Morning Service Sunday 16 July 2023

Welcome and Intimations

Prayer and Lord’s Prayer

Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done;
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power, and the glory
for ever and ever.
Amen.

CH4 212 Morning Has Broken

1. Morning has broken
   like the first morning,
   blackbird has spoken
   like the first bird.
   Praise for the singing!
   Praise for the morning!
   Praise for them, springing
   fresh from the Word!
   

2. Sweet the rain’s new fall
   sunlit from heaven,
   like the first dewfall
   on the first grass.
   Praise for the sweetness
   of the wet garden,
   sprung in completeness
   where God’s feet pass.
   

3. Mine is the sunlight!
   Mine is the morning
   born of the one light
   Eden saw play!
   Praise with elation,
   praise every morning,
   God’s recreation
   of the new day!
   

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1. Romans 8:1-11
2. Genesis 25:19-34

Children’s Message

CH4 79 Teach Me, O Lord, the Perfect Way

1. Teach me, O LORD, the perfect way
   of Thy precepts divine,
   and to observe it to the end
   I shall my heart incline.
   

2. Give understanding unto me,
   so keep thy law shall I;
   yea, even with my whole heart I shall
   observe it carefully.
   

3. In Thy law’s path make me to go;
   for I delight therein.
   My heart unto thy gracious word,
   and not to greed, incline.
   

4. Turn Thou away my sight and eyes
   from viewing vanity;
   and in Thy good and holy way
   be pleased to quicken me.
   

5. Confirm to me Thy gracious Word,
   which I did gladly hear,
   even to Thy servant, LORD, for I
   thy holy name revere.
   

6. Turn Thou away my feared reproach;
   for good Thy judgments be.
   Lo, for Thy precepts I have longed;
   in Thy truth quicken me.
   

Meditation

CH4 495 Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart

1. Spirit of God, descend upon my heart;
   Wean it from earth; through all its pulses move.
   Stoop to my weakness, mighty as Thou art,
   And make me love Thee as I ought to love.
   

2. I ask no dream, no prophet-ecstasies,
   no sudden rending of the veil of clay,
   no angel-visitant, no opening skies;
   but take the dimness of my soul away
   

3. Hast Thou not bid me love Thee, God and King?
   All, all Thine own, soul, heart and strength and mind.
   I see Thy cross; there teach my heart to cling:
   Oh, let me seek Thee, and, oh, let me find!
   

4. Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh;
   Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear,
   To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh;
   Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.
   

5. Teach me to love Thee as Thine angels love,
   One holy passion filling all my frame;
   The kindling of the heav’n-descended Dove,
   My heart an altar, and Thy love the flame.
   

Offering

Prayer of Intercession

CH4 518 Lift Up Your Hearts

1. 'Lift up your hearts!' We lift them, Lord, to thee;
   here at thy feet none other may we see:
   'lift up your hearts!' E'en so, with one accord,
   we lift them up, we lift them to the Lord.
   

2. 2 Above the level of the former years,
   the mire of sin, the slough of guilty fears,
   the mist of doubt, the blight of love's decay,
   O Lord of light, lift all our hearts to-day.
   

3. 3 Lift every gift that thou thyself hast given:
   low lies the best till lifted up to heaven;
   low lie the bounding heart, the teeming brain,
   till, sent from God, they mount to God again.
   

4. 4 Then, as the trumpet-call in after years,
   'Lift up your hearts!' rings pealing in our ears,
   still shall those hearts respond with full accord,
   'We lift them up, we lift them to the Lord!'
   

Blessing