I love this hymn. It is taken from Psalm 18.
I believe that praise is the first step of revival. It is the power that moves God to act.
He loves to hear the praise of His people.
1.\tO worship the King, all glorious above,
\tO gratefully sing God's power and God's love;
\tour Shield and Defender, the Ancient of Days,
\tpavilioned in splendor, and girded with praise.
2.\tO tell of God's might, O sing of God's grace,
\twhose robe is the light, whose canopy space,
\twhose chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form,
\tand dark is God's path on the wings of the storm.
3.\tThe earth with its store of wonders untold,
\tAlmighty, thy power hath founded of old;
\thath stablished it fast by a changeless decree,
\tand round it hath cast, like a mantle, the sea.
4.\tThy bountiful care, what tongue can recite?
\tIt breathes in the air, it shines in the light;
\tit streams from the hills, it descends to the plain,
\tand sweetly distills in the dew and the rain.
5.\tFrail children of dust, and feeble as frail,
\tin thee do we trust, nor find thee to fail;
\tthy mercies how tender, how firm to the end,
\tour Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend.
6In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
7Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
8There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
9He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
10And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
11He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
12At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
13The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
The Psalmist says that God did all this because his cry came into His ears. Can it be true that the cry of one man that God loves causes Him to do all this? And who is the man that God loves? what is he like?
