Fill My Cup, Lord

PSALMS OF JOY CHAPTER 86

 

“The whole life of the good Christian is a holy longing. What you desire ardently, as yet you do not see…by withholding of the vision, God extends the longing, through longing he extends the soul, by extending he makes room in it. Let us long because we are to be filled…that is our life, to be exercised by longing. ”
~ St. Augustine

1.  Lord,  I am a barren waste without You.  Send the latter rain that I may rejoice in your mercies,  that may sing with gladness of your joyous refreshing. 

 

2.  The brightness of your coming is my strength and salvation.  You alone are the springs of life that bring Life to my life.  Yes, that I might flourish and give of your overflowing grace.

 

3.  There are songs in the desert.  The rocky crags ring out with echos of ages past,  "God's mercies endure forever."  Even the depths of my soul cry out the same. 

 

4.  I see a cloud, the size of my hand,  it shall become the joy of my deliverance,  as your rushing waters replenish my soul.  I shall bloom with the fragrance of your presence,  an Oasis of your love.

 

5.  Lord,  yes, there is always longing in my soul for you.  I am easily filled to overflowing of you.  You well up in me, springs of "living water", my cup runs over.

 

6.  How is it that I continue to long for you,  when I am full?  What did you mean when you said,  "to drink of the water You give"  I would never thirst again?

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"My child;  It is the longing that gives rise to the everlasting springs of Life.  These springs are the praises of such longing.  From glory to glory,  from thirst to thirst,  such longing shall only bring forth more longing,  more praise, more refreshing, more longing.

 

It was such that called me apart into my Father's presence,  into our "Oneness."  It was the Alpha that sprang into the Omega.

 

Come and drink of the waters of Life that spring forth in longing unto praise.  Partake of the fullness of ever increasing longing.  As the desert longs for the latter rain."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Johnny Cash - 214 - My Children Will Walk in Truth

PSALMS OF JOY CHAPTER 87

1.  Lord;  These are perilous times.  Men's hearts failing them, for what is coming upon the earth.  Truly we are reaping what we have sown.

2.  The nations rage,  storms in the heavens and the earth,  storms in the hearts of men.  Division, confusion, and fear.  My own heart cries out for answers Lord.

3.  The children of this earth are caught in a tsunami of evil that is sweeping the world.  They are the innocent victims of the depths of sin that fill the minds, hearts and souls of a lost and wicked generation.

4.  They have no ears to hear, no eyes to see.  They have become reprobate.  They worship the idols of men.  They serve the gods of mammon, lust, and self serving.  They have been taught well through a religion of compromise, false doctrine, and acts of abomination, not rightly dividing the Word of Truth.

5..Rebellion wreaks upon the tongues of men.  Even before a Holy God,  we have no shame.

6. Violence of every inconceivable kind fills the land,  fills the earth.
 No worth set on a human life.  Murder and rage, insanity.

7.  Yet there is Light brighter than the noon-time sun.  It breaks in my heart and mind, my soul, my spirit rising in faith,  in You my Lord.
Your Word endures forever.  Your promises are Truth and Righteousness. 

8.  I confess the Blood of the Lamb that was shed.  I confess You, most blessed, mighty and powerful God.  The risen Christ who has  purchased my salvation.  Who has delivered me from the power of death and hell.  Who fills my heart with hope and peace and joy in the midst of a dark and dying world.

9.  I plead Your Blood upon my children, even my children's children.  Lord that You might be glorified, high and lifted up.  I pray for Your people,  in every heart and nation,  that their constant and abiding strength, will be hope when there seems to be none.  That they will sing songs of praise, even as a sacrifice of praise, when their hearts are heavy laden.

10. Be our confidence in faith.  Renew the joy of our salvation.  Lord, I desire to manifest only your own loving and uncompromising presence in all I say and do.

11. Be merciful Lord.  You are the only One who is full of Mercy and Grace.  Draw us Lord, even to the throne of your Father's just and righteous judgement.

12. Hear my prayer dear Lord, for I am undone,  my heart finds itself in a desolate place.  I shall wait upon You my treasure, my hope, my salvation.  I long to come again into your courts to worship in spirit and in truth.

