Every Hour
Sunday, April 26, 2009, 4:31 p.m. – I just listened to this hymn on CD:
I Need Thee Every Hour / Annie S. Hawks / Robert Lowry
I need Thee every hour, most gracious Lord;
No tender voice like Thine can peace afford.
I need Thee every hour; stay Thou nearby;
Temptations lose their power when Thou art nigh.
I need Thee every hour, in joy or pain;
Come quickly and abide, or life is vain.
I need Thee every hour; teach me Thy will;
And Thy rich promises in me fulfill.
I need Thee every hour, most Holy One;
O make me Thine indeed, Thou blessed Son.
Refrain:
I need Thee, O I need Thee; every hour I need Thee;
O bless me now, my Savior, I come to Thee.
I was really struggling with physical, emotional, mental and spiritual fatigue this morning, so I requested prayer for the Lord to revive, renew and refresh me in every way. I just felt like someone had pulled the plug and that every bit of energy had drained out of me.
Yet, I could hear hymns and Christian songs playing over and over again in my head. As I paid attention to the words of the songs, I could sense God’s encouraging voice ever so gently speaking to my heart – convicting, reproofing, encouraging, correcting and training me in righteousness.
Someone suggested that I read in the Psalms, so as I was turning to the Psalms, my Bible first of all fell open to this passage of scripture, which is God’s calling on my life at present – to write whatever the Lord gives me to write and to send it out:
Then, as I turned to the Psalms, the song “The Lord is My Light and My Salvation” came into my head. I knew that was based off of Psalm 27, so I turned to it:
As I was just now rereading back over this Psalm, v. 11 (as well as the other bolded verses) stood out to me. My grandchildren had taken the hymn book off of the keyboard because they were playing music yesterday, so when I placed the hymn book back on the keyboard, it opened to this hymn:
Teach Me Thy Way, O Lord / Benjamin Ramsey
Teach me Thy way, O Lord, teach me Thy way!
Thy guiding grace afford, teach me Thy way!
Help me to walk aright, more by faith, less by sight;
Lead me with heavenly light, teach me Thy way!
When I am sad at heart, teach me Thy way!
When earthly joys depart, teach me Thy way!
In hours of loneliness, in times of dire distress,
In failure or success, teach me Thy way!
When doubts and fears arise, teach me Thy way!
When storms o’erspread the skies, teach me Thy way!
Shine through the cloud and rain, through sorrow, toil and pain;
Make Thou my pathway plain, teach me Thy way!
Long as my life shall last, teach me Thy way!
Where’er my lot be cast, teach me Thy way!
Until the race is run, until the journey’s done,
Until the crown is won, teach me Thy way!
This phrase was, in particular, standing out to me:
Help me to walk aright, more by faith, less by sight
The Lord was encouraging me today to walk by faith and not by sight; to trust HIM completely; to seek HIS face; to fall in love with HIM all over again; to allow HIM to teach me HIS ways and to make HIM my magnificent obsession.
Sunday, April 26, 2009, 4:31 p.m. – I just listened to this hymn on CD:
I Need Thee Every Hour / Annie S. Hawks / Robert Lowry
I need Thee every hour, most gracious Lord;
No tender voice like Thine can peace afford.
I need Thee every hour; stay Thou nearby;
Temptations lose their power when Thou art nigh.
I need Thee every hour, in joy or pain;
Come quickly and abide, or life is vain.
I need Thee every hour; teach me Thy will;
And Thy rich promises in me fulfill.
I need Thee every hour, most Holy One;
O make me Thine indeed, Thou blessed Son.
Refrain:
I need Thee, O I need Thee; every hour I need Thee;
O bless me now, my Savior, I come to Thee.
I was really struggling with physical, emotional, mental and spiritual fatigue this morning, so I requested prayer for the Lord to revive, renew and refresh me in every way. I just felt like someone had pulled the plug and that every bit of energy had drained out of me.
Yet, I could hear hymns and Christian songs playing over and over again in my head. As I paid attention to the words of the songs, I could sense God’s encouraging voice ever so gently speaking to my heart – convicting, reproofing, encouraging, correcting and training me in righteousness.
Someone suggested that I read in the Psalms, so as I was turning to the Psalms, my Bible first of all fell open to this passage of scripture, which is God’s calling on my life at present – to write whatever the Lord gives me to write and to send it out:
Then, as I turned to the Psalms, the song “The Lord is My Light and My Salvation” came into my head. I knew that was based off of Psalm 27, so I turned to it:
As I was just now rereading back over this Psalm, v. 11 (as well as the other bolded verses) stood out to me. My grandchildren had taken the hymn book off of the keyboard because they were playing music yesterday, so when I placed the hymn book back on the keyboard, it opened to this hymn:
Teach Me Thy Way, O Lord / Benjamin Ramsey
Teach me Thy way, O Lord, teach me Thy way!
Thy guiding grace afford, teach me Thy way!
Help me to walk aright, more by faith, less by sight;
Lead me with heavenly light, teach me Thy way!
When I am sad at heart, teach me Thy way!
When earthly joys depart, teach me Thy way!
In hours of loneliness, in times of dire distress,
In failure or success, teach me Thy way!
When doubts and fears arise, teach me Thy way!
When storms o’erspread the skies, teach me Thy way!
Shine through the cloud and rain, through sorrow, toil and pain;
Make Thou my pathway plain, teach me Thy way!
Long as my life shall last, teach me Thy way!
Where’er my lot be cast, teach me Thy way!
Until the race is run, until the journey’s done,
Until the crown is won, teach me Thy way!
This phrase was, in particular, standing out to me:
Help me to walk aright, more by faith, less by sight
The Lord was encouraging me today to walk by faith and not by sight; to trust HIM completely; to seek HIS face; to fall in love with HIM all over again; to allow HIM to teach me HIS ways and to make HIM my magnificent obsession.
