Come, Thou Fount of every blessing

Come THOU fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing THY praise... I will praise THEE all the days of my life forever and ever... YOU ARE the fount of my life, my salvation, my peace, my healing, my deliverance, my victory, my joy, my hope and my everything!

Take my heart and seal it with YOUR amazing grace from THY courts above, give me the grace not to wander from my FOUNT ever in JESUS Mighty Name... Amen

singing this while looking at how far I have let myself wander. but this song reminds me that I am never to far to come back home.

I've sang this song many times in church and it never touched me the way it did this morning when I heard Dr David Jeremiah tell the story about the author. He was so in love with the Lord but he just kept going his own sinful way until one day he decided God couldn't love or use him anymore, he had messed everything up so bad. So the story goes, he decided to try and run from God. He decided to travel. He was on a stage coach with a lady that was so in love with the Lord. She was reading something and suddenly she said to him " listen to the words of this beautiful hymn, it's so touching " and she started reading "prone to wander, oh Lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love". He started crying and she thought he was just touched by the words, not knowingthathe was the author of the song. Isn't it just like our precious Savior to put him in that place at that time to let him know He still loved him and wanted him to repent and follow Him. Thank you Jesus, what a friend we have in you!

Wow! What real words. Oh, to grace that keeps us in Christ. The spirit of the writer is ever so touchable. It reminds us of how far this grace has brought us, and how the "streams of mercy " have never ceased, despite how our feeling may have ceased; our zeal and our burning love for the Lord, the streams are still flowing.

this is an amazing song!!!

Oh to Grace, how great a debtor. When I sang this, I look back over my life and see it is truly His grace that got me through. This Grace is Christ coming to us as our very life and enjoyment. He takes us through the difficult times. It is by this that we can choose to follow him. I was blessed to know Christ as grace at a very young age, even before I understood it. It was Grace that put me in a Christian home and a wonderful church. As I grew older in high school and collage, it was Christ that constrained me and kept me away from so many damaging things. Now it is still Him that makes me willing to suffer loss to pursue Him. I’m truly in debt to this Grace.

Haven’t sung this hymn for a long time but always resonated with the lines, “Prone to wander, Lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love”. Was reminded of these words as I’m working on a message from Romans 7 where our super hero of the faith, the Apostle Paul gets real and talks about his own tendency to do what he doesn’t want to do and not do the things he ought. The pull of sin is strong even for the redeemed and so we are admonished often in scripture to guard our hearts and minds so as to align our affections, our thoughts, and behaviors with Christ. So, so grateful for the Holy Spirit to help us and God’s amazing grace as we stumble along.

A classic favorite of mine. Prone to wander, but God Himself draws me back to Him, time and time again. He is the Source of all blessings and graces and mercy. Without Christ and His enveloping canopy of tender love and sustenance, no one can survive in this cruel world.

We'll sing this song around that happy throne!

I really like it