By Your Side Lyrics - Song of Praise and Worship

Intro: G - G/F - G/Em - G/F 2 x

Verse 1
G
Oh dear God we ask for your favor
                                                C    Em          D       C
Come and sweep through this place, Oh we desire You
G
I just want to be with you be where You are
                                            C
Dwell in Your presence oh God
Em                D             C
Oh I want to walk with You.

Chorus:
       G         D           C
And I will climb this mountain
        Em        D         C
And I’ll step off the shore.
        G          D           Em
And I have chosen to follow
      D               C                G     (intro)
To be by Your side forevermore.

Verse 2
G  
Tell me what You want me to do Lord God
                                               C
Tell me what You want for my life.
         Em          D           C
It’s Yours oh God it’s Yours.
G                                                                          C
Do Your will have Your way be Lord God in this place
Em                     D            C
Oh I want Your will to be done

(Repeat all, Chorus 2 x, verse 2, Chorus 2 x, then Intro)

67.3 God Forgives All Sins

(Acts 13:38-39)

All of you, my fellow Israelites, are to know for sure that it is through Jesus that the message about forgiveness of sins is preached to you; you are to know that everyone who believes in him is set free from all the sins from which the Law of Moses could not set you free.

67.2 The Prodigal Son

(Luke 15:11-24)

Jesus went on to say, "There was once a man who had two sons. The younger one said to him, "Father, give me my share of the property now.' So the man divided his property between his two sons.  After a few days the younger son sold his part of the property and left home with the money.  He went to a country far away, where he wasted his money in reckless living.  He spent everything he had. Then a severe famine spread over that country, and he was left without a thing.  So he went to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him out to his farm to take care of the pigs.  He wished he could fill himself with the bean pods the pigs ate, but no one gave him anything to eat.  At last he came to his senses and said, 'All my father's hired workers have more that they can eat, and here I am about to starve!  I will get up and go to my father and say,"Father, I have sinned against God and against you.  I am no longer fit to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired workers."' So he got up and started back to his father.

He was still a long way from home when his father saw him; his heart was filled with pity,and he ran, threw his arms around his son, and kissed him. 'Father, the son said, 'I have sinned against God and against you. I am no longer fit to be called your son.' But the father called to his servants."Hurry!" he said."Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and shoes on his feet. Then go and get the prize calf and kill it, and let us celebrate with a feast! For this son of mine was dead, but now he is alive; he was lost, but now he has been found.' And so the feasting began.

67.1 Against Self-Righteousness

(Luke 18:9-14)

Jesus also told this parable to people who were sure of their own goodness and despised everybody else. "Once there were two men who went up to the Temple to pray: one was a Pharisee, the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood apart by himself and prayed, "I thank you, God, that I am not greedy, dishonest, or an adulterer, like everybody else. I thank you that I am not like that tax collector over there. I fast two days a week, and I give you one tenth of all my income."  But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his face to heaven, but beat on his breast and said, 'God, have pity on me, a sinner!' I tell you," said Jesus,"the tax collector, and not the Pharisee, was in right with God when he went home. For everyone who makes himself great will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be made great."

66.4 A Call To Praise And Obedience

(Psalm 95)

Come.let us praise the Lord!
Let us sing for joy to God, who protect us!
Let us come before him with thanksgiving and sing joyful songs of praise.
For the Lord is a mighty God'
a mighty king over all the gods.
He rules over the whole earth'
from the deepest caves to the highest hills.
He rules over the sea, which he made;
the land also, which he himself formed.

Come, let us bow down and worship him;
let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!
He is our God;we are the people he cares for,
the flock for which he provides.

Listen today to what he says:
"Don't be stubborn, as your ancestors were at Meribab'
as they were that day in the desert at Massah.
There they put me to the test and tried me,
although they had seen what I did for them.
For forty years I was disgusted with those people.
I said, 'How disloyal they are!
They refuse to obey my commands.'
I was angry and made a solemn promise:
'You will never enter the land where I would have given you rest.'"