Author: William Cowper 1731-1800
Lord Jesus, when your people meet
they come before your mercy-seat;
where you are sought, you shall be found
and every place is holy ground.
2. Your presence, by no walls confined,
is known within the humble mind;
the meek will bring you where they come
and going take you to their home.
3. Great Shepherd of your chosen few,
your former mercies here renew;
here to our waiting hearts proclaim
the greatness of your saving name.
4. Here may we prove the power of prayer
to strengthen faith and sweeten care;
to teach our faint desires to rise
and bring all heaven before our eyes.
5. Lord, we are few, but you are near;
your arm will save, your ear will hear:
O rend the heavens, come quickly down,
and make a thousand hearts your own!
Scriptures: Hebrews 13:20, 2 Chronicles 15:4, Isaiah 55:6, Revelation 3:11, Luke 12:32, Numbers 7:89, Jeremiah 29:13, Isaiah 57:15, Matthew 7:7-8, Luke 11:9-10, 2 Chronicles 15:2, Amos 5:4, 1 Kings 8:27-30, Isaiah 66:1, Matthew 5:5, 1 Peter 3:4, Exodus 33:14, Exodus 25:17-22, Hebrews 9:5, Matthew 18:20, Acts 7:33, 1 Samuel 14:6, Jeremiah 42:2, Leviticus 16:13, Proverbs 15:29, 1 Chronicles 28:9, 2 Chronicles 6:18-21, Psalms 80:1-3, Hosea 5:15, Exodus 6:4-6, Exodus 37:6, Deuteronomy 4:29, Joshua 5:15, Proverbs 8:17, Isaiah 37:17, Isaiah 50:2, Isaiah 59:1, Isaiah 64:1, Haggai 1:9, John 4:21-24, Acts 7:49-50