Podcasts about i need thee every hour

PreludeWelcome & News of the ChurchCall to WorshipOpening Hymn - (#468) "Be Thou My Vision"Confession, Assurance, and Gloria PatriMinute for MissionPraise SongsSermon - "Gratitude: As a Way of Life" (Philippians 1:1–6) - by Rev. Jason GrifficeHymn of Response - (#443) "I Need Thee Every Hour" (verses 1, 2, & 3)Receiving of Our Tithes and OfferingsOffertoryReceiving and Dedication of Our Stewardship PledgesDoxologyPrayers of the PeopleClosing Hymn - (#363) "To God Be the Glory"BenedictionPostludeBe Thou My VisionBe Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart; Nought be all else to me, save that Thou art—Thou my best thought, by day or by night, Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light. Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word; I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord; Thou my great Father, I Thy true son; Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one. Riches I heed not, nor man's empty praise, Thou mine inheritance, now and always: Thou and Thou only, first in my heart, High King of heaven, my Treasure Thou art. High King of heaven, my victory won, May I reach heaven's joys, O bright heaven's Sun! Heart of my own heart, whatever befall, Still be my Vision, O Ruler of all. Amen. I Need Thee Every HourI need Thee every hour, Most gracious Lord; No tender voice like ThineCan peace afford. CHORUS: I need Thee, O I need Thee; Every hour I need Thee! O bless me now, my Savior—I come to Thee. I need Thee every hour, Stay Thou near by; Temptations lose their powerWhen Thou art nigh. [CHORUS]I need Thee every hour, In joy or pain; Come quickly, and abide, Or life is vain. [CHORUS]To God Be the GloryTo God be the glory—great things He hath done! So loved He the world that He gave us His Son, Who yielded His life an atonement for sin, And opened the lifegate that all may go in. CHORUS:Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, Let the earth hear His voice! Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, Let the people rejoice! O come to the Father thru Jesus the Son, And give Him the glory—great things He hath done. O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood, To every believer the promise of God; The vilest offender who truly believes, That moment from Jesus a pardon receives. [CHORUS]Great things He hath taught us, great things He hath done, And great our rejoicing through Jesus the Son; But purer, and higher, and greater will be Our wonder, our transport, when Jesus we see. [CHORUS]

Today, we delved into the profound teachings of Jesus found in Matthew 5:3, where he declares, "God blesses those who are poor and realise their need for him, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs." This beatitude sets the stage for a life-altering perspective on our relationship with God. Martin recited the beautiful hymn, "I Need Thee Every Hour" by Annie Sherwood Hawks. The lyrics echoed the sentiment of our utter dependence on God and the recognition that only in Him can we find true peace and strength. We explored the Greek word for "poor," which is "ptochos." This term goes beyond financial poverty; it encompasses a humble acknowledgment of our destitution without God. It means to crouch, fall, be frightened, and even to beg. It signifies being lowly, afflicted, and lacking in eternal riches. Jesus assures us that those who recognize their profound need for Him are supremely blessed, fortunate, and happy. Our posture before the King matters. Jesus, the King of kings, calls us to approach Him with humility and an understanding of our complete dependence on His sacrifice for our salvation. The Beatitudes serve as a map guiding us to Jesus, who is the way. We reflected on Psalm 86, where David exemplifies the posture we should adopt before the throne of God—bowing down, seeking His protection, and acknowledging God's unfailing love and mercy. David understood that our life depends on God. The apostle Paul, in Philippians 4:10-20, emphasized contentment in every situation. Whether abased or abounding, Paul found strength in Christ and declared that God would supply all our needs according to His riches in glory. In conclusion, the essence of Matthew 5:3 is that the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those who humbly realize their need for God. It's not about our achievements but about what Jesus has done. From a posture of humility, we are elevated to possess and live in the kingdom of God. So, let us ask ourselves: How do we approach the King? Is Jesus truly our everything? The Kingdom of Heaven is yours, not by anything you've done but because of Jesus. From a posture of lowness, we are raised to a position of possessing and living in the Kingdom of God. We are all in need of Him. May we continue to approach our King with humility, recognising our need for Him in every hour of our lives.

On this special bonus episode of Knowing Hymn, Steve shares one of his compositions: a unique setting of the text of "I Need Thee Every Hour."

This week on Knowing Hymn, we talk about hymn #98, I Need Thee Every Hour with text by Annie S. Hawkes and music by Robert Lowry. Hear about the remarkable housewife who wrote over 400 hymn text and brought us these beautiful words of joy and comfort. Our hymn this week corresponds with the Come, Follow Me reading in Hebrews 1-6. Join us as we discuss our gracious, all-knowing, and all-compassionate Savior. Connect with us! Website: KnowingHymn.weebly.com Facebook Group: Knowing Hymn Instagram: KnowingHymn Twitter@ KnowingHymn Email: knowinghymn@gmail.com Check out Steve's other podcast, Moveable Do, where he interviews living composers about their lives, their musical journeys, and, of course, their music.

Chris and Jason discuss the message from Week 4 of the, I Need Thee Every Hour, series.

Message from the series, I Need Thee Every Hour, from Luke 21:34-36.

Chris and Jason discuss the message from Week 3 of the, I Need Thee Every Hour, series.

Message from the series, I Need Thee Every Hour, from Luke 10:38-42.  

Chris and Jason and Jason discuss the message from Week 2 of the, I Need Thee Every Hour, series.

Message from the series, I Need Thee Every Hour, from Matthew 11:25-30. 

Chris and Jason and Jason discuss the message from Week 1 of the, I Need Thee Every Hour, series.

Message from the series, I Need Thee Every Hour,  from Matthew 6:25-34.

