Sovereign Grace Music – I Asked The Lord That I Might Grow (Guitar)

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In faith and love and ev’ry grace,

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Might more of His salvation know,

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And seek more earnestly His face.

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‘Twas He who taught me thus to pray,

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And He, I trust, has answered prayer,

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But it has been in such a way

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As almost drove me to despair.

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I hoped that in some favored hour

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At once He’d an-swer my request

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And, by His love’s constraining pow’r,

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Subdue my sins and give me rest.

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Instead of this, He made me feel

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The hidden e - vils of my heart

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And let the angry pow’rs of hell

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Assault my soul in ev’ry part.

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Yea, more with His own hand He seemed

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Intent to ag-gravate my woe,

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Crossed all the fair designs I schemed,

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Humbled my heart and laid me low.

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“Lord, why is this,” I trembling cried;

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“Wilt Thou pursue Thy worm to death?”

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“’Tis in this way,” the Lord replied,

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“I answer prayer for grace and faith.”

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“These inward trials I employ

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From self and pride to set thee free

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And break thy schemes of earthly joy

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That thou may’st find thy all in Me