Lifting Souls to Higher Ground

By Saundra L. Washington D.D.

We are indeed lifted to higher ground through the inspiration of these 130 soulful voices in gospels, hymns and spirituals that preach of life and death, sin and conversion, heaven and hell, suffering and joy, love and judgment, grace and hope, mercy and forgiveness. The lyrics are the sifting of centuries to comfort and satisfy. Reflecting on the human condition in their century, they inspire and encourage the heavy burdened as they tell the story from their own experience of faith and hope in Jesus Christ.

This beautiful collection from the winnowed best was purposefully chosen for their inspirational value; to stimulate, motivate and lift up Christians everywhere to higher ground. They have a vital message that transmits power for soaring above the trite, the ephemeral, and the temporal to the significant, the divine and the eternal. You rise into a cosmic dimension beyond the mediocre to another plane of contact with God. These lyrics of faith not only inspire, but exhort, instruct and elevate our spirits closer to the Kingdom of God.

The songs in this compilation are voices crying in the wilderness, echoing through the corridors of time to our generation in poetic sermons, proclaiming the simple truth of the Gospel that urges us upward to a higher goodness, a loftier plane, a grander dimension of existence as God’s children in Christ Jesus.

Part one of this book consists of forty Tennessee country Gospels that rivets the soul and stirs the spirit. Included are such favorites as, “Rolling On the Wheels of Time,” “We Shall Ride Above the Clouds,” “The Great Judgment” and “My Past is all Under the Blood.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Saundra L. Washington D.D.
• Release date: Apr 27, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458129840

Saundra L. Washington D.D.

Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,Christian writing in particular is an expression of my passion to educate and inspire the body of Christ. I enjoy writing (and reading) and perhaps the clue that it was to play a vital role in my future can be traced to my love of writing as a child. Actually, it was not writing but scribbling (smile). I would scribble pages and pages and go show my masterpieces to my mother for her critique. She always complimented me on how wonderful my stories were and had me interpret the meaning from time to time. But, to be honest, I never contemplated writing beyond those childhood illusions and fantasies. God does indeed work His will into the lives of those committed to Him.So now, decades later, semi-retired from pastoral responsibilities, I felt the Holy Spirit's urging to write what I otherwise would probably be orally teaching or preaching.I believe you will find my eBooks interesting, spiritually strengthening, educative, informative, motivating and encouraging as you grow in your spiritual walk.You are encouraged to view samples from each eBook to get a “feel” for content.God bless you and thank you for surveying my eBooks and perusing this profile.All glory to God!

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Lifting Souls to Higher Ground

Beloved Gospels, Spirituals and Hymn Lyrics

Compiled by

Saundra L. Washington D.D.

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Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 Biblica. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved. The NIV and New International Version trademarks are registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica. Use of either trademark requires the permission of Biblica. The King James Version (KJV) is in U.S. public domain.

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How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land?

Psalm 137:1-4.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I - Beloved Southern Spirituals

A Mansion in Heaven

Blessed Hope

Come Into the Living Way

Coming Back Home

Dripping From the Cross

Get A Little Heaven in You

Glory Hallelujahs

His Seal is on My Soul

I’m Glad in My Heart

In The Homeland By And By

It Cometh from the Lord

Jesus Is Pleading For You

Jesus Lifted Me

Jesus the Savior of Men

Just the Blessing That I Need

Lord, Send Us the Power

Love Keeps Me Happy

Mansions in Glory

My Home, Sweet Home

My Past Is All Under the Blood

Reveal Thy Will to Me

Rolling On the Wheels of Time

Sailing on Life’s Ocean

Since the Burden Rolled Away

Somebody Knocked

Somewhere in Heaven

Sunrise for Me

Sunrise in Glory

Tell My Friends I’m Coming

The Great Change

The Great Judgment

The Old Cross Road

There Is Joy in the Lord

To Thee, O Lord

We Shall Ride Above the Clouds

We’ll Cease Traveling

What a Day, What a Time

When He Reigns a Thousand Years

When We March Through the Gate

When We Step Inside the Gate

Part II - Beloved Negro Spirituals (Traditional)

Ain’t That Good News?

Balm in Gilead

City Called Heaven

Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel?

Free at Last

Glory, Glory Hallelujah

Go Down Moses

Going to Shout All over God’s Heaven

He is King of Kings

He Never Said a Mumblin’ Word

He’s Got His Eyes on You

Hold the Wind

Hush, Hush, Somebody’s Callin’ Mah Name

I Am the True Vine

I Feel Like My Time Ain’t Long

I Heard the Preaching of the Elder

I Must Walk My Lonesome Valley

I Want Jesus to Walk with Me

I Want to be Ready

I Won't Stop Praying

Keep Inching Along

Kum Ba Yah, My Lord

Let Us Break Bread Together

Let Us Cheer the Weary Traveler

My Lord’s Goin’ Move This Wicked Race

O Rocks Don’t Fall On Me

Ole-Time Religion

Plenty Good Room

Roll, Jordan Roll

Sinner Please Don’t Let the Harvest Pass

Somebody’s Knocking at Your Door

Standin’ in the Need of Prayer

Study War No More

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

The Downward Road is Crowded

The Hammers Keep Ringing

They Led My Lord Away

Tryin’ to Get Home

Wade in the Water

We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder

Part III - Beloved Hymns

A Mighty Fortress is our God

Amazing Grace

Approach, My Soul, the Mercy Seat

Be Still, My Soul

Beams of Heaven

Blessed Assurance

Breathe on Me, Breath of God

Come to Calvary’s Holy Mountain

Come, Every Soul by Sin Oppressed

Come, Thou Fount

Eternal Spirit, God of Truth

God of Grace and God of Glory

Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah

Higher Ground

How Firm a Foundation

I Am Thine, O Lord

I Know That My Redeemer Lives

I Must Tell Jesus

I Trust in God

If I Have Wounded Any Soul Today

Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise

In Shady Green Pastures

In the Cross of Christ I Glory

In Thy Cleft, O Rock of Ages

It Is Well with My Soul

Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken

Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross

Lead Me, Guide Me

Lead, Kindly Light

Life’s Railway to Heaven

Life’s Sea Oft-times is Dark

Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

My Faith Looks Up to Thee

My Soul, Be on Thy Guard

O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing

On Jordan’s Stormy Banks I Stand

Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior

Sail On

Savior More than Life to Me

Soldiers of Christ, Arise

The Name of Jesus

The Old Rugged Cross

There is a Fountain Filled with Blood

There is a Gate that Stands Ajar

Thou My Everlasting Portion

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

When Judgment Day is Drawing Nigh

When the Storms of Life Are Raging

When Waves of Affliction

Work, for the Night is Coming

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Preface

I thank God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit for inspiring Lifting Souls to Higher Ground. These lyrical meditations transmit faith voices from the past to minister to our present spiritual needs. It brings the hearts and souls of yesterday’s Christian creative writers into our own hearts and souls today.

We are indeed lifted to higher ground through the inspiration of these 130 soulful voices in gospels, hymns and spirituals that preach of life and death, sin and conversion, heaven and