Recently we went to a Stephen Curtis Chapman concert. (Don't tell BJU) You may know that their 5 yr old was accidentally killed in May. When Stephen walked on the stage I choked – and he hadn’t even said anything yet. With a grateful heart for America’s prayers he began to explain the difficulty of coming up with an opening song that would help us understand where his family was in their journey through this sorrow. He settled on Blessed Be Your Name.
Two years ago another family in our church, the Foshays, were trying to come up with the right funeral song to express their belief and sorrow when their son, Tim, was killed in a car accident after three tours in Iraq. God showed them this same song… a song that seems to minister to mourning parents… I pray that you can affirm this song with all your hearts in the days, weeks, months and years ahead. That, no matter what, you'd rather have Jesus than anything else.
Blessed Be Your Name
by Matt Redman
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Blessed Be Your Name
In the land that is plentiful
Where Your streams of abundance flow
Blessed be Your name
Blessed Be Your name
When I'm found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness
Blessed Be Your name
Every blessing You pour out
I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name
Blessed be Your name
When the sun's shining down on me
When the world's 'all as it should be'
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be Your name
On the road marked with suffering
Though there's pain in the offering
Blessed be Your name
You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say
Lord, blessed be Your name
May His love surround and comfort you. Greenville has never seemed so far from Maine as it does today. We love you all. Susan
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Dear Wendy and Brent,
Recently we went to a Stephen Curtis Chapman concert. (Don't tell BJU) You may know that their 5 yr old was accidentally killed in May. When Stephen walked on the stage I choked – and he hadn’t even said anything yet. With a grateful heart for America’s prayers he began to explain the difficulty of coming up with an opening song that would help us understand where his family was in their journey through this sorrow. He settled on Blessed Be Your Name.
Two years ago another family in our church, the Foshays, were trying to come up with the right funeral song to express their belief and sorrow when their son, Tim, was killed in a car accident after three tours in Iraq. God showed them this same song… a song that seems to minister to mourning parents… I pray that you can affirm this song with all your hearts in the days, weeks, months and years ahead. That, no matter what, you'd rather have Jesus than anything else.
Blessed Be Your Name
by Matt Redman
- - -
Blessed Be Your Name
In the land that is plentiful
Where Your streams of abundance flow
Blessed be Your name
Blessed Be Your name
When I'm found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness
Blessed Be Your name
Every blessing You pour out
I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name
Blessed be Your name
When the sun's shining down on me
When the world's 'all as it should be'
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be Your name
On the road marked with suffering
Though there's pain in the offering
Blessed be Your name
You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say
Lord, blessed be Your name
May His love surround and comfort you. Greenville has never seemed so far from Maine as it does today. We love you all. Susan
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