Songs that Build Your Faith Up
 

This might be kinda harder to find the lyrics on the net or youtube clips, but what songs build your faith up and make you want to worship Him?

There are many old and new favorites....at the moment I am listening to Vicki Yohe's "Because of who you are", this one blesses me.

There are some older CLC songs too that I remember when I first came to the Lord.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DoUQ7F7kJS8

I don't know how to imbed youtube video on here. Can someone help me?

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Youtube seems to be freaking out

Ah I figured it out

"Friend of God" makes my spirit soar every time I sing it to the Lord:

Who am I that you are mindful of me?
That you hear me when I call?

Is it true that you are thinking of me?
How you love me?

It's amazing!

I am a friend of God
I am a friend of God
I am a friend of God
He calls me, friend.

God Almighty

Lord of Glory

You have called me friend

:bliss :bliss :bliss :bliss

He'll Do It Again
 

He Will Do It Again


You may be down and feel like God
has somehow forgotten
that you are faced with circumstances
You can't get through.
And right now it seems there's no way out
And you're going under.
But God's proved time and time again
He will take care of you.

Chorus:
And he will do it again,
He'll do it again. He will do it again.
If you just take a look
At where you're now
And where you've been.
Hasn't He always come through for you?
He's the same now as then.
You may not know how,
You may not know when,
But He'll do it again.

God knows the things that you're going through.
And He knows how you're hurting.
And you see, God knows just how your heart
Has been broken in two.
But He's the God of the sun, the moon, and the stars,
And he is your Father.
If He can calm the storm
I know He'll find the way to fix it for you.

Chorus

He's still God, and He's fighting for you
Yes, He's still God and He's never change
Oh, I know that He's God
And He's fighting for you
Just like Moses, just like Daniel
Just like Meshach, Shadrach, Abednego
He'll do it again for you, He'll do it again,
If you just take a look at where you are now
and where you have been
Hasn't He always come through for you,
He's the same now as then
You may not know how, you may not know when,
but He'll do it again

You may not know how, you may not know when, but He'll do it again.

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Thank you so much, Prax. I know the instructions are on here somewhere, but I just didn't bother to look. I appreciate your help.

His Eye Is On The Sparrow
 

Check out this link for the story behind the song:

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/h/i/hiseyeis.htm

Check out many, many of the "classics" hymns....Hit the forward or backward button at the cyberhymnal site above. They are in alphabetical order.

Why should I feel discouraged, why should the shadows come,
Why should my heart be lonely, and long for heaven and home,
When Jesus is my portion? My constant friend is He:
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.

Refrain

I sing because I’m happy,
I sing because I’m free,
For His eye is on the sparrow,
And I know He watches me.

“Let not your heart be troubled,” His tender word I hear,
And resting on His goodness, I lose my doubts and fears;
Though by the path He leadeth, but one step I may see;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.

Refrain

Whenever I am tempted, whenever clouds arise,
When songs give place to sighing, when hope within me dies,
I draw the closer to Him, from care He sets me free;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.

Refrain

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The Crabb Family Video of "Through The Fire":

http://www.leechvideo.com/video/view3000969.html

THROUGH THE FIRE

So many times I've questioned certain circumstances
Things I could not understand;
Many times in trials, weakness blurs my vision
Then my frustration gets so out of hand

It's then I am reminded.
I've never been forsaken.
I've never had to stand the test alone.
As I look at all the victories the spirit rises up in me
And it's through the fire my weakness is made strong.

Chorus:

He never promised that the cross would not get heavy
And the hill would not be hard to climb
He never offered me a victory without fighting
But he said help would always come in time;

Just remember when you're standing in the valley of decision
And the adversary says give in

Just hold on, our Lord will show up
And he will take you through the fire again

I know within myself that I would surely perish

But if I trust the hand of God, He'll shield the flames again and again and again.

He never promised that the cross would not get heavy
And the hill would not be hard to climb
He never offered me a victory without fighting
But he said help would always come in time;

Just remember when you're standing in the valley of decision
And the adversary says give in

Just hold on, our Lord will show up
And he will take you through the fire again

A link that contains several videos:

http://www.squidoo.com/southerngospelmusic/

Bishop Norman Wagner and choir singing Total Praise. Singing starts about 1 1/2 minutes into the video.


