Hello, and
welcome again to Praise.
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I am Kelly Mowrer.
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In Psalms, David wrote,
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"As the deer
panteth for the water,
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so my soul longeth after you.
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My soul thirsteth for
God, for the living God.
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Notice the strong
intense words, David used there.
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He didn't say,
Oh from time to time
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my mind turns to God.
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He said I long for
Him, I thirst for Him.
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And during our
time together today,
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we are going to meditate
on how we can know Him better.
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How we can
surrender more fully to Him?
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How we can become
more and more like Him?
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Teach me, Father,
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what to say
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Teach me, Father,
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how to pray
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Teach me
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along the way
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How to be
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like Jesus
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Teach me
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how we may be one
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Like the Father
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and the Son
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I will always
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overcome
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I will be like
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Jesus
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Lord, make me like You
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Please make me like You
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You are a servant
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Make me one too
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Oh Lord,
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I am willing
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to what you must do
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To make me like You, Lord
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Make me like
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You
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I would be
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like Jesus
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I would be
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like Jesus
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Help me, Lord,
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to daily grow
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More and more
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like Jesus
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All to Jesus I surrender
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All to Him I freely give
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I will ever love and trust Him
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In His presence daily live
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I surrender all
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I surrender all
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All to Thee, my blessed Savior
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I surrender all
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All to Jesus I surrender
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Make me Savior wholly thine
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May Thy Holy Spirit fill me
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May I know Thy power divine
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I surrender all
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I surrender all
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All to Thee my blessed Savior
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I surrender all
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All to Jesus I surrender
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Lord, I give myself to Thee
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Fill me with Thy love and power
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Let Thy blessings fall on me
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I surrender all
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I surrender all
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All to Thee my blessed Savior
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I surrender all
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Would I know You now
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If You walked into the room
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If You stilled the crowd
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If Your light
dispelled the gloom
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If I saw Your wounds
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Touched Your thorn pierced brow
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I wonder
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if I'd know You now
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Would I know You now
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If You walked into this place
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Would I cause You shame
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Would my games be Your disgrace
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Or would I worship You
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Bow upon my face
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I wonder
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if I'd know You now
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Have the images I
painted so distorted who You are
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That even if the
world was looking
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They could not
see You, the real You
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Have I changed
the true reflection
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To fulfill my own desire
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Making You want, I want
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Not showing You forth divine,
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oh divine
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Would I miss You now
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If You left and closed the door
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Would my flesh cry out
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I don't need You anymore
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Would I follow You
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Could I be restored
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Lord I wonder
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Lord I wonder if I ever learn
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I wonder if I'd know
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You now
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Sarah Flower Adams
always wanted to be an actress.
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But God had other plans for her.
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Although she did
get to play in Macbeth,
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her career on the
stage was cut short,
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because of poor health.
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And so she turned to writing.
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Years later, passengers on board
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the RMS Titanic,
reported that as the ship sank
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one of Sarah's best known
hymns was played by the band.
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Wallace Hartley,
the ship's bandleader,
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who like all the
rest of the musicians
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went down with the Titanic.
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Had previously
said that he wanted
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that song played at his funeral.
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And in 1901 as
United States President
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William Mckinley lay dying.
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His last whispered words
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with the first few
lines of Sarah's hymn.
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Nearer, my God to
thee Nearer to thee
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Even though it be a
cross That raiseth me
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Still all my prayer shall be
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Nearer, my God, to
thee Nearer to thee
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O God,
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Father of heaven and earth
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I call to You like deep calls
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to deep over water
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Show me
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Your endless measure of grace
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Let tender
mercies shine once again
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From Your holy face
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Deep in my heart
there's a longing
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To please the One
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who has saved me
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O God,
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though I have wandered so far
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You know that I'm still
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A woman after Your own heart
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I am driven
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by rivers of pride
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You are my rescue
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The Maker and Keeper
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of my life
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Lead me
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by the still waters again
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Use me in spite
of the prodigal child
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That You know I am
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Just as a deer runs to water
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So does my soul
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to You, Father
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O God,
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though I have wandered so far
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You know that I'm still
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A woman after Your own heart
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Just as a deer runs to water
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So does my soul
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to You, Father
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O God,
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though I have wandered so far
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You know that I'm still
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A woman after Your own heart
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I'm still
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a woman after Your own heart
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Mrs. Elizabeth Payson Prentiss,
born in Portland, Maine,
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in 1818, was known
throughout her life
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as a woman after God's heart.
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She lived very closed
to the Savior she loved.
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Those who knew her
best described her as
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a bright-eyed little woman,
with a keen sense of humor,
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who cared more to shine
in her own happy household
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than in a wide
circle of society.
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Although Elizabeth
was strong in spirit,
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she was very frail in her body.
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Throughout her life
she was a near invalid,
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hardly living even
a moment free of pain.
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She once wrote these words:
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"I see now that to live for God,
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whether one is allowed ability
to be actively useful or not,
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is a great thing, and
that it is a wonderful mercy
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to be allowed even to suffer,
if thereby one can glorify Him."
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On another occasion she wrote:
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"To love Christ
more is the deepest need,
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the constant cry of my soul.
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Out in the woods, and on my bed,
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out driving, when
I am happy and busy,
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when I am sad and idle,
the whisper keeps going up
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for more love,
more love, more love."
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During the 1850's,
while ministering to a church
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in New York city the
Prentiss' lost a child,
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a short time later their
youngest child also died.
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For weeks,
Elizabeth mourned so deeply
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nothing could comfort her.
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In her diary she wrote,
"Empty hands, a worn-out,
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exhausted body, and
unutterable longings
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to flee from a world that
has so many sharp experiences."
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From her broken heart
came this touching poem.
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"I thought that
prattling boys and girls
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Would fill this empty room
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That my rich heart
would gather flowers
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From childhood's opening bloom
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But one child and
two green graves are mine
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This is God's gift to me
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A bleeding,
fainting, broken heart
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This is my gift to Thee."
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During this period
of unimaginable grief,
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Mrs. Prentiss began meditating
upon the story of Jacob.
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How God met him
in a very special way
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during his moments of
deepest sorrow and need.
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One evening she sat
down alone and wrote a song
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that she didn't show to anyone,
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not even her husband
for the next 13 years.
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More love to thee, O
Christ, more love to thee
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Hear thou the prayer
I make on bended knee
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This is my earnest plea
More love, O Christ, to thee
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More love to
thee, more love to thee
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More love to thee, O Christ,
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more love to thee
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Hear thou the prayer
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I make on bended knee
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This is my earnest plea
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More love, O Christ, to thee
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More love to thee,
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more love to thee
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Then shall my latest breath
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whisper thy praise
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This be the parting cry
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my heart shall raise
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This is my earnest plea
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More love, O Christ, to thee
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More love to thee,
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more love to thee
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This still its prayer shall be
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More love, O Christ to thee
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More love to thee,
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more love to thee
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More love to thee,
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more love to thee
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