Then go to a world that is dying. In the light of His glory and grace. In the light of His glory and grace." Thank your Jesus. U.S.A. Why settle for silver when you're meant for gold? Verse 2 Through death into life everlasting He passed, and we follow Him there Over us sin no more hath dominion For more than conqu’rors we are. There is something powerful in our lives of hiddenness where we seek the face of Jesus above all else. Give it a rest. O soul, are you weary and troubled? Marianne Kim - Lorenz Corporation. by Jennifer A. Miskov, Ph.D. based off of Walking on Water: Experiencing a Life of Miracles, Courageous Faith and Union with God. It is “all for all” by a law as unvarying as any law that governs the material universe. And Satan knows well the power of concentration, if a soul is likely to get under the sway of the inspiration, “this one thing I do,” he will turn all his energies to bring in side-interests that will shatter the gathering intensity. She began engaging in this call while in London by going out into the streets in the late hours of the night by herself to reach and rescue prostitutes off of the streets. Then dare to have it out with God—and after all, that is the shortest way. And between them we run the risk of drifting about, the “good” hiding the “best” even more effectually than it could be hidden by downright frivolity with its smothered heart-ache at its own emptiness. Lemmel wrote more than 500 hymns, but “Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus” is the one that has continued to find its way into modern hymnals—and into human hearts. Turn your eyes upon Jesus Look full in his wonderful face And the things of earth Will grow strangely dim In the light of his glory and grace His word shall not fail you, He promised Believe Him and all will be well Then go to a world that is dying His perfect salvation to tell Thousands of years ago, a man aged but with sight undimmed and strength undiminished climbed up a mountain and saw God. Look full in His wonderful face. May it bless you in the same way! I asked and true to His promise, I received. Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus (Hymns of the Savior for Piano Solo) arr. Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face, And the things of earth will grow strangely dim, In the light of His glory and grace. Verse 3 His word shall not fail you He promised 1. I asked for His peace that surpasses all understanding. Look full in His wonderful face. I love the words of this hymn... "Turn your eyes upon Jesus. Look full in His wonderful face. Through death into life everlasting He passed, and we follow Him there; O’er us sin no more hath dominion For more than conqu’rors we are! Suddenly, from a dark corner of purple brown stems and tawny moss, there shone out a great golden star. So beautiful and timely. Look at the window bars, and the beyond is only a shadow; look through at the distance, and it is the bars that turn into ghosts. Oh turn your eyes upon Jesus. For “He is worthy” to have all there is to be had in the heart that He has died to win.". © Jennifer A. Miskov 2019. More Videos (Menu) About this video: Comments (New) Share/Contact Info Through death into life everlasting He passed, and we follow Him there; Over us sin no more hath dominion For more than conqu'rors we are! The truth is that we can see Jesus … As Peter found out, you can’t “turn your eyes upon Jesus” and simultaneously watch the wind and waves. Marianne Kim blends her classical and jazz styles in these sensitive arrangements of favorite hymns. 2. “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus” has become a familiar hymn, that has been widely used in Christian circles to challenge believers musically, with the necessity of making Christ the paramount priority in their lives, and then living each day with eternity’s values in view. Dare to face the fact that unfocussed good and useful as it may seem, it will prove to have failed of its purpose. Even if just hearing the song title gets you singing along with the refrain, take a few minutes today to read through all the lyrics. 3. So, several years back I decided to research its origin to learn more. Dare to lay bare your whole life and being before Him, and ask Him to show you whether or not all is focussed on Christ and His glory. 3. God is calling us back to focus upon His face. To Him be the glory forever and ever Amen! Someone started singing the chorus of this song at the end of our prayer meeting tonight and I was so happy and blessed to hear it. *The word “attrait” used at the end of this passage was the French word used for “attraction,” which Lilias regularly used in her writings. It is a beloved hymn of the sick, the stressed, the bereaved and all that need rest from our stress-filled life on earth. Pause to See Jesus; Day by Day: Three Things to Pray She had laid her life down for that one purpose. A very gifted vocalist, and daughter of a Methodist preacher, Lemmel began traveling to churches and singing. I asked for peace of heart and mind. “Focussed: A Story and a Song” by Lilias Trotter. The song has been included in most evangelical hymnals since the words were first written by Helen Howarth Lemmel in 1918 and has been translated into many languages around the world. Not by looking at the things to be dropped, but by looking at the one point that is to be brought out. Narrow as Christ’s life was narrow, this is our aim; narrow as regards self-seeking, broad as the love of God to all around. Thro' death into life everlasting, He passed, and we follow Him there; O’er us sin no more hath dominion-- For more than conqu’rors we are! Look full in His wonderful face. Lilias Trotter (1853–1928) originally from London, England was an anointed artist who had a potential career path direction if she chose to take it. VERSE 2 Turn your eyes to the hillside Where justice and mercy embraced There the Son of God gave His life for us And our measureless debt was erased. Please click for more Christian acappella hymns:http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2018498757FD7A76 Look full in His wonderful face. Turn full your soul’s vision to Jesus, and look and look at Him, and a strange dimness will come over all that is apart from Him, and the Divine “attrait” by which God’s saints are made, even in this 20th century, will lay hold of you. I remember years ago when I was going through a really rough time, I would just sing the chorus over and over and over, and it helped me so much. “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus” by Helen Lemmel. In the light of His glory and grace. If Lilias Trotter’s one “yes” to surrender all to Jesus and live forty years in the hiddenness of the desert had no other impact other than inspiring a song that is still drawing people to focus their full attention upon the face of Jesus over one hundred years later, I’d say it was worth it. The working of any lens—microscope, telescope, camera—will show you this. This article is based off of chapters 4 The Art of Letting Go and Chapter 6 Focus in Jennifer A. Miskov, Walking on Water: Experiencing a Life of Miracles, Courageous Faith and Union with God. Or, rather, give yourself a rest from the things that stir up anxious thoughts. 