The Station Hymn Index

This index stocks every station of the Sanctuary Prayer Walk from the Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal, tested against three simple questions: what work does the hymn do, which way does it move, and what furniture does it name. Each hymn number links to its words.

Every station, properly stocked, vetted against the three-question test

Drawn from a pass over all 695 hymns of the Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal.

HOW EACH LIST IS ORDERED

⚑ NAMES THE FURNITURE, the hymn actually says the word: gate, altar, laver, lamp, bread, incense, mercy seat, veil. Strongest claim on a station, because a room hears the word and locates itself by it.

DOES THE WORK, no sanctuary vocabulary, but it is exactly the prayer that station prays. This is the larger group and often the better singing.

ALSO USABLE, sound, but second rank. Use for variety over months.

✗ DO NOT USE HERE, hymns that get put in this station by reflex and belong somewhere else. Named so the mistake stops repeating.

⓪ THE CALL TO REVERENCE

⚑ Names the furniture
– 687 / 692, The Lord Is in His Holy Temple
– 662, Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (and stand with fear and trembling)
– 3, God Himself Is With Us

Does the work
– 479, Tread Softly
– 683, Jesus, Stand Among Us
– 60, Blessed Jesus, at Thy Word
– 61, God Is Here
– 59, Great Our Joy as Now We Gather
– 262, Sweet, Sweet Spirit
– 91, Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones (the seraphim already at it)

① THE GATE, Thanksgiving and Praise

⚑ Names the gate or the courts
– 45, Open Now Thy Gates of Beauty
– 16, All People That on Earth Do Dwell, this is Psalm 100 itself, metrical. Approach with joy His courts unto. If any hymn owns this station, it is this one
– 62, How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place (Psalm 84)
– 63, O Come, Let Us Sing to the Lord (Psalm 95)
– 422, Marching to Zion (we’re marching upward)

Does the work, rehearsing what God has DONE
– 86, How Great Thou Art
– 100, Great Is Thy Faithfulness
– 4, Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven (Psalm 103, and it says forget not all His benefits)
– 112, Let Us With a Gladsome Mind (Psalm 136, His mercies aye endure)
– 1, Praise to the Lord
– 2, All Creatures of Our God and King
– 559, Now Thank We All Our God
– 563, Praise and Thanksgiving
– 565, For the Beauty of the Earth
– 566, Father, We Thank You
– 557, Come, Ye Thankful People
– 560, Let All Things Now Living
– 8, We Gather Together
– 35, With Songs and Honors
– 15, My Maker and My King
– 88, I Sing the Mighty Power of God
– 111, It Took a Miracle
– 108, Amazing Grace (a testimony of what He did, courts, not throne)
– 681, This Is the Day the Lord Hath Made
– 92, This Is My Father’s World
– 99, God Will Take Care of You

Also usable
– 556, As Saints of Old · 558, For the Fruits of His Creation · 561, We Plow the Fields · 562, Come, Sing a Song of Harvest · 105, Sing to the Great Jehovah’s Praise · 106, Give to Our God Immortal Praise · 19 / 33, O Sing a New Song to the Lord · 68, On Our Way Rejoicing

✗ Do not use here
– 73 Holy, Holy, Holy, throne, not courts. It names what God is
– 12 Joyful, Joyful, same. Adoration of the Person belongs at station seven
– 30 Holy God, We Praise Your Name, same
– 246 Worthy, Worthy Is the Lamb, Revelation 5. That is the throne room

② THE ALTAR OF SACRIFICE, Confession

⚑ Names the altar, the Lamb, the blood, the cross
– 300, Rock of Ages (water and the blood, the double cure; it points forward to the laver)
– 298, I Lay My Sins on Jesus (the hand on the head, in five words)
– 294, Power in the Blood
– 184, Jesus Paid It All
– 154 / 155, When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
– 159, The Old Rugged Cross
– 163, At the Cross
– 237, In the Cross of Christ I Glory
– 307, I Am Coming to the Cross
– 312, Near the Cross
– 303, Beneath the Cross of Jesus
– 164, There Is a Green Hill Far Away
– 177, Jesus, Your Blood and Righteousness (the priestly garment, from the hymnal’s own Priesthood section)

