Hello I'm Kelly
Mowrer, and welcome to Praise.
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I love the beauty of
David song in Psalm 103,
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where he writes,
"Bless the Lord O my soul,
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and all that is within
me, bless his holy name!
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Bless the Lord O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits.
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You know, it's pretty
amazing and pretty sad,
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how easily I and we
all forget the benefits
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and the blessings of God.
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We probably,
occasionally remember
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and take note of the
extraordinary blessings
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but I know that far too often
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I'm going through my days
without conscious awareness
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and thankfulness to
God for all the blessings
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that are following
me minute by minute.
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And unless we intentionally mark
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and remember His blessings.
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If we make our
stones of remembrance,
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how much it
affects our walk with God
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when we don't do that.
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First, He can cause us to doubt.
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We forget how
He's led us in the past
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and that leaves
us feeling unsure
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that He's with us in
our present circumstances,
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also it can affect our prayers.
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Paul tells us to have
no anxiety about anything,
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but with prayer
and thanksgiving,
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to make our
requests knowing the God.
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But how can we thank
Him for His blessings
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if we're not bothering
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to even notice
and remember them.
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Today we're going
to think especially
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on the blessings of God,
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and how we can come
to Him as our friend,
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talking with Him in prayer,
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as we bring Him our request
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with prayer and thanksgiving.
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Remembering how He's led us
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and cared for us in the past.
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Here is Denise Barclay,
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someone I'm
always blessed to hear
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and she's singing a
very favorite song of mine,
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He'll do it again
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You may be down and feel the God
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Has somehow forgotten
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That you are
faced with circumstances
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You can't get through
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Right now it seems
that there's no way out
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And you're going under
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But God's proven
time and time again
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He'll take care of you
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And He'll do it again
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He'll do it again
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If you just take a look
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At where you are now
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And where you've been
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Hasn't He always
come through for you
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He's the same now as then
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Oh, You may not know how
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You may not know when
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But He'll do it again
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God knows the pain
that you're going through
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And He knows how you're hurting
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You see he knows how your heart
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been broken in two
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Oh but He's the God of the sun,
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stars and the moon
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And He is your Father
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If He can calm the storm
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He'll find the way
to take care of you
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And He'll do it again
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He'll do it again
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If you just take a look
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At where you are now
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And where you've been
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Hasn't He always
come through for you
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He's the same God
now that He was then
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Oh, yes He is
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You may not know how
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You may not know when
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But He'll do it again
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Oh, he'll do it again
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He'll do it again
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If you just take a look
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At where you are now
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And where you've been
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Hasn't He always
come through for you
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He's the same God
now that He was then
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Oh, yes He is
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You may not know how
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You may not know when
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But He'll do it again
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Yes you may not know how
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Or you may not know when
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You may not know how
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You may not know when
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But He'll do it again
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How long has it been
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since you talked with the Lord
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And told him your
heart's hidden secrets
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How long since you prayed?
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How long since you
stayed on your knees
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till the light shone through
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How long has it been
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since your mind felt at ease?
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How long since your
heart knew no burden?
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Can you call him your friend
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How long has it
been since you knew
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that he cares for you?
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How long has it been
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since you knelt by your bed
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And prayed to
the Lord up in heaven
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How long since you knew
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that He would answer you
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And He would keep you
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the long night through
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Tell me how long has it been
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since you woke with the dawn
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And felt like the
day is worth of living
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Can you call him your friend
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How long has it been
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since you knew that he cares,
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since you knew
that Jesus cares for you
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Since you knew that he cares,
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since you knew that Jesus cares
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Oh, yes He does since
you knew, since you knew,
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Since you knew, oh
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since you knew
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that Jesus cares for you
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for you
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As I travel around the country
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speaking and giving concerts,
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I love to share stories
and historical settings,
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the lessons from the past
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that can help us in the present.
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And I find it songs become
so much more meaningful to me
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when I know what happened
in the life of the writer
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that led to the
song being written.
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I've been asked several
times if I know of hymns
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that were written out
of a joyous experience,
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so many of them
seem to be written
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in the dark nights of the soul
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and they are a
wonderful comforting testimony.
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But there are songs
of joyful praise too.
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And one of them
comes from a lady
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who clearly knew God
as her personal friend.
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Over 100 years ago,
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a 37 year old
housewife named Andy Hox
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living happy and
fulfilled as a wife
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and a mother was
working around her house one day
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when she was suddenly overcome
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with a sense of
nearness of God to her.
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And she felt like she
didn't want to ever go
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another moment without this
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awesome awareness
of God as her friend.
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She was so moved
with the love and joy
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of that moment that she sat down
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and wrote these
words, I need the very hour,
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most gracious Lord.
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No Tender voice like
Thine can peace afford.
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She gave the words to
her pastor Robert Lowry
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who added the
chorus and the tune
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and the song was
first published in 1872.
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Many years later Andy
lost her beloved husband
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and suddenly she had a very new
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and real insight into the gift
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that God had given
her in that song she wrote
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I did not understand it first
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why this hymn had touched
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the great
throbbing heart of humanity.
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It was not until long after
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when the shadow of
great loss felt over my way
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that I understood
something of the comforting
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power in the
words which I have been
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permitted to give out to others,
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in my hour of sweet
sovereignty and peace.
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Listen as my
friend E.T. Everett plays
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"I need thee every hour."
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It's only me Lord
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It's only me
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Seems like I call you everyday
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And You always
know what I will say
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But You take the
time to help me see
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The kind of person I should be
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You always listen
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Here I stand so small and frail
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So afraid that I might fail
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But You fill my
heart with happiness
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You care for me with tenderness
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It's only me Lord
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It's only me
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Lord I love You
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Take my heart
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Help me live
right from the start
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Thanks for bearing all my pain
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And making bright my day again
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It's only me Lord
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It's only me
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It's only me Lord
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It's only me
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Joseph Scriven was
born in Ireland in 1819.
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He graduated
from Trinity College,
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and was engaged to be married.
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But on the night before
his wedding his fiancé drowned.
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And Joseph was devastated
and actually left Ireland,
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moved to Canada
where he became a teacher.
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Several years passed and
he met another young woman
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named Eliza and after
sometime they became engaged.
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But shortly before
their wedding Eliza also died.
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After the death
of his second fiancé
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Joseph joined the Plymouth
Brethren and spent his life
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helping the aged
members of the community
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and during this
time Joseph's mother
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who was still living back
in Ireland wrote him a letter
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about how discouraged
and depressed she felt.
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Joseph responded back to
her and to try to comfort her
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and encourage her, he
wrote a poem in that letter,
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that said, what a
friend we have in Jesus
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all our sins and grief to bear,
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what a privilege to carry
everything to God in prayer.
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Oh, what peace we often forfeit
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and owe what needless
pain we bear, all because
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we do not carry
everything to God in prayer.
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What a friend we have in Jesus
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All our sins and griefs to bear
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What a privilege to carry
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Everything to God in prayer
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O what peace we often forfeit
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And O what
needless pains we bear
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It's all because we do not carry
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Everything to God in prayer
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Are we weak and heavy-laden
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Are we cumbered
with a load of care
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Precious Savior still my refuge
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Take it to the Lord in prayer
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Do thy friends
despise forsake thee
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So take it to the Lord in prayer
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In His arms He'll
take and shield thee
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Thou will find a solace there
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Take it to the Lord in prayer
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