Hello and welcome to Praise.
I'm Kelly Mowrer and today we're
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going to spend our time together
focusing on the mercy and the
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grace of God. The first chapters
of the Bible begin with God
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speaking into existence a world
of intricate beauty and promise
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and creating us to live in that
perfect world. But Adam and Eve
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chose to turn away from
relationship with God and they
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chose to follow after their own
idea of what would bring them
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satisfaction and fulfillment and
every one of us has been doing
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exactly that in all
kinds of ways ever since.
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The relationship between us
and God is the only source and
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connection that brings light
and life and joy and peace,
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everything we're looking
and longing for. And yet that
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relationship was broken through
our own sinfulness and we have
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no power to put it back. In
Ezekiel 16 God describes Israel
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as being like a helpless newborn
baby abandoned in a field lying
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uncared for and covered in blood
and then God passes by and he
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looks on this helpless
abandoned newborn and says live.
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He pronounces life to someone
who will die if they're left on
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their own. To each one of
us with our hearts and our
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understanding alienated from God
and polluted with sin, to each
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one of us God comes with mercy
and he says live. His amazing
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grace has rescued us from
our own abandoned hopelessness
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and set us free.
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Wonderful, Merciful
Savior Emma McDonald
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Wonderful, merciful Savior
Precious Redeemer and friend
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Who would have thought
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that a lamb could
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rescue the souls of men
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Oh you rescue the souls of men
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Counselor, Comforter, Keeper
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Spirit we long to embrace
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Your offer hope when our hearts
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have hopelessly lost our way
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Oh we've hopelessly lost our way
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You are the one that we praise
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You are the one we adore
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You give us healing and grace
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Our hearts always hunger for
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Oh, our hearts always hunger for
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Almighty, Infinite Father
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Faithfully loving your own
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Here in our weakness you find us
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Falling before your throne
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Oh, Falling before your throne
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You are the one that we praise
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You are the one we adore
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You give us healing and grace
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Our hearts always hunger for
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Oh, our hearts always hunger for
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You are the one that we praise
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You are the one we adore
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You give us healing and grace
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Our hearts always hunger for
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Oh, our hearts always hunger for
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Amazing grace shall always be
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my song of praise
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For it was grace
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that bought my liberty
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And I do not know just how
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he came to love me so
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He looked beyond all of my
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faults and saw my needs
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I shall forever lift
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mine eyes to Calvary
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To view the cross
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where Jesus died for me
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How marvelous that grace
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that caught my falling soul
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He looked beyond my faults
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and saw my needs.
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Amazing grace how sweet,
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how sweet the sound
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that saved, saved a wretch,
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wretch like me
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I once, once was lost
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but now, thank God, I'm found
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was blind but now, now I see
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I shall forever lift,
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lift mine eyes to Calvary
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To view the cross where my Jesus
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He bled and died for you and me
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How marvelous, oh yes,
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that grace that caught
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my falling soul
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Oh, he looked beyond
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all of my faults
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Jesus, he looked beyond
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all of my faults
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He looked beyond
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all of my faults
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and saw my need.
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Because we live in a world where
nothing valuable is ever given
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to us for free, I think
sometimes we have a hard time
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really understanding God's
amazing grace and mercy because
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we still feel like we need to
do something to somehow qualify
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and deserve this great gift, but
what we really need is the Holy
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Spirit to be opening us up to
a deeper understanding about the
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truth of our own helplessness
and hopelessness, not only to
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begin walking with God, but to
continue. We can't do it in our
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own will power. Jesus said he
is the vine, we are the branches
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and apart from him we can do
nothing. So we must ask the Holy
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Spirit to continually open our
hearts to understand more deeply
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the true meaning of grace, God
giving us for free what we could
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never afford. Jesus didn't just
make a down payment on the price
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of buying us back as slaves to
sin and then leave a balance for
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us to work off.
Jesus paid it all.
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Jesus Paid It All Clint McKoy
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I hear the Savior say
Thy strength indeed is small
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Child of weakness watch and pray
Find in me thine all in all.
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Jesus paid it
all. All to him I owe.
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Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.
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Lord now indeed I find
Thy power and thine alone
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Can change the leper's spots
And melt my heart of stone.
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Jesus paid it
all All to him I owe
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Sin had left a crimson stain
He washed it white as snow.
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And when before the
throne I stand in him complete
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I'll lay my trophies
down All down at Jesus feet.
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Jesus paid it
all All to him I owe.
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Sin had left a crimson
stain He washed white as snow.
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Sin had left a crimson stain
He washed it white as snow.
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Amazing Grace Lyndon Carriger
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Amazing grace
How sweet the sound
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That saved a wretch like me.
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I once was lost
but now I'm found
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Was blind but now I see.
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'Twas grace that
taught my heart to fear
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and grace my fears relieved
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How precious did
that grace appear
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The hour I first believed.
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Through many
dangers toils and snares
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I have already come
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'Tis grace hath
brought me safe thus far
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And grace will lead me home.
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When we've been
there ten thousand years
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Bright shining as the sun
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We've no less
days to seek God's face
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Than when we first begun.
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The songs of eternity will be
filled with the amazing grace of
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God. Worthy, worthy is the lamb
that was slain. We'll never find
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comfort by working harder
to feel worthy of God's love
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because only the lamb is worthy
and only his free grace makes
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us holy.
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Were It Not For
Grace Sandra Entermann
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Time measured out my days
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Life carried me home
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In my soul I
yearned to follow God
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But knew I'd never be so strong
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I looked hard at this world
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To learn how
heaven could be gained
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Just to end where I began
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Where human
effort is all in vain
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Were it not for grace
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I can tell you where I'd be
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Wandering down some
pointless road to nowhere
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With my salvation up to me
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I know how that would go
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The battles I would face
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Forever running
but losing this race
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Were it not for grace.
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So here is all my praise
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Expressed with all my heart
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Offered to the
friend who took my place
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and ran the
course I could not start
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And when he saw in full
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Just how much
his love would cost
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He still went the final
mile between me and heaven
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So I would not be lost.
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Were it not for grace
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I can tell you where I'd be
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Wandering down some
pointless road to nowhere
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With my salvation up to me
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I know how that would go
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The battles I would face
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Forever running
but losing the race
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Were it not for grace
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I can tell you where I'd be
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Wandering down that
pointless road to nowhere
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With my salvation up to me
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I know how that would go
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The battles I would face
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Forever running
but losing the race
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Were it not for grace.
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Forever running but
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losing the race
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Were it not for grace.
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Are you tired of feeling like
you're always running but losing
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the race. Do you long for the
lasting peace of knowing that
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his grace has brought you safe
this far and his grace will lead
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you home. In Psalm 68:28 David
prays, Strengthen, O God, that
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which thou has wrought for us.
God's grace has worked for us
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the miracle of our salvation and
the gift of eternal life with
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him forever. When we ask him to
strengthen his grace in us we're
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asking him to strengthen his
own work. We're asking him to
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establish the good work that he
began in each of our hearts and
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to complete it to his glory.
We're not saved by any merit of
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our own and only the author
of our faith can finish it.
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We don't work to prepare
our hearts to better serve him.
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Instead we plead like David,
God change my heart, cleanse
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it, renew a right spirit within
me. We don't somehow partner
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with God in the process of
grace because we're not able to.
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We're hopelessly locked up in
chains until he comes and says
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fear not, I've redeemed
you, I've called you by name,
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you are mine. His grace sets us
free and brings us safely home.
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Cleanse Me/I Will
Serve Thee Ron Woolsey
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