Does the work, naming, transferring, leaving it
– 292, Jesus, I Come (built entirely of transfers)
– 295, Chief of Sinners
– 297, God Be Merciful to Me (Psalm 51 and the publican)
– 521, Depth of Mercy
– 291, We Have Not Known Thee
– 313 / 314, Just as I Am
– 517, My Faith Looks Up to Thee (take all my guilt away)
– 522, My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less
– 523, My Faith Has Found a Resting Place
– 299, Forgive Our Sins as We Forgive (when the work is forgiving others)
– 156, O Sacred Head Now Wounded
– 157, Go to Dark Gethsemane
– 158, Were You There
– 162, Wondrous Love
– 309, I Surrender All (you on the altar, Romans 12:1)
– 569, Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior

Approach hymns, the walk toward the altar, not the altar itself
– 296, Lord, I’m Coming Home
– 287, Softly and Tenderly
– 280, Come, Ye Sinners
– 282, I Hear Thy Welcome Voice

Also usable
– 109, Marvelous Grace · 114, There’s a Wideness · 110, God’s Free Mercy Streameth · 337 / 338, Redeemed! · 341, To God Be the Glory

③ THE LAVER, Cleansing

⚑ Names water, washing, the fountain, whiteness
– 318, Whiter Than Snow
– 332, The Cleansing Wave
– 336, There Is a Fountain (fills the basin from the altar, sing it as the bridge between two and three)
– 333, On Jordan’s Banks the Baptist’s Cry
– 520, He Hideth My Soul (the cleft of the rock)
– 412, Cover With His Life

Does the work, sanctification, being remade, kept clean
– 330, Take My Life and Let It Be (the laver going through a person limb by limb)
– 567, Have Thine Own Way, Lord (potter and clay, being moulded, not adoring)
– 323, O for a Heart to Praise My God
– 315, O for a Closer Walk (communion lost and being restored, return, O holy Dove)
– 322, Nothing Between
– 302, Deeper Yet
– 308, Wholly Thine
– 500, Take Time to Be Holy
– 69, Lord, Make Us More Holy
– 625, Higher Ground
– 319, Lord, I Want to Be a Christian
– 311, I Would Be Like Jesus
– 492, Like Jesus
– 685, Cause Me to Hear
– 605, My Soul, Be on Thy Guard (the keeping-clean half)
– 590, Trust and Obey (you cannot confess a sin and go back to it)

Also usable
– 310, I Would Draw Nearer to Jesus · 301, Nearer, Still Nearer · 306, Draw Me Nearer · 334, Come, Thou Fount (bind my wandering heart, a laver hymn, not a throne hymn)

✗ Do not use here
– 300 Rock of Ages, it belongs at the altar. Its second line reaches into the laver, which is why it works as the bridge, but sing it at the altar

④ THE LAMPSTAND, The Spirit Given, the Light Shining

⚑ Names lamps, fire, flame, oil, light
– 595, Let Every Lamp Be Burning ⚑ the closest thing in the hymnal to the furniture itself
– 597, Ye Servants of the Lord ⚑ let all your lamps be bright, and trim the golden flame
– 264, O for That Flame of Living Fire
– 263, Fire of God, Thou Sacred Flame
– 268, Holy Spirit, Light Divine
– 275, O God of Light
– 515, The Lord Is My Light
– 233, Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies
– 234, Christ Is the World’s Light
– 580, This Little Light of Mine
– 371, Lift Him Up
– 54, O Gladsome Light

Does the work, asking to be filled
– 260, Hover O’er Me, Holy Spirit
– 265, Breathe on Me, Breath of God
– 269, Come, Holy Spirit
– 257, Come Down, O Love Divine
– 258, Baptize Us Anew
– 266, Spirit of God
– 267, Spirit Divine
– 270, O Holy Dove of God Descending
– 261, The Spirit of the Lord Revealed
– 589, Holy Spirit, Gracious Guest
– 672, Spirit of the Living God
– 680, Holy Spirit, Hear Us
– 262, Sweet, Sweet Spirit
– 259, Draw Us in the Spirit’s Tether
– 414, Fruitful Trees, the Spirit’s Sowing ⚑ the fruit of the Spirit, by name
– 488, At First I Prayed for Light
– 326, Open My Eyes That I May See
– 316, Live Out Thy Life Within Me

