You know, I started to heaven last October,
but the Saints ganged up on me and
kept me out.
I want to express my gratitude to dear
Brother Pearson for the honor and privilege of
coming.
You see, I never had the opportunity of
going to Moody's or any other school for
that matter.
I mean religious school.
And all I know is what I picked
up on the road, and I come with
these men that have had training.
I feel like I ought to be rolling
out in the sticks of Kansas.
But these dear men have been very kind
to me, and I have learned some precious
things from these men that have been serving
on the platform.
Each man has had a different effect on
my heart, and I'm sure it's going to
be a blessing in my life.
I've been getting from them, and I express
my appreciation for it.
The bookstore has received some new copies, some
extra copies of Growing Up for God, in
which there's a chapter on how to remember
where things are in the Bible.
And I didn't mention, but the last chapter
in that book is how to play games,
how young people can play Bible games.
And I didn't put post office in with
them.
And then there are some additional copies also
of Life and Death.
They ran out of those.
That's the book that describes the difference between
hell and the grave.
There are three great denominations that are teaching
that they're the same thing, and that you're
extinguished and blotted out when you die.
And that book was written by my father
-in-law, Mr. Baker.
He wrote in Chicago some years ago to
prove that hell and the grave are entirely
two separate things and have nothing to do
with each other at all.
They got a new supply in the bookstore
on that.
Now, I want to give, if I may,
before I say something, I want to tell
you something.
You know, every porch, every house has a
porch on it, and every book has a
preface, and I have to have something to
say to get started.
So I want to say a few words
about prayer.
My precious brother Culbertson got me all stirred
up on this subject.
But this is on public prayer.
Now, remember, it's public prayer, not private prayer.
And the first thing is, you don't have
to use a funny tone of voice when
you get up to pray.
Almost everybody does.
Now, you try that on your banker, or
the grocer.
Dear Mr. Grocerman, I'd like to have a
loaf of bread, Mr. Grocerman, and a pound
of butter, if you please, Mr. Grocerman.
And he'd send for a psychiatrist to see
what's wrong with you.
And the second thing is, you don't have
to repeat the Lord's name over and over
again.
Now Father, and now dear Father, and now
blessed God, and now God.
You know, that's foolishness.
Try that on your grocer.
Dear Brother Smith, I'd like a pound of
butter, Brother Smith, and a broom, please, Mr.
Smith.
And if you don't mind, I'd like to
have also a pound of hamburger, Mr. Smith,
a sack of salt, Mr. Smith, and he'd
send for a policeman.
But that's the way we talk to the
Lord.
And now Lord, and now Lord, and now
blessed God.
Now, that's absolute foolishness.
You wouldn't do that talking to anybody else.
And the third is, when you go to
God about something, be specific.
Don't say, God bless him, God bless him,
God bless him.
When you're praying for the preacher, tell the
Lord what the preacher needs.
He may need a new suit.
Say, now Lord, our pastor's been wearing that
old blue thing, it never did fit him.
Won't you please send him a nice brown
suit that'll fit him.
That's right.
And if your church needs $811 a quarter
for the repair of the roof, tell the
Lord that's what you're asking him for, $811
a quarter.
You do that to everybody else.
You don't go into a banker and say,
banker, bless me.
Boy, he'd do it.
Tell him definitely.
My wife and I went to a prayer
meeting in Jacksonville, Florida one time.
I was there between trains.
We hunged up at church.
When we got back to the hotel, Mother
said, What did those people want God to
do?
I said, I don't know.
It was just God bless, God bless, God
bless, and that isn't worth anything.
If you're praying for somebody, tell them what
you're praying about and what you're coming to
them for.
Now, we had eight children in our house.
I raised them.
My wife helped me once in a while
a little bit.
But I want to tell you something.
Not one of them ever came in and
said, Daddy, bless me.
I'd have done it.
They came in and said, Daddy, I want
a nickel.
Then when they got older, Daddy, I want
a quarter.
Then when they got older, Daddy, I want
a buck.
Then when it was off to college, it
was ad libitum, ad nauseum.
But they always told them what they wanted.
They didn't fool around.
But I'm going to say something to you
honestly as a friend of yours.
You'll get far more answers to your prayers
if you go to the Lord intelligently.
Talk to him in your own natural tone
of voice so he won't have to look
around and say, I wonder who that fellow
is down there.
I don't recognize that voice.
And tell him exactly what you're coming to
for.
