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Amen, God Will Send
03:13
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Amen, God will send His Spirit
into the world to heal and mend it.
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Dm
1. Into the woods my Master went,
Clean forspent, forspent,
Into the woods my Master came,
Forspent with love and shame.
Bb
But the olives they were not blind to Him.
The little grey leaves were kind to Him,
The thorn tree had a mind to Him,
When into the woods He came.
2. Out of the woods my Master came
And he was well content;
Out of the woods my Master came,
Content with death and shame.
Bb
When death and shame would woo Him last,
From under the trees they drew Him last,
’Twas on a tree they slew Him—last
When out of the woods He came…
When out of the grave he came
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Vox and guitars - Bruce Benedict
rhodes - Josh Banner
Engineered by Josh Banner
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THE LEAVES (Rev 22)
words and music: Bruce Benedict, January 2018
Am/F G Am C
The heavens rejoice and the earth sings in chorus
the depths of the oceans and all that live in it
The fields will exult and the stones they’ll cry out
the trees will give voice and the heavens will trumpet
Am/F G Am C/Em // Fmaj7 Dm7 F
Hallelujah
His Blood turned to gold and his body a city
His hands are the branches his breath is so windy
and the leaves are the words for the healing that’s come
for the nations rejoice and creation will cry out
hallelujah….
The leaves that were sown by his hands for our cover
the shame that has flown/choked/soaked like a torrential river
has been washed by his blood, all accursed now a blessing
let’s throw ourselves in and drown in all that is holy
hallelujah…
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The Body of Christ
04:24
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The Body of Christ
Words and music: Bruce Benedict, May 2019
Demo for Porters Gate Project, Vol. 2
VERSE 1
C F C
When your life is broken - the body of Christ
G F. C
When your knees are falling - the body of Christ
Am F C
When your hands are barely holding - the body of Christ
C F C
Every need of your life - the body of Christ
CHORUS:
Am F G C
Oh the body, oh the body, oh the body of Christ
Oh the body, oh the body, oh the body of Christ
From your birth, to the grave, it’s the kingdom lifes
Every need, every day, oh the body of Christ
INTERLUDE
Dm C F (Repeat) Gsus G
VERSE 2
When your neighbor fails you - the body of Christ
When your husband leaves you - the body of Christ
When your friend deceives you - the body of Christ
IN the valley, in the darkness - the body of Christ
VERSE 3
...you could have your worship team or congregation write or riff on other verses to sing, where the congregation carries on the response "The body of Christ"
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1.On Babel's plain, the fires of men
In common purpose roared
The unity that God once gave
They seized with one accord
But God poured out peculiar tongues,
Peculiar, odd, and vain
They scattered all the human fires,
That burned on Babel’s plain.
2.The desert pealed with flames divine,
“I hear my people's cry!”
But Moses turned his face to hide
From unconsuming fire.
“O Lord and God,” the shepherd pled,
“My tongue is mute and mired.”
“O who inspires mortal mouths?”
The holy flame inquired.
CHORUS:
Holy Spirit, Come O Sacred Fire
Holy Spirit, Come Our Hearts Inspire
3.On Sinai’s crest, the storms of God
In gales of holy dread
Beset the mount in veils of fire,
With smoke it palled and spread
Then God gave Moses words of life
In thund’rous peals construed
And Isr’el spoke in stark reply,
“What God says we will do.”
4. In Galilee, the holy cloud
That brandished Sinai's crest
Bestowed itself on Mary's frame
And settled there to rest
Then holy fires of power divine
Beheld her virgin womb;
They tabernacled in her flesh
But left her unconsumed
5. At Pentecost, the winds of God,
In savage tempest roared;
Like Sinai’s mount, their flesh assumed
The fires of their Lord
Then God poured out peculiar tongues,
From native lands abroad
And birthed the Church as holy flesh
In unity with God
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The Spirit of the Lord
05:37
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When earth was welter, waste, and void,
And dark disturbed the deep;
The winds of God ov'er swept the sea,
With favor soon to speak.
REFRAIN:
The Spirit of the Lord was upon it.
When Mary’s virgin womb lay void,
In barren chastity;
“Be not afraid,” the angel said,
And favor canopied.
