Hi, everybody and welcome
to this half hour "Praise."
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I am Kelly Mowrer.
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In Jeremiah Chapter 29
verses 11 and 12, we read,
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"I know the thoughts
that I think toward you,
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Saith the Lord,
thoughts of peace,
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and not evil, to
give you an expected end.
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Then you shall call upon me,
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and you shall go
and pray unto me,
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and I will hearken unto you."
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I know it may seem hopeless
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The darkness closes in
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You're tired and you're weary
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As you look at where you've been
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You can see the only present
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When you're looking at the past
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You thought things
would turn out differently
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Then you hear God say at last
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I know the plans I have for you
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And they are
plans to prosper you
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To give you hope and a future
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Lead you on life's journey
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Call on me and I
will see you through
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I know the plans I have for you
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The rocks and
cliffs may leave some scars
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You thought to leave to Him
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You're desperate
and you're broken
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And lives seems all too weird
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The road may take you on a path
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That changes all your plans
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But that's when God takes over
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And says leave it in My hands
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I know the plans I have for you
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And they are
plans to prosper you
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To give you hope and a future
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Lead you on life's journey
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Call on me and I
will see you through
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I know the plans I have for you
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And though your
dreams may have died
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You're hurting inside
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God has something better for you
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And He knows the
plans He has for you
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And they are
plans to prosper you
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To give you hope and a future
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Lead you on life's journey
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Call on Him and He
will see you through
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God knows the
plans He has for you
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Great is thy faithfulness,
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O God my father
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There is no shadow
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of turning with Thee
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Thou changes not,
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Thy compassions, they fail not
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As Thou hast been,
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Thou for ever wilt be
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Great is thy faithfulness
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Great is thy faithfulness
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Morning by morning
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new mercies I see
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All I have needed
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thy hand hath provided
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Great is thy faithfulness,
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Lord unto me
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Pardon for sin
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and a peace that endureth
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Thine own dear presence
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to cheer and to guide
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Strength for today
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and bright hope for tomorrow
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Blessings all mine,
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with ten thousand beside
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Great is thy faithfulness
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Great is thy faithfulness
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Morning by morning
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new mercies I see
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All I have needed
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thy hand hath provided
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Great is thy faithfulness
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Great is thy faithfulness
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Great is thy faithfulness
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Lord unto me
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Mr. and Mrs. Stead
were married in 1875,
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and they had a little
girl, they named Lily.
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When Lily was four years
old, Mr. Stead and Mrs. Stead,
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Louisa, decided to
spend a family day together
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on a sunny beach at
Long Island Sound, New York.
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While they were
playing with Lily
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and eating their picnic lunch,
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they suddenly heard
someone crying for help.
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And they saw a boy
drowning in the sea.
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Mr. Stead ran into
the water to help him,
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but the boy struggled so
desperately that he pulled
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Mr. Stead under
the water with him.
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And they both drowned
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as the reason
Lily watched horrified.
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After that terrible
day and the--and the weeks
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and the months that followed,
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Louisa followed
the words of God.
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She cast her burden on
the Lord and she found that
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He is the only
thing that sustained her.
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And out of that
experience, came her testimony
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that she wrote for all
of us to be comforted by.
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Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus
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Just to take Him at His Word
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Just to rest upon His promise
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Just to know,
"Thus saith the Lord"
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Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him
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How I've proved
Him o'er and o'er
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Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus
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Oh, for grace to trust Him more
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He is able, more than able
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To accomplish
what concerns me today
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He is able, more than able
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To handle
anything that comes my way
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He is able, more than able
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To do much more
than I could ever dream
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He is able, more than able
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To make me what
He wants me to be
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He is able, more than able
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To accomplish
what concerns me today
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He is able, more than able
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To handle
anything that comes my way
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He is able, more than able
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To do much more
than I could ever dream
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He is able, more than able
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To make me what
He wants me to be
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And when I think
of all His wisdom
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I'm the scope of His plan
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I can only fall down on my knees
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And realize what I got
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That He is able, more than able
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To do much more
than I could ever dream
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He is able, more than able
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To make me what
He wants me to be
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Whether we are
sitting and listening
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as Melissa King plays
that hymn of Louisa Stead's
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"Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him.
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How I've proved
Him o'er and o'er."
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Or if we're
listening to Jennifer singing,
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"My God is able, more
than able to accomplish
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what concerns me today."
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All of us can say with Paul,
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"God will supply all my
needs according to His riches
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and glory by Christ Jesus."
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Nearly 100 years
ago, an unknown in Meir,
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in an insane asylum
was carried to his grave.
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Afterward in his
room, penciled on the wall
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were found some lines of
poetry that people believed
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must have been in
some moment of sanity
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adapted from an
old Jewish poem written
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in 1096 by
Rabbi Meir in Germany.
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The words on that unknown
insane asylum in Meir's room
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were these, "Could we
with ink the ocean fill.
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And were the
skies of parchment made,
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were every
stalk on earth a quill
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and every man a scribe by trade.
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To write the love of God above,
would drain the ocean dry.
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Nor could the
scroll contain the whole,
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though stretched
from sky to sky."
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And in 1917, a man
named, Frederick Lyman
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took a break from his work.
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And he pushed an old
lemon box up against a wall.
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And sat down with
the stub of pencil
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and a piece of scrub
paper and added two versus
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in a chorus to
that in Meir's poem.
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The love of God is greater far
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Than tongue or
pen could ever tell
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It goes beyond the highest star
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And reaches to the lowest hell
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It reaches you and it reaches me
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The guilty pair,
bowed down with care
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God gave His Son to win
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The erring child He reconciled
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And pardoned from his sin
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The love of God,
how rich and pure
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How measureless and strong
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It shall forevermore endure
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The saints' and angels' song
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During eternity, we'll get
to sit and talk with each other,
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sharing the stories
of how God has brought us
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safely to be with Him forever.
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The love and the faithfulness
of God will be something
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that we will
continually praise Him for.
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Listen now as we call
this with Darrell singing,
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"No one ever cared
for me like Jesus."
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I would love to tell
you what I think of Jesus
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Since I found in Him a
friend so strong and true
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I would tell you how He
changed my life completely
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For He did something
that no other friend could do
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No one ever cared
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for me like Jesus
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There's no other friend
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so kind as He
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No one else could take the sin
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and darkness from me
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O how much He care for me
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For how much He care for me
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Everyday He comes to
me with new assurance
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And more and more I
understand His words of love
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And I'll never know
just why He came to save me
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Till someday I see
His blessed face above
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No one ever cared
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for me like Jesus
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There's no other friend
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so kind as He
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No one else could take the sin
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and darkness from me
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O how much He care for me
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O how much He care for me
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O how much He care for me
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O how much He care for me
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