Today’s hymn focus will be “I Need Thee Every Hour”

2 Corinthians 3:5 (NLT)          

 It is not that we think we are qualified to do anything on our own. Our qualification comes from God.

Annie Sherwood Hawks was an associate pastor’s wife, working with Reverend Dr. Robert Lowry at Hanson Place Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York, where she was encouraged to write Sunday School songs for children.

On a bright June morning in 1872, she was busy about her regular household chores when suddenly, she became filled with a sense of nearness to Jesus. She wondered how anyone could live without Him, in either joy or pain, and began writing the words. She gave the words to Pastor Lowry, who wrote the tune and the chorus in the church parsonage. He later took it to the National Baptist Sunday School Association meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, where it was sung for the first time, and then published in a hymnbook the next year.

          I need Thee every hour, Most gracious Lord

          No tender voice like Thine, can peace afford.

          I need Thee, O I need Thee, Every hour I need Thee

          O bless me now, my Savior, I come to Thee.

We need to wake up and realize that Jesus is always there! He promised to never leave us or forsake us. That promise should bring peace to our hearts, whether we are faced with pain or joy.

YOUTUBE:

I Need Thee Every Hour