REFRAIN:
The spirit of the Lord is upon you.”
When Christ arose from Jordan’s banks,
And raised his voice in prayer,
A sound from heaven rent the sky,
And favor it declared.
REFRAIN:
The Spirit of the Lord was upon him.
When Jesus stood in Nazareth,
He sang the prophet’s words:
“I bring good news, release, and sight
“The favor of the Lord.”
REFRAIN:
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me.”
Over the womb of Pentecost,
The brooding Spirit howled,
And birthed the living flesh of Christ,
With favor to announce.
REFRAIN:
The Spirit of the Lord was upon them.
When plunged into the death of Christ,
And raised to life anew,
The Holy Spirit rests on us,
With favor to imbue.
REFRAIN:
The Spirit of the Lord is upon us.
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Written for Lent
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Empty Hands
03:48
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1 ‘Tis midnight; and on Olive’s brow
The star is dimmed that lately shown:
‘Tis midnight; in the garden now,
The suffering Savior prays alone.
2 ‘Tis midnight; and, from all removed
Emmanuel wrestles lone with fears:
E’en the disciple that He loved
Heeds not his Master’s grief and tears.
Refrain or Bridge:
All alone for me he cried
All alone for me he died
‘Tis midnight, the savior prays alone.
3 ‘Tis midnight; and, for others’ guilt,
The Man of Sorrows weeps in blood:
Yet He that hath in anguish knelt
Is not forsaken by His God.
4 ‘Tis midnight; and from heavenly plains
Is borne the song that angels know:
Unheard by mortals are the strains
That sweetly soothe the Savior’s woe.
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Go In Peace (If I Touched Him He Would Heal Me)
Words & Music: Bruce Benedict, 2012
Luke 8:40-48
Capo IV – Key of E
C
If I touched him he would heal me
F
If I touched him I’d be whole
G
If I touched him I would find
F C
A healing balm for my sickened soul
If I touched him I would see,
The lame walk, and the deaf hear
If I touched him, he would know it
Oh, his voice would to me call
Refrain:
C F
Go in peace…go in peace…
G
Go in peace, my daughter
F C
Your faith has made you well
I would feel his healing power
Working deep inside the wound
I would feel his healing power
Breaking death and bringing life
I would feel his healing power
Coursing through me like a flood
I would hear the spirit sing
Set them free - the king has come,
If I touched him he would speak to me
full of tenderness and care
If I touched him he would speak to me
Of the burdens he would bear
If I touched him he would speak to me
He would hold my trembling hands
If I touched him he would speak to me
Of the cross where he would stand
If I touched him, it would be
like the balm of gilead
Like the oil of aaron,
running down my head
If I touched him, he would know it
He would bless me through the shame
If I touched him, he would know it
He would know my very name
Outro:
Go in peace
With Fear and trembling
Go in peace
Before the very Lord
Go in peace
We all come stumbling
You Faith has made you well.
Go in peace
Who touched my garments
Go in peace
I sensed the power flow
Go in peace
Who felt my healing power?
Your Faith has made you well.
Do not fear,
For I am with you
Do not fear
I am the Lord
Do not Fear
For I’ll always be with you
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Words & Music: Bruce Benedict
© 2012 Cardiphonia Music
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Approach, my soul, the mercy seat,
Where Jesus answers prayer;
There humbly fall before his feet,
For none can perish there.
Thy promise is my only plea,
tith this I venture nigh;
Thou callest burdened souls to thee,
and such, O Lord, am I.
Refrain:
O wondrous love!,
To bleed and die,
O wondrous love!
For such as I
Bowed down beneath a load of sin,
By Satan sorely pressed,
By wars without, and fears within,
I come to thee for rest.
Be thou my shield and hiding place,
that, sheltered near thy side, I
May my fierce accuser face,
and tell him, Thou hast died.
Refrain:
"Poor tempest tossed soul, be still;
my promised grace receive;"
'Tis Jesus speaks—I must, I will, I can, I do believe.
Refrain:
Refrain 2 / Bridge:
O wondrous love! to bleed and die,
To bear the cross and shame,
That guilty sinners, such as I,
Might plead thy gracious name!