Second Sunday after Pentecost June 11, 2023 Faith, Okemos Hosea 5:15-6:6, Psalm 50:7-15, Romans 4:13-35. Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26 Grace to you and peace… It was Friday morning.  Lola lay in her bed at Independence Village in Grand Ledge crying out, “Help me! Help me! Help me!”  Lola, now in her mid-90's, is dying. Author Anne Lamott has written, “Here are the two best prayers I know:  ‘Help me, help me, help me' and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.'” When I read the scriptures to Lola like the 23rd Psalm and Psalm 46 and Matthew 11 in which Jesus says,  “Come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest…”  she both haltingly and forcefully said them with me, totally by memory.  I don't know that I've ever heard those passages spoken more powerfully. Then seemingly out of the blue she began to speak the words of an old hymn, “I Need Thee Every Hour.” I need Thee every hour Most gracious Lord No tender voice like Thine Can peace afford.     I need Thee, O I need Thee Every hour I need Thee O bless me now, my Savior I come to Thee.   That was the beginning of our little concert together which also included “What A Friend We Have in Jesus.”  In the midst of this, Bruce, one of Lola's children arrived, together with a granddaughter Jennifer, her husband Tom, and their little son.  Amidst abundant tears and hugs, a trio was formed, Jennifer joining Lola and me in “Jesus Loves Me” and “You are My Sunshine.”  Then with hands joined we prayed the Lord's Prayer. Over and over, Lola said, “Thank You.”  She said that to us, but I thought in my heart that in those moments we got to be Jesus for her and with her. I think both Anne Lamott and Lola capture the essence of prayer.  It is “help me” and “thank you.” Five years ago I was with my sister, Jean, when she died.  We were together in the ICU  in Cleveland Clinic much of the last two weeks of her life.  I know we both talked a lot and were silent a lot.  We prayed together.  But in hindsight I wished I'd have thought to sing with her.  Jean had a beautiful voice and was an accomplished pianist and organist. I just didn't think of doing that. Mindful of that regret again, I returned to visit Lola Friday afternoon with an old Service Book and Hymnal.  We sang hymns ‘til I sensed that maybe now this was more for me than for Lola. Amidst a coughing spelling she said “this has been so fun” …and we sang one more hymn.  I asked if she was ready to sleep.  And after quiet prayers for help and words of gratitude, she closed her eyes in sleep. Afterword, I thought about Lola and her family and about the gospel reading for today.   I think Lola's repeated cry for help was also the cry in the hearts of the hated tax collectors who collected money for the Roman Empire and often kept more than was legal for themselves.  I think her cry for help was in the hearts of the morally despicable, the sinners, who together with the tax collectors sat with Jesus and his disciples for dinner at Matthew's home.  Unlike the Pharisees, a spiritually elite group living always on the edge of self-righteousness (They may have often thought and sometimes said “We are the good, law-bidding people”)…Unlike the Pharisees the tax collectors and sinners they knew they were corrupt and immoral.  But as Anne Lamott also writes, with God there are sometimes experience beyond the fervent, anguished need for help and sometimes another experiences beyond our expressions of thanksgiving for the grace Jesus so freely gives.  Anne calls those experiences moments of “wow.”  My “wow” on Friday was when Lola kept amazing me with her vivid memory.  When I told Lola how amazing she was, she quietly responded, “Well, not that good.”  But for me it was a ‘wow.” “Wow” must have been felt in the hearts and minds of those dining with Jesus at Matthew's home…wonderful, liberating feelings and thoughts like “With him we are not despised. We are not being judged.  We are not excluded but fully accepted.  Wow, this is wonderful.  This must be what true love looks like. This is a mercy we never experienced before.”  [I could imagine Matthew now posting on his door in Aramaic the words on the banner we dedicated this morning: All Are Welcome!] Clearly the cry for help was in the heart of the rabbi of a local synagogue who came to Jesus, knelt before him and said, “My daughter has just died; but come and lay your hand on her and she will live.”   The text continues:  “And Jesus got up and followed him, with his disciples.” For both the rabbi and Lola, their cries were cries of faith.  As St. Paul wrote in his letter to the Romans, it is the cry of faith, however anguished, this precious gift and promise of God given to people like Abraham who at 100 years of age, as good as dead, believed that God would enable him and Sarah to have a son, that Abraham would truly be “the father of many nations.”  This gift of faith that God could still do this, all the evidence to the contrary, was expressed by Lola when she uttered the words of a hymn she probably learned 80 or more years ago:  “I need thee every hour most gracious Lord.  No tender voice like thine can peace afford.”   This was her faith in the grace and mercy of her Lord. And then there was the longsuffering woman in Matthew's story of Jesus: Then suddenly a woman who had been suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years came up behind [Jesus] and touched the fringe of his cloak, for she said to herself, “If I only touch his cloak, I will be made well.”  Jesus turned, and seeing her, he said, “Take heart, daughter, your faith had made you well.” And instantly the woman was made well. Surely her flow of blood made her “unclean” as indicated in the very words of scripture (Leviticus 15:19).  She would have been very much alone, not welcomed, not loved by virtually anyone.  But God loved her and God placed in her desolate heart the faith that by merely touching the fringe of Jesus' cloak, she would be made well.  (Notice her respect for Jesus, touching his cloak, not his skin, lest, according to the law, he be made unclean.)  Her unspoken cry for help, borne of the gift of faith, was met with mercy.  She was made well.  The instantaneous nature of her healing was surely a “wow” moment in her life and perhaps for those who witnessed this power of God's love. This past Wednesday I presided at a graveside service which followed a heart attack and the resulting death of Bryan, a son whose much beloved mother had died just over a week before his own death.  Needless to say, his family and caregivers who supported Bryan in his lifelong journey with cerebral palsy were devastated.  Yet in the scriptures read at this service, we were all reminded of God's promise given to him in Holy Baptism, reminded that God was and would be with him always, that Bryan would suffer always with Jesus, die always with Jesus, and always rise to new life with Jesus.  His sister, Susan, his devoted brother-in-law, John, and Bryan's nephew, Nathan, all spoke eloquently of his compassion, his empathy, his tenderness, his sensitivity as expressions of God's mercy and grace in Bryan's life. John, a jazz musician, asked me if he could play a recording of “Downtown”, one of Bryan's favorite songs, at the conclusion of the service.  As I prepared for the service, I had wondered, in vain, how I might include that song in my sermon, but now I said “yes” to John.  As we listened and then one by one joined in singing “downtown”, I thought in a new way about what heaven would be like with words like “The light's so much brighter there.  You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares…Things will be great when you're downtown.  No finer place for sure Downtown.  Everything's waiting for you downtown, downtown.”  Yes, it was a bit of a stretch, but for us it was a “wow” moment, God lifting our spirits in a day of sadness as together we had shoveled earth over the urn of Bryan's ashes, lifting us through a very secular song, now for us a song portraying a new way of thinking about heaven, about what the “downtown new Jerusalem” will be like for Bryan…and for us. Following the story about a lonely woman, so long ill, now healed, now no longer needing to be alone, we hear these bold and strong but also immensely comforting words; When Jesus came to the leader's house and saw the flute players and the crowd making a commotion.  He said, “Go away; for the girl is not dead but sleeping.”  And they laughed at him.  But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took her by the hand, and the girl got up. Though he was probably wealthy and highly respected, this little girl's father humbled himself before Jesus.  He recognized that he had no power of his own, no amount of money, no noble reputation powerful enough to bring his daughter back to life.  But as with Lola and with Bryan's loved ones, he humbled himself and believed that if Jesus could come, would come, his sorrow would yield to joy. He believed that by Jesus' hand in his daughter's hand, she would live. And Jesus did come and Jesus did take her by the hand and she got up. So for Bryan who sleeps now, so soon also for Lola, what Jesus, the Son of God, has done, living as one of us, suffering and dying and rising for them and for all of us, when we sleep, even in death as earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, when Jesus takes our hand, we will live. One more hymn Lola knew by heart (though not with exactly the version I'm reading now):   Lord, take thou my hand and lead me Unto the end; In life and death I need thee, O blessed Friend; I cannot live without thee For one brief day; Lord, be thou ever near me, And lead the way.   Lord, grant us, like the despised tax collectors and sinners, like the chronically ill woman, like the distraught father whose daughter had died, grant us the faith to receive your steadfast love, your amazing grace, and your boundless mercy for us and for all members of the human family. Amen. JDS

Welcome to GLIDE Memorial Church's “Tiny Celebrations,” the mini-podcast highlighting the inspirational words and music from our Sunday Celebration.In this episode celebrating the birthday of Minister of Celebration Marvin K. White,  Associate Musical Director Zoe Ellis sings  a very special rendition of the classic hymn "I Need Thee Every Hour," and soloist Dennis Hersey, The Glide Ensemble and The Change Band present the song "One Thing."Please support the music, the art, and the message of GLIDE Memorial Church. Please donate today. https://www.glide.org/igive/

