Make Our Hearts Completely Yours

So many distractions, plans and reactions

So many vocations compete with the call

We would hear a music

That transcends the sounds of earth

We would listen to a voice

That gives the wilderness its worth.

Make our hearts completely Yours

And give us courage that endures

Search and destroy this worldís lures

And make our hearts completely Yours.

Give us a bent, a way, a view

That consecrates our lives to You

A willing walk and humble minds

Till no distractions You will find.

Make our hearts completely Yours

And give us courage that endures

Search and destroy this worldís lures

And make our hearts completely Yours.

For the eye of the Lord searches out the earth

To find a heart that knows His worth

His strong support will be supplied

To the heart that to all but Christ has died

For these are the hearts that in Him confide.

We dedicate

We consecrate

Our lives to do you will

We come to bless

True righteousness

And these grateful hearts are filled.

Make our hearts completely Yours

And give us courage that endures

Search and destroy this worldís lures

And make our hearts completely Yours.

Anthony Foster

August 4, 2009

2 Chronicles 16:9

Holy Place

Heaven is your throne

And the earth is your footstool

You abide within your own

The basilica in whomÝ you rule

There is no holy house in which you dwell

There is no separation and no veil

There are no other wings under which to hide.

Other than this tabernacle of your bride.

In You alone we hide

In you alone we abide

Hid with Christ in God we rest

We enter in and we are blessed.

Transform our striving into rest

Let us enter in to that place where we are blessed

Not some earthbound sanctuary

Not someÝ sacred place to tarry

But we find the holy hidden in our hearts

You are the sacred ground of which we are a part

In you alone we trust

In you alone we are declared just

We come our sins to confess

And we are made into your righteousness.

Anthony Foster

August 4, 2009

The Garden Kingdom

Your reign is coming and has come

You are sovereign of this garden Kingdom

The whole earth with your glory is filled

And here in this garden we till and are tilled.

We are the new Eden and hearts are the soil

The hearts ofÝ humans are the place where we toil

And you send living water to make the seed grow

Until with the harvest you reap what you sow.

Make me a ploughman

Make me one now

Looking not left nor right

Set my hand to your plow

My furrows will lay straight

My lines will runÝ true

The harvest will come

With my eye set on You

You planted the seed in this ground

The blessed hope has taken root.

Raising heavenward the earthbound

And from this garden springs forth fruit.

Make me a ploughman

Make me one now

Looking not left nor right

Set my hand to your plow

My furrows will lay straight

My lines will runÝ true

The harvest will come

With my eye set on You

Anthony Foster

August 4, 2009