Category: Letters to the Choir

Oh How He Loves You and Me
1 Oh, how He loves you and me, oh, how He loves you and me. He gave His life, what more could He give?
REFRAIN: Oh, how He loves you, oh, how He loves me, oh, how He loves you and me.
2 Jesus to Calv’ry did go, His love for sinners to show. What He did there brought hope from despair. REFRAIN

1 Come Thou fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing Thy grace. Streams of mercy never ceasing call for songs of loudest praise. Teach me some melodious sonnet sung by flaming tongues above. Praise the mount, I’m fixed upon it Mount of Thy redeeming love.
2 Here I raise my Ebenezer; here by Thy great help I’ve come and I hope by Thy good pleasure safely to arrive at home. Jesus sought me when a stranger wandering from the fold of God. He to rescue me from danger interposed His precious blood.
3 Oh, to grace how great a debtor, daily I’m constrained to be. Let Thy goodness like a fetter bind my wandering heart to Thee. Prone to wander, Lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love. Here’s my heart, oh take and seal it, seal it for Thy courts above.

My Hope is Built
1. My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus’ blood and righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus’ name.
Refrain:
On Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand; all other ground is sinking sand.
2. When Darkness veils his lovely face,  rest on his unchanging grace. In every high and stormy gale, my anchor holds within the veil. Refrain
3. His oath, his covenant, his blood supports me in the whelming flood. When all around my soul gives way, he then is all my hope and stay. Refrain
4. When he shall come with trumpet sound, O may I then in him be found! Dressed in his righteousness alone, faultless to stand before the throne! Refrain

1 For the beauty of the earth, for the glory of the skies, for the love which from our birth over and around us lies;
REFRAIN: Lord of all, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.
2 For the beauty of each hour of the day and of the night, hill and vale, and tree and flower, sun and moon, and stars of light; REFRAIN
3 For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind’s delight, for the mystic harmony, linking sense to sound and sight; REFRAIN
4 For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child, friends on earth and friends above, for all gentle thoughts and mild; REFRAIN
5 For thy church, that evermore lifteth holy hands above, offering up on every shore her pure sacrifice of love; REFRAIN
6 For thyself, best Gift Divine, to the world so freely given, for that great, great love of thine, peace on earth, and joy in heaven: REFRAIN

1 Why should I feel discouraged?  Why should the shadows, shadows come? Why should my heart feel lonely and long for heaven and home. When  Jesus is my portion my constant friend is He;?his eye is on, his eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me.
REFRAIN:
I sing because I’m happy (I’m happy); I sing because  I’m free (I’m free), His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me.
2 Let not your heart be troubled.  His tender word I hear,
and resting on His goodness I lose my doubts and fears. though by the path He leadeth, but one step I may see, his eye is on, his eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me, REFRAIN
3 Whenever I am tempted, whenever clouds arise when song gives place to sighing, when hope within me dies, I draw the closer to Him.  From care He sets me free, his eye is on, his eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me, REFRAIN (x2)

1 I’ve had many tears and sorrows, I’ve had questions for tomorrow, there’s been times I didn’t know right from wrong. But in every situation, God gave me blessed consolation, that my trials come to only make me strong.
REFRAIN:
Through it all, through it all, I’ve learned to trust in Jesus, I’ve learned to trust in God. Through it all, through it all, I’ve learned to depend upon His Word.
2 I’ve been to lots of places, I’ve seen a lot of faces, there’s been times I felt so all alone. But in my lonely hours, yes, those precious lonely hours, Jesus lets me know that I was His own. REFRAIN
3 I thank God for the mountains, and I thank Him for the valleys, I thank Him for the storms. He brought me through. For if I’d never had a problem, I wouldn’t know God could solve them, I’d never know what faith in God could do.  REFRAIN