Hello and welcome to
Praise. I'm Kelly Mowrer.
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Thank you for being with
me today to hear the beautiful
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music and words of worship for
Jesus our Redeemer and Master
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our Savior and Friend. Listen
now as we start with Angela
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Bryant Brown singing the
beautiful song that is the
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prayer of each of who
are part of God's family.
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Lord I Want to Be a
Christian Angela Bryant Brown
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Lord I want to be a Christian
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in my heart.
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Lord I want to be a Christian
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in my heart.
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In my heart, in my heart.
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Lord I want to be a Christian
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In my heart.
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Lord I want to be more loving
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in my heart.
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Lord I want to be more loving
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in my heart.
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In my heart, in my heart;
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Lord I want to be more loving
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in my heart.
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Lord I want to be like Jesus
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in my heart.
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Lord I want to be like Jesus
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in my heart.
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In my heart, oh yes in my heart.
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Lord I want to be like Jesus
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in my heart.
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Lord I want to be a Christian
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in my heart.
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Lord I want, I want to
be a Christian in my heart
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Yes in my heart,
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oh yes in my heart.
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Mmmm Lord I want
to be more loving
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Lord I want to be like Jesus,
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Lord I want to be a Christian
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In my heart
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Notice how Angela's
song describes where the real
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indication of Christianity takes
place. It takes place in our
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heart. Man looks on the outward
appearance but God looks where
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it really matters; inside us
to our thoughts and our motives
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and our desires. And when
he starts to answer the prayer
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Lord I want to be a Christian
and when he begins to make us
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more like him, he starts in our
hearts. In Ezekiel 36 God says
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Then will I sprinkle clean water
upon you and you shall be clean
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from all your filthiness
and from all your idols will I
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cleanse you. A new heart also
will I give you and a new spirit
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will I put within you and I will
take away the stony heart out
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of your flesh and I will give
you a heart of flesh and I will
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put my spirit within you and
cause you to walk in my statutes
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and ye shall keep my judgments
and do them and ye shall dwell
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in the land that I gave to
your fathers and ye shall be my
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people and I will be your God.
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My Redeemer Is Faithful
and True Christian Bordahl
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As I look back on
this road I've traveled,
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I see so many times
he carried me through.
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If there's one thing
that I've learned in my life
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Is my Redeemer is
faithful and true.
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My Redeemer is faithful and true
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Everything he's said he will do.
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And every morning
his mercies are new.
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My Redeemer is faithful and true
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My heart rejoices
when I read the promise.
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There is a place that
I'm preparing for you.
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I know someday I'll see
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my Lord face to face.
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'Cause my Redeemer
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is faithful and true.
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My Redeemer is faithful and true
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Everything he's said he will do.
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And every morning
his mercies are new.
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My Redeemer is faithful and true
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And in every situation
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he's proved his love for me.
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When I lack the understanding
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more grace he gives to me.
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My Redeemer is faithful and true
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Everything he's said he will do.
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And every morning
his mercies are new.
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My Redeemer is faithful and true
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What wonderful words of
assurance. I know I've shared
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before that my favorite
hymn of all time is about the
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faithfulness of God. Great
is thy faithfulness oh God my
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Father, morning by morning
new mercies I see. But you know
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sometimes it's not real easy
to stay focused on the mercies
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of God because sometimes things
are going on in our lives that
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are so intense and overwhelming
and we never imagined we'd be
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going through something this
severe. We try to remember the
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promises. We try to keep
putting one foot in front of the
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other. But inside we're growing
more and more discouraged.
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What we're facing is so
difficult and so dark it seems
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impossible we'll ever get
through it. We can't imagine
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how it could be resolved or
fixed. I have several songs that
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are particularly comforting
to me when I face something like
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this. Listen as my friend Denise
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sings one of my
absolute favorites right now.
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He'll Do It Again Denise Barclay
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You may be down and feel that
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God has somehow forgotten
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That you are faced
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with circumstances
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you can't get through.
