As Long As You're There Lord

  

As long as You’re there, Lord, as long as You’re there

My heart is resting, yet any challenge I’d dare

I’d leap a wall as high as the sky

Or plunge the depths when I know You are nigh.

As long as You’re there Lord ,that’s where I will be

I’d follow You across the wildest sea

I’d walk those waves if You hold my hand

Just point the way, Lord, I’m at Your command.

You took the burden I laid at Your feet

You gave Your life there on Calvary’s tree

You chose me Lord, when I stood condemned

You are my Saviour, my Lord, and my friend.

As long as I’m here, Lord, my love is all Yours

I’ll go where You lead if You open the doors

The whys and the wherefores of life may be strange

But with You as my Leader I can ride any range.

Wyn Barratt April 2013.

Are You Sleepless?

Are you sleepless, are you weary

Worn with days of constant care

God is watching, He is near you;

Close your eyes and feel Him there.

There is never just a moment

That He’d ever glance away

You’re His child, oh how He loves You!

His for ever and a day.

He will watch you when you’re sleeping,

When the tears run down your face

When your lonely vigil keeping

He is with you in that place.

So take  heart dearly beloved

Life will not always be so

He prepares a greener valley

And through that you both will go.

Wyn Barratt. April 2013.

Holding You, Holding ME

 

When can I hold You and look in Your eyes?

When You are holding me.

I look around in joyful surprise

At the wonderful things I can see.

Your world astounds me as Your love surrounds me

How can I be depressed?

Grace is the ocean that sets life in motion

When in Your love I am dressed.

A hope and a future, Your promise is true

You cannot tell a lie

Whatever the Word says on that we can stand

Then with God we can see eye to eye.

Trials and troubles are the rocks we can climb

For a better view now of You

Stumbles and tumbles open up wounds

For a look at what’s inside us too.

So change me, rearrange me until I can see

That my ‘old man’ is buried and gone

Keep my heart soft and tender until my life’s ended

And we’re holding each other as one.

Wyn Barratt April 2013.

There's A New Day Dawning.

There’s a new day dawning when I hope I won’t be here

I’ll be standing at the pearly gates with a smile and not a tear

I’ll look down through a cloudy sky at those I left behind

But you know that I am happy and I know that you won’t mind.

I will still be praying for all my friends down there

And the Father may be saying, ‘They know that you still care’.

So if one day you notice that I am not around

You’ll remember I’m not lying in a hole down in the ground.

I may not leave the Saviour’s side for many many days

But then Saint Paul you just can’t hide. I’ll find you in that maze

I want to ask what you thought, and look into your head

And when I have the answers I’ll find someone else instead.

I don’t know who may be next that I will want to meet

Like Abraham or Moses who accepted no defeat

King David’s Psalms are dear to me and so he will be too

All this will keep me occupied while I have to wait for you.

Wyn Barratt April 2013.