Higher Ground – Lord, Lift Me Up, and Let Me Stand
Higher Ground – Lord, Lift Me Up, and Let Me Stand
I’m pressing on the upward way
New heights I’m gaining every day
Still praying as I’m onward bound
Lord, plant my feet on higher ground
Refrain:
Lord, lift me up, and let me stand
By faith on Heaven’s table-land
A higher plane than I have found
Lord, plant my feet on higher ground
My heart has no desire to stay
Where doubts arise and fears dismay
Though some may dwell where these abound
My prayer, my aim, is higher ground
I want to live above the world
Though Satan’s darts at me are hurled
For faith has caught the joyful sound
The song of saints on higher ground
Refrain:
Lord, lift me up, and let me stand
By faith on Heaven’s table-land
A higher plane than I have found
I want to scale the utmost height
And catch a gleam of glory bright
But still I’ll pray till Heaven I’ve found
Lord, lead me on to higher ground
Words by Johnson Oatman, Jr., 1898
▶ Higher Ground (video)
Bible Verses About Pressing
1. But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.” – 2 Corinthians 3:18
2. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. – Romans 12:2
3. For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith. – Romans 1:17
4. I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high/upward calling of God in Anointed Jesus. – Philippians 3:14
5. Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. – Philippians 2:12-13
6. Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, – Hebrews 12:1
More Hymns
- Great is Thy Faithfulness, O God My Father
- Face to Face with Christ My Savior
- Breathe Upon Us, Lord From Heaven
- Where Could I Go But to the Lord?
- I come to the Garden Alone
- There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood
- He Leadeth Me by his own Hand
Rock of Ages
- Be Thou My Vision
- Battle Hymn Of The Republic
Holy Lord God Almighty
