Artist: | Christian Hymns (English) |
User: | raindrops |
Duration: | 200 seconds |
Delay: | 10 seconds |
Chord names: | Default |
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Comment: | - |
I ASKED THE LORD THAT I MIGHT GROW
KEY : G
VERSE 1:
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I asked the Lord that I might grow
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In faith and love and ev’ry grace,
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Might more of His salvation know
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And seek more ear - nestly His face.
VERSE 2:
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’Twas He who taught me thus to pray,
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And He, I trust has answered prayer,
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But it has been in such a way
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As almost drove me to despair.
VERSE 3:
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I hoped that in some favored hour
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At once He’d an - swer my request
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And by His love’s constraining pow’r
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Subdue my sins and give me rest.
VERSE 4:
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Instead of this He made me feel
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The hidden e - vils of my heart
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And let the angry pow’rs of hell
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Assault my soul in ev’ry part.
VERSE 5:
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Yea more with His own hand He seemed
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Intent to aggravate my woe,
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Crossed all the fair designs I schemed,
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Humbled my heart, and laid me low.
VERSE 6:
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“Lord, why is this,” I, trembling, cried;
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“Will Thou pursue thy worm to death?”
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“Tis in this way,” the Lord replied,
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“I answer prayer for grace and faith.”
VERSE 7:
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“These inward trials I employ
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From self and pride to set you free,
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And break thy schemes of earthly joy
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That thou may’st find your all in Me.”
WORDS: John Newton (1779).
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