56 Sermon Illustrations on Adoration

You’re the sole desire of my heart.

You’re the sole desire of my heart.

Still more ev’ry passing day,

As things of earth just fade away,

I come to know the joy of loving You.

You’re the sole desire of my heart.

You’re the sole desire of my heart.

You’re the sole desire of my heart.

Lord speak to me, I’m standing still,

I come to hear, reveal Your will,

I’ll listen to Your voice and then obey.

You’re the sole desire of my heart.

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names. — Psalm 147:3. 4.

We must read these two verses without a break and feel the force of the contrast. From stars to sighs is a deep descent! From worlds to wounds is a distance which only infinite compassion can bridge. Yet He who acts a surgeon’s part with wounded hearts marshals the heavenly host and reads the muster-roll of the suns and their majestic systems. 0 Lord, it is good to praise Thee as ruling the stars, but it is pleasant to adore Thee as healing the broken in heart. — C. H. Spurgeon.

My Father cares for all things, the great things and the small:

There’s not a single sparrow unnoticed in its fall.

He shapes, and guides and governs things near, and those afar;

The pebble that I tread on, and the most distant star. — M. I. Reich.

1. Who can cheer the heart like Jesus,

By His presence all divine?

True and tender, pure and precious,

O how blest to call Him mine!

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All that thrills my soul is Jesus,

He is more than life to me;

And the fairest of ten thousand

In my blessed Lord I see.

2. Love of Christ so freely given,

Grace of God beyond degree,

Mercy higher than the heaven,

Deeper than the deepest sea!

3. Ev’ry need His hand supplying–

Ev’ry good in Him I see;

On His strength divine relying–

He is all in all to me.

4. By the crystal flowing river

With the ransomed I will sing,

And forever and forever

Praise and glorify the King.