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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.

There are Times

Comfort in Trials By Enjoyment in Suffering

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There are times in my life
When my heart is embittered.
There are questions unanswered,
Yet, You’re drawing me
 
To enter
Into Your blessed sanctuary
And turning my eyes heavenward,
The questions of constant inquiry
Are changed to these words,
2
Whom do I have in heaven
But You, dear Jehovah.
My flesh and my heart
Constantly fail,
 
But God’s still
The strength of my heart and my portion;
To Him forever I’ll draw near.
I’ve made Jehovah my sweet refuge.
So now throughout the years
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Turn my view to see You,
How I need to see Jesus!!
Though I don’t understand
The ways that You take;
 
Lord, make me
A babe and suckling always praising.
Enjoying Your worth day by day.
Let each experience constitute me
So Your life I’ll display
In every way.

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dulce han

Tagaytay City, Cavite, Philippines

Jun 5, 2008

turn my view to see You....

make me a babe and suckling always praising.enjoying Your worth day by day. Let each experience constitute me, so Your life i will display in every way.

Lord Jesus,i really love You,

this is my longing to be like Him in every way through the experiences that i have gone through.making me a babe always praising Him

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Micah De Jesus

Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, Philippines

May 28, 2008

This hymn s really exhorting to love the Lord Jesus! Supplied and nourished me to go on love the Lord.

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Crystal Goh

Riverside, California, United States

Apr 26, 2008

Ever since I heard of this song, it touched my heart. I am young and I love the Lord! This is a very wonderful song!

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Chloe Duros

Cypress, CA, United States

Apr 25, 2008

"my flesh and my heart constantly fail, but God's still the strength of my heart and my portion; to Him forever I'll draw near."!

Even when I might not want Him to be, Jesus still is and will always be Lord, my Lord, our Lord! Hallelujah!

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Chloe Duros

Cypress, CA, United States

Apr 25, 2008

OH!!! I'm SOOO thrilled that this hymn is on here now!!!

These words have gotten me through some very difficult and painful times. It always makes me cry now every time we sing it because it touches me so deeply.

My dear, sweet sister Vanessa! Praise the Lord for what He has done in you that produced this sweet song which has shepherded me so much!

~Chloe

ps. we miss you in Cypress!

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Jane

Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

Apr 24, 2008

I love so much. This song is simply soothing. God really exists.

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Jason

Miami, FL, United States

Apr 20, 2008

Praise the Lord!!!! How we need to see Jesus! Enjoy this precious One day by day!

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