Conference Highlights, pt. 3

One more conference highlight for the week to send you "singing and shouting for joy" into your Lord's Day. We sang Stand Up O God Be Present Now. This hymn always makes me teary...every time. And if you sing it right after a lecture that made you teary (and still makes you teary when you listen to the cd) then you're just the sniffly row :) (since I was NOT the only one tearing up during the lecture and the hymn :)

May the Lord richly bless you as you delight yourselves in Him on His day!

Rejoicing in our Precious Savior,

Sarah for the Novelteatalkers

Stand Up, O God, Be Present Now

Stand up, O God, be present now,
And all who hate You, let them run
Like driven smoke, like melting wax,
Bound for destruction, doomed to die.
But let the righteous sing and dance,
Yes, sing and dance and shout for joy,
For He who rides upon the clouds
Is coming as He came of old.
His justice vindicates the oppressed,
He frees the pris'ner, brings him home.
Stand up, O God, be present now,
And we will sing and shout for joy!

Stand up, O God, be present now,
As once on Sinai You were heard
By those who left the prison's chain,
Who crossed the sea and faced the sand.
They ate the manna, drank from springs
Provided by Your gracious love.
They watched as mighty armies fled,
And so they gained the promised land.
Now, marching on to Zion's mount,
We see the heav'nly host descend.
Stand up, O God, be present now,
And we will sing and shout for joy!

Stand up, O God, be present now,
And we, Your people, will rejoice,
For You have saved us from the pit,
For You have brought us back from death.
So to Your holy place we come
With choirs and music young and old.
Rebuke the godless, cast them down
Till humbled they for mercy call;
Then men shall listen for Your voice
As riding through the heavens You come.
Stand up, O God, be present now,
And we will sing and shout for joy!