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If you will only let God guide you,
And hope in Him through all your ways,
Whatever comes,
He’ll stand beside you,
To bear you through the evil days;
Who trusts in God’s unchanging love
Builds on the Rock that cannot move.
Only be still, and wait His leisure
In cheerful hope, with heart content
To take whatever
the Father’s pleasure
And all discerning love have sent;
Nor doubt our inmost
wants are known
To Him Who chose us for His own.
Sing, pray, and swerve
not from His ways,
But do your part in conscience true;
Trust His rich promises of grace,
So shall they be fulfilled in you;
God hears the call
of those in need,
The souls that trust
in Him indeed.
---Alternative verses---
What can these anxious
cares avail thee
These never ceasing
moans and sighs?
What can it help if thou bewail thee
O’er each dark moment as it flies?
Our cross and trials do but press
The heavier for our bitterness.
Be patient and await His leisure
In cheerful hope, with heart content
To take whatever thy Father’s pleasure
And His discerning love hath sent,
Nor doubt our inmost want are known
To Him who chose us for His own.
God knows full well
when time of gladness
Shall be the needful thing for thee.
When He has tried
thy soul with sadness
And from all guile has found thee free,
He comes to thee all unaware
And makes thee own His loving care.
Nor think amid the fiery trial
That God hath cast thee off unheard,
That he whose hopes meet no denial
Must surely be of God preferred.
Time passes and
much change doth bring
And set a bound to everything.
All are alike before the Highest:
’Tis easy for our God, We know,
To raise thee up, though low thou liest,
To make the rich man poor and low.
True wonders still by Him are wrought
Who setteth up and brings to naught.
Sing, pray, and keep
His ways unswerving,
Perform thy duties faithfully,
And trust His Word:
though undeserving,
Thou yet shalt find it true for thee.
God never yet forsook in need
The soul that trusted Him indeed.
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LYRICS
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Meter:
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9 8 9 8 8 8
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Writer(s):
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Dates:
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1641,1657,1855,1863
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Bible Refs:
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Ps 48:14;
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LIST OF LYRIC SOURCES
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Hymn/Song Book
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Year
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Song #
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MUSIC
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Name:
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NEUMARK
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Meter:
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9 8 9 8 8 8
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Writer(s):
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Dates:
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1641
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LIST OF MUSIC SOURCES
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Hymn/Song Book
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Song #
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Key
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| # 580 | Bb | | # 600 | Bb | | # 29 | C |
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