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About Numbered Notation

Numbered Notation (also called Jianpu, 简谱) writes each melody note as a number from 1 to 7 instead of a note on a staff. The number shows the note's position in the song's scale -- not its exact pitch -- so the same tune looks identical no matter what key it's sung in.

Within one octave, the numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 correspond to the familiar do re mi fa sol la ti. A dot above a number raises it an octave higher; a dot below lowers it an octave lower -- no dot means the middle, as-written octave.

A plain number lasts one beat. A dash (-) right after a number holds that same note for one more beat. A line underneath a number shortens it instead -- one line is half a beat, two lines a quarter of a beat. A 0 is a rest: silence for one beat.

The label at the top of the sheet, like "1=C" or "1=Ab", shows which pitch scale degree 1 ("do") is tuned to. A song in a minor key is labeled "6=X" instead -- scale degree 6 ("la") is the true tonic. Chord names printed above the notes (like "C" or "G7") always use their familiar letter names, never numbers.

For example, under a "1=C" heading, the numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 sound as C D E F G A B. Under a "1=G" heading, those very same numbers sound as G A B C D E F# instead -- same shape, different key.

God eternal has a purpose

Ultimate Manifestation God’s Eternal Purpose

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God eternal has a purpose,
Formed in His eternal past,
Spreading to eternal future;
’Twixt these ends all time is cast.
For with time there is the process,
Time for His accomplishment;
And in time we’re merely travelers—
For eternity we’re meant.
2
God would have a group of people
Built together in His plan,
Blended, knit, coordinated
As His vessel—one new man.
God would come into this vessel
With His nature, life and ways,
Mingling Spirit with our spirits
For His joy and to His praise.
3
God has worked in three directions
For His plan so marvelous:
As the Father, Son, and Spirit
To dispense Himself to us!
All creation gives the setting—
Heav’n and earth are for this plan;
’Tis for this God made a body,
Soul and spirit—three-part man.
4
As the center, as the kernel,
Of God’s plan our spirit is;
Calling on the name of Jesus
Makes our spirit one with His.
From the center to circumference
God would saturate each part;
Feeling, mind, and will renewing,
Making home in all our heart.
5
Thus in life we’re built together,
Then in love we’re knit as one;
God is now His plan fulfilling,
Finishing what He’s begun.
Lord, increase Thyself within us
That we might be built by Thee
Into that great corporate vessel
Filled with God exclusively.
6
As the product, the fulfillment,
Will the church in glory stand,
Consummation of the purpose
In eternal ages planned.
God will have His corporate vessel,
All His glory to contain;
Lord, we’re wholly for Thy purpose
All Thy goal in us attain.

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Anitha Nokku

Tustin, CA, United States

May 8, 2026

Amen! God eternal has a purpose. We are in his plan since the beginning of the time. Heavens and earth are for this plan. Man being the three part being with body, soul and spirit is for this plan to have Father, Son and Spirt dwell in eternity with man. Lord dwell in us richly.

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Maurice Ward

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Apr 11, 2021

I recently was having a very rough time experiencing so much distance from the Lord. I knew that I needed to open to the Lord and confess all that was in my heart. I began to tell the Lord that I couldn't see how being one with Him would answer my problems. I kept thinking of how real my issues seemed and how much they linger.

But the Lord continued to lead me in prayer and after singing verse 4 He touched my concept. I have to confess my unbelief and let go of my concept of being one with Christ. Being one with Christ isn't to be happy or to escape our situations. Nor is it necessarily to have everything figured out for us. Our being one with Christ is so that we be renewed. That we would be wrought with the divine element and thus able to build up God's body as the one new man. This process of renewing causes us to undergo be washed of everything that is old and transformed into all that Christ is.

God is not interested in giving us a quick fix to our problems. He will use our environment to kill us that we may be one with Him in resurrection.

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Samuel Adojoh Apeh

Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom

Nov 22, 2020

Lord thank you for your eternal purpose. Lord, We're wholly for thy purpose, all Thy glory in us attain. Amen.

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Taylor C.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Nov 21, 2019

Lord, gain us completely for Your purpose! Fill us Lord!

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Gracica Thelusma

Miami, FL, United States

May 17, 2018

In Thy goal in us attain! Oh Lord Jesus, we love You!

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Renyta Suwuh

Austin, Texas, United States

Feb 7, 2018

Hallelujah, God will have His corporate vessel!

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Tim Ou

Austin, Texas, United States

Jan 7, 2018

God eternal has a purpose!

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Antonio

Fajardo, Puerto Rico

Jan 18, 2017

Blend us Lord to heed to You.

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Erlin Mae

Oroquieta City, Misamis Occidental, Philippines

Sep 6, 2016

In this whole world only Your eternal purpose will prevail. Lord, we know that You are now fulfilling Your plan and even finishing it. Lord, may we be a vessel unto honor who can be one with You on carrying out Your eternal purpose ;-)

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Matthew and Jonathan

Irvine, CA, United States

Apr 18, 2015

Lord make us into a vessel to contain God exclusively.

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