Dearest Mothers "Greater Joy Have I None"

Dearest Mothers,

Myself with my gospel children, Michael, Patrick and Leah with 6 month old baby Grace and a dear brother/son in Jesus, Peter went to an event in Northern Wisconsin to preach the Gospel to a few thousand people, a couple of weekends ago.
What a blessing I have! My own children with a zeal for the Truth and a great desire to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ to people everywhere!

Glory to God!

Here are a few pictures of the troops before and after the event.

Mom/Nana and her gospel children and grandchild





The whole gospel army- with Peter a beloved brother/son in the Lord Jesus Christ

Married One year and 5 months love each other deeply but Jesus First!

Uncle Michael With Baby Grace Who Thinks He's Great Fun!

Greater joy have I none than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.
(3 John 1:4)

Dearest Mother's,There Is A Famine In The Land

"Behold, the days are coming," declares the Lord GOD, "when I will send a famine on the land-- not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD. They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the LORD, but they shall not find it. (Amos 8:11-12)


Famine and Drought Of The Word Of God.

Dearest Mothers,

Can you imagine what it would be like for a person to be wandering in a desert looking for water to satisfy his unquenchable thirst? I think it would be agonizing and extremely frightening to think of the reality, without that life saving water death is certain.

But let's think of this person again, wandering and staggering sometimes even falling... when suddenly at the next turn, a fresh deep pond of spring water! The thirsty one looks on in amazement and says, "Oh I heard about this water, but it's not exactly what I wanted, I want something a little more exciting and thrilling something more to my liking. I don't really think this water will satisfy my needs." So instead of drinking he goes on, passing it by, to his death.

It is utterly foolish to pass by a life giving source, especially if it is the ONLY source of life!
Yet, dear mothers, that is what most people are doing. God warns us of the dearth that is coming, and is now come. It is a dearth for the Word of God. Oh one might refute or argue and say there are more Bibles today then in all the history of mankind... this is probably true, which makes this warning far more serious. It is a willing ignorance of the Word of God. People everywhere are choosing man's word over God's Word. Please consider this warning as a loving plea to battle for the truth of God's Word and the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. Ask GOD to show you and teach you what He says, and forsake the false teaching of man, the humanists call their teaching the way of acceptance and love, when in truth it is the way of perversion and death.

I would like to shout this over the house tops! Mothers! Teach your children the Word of God!!! Drink of the deep clear living Water, let your children drink deeply as well... it is rejuvenating, it gives life and substance to us. Nothing else can satisfy, nothing else can sustain life, nothing else is worthy. The Gospel, The Living Word is what you and I need for life now and for all eternity.

Here is a very, very good explanation of Amos:11-12 from John Gill's commentary:

Now, to be deprived of hearing the Gospel is a spiritual famine, for that is food, bread, meat, milk, honey, yea, a feast; it is food that is savoury, wholesome, nourishing, satisfying, strengthening, and comforting; and when this is took away a famine ensues, as when a church state is dissolved, ministers are ordered to preach no more in such a place, or are scattered by persecution, or removed by death, and none raised up in their stead; or when error prevails, to the suppressing of truth: all which is done, or suffered to be done, for indifference to the word of God, unfruitfulness under it, and contempt of it, and, opposition to it; which is a dreadful case, when such a famine is; for the glory, riches, and light of a nation, are gone; bread for their souls is no more; and the means of conversion, knowledge, comfort, &c. cease; and people in course must die, for lack of these things; see Isa_3:1.

...for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water. (Jeremiah 2:13)


O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living water.

(Jeremiah 17:13)

Let us be serious about our spiritual walk with Jesus Christ. let us forsake the silly foolish attractions that satan means to use against us to keep us from reading the Word of God and from knowing the Lord Jesus Christ. Drink of the fountain of LIFE

Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
(John 4:13-14)

Dearest Mothers, Meandering Is An Awful Way Of Life.

What an awful life for those who have not
fixed their goal on knowing Jesus Christ the Lord!

Meandering: To move aimlessly and idly without fixed direction: vagabonds meandering through life.


