Welcome to Your Favorites
By Request with me, Tim Parton.
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You've sent me
your favorite songs,
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and I'm ready to
play while you sing along.
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And if you don't remember
all the words, don't worry.
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They're on the screen.
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And now Your
Favorites By Request.
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Your Favorites By Request
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La la la, la la la
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For centuries, people
have sung good old gospel songs
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and hymns to help
secure the ancient Bible truths
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to our minds and our hearts.
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Learning these
songs can be a useful way
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to help us remember
where God brought us from
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and what He's
brought us through.
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It's likely that
you can relate a song
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to a situation you've been in,
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and that's why you
have favorite songs,
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and you send them as a request.
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This week, I received requests
from Wisconsin to Maryland
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and South to the
peach state of Georgia.
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In fact, speaking of Georgia,
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Marilyn from Georgia
requested a song of reminiscence
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that is itself
full of familiar songs.
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And you'll probably be
familiar with many of them
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that maybe you sang at
the church where you went.
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Sing along if you know them.
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Oh!
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I'd like to go back to
that old country church
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And to hear the songs of praise
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And the people would sing
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It would make the rafters ring
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At that old country church
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They'd sing shall
we gather at the river
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The beautiful,
the beautiful river
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Gather with the
saints at the river
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That flows by the throne of God
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Oh, I'll never forget
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At that old country church
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How the glory of
the Lord came down
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And the children would smile
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As they shouted down the aisle
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Of that old country church
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Where they'd
sing leaning, leaning
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Safe and secure from all alarms
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Leaning, I'm leaning
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Leaning on the everlasting arms
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How the years have gone by
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And so many have died
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At that old country church
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But we'll meet on that shore
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Where we'll sing forevermore
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As they did at
that old country church
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I'm redeemed by love divine
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Glory, glory
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Christ is mine
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All to Him
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I now resign I have been
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I have been redeemed
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I'm redeemed by love divine
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Glory, glory
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Christ is mine
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All to Him
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I now resign
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I have been redeemed
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Those are some great songs,
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and the song that remind
me actually of camp meeting
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when I was a kid.
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I received a request from Daryl
in Upper Marlboro, Maryland,
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who sent in this request
in memory of his grandmother
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who became a Christian
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in an
old-fashioned tent meeting.
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She lived to be one
hundred four and a half.
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This was one of
her favorite songs.
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You'll know this one,
In the Sweet By and By.
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There's a land
that is fairer than day
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And by faith, we can see it afar
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For the Father
waits over the way
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To prepare us a
dwelling place there
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In the sweet by and by
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We shall meet on
that beautiful shore
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In the sweet by and by
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We shall meet on
that beautiful shore
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We shall sing on
that beautiful shore
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The melodious songs of the blest
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And our spirits
shall sorrow no more
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Not a sigh for
the blessing of rest
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Sing that chorus.
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To our bountiful Father above
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We will offer
our tribute of praise
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For the
glorious gift of His love
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And the blessings
that hallow our days
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In the sweet by and by
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We shall meet on
that beautiful shore
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In the sweet by and by
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We shall meet on
that beautiful shore
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We shall meet on
that beautiful shore
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That's a precious song.
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Now from that song which
was written in the 1860s,
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here's a request from the1970s
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by a wonderful
songwriter Andrae Crouch,
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Soon and Very Soon.
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Soon and very soon
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We are going to see the King
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Soon and very soon
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We are going to see the King
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Soon and very soon
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We are going to see the King
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Hallelujah, hallelujah
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We're going to see the king
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No more crying.
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Oh, no more crying there
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We are going to see the King
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There'll be no more dying there
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We are going to see the King
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There'll be no
more sadness there
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We are going to see the King
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Hallelujah, hallelujah
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We're going to see the King
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Should there be any
rivers we must cross
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Should there be any
mountains we must climb
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Our God will supply all
the strength that we need
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Give us grace 'til
we reach the other side
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Soon and very soon
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We are going to see the King
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Soon and very soon
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We are going to see the King
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Soon and very soon
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We are going to see the King
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Hallelujah, hallelujah
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We're going to see the king
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Hallelujah, hallelujah
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We're going to see the king
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Ain't that good news
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Soon and very soon.
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