Seize the Moment – Day 396

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17
Apr '21

Seize the Moment – Day 396

Posted on Apr 17, 2021 by Ken Durham in Devotions, General |

17
Apr '21

Today’s hymn focus will be “Cleanse Me”

Romans 12:1-2 (NASB95)      

 

“ Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.”

 

J. Edwin Orr was a renowned evangelist and scholar of the historical revival movements, as well as the writer of this hymn. In 1936, he was inspired to write this hymn after a thrilling revival in New Zealand. He put the words to a lovely Polynesian melody and it has become one of our most challenging hymns of revival.

 

The attitude of total surrender is seen in each verse, beginning with a prayer for revival to start first in our own heart, and there must be a fresh surrender to allow the Holy Spirit to work in and through us if we want revival to truly begin. The third verse says:

 

          Lord, take my life and make it wholly Thine; fill my poor heart with

          Thy great love divine; Take all my will, my passion, self and pride

          I now surrender Lord, in me abide.

 

We need to wake up and make this song our daily prayer if we truly desire to see God move and bring about a new world-wide spiritual awakening…for Revival comes from Him!

 
 
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Cleanse Me
 
1
Search me, O God, and know my heart today;
Try me, O Savior, know my thoughts, I pray.
See if there be some wicked way in me;
Cleanse me from ev’ry sin and set me free.
 
2
I praise thee, Lord, for cleansing me from sin;
Fulfill thy Word, and make me pure within.
Fill me with fire where once I burned with shame;
Grant my desire to magnify thy name.
 
3
Lord, take my life and make it wholly thine;
Fill my poor heart with thy great love divine.
Take all my will, my passion, self, and pride;
I now surrender: Lord, in me abide.
 
4
O Holy Ghost, revival comes from Thee;
Send a revival, start the work in me;
Thy Word declares Thou wilt supply our need;
For blessings now, O Lord, I humbly plead.
 

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