**Thank you for supporting this ministry, I lovingly refer to as "The Little Green Pasture." Click here: PayPal: http://paypal.me/JoanStahl **Please prayerfully consider becoming a ministry partner: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/joaniestahl **Contact Email: jsfieldnotes@gmail.com **Subscribe to me on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-534183 **Subscribe to me on Bitchute: I have been having trouble with the link so just go straight to https://www.bitchute.com/ and typing "Joanie Stahls Field Notes" in the search bar. Thank you! I was watching a little video of Joni-Eareckson-Tada speaking about long suffering in her body. She said something that stood out to me more than anything as she described her never-ending pain." When I wake up in the morning I need Him...Oh do I NEED Him! And you know I do not think that is such a bad thing, but rather a good thing to need Jesus." Soon afterwards, I watched a short video she made called "Songs of Suffering." It was deeply moving to me personally because of so much personal longsuffering I endured though out most of my life. When someone speaks who has been there, I hear the words they speak more than most other things they might say. She spoke about "NEEDING Jesus." For a few days I thought about my need for Him and began to sing that song, "I Need Thee Every Hour." My heart began to well up and the word of God came rushing in with verses and human examples of suffering. And I began to say emphatically, "Lord, I NEED your love, your strength, your mercy and all that you are every hour! I do not just want to want you, but I will, from now on NEED you as flowers need the rain, and the air I breathe as long as I live!" "The lowest places will become the highest places when you begin to "sing hymns and making melody in your heart." You will find that you will gain ascent as you sing the sacred "Mountain Songs of Suffering" and there abide. "This is the only time in history when I get to fight for God. This is the only part of my eternal story when I am actually in the battle. Once I die, I'll be in celebration mode in a glorified body in a whole different set of circumstances. But this is my limited window of opportunity, and I'm going to fight the good fight for all I'm worth." ~ Joni Eareckson Tada --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joanie-stahl/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joanie-stahl/support

Welcome to GLIDE Memorial Church's “Tiny Celebrations,” the mini-podcast highlighting the inspirational words and music from our Sunday Celebration.In this episode Musical Director Vernon Bush, Associate Choir Director Zoe Ellis, and pianist Janice Maxie Reed, present a special rendition of "I Need Thee Every Hour."Please support the music, the art, and the message of GLIDE Memorial Church. Please donate today. https://www.glide.org/igive/

A new MP3 sermon from FairHavens Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: I Need Thee Every Hour Subtitle: Hymn For Today Speaker: Bob Kirkland Broadcaster: FairHavens Baptist Church Event: Devotional Date: 12/20/2022 Length: 4 min.

Welcome to GLIDE Memorial Church's “Tiny Celebrations,” the mini-podcast highlighting the inspirational words and music from our Sunday Celebration.In this episode Associate Musical Director Zoe Ellis and pianist/soloist Janice Maxie Reed join together to sing "I Need Thee Every Hour."Please support the music, the art, and the message of GLIDE Memorial Church. Please donate today. https://www.glide.org/igive/

"I Need Thee Every Hour" 2 Corinthians 3:4-6 Pastor Steven DeVries January 16, 2022

We generally think of the hymn I Need Thee Every Hour as something to help us in time of need or distress. And, rightfully, it does provide comfort as we call on the Jesus. Have you thought of it as simply of time of worship and sensing God's nearness and presence? It was in this manner that Annie Sherwood Hawks felt consumed by the presence of the Lord and penned this hymn. Whether we use it as worship of Jesus or call on Him in times of trouble, it blesses us and He is with us. Article taken from Living Stories of Famous Hymns by Ernest K. Emurian. Copyright © 1955 by Baker Book House Company. Used by permission of Baker Book House Company.

The Refreshed Podcast is back! And, what better way to return than with a talk on our need for God, in the bad times, and the good.David Leonard Interviewhttps://jubileecast.com/articles/27338/20220204/all-sons-daughters-david-leonard-speaks-of-his-new-single-every-hour.htmMatt Maher Interviewhttps://www.newreleasetoday.com/article.php?article_id=1147UMC Discipleship Ministries - History of Hymns "I Need Thee Every Hour"https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/resources/history-of-hymns-i-need-thee-every-hourSupport the show

I Need Thee Every Hour.

In this podcast I explore the song I Need Thee Every Hour  composed by Robert Lowry and Annie S. Hawks – for more information about the hymn visit: https://hymnary.org/text/i_need_thee_every_hour_most_gracious_lor

Welcome to Worship Weekly!This is Josh with First Faith Independent Baptist Church and Reverend Danny Jackson.Rev. Jackson is bringing you short supplemental sermons from the King James bible. Rev. Jackson preaches the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ and the promise of salvation through Faith and not by works.We will bring you weekly podcast posted on Saturdays so Sundays if you are unable to attend your church you can listen to Rev. Jackson and worship with us.We are available at worshipweekly.buzzsprout.com, Sticher, iTunes, Google Play Music and on Facebook  Feel free to reach out to Rev Jackson directly at FirstFaithIBC@gmail.com and he will respond as soon as possible.This week's teaching is “Spoiled by Sin, Saved by Grace” music is “I Need Thee Every Hour” by Scotland Evangelical Presbyterian Church Choir. Referenced Verses: Jeremiah 18:4, and Judges 10:28 

Our attachment to God is not something we nurture only on Sundays or when we experience difficult trials in our life; it is a relationship that we need to foster every day. In this episode, two of our grandchildren, Molly Baxter and Logan Moore, help us by singing the beloved hymn, "I Need Thee Every Hour." Our hope is that as you listen, you will feel closer to the Lord.

Message: Revelation Songs: Heavenly Sunlight; I Need Thee Every Hour; There Shall Be Showers of Blessings Mission Moment: Dr. Brian Albrecht  Host: Dr. Brian Albrecht The post Dr. Fred Hartman – Revelation appeared first on Canada's National Bible Hour.

I Need Thee Every Hour.

Included Music: Sweet Hour of Prayer, Grace Alone, I Need Thee Every Hour, Shine Jesus Shine, Your Name, I Need You More, and Near to the Heart of God   Message Title: Prayer   Text: Matthew 26:40-41   Take Home Point: When we pray, God empowers us to follow Jesus despite our human weakness.

It was June in 1872 that Annie Hawks wrote the word of the beautiful old hymn, "I Need Thee Every Hour." She wrote at that time... "One day as a young wife and mother of 37 years of age, I was busy with my regular household tasks during a bright June morning in 1872. Suddenly, I became so filled with the sense of nearness to the Master that, wondering how one could live without Him, either in joy or pain, these words were ushered into my mind, the thought at once taking full possession of me -- 'I Need Thee Every Hour. . . .'"

We continue our series on Good Friday, the 24 hours that includes Jesus washing his disciples feet, the Last Supper, the prayers in the garden, and the arrest, crucifixion, and burial. This week, we take time to meditate on Jesus' prayers of anguish in the Garden of Gethsemane. We use the practice of lectio divina, or divine reading, to slowly process the passage by reading multiple times: once for hearing, once for understanding, and once for applying. Also includes the song "I Need Thee Every Hour" led by Luke Dalton to break up the three sections. -- Jonathan Stein - March 21, 2021

Songs this episode include: All Hail the Power, Before the Throne, How Majestic is Thy Name, I Need Thee Every Hour, I Will Sing of the Mercies, I'd Rather Have Jesus, One Day, and Ben's wife Amanda drops by to sing Til the Storm Passes By. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ben-everson/support

In this episode of Serving Jesus Christ, Pastor Swanson shares a Sunday message titled, Winning The Race! If you desire further information, it may be obtained at wordgiver@gmail.com. The music, "He Is Lord" arranged and played by Don Wigton. Used by Permission. The music, "He Leadeth Me" and "I Need Thee Every Hour" arranged and played by Greg Howlett. Used By Permission.

In Episode 234 of the What is Truth Catholic Podcast, we will first discuss our “Saint of the Week”, St. John of God, who went from a soldier and a sinner to a saint.  We will hear a homily for the 3rd Sunday of Lent, as we listen to the account of Jesus as He prepares to enter the temple.  In the segment “Catholics in the News”, we will learn about a nun who survived COVID 19.  In our segment, “Truth in the Media”, we will discover a nun preaching her love of Christ through art.  In the segment entitled “I Don’t Get It”, I will try to understand an organization’s definition of a “hate group”.  Finally, during our Truth Topic of the Week, we will hear the truth from a recent survey of Catholic teens.  All of this plus music from Aaron Hale and Friends who sing, “I Need Thee Every Hour"  This and more on Episode 234 of What is Truth.

