Songs from Scripture

Open (This is the Day)

Open my lips
And my mouth will declare Your praise
Open my eyes
May I look to You this day
Open my ears
Let me hear Your unfailing love
Open my mind
O to know You more, my God

This is the day that the Lord has made
So come what may, I will walk unafraid
This is the day that I have been given
To follow You, Lord
With my heart wide open

Open my eyes
To the wonders of Your Word
Open my arms
To a broken and dying world
Open the door
For the Gospel of Christ
Open my life
as a living sacrifice

Open my heart (2x)
Set it on fire with love for You, my God
(REPEAT)

©2011 Abe & Liza Philip, CCLI# 6185361

Open my lips
And my mouth will declare Your praise Open my lips, Lord, and my mouth will declare your praise. (Psalm 51:15)

Open my eyes
May I look to You this day The eyes of all look to you... (Psalm 145:15)

Open my ears
Let me hear of Your great love May your unfailing love be with us, Lord, even as we put our hope in you. (Psalm 33:22)

Open my mind
O to know You more, my God And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:17-19)

This is the day that the Lord has made This is the day which the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. (Psalm 118:24)

So come what may, I will walk unafraid He guided them safely, so they were unafraid... (Psalm 78:53)

This is the day that I have been given From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. (Acts 17:26)

To follow You, Lord Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. (Matthew 16:24)

With my heart wide open The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message. (Acts 16:14)

Open my eyes
To the wonders of Your Word Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law. (Psalm 119:18)

Open my arms
To a broken and dying world “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,... (Matthew 25:31-46)

Open the door
For the Gospel of Christ And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. (Colossians 4:3)

Open my life as a living sacrifice Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. (Romans 12:1)

Open my heart (2x)
Set it on fire with love for You, my God Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. (Song of Songs 8:6)

©2011 Abe & Liza Philip, CCLI# 6185361

Grant Your Mercy Once Again

We like sheep have gone astray
To follow other gods
We’ve turned aside
A contrite and broken heart, O God
You will not despise

We repent
And we humbly confess
That we have sinned against You.

God Almighty and Most Merciful
Father, cleanse us from our sins
God Almighty and Most Merciful
Grant your mercy once again (2x)

We have not loved You
With all our heart
Nor have we loved our neighbors
As ourselves
For the sake of Jesus Christ, Your Son
Complete in us what You’ve begun.

©2004 Abe and Liza Philip, CCLI# 4886789

We like sheep have gone astray We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way… (Isaiah 53:6a)

To follow other gods we’ve turned aside Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them. (Deuteronomy 28:14)

A contrite and broken heart, O God
You will not despise …a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. (Psalm 51:17b)

We repent and we humbly confess
that we have sinned against You. If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (John 1:8-9)

God Almighty and Most Merciful
Father, cleanse us from our sins How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God! (Hebrews 9:14)

God Almighty and Most Merciful
Grant your mercy once again (2x) Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are--yet was without sin. Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. (Hebrews 4:14-16)

We have not loved You with all our heart
Nor have we loved our neighbors as ourselves Jesus replied: " `Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: `Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." (Matthew 22:37-40)

For the sake of Jesus Christ, Your Son
Complete in us what You’ve begun. …He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. (Philiipians 1:6b)

©2004 Abe and Liza Philip, CCLI# 4886789

Jesus Ever Prays For Me

You have searched me and You know me
When I sit and when I rise
God All Knowing, there is nothing
That is hidden from Your eyes

Still You called me and You love me
Not for any good in me
I am crowned with love and mercy
You were crowned with thorns for me

O the wonder, O the comfort
That my Savior pleads for me
Though I falter, He is faithful
Jesus ever prays for me (2x)

From the heights of highest heaven
To a broken world You came
To be crucified in anguish
For the glory of Your Name

Now all guilt and condemnation
Must before my Savior flee
For He cried out, “It is finished!”
And His blood will speak for me

When my faith is weak
When I cannot speak
Jesus ever prays for me
O the joy it brings
That in everything
Jesus ever prays for me

© 2013 Abe & Liza Philip, CCLI# 6571542

You have searched me and You know me
When I sit and when I rise You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. (Psalm 139:1-2)

God All Knowing, there is nothing
That is hidden from Your eyes Whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything" (1 John 3:20)

Still You called me God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. (1 Corinthians 1:9)

and You love me Jesus Christ…who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood (Revelation 1:5)

Not for any good in me But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy (Titus 3:4-6)

I am crowned with love and mercy In his love and mercy he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old. (Isaiah 63:9)

You were crowned with thorns for me They put a purple robe on him, then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on him. (Mark 15:17)

O the wonder, O the comfort Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction (2 Corinthians 1:3-5)

That my Savior pleads for me Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. (Romans 8:34)

Though I falter James 3:2 We all stumble in many ways (James 3:2)

He is faithful If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9)

Jesus ever prays for me (2x) My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. (1 John 2:1) / Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them. (Hebrews 7:25)

From the heights of highest heaven
To a broken world You came No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven (John 3:13) / For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me (John 6:38)

To be crucified in anguish …his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being and his form marred beyond human likeness (Isaiah 52:14)

For the glory of Your Name For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:2) / he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, (Philippians 2:8-10)

Now all guilt I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, 'I will confess my transgressions to the LORD.' And you forgave the guilt of my sin (Psalm 32:5)

and condemnation Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1)

Must before my Savior flee Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 1:29)

For He cried out, “It is finished!” When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. (John 19:30)

And His blood will speak for me …to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel. (Hebrews 12:24)

When my faith is weak
When I cannot speak
Jesus ever prays for me In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. (Romans 8:26) / But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. (2 Corinthians 12:9)


O the joy it brings
That in everything
Jesus ever prays for me And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28) / May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:13)

© 2013 Abe & Liza Philip, CCLI# 6571542