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God is Holding Your Life

Psalm 121

1. Lift up your eyes, behold the hills / From where will help and rescue come? 
We call on One who made the earth / Who blessed the stars, the moon and sun


God is holding your life / We believe

 

2. Turn down your gaze upon the earth...

3. Venturing out or coming home...

 

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Surely Goodness and Mercy

Psalm 23

Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all my life.

 

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Hear My Cry, O God

Psalm 61

Hear my cry, O God. Listen to my prayer.

From the end of the earth I call to you, though my heart is faint.

Let me abide with you forever.

 

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God, Our Home and Help

Psalm 46

God our home and help / O God, our home and help, we entrust our troubles to you.

 

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All of My Life

Psalm 27

1. All of my life, one thing I long for / All of my life, one thing I live for:


To see the Holy One in all of my life

 

2. In every breath, in every shadow / For my own eyes, one thing I pray for: 

3. Teach me your ways, O God our Savior / I give my heart, I give my eyes, Lord

 

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We Wait In Hope For Your Word

Psalm 130

1. Out of the depths we cry to you / O Holy One hear us 
Held to our sin, God, who could stand / We come for forgiveness  / O Holy One, hear us


We wait in hope for your word  / More than watchmen for the morning 
We wait in hope for your word  / And the dawn is never failing

 

2.  Always with you, unfailing love  / O Holy One, hear us...

 

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You Are My God

Psalm 63

You are my God and I am searching for you

 

In a dry and weary land, my soul is thirsting

 

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Rivers in the Desert

Psalm 126

Rivers in the desert, laughter out of weeping / Our hope is grounded only in God
Hidden in the suffering, hidden in the singing / Our dawn is breaking only in God

Blessed are you when you are poor / Blessed are you when you are hungry / You will have God

 

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Into Your Hands

Psalm 31

Into your hands I place my life / Oh, loving, faithful God / Oh, my life is yours

 

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To You

Psalm 25

To you I lift up my soul / To you I open my life / I give my trust / I give my hope to you

1. Teach me the way of holiness / my eyes are ever on you...

2. Your perfect love as old as time...

 

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The Holy Heart of Justice

Psalm 9

1. The holy heart of justice, a fortress when there's trouble / The helpless will not be forgotten 

The holy heart of justice, compassion when there's suffering / The helpless will not be forgotten

 

Whole-hearted thanks, we give our whole-hearted trust

 

2. The holy heart of justice, the rhythm beats forever...

 

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Come Quickly to Help Us

Psalm 70

Come quickly to help us; we look to you / Have mercy upon us

Come quickly to help us, Faithful and True / We trust in your love

 

O Holy One, hear our prayer / Receive our prayer / Amen

 

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My Heart Will Not Fear

Psalm 27

God is our light / My heart will not fear

God is our love / My heart will not fear

God is our home / Our hearts will not fear

God is our light / Our hearts will not fear

 

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My Love is My Shepherd

Psalm 23

1. My Love is my shepherd; I need nothing more for she leads me into her lush pastures of green and beside her still waters / My life is renewed today / Guiding me in the best paths of her way, though I walk through the valley of darkness and fear, my Love is with me.

 

2. Anointed and bless’d with abundance, I thrive...

 

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In My Heart is the Road

Psalm 84

In my heart is the road / and I will not be hurried

In my heart is the road / Bless my feet on the journey

to Jerusalem / to Jerusalem

 

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My God, O My God

Psalm 22

My God, O my God / Why have You forgotten me?

My God, O my God / How can You be silent now?

 

i The dogs are closing in / My mouth is dry / Where is God in my despair / So far from my cries

ii Our ancestors put their trust in you / And you delivered them

iii I am poured out like water / My heart is melting

iv I will declare your name / The poor will eat and for once be satisfied

 

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Wait For God

Psalm 27

1. Wait for God / Be strong and let your heart take courage

Wait for God / Be strong and let your heart take courage / Wait for God

 

2. Watch and hope

3. Stay with me

 

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Wash Me Clean

Psalm 51

Wash me clean, wash me clean / Whiter than snow again

Wash me clean, wash me clean / And I know you’re done with my sin

 

1. Create in me a brand new heart forgiven and renewed...

2. I know the things I’ve said and done so take away this sin...

 

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