Have you ever tried to walk in a straight line across a field? The only way to walk straight across would be to fix your eyes on a post or object and not look away. To look away from the object would cause you to meander from the goal. Had you no fixed point you would meander across, there is not any way you could go straight.

A compass has a fixed point, North. If it had no fixed point it would be useless to the lost person in the woods or wilderness, or for whom one would locate the way they intend to go.

God has given us a fixed point in life so we can live without meandering and confusion. He has given HIMSELF as a fixed point to set our eyes on.

Here are some examples in Scripture to shew you what I mean:

And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the great and first commandment. (Matthew 22:37)




If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth.(Colossians 3:1-4)



I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
(Philippians 3:14)


Dearest Mothers,

Teach you children to fix their thought and mind on Jesus Christ the Lord. Teach them to love Him and worship Him with all their heart.


Teach your children their need to be saved from their sin. Teach of their deceitful and wicked hearts: (The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9) Teach them that it is only through Jesus Christ they may be saved.


Here are your options In LIFE: The World or Jesus Christ the Lord. . . There is NO Middle ground!

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vain glory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
(1 John 2:15-17)


What will you teach your children? What will they become because of your teaching? Meanders, double minded, or people of faith in Jesus Christ with strength, who understand and fix their minds and eyes on the Most High God our Lord Jesus Christ?
My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing, yea, I will sing praises. (Psalms 57:7)

Pray for wisdom from God to teach you how to raise your children for Him. Keep in His Word, submit to Him, obey Him... He will surely help you.

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.(James 1:5-8)


Fix your mind on the eternal things! Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth. (Colossians 3:2)

I pray for you dear Mothers.
In His love,
Sarah

How My Grandchildren Saved My Life. A Spiritual Lesson.

I noticed the current was a bit stronger from heavy rain-fall.

I was familiar with the lay-out of the rocks and current..(So I thought.)

Dearest Mothers,

Have you ever had an opportunity to swim with water falls near you, or even play in the falls? Well where we live in Wisconsin there is a beautiful National Park that has a flowing river with several types of water falls.
We have lived near this area for many years now and have played in the flowing river under the larger and smaller water falls many times. It is a marvelous place to swim!
This past week, on Monday, July 18, I took two of my grandchildren, 12 and almost 11 years old, to this park for a swim. We made our way to the favorite swimming spot. There are three layers of falls there, we like the last and second layers... the last layer has small falls that are so fun to splash and swim in... then there is the second layer, you have to climb up and over the rocks to get to it. The day we were there I noticed the currant was a bit stronger due to heavier rain fall recently. Yet, I had been there many times over, I was very familiar with the rock lay-out and the current, (At least so I thought.). My 12 year old grandson jumped over a current to a rock and encouraged his sister and I to follow his example. I thought it wasn't needful to jump over since I had been through the current there before... so I just stepped into it. Ops! What happened next I will never forget, it makes me feel weak even as I tell you about it... The current was Much Stronger then I had anticipated, I began to be swept away by it into some very large rocks and the smaller falls! I reached for the rock my grandson was on only it was slippery, but he very quickly reached out and grabbed my arm! My granddaughter on the other side reached her leg out and supported my leg from moving out under me. I have never felt so helpless and weak, the currant was much stronger than I and it was pulling me backwards. I made a weak "help" when it seems my grandson came to life, with strength beyond his years he began to pull me up onto the rock, I did my best to help the effort until somehow I found myself safe on the rock! We went on to the second layer of falls from there, crossing only where there was not a current and had a fabulous time playing there.
On our way home I mentioned to them both how God gave them strength to help me, and thanked them many times. I told their Mother, Uncle, friends and neighbors... the look in my grandsons eyes was priceless when I would conclude," They saved my life."

It was really my fault for getting into that situation. I was not careful enough knowing the currents were stronger, I should have been more cautious. My mistake was that I leaned on the familiar, I had been there before with the current strong, not realizing it was much stronger than I had ever experienced.


I have been thinking about the spiritual lessons to learn from this experience. I'm still feeling shaky inside from it realizing how quickly our lives can be snuffed out from a foolish and silly decision to lean on the familiar.