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Ride Out Your Storm
 

Ride Out Your Storm

You've been in the storm....It seems like forever..
And your night of Confusion...Has been OH so long...
Your Ship has lost anchor...And the storms got your drifting..
Just Hold on to Jesus..And Ride out your storm..

CHORUS:
Ride out your storm...God's right there with you...
You may not feel him...But you're never alone...
You're hurting now...But your morning is coming..
Just hold on to Jesus...And ride out your storm....

Remember His promise...He said I'll never forsake you.
Though the waters are raging...They'll do you no harm...
Don't give up the battle ...For your answer is coming...
Just hold on to Jesus ..And Ride out your storm...

CHORUS:
Ride out your storm...God's right there with you...
You may not feel him...But you're never alone...
You're hurting now...But your morning is coming..
Just hold on to Jesus...And ride out your storm....

He's right there you...Just ride out your storm.
He'll never fail you...Just ride out your storm.

Bishop Wagner singing an old tyme shockamoo song!

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I don't like the pictures in this video, but it's the best audio of this song I could find online.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pbuDlbx-_Ng

I'd Rather Have Jesus
George Beverly Shea, Rhea F. Miller

Verse 1
I'd rather have Jesus than silver or gold
I'd rather be His than have riches untold
I'd rather have Jesus than houses or lands
I'd rather be led by His nail-pierced hands

Chorus
Than to be the king of a vast domain
Or be held in sin's dread sway
I'd rather have Jesus than anything
This world affords today

Verse 2
I'd rather have Jesus than men's applause
I'd rather be faithful to His dear cause
I'd rather have Jesus than worldwide fame
I'd rather be true to His holy name

Chorus

I'd rather have, You, Jesus than anything
This world affords today
I'd rather have, You, Jesus than anything

Remind Me Dear Lord
Written by Dottie Rambo

Verse I
The things that I love, and hold dear to my heart
Are just borrowed they’re not mine at all
Jesus only lets me use them to brighten my life
So remind me, remind me dear Lord

Chorus
Roll back the curtain of memories now and then
Show me where you brought me from
Oh, and where I could have been
Remember I’m human, and humans forget
So remind me, remind me dear Lord

Verse II

Nothing good have I done to deserve God’s own Son
I’m not worthy of the scars in His hand
Yet He chose the road to Calv’ry to die in my stead
Why He loved me, I can’t understand

Repeat chorus, then:

So remind me, remind me dear Lord

Still Go Free
As performed by the Hinsons

Verse I
Lock me up in a prison, and throw away the key
Take away the vision, from these eyes that now can see
Deprive me of the food I eat
You can even bind my hands and feet
But as long as I have Jesus
Then I can still go free

Chorus
That I could still go free
What kind of man, would reach down His hand
And do this for me?
Unworthy to live, and not fit to kill
Then a man on the cross, put me in his will
And said that I could still go free

Verse II
Now I never could quite understand
Why a King would want to leave His throne
To dawn the robes of an earthly man
Feel the pain of flesh and bone
And to later trod, trod a lowly path
That led to Calvary
Where the blood washed stains
Broke all the chains
So that I could still go free

Repeat chorus then,

And said that I could still go free

Take this job and shove it??

Thats a good classic I used to sing when I worked for someone else! LOL

j/k

I love...."What a day that will be"

I like to sing all the time.One of my favorites is "You don't know like I know"

What the Lord has done for me.....

Lead- You don't know like I know
All - What He's done for me
Lead- You don't know like I know
All - What He's done for me
Lead - You don't know like I know
All - What He's done for me
All - What the Lord has done for me

Some great songs posted...some I haven't thought of in years.


Got any rivers you think are uncrossable?
Got any mountaints you can't tunnel through?
God specializes in things thought impossible!
And HE can do what no other power can do.

Just this morning I woke up singing an old, old song. The wife said, "I never heard you sing that song before, bet I can tell you the name." I said yes, it is "I Will Never Turn Back."