Turn, please, to Exodus, chapter 33, verse 13.
That's in the Old Testament, page 99.
Now, therefore, I pray.
By the way, you brethren that preach publicly,
when you give out a text, wait until
the people find it before you start to
read it.
Because they're not listening to you.
They're trying to find the place, and they're
looking for Jude or by John, because John
and James and Jude and Genesis all begin
with J, and they're looking for all of
them together.
Now, therefore, I pray thee.
This is Moses speaking to God.
If I have found grace in thy sight,
show me now thy way, show me
now thy way, that I may know thee.
I want to talk to you about that,
if I may.
God's way.
Remember over in Romans 3, read, They have
not known my ways.
Hebrews 3 and Romans 3.
They have not known my ways.
Beloved, if you knew God's ways, you'd never
try to be saved by being good.
Never.
That isn't God's way.
Personally, I believe in being saved by good
works.
I know I'm going to shock Brother Allen
here, because I've been in his church, and
he thought otherwise.
And I don't know how Dr. Coulson will
think about me after I say that.
But I believe in being saved by good
works.
How many here believe you're saved by good
works?
Let's see, put your hand up.
One.
Well, we are, but it isn't our works,
it's Christ's works.
Aren't we saved by His good works?
How many believe that?
Let's see.
Well, I see, I told you the truth.
We're saved by good works, but it isn't
ours.
Now, what is His way?
They have not known my ways.
Show me now, said this dear man.
No wonder he said it.
He had to lead perhaps three million Jewish
people out of Egypt up to Canaan, the
biggest job any human being on earth ever
had.
About three million, I imagine.
No stores, no shops, no bridges, no roads.
My, no wonder he said this.
Show me now thy way.
How are you going to do this?
How are you going to run my life
and the lives of all these people that
I may know thee?
Beloved, we ought to know God.
And if we knew Him, we'd live a
life of absolute peace when there's a casket
in the parlor, if we knew Him and
knew His ways.
And when the bank says, tomorrow we're going
to foreclose the mortgage on your house, or
the doctor says about that sweetheart of yours,
only another week.
You see, God has called us to a
life of peace, and the only way we
can have it is to know His way
and know Him.
Show me now thy way, that I may
know thee.
Now, turn please to Romans chapter 4, where
we get His way described in a beautiful
way.
My, what this did to me way back
in 1916, I think it was.
Romans chapter 4, verse 17.
God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those
things which be not as though they were.
This explains it.
Who quickeneth the dead, that's an impossibility for
anybody else.
Even our so-called divine healers don't do
that.
Quickeneth the dead, gives life to the dead.
And both ways, physically dead and spiritually dead.
That's His way, to give life to the
dead.
And second, to call those things which be
not as though they were.
That's the second thing.
Now those are His ways, those two things
are His ways.
Absolutely impossible, both of them.
You remember when Jesus stood outside the Lazarus
tomb?
He said to Mary and Martha, Saidst thou
not unto thee, that if thou wouldst believe,
thou shouldest see the glory of God.
What was the glory of God?
To call a dead man out?
That's the glory of God.
To do the impossible thing, and you see
Him do it.
Now I saw this happen.
I think I mentioned this one to you
some years ago when I was here.
But if it's a good story, it's worth
repeating.
And if you don't remember it, I'll repeat
it anyway.
I had a daughter.
My oldest daughter wanted to be saved when
I left Tennessee one time.
I was going over to Washington D.C.
to see the quartermaster.
He wanted to see me about some tents,
and I was a builder of tents.
And wife and I were worried about that
dear girl.
She wanted to be saved, and our neighbor
was in Kansas City holding meetings.
And she was going, and we were hoping
the Spirit of God would reach her heart.
And at the same time, this was on
Wednesday, I received word from the Columbia Securities
Company that I was to pay up all
my notes next week.
$57,000 worth of notes.
I was building tents for the government.
And they had Democrats, and they weren't paying
any bills.
And they owed me a lot of money
in Washington, but they weren't paying any bills.
And I had borrowed quite a bit of
money to buy my merchandise with.
And I got word I was to take
up those notes because they were closing the
bank.
They were quitting business.
We didn't have $57,000.
It was owed to us from Washington, but
they weren't paying any bills.
And so I went off to Washington with
my dear daughter, dead in trespasses and sins
and needing life, and a bank wanting $57
,000, which wasn't.
She says she calls those things which be
not, as though they were.
