ARISE MY SOUL

To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens! (Psalm 123:1)

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Themes: Sovereign Love of God, Trusting God in Trials, Overcoming Fear, Trinity, Cross, Christ our Righteousness, Resurrection, Heaven, Christ our Beloved

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LYRICS

Arise, my soul, as morning dawns
And join the everlasting song
To God the Father, Spirit, Son
Arise, my soul, arise

Arise, my soul, and lift your eyes
To Him whose glory fills the skies
Whose blood has opened Paradise
Arise, my soul, arise

CHORUS
Arise, my soul, and do not fear
The troubles of these mortal years
For Jesus reigns and He is here
Arise, my soul, arise

Arise, my soul, consider this:
That all your sin and guilt are His
Now Christ is all your righteousness
Arise, my soul, arise

Arise, my soul, and lift your voice
For Christ by death has death destroyed
Now you are bound for endless joy
Arise, my soul, arise

BRIDGE
Alleluia! Jesus lives
Alleluia! I am His
Alleluia! Jesus lives
Alleluia! I am His

THE WORD IN THE WORDS

Arise, my soul, as morning dawns

But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress. (Psalm 59:16) / Awake, my soul! Awake, harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn. (Psalm 57:8)

And join the everlasting song

...day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!” (Revelation 4:8) / And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying,“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!” And the four living creatures said, “Amen!” and the elders fell down and worshiped. (Revelation 5:13-14)

To God the Father, Spirit, Son

...for through Him [Jesus Christ] we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. (Ephesians 2:18)

Arise, my soul, arise

To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul. (Psalm 25:1)

Arise, my soul, and lift your eyes

To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens! (Psalm 123:1)

To Him whose glory fills the skies

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. (Psalm 19:1)

Whose blood has opened Paradise

And they sang a new song, saying,“Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God,and they shall reign on the earth.” (Revelation 5:9-10)

Arise, my soul, arise

My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad. (Psalm 34:2)

CHORUS
Arise, my soul, and do not fear

Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. (Luke 12:32) / Do not fear what you are about to suffer...Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. (Revelation 2:10)

The troubles of these mortal years

These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33) / “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (John 14:1-6)

For Jesus reigns

And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.” (Luke 1:31-33)

and He is here

...Behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:20) / For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst. (Matthew 18:20)

Arise, my soul, arise

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! (Psalm 103:1)

Arise, my soul, consider this:
That all your sin and guilt are His
Now Christ is all your righteousness

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Corinthians 5:21) / He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. (1 Peter 2:24)

Arise, my soul, arise

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God. (Psalm 42:11 / Psalm 43:5 identical verses)

Arise, my soul, and lift your voice
For Christ by death has death destroyed

and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel (2 Timothy 1:10)

Now you are bound for endless joy

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ (Philippians 3:20) / no eye has seen, nor ear heard,nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him (1 Corinthians 2:9)

Arise, my soul, arise

Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul! (Psalm 146:1)

BRIDGE
Alleluia! Jesus lives

I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore (Revelation 1:17-18)

Alleluia! I am His

You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)

Alleluia! Jesus lives

But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. (1 Corinthians 15:20) / Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. (1 John 5:12)

Alleluia! I am His

You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. (Romans 8:9-11)

DEVOTIONAL

"For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him..." Colossians 2: 9, 10

All the attributes of Christ, as God and man, are at our disposal. All the fullness of the Godhead, whatever that marvelous term may comprehend, is ours to make us complete. He cannot endow us with the attributes of Deity; but he has done all that can be done, for he has made even his divine power and Godhead subservient to our salvation. His omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, immutability and infallibility, are all combined for our defense. Arise, believer, and behold the Lord Jesus yoking the whole of his divine Godhead to the chariot of salvation! How vast his grace, how firm his faithfulness, how unswerving his immutability, how infinite his power, how limitless his knowledge! All these are by the Lord Jesus made the pillars of the temple of salvation; and all, without diminution of their infinity, are covenanted to us as our perpetual inheritance. The fathomless love of the Savior's heart is every drop of it ours; every sinew in the arm of might, every jewel in the crown of majesty, the immensity of divine knowledge, and the sternness of divine justice, all are ours, and shall be employed for us. The whole of Christ, in his adorable character as the Son of God, is by himself made over to us most richly to enjoy. His wisdom is our direction, his knowledge our instruction, his power our protection, his justice our surety, his love our comfort, his mercy our solace, and his immutability our trust. He makes no reserve, but opens the recesses of the Mount of God and bids us dig in its mines for the hidden treasures. “All, all, all are yours,” saith he, “be ye satisfied with favor and full of the goodness of the Lord.” Oh! how sweet thus to behold Jesus, and to call upon him with the certain confidence that in seeking the interposition of his love or power, we are but asking for that which he has already faithfully promised. -Charles Spurgeon