Prayers/Hymns of Praise and Worship

The Eternity of God

This day our hearts approve with gladness what our reason can never fully comprehend, even Thine eternity. O Ancient of Days, Art Thou not from everlasting. O Lord, my God, mine Holy One? We worship Thee, the Father Everlasting, whose years shall have no end: and Thee, the love-begotten Son whose goings forth have been ever of old; we also acknowledge and adore Thee, Eternal Spirit, who before the foundation of the world didst live and love in coequal glory with the Father and the Son. Enlarge and purify the mansions of our souls that they may be fit habitations for Thy Spirit, who dost prefer before all temples the upright heart and pure. Amen
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God's Infinitude

Our Heavenly Father: Let us see Thy glory, if it must be from the shelter of the cleft rock and from beneath the protection of Thy covering hand. Whatever the cost to us in loss of friends or goods or length of days let us know Thee as Thou art, that we may adore Thee as we should. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen
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The Immutability of God

O Christ our Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. As birds to their rock, so have we run to Thee for safety; as birds from their wanderings, so have we flown to Thee for peace. Chance and change are busy in our little world of nature and men, but in Thee we find no variableness nor shadow of turning. We rest in Thee without fear or doubt and face our tomorrows without anxiety. Amen
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The Divine Omniscience

Lord, Thou knowest all things; Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising and art acquainted with all my ways. I can inform Thee of nothing and it is vain to try to hide anything from Thee. In the light of Thy perfect knowledge I would be as artless as a little child. Help me to put away all care, for Thou knowest the way that I take and when Thou hast tried me I shall come forth as gold. Amen
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The Wisdom of God

Thou, O Christ, who wert tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin, make us strong to overcome the desire to be wise and to be reputed wise by others as ignorant as ourselves. We turn from our wisdom as well as from our folly and flee to Thee, the Wisdom of God and the power of God. Amen
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In All Our Maker's Vast Designs

~Thomas Blacklock~

In all our Maker's vast designs
Lo! His eternal wisdom shines;
Through all creation spread abroad,
Loud it proclaims the Maker, God.

With rev'rence our admiring eyes
Survey Thy wonders in the skies;
Thy wisdom round the world we see,
The spacious earth is full of Thee.

Above the earth, beyond the sky,
Stands Thy high throne of majesty;
Nor time nor place Thy power restrain,
Nor bound Thy universal reign.

Amazing knowledge,vast and great!
What large, what lofty height!
Our souls, with all the powers they boast,
Are in the boundless prospect lost.

Lord, who can speak Thy wond'rous deeds?
Thy wisdom all our thoughts exceeds;
Vast and unsearchable Thy ways,
Vast and immortal be Thy praise!
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On Anothers Sorrow

~William Blake~

Can I see anothers woe,
And not be in sorrow too.
Can I see anothers grief,
And not seek for kind relief?

Can I see a falling tear,
And not feel my sorrows share,
Can a father see his child,
Weep, nor be with sorrow fill'd?

Can a mother sit and hear
An infant groan an infant fear -
No no never can it be.
Never never can it be?

And can he who smiles on all
Hear the wren with sorrows small.
Hear the small birds grief and care,
Hear the woes that infants bear?

And not sit beside the nest
Pouring pity in their breast.
And not sit the cradle near,
Weeping tear on infants tear?

And not sit both night and day,
Wiping all our tears away.
O! no never can it be.
Never never can it be.

He doth give his joy to all,
He becomes an infant small.
He becomes a man of woe
He doth feel the sorrow too.

Think not thou canst sigh a sigh,
And thy maker is not by.
Think not, thou canst weep a tear,
And thy maker is not near.

O! He gives to us His joy.
That our grief He may destroy
Till our grief is fled and gone
He doth sit by us and moan.