2. [Chorus] His word shall not fail you He promised; Where do they swing back when the pressure is off during the day? His Word shall not fail you--He promised; Believe Him, and all will be well: Then go to a world that is dying, His perfect salvation to tell! CHORUS Jesus, to You we lift our eyes Jesus, our glory and our prize And the things of earth will grow strangely dim, In the light of His glory and grace." Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus This page provides access to the PDF files of outlines for sermons in this expository series on Mark titled, Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus. His Word shall not fail you--He promised; Turn your soul’s vision to Jesus, and look and look at Him, and a strange dimness will come over all that is apart from Him. About Focusing Your Eyes on Jesus. All rights reserved. In Him is found true, sweet life abundant! Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus, a devotional from The Worship Initiative. Source: Hymns of Promise: a large print songbook #62 And the things of earth will grow strangely dim. Turn your eyes upon Jesus. Believe Him and all will be well. No light in the darkness you see? There’s light for a look at the Savior, And life more abundant and free! Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face, And the things of earth will grow strangely dim, In the light of His glory and grace. Study the matter and you will see that it means two things—gathering in all that can be gathered, and letting the rest drop. She also felt a calling to share Jesus with the unreached people groups in Algeria in Northern Africa. In the light of His glory and grace. The sun was climbing behind a steep cliff in the east, and its light was flooding nearer and nearer and then making pools among the trees. So, turn away from your circumstances. Eph 1:18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus; Are you glad to see Jesus? "The Heavenly Vision", also known as "Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus" (the first line of its chorus), is a hymn written by Helen Howarth Lemmel. 2. Cast your cares upon Jesus. Brought to you by Shane & Shane. Where do our thoughts settle when consciousness comes back in the morning? Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face, And the things of earth will grow strangely dim, In the light of His glory and grace. Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face, And the things of earth will grow strangely dim, In the light of His glory and grace. And they lie all around, these interests. His Word shall not fail you, He promised. And the things of earth will grow strangely dim. How do we bring things to a focus in the world of optics? While there, she wrote the poem that later inspired the song “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus.” Here is the original poem without anything changed to preserve the authority of this source. 3 His Word shall not fail you, He promised; Believe Him and all will be well; Then go to a world that is dying, His perfect salvation to tell! Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face, And the things of earth will grow strangely dim, In the light of His glory and grace. The chorus is widely known, and has become a standard reprinted in many hymnals. Helen Lemmel wrote the classic hymn “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus” more than 100 years ago, but its timeless truths still touch our souls today. Lemmel was born in England, and on her 12th birthday, her family migrated to America. Not deterred, she decided to still follow the call of God to Africa and go by herself. Anaheim, California. And the things of earth will grow strangely dim. We see the principle shadowed in the trend of science; the telephone and the wireless in the realm of sound, the use of radium and the ultra violet rays in the realm of light. Will it not make life narrow, this focusing? '. Turn your eyes upon Jesus. It is easy to find out whether our lives are focused, and if so, where the focus lies. 2. 2) Turn away from your circumstances. As we decide to turn our eyes upon Jesus today, looking full into His wonderful face, may the things of this world and all that troubles us, grow faintly dim in the light of His glory and grace. 1. His perfect salvation to tell. You can also bookmark/save this song arrangement to your personal freeldssheetmusic bookmark save list . Today, she is leading us in worship with the classic words of ‘Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus’ with The Belonging Co. Just listen as she belts out these words of love and praise to our King. And the things of earth will grow strangely dim. This is where everything changes. Turn you eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face; And the things of earth will grow strangely dim In the light of His glory and grace. In every branch of learning and workmanship the tendency of these days is to specialize—to take up one point and follow it to the uttermost. Learn the songs, learn your instrument, and learn the Word at The Worship Initiative, the premier learning destination for worship leaders and their teams. Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face, And the things of earth will grow strangely dim, In the light of His glory and grace. I did. "Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His wonderful face. Oh turn your eyes upon Jesus. For if the Sun of Righteousness has risen upon our hearts, there is an ocean of grace and love and power lying all around us, an ocean to which all earthly light is but a drop, and it is ready to transfigure us, as the sunshine transfigured the dandelion, and on the same condition—that we stand full face to God. Helen Howarth Lemmel. All these work by gathering into focus currents and waves that, dispersed, cannot serve us. Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus was originally penned in 1918 by Helen Howarth Lemmel. What does this focussing mean? Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus Lyrics. Turn your eyes upon Jesus Look full in His wonderful face And the things of earth will grow strangely dim In the light of His glory and grace. As she responded to this call, no mission agencies would send her there or support her mission. No light in the darkness you see? There is a also beautiful documentary made about her life highlighting this aspect of her life called Making Beautiful Things . It was in a little wood in early morning. I recently spent a couple of days at a spa getaway just to be by myself and think things through. '... fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Turn your eyes upon Jesus. https://www.hymnal.net/Hymns/Hymnal/svg/e0645_p.svg, https://www.hymnal.net/Hymns/Hymnal/svg/e0645_g.svg, Turn to your spirit, where the Spirit of Jesus is. Never has it been so easy to live in half a dozen good harmless worlds at once—art, music, social science, games, motoring, the following of some profession, and so on. In a sense, it will—just as the mountain path grows narrower, for it matters more and more, the higher we go, where we set our feet—but there is always, as it narrows, a wider and wider outlook and purer, clearer air. O soul, are you weary and troubled? Responding to this calling would come at a great cost as it would require her to lay down her budding career as an artist. The poem “Focussed” and the life of Lilias Trotter inspired Helen Lemmel to pen one of the most anointed hymns in 1922 that is still prevalent in our day. Every time. Thank you Jesus for being my help in these trying times. “Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face, And the things of earth will grow strangely dim, In the light of His glory and grace.” There is a beautiful documentary made about her life highlighting this aspect of her life you can see the trailer for below. C C7 F Fm Then go to a world that is dying, C G C His perfect salvation to tell [Chorus] C G Am C Turn you eyes upon Je-sus, F Dm G7 Look full in His wonderful face; C C7 F Fm And the things of earth will grow strangely dim C G C In the light of His glory and grace. Is there anything to fear in that? She lived among the nationals in the hiddenness of the desert there for forty years. And in the narrowing and focussing, the channel will be prepared for God’s power—like the stream hemmed between the rockbeds, that wells up in a spring—like the burning glass that gathers the rays into an intensity that will kindle fire. Thro' death into life everlasting, He passed, and we follow Him there; O’er us sin no more hath dominion--For more than conqu’rors we are! The song ‘Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus’ was written in 1918 by Helen Lemmel. His Word shall not fail you, He promised. All aims, all ambitions, all desires, all pursuits—shall we dare to drop them if they cannot be gathered sharply and clearly into the focus of “this one thing I do”? Does this test not give the clue? Stop fixating on your problems or the day’s newscast. I am blessed this morning to listen to this hymn. House of Prayer, Prayer, Revival, 1857 Revival, Businessman's revival, New York. There, in the desert, Trotter knew what it was like to be stripped from every distraction to focus upon the face of Jesus. My husband passed away almost 3 years ago and I had yet to move into acceptance. While she loved art, she also felt a calling from God to reach the lost. There’s light for a look at the Savior, And life more abundant and free! Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in his wonderful face; and the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of his glory and grace. “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus” by Helen Lemmel. Famous art critics saw her early work and were even willing to invest in her training because of the huge potential they saw in her as an artist. I wondered what kind of song has this kind of anointing. It was just a dandelion, and half withered—but it was full face to the sun, and had caught into its heart all the glory it could hold, and was shining so radiantly that the dew that lay on it still made a perfect aureole round its head. Turn your eyes upon Jesus Look full in His wonderful face And the things of the earth will grow strangely dim In the light of His glory and grace. Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus is a hymn that has soothed the heart of many troubled souls since it came to the attention of the public. You have to choose which you will fix your gaze upon and let the other go. No light in the darkness to see There's a light for a look at the Savior And life more abundant and free His words shall not fail you, He promised Believe Him and all will be well Then go to a world that is dying His perfect salvation to tell Turn your eyes upon Jesus Look full in His wonderful face And the things of Earth will grow strangely dim In the light of His glory and grace Turn your eyes upon Jesus Look full … The lens of your own eye, in the room where you are sitting, as clearly as any other. It is worth while to let God see what He can do with these lives of ours, when “to live is Christ.”. Are we ready for a cleavage to be wrought through the whole range of our lives, like the division long ago at the taking of Jericho, the division between things that could be passed through the fire of consecration into “the treasury of the Lord,” and the things that, unable to “bide the fire,” must be destroyed? And it seemed to talk, standing there—to talk about the possibility of making the very best of these lives of ours. I found that the song was written by Helen H. Lemmel in 1922 and inspired by the life of missionary Lilias Trotter and based off of a poem she had written entitled “Focussed: A Story and a Song.” I had never heard of this missionary before, so I began to research her story and was inspired by what I discovered. Turn, turn your eyes upon Jesus Look full, look full in His wonderful face And the things of earth will grow strangely dim When you turn, turn your eyes upon Him [Verse 2] It was inspired by a tract entitled Focused, written by the missionary Isabella Lilias Trotter. Close Your Eyes and SEE Jesus! "Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus" is a classic hymn that holds out a promise of Christ's help for troubled souls. 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