Name: This Is My Father's World
Channel: Lyrics: Maltbie Davenport Babcock, 1901; Music: “T
Description: "This Is My Father's World" is a song by Greg Hansen.

This Is My Father's World

Greg Hansen

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Greg Hansen

Welcome, and thank you for coming. My hope and prayer is that God will bless you as you listen to the music that I have recorded and want to share with you. Som

My first encounter with the keyboard was back in 1954, and thanks to the support of my loving parents (who funded my piano lessons for many years, and who somehow managed to weather the "storms" that blew in while I was practicing,) the expertise of my two piano instructors, Helen Fackiner (classical) and Richard Powell (jazz), the encouragement of friends, relatives, and fellow musicians, I have come a long way. Most of all, I am thankful to God for His lovingkindness and mercy, which is new every morning! The tunes you will find here consist of a mixture of traditional Christian hymns and original songs which I composed (with much help from above.) I recorded this collection of songs in order to glorify God and to edify the listener. I currently live in Southern California, with my loving wife Anne and two wonderful children, Holly Nicole and Paul Richard. My eternal habitation will be heaven, since by the grace of God, I was born again on August 16, 1968. I have strayed from the Way from time to time, but He has always been faithful to His promise to never leave nor forsake me. Without His grace, I would be doomed! But because of His grace to me, I am looking forward to a glorious eternal future, and am enjoying the abundant life that Jesus promised here and now. By the grace of God, He lives in me. Jesus did everything on the cross necessary to give me a right relationship to God and to Himself, and I can do nothing to make myself more loved by God than I am right now. My goal? To get to know Jesus Christ better and better every day. I am looking forward with great anticipation to the rapture of the Church, which I am hoping will be very, very, very soon! Ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart, and He will! Then you too will know for a fact where you will spend eternity! Praying a prayer similar to this one, meant from the heart, is all you need to do to be born again, to pass from death into life, and to change your citizenship from the kingdom of darkness to a citizenship in the Kingdom of Light: "God, I realize I need a Savior. I confess that I have sinned and I know that my sin will keep me out of heaven. I realize there is not one single thing I can do to earn my way into Your heaven. Right now I am placing all, 100 percent of my trust, in Christ’s death on the cross and resurrection from the dead as payment for my sin. I now accept you as my Lord and Savior, and I commit my life to you. Thank you for forgiving me and giving me your Holy Spirit." If you prayed this prayer, record today's date and rest in the assurance of spending eternity with God. Please e-mail me, also, if you have prayed this prayer, so that I can rejoice along with the angels of heaven that your name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life!

Song Info

Genre

Pop • Christian Pop

Charts

Peak #280

Peak in subgenre #39

Author

Lyrics: Maltbie Davenport Babcock, 1901; Music: “T

Rights

public domain

Uploaded

November 18, 2003

Track Files

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MP3 4.1 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00

Story behind the song

"The earth is the Lord's and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it." (Psalm 24:1) This verse has a very comforting message...God is in control. For those who by His grace have been saved from their sins, and have put their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, it is not only comforting, but cause for rejoicing as well, for as the Lord tells us through the Apostle Paul, "... we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." (Romans 8:28) In verse 31, he goes on to say, "What then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?" I am so happy that "this is my Father's world!"

Lyrics

This is my Father’s world, and to my listening ears 
All nature sings, and round me rings the music of the spheres. 
This is my Father’s world: I rest me in the thought 
Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas; 
His hand the wonders wrought. 

This is my Father’s world, the birds their carols raise, 
The morning light, the lily white, declare their Maker’s praise. 
This is my Father’s world: He shines in all that’s fair; 
In the rustling grass I hear Him pass; 
He speaks to me everywhere. 

This is my Father’s world. O let me ne’er forget 
That though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the ruler yet. 
This is my Father’s world: why should my heart be sad? 
The Lord is King; let the heavens ring! 
God reigns; let the earth be glad! 

This is my Father’s world, dreaming, I see His face. 
I ope my eyes, and in glad surprise cry, “The Lord is in this place.” 
This is my Father’s world, from the shining courts above, 
The Beloved One, His Only Son, 
Came—a pledge of deathless love. 

This is my Father’s world, should my heart be ever sad? 
The lord is King—let the heavens ring. God reigns—let the earth be glad. 
This is my Father’s world. Now closer to Heaven bound, 
For dear to God is the earth Christ trod. 
No place but is holy ground. 

This is my Father’s world. I walk a desert lone. 
In a bush ablaze to my wondering gaze God makes His glory known. 
This is my Father’s world, a wanderer I may roam 
Whate’er my lot, it matters not, 
My heart is still at home.