Hello and welcome to
Praise. I'm Kelly Mowrer.
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I was thinking recently
about how our enemy tries to
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discourage us with guilt, with
the feeling that we're a failure
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beyond commonly acceptable
boundaries where real Christians
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can safely fail or that somehow
God's grace is a nice concept
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for those who are more worthy
than we are. Or perhaps we've
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messed up so often that we've
somehow used up our allotted
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supply of mercy. But for those
of you watching who may be new
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to the family of God, the first
few times you fail I know it can
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seem like such a crushing blow,
like somehow you must not have
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really been God's in the
first place or you wouldn't have
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fallen like this. And for those
watching who have belonged to
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God for many years, when we
sin there can be this nagging
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anxiety about how much grace
can we really expect. After all
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these years to still be failing
so spectacularly. Surely we
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should be better than this by
now. But here's is what God says
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to us in 1 John chapter 1.
If we say that we have no sin
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we deceive ourselves
and the truth is not in us.
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If we confess our sins, he is
faithful and just to forgive us
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our sins and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness. And in
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Isaiah 1:18 he says, Come now
let us reason together saith the
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Lord. Though your sins be as
scarlet they shall be as white
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as snow. Though they be red like
crimson, they shall be as wool.
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Come Let Us
Reason Stephanie Dawn
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Come let us reason together.
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That's what God says.
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Come let us reason together
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Says the Lord.
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Come let us reason together.
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That's what God says.
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Come let us reason
together Says the Lord.
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Though your sins be as scarlet,
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They shall be as white as snow.
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Though they be red like crimson,
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They shall be as wool.
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Come let us reason together.
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That's what God says.
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Come let us reason
together says the Lord.
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Though your sins be as scarlet,
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They shall be white as snow.
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Though they be red like crimson,
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They shall be as wool.
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Come let us reason together.
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That's what God says.
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Come let us reason
together says the Lord.
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God is the God of the fresh
start. We can't fall so far that
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the everlasting arms aren't
underneath us. His grace is
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greater than all our sin. When I
get discouraged with my failures
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my weakness, I sometime remember
one of my favorite passages in
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the Bible: Lamentations chapter
three starting in verse 21:
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This I recall to my mind;
therefore have I hope. It is of
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the Lord's mercies that we
are not consumed because his
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compassions fail not, they are
new every morning. Great is thy
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faithfulness. When our wandering
sinful hearts really begin to
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see the beauty of Jesus, his
grace and love for us, we long
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more and more to serve him
always and only, to really walk
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only with him becomes the prayer
and the all-fulfilling purpose
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of our life. Living in his
presence, learning his ways
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of peace, hearing his voice,
just growing more and more
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like him as we learn
to love him more and more.
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Oh Let Me Walk With
Thee Christian Bordahal
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Oh let me walk with thee my God
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As Enoch walked in days of old.
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Place thou my
trembling hand in thine.
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And sweet communion with me hold
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Even though the
path I may not see
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Yet Jesus let me walk with thee.
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I cannot, dare not
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walk alone.
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The tempest rages in the sky.
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A thousand snares beset my feet
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A thousand foes are lurking nye.
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Still thou the raging of the sea
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Oh Master let me walk with thee.
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If I may rest my hand in thine
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I'll count the
joys of earth but loss.
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And firmly, bravely journey on.
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I'll bear the
banner of the cross
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Till Zion's glorious gates I see
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But Savior let me walk with thee
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Till Zion's glorious gates I see
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Yet Savior let me walk with thee
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As we walk more and more closely
with God we find ourselves
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growing more and more like him.
Two pictures begin to fill our
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mind and everything else is seen
through those filters. The first
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picture is his cross. When by
faith we think about what Jesus
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did for us it brings a deeper
perspective to every aspect of
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our lives. Speaking of his
death Jesus said, And I, if I be
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lifted up from the earth will
draw all men unto me. And with
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Paul we realize that the
preaching of the cross is to
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them that perish foolishness,
but unto us which are saved
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it is the power of God.
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And as we walk more and more
closely with Jesus the second
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picture we keep in mind is where
we're going. We never lose site
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that this world is only a
temporary journey and heaven is
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our destination and becomes our
heart focus. By faith we keep
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pressing on to that city whose
builder and make is God and we
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heaven always in our view.
