What are some of your favorite hymns?

[FearlessHeart]

I have a lot of favorites. Anything by William Cowper I really like. I'll post some if this thread has some interest. Share a few lines or the whole thing if you'd like. I'm interested to know what everyone else likes, sans contemporary stuff.

 

[drew89]

Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb
Are you fully trusting in His grace this hour
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb

 

[FearlessHeart]

Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb
Are you fully trusting in His grace this hour
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb

 

[Miss Spaulding]

It is Well With My Soul

It's always been my favorite. But I have many, many hymns that I love. I grew up on hymns, sooo...

 

[Going Merry]

Dont think Ive heard a hymn before.

 

[ambelle]

Come Thou Fount - David Crowder Band (with lyrics) - YouTube

Just a Little Talk With Jesus [Live] - YouTube

 

[SnowyMacie]

It Is Well With My Soul
How Great Thou Art
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
Revive us Again
On Christ The Solid Rock/My Hope is Built on Nothing Less
Lamb of God
And Can it Be
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Holy, Holy, Holy
728B!* (Our God, He is Alive)



*That's an inside joke in my denomination

 

[FearlessHeart]

Here are some of my favorites from Cowper
There is a fountain

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.

My song shall bless The Lord


Of all the crowns Jehovah bears,
Salvation is His dearest claim;
That gracious sound well-pleased He hears,
And owns Emmanuel for His name.

 

[FearlessHeart]

My favorite hymn of all. I get chills just thinking about it.

Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
O what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.

 

[SnowyMacie]

My favorite hymn of all. I get chills just thinking about it. If interested you should look up Vestal Goodman doing this one.

Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
O what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.

We sang that at my grandmother's funeral. Even though I really wasn't close to her, I'm still uncomfortable around that song a little over a year later.

 

[FearlessHeart]

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[exitstageright]

I have a lot of favorites. Anything by William Cowper I really like. I'll post some if this thread has some interest. Share a few lines or the whole thing if you'd like. I'm interested to know what everyone else likes, sans contemporary stuff.

I was raised in a Southern Baptist church.The songs did not mean that much to me.My father,who was a Deacon,always told us kids,"You all were going to church before you were born." This meant that our mom was going to church while pregnant. Some people have a theory that the fetus can hear while in the womb. This could explain why I love music so much.

Last month,I visited the church that I went to,from the age of 8 to 18.
That was only 10 years,but as a child and a teenager,those 10 tears seemed like a l-l-l-l-long time!

Last month was the church's 70th annivesary. Now,after living a little,and being 59 years old,these old songs mean a lot to me.We all sang "Blessed Asurance." I sang without any emotion. But, while we were singing"We've Come This Far By By Faith",and" I 'm Will Trust In The Lord"( until I die),
my eyes welled up with tears. I just could not stop crying.

Well,here are the lyrics to those two songs.


We've come this far by faith
Leaning on the Lord
Trusting in His Holy word
He never failed me yet
Oh'......oh.......oh Can't Turn Around
We've come this far by faith



- I Will Trust In The Lord
I Will Trust In The Lord
I will trust in the Lord
Until I die
(repeat)

I'm gonna stay on the battlefield
I'm gonna stay on the battlefield
I'm gonna stay on the battlefield
Until I die
(repeat)

I'm gonna treat everybody right
I'm gonna treat everybody right
I'm gonna treat everybody right
Until I die
(repeat)

I will trust in the Lord
I will trust in the Lord
I will trust in the Lord
Until I................. die

 

[exitstageright]

I have a lot of favorites. Anything by William Cowper I really like. I'll post some if this thread has some interest. Share a few lines or the whole thing if you'd like. I'm interested to know what everyone else likes, sans contemporary stuff.

One song,that I would like to be played at my funeral,is a song composed by Albert E. Brumley in 1929. He was in a cotten field at the time.


Some bright morning when this life is over
I'll fly away
To that home on Gods celestial shore
I'll fly away

I'll fly away, oh glory
I'll fly away in the morning
When I die hallelujah by and by
I'll fly away

When the shadows of this life have gone
I'll fly away
Like a bird from these prison walls I'll fly
I'll fly away

I'll fly away, oh glory
I'll fly away in the morning
When I die hallelujah by and by
I'll fly away

Oh how glad and happy when we meet
I'll fly away
No more cold iron shackles on my feet
I'll fly away

I'll fly away oh glory
I'll fly away in the morning
When I die hallelujah by and by
I'll fly away

I'll fly away oh glory
I'll fly away in the morning
When I die hallelujah by and by
I'll fly away

Just a few more weary days and then
I'll fly away
To a land where joys will never end
I'll fly away

I'll fly away oh glory
I'll fly away in the morning
When I die hallelujah by and by
I'll fly away
I'll fly away

 

[trentlogain2]

it is well with my soul

be still my soul

 

[SnowyMacie]

It is Well With My Soul

It's always been my favorite. But I have many, many hymns that I love. I grew up on hymns, sooo...

it is well with my soul

Do you guys know about the writing of that song or at least the lyrics?

 

[trentlogain2]

something about a man's family going overseas on a ship and the ship sank. most of (if not all) the guy's family died. anyway, some how word got back to him about the death of them and he later penned the lyrics to it.
i used to have a book that explained the stories behind great hymns.

 

[Miss Spaulding]

Do you guys know about the writing of that song or at least the lyrics?

Yes.

something about a man's family going overseas on a ship and the ship sank. most of (if not all) the guy's family died. anyway, some how word got back to him about the death of them and he later penned the lyrics to it.
i used to have a book that explained the stories behind great hymns.

Horatio G. Spafford wrote the song.

Several tragic incidents, such the great Chicago fire which completely decimated property he had invested in, lead up to his writing the hymn. In 1873 he planned to travel with his wife and four daughters on the ship SS Ville du Havre, but plans changed at the last minute, so he stayed behind to finish whatever business was delaying him but sent his wife and daughters ahead. While crossing the Atlantic the ship struck another ship and sank; most everyone aboard died. Spafford heard the news and waited for any word about the survivors. Eventually he got a telegram from his wife that simply said..."Saved alone." All four daughters died. Spafford then traveled with his wife to the very spot where the ship sank and penned the lyrics to 'It Is Well With My Soul' then and there.

 

[pressingon17]

Be thou my vision
Thou fount of every blessing

Those songs move me.

 

[singlecandle]

Abide with me
Fast falls the eventide
The darkness deepens,
Lord, with me abide.

 

[anewday]

It is Well with My Soul