Welcome Happy Morning
He arose !
Lo, He comes!
Up from the grave he arose !
Welcome, happy morning, age to age shall say;
Hell today is vanquished, Heaven is won today.
Lo! the Christ is living, God for evermore!
Him, their true Creator, All His works adore.
Welcome, happy morning, age to age shall say;
Hell today is vanquished, Heaven is won today.
He lives! He lives! Christ Jesus lives today,
He walks with me and talks with me along life’s
narrow way
He lives! He lives! Salvation to impart,
You ask me how I know He lives,
He lives within my heart.
Loose the souls long imprisoned,
bound with Satan’s chain;
All that now is fallen raise to life again.
Show Thy face in brightness, bid the nations see,
Bring again our daylight, day returns with Thee.
Welcome, happy morning, age to age shall say;
Hell today is vanquished, Heaven is won today.
Up from the grave he arose !
Up
from
the
grave
He
arose,
Low in the grave He lay, Jesus, my Saviour;
With
a
MIGHTY
triumph
o’er
His
foes.
Waiting the coming day, Jesus, my Lord.
He arose the victor from the dark domain,
And He lives forever with His saints to reign.
He arose!
He arose!
Hallelujah!
Christ arose!
Words taken from Psalm 92
Music by Len Ballantine
It is good to praise the Lord and make music to your name,
O Most High,
To proclaim your love in the morning
and your faithfulness at night...
How great are your works , O Lord,
How profound are your thoughts!
The senseless man does not know, fools do not understand,
That though the wicked spring up like grass
and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
But you, Lord, are exulted forever.
The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like
the cedars of Lebanon.
They will flourish in the courts of our God.
They will stay fresh and green proclaiming ‘The Lord is upright;
He is my rock
There is no wickedness in Him’.
Psalm 92;1-2, 5-8, 12, 15 NIV
Words by Chris Baker and Isaac Watts
Music by Chris Baker
But those who trust in the Lord for help will find their strength
renewed.
They will rise on wings like eagles;
They will run and not grow weary;
They will walk and not grow faint.
Isaiah 40 v 31 GNB
“I have done my best in the race, I have run the full distance,
And I have kept the faith.
And now their is waiting for me the victory prize of being put
right with God, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give
me on that Day – and not only to me, but to all those who
wait with love for Him to appear.
Paul writing to Timothy in 2 Timothy 4 vv 7,8 GNB
Composed by Andrew Mackereth
Written for the New York Staff Band of the Salvation army in 1988
to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Salvation Army’s work in
Puerto Rico.
Composed by Peter Graham
1st Movement – Count Your Blessings
When upon life’s billows you are tempest tossed,
When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost.
Count your many blessings, name them one by one,
And it will surprise you what the Lord has done.
Are you ever burdened with a load of care?
Does the cross seem heavy you are called to bear?
Count your many blessings, every doubt will fly,
And you will keep singing as the days go by.
2nd Movement – Make me a blessing
Out in the highways and byways of life,
Many are weary and sad.
Carry the sunshine where darkness is rife,
Making the sorrowing glad.
Make me a blessing, make me a blessing,
Out of my life may Jesus shine.
Make me a blessing, Saviour, I pray.
Make me a blessing to someone today.
3rd Movement – Showers Of Blessing
There shall be showers of blessing:
This is the promise of love;
There shall be seasons refreshing,
Sent from the Saviour above.
Showers of blessing, showers of blessing we need;
Mercy drops round us are falling
But for the showers we plead.
There shall be showers of blessing:
O that today they might fall,
Now as to God we’re confessing,
Now as on Jesus we call!
Cadets’ Sessional song – 1934 /1935 session.
Words paraphrased from
Matthew 25:1-13, Psalm 97 and Ephesians 5;14
by General Albert Osborn
Music by Eric Ball
I’m living my life for Jesus, His love and grace I’ve seen;
And now that I live for Jesus, Life has a new-found theme.
My life has a new-found intention, I follow a purposeful aim,
And life has a new-found dimension, I witness that I’m born again.
I’m living my life for Jesus, His love and grace I’ve seen;
And now that I live for Jesus, Life has a new-found theme.
Composed by Ian Clarke
Composed by Mike Cornick
Father, we love You, we worship and adore You.
Glorify Your name in all the earth.
I will extol the LORD at all times; His praise will always be on my
lips. I will glory in the LORD; let the afflicted hear and rejoice.
Glorify the LORD with me; let us exalt His name together. I sought
the LORD, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my
fears.
Psalm 34;1-4 (NIV)
Composed by Kevin Ponsford
Words taken from 1 Corinthians 13
paraphrased by General John Gowans
Music by General John Larsson
Composed by Ronald Tremain
Arr. Donald Osgood
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
In a believer’s ear;
It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,
And drives away all fear.
It makes the wounded spirit whole,
And calms the troubled breast;
‘Tis manna to the hungry soul,
And to the weary rest.
Dear name, the rock on which I build,
My shield and hiding-place,
My never-failing treasury, filled
With boundless stores of grace.
Weak is the effort of my heart,
And cold my warmest thought,
But when I see thee as thou art,
I’ll praise thee as I ought.
Till then I will thy love proclaim
With every fleeting breath;
And may the music of thy name
Refresh my soul in death.
I love you, LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock, my fortress
and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge,
my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I called
to the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and I have been saved
from my enemies......
“The LORD lives! Praise be to my Rock!
Exalted be my God, the Rock, my Saviour!
Words taken from Psalm 18: 3
and 2 Samuel 22:47
Music by Michael O’Shields
Negro Spiritual arr. Joy Webb
Transcribed by Ray Steadman-Allen