Nehemiah 12:43. “Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.”
O HAPPY DAY. Two companies of singers loudly singing God’s praise One going each direction on the wall recently raised Ezra with one group, Nehemiah with the other The sound of praise hymns getting louder and louder Until they finally all arrived at the house of God And the sound of singing beyond the city walls was heard A day of recovery was a day to rejoice To the glory of God, they sang with one voice.
There is something very special that is hard to explain When God’s people rejoice together at the sound of God’s name
Their hearts need expression and so when joined together in song Each one singing in praise to God, yet all together as one It is affecting to the hearers and singers alike Joy comes when the spirits are lifted and faces are bright At the thought of God’s grace, marvelous as it is We experience its blessing and to our God we give praise.
It is a happy day of rejoicing when God’s people all share A time of fellowship on the journey with those who care That the Lord has preserved us in ways beyond our thought And we lift our voice to praise God for what He has wrought O happy day of rejoicing as when in God’s house we sing Our thoughts of the Savior and what His cross-death did bring To us who were lost but now as children of the King United in song, worship and praise as to the cross we cling.
It will be a happy day when the saints of God will as one rise To meet our Lord at His coming at the great gathering in the sky And perhaps a song will be started as we rejoice in our redemption And we think of all it cost Him when He bled for our salvation It will be a happy day when all the saints in heaven sing Unto Him who loved and washed us in His blood to make us clean And fit us for the glory of living in the house of God forever Our songs of praise unite us now, and there nothing can us sever.
“Father, today we are going to worship and praise Thee in our remembrance of Christ. Fill Thy servant with suitable thoughts to express, songs of praise to sing and useful words of exhortation and salvation to pass on. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.”