I got to Philadelphia and went up to
see dear brother Crumble at the Sunday School
Times.
And while we were there, Harvey Borton called
up some of you Easterners know, and asked
brother Crumble to come over for supper.
I said, Dr. Wilson's here.
He said, bring him along.
So at the supper table, he said, let's
go in the parlor after supper and pray
for the things on our hearts.
Let each one of us tell what's in
each other's hearts, and we'll pray for those
specific things.
And when it came my turn, I said,
I'm praying that the Lord will save my
daughter.
She needs life.
And I'm also praying that the Lord will
give me $57,000 next week to pay
that bank debt.
So we prayed about it.
And I went down to Washington the next
morning, and the clerk at the hotel gave
me two telegrams.
The first one was from my sweetheart, saying
Elizabeth was saved last night.
And I spread it out, and I said,
Lord, I wish you'd read this.
You did it.
I love you for it.
But you only fulfilled half the verse.
How about the other half of the verse?
So I opened the second telegram, and it
was from my cashier at home, saying, remember,
we have to pay $57,000 next week.
So I spread that out on the bed,
and I said, Lord, read this.
Because you said, and I quoted this verse,
you said, you call those things which be
not as though they were.
I'm expecting you to do it.
You fulfilled half of it.
That's the worst half.
That's the hardest half.
Nothing for you to raise $57,000.
I don't know where you could get it,
but I'm looking for you to do it.
So I went ahead and did my business
with the Washington quartermaster.
And then on Saturday I went home.
I went right up to my office.
I went right to Edith Wilson.
She was our cashier.
And I said, Edith, how about the $57
,000?
And she said, it's all paid.
Now listen to me.
I said, where'd you get it?
She said, nearly all of it came from
accounts we had charged off to profit and
loss.
Can you beat that, you fellows?
Accounts we'd charged off of being lost.
God made those fellows pay the bill.
He called those things which be not as
though they were.
You know, somehow or other, we kind of
think God has to have a nest egg.
We have to put up a little something
to make God work.
And if we invest a little bit, why,
God will come in and be enticed by
us to pay the rest of the outfit.
That's what this verse says.
He quickeneth the dead, and he calleth those
things which be not as though they were.
I wonder how many of us in this
audience like to get in a place where
nobody can help you out but God.
I wonder if we like that.
Do you ever covet that?
I want to tell you that's one of
the sweetest things in this world.
You remember the Lord said to the Edomites
and the Israelites and the Judaites, dig ditches,
dig ditches.
There wasn't a cloud in the sky.
You dig the ditches, that's all you can
do.
I'll furnish the water.
They didn't see any clouds.
There wasn't any clouds.
It says so.
But they dug the ditches.
Did you ever do that, beloved?
Then remember one time the prophet said to
the widow, go and borrow vessels, not a
few, lots of them.
Borrow all you can find.
And she did.
And somehow or other that which was not
filled the vessels with oil.
Remember that?
And one time Jesus said to the multitude,
sit down.
In fifties, and the bread which was not
and the fish which were not were there.
And he fed them.
But somehow or other we want to see
how he does it.
I read in the front of a man's
Bible one time, do not question why nor
how, only bow.
I wonder how many of us expect God
to do anything.
That's the honest truth.
Expect him to do anything.
You know, our blessed Lord wants to prove
himself to us.
That's the reason it says, Moses said, show
me now thy way that I may know
thee.
Then you notice the answer?
Oh, I put a ring around that answer.
My presence shall go with thee, and I
will give thee rest.
When you come to the Red Sea, Moses,
you don't need to worry.
He might have wondered, how is God going
to build a bridge across that thing?
But God didn't intend to build a bridge.
One day a preacher in Kansas City said,
we were talking on this subject, he and
I together.
He said, I had an experience that will
help you in this.
I owed the bank downtown, he gave me
the name of the bank, $750 that I
couldn't pay.
I had borrowed $1,000, and I said
to the banker, you don't need to be
afraid of lending it to me, because God
is my Father and he always meets my
needs and he'll give me the money.
So they loaned him the $1,000 out
of insecurity, and he paid the first $250.
But when the second payment came due, he
didn't have any money.
And for a week before the note was
due, he was pleading with God and pleading
with God to give him the money to
pay that.
And he argued with the Lord.
He said, you know, Lord, I told the
banker that you met my needs, and he
didn't need to be afraid to lend me
the money.
