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Just Taste and See

Original: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/1TCTB

Are you burdened?
Are you toiling?
To such ones the Lord says, Come to Me.

Lord, I’m coming.
I’m returning.
Casting all anxieties at Your feet.

Chorus:
I can’t make it
I can’t take it
I can’t fake it, Lord, so I need You
To be the one in me
Always living
Lord, right now I take You as my life.

Your yoke is easy
The load, not heavy
Just come and learn - for You said, I am meek

Lord, You’re living
And I’m resting
I just let You win and do everything in me.

I can't make it, take it, fake it (Cover)

The Church Is Christ's Own Body

2023 04 JHB - Songs

We Will Sing to the Lord with our Spirit

Instrumental Version Link:
https://soundcloud.com/user-76291714/under-the-rose-instr/s-TCdNTVMn9F6?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing&si=94c46dc2fb4f425d9b6b7ee469bef04e

Words: John Oxenford (1812 to 1877). Tune: Under the Rose. Singing, guitar and sound editing by Alan Thompson 2025.  Another of the songs of bygone eras. For a listing of these songs on  Youtube and SoundCloud: https://www.songsofbygoneeras.com/


Under the Rose sung

Sun Of My Soul

(Written by Jacob Freeman)

How good to sing You love songs, Lord
To call Your name throughout my day.                   
To love and walk within Your light
And praise You, Lord, in every way.

How good to give myself to You
And lay down everything I do
For You to use howe'er You chose                              
To fix my eyes on You alone.

How good to say I love You, Lord.
To be nourished by Your holy word.                         
To partake, ingest Yourself divine
To abide fore'er in Christ, The Vine.

How good to simply love You, Lord
To care for naught except Yourself                            
To know You better day by day        
And listen to the things You say.

How Good! (Lyrics by Jacob)

1. Since long ago at Bethany we parted,
 Within my heart there is a ceaseless void;
 How can I take my harp down from the willow?
 How can my songs without Thee be enjoyed?
 And when at night I’m keeping lonely vigil-
 Grown numb alike to sorrow and to cheer-
 Then I recall the promise of Thy coming,
 But sigh: O Lord, why, why Thou dost not yet appear?
2. Thy manger wakes the thought: I too am homeless;
 Thy cross strips earthly pleasures from my soul;
 Thy coming bids me seek a better country,
 For Thou Thyself art now my final goal.
 Since Thou art gone my joy has lost its flavor,
 My song the sweetness I would fain convey.
 Since Thou art gone the sense of void o’erwhelms me.
 Oh, how I long that Thou wilt come and not delay.
3. Though even now I know Thy loving presence,
 Yet in my heart there’s still a sense of lack.
 Enlightening and tenderest sustaining
 Can no more satisfy: I want Thee back.
 Despite Thy peace within, I still feel lonely;
 Despite Thy joy there still remains a sigh;
 When I feel most content, the silent yearning
 To see Thee face to face becomes an uttered cry.
4. What exile cannot but desire his homeland
 And long his people once again to greet?
 What soul on alien soil forgets his kindred?
 What parted lovers never yearn to meet?
 O Lord, how can these earthly loves and pleasures
 With all the joy of Thy return compare?
 Then, if I cannot here behold Thy countenance,
 What can I do but sigh till Thou, my Lord, appear?
5. Could’st Thou, O Lord, forget Thy word of promise
 Soon to return and take me unto Thee?
 Yet day by day and year by year I’ve waited
 And still I wait, and no return I see!
 Remember, Lord, the years I have been waiting
 While Thy dear footsteps linger far away.
 How long? How long? Oh! must I wait still longer
 Till Thou shalt come again in glorious array?
6. From generation unto generation
 Thy saints have come and gone, but have not seen
 Thy glorious promise pass into fulfillment.
 How long, how very long the time has been!
 Why cannot we, dear Lord, discern Thy footsteps?
 Why are the heavens still so closely sealed?
 Oh! must our waiting be prolonged still further
 Before Thou in Thy matchless splendor art revealed?
7. Lord, I recall the many years I’ve waited
 For Thy return-yet, Lord, not I alone,
 But Thy dear saints through many generations-
 Beseeching Thee to come back for Thine own.
 To countless tears and countless fervent pleadings,
 By Thine appearing haste to make reply.
 Oh, may Thou come, the echo of the ages,
 Come, come and answer now this mighty corp’rate cry!

Since Long Ago At Bethany / New Tune (Mark's Song)

1. My love is like a dove,
In the clefts of the rock,
In the covert of the precipice,
That’s where My love is safe.

At this secret place we meet,
Here your voice, my love, is sweet;
Your countenance is lovely,
And here you’re pleasing to Me.
 	
CHORUS:
Let Me hear your voice;
See your countenance;
For your voice is so sweet,
And you’re lovely.
Let Me hear your voice,
See your countenance;
For your voice is so sweet,
And you’re lovely to me.

2. My love is like a dove,
In the clefts of the rock,
In the covert of the precipice,
That’s where you’re lovely.

At this secret place we meet,
Here your voice, my love, is sweet;
Your countenance is lovely,
And you’re lovely to Me.

My Love Is Like A Dove (w/ Vitor, Titus & Adolfo)

1. Lord, You are the living spring,
The river of water of life;
Only You can quench my thirst;
Only You satisfy.
Lord, You are the living tree,
You are the Tree of Life;
Only You can fill my hunger;
Only You satisfy.
 	
CHORUS:
Every moment in so many ways
He is the sure supply;
Now and forever and always,
Only You satisfy.

2. Lord, You are the living vine,
In You we would abide;
Only You give life divine;
Only You satisfy.
So we must praise
And we must sing,
And we must testify;
Lord, You are the only One;
Only You satisfy.

How Good! (Lyrics by Jacob)

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