How I love Thee, precious Jesus

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How I love Thee, precious Jesus,
  That Thy love laid hold of me;
Thou hast drawn and wooed and kissed me
  That a lover I may be!
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Our Beloved, how we love Him,
  So attractive, our delight.
We are captivated wholly
    And are comely in His sight.
Our Beloved, how we love Him,
  So attractive, our delight.
We are captivated wholly
    And are comely in His sight.
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As a company of horses,
  Thou, O Lord, has likened me,
Strong and swift, with Pharaoh’s chariots,
  Full of natural energy.
As a company of horses,
  Thou, O Lord, has likened me,
Strong and swift, with Pharaoh’s chariots,
  Full of natural energy.
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Just a lover with the dove’s eyes
  Fixed on Him and Him alone;
Changed are all my natural concepts,
  Oh, the Lord in me has grown!
Just a lover with the dove’s eyes
  Fixed on Him and Him alone;
Changed are all my natural concepts,
  Oh, the Lord in me has grown!
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Now a lily of the valley,
  Standing out among the thorns,
In the Lord alone I’m trusting,
  Of my self-strength I’ve been shorn.
Now a lily of the valley,
  Standing out among the thorns,
In the Lord alone I’m trusting,
  Of my self-strength I’ve been shorn.
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Make us doves that hide in Thee, Lord;
  Bring us to the secret place.
There You find our voices sweet, Lord,
  And desire to see our face.
Make us doves that hide in Thee, Lord;
  Bring us to the secret place.
There You find our voices sweet, Lord,
  And desire to see our face.
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Make us then, Lord, smoking pillars,
  Coming from the wilderness.
By Thy death and resurrection
  All our natural will suppress.
Make us then, Lord, smoking pillars,
  Coming from the wilderness.
By Thy death and resurrection
  All our natural will suppress.
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You desire a couch to rest on—
  We become a rest to Thee;
Thou the Person in our being,
  Gone our personality.
You desire a couch to rest on—
  We become a rest to Thee;
Thou the Person in our being,
  Gone our personality.
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Now a palanquin You’re making—
  Nothing natural You’ll allow.
For Your move and Your expression
  Start this work within us now!
Now a palanquin You’re making—
  Nothing natural You’ll allow.
For Your move and Your expression
  Start this work within us now!
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You supply the wood and pillars
  For the structure and support,
Bottom gold and seat of purple
  For our King of royal court.
You supply the wood and pillars
  For the structure and support,
Bottom gold and seat of purple
  For our King of royal court.
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Only this, O Lord, we offer
  For Thy palanquin so fine:

Just our love, so pure and fitted,
  The interior design.
Only this, O Lord, we offer
  For Thy palanquin so fine:

Just our love, so pure and fitted,
  The interior design.
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What a sight when our Beloved
  Wears a crown upon His brow;
Christ, the Church, are now united—
  Boast and glory to Him now!
What a sight when our Beloved
  Wears a crown upon His brow;
Christ, the Church, are now united—
  Boast and glory to Him now!
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Faith Northey

Winkler, MB, Canada

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Diane

Wallace, ID, United States

This is not the Lily of the Valley. It starts I have found a friend in Jesus.


Jean Patience MVULA

Likasi, KATANGA, Democratic Republic Of Congo

His Name is wonderful. I just want to be as a simple tool in His holy hands.