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    I Asked The Lord-g-SATB

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    The song is about a man asking God to help him grow in faith and love. God answers his prayer, but not by removing trials from his life. Instead, God uses inward trials to humble the man and drive him to rely on God's grace and salvation.

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    I Asked The Lord-g-SATB

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    The song is about a man asking God to help him grow in faith and love. God answers his prayer, but not by removing trials from his life. Instead, God uses inward trials to humble the man and drive him to rely on God's grace and salvation.

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    The song is about a man asking God to help him grow in faith and love. God answers his prayer, but not by removing trials from his life. Instead, God uses inward trials to humble the man and drive him to rely on God's grace and salvation.

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    22 views1 page

    I Asked The Lord-g-SATB

    Uploaded by

    Alexander Mark Lim
    The song is about a man asking God to help him grow in faith and love. God answers his prayer, but not by removing trials from his life. Instead, God uses inward trials to humble the man and drive him to rely on God's grace and salvation.

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    I ASKED THE LORD

    John Newton, 1779 Traditional


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    2. 'Twas He who taught me thus to pray, and He I
    3. I hoped that in some fa - vored hour at once He'd
    4. In - stead of this He made me feel the hid - den
    5. Yea more with His own hand He seemed in - tent to
    6. "Lord, why is this," I, trem -bling, cried; "Wilt Thou pur -
    7. "These in - ward tri - - als I em - ploy from self and

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    an - - - swer my re - quest and by His
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    been in such a way as al - most
    love's con - strain - ing pow'r sub - due my
    an - - - gry pow'rs of Hell as - sault my
    fair de - signs I schemed, hum - bled my
    way," the Lord re - plied, "I an - swer
    schemes of earth - ly joy that thou may'st
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    soul in ev - 'ry part.
    heart, and laid me low.
    prayer for grace and faith."
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