List of Hymns: Great Is Thy Faithfulness - 0:06​Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing - 03:09​Our God, Our Help In Ages Past - 05:39​Abide With Me - 07:59​To God Be The Glory - 10:52​Blessed Assurance - 13:17​Standing On The Promises - 17:34​Pass Me Not O Gentle Savior - 20:36​Grace Greater Than Our Sins - 22:56​Nothing But The Blood Of Jesus - 24:45​It Is Well - 27:16​I Am Thine, O Lord (Draw Me Nearer) - 29:14​My Jesus I Love Thee - 32:30​Now Thank We All Our God - 35:13​‘Tis So Sweet To Trust In Jesus - 37:47​Trust and Obey - 39:41​Just As I Am - 42:26​What A Friend We Have In Jesus - 43:47​I Surrender All - 46:48​I Need Thee Every Hour - 49:28​In Christ Alone - 51:33​Rock of Ages - 53:29​There Shall Be Showers of Blessings - 55:06​How Great Thou Art - 57:45

Love Will Roll The Clouds Away, I Need Thee Every Hour, Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus

This episode is hosted by Marty Watts, Minister of Music at Vestavia Hills Baptist Church. It includes a conversation with Music Ministry participant Don Lingle and an exploration of the hymn "I Need Thee Every Hour.”

Written by a wife and mom in the middle of her everyday tasks, this hymn speaks deeply to my heart. We can be full of the Spirit of God, in communion with Him, even in our most boring of daily tasks. May you be filled with purpose right where you are as you listen to I Need Thee Every Hour.Support the show (http://paypal.me/HymnTalkPod)

Listen to Believers Church Worship for Oct. 4, 2020, as the BC Worship Team leads us in singing Lord I Need You, I Need Thee Every Hour and Lord You Are Good.

Listen to Believers Church Worship for Oct. 4, 2020, as the BC Worship Team leads us in singing Lord I Need You, I Need Thee Every Hour and Lord You Are Good. The post Sunday Worship | Oct 4, 2020 appeared first on Believers Church.

Today's June Tune features Peggy Graff introducing and playing the hymn, "I Need Thee Every Hour." I need Thee every hour, most gracious Lord; No tender voice like Thine can peace afford. Refrain I need Thee, O I need Thee; Every hour I need Thee; O bless me now, my Savior, I come to Thee. I need Thee every hour, stay Thou nearby; Temptations lose their power when Thou art nigh. Refrain I need Thee every hour, in joy or pain; Come quickly and abide, or life is in vain. Refrain I need Thee every hour; teach me Thy will; And Thy rich promises in me fulfill. Refrain I need Thee every hour, most Holy One; O make me Thine indeed, Thou blessèd Son. Refrain Cyberhymnal.org

Our culture values independence and strength. We also find ourselves living out of our own strength so often. We know we should “depend on God”, but what does that look like practically? We have to remember that God is self-sufficient. He is dependent on nothing and no one. And truly, this is good news for us! In fact, He created us to be dependent on Him. There is beauty in daily dependence on God and His church!     Connect with us:  www.dailygracepodcast.com  www.thedailygraceco.com  https://www.facebook.com/thedailygraceco/  https://www.instagram.com/thedailygraceco/    Questions? Email us!  podcast@thedailygraceco.com  _______________________________  Resources mentioned in this episode:  ESV New Testament Inductive Edition  Bonus Episode: One Year Anniversary by Daily Grace  Gospel Comes with a House Key by Rosaria Butterfield  “I Need Thee Every Hour”  Ep. 13 Self Care and the Gospel by Daily Grace  Ep. 53 Comparing Our Spiritual Gifts by Daily Grace  Ep. 7 Preaching the Gospel to Yourself by Daily Grace  Preaching the Gospel to Yourself by the Daily Grace Co.    Scripture mentioned in this episode:  Proverbs 31  Genesis 3:5  Acts 17:24-25  Acts 17:28  John 15:5  Psalm 16:2  1 Corinthians 1:25  2 Corinthians 12:9-10  Job 38  Galatians 5:22  John 14  Matthew 4:4  Deuteronomy 8:3  Isaiah 55  1 John 1:9    Connect with us:  Subscribe to Daily Grace: on iOS, go to our iTunes page and click subscribe.  On Android, click this podcast RSS feed link and choose your podcast app.  If needed, you can copy this link directly into your favorite podcast app (like Stitcher or Overcast).  Or follow us on Spotify!  We would love if you took a few minutes to leave us an iTunes review to help spread the word about Daily Grace!  We want to invite more women into our conversations!  Download The Daily Grace app: for iOS, click here to download.  On Android, click here to download.  Visit The Daily Grace Co. for beautiful products for the whole family that will equip you on your journey to knowing and loving God more.   Subscribe to The Daily Grace Newsletter and receive free Bible study resources in your inbox.   Like The Daily Grace Co. on Facebook.  Follow on Instagram for the latest updates on the podcast and The Daily Grace Co.   Engage with our Facebook community, “Lamp and Light”.   Read The Daily Grace blog for encouragement throughout the week that is steeped in biblical truths.  **Affiliate links used are used where appropriate.**  Thank you for supporting the products that support the production of this podcast!

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In this episode we talk about the persecution in China along with an encouragement to do more to reach the lost. Check out a copy articles in the show notes. Then we look at the story behind the song "I Need Thee Every Hour" for the book Heartwarming Hymn Stories. Get your copy in the show notes. Then we finish the episode looking at James 4:1-17 as we continue our "Daily Walk Through James" series. Show Notes: https://samgeckler.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/show-notes-jan-24-2020.odt Get your Contend merch: samgeckler.com/store Questions, Comments, Topic Suggestions: contendpodcast@gmail.com

Sunday morning service at Indianapolis First Church of the Nazarene, September 29, 1985. This message is about God as our greatest need. It is divided into two segments: the message and the closing (at 26:28), which includes the hymn "I Need Thee Every Hour" and the Doxology. There is a second part to this message ("Life's Second Greatest Need") in the next podcast episode.