There are many spiritual lessons I can apply to this. Perhaps you can think of some too, if so please feel free to share them with us in a comment...
One lesson that stands out to me the most is that in my spiritual walk, I need to live soberly, and in godly fear...

You Mothers who love the Lord Jesus, please be careful. Keep close to Jesus Christ. Is there any familiar thing you are leaning on that many not be pleasing to God... These things can lead to a deadly current.. Yes Jesus our Lord can pull you out at your cry of help... but it is better to walk in fear and trembling making sure you are doing what God leads you to do by His Spirit through prayer and His Word. Do you not know troublesome times are coming? Ask God to prepare you for what is ahead. Seek Jesus, seek Him to teach you His way... You are safe in Him as you let Him lead you. Seek the Lord Jesus Christ, dear Mothers.

God bless you as you strive to know our Lord Jesus Christ better... thus doing we become more careful, sweeter and gentler as a wife and mother!

Let's keep praising Jesus! Let us walk carefully looking to Him for direction!
In His love,
Sarah



Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
(Psalms 2:11)

Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
(Philippians 2:12)

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
(Proverbs 3:5-8)


Listen to this sermon by Paul Washer: "The Crushing Of Christ" It may be a sermon you are not familiar with.... Take the time and listen!

Mothers, Are We Losing The Rich Old Hymns To Sing Songs?

Dearest Mothers,

Oh I have been praying and thinking of so many things to share with you! I find as I'm busy with my prayer walks very often something will come to mind and I'd like to run to the computer and type it out immediately. However, it so often happens during my prayer walks and I don't want to leave that sweet time I'm having with my Lord Jesus, it's just too wonderful of a time! Remember the song: " I Come to The Garden Alone?" Well the last verse says; "I'd stay in the garden with Him though the night around me be falling, But He bides me go; through the voice of woe, His voice to me is calling"... the great chorus continues; " And He walks with me and HE talks with me and He tells me I am His own, and the joy we share and we tarry there, none other has ever known."

Actually, dear mothers, I am so blessed to have had a mother that taught me old Hymns as I was growing up. Where ever I am, (or go) Hymns pop up into my mind and I can sing many of the verses. Oh what a comfort they are to me!

When the Lord Jesus saved me 21 years ago and began to teach me much needed lessons, He brought those old Hymns to my memory. I began to teach them to my youngest children as my mother had taught them to me. Now that they are grown they know about as many as I do which may be a comfort to them someday.

My mother left me a legacy of old hymn knowledge, I love old hymns.

Much can be said about hymns that glorify God... The words of most of the old hymns are DEEP. The words of most of the old hymns have great substance!
The music put to them are usually pleasant and easily sung. When singing them one can express great depths of praise to God.


I know that there are many newer songs that Christians really enjoy and delight to sing. But there is a problem that is very evident and happening to many, many Christian families and their children... they are losing the meaningful and deep hymns.
I don't know if that bothers you, but it does me. The new songs can be glorifying to God and allot of fun to sing.. they can stir feelings of excitement and emotion to a person but what about the words? If you will take a truthful look at the words of those songs you will discover repetition, repetition, repetition and honestly, why?

In the old Hymns often times there is repetition of the chorus, but the verses are deep and obviously given by God through His Spirit...

See the words of this beautiful Hymn:

Jesus Thy Blood and Righteousness
By: Nicolaus Von Zinzidorf 1739

Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness
My beauty are, my glorious dress;
’Midst flaming worlds, in these arrayed,
With joy shall I lift up my head.


Bold shall I stand in Thy great day;
For who aught to my charge shall lay?
Fully absolved through these I am
From sin and fear, from guilt and shame.


The holy, meek, unspotted Lamb,
Who from the Father’s bosom came,
Who died for me, e’en me to atone,
Now for my Lord and God I own.


Lord, I believe Thy precious blood,
Which, at the mercy seat of God,
Forever doth for sinners plead,
For me, e’en for my soul, was shed.


When from the dust of death I rise
To claim my mansion in the skies,
Ev’n then this shall be all my plea,
Jesus hath lived, hath died, for me.


Jesus, the endless praise to Thee,
Whose boundless mercy hath for me—
For me a full atonement made,
An everlasting ransom paid.


