Wesley Wednesday: August 2, 2023

 It has been a while since I made a Wesley Wednesday post, but with the songs I have been singing during Morning Prayer, I just had to make one, today!  (Of course, the focus is on Charles Wesley this time.)  -  I am still singing my way through the new Our Great Redeemer's Praise hymnal, and I am in the section on the Lord's Supper.  It is one of the strengths of this hymnal that this section presents several Wesley hymns.  

Yesterday, I posted on Facebook the first verse of "This Eucharistic Feast."  -  For those who may have missed it, I will reprint it, as follows:

1. This Eucharistic feast our ev'ry want supplies,

and still we by His death are blest, and share His sacrifice.

By faith His flesh we eat, who here His passion show,

and God out of HIs holy seat shall all His gifts bestow.

Today's singing included the following two Wesley hymns:

Come to the Feast

1. Come to the Feast, for Christ invites

and promises to feed,

'tis here His closest love unites

the members to their Head.

'Tis here He nourishes His own

with Living Bread from heav'n,

and makes Himself to mourners known,

and shows their sins forgiv'n.

2. Still in His instituted ways

He bids us ask the pow'r,

the pard'ning or the hall'wing grace

and wait th'appointed hour.

'Tis not for us to set our God

a time His grace to give,

the benefit whene'er bestowed

we gladly should receive.

3. Who seek redemption through His love,

His love shall them redeem; He came self-emptied from above

that we might live through Him.

Expect we then the quick'ning word

who at His altar bow;

but if it be Thy pleasure, Lord,

O let us find Thee now.

And . . .

Come Holy Ghost, Thine Influence Shed

1. Come, Holy Ghost, Thine influence shed,

and realize the Sign:

Thy life infuse into the bread,

Thy pow'r into the wine.

2. Effectual let the Tokens prove,

and made by heav'nly art,

fit channels to convey Thy love

to ev'ry faithful heart.