HOPE FOR THE CAREGIVER is broadcast LIVE each Saturday at 8 AM Eastern on American Family Radio.   Peter: Hank in Virginia. Hey Hank, how are you feeling?  Hank: Oh, I'm confused. My mother moved in here almost five years ago now. But then she died November 5th. Okay. My sisters all say I'm building castles in heaven because of what I did. But my problem is that now that she's gone, I feel incredibly guilty because I didn't …I wasn't nice enough to her. I just, I didn't like my mother, but she was my mother. You know, my sisters called me and said, all these religious holy rollers that you live with, now that you become reborn,  …what do they do with their parents when they have to put them in a nursing home? I just laughed at them because they "put them in their basement," they don't send them anywhere. So, my mother moved in with me and my sisters, I mean, they helped, you know, they all live on the left coast. They're all …nobody's near me. Well, my one little sister is in Maryland and she's up in Baltimore, but I saw her like every other weekend. We had a woman who did the woman's stuff a couple of times a week, but other than that it was me, 24/7. Peter: Well Hank, I tell you what, can you hang on through the break? Hank: Sure. Peter:  Listen, don't go away because I want to talk about this with you. We want to unpack this a little bit more for you.  Hank: I don't know if I called the right place. Peter: You absolutely called the right place. This is the place for you to call and we're going to spend as much time as we can with you. All right?  Hank: Okay, sorry. Peter: You got people here that are pulling for you. We're going to talk about this. Don't go away. This is Hope for the Caregiver. This is Peter Rosenberger. We'll be right back.    [Music]   Gracie: Have you ever struggled to trust God when lousy things happen to you? I'm Gracie Rosenberger and in 1983 I experienced a horrific car accident leading to 80 surgeries and both legs amputated. I questioned, why God allowed something so brutal to happen to me, but over time my questions changed and I discovered courage to trust God. That understanding, along with an appreciation for quality prosthetic limbs led me to establish, Standing with Hope. For more than a dozen years, we've been working with the government of Gannon, West Africa, equipping and training local workers to build and maintain quality prosthetic limbs for their own people. On a regular basis we purchase and ship equipment and supplies and with the help of inmates in a Tennessee prison, we also recycled parts from donated limbs. All of this is to point others to Christ, the source of my hope and strength. Please visit standingwithhope.com to learn more and participate in lifting others up, that's standingwithhope.com. I'm Gracie and I am standing with hope.  Peter: Welcome back to the show for caregivers about caregivers hosted by a caregiver. This is Peter Rosenberger and we are glad that you are with us. We're talking with Hank and Virginia. Um, Hank let me go back to some things that you were talking about earlier. It sounds like you are struggling with a lot of different conflicting feelings. If you had to just sum up one thing that you're feeling right now, what would that be?  Hank: Um, huh. I thank Jesus and I live in West Virginia, West by God, Virginia [Laughing]  Peter: West by God, Virginia.   Hank: Yes. Uh, and I found the Lord here were, I let him in anyway. I never knew who he was. I always knew there was a God. I always knew there was something greater than me, but I never understood the Jesus thing. And when I did, I mean, I didn't even believe he was talking to me, you know, like, but...  Peter: But, but how, how are you feeling today Hank?  Hank: Uh, depressed. Um, worthless. Look, um, I'm pretty busted up. I'm pretty disabled in my own right. I have a hard time getting around, walking, doing whatever. At least when my mother was here, I had a purpose. You know, I was doing something, and I thought, she's going to be here for the next 20 years. I really did. I thought I was doing penance for being in the child that I was but uh... Peter: Well let's unpack it a little bit cause we only, I want to spend as much time as I have with you, but I want to go back ...you were not doing penance. Okay? Hank: I know, it's a joke. It's a joke.  Peter: Okay, well I'd say I'd, it's radio so I can't see you. So I don't know for sure, but I want to make sure you know that and the audience knows that this is not penance because there are a lot of people that do feel like it's penance.  Hank: Um, okay. I apologize.  Peter: No, no, don't apologize. Look, we're caregivers here, all right? Hank: I know this is serious. I know this is serious and I know, I mean I found you guys, I've listened to you for the last few years, you know, so I know what you do and I, I just never thought it applied to me. I just thought because my heart wasn't in it. Peter: And yet, and yet you still did it.  Hank: Yeah. Now, you're sound like my sisters. Peter: Well, maybe they had some good words for you, but the point is you still did it and a lot of caregivers tend to beat themselves up for their job performance while completely overlooking their job attendance record.  Hank: Okay.  Peter: And you kept showing up, you kept doing it and, and I also want to tackle that issue that you said that you felt like, you know, you had a purpose. You have a purpose period. The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. That's catechism number one in the shorter catechism, the chief end of man that is, that is our purpose, is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. Now, some of that may be involved and may be manifest in us being a caregiver for someone. We may have some conflicting feelings. We may not even do it very well, but our chief purpose is not to be a caregiver. Our chief purpose is to glorify God and enjoy him forever and he may call us for a season to do certain things. Now that season may be a lifetime. I mean, I'm 33 years into this. That season may be how long did you take care of your mother?  Hank: About four and a half years.  Peter: Okay, so for four and a half years, you had an intense situation where you were doing this and you felt like you were kind of in the zone of what your purpose was doing to get up and do these things. All right, but that doesn't mean that that, that your life is over just because your mother passed away. God has things for you to do as well and things to, to reveal to you about you and more importantly about him and he hasn't forgotten about you, he hasn't abandoned you. Your life is not over. Are you involved in church?  Hank: I have a church that they, yeah, I'm, I'm like the black sheep. They love me very much. Yeah. I came to the Lord. Most of them, most, most all of them gave thanks.  Peter: Well, actually the day that you came to the Lord Hank, all of Heaven rejoiced. (Luke 15:10) Hank: Well, yeah, I know. I know.    Peter: Do you really? Do you really know that? Do you really know how important you are to Christ? Hank: I believe I truly do. I don't know why, but I truly do.  Peter: Well, we don't need to know why  Hank: He knew me like this, you know? Before you know, before he, before my father knew my mother, he knew me. He knew I'd be here.  Peter: Yeah, he did and he knows  Hank: I feel kind of lost. Peter: Well, you sound kind of lost, you know, but that's okay. That's just where we are today. He has known you before the foundations of the earth.  Hank: Amen.  Peter: All right. And he stretched out his arms and died for you and he took all that on for you. You know, he died for all of us, but he died for each of us.  Hank: Amen. All right.  Peter: These are words that mean something, Hank. They mean something. They mean something to a caregiver to know that, “…wait a minute, this is not the end of the story!”  That your mother's funeral was not the end of your purpose, that your disability, that things that you're struggling with just to get around. All the sins that you committed; he knew all of that. Every bit of it, Hank. There was nothing hidden from him. And as I said at the beginning of the show, all you need is need and he understands what you're going through right now. And so, you're calling the show on Saturday morning just to have a conversation with somebody who can speak back to you. These, there's an old hymn that I love, it's called a “Wonderful Words of Life.”  “Beautiful Words, Wonderful Words, Wonderful Words of Life…” And if you don't hear that on a regular basis, hey, if I don't hear that on a regular basis, we both have Gospel Amnesia and we'll forget it. And we need to be reminded of it daily, hourly, you know, that old hymn, “I Need Thee Every Hour?” Hank: Amen.   Peter: You know that hymn?   Hank: I do not, but I know...   Peter: There's a wonderful hymn called, I Need Thee Every Hour” and you know why it was written because nobody had written, “I Need Thee Every Minute” yet. I think I'm gonna write that one.   It's okay to feel that way because now your prayers change. Now we're getting serious about this thing with God and He wants to speak to those things …and He does speak to those things with you  …and there's no need for you to continue to just beat yourself up about being the black sheep. There is nobody, there is nobody, I promise you there's nobody that has ever lived on this planet that is somehow earned the grace of God.  Hank: Amen. I get that part. Peter: Okay, do you really get it because it doesn't sound like you do?    Hank: No, no. It's a gift. It's a gift that you have to accept.  Peter: No, you don't have to accept it. No, no. You're, you're, you're parroting back words to me …that I know that you know …but in your heart, I could just sense that you have just been so beaten down and I don't want you to feel that way anymore. I want you to, I want you to see yourself as God sees you. When He looks at you. He sees Christ.  Hank: Oh man. [Choking up] Peter: Yeah, he does. He doesn't see all that nonsense because you were covered under that. It's the called the great exchange. He took on all of your filth, all of your brokenness, all of your sin, and he swapped it for all of his righteousness. He looked at Christ and saw all of that stuff that you're struggling with right now. That's what Christ has done on the cross …so that He could just wrap his arms around you and say, “Hank, dude, glad you're here! Come to the table. Sit down right here.”  Hank: “Well done. Faithful, servant.”   Peter: And He will say that to you, but I'm asking you. I'm giving you an invitation here to stop parroting these words back and just listen to what they really mean. I know you know a lot of the words, but your heart is just torn apart for whatever reason.  Hank: The truth, the truth really, really is. It's that Jesus is what changed my mind. I knew all the words. I knew all the stories; I'd heard it all. I'd been baptized, confirmed, all that stuff. I just didn't get it but once I understood than it is very simple. You just accept the gift that he's offered you.  Peter: Well, I know that. I know that.  Hank: I just don't want to sound like a parrot.  Peter: Well, that's why. That's why I'm asking you to.... Hank: I really truly believe; I really truly do.  Peter: I don't doubt that you do, but I think that there's so much brokenness in your own heart that you're standing on the sidelines looking in and trying to convince yourself of these things, …and I know that you believe it, but do you really believe it in all the broken places?  [Do you really believe ] that none of that escaped God's sovereignty in his hand … and He was there watching all of these things happen and still weaving out his purposes in your life? He watched my wife slam into that concrete abutment. He watched it. God allows what He hates in order to achieve what he loves.    If you, if you get nothing out of this conversation today, Hank, God allows what He hates to achieve what he loves. Can you hang onto that? I'm sorry, we're up against the end of the show on the clock, but I wanted to make sure you had something tangible you could hang on to is, is that okay? Can you hang on to that for me?    Hank: You have done more for me than you understand.  Peter: Well, listen, it's a privilege because people have done more for me …and I'm going to be a good steward of it.  Hey, this is Hope for the Caregiver and we're out of time, but we'll see you next week. Go to hopeforthecaregiver.com for more and you can get this podcast.   Peter Rosenberger is the president of Standing With Hope which sponsors HOPE FOR THE CAREGIVER. Your support helps make this broadcast possible. Please consider a tax-deductible gift to this ministry today!

