Favorite Hymns

[Rober H]

And Can It Be That I Should Gain?

And can it be that I should gain

An interest in the Savior

[st. Worm]

Luther's A Mighty Fortress

[Rober H]

Another stanza from

And Can It Be That I Should Gain?

No condemnation now I dread;

Jesus, and all in Him, is mine;

Alive in Him, my living Head,

And clothed in righteousness divine,

Bold I approach th

[treasured]

THE BLOOD WILL NEVER LOSE IT'S POWER by Andre Crouch

No matter if we are at the highest high or the lowest valley His blood will not only reach us but cover us !! I have been in the valleys of grief (losing children, siblings, parents and close friends to the enemy death) and on top of the mountains(With the Lord's healings both physical and spiritual not to mention the countless daily blessings that just lift us to that high place) and just by 'pleading the blood' it "gives me strength from day to day".....It has "soothed my doubts and calmed my fears"......There's another topic of discussion for you Robert..."pleading the blood". I have been in some heated ones with believers that tell me we don't need to! ...That had me on my knees for answer until the Holy Spirit kept bringing Isa.9:6 ".....He is named Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace"...The Lord showed me ..."COUNSELOR (another term for lawyer..pleading my case before His Father).WOW...'pleading' not 'begging' but interceding"...woo hoo!!! I plead the blood!! Knowing He is my counselor....And I am blessed!! He rests my case!

I love all the hymns about the blood and about Christ.! Favorite contempory is ABOVE ALL by Michael W. Smith

Was going through rejection issues and the Lord used this song to show me Jesus' rejection .."REJECTED AND ALONE"...(mine was nothing in comparrison) While thanking Him for using music to minister to me He spoke to my heart "You don't know what ALL I took to the cross that day!" "IS'NT HE WONDERFUL...WONDERFUL..WONDERFUL.."

blessings

Treasured

[tah]

"Come, Thou Fount of every blessing,

Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;..."

One of many I love....

[thechild]

This hymn was writ

[Rober H]

Fanny Crosby 1820-1915 wrote over 8,000 hymns. She was blind fom the the age of six.

She took her lack of sight very well and has been an inspiration to many!

"The first face ever to gladden my sight will be when I get to heaven and behold the face of the One who died for me. . . . I verily believe that God intended that I should live my days in physical darkness so that I might be better prepared to sing His praise and lead others from spiritual darkness into eternal light. With sight I would have been too distracted to have written thousands of hymns."

This is a very comforting hymn.

Blessed Assurance

Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!

Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!

Heir of salvation, purchase of God.

Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.

refrain:

This is my story, this is my song,

Praising my Savior all the day long.

Perfect submission, perfect delight,

Visions of rapture now burst on my sight;

Angles descending, bring from above

Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

Perfect submission, all is at rest,

I in my Savior am happy and blest;

Watching and waiting, looking above,

Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.

Edited June 13, 2006 by Rober H

[hebrews_beauty]

How Great Thou Art

Jesus Lover of My Soul

It is Well with My Soul

Nothing but the Blood

and others...probably can't think of all their names...plus I go to a contemporary church, so we sing mostly contemporary worship music.

[buckthesystem]

The best hymn ever has got to be "Peace in the Valley" with a close second being "Just a closer walk with thee".

I don't really like the modern ones, the ones which it appears have taken about 10 minutes to write and are practically the same sentence repeated over and over again.

But the old favourites, the ones that people can really "get stirred up about" always come up in any church because they are still really good songs. Like:

Abide with Me

Mine eyes have seen the glory

He who would valiant be

Praise my soul the king of heaven

Rock of Ages

Just as I am

He hideth my soul

My Jesus, I love thee

Leaning on the everlasting arms

Revive us again

The old rugged cross

Sweet hour of prayer

Nothing but the blood

Amazing Grace

In the sweet by and by

Oh Holy Night

How Great Thou Art

But then, these hymns have to be sung by someone with a guitar or by a choir - but not too "formally". If they are sung by a group of old women with high voices, they sound too depressing.

All these hymns are pretty new to me anyway as I didn't hear them in childhood (except of course when my father got drunk and would sing "Revive us again" or "Mine eyes have seen the glory" - for ages I thought those were "drinking songs". I never did figure out why he did that).

Some I've heard lately that I really like are: God leads his Dear Children along, Put your hand in the hand, turn your radio on, He cares, Crying in the chapel, Swing low sweet Chariot, Before it's time for Amen, Will the Circle be Unbroken, Where could I go but to the Lord, His hand in Mine, People get ready, Take my hand precious Lord, the Battle of Jericho, Steal away, Freedom after a while, when the saints go marching in, Move on up a little higher, Closer to the Light, or "Were you there".

Some ones worth mentioning that I have been given the CDs of in the past year, that I think are just brilliant songs, are: "Guide me oh thou great Jehovah", "The days of Elijah", Cliff Richard's "Faithful One" and Johnny Cash's "The man comes around". And though I don't usually like "Celtic worship" someone gave me a CD with "Be Thou my Vision" on and it is a really good song.

Then of course there is Cliff Richard's "Millenium prayer" (I only just found out that he didn't write the words and the words are actually ancient and from the Bible, but it is a great arrangement).

My opinion anyway.

[LadyRaven]

And Can It Be That I Should Gain?

And can it be that I should gain

An interest in the Savior