O let the dead now hear Thy voice;
Now bid Thy banished ones rejoice;
Their beauty this, their glorious dress,
Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness.

To hear the song go here and play the midi file:
http://www.biblestudycharts.com/SH_Jesus_Thy_Blood.html


Dear sweet mothers, here is a challenge for you.. teach your children the old hymns!

Start with this one, learn it and teach it! you will be doing your children a great kindness. This hymns is deep and involved, but not too hard to learn. Your children will really love it in days ahead.

Just one more thing... the hymns just might not appeal to you nor your family. If you feed your children candy and sweets all the time they won't feel like eating the good nutritional foods. The newer praise songs are more like the sweets.. the Hymns nutritional! Take the time, feed on some good soul rich food!

I hope to post more Hymns for a challenge for you to learn...
Let me know how you are doing!

In our Saviors love,

Sarah

To Women---A Message For You Who Are Weary Of Sin.

Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." (John 4:13-14)

Here is a message to you that I pray will speak to your heart and minds. It is an earnest plea for you all to know the Savior in truth. Time is short, eternity is forever.

If you already know the way of salvation and are a child of God, please pray and proclaim this message to other women:

If you are longing to be free from sin- look to the Lamb of God! Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God which takes away the sin of the World! He came to earth, yes He came earth to redeem you, free you when He died at Calvary. He, Jesus Christ, knew no sin-- He is sinless, He is perfect-- HE NEVER sinned, but you have sinned. All have sinned and cannot reach God's glory-- WE fall short of His glory. Jesus Christ, who never sinned, became sin for us on the cross- for you, for me. He suffered on the cross bearing your sin, God the Father poured out His anger and wrath upon Jesus. Jesus Christ took your punishment on the cross, took your hell. He took what you and I deserve, He took it all for you on His body on the wooden cross. His suffering was so incredibly great that none of us can even begin to understand what HE suffered for us. He suffered until God the Father was satisfied that is was sufficient. Justice was given. Our just and holy God poured just punishment on Jesus as HE took our sin on His body on that wooden cross. OUR punishment is what He took, our griefs and sorrows. He was chastised for us... He is the Lamb- the Sacrifice Lamb-- He laid down His life for us as a sacrifice for our sin. Jesus Christ shed His blood and died. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, takes away the sin of the World.

Now we can be saved! Saved from God's fearsome wrath! BUT He cannot save you if you do not believe in Him, nor are ashamed of your sins to repent of them. Jesus commands that all people repent of their sins and believe the GOOD NEWS of salvation!

Jesus Christ died for us on the cross.. He is God in the flesh- no man took His life from Him- He laid down His life for us willingly as a sin sacrifice for you and me.-He arose from the dead! The grave could not hold Him He is alive forever more! He arose from the dead! Up from the grave He arose! With a mighty triumph over His foes- He arose the victor from the dark domain and He lives forever with His saints to reign! Hallelujah Christ arose!

Are you longing to be free? Jesus said ,"Come unto me." ... "Come unto me and I will give you rest."... "Come unto me all you who are weary and oppressed" .. "Come unto me and I will give you rest." Are you weary? Are you heavy laden? Are you sore distressed? Jesus said, "Come unto me and I will give you rest."

Have you any room for Jesus? He bore your load of sin-- sinner, will you turn to Him? Do you have room for pleasure- room for business- But no room for the one who bore your load of sin? No place that He can enter in the heart for which He died?

The chiefest of sinners Jesus Christ will save if he will turn to JESUS and Believe. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved! Confess with your mouth that Jesus is God-confess HE died for you- you deserve hell but He took it for you- repent- believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead and you will be saved!

Jesus Christ wants to redeem you Oh sinner- He wants to save you!

BUT how can He save you if you do not believe in Him? How can He save you if you take for granted His sacrifice for you on the cross?-If you do not care? If you trample under foot His blood?

Can you be saved if you simply say a prayer and then go your way and continue to sin and not care? Can He save you if you refuse to admit you are a sinner? Can He save you if you blaspheme His holy name by proclaiming to be a Christian yet live just as wickedly as those who do not profess to be a Christian?

