6. Hymn: Sun of My Soul, Thou Savior Dear

Hymn: Sun of My Soul, Thou Savior Dear

Author: John Keble (1792-1866)

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1. Sun of my soul, thou Saviour dear,

    It is not night if thou be near;

    O may no earth-born cloud arise

    To hide thee from thy servant‵s eyes.

2. When the soft dews of kindly sleep

    My weary eyelids gently steep,

    Be my last thought, how sweet to rest

    For ever on my Saviour‵s breast.

3. Abide with me from morn till eve,

    For without thee I cannot live;

    Abide with me when night is nigh,

    For without thee I dare not die.

4. If some poor wandering child of thine

    Have spurned today the voice Divine,

    Now, Lord, the gracious work begin;

    Let him no more lie down in sin.

5. Watch by the sick; enrich the poor

    With blessings from thy boundless store;

    Be every mourner‵s sleep tonight,

    Like infant‵s slumbers, pure and light.

6. Come near and bless us when we wake,

    Ere through the world our way we take,

    Till in the ocean of thy love

    We lose ourselves in heaven above.

5. Hymn: My Father Watches Over Me

Hymn: My Father Watches Over Me

Author: William C. Martin (1864-1914)

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1. I trust in God wherever I may be,

    Upon the land or on the rolling sea;

    For come what may, from day to day,

    My heav‵nly Father watches over me.

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I trust in God, I know he cares for me,

On mountain bleak or on the stormy sea;

Though billows roll, he keeps my soul,

My heav‵nly Father watches over me.

2. He makes the rose an object of his care,

    He guides the eagle through the pathless air;

    And surely he remembers me,

    My heav‵nly Father watches over me.

3. I trust in God, for, in the lion‵s den,

    On battlefield, or in the prison pen;

    Through praise or blame, through flood or flame,

    My heav‵nly Father watches over me.

4. The valley may be dark, the shadows deep,

    But oh, the shepherd guards his lonely sheep;

    And through the gloom, he‵ll lead me home,

    My heav‵nly Father watches over me.

4. Hymn: Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee

Hymn: Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee

Author: St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1151)

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1. Jesus, the very thought of Thee

    With sweetness fills my breast;

    But sweeter far Thy face to see

    And in Thy presence rest.

2. No voice can sing, no heart can frame,

    Nor can the memory find

    A sweeter sound than Thy blest name,

    O Savior of mankind.

3. O hope of every contrite heart,

    O joy of all the meek,

    To those who fall, how kind Thou art!

    How good to those who seek!

4. But what to those who find? Ah, this

    Nor tongue nor pen can show;

    The love of Jesus, what it is

    None but His loved ones know.

5. Jesus, our only joy be Thou,

    As Thou our prize wilt be;

    Jesus, be Thou our glory now

    And through eternity.

3. Hymn: Day by Day

Hymn: Day by Day

Author: Karolina W. Sandell-Berg (1832-1903)

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1. Day by day, and with each passing moment,
    Strength I find, to meet my trials here;
    Trusting in my Father’s wise bestowment,
    I’ve no cause for worry or for fear.
    He Whose heart is kind beyond all measure
    Gives unto each day what He deems best—
    Lovingly, its part of pain and pleasure,
    Mingling toil with peace and rest.

2. Every day, the Lord Himself is near me
    With a special mercy for each hour;
    All my cares He fain would bear, and cheer me,
    He Whose Name is Counselor and Pow’r.
    The protection of His child and treasure
    Is a charge that on Himself He laid;
    “As thy days, thy strength shall be in measure,”
    This the pledge to me He made.

3. Help me then in every tribulation
    So to trust Thy promises, O Lord,
    That I lose not faith’s sweet consolation
    Offered me within Thy holy Word.
    Help me, Lord, when toil and trouble meeting,
    E’er to take, as from a father’s hand,
    One by one, the days, the moments fleeting,
    Till I reach the promised land.

2. Hymn: Abide With Me

Hymn: Abide With Me

Author: Henry Francis Lyte (1793-1847)

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1. Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;
    The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide:
    When other helpers fail, and comforts flee,
    Help of the helpless, O abide with me.

2. Swift to its close ebbs out life‵s little day;
    Earth‵s joys grow dim, its glories pass away;
    Change and decay in all around I see;
    O thou who changest not, abide with me.

3. I need thy presence every passing hour;
    What but thy grace can foil the tempter‵s power?
    Who like thyself my guide and stay can be?
    Through cloud and sunshine, O abide with me.

4. I fear no foe with thee at hand to bless;
    Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness.
    Where is death‵s sting? Where, grave, thy victory?
    I triumph still, if thou abide with me.

5. Hold thou thy cross before my closing eyes;
    Shine through the gloom, and point me to the skies:
    Heaven‵s morning breaks, and earth‵s vain shadows flee:
    In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.

1. A Quote from C. H. Spurgeon (3)

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3. Devotional: Purpose of Marriage

Purpose of Marriage

by Ray C. Stedman (1917-1992)

Read: Genesis 2:18-25

    This is a remarkable passage because it gathers up the great concepts of marriage that run throughout the Bible. After God finished making woman and Adam slept off the deep unconsciousness into which he had fallen, God brought the woman to Adam. What a scene that must have been! Here is the first of a long series of boy-meets-girl stories. Out of this account emerges four factors that are essential to marriage.

    The first is that marriage is to involve a complete identity. The two are to be one. Adam's first reaction when he saw his wife was, This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh, or, She is one being with me. This is strengthened in the latter part of verse 24, which adds, and they will become one flesh. It is not without reason that this has become part of the marriage service, this recognition of unity. As someone has well said, the one word above all that makes marriage successful is ours. 

    The second thing is the biblical principle of headship, which is developed at much greater length in the New Testament. She shall be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man. Paul expands on this in his letter to Timothy to point out that man was not made for woman, but woman was made for man. It is the man who is ultimately responsible before God for the nature and character of the home. It is the man who must exercise leadership in determining the direction in which the home should go and must therefore answer for that leadership, or its lack, before God. The woman's responsibility is to acknowledge this leadership.

    Then the third factor indicated here that characterizes true marriage is permanence. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. In the Hebrew text is the word dabag, which means to adhere firmly, as if with glue. A husband is to cleave to his wife. He forsakes all others and adheres to her. Whatever she may be like, he is to hold to her. He is to stay with her, and she with him, because marriage is a permanent thing.

    Finally, the fourth factor is set forth in verse 25, The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame. This speaks clearly of openness between man and wife. They have no secrets, nothing that they do not share with each other. It is the failure to achieve this kind of openness that lies behind so much breakdown in marriage today, the utter breakdown of communication, where two sit and look at one another and say nothing or talk about merely surface trivialities. Often this is why they are so judgmental with one another, each one trying to get the other to agree and not being willing to allow differences of viewpoint to exist. There is to be a freedom of communication, one with the other. Marriages shrivel, wither, and die when this is not true.

2. A Quote from Oswald Chambers (2)

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1. A Quote from A. W. Tozer (2)

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10. A Quote from T. Austin-Sparks (2)

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