Proverbs 10:18; 11:12–13; 12:18–19, 22; 15:4; 16:27–28; 17:9, 14, 19–20; 18:8, 20–21; 19:5, 22; 20:3, 19; 21:6; 22:10; 25:23; 26:2, 20–22, 28; 28:23; 29:5
Verse 1
Serve the Lord with gladness in our works and ways
Come before His presence with our songs of praise
Unto Him our Maker we would pledge anew
Life’s supreme devotion to service true.
Chorus
Serve Him with gladness, enter His courts with song;
To our Creator true praises belong:
Great is His mercy, wonderful is His Name.
We gladly serve Him, His great love proclaim.
Verse 2
Serve the Lord with gladness thankful all the while
For His tender mercies, for His loving smile:
Blessed truth enduring, always just the same,
We will serve with gladness and praise His Name.
Chorus
Serve Him with gladness, enter His courts with song;
To our Creator true praises belong:
Great is His mercy, wonderful is His Name.
We gladly serve Him, His great love proclaim.
Verse 3
Serve the Lord with gladness, this shall be our theme,
As we walk together in His love supreme:
Listening, ever listening for the still, small Voice,
His sweet will so precious will be our choice.
Chorus
Serve Him with gladness, enter His courts with song;
To our Creator true praises belong:
Great is His mercy, wonderful is His Name.
We gladly serve Him, His great love proclaim.
By B. B. McKinney
© Copyright 1931, Renewed 1969 Broadman Press (SESAC)(admin. by LifeWay Worship). All rights reserved.
1 Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer!
that calls me from a world of care,
and bids me at my Father's throne
make all my wants and wishes known.
In seasons of distress and grief,
my soul has often found relief,
and oft escaped the tempter's snare
by thy return, sweet hour of prayer!
2 Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer!
the joys I feel, the bliss I share
of those whose anxious spirits burn
with strong desires for thy return!
With such I hasten to the place
where God my Savior shows his face,
and gladly take my station there,
and wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer!
3 Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer!
thy wings shall my petition bear
to him whose truth and faithfulness
engage the waiting soul to bless.
And since he bids me seek his face,
believe his word, and trust his grace,
I'll cast on him my every care,
and wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer!
By W. W. Walford
1. O soul, are you weary and troubled?
No light in the darkness you see?
There’s light for a look at the Savior,
And life more abundant and free!
Refrain:
Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,
In the light of His glory and grace.
2. Thro' death into life everlasting,
He passed, and we follow Him there;
O’er us sin no more hath dominion--
For more than conqu’rors we are!
Refrain
3. His Word shall not fail you--He promised;
Believe Him, and all will be well:
Then go to a world that is dying,
His perfect salvation to tell!
Refrain
by Helen Howarth Lemmel