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With a Made Up Mind
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With a made up
mind With a made up mind
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I'm willing to go
all the way through
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Though it cost my life
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I'm willing to pay the price
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I've got heaven in my view.
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Though it means
that I have to walk alone
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Or that my friends
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they may be few
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But I'm not gonna worry about
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what others may say or do
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See I got heaven in my view.
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With a made up
mind With a made up mind
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There's no problem that he,
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he will not see me through.
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And if I live my life right
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All of my battles
he promised to fight
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That's why I've
got heaven in my view.
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Oh, with a made up mind you see
It's gonna take a made up mind
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And every day I can say
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Hallelu, Hallelu,
Hallelu Hallelu, Hallelu
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And all of my burdens
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They may weigh me down, me down
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I've got
heaven, I've got heaven,
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I've got heaven in my view
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Joseph Henry Gillmore was
born in Boston, Massachusetts on
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April 29, 1834. He attended the
Newton Theological Institution
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and over the course of his life
served both as a church pastor
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and also as a professor
of Hebrew at the Rochester
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Theological Seminary. Also for
a time he served as the private
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secretary for his father who was
the governor of New Hampshire.
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In 1862, as a 28-year-old
student, about to become a
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pastor, Henry was invited
to preach at the historic First
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Baptist Church of Philadelphia.
America was experiencing the
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dark days of the civil war
between the states and Henry
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later reflected that this may
have influenced his message that
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day. He wrote these words: I
set out to give the people an
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exposition of the 23rd Psalm.
I had given this exposition on
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three or four other occasions
but this time I did not get
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beyond the words, He leadeth me.
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So greatly impressed was I
with the blessedness of divine
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guidance that I made this
my theme. At the close of the
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meeting, Henry and some others
went to the home of a deacon
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nearby and as the discussion
about divine guidance continued
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Henry pulled out the notes from
his sermon and wrote on there
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a poem with these words: He
leadeth me, Oh blessed thought
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Oh words with heavenly comfort
fraught. What ere I do, where
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ere I be, still 'tis
God's hand that leadeth me.
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He Leadeth Me Rudy Micelli
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He leadeth me, O blessed thought
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O words with
heavenly comfort fraught.
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What ere I do Where ere I be
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Still 'tis God's
had that leadeth me.
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He leadeth me, He leadeth me;
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By his own hand he leadeth me.
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His faithful follower I will be
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For by his hand he leadeth me.
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Sometimes mid
scenes of deepest gloom
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Sometimes where
Eden's bowers bloom
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By waters still or troubled sea
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Still 'tis God's
hand that leadeth me.
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He leadeth me,
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By his own hand he leadeth me.
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His faithful follower I will be
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For by his hand he leadeth me.
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And when my task
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on earth is done
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When by his
grace the victory's won
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E'en death's cold wave
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I will not flee
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For God through Jordan
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leadeth me.
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He leadeth me, he leadeth me,
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by his own hand he leadeth me.
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His faithful follower I will be
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For by his hand he leadeth me.
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No matter where you are in life
right now, no matter what you've
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done or haven't done, God offers
each of us a chance for another
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new beginning. Listen to how he
describes this new relationship
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in Jeremiah chapter 31: The Lord
hath appeared unto me saying
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yea, I have loved thee with an
everlasting love. Therefore with
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loving kindness have I drawn
thee. Behold the days come saith
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the Lord that I will make a
new covenant with the house of
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Israel. After those days saith
the Lord, I will put my law in
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their inward parts and write
it in their hearts and will be
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their God and they
shall be my people.
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More Like You Steve Darmody
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By chiseling the
stones that built this house
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and carving out a
home I only dream about
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You're painting me a view
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That I can't live
without. I can't live without.
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But you're
making me more like you
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Creating me into someone who
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Knows the awesome power
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of what love can do.
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You're making me,
making me more like you
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By molding me the
hands that desire to serve
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and giving me the voice
that wants to share your word
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And offering the
hope that I don't deserve,
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I don't deserve.
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But you're
making me more like you
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Creating me in to someone who
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Knows the awesome power
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of what love can do.
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You're making me,
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making me more like you
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You're making me more like you
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Creating me into someone
who knows the awesome power
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of what love can do.
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You're making me,
making me more like you.
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You're making me,
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Making me more like you.
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More Love To Thee
Ouachita Hills Academy
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