{"id":27773,"date":"2015-09-21T00:15:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T04:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=27773"},"modified":"2015-09-21T04:33:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T08:33:25","slug":"come-thou-fount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/21\/come-thou-fount\/","title":{"rendered":"Come Thou Fount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16629\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\" alt=\"psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv\" width=\"341\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg 341w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Come, Thou Fount of ev&#8217;ry blessing, tune my heart to sing Thy grace<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Teach me some melodious sonnet sung by flaming tongues above<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Praise the mount, I\u2019m fixed upon it, mount of Thy redeeming love<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Here I raise my Ebenezer, hither by Thy help I come<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">And I hope by Thy good pleasure safely to arrive at home<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Here\u2019s my heart, o take and seal it, seal it for Thy courts above<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Jesus sought me when a stranger wandering from the fold of God<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">He, to rescue me from danger, interposed His precious blood<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Here\u2019s my heart, o take and seal it, seal it for Thy courts above<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">O to grace, how great a debtor, daily I\u2019m constrained to be<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Let Thy goodness like a fetter bind my wandering heart to Thee<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Here\u2019s my heart, o take and seal it, seal it for Thy courts above<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Seal it for Thy courts above<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gPKpkrqBwNs?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Mormon Tabernacle Choir\/Orchestra<\/em><br \/>\nLyrics by Robert Robinson \/ Tune: \u2019Nettleton\u2019 by Asahel Nettleton,<br \/>\nThis arrangement by Mack Wilberg<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Recently I have been struggling with a situation. I keep turning it over and over in my mind, unable to see how it can be resolved. One day last week, while pondering this issue once again, God placed this song in my heart. I kept coming back to the phrase \u201c&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>tune my heart to sing Thy grace<\/em><\/span>&#8230;\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Finally it clicked. \u00a0The light bulb went on. \u00a0My responsibility is not to resolve this situation. \u00a0My responsibility is to fix my heart on God and praise Him. \u00a0He will deal with the rest. \u00a0Look at the following verses:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rejoice in the Lord, O you [uncompromisingly] righteous<br \/>\n[you upright in right standing with God];<br \/>\nfor praise is becoming and appropriate for those who are upright [in heart].<br \/>\nPsalm 33:1 AMP<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The righteous one rejoices in the Lord and takes refuge in Him;<br \/>\nall those who are upright in heart will offer praise.<br \/>\nPsalm 64:10 HCSB<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So that we who first hoped in Christ [who first put our confidence in Him<br \/>\nhave been destined and appointed to] live for the praise of His glory!<br \/>\nso that we who had already put our hope in the Messiah might bring praise to His glory.<br \/>\nEphesians 1:12 AMP &amp; HCSB<\/p>\n<p>Not once in any of these verses does it say it is <em>up to me to resolve my issues<\/em>. \u00a0Not once! \u00a0But it does reiterate over and over again that <strong>my purpose is to praise and rejoice in the Lord<\/strong>. \u00a0Sounds so simple, doesn\u2019t it? \u00a0Yet don&#8217;t we all struggle with this? \u00a0I am <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>prone to wander<\/em><\/span> and to take the burden on myself. \u00a0I don\u2019t know about y\u2019all, but I am a \u201cfixer.\u201d \u00a0Maybe that stems from being a wife and mother. \u00a0But nowhere in the above Scriptures does it say<strong> it is<\/strong> my responsibility to fix things. In fact, the following passages indicate that <strong>it is not<\/strong> my place to fix anything on my own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cast your burden on the Lord [releasing the weight of it] and He will sustain you;<br \/>\nGive your burdens to the Lord, and He will take care of you.<br \/>\nPsalm 55:22a AMP &amp; NLT<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Blessed be the Lord, Who bears our burdens and carries us day by day,<br \/>\neven the God Who is our salvation!<br \/>\nPsalm 68:19<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\">Doesn\u2019t that lift your spirits and make your heart smile? \u00a0God bears our burdens. He is in control. \u00a0All we need to do is fix our wandering hearts on Him and sing His praises. \u00a0He will handle the rest.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sing this verse with me as we make it our heartfelt prayer:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>O to grace, how great a debtor, daily I\u2019m constrained to be<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Let Thy goodness like a fetter bind my wandering heart to Thee<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Here\u2019s my heart, o take and seal it, seal it for Thy courts above<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Seal it for Thy courts above<\/em><\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come, Thou Fount of ev&#8217;ry blessing, tune my heart to sing Thy grace Streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise Teach me some melodious sonnet sung by flaming tongues above Praise the mount, I\u2019m fixed upon it, mount of Thy redeeming love Here I raise my Ebenezer, hither by Thy help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":16629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4937],"tags":[6889,6905,5889,6886,1287,425,6888,6890,4455,6887,6285,5629,4932],"class_list":["post-27773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-cast-your-burden-on-the-lord","tag-come-thou-fount","tag-cynda-cottrill","tag-ephesians-112","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-god-is-in-control","tag-mormon-tabernacle-choir","tag-psalm-331","tag-psalm-5522a","tag-psalm-6410","tag-psalm-6819","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-7dX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27773"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27777,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27773\/revisions\/27777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}