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GOD OF ALMIGHTY LOVE

Scripture Verse

God is love. 1 John 4:8

Introduction

Words: Au­thor un­known, in A Col­lect­ion of Hymns for the Use of the Peo­ple Called Me­tho­dists.

Music: Car­lisle Charles Lock­hart, 1791 (🔊 ).

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Lyrics

God of al­migh­ty love,
By whose suf­fi­cient grace
I lift my heart to things ab­ove,
And hum­bly seek Thy face.

Through Je­sus Christ the Just,
My faint de­sires re­ceive;
And let me in Thy good­ness trust,
And to Thy glo­ry live.

Whate’er I say or do,
Thy glo­ry be my aim;
My of­fer­ings all be of­fered through
The ever-bless­èd name!

Jesu, my sin­gle eye
Be fixed on Thee alone:
Thy name be praised on earth, on high;
Thy will by all be done!

Spirit of faith, in­spire
My con­se­crat­ed heart;
Fill me with pure, ce­les­ti­al fire,
With all Thou hast, and art.

My fee­ble mind trans­form,
And, per­fect­ly re­newed,
Into a saint ex­alt a worm,
A worm ex­alt to God!