Tag Archives: Isaac Watts

Staggering Taste

Are you like the people in this psalm, staggering under the weight of your worries?  Psalm 60:2-3 (NIV) You have shaken the land and torn it open; mend its fractures, for it is quaking. You have shown your people desperate times; you … Continue reading

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Repeat, not Defeat

  Don’t let the pressures of the season get you down. “Joy to the world, the Savior reigns . . .      Repeat the sounding joy,      Repeat the sounding joy, Repeat, repeat the sounding joy.” Isaac Watts … Continue reading

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Wordless Prayer

  Yesterday, I went through all the people on my prayer list without a single word. I played As I Survey the Wondrous Cross over and over, while I pictured each person surveying the wondrous cross.   I started with … Continue reading

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Sing an Old Song

    Images from some old hymns make my heart soar:     My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed Thee. (Charles Wesley) Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a … Continue reading

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