Jesus Christ said, " You must be born again." He told us He would send His Comforter- His Spirit, even the Holy Spirit! Those who have faith and believe in Jesus are children of God, His Spirit comes to dwell in the heart of those Who believe, they become "Born again." Born now of the Spirit of God. The believer becomes the temple of the living God!
One who is a true Christian has the Spirit of God dwelling in them. God's Word says that they become a new creature, old things are passed away and behold all things are become new!
True Christians cannot continue to live in willful sin because the Spirit of God grieves within for the sin. They feel the grief and are truly repentant and sorry for sin they have done. A person that God saves changes from not caring to caring--from blindness of sin to sight of sin. Life style changes as God shows them their sins. That person becomes free from sin as God gives him power and strength to not sin as they live daily in faith and trust in Him!

Jesus said. "No man can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other or he will love the one and hate the other." " You cannot serve God and mammon."
Mammon represents love for the World, the flesh and anything that becomes more important to you then God.
If you love to get drunk, commit fornication or adultery, or are sexually impure, are a homosexual, or love to plunge into pleasures of this World, If you steel, hate, lie or use God's Name in vain, love anything above God, you are a servant of satan. Satan is your master- - If you continue in this way until you die, you will perish in hell fire.

Jesus came to set you free! He came to set the captive free!

You cannot save yourself. All your good works are as filthy rags before God. NO! There is not any one who is righteous, no not one! No one is good, no one is sinless-- Except for Jesus Christ! You cannot save yourself.

Do not think the good you have done can out-weigh the bad you have done. When you die and stand before God the Judge what will say? "I've done allot of good, I'm not as bad as other people.". . . God makes it clear that your good works cannot save you. God says your sins have separated you from God. How many sins does it take to separate us from God? ONE SIN! But you and I have sinned many times-- sin is disobedience to God. His law gives us an idea of sin and reveals to us what sin is. God says, "You shall not lie" ... HE continues to tell us not to steel, not to commit adultery, not to covet, not to murder, not to take God's Name in vain. He says to honor your Father and Mother, He says to love Him and worship Him above anything or any other. Jesus said to look on someone with lust is equal to committing adultery or fornication. He said if you hate someone in your heart it is equal to murder. You and I have disobeyed God...that is called sin.

The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin-- for those who believe in Him and repent of their sin. He is our only hope--- Jesus Christ the Lord.

Jesus said He is the way and the truth and the life, no man can come unto the Father but by Him. He is the only Name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved...

Do you understand this?

The fool has said in his heart, "there is no God." Oh do not be a fool! God has some very serious things to say about fools-- they have no wisdom, shame shall be the promotion of fools.

There is not any hope for you if you refuse Jesus Christ the Lord. Desolation, distress and anguish will come to those who hate knowledge and who do not choose the fear of the Lord.
Receive God's Word! Apply His Word to your heart to to understand. Find the knowledge of God, He keeps the paths of judgement and preserves the way of His people. Do not walk in darkness and delight in the forwardness of the wicked. These are paths of the dead, the dead who have not any life in them. Do not forsake mercy and truth. Trust in Jesus Christ the Lord.. fear God!
Turn from your sinful ways and Be wise now! You will never regret it! You will find rich blessings and know the Lord Jesus Christ. Peace, life and truth, joy eternal that cannot be compared to anything earthly.

Once I was foolish and sinned ruled my heart. My life and living were not pleasing to God, I was an enemy of God. I was proud and self righteous. But Jesus found me! Found me as a lost sheep astray from the sheep fold. He opened my understanding, He let me see--

"Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned--every one--to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all."(Isaiah 53:4-6)

My iniquity- my sin was placed upon Jesus Christ. He shed His blood for me. How can I turn my back on such a Savior? I believed in my heart and repented of my sin now I am free from the slavery to sin and satan.

Oh come to the Lord Jesus Christ! He said, "Come unto me all who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest." Do not turn your back on such a Savior! No! Turn your back on your sinful life! Turn from your pride-- turn from your own works/efforts for salvation. Turn from eternal death, darkness and damnation and come to Eternal Life and Light!

