Do you ever have a day when you are feeling down? If so, try playing or singing our foundation hymn for this Sunday, May 29, 2011. Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee can be a very therapeutic hymn. “Melt the clouds of sin and sadness, drive the dark of doubt away,” it says. “Giver of immortal gladness, fill us with the light of day.”  This hymn is full of joy! Every phrase lifts you up. Psalm 28:7 says, “The Lord is my strength and shield. I trust him with all my heart. He helps me, and my heart is filled with joy. I burst out in songs of thanksgiving.”

Open the Eyes of My Heart is our second song. This song challenges us to get our eyes off of ourselves and put them on Him. “To see You high and lifted up, shining in the light of Your glory” gives us a glimps of our Lord in heaven.

In the last line of our third song, In Christ Alone, we sing these words. “Till He returns or calls me home here in the power of Christ I’ll stand”.

So far our songs have us full of joy with our eyes focused on our Lord so that when He returns or calls us home we will stand in the power of Christ!

Our next song is called Lord I Come. The chorus says,

        “All I want to do is dwell in Your presence.

        And drink from the well that never runs dry.

        All I want to see is the light of Your glory.

       Just one glimpse, Just one drink, and my soul is satisfied”.

Are you living with the presence of the Lord?