This is Namma for Christ with my third inspirational message to you (typed 9/24/2012 around 4pm ) entitled God's "Amazing Grace", ENJOY AND BE BLESSED!
God has blessed us all with HIS AMAZING GRACE. Please read Ephesians 2nd chapter- when you can. I'd like to share with you a key verse for today that ties everything together: the below song by Todd Agnew "Grace Like Rain" (with lyrics), the words in this blog (including a story about John Newton - the original author of the famous hymn: "Amazing Grace"), and the title for today's message: GOD'S AMAZING GRACE. The key bible verse is: Ephesians 2:8 - "For by GRACE you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the GIFT of God"
Believe in the Lord and please pray to the Lord for Him to show you your purpose. Not only is "grace" ... a gift from God - but our very LIFE is a gift from God, also! I used to have this plaque that read: "Our life is God's gift to 'us' - what we do with our life - is our gift to 'Him'." God knows you (better than anyone) because He made you...the Lord Jesus knows what is best for you - pray to Him for your purpose in life and "whatever" you need...now a little history about John Newton:
John Newton, (the original author of "Amazing Grace") lived from 1725 - 1807. He was a London slave trader when God saved him. In 1748, while on a homeward voyage, while attempting to steer his ship through a violent storm, he experienced what he was to refer later as his "great deliverance". WHEN ALL SEEMED LOST AND THE SHIP WAS ABOUT TO SINK, HE CRIED OUT: "Lord, have mercy upon us".
He later stopped being a slave trader and lived the rest of his life for the Lord! He wrote the original version of "Amazing Grace" - the first 6 stanzas (wrote in 1779). The 7th stanza's author is anonymous. I've included the 1st and the 7th stanzas below:
The original tune was said to have come from the African slaves that he once enslaved.
(I do not own the rights to this song.)
Be Blessed!
(1st stanza:)
Amazing grace! How sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
(7th stanza:)
When we've been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We've no less days to sing God's praise
Than when we'd first begun.
Bright shining as the sun,
We've no less days to sing God's praise
Than when we'd first begun.
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