Included Music: Higher Ground, God of Wonders, I Need Thee Every Hour, and The Potter's Hand followed by Jerry and Ida Hale singing It's Me Again Lord  Message Title: Confession   Text: James 5:16   Take Home Point: We will never know the freedom and relationship God has prepared for us unless we embrace the painful transparency of confession.  

Title: "It's Not My Problem" Judges 19:22-30 Speaker: Quonekuia Day Songs: Our Father Has Won, Worthy Worthy, Your Labor is Not in Vain, I Need Thee Every Hour, All Hail Christ,

In 1872, the hymn by which Hawks is most widely known, "I Need Thee Every Hour", was written. It is said to have been translated into more foreign languages than any other modern hymn at the time of her death.[2] Hawks stated:— "For myself, the hymn was prophetic rather than expressive of my own experiences, for it was wafted out to the world on the wings of love and joy, instead of under the stress of personal sorrow."source: wikipediaPiano by Karin Schaffer, Bass and Midi-Organ Programmed by The NomadLyrics:1 I need thee every hour,most gracious Lord;no tender voice like thinecan peace afford.Refrain:I need thee, O I need thee;every hour I need thee!O bless me now, my Savior,I come to thee.2 I need thee every hour,stay thou near by;temptations lose their powerwhen thou art nigh. [Refrain]3 I need thee every hour, in joy or pain;come quickly, and abide,or life is vain. [Refrain]4 I need thee every hour;teach me thy will,and thy rich promisesin me fulfill. [Refrain]

In 1872, the hymn by which Hawks is most widely known, "I Need Thee Every Hour", was written. It is said to have been translated into more foreign languages than any other modern hymn at the time of her death.[2] Hawks stated:— "For myself, the hymn was prophetic rather than expressive of my own experiences, for it was wafted out to the world on the wings of love and joy, instead of under the stress of personal sorrow."source: wikipediaPiano by Karin Schaffer, Bass and Midi-Organ Programmed by The NomadLyrics:1 I need thee every hour,most gracious Lord;no tender voice like thinecan peace afford.Refrain:I need thee, O I need thee;every hour I need thee!O bless me now, my Savior,I come to thee.2 I need thee every hour,stay thou near by;temptations lose their powerwhen thou art nigh. [Refrain]3 I need thee every hour, in joy or pain;come quickly, and abide,or life is vain. [Refrain]4 I need thee every hour;teach me thy will,and thy rich promisesin me fulfill. [Refrain]

Episode Transcript Guest: Matthew Kaemingk Millions of Muslims have migrated into the West over the past 50 years. Their arrival has ignited a series of fierce public debates about religious freedom and tolerance, terrorism and security, gender and race, and so much more. As Muslims stream into the West, they confront modern democracies with more than an ancient religion, they bring an ancient question as well. How can diverse faiths live together? Bio:  Rev. Dr. Matthew Kaemingk is an assistant professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary and the associate dean of Fuller Texas in Houston. Matthew also serves as a fellow at the Center for Public Justice and a scholar-in-residence at the De Pree Center for Christian Leadership. Matthew's research and teaching focus on religious pluralism and political ethics, workplace theology, theology and culture, and Reformed public theology. He is the author of Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear. Connect with Matthew on twitter @matthewkaemingk and online at www.matthewkaemingk.com Special Music for this episode was provided by Salt of the Sound.  Tracks include: Be Still, My Soul, I Need Thee Every Hour, Embers (feat. Narrow Skies) Find their beautiful music on YouTube as well as Spotify as well as Facebook, Twitter and at https://saltofthesound.com/ You can also find selections from all our episodes on our Spotify Playlist.  If you are here I am so grateful for you and want to invite you to become a part of the beloved community being developed here. Consider becoming a Patreon supporter of the show. You'll have access to many perks as well as guaranteeing the future of these conversations; even $1/Month goes so far as this show is 100% listener supported.  http://www.patreon.com/canisaythisatchurch

