Oh, The Glory of His Presence

Oh The Glory of His Presence

Lyrics by Steven Fry

Oh the glory
of Your presence
We Your temple
give You reverence
So arise to Your rest
and be blessed by our praise
as we glory in Your embrace
as Your presence now fills this place

When I awoke last Friday morning the words Arise came to my mind. I knew there were some other words but could not bring them together. My husband told me it was a song that he used to sing when leading worship songs. I wrote the words down but when I looked for them tonight I could not find them so I googled until I found them. In searching some more I found that the writer used II Chronicles 6:41 to back up "arise to your rest" which is taken from Solomon's prayer. 40 "Now, my God, I pray, let Your eyes open and let Your ears be attentive to the prayer made in this place. 41 "Now, therefore, Arise, O Lord God, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength. Let Your priests, O Lord God be clothed with salvation, And let Your saints rejoice in goodness." See (I Chron. 28:2) Some of this I took from an email Nancy Fry wrote after being questioned about some of the wording. "She felt we are encouraged to "enter into God's rest but that as we praise the Lord, He is blessed by that praise. He inhabits that praise; and maybe it's like when we get so excited we can't keep still maybe He just can't keep still anymore either. We ask Him to arise and join us in celebration of that place of rest that He is already in and we are entering into." Quotes by Nancy Fry.

The word, Arise, I do believe was from God, but whether this was just for me or someone else I don't know, but I felt impressed to put all of this here. My prayer is that we can all "arise to God's rest and feel His embrace and His presence especially now with so much uncertainty that is surrounding us. I do feel that I need to get closer to the Father and lift up our "land of the free" to Him.