SINGING TIME. “THE LORD GAME ME A TEMPLE” song visuals. Youth can know that their body is a temple for their spirit while on earth. If they keep their “body clean and pure and habit-free” they can go to the temple and “claim blessings promised” to them by Heavenly Father and Jesus their creators. Then when resurrected they can take their body to live “in celestial glory forever” with Them living in “light.”
SONG VISUALS:
“The Lord Gave Me a Temple”
(Children’s Songbook, 153)
DOWNLOAD INCLUDES:
. 17 visuals (color/black-and-white/cue cards) pdf
. Fun Ways to Use Song Visuals pdf
USE SONG VISUALS FOR ANY LANGUAGE – Just add the words on the cue cards provided.
LYRICS & MUSIC FOR THE SONG
“THE LORD GAVE ME A TEMPLE”
TO MAKE AND USE: Mount cue cards on the back of each poster that matches with the song verse.
FOUR WAYS TO GRAB SONG VISUALS AND SINGING
IDEAS TO PRESENT THIS SONG:
Each time you sing this song you could talk about one or more picture(s) and phrase(s). Have different children come up and bear their testimony of this phrase.
Lyrics
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The Lord gave me a temple to live within on earth.
Once in Heaven I was spirit, but I left my home at birth.
I’ll make my temple brighter; I’ll keep my spirit free.
My body is the temple my Father gave to me.
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If I keep my body clean and pure and habit-free,
I may in Father’s temple claim blessings promised me.
On resurrection morning, I’ll take my body bright
And in celestial glory forever live in light.
Words: Donnell Hunter, 1930–2013. © 1969 IRI
Music: Darwin Wolford, b. 1936. © 1969 IRI