Sing Your Prayers A sermon preached by Rev. Ginger E. Gaines-Cirelli at Foundry UMC, June 17, 2018, the fourth Sunday after Pentecost. A Tempo sermon series. Texts: Isaiah 49:8-13, Colossians 3:16-17   “Those who sing pray twice.” It’s a phrase I’ve heard here and there for years, but never knew where it came from until this past week when I discovered—lo and behold—it is adapted from some words of Saint Augustine!  Y’all are going to start thinking I have some kind of obsession with the fifth century Bishop of North Africa!  After a little research, it seems Augustine’s point is that singing adds an extra dimension to a text—that words sung rather than spoken express a depth of emotion that cannot be conveyed otherwise.   This idea that song conveys meaning is a very ancient concept. Many of you know that “Myths of ancient indigenous cultures claim that the universe began with one root sound which permeates the entire universe. According to ancient Vedic (Hindu) philosophy, the Sanskrit word, Om, is the primordial sound from which the whole universe emanated. Om represents the Divine and the Absolute.”[i]  The idea then, is that chanting “Om” puts you on the same sound “wave” as the Divine Creator and connects you—or makes you aware of your connection—to the whole of creation. Indigenous and religious cultures from around the world have, over the centuries, developed their own unique chants and songs.  Songs of joy unite people in that spirit, narrative songs teach the stories of tribal identity and relational values, repetitive chants are used to focus and quiet the mind.  Stories are told of how the Muslim sung call to prayer—called the adhan—have brought about conversion simply through the power of hearing it.[ii]  Psalms—our Judeo-Christian chant and hymnbook—are the lyrics of prayers to God and meditations on God written to be sung or chanted.  Both listening to and singing certain kinds of music and chants are known to have concrete effects upon the body.  This isn’t just about sitting in the Lotus position chanting “Om.”  Think about what happens when you are singing something or listening to a piece of music and all of a sudden you are moved to tears; or you feel in your body a sense of strength and courage; or you feel more relaxed or at peace.  At a funeral, you might be holding it together pretty well until a familiar melody begins to be played and voices swell to lift up the lyrics of the hymn… All this is to say, that music has a kind of spiritual power. It is one of the most ancient forms of connecting with God, of being in relationship with God; it’s one of the most ancient forms of prayer.   As we continue to ponder how we might “return to God’s pace” through prayer in this A Tempo series, I want to focus today singing as a form of prayer.  One of the prayers I have loved from my youth is referred to as “The Prayer of St. Francis” and is included in our United Methodist Hymnal on page 481. The words of this prayer are beautiful.  Some years back, I heard these words set to music by the singer/songwriter Sarah McLachlan and my heart broke open all over again at their power.  Something happens when words and music work together to express or carry a message.   Some might imagine that only a professional singer will be able to create or participate in such a powerful—and even mystical—phenomenon.  But every time we gather for worship, we are singing prayers.  Last fall, we spent a whole series calling to mind the ways that singing together is a central part of our worship life as United Methodists and we studied together John Wesley’s “Directions for Singing.”  We looked at our hymnal during another sermon series on grace and noticed the headings in the top corners of its pages that help signal the theological or spiritual theme of the hymns in that section. And today I want us to explore the “psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs” that we may have sung for years but never mentally connected with prayer. And for those of us new to this whole Christian worship thing, my hope is that our reflection on this central act of worship and the idea of prayer through singing will help you understand why we do it. (and, by the way, if you don’t have a great voice or can’t carry a tune fear not! The Bible encourages us to “make a joyful noise” not “make a pretty noise”—so you’re good!)…   Our text today begins with the encouragement to “let the word of God dwell in you richly.” Singing is a great way to do that! I can’t help but think of my Nana floating around the house humming and singing hymns… a powerful image…  Singing is a great way to learn things—I probably learned most of my core theology through the songs I sang as a child and youth.  Singing songs that have been sung in historic moments of struggle—those sung on civil rights freedom marches or the songs sung at Reconciling Ministries convocations for example—help connect us to the movement across time. Some of our hymn lyrics are a statement of faith or testimony or a proclamation of hope or a call to action.  Singing these kinds of hymns invites us to contemplate the promises of our faith, the providence of God, the call of God, and more. These hymns plant the word of God deep within us, draw us close to God and are a form of contemplative prayer.     But some years back, I realized that so many of the hymns I grew up with are direct addresses to God.  Not really sure how I missed that detail for so long—perhaps some weird disconnect between “this is a song I sing in church” and “these are prayers that I pray.”  I’d made the initial connection by the time I arrived here in the Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference, but it was here that I encountered the tradition of using the words of hymns as public prayers.  I’ll never forget hearing Bishop Felton May pray before he preached using these words: “Breathe on me, breath of God, ‘til I am wholly Thine. ‘Til all this earthly part of me, glows with thy fire divine.” (UMH #420)  It was then that I began to really think about praying the hymns and singing my prayers.   I wonder if there are hymns and songs that come to your mind as examples of what I’m talking about… There are prayers of invocation like “Spirit of the Living God” and “Open the Eyes of My Heart.”   Prayers of lament like “Nobody Knows the Trouble I See.” There are prayers of petition like “I Need Thee Every Hour” (#397) and “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling.” (#384)  There are prayers of praise like “Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty,” (#64) “How Great Thou Art,” (#77) “Blessed Be Your Name,” (WS #3002) and “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee.” (#89)  There are prayers of confession like “O Sacred Head, Now Wounded,” (#286) and “Just as I Am, Without One Plea.” (#357)  There are prayers of commitment and surrender like “Here I Am to Worship” (WS #3177) and “Here I Am, Lord.” (#593) There are prayers of thanksgiving like “For the Beauty of the Earth” (#92) and “Great Is Thy Faithfulness.” (#140) All of these and many more give us powerful words to pray through singing.   Think about what it’s like when the music in this sanctuary draws all of us in and we raise our voices together…there’s something mystical about it.  It’s a deep form of communal prayer.   Throughout the Bible we are not only encouraged to sing to the Lord, but we’re given whole books of songs—like the love song that is Song of Solomon and the Psalms.  I’ve long celebrated the way the Psalms cover the full range of emotions, but this past week I found a writer who made me think about that in a new way—particularly parts of the Psalms that get really raw in anger and suffering. The example the writer uses is Psalm 137, a lament over the destruction of Israel. Briefly, the context of that Psalm is that the people have been the victims of horrific violence, their loved ones hurt and killed, their homes destroyed, and they are now exiled into the very lands inhabited by their conquerors.  The Psalmist gives voice to the lament and the raw emotion of the moment. The Psalm begins, “By the rivers of Babylon—/  there we sat down and there we wept / when we remembered Zion.” But the last words of that Psalm are, “O daughter Babylon, you devastator! / Happy shall they be who pay you back / what you have done to us! /Happy shall they be who take your little ones / and dash them against the rock!” The author writes, “Verses like that embarrass us. They’re disquieting, disconcerting. Part of me wants to edit them out of the Bible. What a mistake that would be, like censoring a prayer… What if we sang out in our anger…? What if our vengeful urges were put to music to sing to God? I can imagine the experience would be cleansing, healing. We all have enemies. We’re supposed to pray about them…Why should we be surprised when a psalm gets raw? A lot of other contemporary music is.”[iii]  This is simply another reminder that we don’t have to hold anything back from God. God can take whatever we’ve got.  And this week I imagine we might have some anger and raw emotion to bring into God’s presence in prayer.    Throughout scripture we see people at key moments break into song—I realized it like one long musical in the old style---dialogue, dialogue, dialogue, and then someone starts singing!  There’s Miriam’s song of praise to God for liberation from slavery (Exodus 15:20-21), Israel’s song of thanksgiving for God’s provision of water in the wilderness (Numbers 21:17-18), the fight song of Deborah, Prophetess and Judge (Judges 5), David’s songs of praise, the prophet Isaiah’s songs of judgment, victory, and praise, the prophet Zephaniah’s song of joy (Zephaniah 3:14-20) and Mary’s song of praise— what we call the “Magnificat”: “My soul magnifies the Lord, /  and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, / for he has looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant.” (Luke 1:46-48)   Pray the hymns. Sing your prayers. Connect with God and with others through the power and cosmic resonance of music and feel Spirit’s power. Prayer is the heart of our spiritual life. And when you sing, you pray twice.     [i] https://blog.pachamama.org/healing-sounds-of-the-universe [ii] http://www.ethnotraveler.com/2013/12/a-reason-to-rise-the-men-behind-the-muslim-call-to-prayer/ [iii] Rick Hamlin, “To Sing is To Pray,” https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-hamlin/to-sing-is-to-pray_b_3154977.html

15 Minutes w/ Ms.B - Prayer of Jabez Topic: Prayer of Jabez Scripture: 1 Chronicles 4:9-10King James Version (KJV) ARE THEY SAYING THE SAME THING? 1 Chronicles 4:9-10King James Version (KJV) 9 And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow. 10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested. 1 Chronicles 4:9-10New King James Version (NKJV) 9 Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez,[a] saying, “Because I bore him in pain.” 10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” So God granted him what he requested. 1 Chronicles 4:9-10New International Version (NIV) 9 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez,[a] saying, “I gave birth to him in pain.” 10 Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted his request. 1 Chronicles 4:9-10New Living Translation (NLT) 9 There was a man named Jabez who was more honorable than any of his brothers. His mother named him Jabez[a] because his birth had been so painful.10 He was the one who prayed to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and expand my territory! Please be with me in all that I do, and keep me from all trouble and pain!” And God granted him his request. www.stormtalk365radio.com www.positivelymsb.com Music Credits: Brother John's Music Published on Sep 14, 2014 This mix is from the quiet times volume series 1,2,3,4, and quiet time players cd . This should should sound great in any setting you choose to play it in. here's a list of the tracks 1. What A Friend We Have In Jesus 2. No Not One 3. Walk With Me 4. Jesus Christ Is The Way 5. If It Had Not Been (For The Lord On My Side) 6. Great Is Thy Faithfulness 7. Glory To His Name 8. Word From The Lord 9. Is Your All On The Altar? 10. I Love The Lord 11. I Need Thee Every Hour 12. Jesus Paid It All 13. I Need Thee Every Hour 14. Goin Up Yonder 15. The Solid Rock 16. Bless The Lord 17. Farther Along 18.Speak To My Heart Category Music License Standard YouTube License Music "Speak To My Heart" by Quiet Time Players Listen ad-free with YouTube Red SHOW LESS

