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Hymnal Number
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Keys included:
F
About this Hymn
In this hymn Scottish pastor Horatius Bonar helps us to pray for so much more than lips that are filled with joyful abundance; we ask for our lives to be rooted in and reflective of godly worship in the way we speak to each other gracefully, surrender our worries, and find the sacredness in every hour, day and night.
Lyrics
Verse 1
Fill thou my life, O Lord my God, in ev'ry part with praise, that my whole being may proclaim thy being and thy ways.
Verse 2
Not for the lip of praise alone, nor e'en the praising heart, I ask, but for a life made up of praise in ev'ry part.
Verse 3
Praise in the common words I speak, life's common looks and tones, in fellowship enjoyed at home with my beloved ones.
Verse 4
So shall each fear, each fret, each care be turned into a song, and ev'ry winding of the way the echo shall prolong.
Verse 5
So shall no part of day or night from sacredness be free, but all my life, in ev'ry step, be fellowship with thee.
Verse 6
Enduring wrong, reproach, or loss with sweet and steadfast will, forgiving freely those who hate, returning good for ill.
Fill thou my life, O Lord my God, in ev'ry part with praise, that my whole being may proclaim thy being and thy ways.
Verse 2
Not for the lip of praise alone, nor e'en the praising heart, I ask, but for a life made up of praise in ev'ry part.
Verse 3
Praise in the common words I speak, life's common looks and tones, in fellowship enjoyed at home with my beloved ones.
Verse 4
So shall each fear, each fret, each care be turned into a song, and ev'ry winding of the way the echo shall prolong.
Verse 5
So shall no part of day or night from sacredness be free, but all my life, in ev'ry step, be fellowship with thee.
Verse 6
Enduring wrong, reproach, or loss with sweet and steadfast will, forgiving freely those who hate, returning good for ill.
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Attribution & Copyright
Words: Horatius Bonar, 1866
Music: Thomas Haweis, 1791; rev. Samuel Webbe Jr., 1808; harm. The English Hymnal, 1906
Music: Thomas Haweis, 1791; rev. Samuel Webbe Jr., 1808; harm. The English Hymnal, 1906