings
He made known his ways to Moses
Shows to Israel his deeds
He is merciful and gracious
Slow to anger, rich in love
He will turn aside his anger
Shower blessings from above

For as high as highest heaven
Is the Lord’s unending love
Far as East is from the West, he
Has removed our sins from us
Like a Father to his children
He is merciful to us
Shows compassion in our weakness
He remembers we are dust

As for man, we bloom and flourish
Like a flower of the grass
Then we wither, then we perish
All our days so quickly pass
But God’s love for those who fear him
Will endure from age to age
For our children and their children
Those who walk in all his ways

He has set his throne in heaven
All his purpose to fulfil
Bless the Lord, O you his angels
You who do his sovereign will
Bless the Lord all you his servants
You who tremble at his word
Bless the Lord, all of creation
O my soul now bless the Lord  

https://mattsearles.bandcamp.com/track/psalm-103

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My Grace Is Sufficient For Thee

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Today is another hymn from John Newton to read. This one is based 2 Corinthians 12:9 “But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” Speaking of Christ’s power, he writes in his diary in Movemener 1775 “Yesterday I read over again, the Narrative of my life formerly published. It revived in my mind O Lord, the remembrance of my vileness and of thy mercies. Strange that I am no more affected with my own story. Oh soften this heart: it is ice, it is rock, without thy gracious influence. I am thine. Help me, save me. Speaking last night on the character of Byends I was straitened in my views of the subject. I have reason to believe and acknowledge, that without thy continual influence I can do nothing, and that thou dost assist in times and ways when I am least aware. O let me have no byends. Let me always act in a spirit of simplicity and godly sincerity and aim in all things at thy glory.”1 I hope this is an encouragement to you this week and is is to me; enjoy!

Oppressed with unbelief and sin,
Fightings without, and fears within;
While earth and hell, with force combined,
Assault and terrify my mind:
 
What strength have I against such foes,
Such hosts and legions to oppose?
Alas! I tremble, faint, and fall;
Lord, save me, or I give up all.
 
Thus sorely pressed, I sought the Lord,
To give me some sweet cheering word;
Again I sought, and yet again;
I waited long, but not in vain.
 
Oh! ’twas a cheering word indeed!
Exactly suited to my need;
“Sufficient for thee is my grace,
Thy weakness my great power displays.”
 
Now I despond and mourn no more,
I welcome all I feared before;
Though weak, I’m strong; though troubled, blessed;
For Christ’s own power shall on me rest.
 
My grace would soon exhausted be,
But his is boundless as the sea;
Then let me boast, with holy Paul,
That I am nothing, Christ is all.

1https://www.johnnewton.org/Articles/371300/The_John_Newton/2013_redesign/Hymns/OH_Book_1/OH_Book_1.aspx

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Christ is Risen, He’s Risen Indeed!

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Today’s hymn is an Easter song from the Gettys. This is one you’ll want to be singing all year round and not just at Easter; enjoy!

How can it be the One who died
Has borne our sin through sacrifice
To conquer every sting of death?
Sing, sing “Hallelujah!”

Refrain
Christ is risen, He’s risen indeed!
Oh sing “Hallelujah!”
Join the chorus sing with the redeemed:
Christ is risen, He’s risen indeed!

For joy awakes as dawning light
When Christ’s disciples lift their eyes.
Alive He stands, their Friend and King:
Christ, Christ He is risen! [Refrain]

Where doubt and darkness once had been,
They saw Him and their hearts believed;
But bless’d are those who have not seen,
Yet sing “Hallelujah!” [Refrain]

Once bound by fear, now bold in faith,
They preached the truth and pow’r of grace
And pouring out their lives they gained
Life, life everlasting. [Refrain]

The power that raised Him from the grave
Now works in us to powerfully save
He frees our hearts to live His grace
Go tell of His goodness. [Refrain]

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