13. Be praised my Lord.  Be high and lifted up.  Let all the hosts of heaven and earth fill the numberless galaxies with the praises of your people.  You alone are God.  I declare it....Let everything that has breath declare it.    AMEN AND AMEN

Brian Doerksen: Resting place

Heaven is my throne
And earth is my footstool
Where is the house you will build for me?
Whom of you will hear the cry of my heart?
Where will my resting place be?

Here Oh Lord
Have I prepared for You a home
Long have I desired for You to dwell
Here Oh Lord
Have I prepared a resting place
Here Oh Lord I wait for You alone

PSALMS OF JOY CHAPTER 88

1.  Lord,  I can't even stand the sound of my own voice anymore.
The world is full of words.  Most words are filled with self interest, pride, deception, manipulation, greed and hypocrisy.  Other words instill fear, doubt, unbelief, shame, humiliation, and bondage.

2.  Men and women of power, use their words to do all of the above to enslave others and seem to revel in it.  The nations rage.   Wars and rumors of wars.

3.  Audible and inaudible sound waves of words bombarding our heads in ways we do not comprehend and leaving us exhausted in mind body and spirit. 

4.  Oh how blessed is Your silence Lord.  Yet does it speak with reverberation in me.  The Word of truth,  the Word of Grace,  Comfort and Peace.  Your Word lifts me above the noisome pestilence and chaos all about me.

5.  In quietness and confidence,  Your Word to me is my strength, my faith, my hope and only salvation.  My Rest.

Top Tracks for Terry MacAlmon (playlist)

PSALMS OF JOY CHAPTER 89

1.  Lord God,  You have given me your Spirit __not the spirit of the world __ Your Spirit which so lovingly reveals your gifts of grace and blessing.  Those gifts that reveal your heart and mind toward your beloved. 

2.  The wisdom and scope of Your will and purpose are at times unattainable to me.  I shrink in the contemplation of it.  My spirit is brought to it's knees.  The numberless hosts of heaven who have the joyous freedom of your glorious presence,  yet You give generously of your Holy Spirit which strengthens my heart. 

3.  Be at home in me Lord.  Holy Spirit fill me with songs of praise that my Lord might find joy and rest in my heart.  Let the roots of faith grow deep in me as I come to trust and obey the Word with right use of my will.  Let my will become Yours Lord. 

4.  Even as Your Word declares;  " Help me to know and understand and truly feel, how long, how wide, how deep, and how high Your love really is....and help me Lord to experience that love more deeply, more genuinely and full of unadulterated thanksgiving than I ever have before.

5.  There is no end to Your love, that I should ever see it, know it, or understand it.  But I shall earnestly wait for the fulfilment of Your promise to be filled up with Yourself....You are my hope of glory.

shannon wexelberg "highest praise"

PSALMS OF JOY CHAPTER 90

Lord, as I come before You this evening,  the desire of my heart is to minister unto You.  To come knowing that there are others who are ministering to You in Praise and Honor and Thanksgiving.

May Your people be one in spirit and in truth.  Let the desire of Your own heart be fulfilled by the sound of our heartstrings and the harmony of each ones longing to be free of all that would bring discord.

Lord,  I willfully lay aside every thought, motive, and intent that would turn aside my longing to rise up into the songs that only the heavens can hear.  The songs that angels and saints made perfect sing as perpetually as one breathes in and out. 

Let there be a silence of my flesh.  Let there be surrender of the thoughts of need...of anything that flesh desires.  Deliver me Lord from this great enemy of my soul. 

I Love the Lord - Be Still, My Soul

1. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou
disquieted within me?
2. Hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, who is the health
of my countenance, and my God.
Psalm 43:5





Arrangement by Ronald Staheli
Sung by The Morman Tabernacle Choir


I Love the Lord

I love the Lord, in Him my soul delights.
Upon His word, I ponder day and night.
He's heard my cry, brought visions to my sleep,
And kept me safe o'er deserts and the deep.
He's filled my heart with His consuming love,
And borne me high on wings of His great dove.

Yet oft I groan, "O wretched man am I"
My flesh is weak and Im encompassed by
A world of sin, which holds me in its thrall,
If I give in and to temptations fall.
Then strength grows slack, I waste in sorrows vale;
My peace destroyed, my enemies prevail.

Awake, my soul! No longer droop in sin.
Rejoice, my heart! And let me praise again,
The Lord my God, who is my rock and stay
To keep me strict upon His straight, plain way.
Oh let me shake at the first sight of sin
And thus escape my foes without and in.

