For Ever with the Lord
"And so shall we ever be with the Lord." - I Thee 4:17
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VERSE 1
For ever with the Lord!
Amen, so let it be!
Life from the dead is in that word;
'Tis immortality.
Here in the body pent,
Absent from Him I roam;
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent
A day's march nearer home.
VERSE 2
My Father's house on high,
Home of my soul, how near
At times to faith's foreseeing eye
Thy golden gates appear!
My thirsty spirit faints
To reach the land I love,
To bright inheritance of saints
Jerusalem above.
VERSE 3
For ever with the Lord!
Father, if 'tis Thy will,
The promise of that faithful word,
E'en here to me fulfil.
Be Thou at my right hand,
Then can I never fail;
Uphold Thou me, so shall I stand,
Fight, and I must prevail.
VERSE 4
So when my latest breath
Shall rend the veil in twain,
By death I shall escape from death,
And life eternal gain.
Knowing as I am known,
How shall I love that word!
And oft repeat before the throne,
For ever with the Lord!
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The Redeemed Hymnal - 4th Edition
The hymn book of the The Redeemed Christian Church of God