And the shining half, carrying the lamp out
– 572, Give of Your Best to the Master
– 573, I’ll Go Where You Want Me to Go
– 576, Awake, Awake to Love and Work
– 581, When the Church of Jesus
– 584, There’s a Spirit in the Air
– 578, So Send I You

⑤ THE TABLE OF SHEWBREAD, The Word and His Provision

⚑ Names bread, manna, feeding, the Word
– 271, Break Thou the Bread of Life (the whole station in four lines)
– 538, Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah ⚑ bread of heaven, manna, the crystal fountain, the wilderness
– 408, Lord, Enthroned in Heavenly Splendor ⚑ true and living bread · heavenly manna · smitten rock. But see the note below
– 398, Bread of the World
– 493, Fill My Cup, Lord (a cup, not bread, but the right hunger)
– 272, Give Me the Bible
– 274, O Word of God Incarnate
– 273, Lord, I Have Made Thy Word My Choice
– 676, Thy Word Is a Lantern
– 278, Lord Jesus, Once You Spoke to Men
– 667, Lord, Bless Thy Word to Every Heart

Does the work, claiming what is written, and listening
– 509, How Firm a Foundation ⚑ the entire hymn is God speaking His own promises back to you. Perfect for the claiming block
– 518, Standing on the Promises
– 682, As You Have Promised, Lord
– 277, For Your Holy Book We Thank You
– 276, Thanks to God
– 413, God Has Spoken by His Prophets
– 546 / 552, The Lord’s My Shepherd (thou preparest a table before me)
– 460, As Water to the Thirsty
– 494, We Would See Jesus (beyond the sacred page)
– 286, Wonderful Words of Life
– 245, More About Jesus

⚠ On 408. It names the bread, and the veil, and the High Priest’s intercession. It is not really a table hymn, it is a whole-sanctuary hymn. Sing its bread stanza here, or save the entire hymn as the closing sweep after station seven.

⑥ THE ALTAR OF INCENSE, Intercession and Petition

⚑ Names the intercession, the veil, the mercy seat, the ascent
– 38, Arise, My Soul, Arise ⚑ This is the incense hymn. Wesley on Christ’s intercession: the bleeding sacrifice appearing before the throne, His wounds pouring effectual prayers that plead for us. It is Revelation 8:3 set to music, and it had been sitting in the hymnal’s opening pages the whole time
– 167, Alleluia! Sing to Jesus ⚑ Thou within the veil hast entered, robed in flesh, our great High Priest
– 176, Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise ⚑ the ascension, and He ever lives to intercede
– 178, The Unveiled Christ ⚑
– 199, The Head That Once Was Crowned
– 477, Come, Ye Disconsolate ⚑ come to the mercy seat, fervently kneel
– 527, From Every Stormy Wind ⚑ the mercy seat, four times. Use it as the bridge, last hymn here, carrying the room through the veil into station seven

Does the work, asking, and asking for others
– 483, I Need Thee Every Hour (every hour, the coals not going out)
– 485, I Must Tell Jesus
– 499, What a Friend We Have in Jesus (take it to the Lord in prayer)
– 284, For You I Am Praying (the one straight intercession hymn in the book)
– 505, I Need the Prayers
– 474, Take the Name of Jesus With You (breathe that holy name in prayer)
– 501, ‘Tis the Blessed Hour of Prayer
– 482, Father, Lead Me Day by Day
– 484, I Need Thee, Precious Jesus
– 491, In the Hour of Trial
– 497, O Gracious Father of Mankind
– 50, Abide With Me
– 666, Cast Thy Burden Upon the Lord
– 668, O Thou Who Hearest
– 684, Hear Our Prayer, O Lord (sing between petitions, thirty seconds, and they will not forget it)
– 671, Now, Dear Lord, As We Pray
– 677, Heavenly Father, to Thee We Pray
– 658, Heavenly Father, Hear Our Prayer

