Touch Jesus Songs - A House For My Lord

I Will Build A House For My Lord

I will build a house for my Lord,
Where we both can live in one accord.
Walls of many colors so fair
Embrace a firm foundation of prayer.

I will keep the door with great care.
No evil, unclean thing can enter there.
The talents and the gifts that He gave
Will make the rafters ring with sweet praise.

Chorus:
I will build a house for my Lord,
Where we both can live in one accord.
It will be a house built on prayer.
Friends and enemies, too, are welcome there.

They can bring their problems and needs,
And we will lay them down at Jesus' feet.
Floors of purest gold bright and clear,
Shine forth with all the glory of His care.

Jesus wants this house to be called
A house of prayer for all great and small.
He has given me a special key,
But, opening the door is left to me.

Our prayers are like a perfume in the air,
That God can breathe when we say a prayer.
We can make His house smell so good
With a house of prayer in every neighborhood.

Words and Music by Marjorie Reece
(c) 1986 by TJM

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"...for my house
shall be called a
house of prayer
for all people."
Isaiah 56:7
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"....know ye not that your
body is the temple of the
Holy Ghost which is in you,
which ye have of God, and
ye are not your own? For
ye are bought with a price:
therefore glorify God in
your body , and in your
spirit, which are God's.
I Cor. 6:19-20
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