Songs of consecration like these are seldom ever sung anymore. The churches have become so enamored with THE CHANT. In stead of being lifted to the realm of love, devotion and consecration that such songs bring us, we have moved into a strange realm of chant. We are paying the spiritual price for it.

I love the old songs like, "I Surrender All," "My Savior First of All," "It Is Love, My Saviors' Love." A few nights ago, I was singing in my sleep, "It Is Well With My Soul."

It is a different spirit and a different realm of spiritual sacrifice than that of the modern day Pentecostal Chant in so many churches. It almost makes you want to cry when Pentecostal kids tell their parents, "Mommy we learned a brand new song in Sunday School today, it's called "Power In the Blood."

That reminds me...anyone know all the words?
Sometime like
"One more river to cross, one more mountain to climb, one more battle that I've got to go through, leavin all my troubles behind, one more battle with the devil and I know you'll understand. Im goin through with Jesus Hallelujah, holdin to his nail scared hands"

Today at work I was thinking and praying and singing...all day!! :musicnotes

For a couple of hours I was singing the chorus to a song that was quite popular in the 70s, Praise the Lord.

I began to think about what praise can do and what it can mean in the life of a child of God...to praise in advance of the answer...to praise before I see the solution...to praise in the midst of the storm.

One of my nephews preached a sermon when he was eight years old, Praise Makes The devil Nervous!!

I can just picture in my mind me praying and standing on the Word, and the enemy, as my pastor preached Sunday, unleashing the powers from the deep.

But when I begin to praise the Name of the Lord, thanking Him for what He has done and will do, I can see the demons wringing their hands and pacing back and forth, and saying, "We've lost her...she's praising...it's all over now!!"

And so today I'm singing...

Praise the Lord!!
He can work through those who praise Him
Praise the Lord!!
For our God inhabits praise

Praise the Lord!!
For the chains that seem to bind us
Serve only to remind us
That they drop powerless behind us
When we praise Him!!

Satan is a liar
And he wants to make us feel
Like we are paupers when he knows himself we're children of the King
So lift up the mighty shields of faith
For this battle must be won
We know that Jesus Christ is risen
So the works already done

Chorus

PS: Barb, when we praise Him before receiving the answer we show our faith and trust in Him.

IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL

When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.

It is well, with my soul,
It is well, with my soul,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.

Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
Let this blessed assurance control,
That Christ has regarded my helpless estate,
And hath shed His own blood for my soul.

It is well, with my soul,
It is well, with my soul,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.

My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!

It is well, with my soul,
It is well, with my soul,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.

And Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;
The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,
Even so, it is well with my soul.

It is well, with my soul,
It is well, with my soul,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.

- Words by Horatio G. Spafford, 1873
- Music by Philip P. Bliss, 1876

The words to this hymn was written after two major traumas in Spafford's life. The first was the Great Chicago Fire of October 1871, which ruined him financially. Shortly after, while crossing the Atlantic, all four of Spafford's daughters died in a collision with another ship. Spafford's wife Anna survived and sent him the now famous telegram: "SAVED ALONE." Several weeks later, as Spafford's own ship passed near the spot where his daughters died, he was inspired to write these words.

Bliss originally named the tune "Ville de Havre" after the ship on which Spafford's four girls perished, the SS Ville de Havre. Ironically, Bliss himself died in a tragic train wreck shortly after writing this music.

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OH MY DEAR LORD!!!

If I could dry my eyes enough to see, I would write this response to that....

I was singing this song in my sleep recently. Oh my how I sung it!

Give me singing like this any day over some of this goofy Pentecostal chanting that so many churches have going on nowadays.

Now, somebody see if they can find "Nearer My God To Thee."

Also see if you can find...

There is something in my soul
that makes the halleujahs roll
it is love, my saviors love
O the precious love of Jesus
how it thrills my ransomed soul
oer and oer I'll sing his praises
while the happy ages roll.

Wow!

I don't think that I've ever heard that story.

