GRPL THREAD: Songs of Grace

[Gamecock]

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[lockeliberty]

I was blinded by the devil,
Born already ruined,
Stone-cold dead
As I stepped out of the womb.
By His grace I have been touched,
By His word I have been healed,
By His hand I've been delivered,
By His spirit I've been sealed.

I've been saved
By the blood of the lamb,
Saved
By the blood of the lamb,
Saved,
Saved,
And I'm so glad.
Yes, I'm so glad,
I'm so glad,
So glad,
I want to thank You, Lord,
I just want to thank You, Lord,
Thank You, Lord.

By His truth I can be upright,
By His strength I do endure,
By His power I've been lifted,
In His love I am secure.
He bought me with a price,
Freed me from the pit,
Full of emptiness and wrath
And the fire that burns in it.

I've been saved
By the blood of the lamb,
Saved
By the blood of the lamb,
Saved,
Saved,
And I'm so glad.
Yes, I'm so glad,
I'm so glad,
So glad,
I want to thank You, Lord,
I just want to thank You, Lord,
Thank You, Lord.

Nobody to rescue me,
Nobody would dare,
I was going down for the last time,
But by His mercy I've been spared.
Not by works,
But by faith in Him who called,
For so long I've been hindered,
For so long I've been stalled.

I've been saved
By the blood of the lamb,
Saved
By the blood of the lamb,
Saved,
Saved,
And I'm so glad.
Yes, I'm so glad, I'm so glad,
So glad, I want to thank You, Lord,
I just want to thank You, Lord,
Thank You, Lord.

-Bob Dylan

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Born already ruined, stone-cold dead...

I was just listening to this one. Glad you posted it. Doesn't get more grace-filled than this.

[P-Marlowe]

Please move to another thread.

You may have your thread. I will honor your request. But my parting question is whether you or your GRPL bretheren have ever honored such a request from White Mountain or restornu when they have attempted to have an exclusive LDS thread?

BTW, Its rainy here.

Neener Neener Neener.

{!}

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Marlowe

Lord Protector of the Fraternal Order of the Knights of the Eternal Time Table and Grand Advocate for the High Council of the Eternal Exclamation Point (without Asterik) and the Knights who say Neener Neener Neener.

[drstevej]

Interesting point, P-Mormon. Bye.

[CCWoody]

No thread would be complete without this song of Grace:

Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art
Thou my best Thought, by day or by night,
Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light.

Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word;
I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord;
Thou my great Father, I Thy true son;
Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one.

Be Thou my battle Shield, Sword for the fight;
Be Thou my Dignity, Thou my Delight;
Thou my soul’s Shelter, Thou my high Tower:
Raise Thou me heavenward, O Power of my power.

Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise,
Thou mine Inheritance, now and always:
Thou and Thou only, first in my heart,
High King of heaven, my Treasure Thou art.

High King of heaven, my victory won,
May I reach heaven’s joys, O bright heaven’s Sun!
Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
Still be my Vision, O Ruler of all.


Woody.

Grant us the ability to do what You command, and command what You desire.

[irishtenor]

See my # 597. :>)

[irishtenor]

OOPS. See my # 597 in...Exurge, Calvinisti, et judica causam tuam...

[RnMomof7]

Has anyone chosen this one ?

Another favorite of mine.

Rock of Ages
Augustus M. Toplady, 1776

Rock of A-ges, cleft for me,
   Let me hide my-self in Thee;
Let the wa-ter and the blood,
   From Thy riv-en side which flowed,
Be of sin the dou-ble cure,
   Cleanse me from its guilt and power.

Not the la-bors of my hands
   Can ful-fil Thy law's de-mands;
Could my zeal no res-pite know,
   Could my tears for-ev-er flow,
All for sin could not a-tone;
   Thou must save, and Thou a-lone.

No-thing in my hand I bring,
   Sim-ply to Thy cross I cling;
Na-ked, come to Thee for dress;
   Help-less, look to Thee for grace;
Foul, I to the Foun-tain fly;
   Wash me, Sav-ior, or I die.

While I draw this fleet-ing breath,
   When mine eye-lids close in death,
When I soar to worlds un-known,
   See Thee on Thy judg-ment throne,
Rock of A-ges, cleft for me,
   Let me hide my-self in Thee.

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/r/o/rockages.htm
 

[RnMomof7]

one more...

'Tis Not that I did Choose Thee
Josiah Conder, 1836

'Tis not that I did choose Thee,
   For, Lord that could not be;
This heart would still re-fuse Thee,
   Hadst Thou not cho-sen me.
Thou from the sin that stained me
   Hast cleansed and set me free;
Of old Thou hast or-dained me,
   That I should live to Thee.

'Twas sov-ereign mer-cy called me
   And taught my o-pening mind;
The world had else en-thralled me,
   To heaven-ly glo-ries blind.
My heart owes none be-fore Thee,
   For Thy rich grace I thirst;
This know-ing, if I love Thee,
   Thou must have loved me first.

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/t/i/tisnotti.htm

[drstevej]

Awesome words. I have never run into that hymn before. Clear!

[irishtenor]

Maybe true, but Olivia Newton John was not a Calvinist!

[RnMomof7]

Awesome words. I have never run into that hymn before. Clear!

That could have been put to music by most Calvinists here. I think we have all said it ourselves enough

[RnMomof7]

Mercy Came Running by PCA trio Phillips, Craig, and Dean:



RW I just heard a Pastor say that grace LOVES sin because it comes running to it..

Praise god!!

[Dahlseide]

....This grace gives me fear, and this grace draws me near And all that it asks it provides ...

What a great line!!

[RochesterFan]

You've also had support in the last few weeks...

[Dahlseide]

There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel’s veins;
And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.
Lose all their guilty stains, lose all their guilty stains;
And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.

The dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day;
And there have I, though vile as he, washed all my sins away.
Washed all my sins away, washed all my sins away;
And there have I, though vile as he, washed all my sins away.

Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood shall never lose its power
Till all the ransomed church of God be saved, to sin no more.
Be saved, to sin no more, be saved, to sin no more;
Till all the ransomed church of God be saved, to sin no more.

E’er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply,
Redeeming love has been my theme, and shall be till I die.
And shall be till I die, and shall be till I die;
Redeeming love has been my theme, and shall be till I die.

Then in a nobler, sweeter song, I’ll sing Thy power to save,
When this poor lisping, stammering tongue lies silent in the grave.
Lies silent in the grave, lies silent in the grave;
When this poor lisping, stammering tongue lies silent in the grave.

Lord, I believe Thou hast prepared, unworthy though I be,
For me a blood bought free reward, a golden harp for me!
’Tis strung and tuned for endless years, and formed by power divine,
To sound in God the Father’s ears no other name but Thine.

There is a Fountain Filled With Blood

Copied from:
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/t/f/tfountfb.htm

Many hyms may be & are equal to this one; but none are better.

[Jerry_M]

My Lord, I Did Not Choose You
#289 in the 1991 Baptist Hymnal

My Lord, I did not choose you,
for that could never be;
my heart would still refuse you
had you not chosen me.
You took the sin that stained me,
you cleansed me, made me new;
for you, Lord, had ordained me
that I should live in you.

Unless your grace had called me
and taught my opening mind,
the world would have enthralled me,
to heavenly glories blind.
My heart knows none above you;
for you I long, I thirst,
and know that, if I love you,
Lord, you have loved me first.

[Jerry_M]

See my last.

[jude24]

I'm well aware of that... but I don't want to push my luck.