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Opening Song: Psalm 84 (I’m Home) by Shane & ShaneLyrics:How lovely are Your dwelling placesYour Holy Spirit here in usOh how I love to sing Your praisesOne day with You would be enoughWhen I bow down before YouI am richer than all kingsWhen I stand in Your presenceI am freeWhen I sit at Your tableI am right where I belongIn the doorway of my Father's houseI'm homeIf all this world was for the takingAnd every treasure known was mineNot one of them would ever sway meI'd choose my Savior every timeWhen I bow down before YouI am richer than all kingsWhen I stand in Your presenceI am freeWhen I sit at Your tableI am right where I belongIn the doorway of my Father's houseI'm homePassage: To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.1 How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts!2 My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.3 Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God.4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise! Selah5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.6 As they go through the Valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools.7 They go from strength to strength; each one appears before God in Zion.8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah9 Behold our shield, O God; look on the face of your anointed!10 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.12 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the one who trusts in you!(Psalm Musical Reflection: I Need Thee Every Hour (NEED) by Robert LowryReflection Notes: Each stanza of this familiar hymn was written by Annie Hawks as part of a poem. When she showed the composition to her pastor, Robert Lowry, he added the refrain and set the text to music for their congregation to enjoy. The musical lines always tend upward before falling back down, an apt parallel to the textual pleas reaching up to God. Prayer: Grant, O merciful God, that your Church, being gathered together in unity by your Holy Spirit, may show forth your power among all peoples, to the glory of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