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The Spirit of Adoption
03:08
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This is the Hour
01:36
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Jesus Has Risen
02:42
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O Love of God
04:35
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1 For your gift of God the Spirit,
pow'r to make our lives anew,
pledge of life and hope of glory,
Savior, we would worship you.
Crowning gift of resurrection
sent from your ascended throne,
fullness of the very Godhead,
come to make your life our own.
2 He who in creation's dawning
brooded on the lifeless deep,
still across our nature's darkness
moves to wake our souls from sleep,
moves to stir, to draw, to quicken,
thrusts us thro' with sense of sin;
brings to birth and seals and fills us--
saving Advocate within.
3 He, himself the living Author,
wakes to life the sacred Word,
reads with us its holy pages
and reveals our risen Lord.
He it is who works within us,
teaching rebel hearts to pray,
he whose holy intercessions
rise for us both night and day.
4 He, the mighty God, indwells us;
his to strengthen, help, empow'r,
his to overcome the tempter,
ours to call in danger's hour.
In his strength we dare to battle
all the raging hosts of sin,
and by him alone we conquer
foes without and foes within.
5 Father, grant your Holy Spirit
in our hearts may rule today,
grieved not, quenched not, but unhindered,
work in us his sov'reign way.
Fill us with your holy fullness,
God the Father, Spirit, Son;
in us, through us, then, forever,
shall your perfect will be done.
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O Christ, Our King
02:50
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1 O Christ, our King, Creator, Lord,
Saviour of all who trust Thy word,
To them who seek Thee ever near,
Now to our praises bend Thine ear.
2 In Thy dear cross a grace is found -
It flows from every streaming wound -
Whose power our inbred sin controls,
Breaks the firm bond, and frees our souls.
3 Thou didst create the stars of night;
Yet Thou hast veiled in flesh Thy light,
Hast deigned a mortal form to wear,
A mortal's painful lot to bear.
4 When Thou didst hang upon the tree,
The quaking earth acknowledge Thee;
When Thou didst there yield up Thy breath,
The world grew dark as shades of death.
5 Now in the Father's glory high,
Great Conqueror, never more to die,
Us by Thy mighty power defend,
And reign through ages without end.
Amen.
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All People that On Earth
03:39
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They Came Bearing Gifts
04:22
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1. It was the star that brought them far
through many leagues of doubts.
to leave their homes to leave their kingdoms
to worship a king they sought.
REFRAIN:
They came bearing gifts,
They came with the joy of the nations!
They came bearing wonder,
They came for the hope of salvation.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, all is calm tonight.
Hallelujah, Hallelu the star reflects his light.
The star reflects His light.
2. It was to Herod that first they went
Inquiring of this King.
But leaving by a diff’rent way
In joy gave hastening.
3. Herod with fear enjoined the priests
Where should the Christ be born.
O little town of Bethlehem
A savior greets the morn.
4. Tribute they gave to a little babe
This manger scene behold.
To Bethlehem a newborn king
Myrrh, frankincense and gold.
5. Oh troubled city of David’s birth
Your infant tears are heard.
The little joy of Israel
will soon return unfurled.
6. Star in the East a heav’nly feast
of life and light and love.
The long awaited, now at hand
God come as humble man.
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When Christ’s appearing was made known,
King Herod trembled for his throne;
But he who offers heavenly birth
Seeks not the kingdoms of the earth.
The eastern sages saw from far
And followed on his guiding star;
By light their way to light they trod,
And by their gifts confessed their God.
Within the Jordan’s sacred flood
The heavenly Lamb in meekness stood
That he, of whom no sin was known,
Might cleanse his people from their own.
And oh, what miracle divine,
When water reddened into wine!
He spoke the word, and forth it flowed
In streams that nature never bestowed.
For this his glad epiphany
All glory unto Jesus be,
Whom with the Father we adore,
And Holy Ghost forevermore.
Hymn # 81 from Lutheran Worship
Composer: adapt. Michael Praetorius
Tune: Puer Nobis
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Psalm 123 (AFRICA)
03:08
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Bruce Benedict Holland, Michigan
Music mostly written, recorded, or produced by Bruce Benedict (Cardiphonia, Hope College, etc)
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