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• Father Hear The Prayer We Offer

  Here’s the lyrics to my favorite song off of Hymns IV. We first found this hymns because my brother asked us to play it at his wedding. It’s one of the most beautiful and honest songs I’ve heard. It’s comes from Joshua 1:9 where God says to Joshua ” Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.”

  I love this song because the author doesn’t ask God for an easy life, for God to fix their problems or for God to create a utopia, where there is no pain and they have the money to buy the right house and the right car. He acknowledges the reality of the world and how God interacts with it.

  (My wife and I wrote the lyrics to the bridge)
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  Father Hear The Prayer We Offer
  by Love M Willis 1859

  Father, hear the prayer we offer:
  Nor for ease that prayer shall be,
  But for strength, that we may ever
  Live our lives courageously.

  Not forever in green pastures
  Do we ask our way to be,
  But the steep and rugged pathway
  May we tread rejoicingly.

  Not forever by still waters
  Would we idly, quiet stay;
  But would smite the living fountains
  From the rocks along our way.

  Be our strength in hours of weakness,
  In our wanderings be our Guide;
  Through endeavor, failure, danger,
  Father, be Thou at our side.

  Bridge:
  You came before, beside us you’ll be
  You’ll never leave, beside us you’ll be
  You came before, beside us you’ll be
  You’ll never leave, beside us you’ll be.

  Let our path be bright or dreary,
  Storm or sunshine be our share;
  May our souls in hope unweary
  Make Thy work our ceaseless prayer.

  Tagged: Hymns

  Posted on March 18, 2011 with 34 notes ()

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