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Right now it
seems there's no way out
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And you're going under.
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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 He'll do it again
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If you just take a
look at where you are now
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and where you've been
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Well hasn't he always come
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through for you.
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He's the same now as then.
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Ah you may not know how
and you may not know when
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but he'll do it again.
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God knows the things
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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
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heart is broken in two.
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Oh but he's the God of the
sun the stars and the moon,
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and he is your Father
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You see he can calm the storm
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He'll find a way
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to take care of you.
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And he'll do it again, oh yeah
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he'll do it again
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If you just take a look
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where you are now
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and where you've been.
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Well hasn't he
always come through for you
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He's the same now
that he was then, yeah
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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 He'll do it again
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Oh yeah. If you just take
a look 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 yeah, 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, yeah.
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You may not know how
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Oh you may not know when
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Oh yeah. 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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Shepherd of love
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you knew I had lost my way.
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Shepherd of love
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you knew I had gone astray
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You sought and found me,
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placed around me
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strong arms that carried me home
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No foe can harm me or alarm me
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Never again will I roam.
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Shepherd of love
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Savior and Lord and guide.
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Shepherd of love
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forever I'll stay by your side.
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You sought and found me
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placed around me
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strong arms to carry me home.
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No foe can harm me or alarm me
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Never again will
I roam, never roam
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Shepherd of love
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My Savior and Lord and guide.
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Shepherd of love
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Forever I'll stay by your side.
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Ohhh forever I'll
stay by your side.
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Shepherd of love.
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All things work for our good
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though sometimes we
don't see how they could.
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Troubles that
break our hearts in two
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Sometimes binds us to the truth
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Our Father knows
what's best for us
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His ways are not our own.
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So when your pathway grows dim
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and you just don't see him
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Remember you're never alone.
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God is too wise to be mistaken,
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God is too good to be unkind.
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So when you don't understand
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When you don't see his plan
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When you can't trace
his hand trust his heart.
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He sees the master plan.
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He holds our future in his hand.
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So don't live as
those who have no hope.
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All our hope is found in him.
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We see the present clearly
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He sees the first and the last.
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And like a tapestry
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he's weaving you and me
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to someday be just like him.
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God is too wise to be mistaken
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God is too good to be unkind.
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So when you don't understand,
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When you don't see his plan,
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When you can't trace his hand
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trust his heart.
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He alone is faithful and true.
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He alone knows
what is best for you.
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God is too wise to be mistaken,
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God is too good to be unkind.
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So when you don't understand,
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when you don't see his plan,
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when you can't trace his hand,
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trust his heart.
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When you don't understand,
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when you can't see his hand,
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when you can't trace his hand,
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trust his
heart. Trust his heart.
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Our Redeemer has always been
infinitely worthy of our trust.
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He is faithful and true. He's
faithful and true to his own
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character and he's faithful
and true to fulfill all the many
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promises that he has made;
promises not just to be broadly,
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corporately applied to the
church as a body, but promises
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made individually to me and to
you to meet us in whatever needs
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we face in our lives right now.
He's promised to not only save
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us for eternity, but to be
our counselor and our guide and
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our protector every day here.
He's promised to come into our
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hearts and work there to change
us from the inside out. And in
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his faithfulness he will make
us a faithful light to the world
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and he will create in us new
hearts, truly gentle and loving
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in our homes and humble in
our treatment of each other,
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servants in our churches and
our neighborhoods. We've spoken
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today of two different ways that
God's faithfulness is shown to
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us and both ways are marvelous.
First, he's faithful as the
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creator God to write his words
and teachings in our hearts;
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faithfully continuing to create
in us the clean heart and the
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right spirit. Secondly,
he is faithful to us in our
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circumstances. In spite of
our weakness and worry, God is
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faithful and even when we can't
see the way out or through we
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can trust his heart and know
that our Redeemer who has been
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faithful and true will do again
what he has promised and he will
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supply all our need
according to his riches
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in glory by Christ Jesus.
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