I love the Lord, In him my soul delights.

PSALMS OF JOY CHAPTER 91

PS 1:1 Blessed is the man that walked not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the seat of the scornful.

PS 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law he meditates day and night.

PS 1:3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.

PS 1:4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

PS 1:5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

PS 1:6 For the LORD knows the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
                                                  
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                          Psalms of Joy Chapter 91

1.  Lord it seems that all is a barren waste about me.  My thirst of you is even more than when you first revealed yourself.  My faith is worn away by the winds of trial and deception.

2.  I am barren without You Lord.  Take not your Holy Spirit from me.

3.  For I have known the waters of Life.  I have eaten of the Bread of Life in green pastures.  You alone can restore my soul and the joy of Your salvation.  My only consolation is to hear Your Word.  Day and Night I wait to hear You speak.

4.  I too will waste away only to be like the chaff which the winds drive away, unless, You restore my soul.  If only that I might give You the praise and honor that You alone deserve.  Please accept my sacrifice of praise.  Judge my heart, and see if there is any wicked way in me.  Try me Lord,  Break me , melt me , mold me.  You, and You alone know my heart and if it is genuine toward You. 

Once In The Stillness

PSALMS OF JOY CHAPTER 92

GOD CALLING....by Two Listeners

 

November 16 - Union Is Power

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. Matthew 18:20

Claim that promise always. Know it true that when two of My lovers meet I am the Third. Never limit that promise.

When you two are together in My Name, united by one bond in My Spirit, I am there. Not only when you meet to greet Me, and to hear My Voice.

Think what this means in Power. It is again the lesson of the Power that follows two united to serve Me.

Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. Exodus 25:8

 

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1.  Precious, precious Lord....Thank you for ministering your love and grace through a beloved sister who was so broken herself, and asked for prayer.  The hardest prayer, and yet the most healing prayer is when we pray out of our own grief, lack of faith, and searching heart.  You came among us and Holy Spirit revealed your presence.  Holy Spirit comforted our hearts, encouraged our hearts, and called us to rest. 

 

2.  The question you present is always the same....." CAN I TRUST YOU"...."DO YOU LOVE ME"

 

3.  I am always left to answer regretfully...."With my mind and emotions, with my limited understanding, I choose to love you Lord.  My great desire is to truly love you with my heart, mind and might.  I am in love with you Lord,  like a new bride to her beloved.  With my disposition....I am at war, with the world and  pitifully conformed to it in the flesh."

 

4.  I am lost Lord....naked to you and blind in truly not knowing you by revelation....not remembering those veiled memories that whisper in me of a glorious past and those things that are rooted in LOVE.  Only You know if I love you Lord."

 

5.  You ask me if you can trust me with your silence.  Lord, your silence sometimes terrifies me.  I can't live without your presence which speaks, and lets me know that I am not alone, or failing you.  I will to trust you in your awful reposing silence,  when you require a sacrifice of praise. 

 

6.  You ask if I can be still in your silence.  I can only respond...."Let your presence give me confidence, it is this that stills my heart.  I cry out...Holy Spirit be not grieved, do not leave me.  Help my unbelief,  let faith rise up in joyful praise...You are Elohim, El Shadai, Jehovah.  In my rising up and my laying down, I will be expecting, thinking....Lord, perhaps this day, this hour, this moment, I may truly know you and the power of your resurrection in me.  In this I shall not be moved....I am left silent before You Lord."

 

7.  "MY CHILD....IT SHALL COME....I SHALL COME

IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE

WITHOUT OBSERVATION

TO YOU,  MY TEMPLE

IN STILLNESS,  QUIETNESS AND CONFIDENCE

BY MY SPIRIT....SAYS THE LORD."

♬♪ Peace Like a River - Mormon Tabernacle Choir ♫♭

Prayer For God's Help

PSALMS OF JOY CHAPTER 94

1.  Blessed Trinity...exceeding all being, deity and goodness.
Teach me your heavenly wisdom,  set me upon the Rock
Lead me to your mystical heights,  where exceeds heavenly
lights...and carnal knowledge.

2.  Where your treasures lie hidden in Spirit's sacred silence.  It is
absolute and unchangeable, outshining all brilliance, surcharging
our blinded intellects....with utterly impalpable and invisible
glory, which heaven and earth declares.  Yes, glory that exceeds all
beauty.