And now, Lord, here I am, got it.
And each day he was pleading with God
for that money, but it didn't come.
And the day before the note was due,
he fasted and prayed.
And during the night, he couldn't sleep.
He was on his knees, pleading with God
for that money.
He said, I don't want to go in
and tell that banker that you let me
down.
Why, that would be terrible.
But no money came.
And the next morning, he waited until the
postman came and didn't bring him any money.
So he went down to see Mr. Woodward.
He went in, he said, I just went
in like a whipped dog.
I said, I'm awful sorry to come to
you, sir.
I'm just as sorry as I can be.
And the banker said, well, why?
He said, I owe you $750, and I
can't pay it.
And I promised you I would pay it.
And the banker said, well, what are you
talking about?
What debt are you talking about?
And I said, my friend said, don't rub
it in on me.
I owe you $750.
You know I do.
No, he said, I don't know.
And he called Harry, the office boy.
He said, go to window number three and
ask Mr. Welty to give you the record
of this man's account, whether he owes anything
or not.
And he came back with a little note,
handed it to Mr. Woodward.
And Mr. Woodward handed it to my friend.
His account is clear.
Well, my friend sank down in a chair,
whipped.
I know what's happened, he said.
Somebody came in here and paid a bill,
and you put it to my credit instead
of his.
And then Mr. Woodward smiled and said, no,
that isn't true.
I'll tell you.
Three weeks ago, the auditors were going over
our books and found we hadn't used up
all our 15% allowance for charity.
And we knew you were doing good work
here in town, so we just put $750
in your credit.
Now, you see, he might as well have
saved his breath to cool his coughing.
Harry was worrying, fretting, weeping, pleading, praying.
Didn't need to at all.
He could have had a good time those
three weeks.
But that's the way we do.
They've not known my ways.
My presence shall go with thee.
My presence.
I love that.
And I will give thee rest.
Moses, all you have to do is look
on and sing.
And let me do the job.
And he did the impossible thing.
He opened up the Red Sea and he
walked through on dry ground.
That is two miracles.
All dried up right away down there.
He walked through on dry ground.
And have you noticed it says that the
enemies the next morning were all dead, and
there remained not so much as one.
Remember that?
One fellow got out of Egypt.
He said the same thing about the flies.
When he drove the flies out of Egypt,
and if any of you have been to
Egypt, you know that's the headquarters for flies.
And when the Lord drove them out, he
said there remained not so much as one.
One fly.
Well, you try to get one out of
your dining room.
Boy.
And when he drove the locusts out, it
says there remained not so much as one.
And I'll tell you a sweet secret.
When he brought your sins out, there remains
not so much as one.
Isn't it lovely he does that?
My presence shall go with thee, and I
will give thee trouble.
Is that what it says?
Rest.
Now, beloved, I wonder if the Lord is
so precious to us personally that his presence
does something to us in the time of
stress and sorrow and difficulty.
Now, we raised some children to our house.
We always had one in the crib for
about 25 years or less.
And a storm would come up, and the
lightning would flash, and a thunder would roll,
and the windows would shake, you know, and
the barn door would beat, and the limb
of a tree would scratch the side of
the house and make a noise like ghosts
make.
And the little kids were scared.
Then we'd hear the side of the crib
rattle, and two little feet hit the floor,
and then a tug at the bedclothes.
Daddy.
Mom.
Can I get in bed with you?
And then we'd take up that little bit
of sweet humanity and put her in between
us, and pretty soon she was sound asleep.
The storm had gone out of her.
It was still out there, but she was
with Daddy, and she knew the thunder could
never hit her if she was in Daddy's
arms.
And our presence, without doing one thing, brought
peace to the little one.
When I was lost in the woods on
the backside of Mount Wilson, the mountain wasn't
named for me, it was there before I
was, but I went down the backside of
Mount Wilson and got lost, George Jackson and
I, and we kneeled down in the little
cleared place and said, Father, two of your
children are lost.
Won't you send somebody to find us and
get us out of here?
And in just a few minutes, a guide
came through the manzanita brush.
A government guide with a badge on.
And when we saw him, we had peace.
He hadn't taken us out yet, but we
had peace when we saw him, for we
knew that he knew how to take us
out, and he was our peace.
When the lightning struck our house, I said,
Mother, you'd better take the baby out of
here.
It may be there's a fire in this
house, and she took the baby out.
And then I telephoned Station No.