You are in darkness and you do not even know it. You are sin sick and you do not even realize it. You are a slave to satan and you so not even understand that.
Turn from the old sinful way, repent!- Turn to Jesus Christ! Let Him give you freedom and true Life and Truth!

Jesus said, "I have come to give you life and life more abundant" This is new life! Freedom to not sin! Liberty from bondage of sin.

O He freed me! Oh the pure joy of knowing Jesus. I love His name, Jesus Christ the Lord. He died for me to set me free! What joy and comfort He gives, rest to the weary, peace and joy. Jesus is all the world to me. Jesus is the Rock in a storm, we can hide in Him. He is a shelter in the time of storm. Jesus is a shade by day and defense by night, He is our helper, our safe haven, our safe retreat. Do you know Him?

Jesus Christ the Lord is the Rock in a weary land. Come to Jesus. Come safe to the Rock that is higher then you are. Run to Him! Seek Him! Ask Him to save you. Beg Him for understanding and faith in Him.

Jesus said:
Ask and keep on asking ..

Seek and keep on seeking..

Knock and keep on knocking...

For everyone who asks receives, and He who seeks shall find, to him who knocks the door shall be opened.

Do you want to know Him but don't know how? If you are truly desiring to be saved and in your heart you know what God says is true and want Jesus to save you... Do this... Ask Him! Go to Him and let Him know. Ask Him for understanding and faith in Jesus Christ. Repent of your sins! Let Him know you understand how sinful you are and want Him to save you. Ask Jesus Christ the Lord to wash your sins away with His blood and save you. I cannot tell you how to pray but only point you to the cross and say, talk to Jesus. Please read your Bible if you have one, start in the gospel of John and ask God to talk to you. If you don't have one ask me and I'll send one to you. If you desire to contact me, leave a comment, I will keep it private and contact you back.

God bless you who are His!
In His love forever,
Sarah

"O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing" 18 verses, by Charles Wesley

O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing

O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing (see v.7)
by Charles Wesley

Glory to God, and praise and love
Be ever, ever given,
By saints below and saints above,
The church in earth and heaven.

On this glad day the glorious Sun
Of Righteousness arose;
On my benighted soul He shone
And filled it with repose.

Sudden expired the legal strife,
’Twas then I ceased to grieve;
My second, real, living life
I then began to live.

Then with my heart I first believed,
Believed with faith divine,
Power with the Holy Ghost received
To call the Savior mine.

I felt my Lord’s atoning blood
Close to my soul applied;
Me, me He loved, the Son of God,
For me, for me He died!

I found and owned His promise true,
Ascertained of my part,
My pardon passed in heaven I knew
When written on my heart.

O for a thousand tongues to sing
My great (orig. dear) Redeemer’s praise,
The glories of my God and King,
The triumphs of his grace!

My gracious Master and my God,
Assist me to proclaim,
To spread through all the earth abroad
The honors of Thy name.

Jesus! The name that charms our fears,
That bids our sorrows cease;
‘Tis music in the sinner’s ears,
‘Tis life, and health, and peace.

He breaks the power of canceled sin,
He sets the prisoner free;
His blood can make the foulest clean,
His blood availed for me.

He speaks, and, listening to his voice,
New life the dead receive,
The mournful, broken hearts rejoice,
The humble poor believe.

Hear Him, ye deaf, His praise, ye dumb,
Your loosened tongues employ;
Ye blind, behold your Savior come,
And leap, ye lame, for joy.

Look unto Him, ye nations, own
Your God, ye fallen race;
Look, and be saved through faith alone,
Be justified by grace.

See all your sins on Jesus laid:
The Lamb of God was slain,
His soul was once an offering made
For every soul of man.

Harlots and publicans and thieves
In holy triumph join!
Saved is the sinner that believes
From crimes as great as mine.

Murderers and all ye hellish crew
Ye sons of lust and pride,
Believe the Savior died for you;
For me the Savior died.

Awake from guilty nature’s sleep,
And Christ shall give you light,
Cast all your sins into the deep,
And wash the Æthiop white.

With me, your chief, ye then shall know,
Shall feel your sins forgiven;
Anticipate your heaven below,