The Master of the Wind
 

This is one of the few songs I like to play in "G"...I love this old Hemphill song :)

1. My boat of life sails on a troubled sea
Whenever there's a wind in my sail.
But I have a friend who watches over me
When the breeze turns into a gale.

CHORUS:

I know the Master of the wind.
I know the Maker of the rain.
He can calm a storm, make the sun shine again.
I know the Master of the wind.

2. Sometimes I soar like an eagle through the sky
Above the peaks my soul can be found.
An unexpected storm may drive me from the heights
Brings me low, but never brings me down.

CHORUS:

I know the Master of the wind.
I know the Maker of the rain.
He can calm a storm, make the sun shine again.
I know the Master of the wind.


He can calm a storm and make the sun shine again
I know the Master of the wind.

My Pastors wife sings that song every now and then. It's always been a favorite of mine

Peace, Peace, Wonderful Peace
 

Wonderful Peace (A really, real oldie)..lol

Text: W.D. Cornell 1889
Music: W. G. Cooper 1889

Far away in the depths of my spirit tonight
Rolls a melody sweeter than psalm;
In celestial-like strains it unceasingly falls
O’er my soul like an infinite calm.

Peace, peace, wonderful peace,
Coming down from the Father above!
Sweep over my spirit forever, I pray
In fathomless billows of love!

What a treasure I have in this wonderful peace,
Buried deep in the heart of my soul,
So secure that no power can mine it away,
While the years of eternity roll!

Peace, peace, wonderful peace,
Coming down from the Father above!
Sweep over my spirit forever, I pray
In fathomless billows of love!

I am resting tonight in this wonderful peace,
Resting sweetly in Jesus’ control;
For I’m kept from all danger by night and by day,
And His glory is flooding my soul!

Peace, peace, wonderful peace,
Coming down from the Father above!
Sweep over my spirit forever, I pray
In fathomless billows of love!

And methinks when I rise to that City of peace,
Where the Author of peace I shall see,
That one strain of the song which the ransomed will sing
In that heavenly kingdom shall be:

Peace, peace, wonderful peace,
Coming down from the Father above!
Sweep over my spirit forever, I pray
In fathomless billows of love!

Ah! soul, are you here without comfort and rest,
Marching down the rough pathway of time?
Make Jesus your Friend ere the shadows grow dark;
O accept this sweet peace so sublime!

Peace, peace, wonderful peace,
Coming down from the Father above!
Sweep over my spirit forever, I pray
In fathomless billows of love!

The most romantic song ever sung is on your knees with tears streaming down your face as you softly and tenderly sing to your heavenly lover in great adoration, with the deepest of feeling, "Nearer My God To Thee."

This is true romance...heavenly romance. It surpasses all other loves. All other loves pale by comparison.

Thank You for the video. I've been listening to it since I came home from work. :happydance

How about Lift Me Up Above The Shadows ? Or Rock Of Ages ?

Tears Will Never Stain the Streets of That City
 

Tears Will Never Stain the Streets of that City
By The Rambos

http://www.barb-coolwaters.com/h001/tearswillnever.html

(Hey, this is a build-up your faith song....To think He will wipe away ALL tears.)

If I could count all the tears that have fallen
It would seem like an ocean to me.
If my heart were a window you could look through
Oh the pain and scars you would see.

But tears will never stain the streets of that city
No wreath of death on my mansion door.
Teardrops aren't welcome beyond the gates of Glory
And the heart will never break anymore.

I've never met one man without sorrow
And I've never looked into eyes with no pain.
But I know a land where grief is a stranger
And joy is the only song they sing.

I have questioned the loss of a loved one
When the pain seems so final and cold.
But we'll meet again in a land where death has no victory
And we'll never grow old.

And tears will never stain the streets of that city
No wreath of death on my mansion door.
Teardrops aren't welcome beyond the gates of Glory
And the heart will never break anymore.
No, the heart will never break anymore.

This is a thread that needs to just keep on going and going and going - like the Energizer Bunny. I have been so blessed just reading thru the words and listening to these old songs. THIS is why I come to AFF :)

I love this song, the vidoe set to it is ok.

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