6 a few blocks down the street, and
I knew Jim Birmingham, the captain.
I said, Jim, the lightning struck my house.
You'd better come up.
I'm afraid there's a fire between the floors,
for I saw the smoke coming up in
front of the fireplace in between the cracks.
I saw the smoke coming up.
I said, bring your gooseneck nozzle, because I
think you've got a fire here to fight
between the floors.
And then I stood at the window, one
eye on the smoke and one eye on
the street.
That's the reason God gave us two eyes.
And pretty soon I heard the siren.
I saw Jim coming with five other fellows,
and I had perfect peace when I saw
him.
I'd seen Jim fight fires before.
I knew that he knew how to do
it, and his presence brought peace.
And I have gone into the sick room,
beloved, with my satchel and my dear father,
who is a Methodist preacher and a doctor
and a magician and a druggist and a
good daddy.
He said to me, Walter, never go into
the sick room with a sad face.
They've got enough trouble to their own.
Don't you bring some more in.
And I learned to go in the sick
room with a smile.
And how often I've seen the patient change
just because somebody came in with a smile.
My presence was peace.
We had a woman in Kansas City.
She was 39 having her first baby, and
a lot of her friends had told her
they knew lots of women that died at
39 having their first baby, and so she
was quite encouraged.
And I was out in western Kansas when
the stork started on his journey.
And when I got there, I went up
into her room, and she was suffering terribly.
And when I came in, I said, well,
Mary, what in the world are you doing
hanging around here?
I thought you'd gone to heaven long ago.
She turned over and looked at me and
said, well, thank God you got here.
It'll all be all right now.
She had perfect peace.
I hadn't done anything yet, but the presence
of her doctor brought peace.
After a while, I laid a sweet little
baby girl in her arms, and she picked
it up and kissed it everywhere she could
find a place to kiss.
And she looked up at me with gleaming,
glowing eyes and said, Doctor, was there ever
anything in the world as sweet as this?
I said, yeah, we had eight at our
house.
But my presence there, now let me ask
you, beloved, is the Lord Jesus and the
Father and the Holy Spirit so precious to
you that it brings peace just because he's
there before anything's done at all?
You remember we read, beloved, comes all joy
when you fall into temptation, not when you
crawl out, when you fall in.
I wonder how many of you say hallelujah
when the doctor says, I'm sorry, but you
have cataracts or a cancer which is a
curse, or when the bank account's gone, or
when a father comes home with a note
in the end rope saying, We don't need
you anymore, and he's 65.
His presence, we read in another place, is
salvation.
My presence shall go with thee.
My presence, not my victories, not my power,
myself.
My presence shall go with thee, and I
will give thee rest.
Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for
him.
And then he calls those things which be
not as though they were.
I remember one time when I was going
from a town up in Nebraska, I forget
the name of it, down to Troy, Kansas,
about 21 miles, to catch a train that
night about 10 o'clock to get into
Kansas City so I could be on the
radio at 7 in the morning.
And the boy that was taking me down
there was the son of a preacher in
this town where I was preaching, and he
wanted to be saved.
He asked if he could take me down
there because he wanted to find the Lord.
And on the way down he trusted the
Savior after he became a missionary to China.
Well, as we drew near this town, and
we saw it was 10 o'clock, time
for the train to go.
There was a freight train there going along,
slow as tar in January.
It was terrible.
And I could see the top of the,
of the passenger coach over the tops of
these freight cars.
And I bowed my head and I said,
Lord, hold that fellow.
I've got to get in there for that
radio for you.
And you were on the train, dear Lord
of Lords.
By the way, when you pray, you don't
always go to a father for something.
There's lots of things God does not as
a father at all.
He does things as Lord of Lords or
King of Kings or Shepherd, calling by the
name that applies to the thing you're praying
about.
That's sensible.
And so I didn't go to him as
a father.
I went to him as Lord of Lords.
And I said, now you run the trains,
and I hope you'll stop that train and
save it for me.
And then I said, Lord, hurry up that
freight train.
But he didn't.
That miserable thing just crawled along.
I kept my eye on that, that passenger
car over there.
And we're standing there.
I said, Lord, I'm waiting on you to
hold that thing.
And after a long time, the caboose went
by, and we dashed across the track and
dashed over the deep one.
I ran up to the conductor who was
standing at the steps.
I said, I want to go to Kansas
City.
I'm glad you waited for me.
He said, Greenberg tickets.