Openers only, hymns about prayer, not prayers
– 478, Sweet Hour of Prayer
– 500, Take Time to Be Holy
– 487, In the Garden

⑦ THE MOST HOLY PLACE, Beholding, Submission, Union

⚑ Names the throne, the cherubim, the crowns, the judgment, the veil
– 73, Holy, Holy, Holy (cherubim, and crowns cast down around the glassy sea, Revelation 4)
– 91, Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones ⚑ seraphim, cherubim, the thrones and dominions, by name
– 425, Holy, Holy, Is What the Angels Sing
– 246, Worthy, Worthy Is the Lamb (Revelation 5, sung in that room)
– 82, Before Jehovah’s Awful Throne
– 223, Crown Him With Many Crowns
– 229, All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name
– 222, Hark! Ten Thousand Harps and Voices
– 433, Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand
– 661, Holy, Holy, Holy (short response)
– 662, Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

The day of atonement, the hymnal’s own Judgment section
– 416, The Judgment Has Set ⚑ the books opened. Our own pioneers wrote this for exactly this room
– 415, Christ the Lord, All Power Possessing
– 417, O Solemn Thought
– 418, Day of Judgment, Day of Wonders

Does the work, beholding what God IS
– 12, Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee
– 30, Holy God, We Praise Your Name
– 21, Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise
– 17, Lord of All Being, Throned Afar
– 36, O Thou in Whose Presence
– 11, The God of Abraham Praise
– 232, At the Name of Jesus
– 321, My Jesus, I Love Thee
– 495, Near to the Heart of God
– 239, Jesus, Priceless Treasure
– 240, Fairest Lord Jesus
– 241, Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee
– 249, Praise Him! Praise Him!

Submission and union, thy will be done, not I but Christ
– 570, Not I, But Christ ⚑ Galatians 2:20, which is the whole station
– 316, Live Out Thy Life Within Me
– 568, Make Me a Captive, Lord
– 153, Prince of Peace, Control My Will
– 461, Be Still, My Soul
– 507, Moment by Moment

✗ Do not use here
– 567 Have Thine Own Way, potter and clay. That is sanctification. It belongs at the laver
– 334 Come, Thou Fount, bind my wandering heart. Laver
– 86 / 100, works, not being. Gate

THE SENDING

• 694 / 695, Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow
• 669, The Lord Bless You and Keep You (Numbers 6:24–26)
• 675, May the Lord Bless and Keep You
• 64, Lord, Dismiss Us With Thy Blessing
• 65 / 66, God Be With You
• 690, Dismiss Us, Lord, With Blessing
• 673, May God Be With You · 674, Shalom
• 659, May the Grace of Christ Our Savior
• 68, On Our Way Rejoicing
• 407, Sent Forth by God’s Blessing
• 660, Glory Be to the Father · 663 / 664, Amens

THE FIVE FINDS

What this pass turned up that we did not have

38, Arise, My Soul, Arise. The single best addition. Wesley wrote a hymn entirely about Christ’s intercession, the Surety standing before the throne, the wounds pouring effectual prayers. That is the altar of incense, and it is hymn thirty-eight.

167, Alleluia! Sing to Jesus and 178, The Unveiled Christ. The hymnal has a Priesthood section at 177–180 that we had never opened. 167 says it outright: Thou within the veil hast entered.

597, Ye Servants of the Lord. Let all your lamps be bright, and trim the golden flame. A lampstand hymn hiding in the Watchfulness section.

16, All People That on Earth Do Dwell. Psalm 100 in metre. The gate’s own psalm, singable. It should probably be the gate’s first hymn.

416, The Judgment Has Set. Our own pioneers wrote a hymn about the books being opened. It belongs in the Most Holy Place, and almost nobody sings it there.

ONE LAST RULE

When a hymn names one station’s furniture but does another station’s work, 527, 336, 300, 408, do not force it. Sing it as the bridge: last hymn of the station it works in, carrying the room into the station it names.

That is not a compromise. It is what the word was going to do anyway.

“Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense.”, Psalm 141:2

Keep going

These go with the Sanctuary Prayer Walk, which grew out of the message My House Shall Be Called a House of Prayer. Each hymn number links to its words in the Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal.