John 17:1–26 (Continued)

November 11, 2012

Songs running through my mind early this morning.

Come Thou Fount

Come thou fount of every blessing

Tune my heart to sing Thy grace

Streams of mercy never ceasing

Call for songs of loudest praise.  

Teach me some melodious sonnet

Sung by flaming tongues above

I'll praise the mount I'm fixed upon it

Mount of Thy redeeming love

Here I raise my Ebenezer 

Hither by Thy help I come

And I hope by Thy good pleasure

Safely to arrive at home.

Jesus sought me when a stranger

Wandering from the fold of God

He, to rescue me from danger

Interposed His precious blood.

O to grace, how great a debtor

Daily I'm constrained to be!

Let Thy goodness like a fetter

Bind my wandering heart to thee

Prone to wander Lord I feel it,

Prone to leave the God I love

Here's my heart, O take and seal it,

Seal it for Thy courts above.

Listen to it here.  Shortly after Come Thou Fount another song began to play in my thoughts.

Blessed Assurance

Blessed Assurance, Jesus is mine!

Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!

Heir of salvation, purchase of God, 

Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.

   This is my story, this is my song,

   Praising my Savior all the day long;

   This is my story, this is my song

   Praising my Savior all the day long.

Perfect submission, perfect delight,

Visions of rapture now burst on my sight;

Angels descending, bring from above

Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

Perfect submission, all is at rest,

I in my Savior am happy and blest,

Watching and waiting, looking above,

Filled with his goodness, lost in His love.  

   This is my story, this is my song.

   Praising my Savior, all the day long.

   This is my story, this is my song,

   Praising my Savior, all the day long.

Listen to Blessed Assurance here.


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