You've got lots of time.
So I went in and bought a ticket
and came back.
And I was the only passenger on the
train.
And I went and sat down.
He came and sat down beside me and
said, Say, mister, who in the world are
you?
Oh, I said, I'm one of God's office
boys running errands for him.
I want to tell you something, he said.
Twice I got up on the platform to
pull that belt cord, and I couldn't pull
it.
You must be somebody.
I said, I am.
I'm the King's son.
You see, the Lord did the impossible thing.
If they'd known what kind of a job
I was, they wouldn't have held that train.
But wasn't it wonderful, the Lord of heaven?
He called those things which be not as
though they were.
But we don't expect him to do anything.
My presence shall go with thee, and I
will give thee plenty of trouble, plenty of
upset.
And we walk the floor and wring our
hands and wonder how we'll ever get through
tomorrow, but you got through it, there you
are tonight.
My presence shall go with thee.
So I want to ask again, does the
presence of the Lord mean anything, beloved, to
you?
It doesn't mean anything at all.
But we'd like to have the rent, you
know, a week before.
Major Whittle, who wrote under the name of
L.
Nathan in your hymn books, had a strange
experience.
He was sick one time, and Arthur T.
Pearson, not this friend, but Arthur T.
Pearson, that great predatory man of God, was
a farmer and attended Major Whittle's church.
And one morning he brought in a load
of wood.
He furnished wood to the B&O Railroad.
And one morning when it was raining, he
heard his pastor was sick, so after he'd
unloaded the wood and got himself all dirty,
they paid him.
And he took out his billfold, and he
put the 20s on the bottom, then the
10s, and then the 5s on top of
that.
And he thought, well, I'll stop by and
see my pastor and give him $5 to
help him with the doctor bill.
So when he got up to his house,
he went in, and he knocked on the
door, but there was no answer.
So he opened the door, it was unlocked,
and he heard weeping in there.
And so he stepped into the front hall,
and he knocked on one of the other
doors, and Mrs. Whittle came to the door,
and she was weeping.
And he said, Oh, I'm so glad you
came.
I'm sure Major will be glad to see
you.
And she went back for a moment, and
then pretty soon she said, He wants to
see you.
So Dr. Pearson went back, and Major Whittle
was in bed, very sick, and weeping.
And he said, I tried to pray with
him, but I couldn't.
I kept thinking that $5.
I just couldn't pray.
And so after a while, I got a
prayer out, and I said goodbye and left
him.
And when I went out in the front
hall, I opened my purse to give the
Mrs. this $5, but it was a 20
on top, it was upside down, you see.
And he didn't want to come all through
the 20s and get down to the bottom,
so he gave her a 20.
And she waved it there and ran back
and said, Here it is, sweetheart.
Here it is.
I knew God would do it.
And he thought, What in the world's the
matter here?
Pretty soon she came back and took him
back.
And Major said, You know, we've been praying.
The rent was due this morning for $20.
And I'm ashamed of myself.
I didn't think God would send it.
Then he put in your heart to bring
me $20.
I want to thank you for it.
Dr. Pearson said, I did some weeping myself.
I said, Major, I didn't intend to give
you $20.
I was only going to give you $5.
But the Lord turned my pocketbook upside down.
He called those things which be not as
though they were.
But I would believe God always, under every
condition, every situation.
My presence shall go with thee, and I
will give thee.
Let's pray.
Our Lord, we thank thee for thy word,
and we thank thee for experiences that prove
the truth of thy word, and now surround
us with so many.
We thank thee for it.
Grant, we pray, that every one of thy
precious children here shall have the joy of
knowing what it means to rest in the
Lord, and wait patiently for Him, for the
glory of His lovely name.
Amen.
It takes a person to do it, and
that person is our lovely, precious, wonderful Lord
Jesus Christ.
So we ought to kneel at His feet
in adoring worship and say, Thine am I,
Lord Jesus, and on Thy side Thou, Son
of God.
Let us pray.
Our Lord, we'll never get the last word
said about Thee, and we'll never find out
the depths of Thy love and grace and
beauty through the centuries.
We thank Thee for revealing in Thy word
Thy loveliness and greatness to us, and what
we've seen has made us fall in love
with Thee.
And we look up and say, Thine am
I, Lord Jesus, and on Thy side Thou,
Son of God.
Grant thy blessing on every heart that's heard,
for the glory of Jesus' name.
Amen.