15 Minutes w/ Ms.B - Kingdom Minded Matthew 6:33 ESV But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. John 18:36 ESV Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.” Romans 14:17 ESV For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Mark 1:15 ESV And saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.” 1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, www.stormtalk365radio.com www.positivelymsb.com Brother John's MusicPublished on Sep 14, 2014 SUBSCRIBED 1.8K SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBED UNSUBSCRIBE This mix is from the quiet times volume series 1,2,3,4, and quiet time players cd . This should should sound great in any setting you choose to play it in. here's a list of the tracks 1. What A Friend We Have In Jesus 2. No Not One 3. Walk With Me 4. Jesus Christ Is The Way 5. If It Had Not Been (For The Lord On My Side) 6. Great Is Thy Faithfulness 7. Glory To His Name 8. Word From The Lord 9. Is Your All On The Altar? 10. I Love The Lord 11. I Need Thee Every Hour 12. Jesus Paid It All 13. I Need Thee Every Hour 14. Goin Up Yonder 15. The Solid Rock 16. Bless The Lord 17. Farther Along 18.Speak To My Heart Category Music License Standard YouTube License Music "Speak To My Heart" by Quiet Time Players Listen ad-free with YouTube Red

15 Minutes w / Ms.B - The Temple Topic: The Temple Scripture:1 Corinthians 6:19-20 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 ESV Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. - Leviticus 19:28 ESV You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord. www.stormtalk365radio.com www.positivelymsb.com Brother John's Music Published on Sep 14, 2014 SUBSCRIBED 1.8K SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBED UNSUBSCRIBE This mix is from the quiet times volume series 1,2,3,4, and quiet time players cd . This should should sound great in any setting you choose to play it in. here's a list of the tracks 1. What A Friend We Have In Jesus 2. No Not One 3. Walk With Me 4. Jesus Christ Is The Way 5. If It Had Not Been (For The Lord On My Side) 6. Great Is Thy Faithfulness 7. Glory To His Name 8. Word From The Lord 9. Is Your All On The Altar? 10. I Love The Lord 11. I Need Thee Every Hour 12. Jesus Paid It All 13. I Need Thee Every Hour 14. Goin Up Yonder 15. The Solid Rock 16. Bless The Lord 17. Farther Along 18.Speak To My Heart Category Music License Standard YouTube License Music "Speak To My Heart" by Quiet Time Players Listen ad-free with YouTube Red SHOW LESS

15 Minutes w/ Ms.B - Life vs.Living Matthew 16:25 ESV For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. John 6:35 ESV Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. Romans 8:28 ESV And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. Colossians 3:3-4 ESV For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Jeremiah 29:11 ESV For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Philippians 4:13 ESV I can do all things through him who strengthens me. Romans 12:2 ESV Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. John 5:24 ESV Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. www.stormtalk365radio.com www.positivelymsb.com Brother John's Music Published on Sep 14, 2014 SUBSCRIBED 1.8K SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBED UNSUBSCRIBE This mix is from the quiet times volume series 1,2,3,4, and quiet time players cd . This should should sound great in any setting you choose to play it in. here's a list of the tracks 1. What A Friend We Have In Jesus 2. No Not One 3. Walk With Me 4. Jesus Christ Is The Way 5. If It Had Not Been (For The Lord On My Side) 6. Great Is Thy Faithfulness 7. Glory To His Name 8. Word From The Lord 9. Is Your All On The Altar? 10. I Love The Lord 11. I Need Thee Every Hour 12. Jesus Paid It All 13. I Need Thee Every Hour 14. Goin Up Yonder 15. The Solid Rock 16. Bless The Lord 17. Farther Along 18.Speak To My Heart Category Music License Standard YouTube License Music

15 Minutes w/ Ms.B - Double Minded Topic: Double Minded Scripture:James 1:6-8 -- James 1:6-8 ESV 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 4:8 ESV Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. James 1:8 ESV He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. James 1:22-25 ESV But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. 1 Peter 5:8 ESV Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. James 1:22 ESV But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. James 4:3 ESV You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. James 4:7 ESV Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. www.stormtalk365radio.com www.positivelymsb.com Brother johns music Published on Sep 14, 2014 SUBSCRIBED 1.8K SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBED UNSUBSCRIBE This mix is from the quiet times volume series 1,2,3,4, and quiet time players cd . This should should sound great in any setting you choose to play it in. here's a list of the tracks 1. What A Friend We Have In Jesus 2. No Not One 3. Walk With Me 4. Jesus Christ Is The Way 5. If It Had Not Been (For The Lord On My Side) 6. Great Is Thy Faithfulness 7. Glory To His Name 8. Word From The Lord 9. Is Your All On The Altar? 10. I Love The Lord 11. I Need Thee Every Hour 12. Jesus Paid It All 13. I Need Thee Every Hour 14. Goin Up Yonder 15. The Solid Rock 16. Bless The Lord 17. Farther Along 18.Speak To My Heart Category Music License Standard YouTube License Music "Speak To My Heart" by Quiet Time Players Listen ad-free with YouTube Red

A group of friends that met in college call themselves Happy Medium. In this episode, Happy Medium performs an original song, ""Home and Heart"", followed by their rendition of ""I Need Thee Every Hour"".

What an overwhelming feeling to proclaim I NEED THEE EVERY HOUR, and knowing that the LORD Jesus is there, just for us... learn the rich history of the popular hymn written in the 1800s and still sung today, and review scripture referencing the lyrics.

What an overwhelming feeling to proclaim I NEED THEE EVERY HOUR, and knowing that the LORD Jesus is there, just for us... learn the rich history of the popular hymn written in the 1800s and still sung today, and review scripture referencing the lyrics.

I Need Thee Every Hour by Cross Creek Church

       It could just be me, but I seem to need assurance daily of God's presence, care, and steadfast love. Perhaps I should entitle this episode ‘I Need Thee Every Hour'. In working out my own salvation with fear and trembling, I have... The post Podcast 78: Receiving Blessed Assurance Daily appeared first on Building Faith Families.

       It could just be me, but I seem to need assurance daily of God’s presence, care, and steadfast love. Perhaps I should entitle this episode ‘I Need Thee Every Hour’. In working out my own salvation with fear and trembling, I have... The post Podcast 78: Receiving Blessed Assurance Daily appeared first on Building Faith Families.

Thousands of LDS teenagers hear and sing his vocal arrangements every summer at Especially for Youth camps, but on this new album, composer and arranger Michael R. Hicks lets the instruments do the work.Hymn Creations runs the gamut of styles, featuring big celebratory arrangements like "Rejoice the Lord is King," and more contemplative performances like "I Need Thee Every Hour."  In this interview Mike talks about his personal—and sometimes surprising—connection to the hymns he's chosen, about doing his best writing away from the piano, and why he thinks hymns are to music what the scriptures are to literature.That's this week on The Cricket and Seagull.PlaylistCome Ye Children of the LordHow Gentle God's CommandsCome Thou FountJesus the Very Thought of TheeAmazing GraceDearest Children God is Near YouGreen HillWe Thank TheeCome Follow MeRejoice the Lord is KingI Need Thee Every HourI Know that My Redeemer LIves

This wonderful song has been an inspiration for generations. Even the author of the lyrics found comfort years after writing the song. Music: OneVoice “I Need Thee Every Hour” (mp3) from “A Cappella Hymns” (IMI) Buy at Rhapsody More On This Album David Berchtold…”Serenity” I NEED THEE EVERY HOUR Lyrics by Annie S. Hawks (1835-1918)...