3.  Blessed is your divine silence which teaches me to exercise your
faith in mystic contemplation...apart from my human logic.  Teach me to rest...not striving for union with you, and realizing I am the
workmanship of your hands.  I cannot contain that which exceeds
all existence.  Your love is fathomless and immeasurable.

4.  Forgive my pressing in.  I find myself climbing that proverbial tree, for a glimpse of You.  Deliver me from presumptuous delusions, and pre-digested words of whispers heard in the shadows of death... birthed out of ignorance of the Real Truth.  Lord, You are Truth.  Your truth that is beyond all positive and negative distinctions.  It prostrates me in all my human corruption.

5.  Father, even my God...I know that you call and draw all men to yourself.  I listen for no other voice but yours.  Lead me upon your path of righteousness...for Your name's sake.  Up that Holy ascent, forsaking even Divine enlightenment's, voices and heavenly utterances...my mind and logic plunged into the darkness of unknowing, which surrounds the immeasurable heights, depths and widths of Your Being.

6.  Father,  through the darkness and into the Light of Your Son,  into the enfoldment of your invisible and Holy Spirit made manifest in You, and raising me up to "New Life".  You are my dwelling place,
that temple not made with hands, of which I am.  Because you dwell in me, I have Hope sealed in my heart against that Day.  Your incomprehensible presence , again, prostrates my heart and mind in helpless abandon.

7.  You are truly unknowable in my flesh and blood...Holy Spirit reveal Christ in all His Holiness and fathomless love, that I might measure how far the fall in eons past.

8.  I am lost in imagery and allegoric symbolism...let me soar upward beyond all my intellectual conceptions.  Reduce me to absolute dumbness of speech and thought.  Embrace me with your own transcendent faith.

9.  You are the LIFE of the life of my soul.   10/13/96

Barber: Agnus Dei

PSALMS OF JOY CHAPTER 95

1.  Lord,  I'm undone at the eternal and perpetual thought of the endless trial and tribulation of man.  All of his wisdom and power is vanity.  It has not delivered him from himself.  That man who is empty and lost and dying.

2.  You wait, how do you wait out the eons of time...Your interceding heart before the Father of Lights?  What love has come?  What mercy and grace has come?

( An unknown author once wrote...." MERCY"  Shakespeare was wrong.  Mercy doesn't fall to earth like a gentle rain. 

Mercy splattered across the world as Christ Jesus was flogged, it rang as nails pounded into Your hands and feet.  Mercy rasped with forgiveness as You  "The Word"  spoke from the cross, and it tore from heaven, through the veil to the temple's Holy of Hollies.  By Your mercy, we are redeemed and God has gathered us back to His bosom."   quote. )

3.  Now are You the  "Risen Christ"....the  "Reigning Christ"....
"King of Kings and Lord of Lords."  Let all the earth tremble at
the sound of Your Name.  Let my own heart tremble at Your holiness, your majesty, your mercy and grace.

That First Day

PSALMS OF JOY CHAPTER 96

1.  Today,  my heart grieved for you Father.  I felt something that
I've never felt before.  I saw...no...I felt myself running to you
needing that reasurance that I'm not lost in all this madness
that surrounds me.

2.  Evil abounds,  every truth has become shadows of gray, a fog
that blinds or disfigures reality.  All around are the heaps of
human flesh who have followed the blind into a world of con-
fusion, a world on the brink.

3.  I felt the warm dish water that brought me back to the safe and
quiet kitchen, a reality that is blessedly mine.  "Dad!, Father!
Blessed Trinity!  Embrace me in your oneness,  your love, your
care."

4.  My only true haven of peace, hope, and rest is in You.  Yes,
Yes,  Christ in me....even as I dwell in You.  You are my hiding
place...that secret place where who-so-ever wills may come to dwell.

5.  There is no other Way.  Flesh and blood, cannot enter in.  What great mystery is ours,  what work of faith fills my heart.  In this I will give you praise and honor and thanksgiving.

6.  Yours is the glory, the power, the kingdom above all kingdoms.  My eternal resting place,  my Home.

7.  I love You my Beloved Father.  Be comforted with all who adore you...who come boldly before you in all adoration.  Your will and purpose is ours.  Not one drop of blood that was shed on Calvary will have been shed in vain. 

8.  We know not what we do.  So we surrender our hearts, our wills and all that we are,  a living sacrifice,  humbly, and joyfully we cry
"ABBA FATHER...Thy Kingdom Come."

PSALMS OF JOY CHAPTER 97

 

1.  Lord:  My flesh is weak.  My soul languishes at the darkness
that fills the earth.  The darkness that fills the human heart.
Your own people grope in darkness.

2.  How is this possible Lord.  For You are The Light of Life.
You are The Way that is clear and transparent.  You are The
Truth that we can trust with all our ways.

3.  Why is it that man would rather listen to lies.  Why would
he rather sell his soul for a portion?  Lord,  forgive, forgive,
forgive.  My heart grieves at the knowledge of your own
heart. 

4.  Let all those who love You,  minister to you with the high
praises of God.  Let the vibration of our hearts song come
before you.  Be high and lifted up.  Let all the angelic
hosts and saints made perfect,  let every principality and
power bow before you in surrendered adoration.

5.  You alone are God.  There is no other. 

AUP Ambassadors, "Light Of A Million Mornings"

PSALMS OF JOY CHAPTER 98

1.  Lord I imagine those who look through the windows
of their homes, "what do they see"?  More than I can 
imagine... what their heart sees through the windows of
their eyes.  That spirit bound by flesh and blood.

2.  That one who sees the sunshine, even when it rains
or that one who sees a world full of sorrow and pain.
Heap upon heap of human brawl, and some my dear Lord 
see nothing at all.

3.  Lord of my spirit,  let my heart see that Love has a
way of setting us free.  All things, you've promised, will
turn out for good to those who love you, to those who should?

4.  Today as I sit here and watch the rain. Falling down softly
on window pane.  I wonder sometimes, when inside me, the
tempests rage, but not in the tree.

5.  All this and more,  I praise you my Lord
I place on the alter,  I trust in your Word
I praise you for what faith sees, and when I am blind
come Holy Spirit and speak to my mind

6.  Songs I will sing to the rhythm of rain
praise as it runs down my window pane.

Soaking Worship Prayer - "Resting"

PSALMS OF JOY CHAPTER 99

1.  BELOVED OF MY SOUL,  MY CONSTANT DELIGHT
THE RISING OF MY SOUL INTO THE PENETRATING
LIGHT OF YOUR ETERNAL LOVE

2.  THERE IS A REMEMBERING IN MY SOUL THAT
EVER DRAWS ME TO THE SOLACE OF YOUR
EMBRACE. 

3.  WHEN I FEEL LOST AND ALONE THERE IS A
REMEMBERING IN MY SOUL THAT THERE REMAINS
THE FULFILMENT OF A PROMISE GIVEN,  AND A
COVENANT'S SEAL THAT ONE DAY MY REMEMBERING
WILL COME IN REVELATIONS LIGHT

4.  I SHALL KNOW YOU,  EVEN AS I AM KNOWN

Kevin Kern - Remembering the Light - Sea (Mar) V&D

PSALMS OF JOY CHAPTER 100

1.  LORD I REJOICE THAT YOU ARE MY GOD
THERE IS NO ONE WHO KNOWS MY HEART
LIKE YOU
MY FLESH RISES UP IN IT'S CORRUPTION TO
CHALLENGE WHO I AM,  BUT I KNOW NOT
THE VOICE WHO TEMPTS ME TO DISOBEY
WHAT MY SPIRIT KNOWS TO BE THE WAY
THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE

2.  I DECLARE THAT I AM NOTHING IN MY
FLESH,  I AM NOTHING
IT WILL PERISH,  IT IS POWERLESS TO SAVE
    
3.  YOU ALONE GIVE ME THE QUIETNESS
AND CONFIDENCE THAT STRENGTHENS ME
WITH FAITH

4.  WHEN MY HEART IS FILLED WITH FEAR
AND DOUBT,  YOUR COUNCIL AND WISDOM
IS AS THE MORNING DAWN TO ME,  I AM
FILLED WITH HOPE AND COMFORT

5.  YOU HAVE PROMISED TO GIVE ME JOY
AND PEACE, AND A SOUND MIND,  I KNOW
THAT ONLY YOU KEEP YOUR WORD,  I WILL
NOT BE MOVED,  FOR YOU ARE THE SOLID
ROCK UPON WHICH I STAND.

Kevin Kern ☼ Bathed In Dawn's Light ☼