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More love to Thee, O Lord,
More love to Thee!
Hear Thou the prayer I make
On bended knee;
This is my earnest plea:
More love, O Lord, to Thee,
More love to Thee,
More love to Thee!
More love to Thee!
Hear Thou the prayer I make
On bended knee;
This is my earnest plea:
More love, O Lord, to Thee,
More love to Thee,
More love to Thee!
2
Once earthly joy I craved,
Sought peace and rest;
Now Thee alone I seek,
Give what is best;
This all my prayer shall be:
More love, O Lord, to Thee,
More love to Thee,
More love to Thee!
Sought peace and rest;
Now Thee alone I seek,
Give what is best;
This all my prayer shall be:
More love, O Lord, to Thee,
More love to Thee,
More love to Thee!
3
Let sorrow do its work,
Send grief and pain;
Sweet are Thy messengers,
Sweet their refrain,
When they can sing with me,
More love, O Lord, to Thee,
More love to Thee,
More love to Thee!
Send grief and pain;
Sweet are Thy messengers,
Sweet their refrain,
When they can sing with me,
More love, O Lord, to Thee,
More love to Thee,
More love to Thee!
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Then shall my latest breath
Whisper Thy praise;
This be the parting cry
My heart shall raise;
This still its prayer shall be:
More love, O Lord, to Thee,
More love to Thee,
More love to Thee!
Whisper Thy praise;
This be the parting cry
My heart shall raise;
This still its prayer shall be:
More love, O Lord, to Thee,
More love to Thee,
More love to Thee!
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Mexico
Marcos 12:30 Amarás al Señor Tu Dios con todo tu corazón , y con toda tu alma, con toda tu mente y con todas tus fuerzas y a tu prójimo como a tí mismo!!
Oh Señor Jesús, Mi amor, Mi primer amor todo tuyo es mi corazón nada se compara a Tí en Verdad tan hermoso y bello Señor!! Cuando escucho el susurrar de tu hablar en mi corazón!! Estar de pie delante del Hijo del Hombre!! Nada se compara con el privilegio de tener Tu manifestación saliendo de mi ser tripartito, yo nada soy, más Tu Mi Señor Eres la persona maravillosa por la cual yo vivo, mi Vida entera sea para amarte cada día!!
Ser un ministro desposador 2Co 11:2 Porque os celo con celo de Dios, pues os he desposado con un solo esposo, para presentaros como una virgen pura a Cristo!! Aleluya!! Juan 3:29 El que tiene la novia es el novio…Juan 3:34 Porque el que Dios envió, habla las palabras de Dios; pues no da el Espíritu por medida!! Te Amo!! Al único y sabio Dios, sea la gloria y la honra por todas las generaciones. Ven pronto Señor Jesús, Tu venida es la esperanza de mis días!!! Te Amo!!! Te Alabo y Te honro. Mi Amado Señor Jesucristo!!!
Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand
I have been enjoying this song lately and have been touched by the line, “This is my earnest plea: More love, O Lord, to Thee”. Our greatest and most desperate need is that we would have more love to the Lord.
I have come to realise that in our times of trials, the Lord wants to meet us amidst our sorrows so that He could be sweeter to us. This is so that our love for Him could run deeper and higher.
Oh Lord, more love to Thee!
Irving, Texas, United States
I really enjoyed this hymn my last few months of being in Anaheim and was sweetly reminded in my reading on consecration in the the Experience of Life.
"Even after we have consecrated ourselves in a follow the Lord and the way of consecration, we need unceasingly the constraint of His love in order that we may touch its sweetness. In the way of consecration one often suffers pain and loss, and only those who frequently touched the love of the Lord can find sweetness in their pain."
Let sorrow do its work,
Send grief and pain;
Sweet are Thy messengers,
Sweet their refrain,
When they can sing with me,
More love, O Lord, to Thee,
More love to Thee,
More love to Thee!
The basis of our consecration is God's right over us but the motive must be, incessantly, the Lord's love to us in the Spirit.
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
I wrote a comment earlier today but as I reflected on loving God more, this Scripture came into my spirit. I was so blessed as I thought on this verse—how the Holy Spirit reveals the profound and unsearchable things of God, the deep love of God “to them that love him”. God’s love is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who has been given to us!!
As it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him. ” God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
1 Corinthians 2:9-10
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
This is my earnest plea! Nearer my God to thee!
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love and he that dwells in love dwells in God and God in him. We love him because he first loved us. 1 John 5:16, 19
Gainesville, FL, United States
Lord, my prayer today is that I would love You more. Lord even if I don’t feel like I love You, I love You in faith!
Katsina-Ala, Nigeria
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. ’ This is the first commandment."
-Mark 12:30 NKJV
Carefully note the use of the word ALL. Recall the parable of the merchant seeking for goodly pearls and that of the treasure hidden in the field. It usually costs all to truly secure value in God’s kingdom.
The last part of the verse just above states: “this is the first commandment”! So therefore, loving God with all... is the starting point for anyone who will ever follow Him genuinely. This must be a living reality with eternal impact on such a life.
All else in the Faith is hinged on a subjective experience of this truth if there will ever be a walk with God and not just a vain religious exercise.
Now, we can unendingly talk about love and it may still remain vague and shrouded in misunderstanding. I therefore wish to reduce Love to a unit that we can all relate with: TIME. This is so because what you love is what consumes your time! Indeed your heart will always be where your treasure is! (Matt 6:21).
We live in a generation that professes so much love to God but spends much more time in the pursuit of pleasure and other things of no eternal value than we ever think of spending with God. What a strange way to love! It will soon be apparent on an intent look into an average believer’s life today, that “Godless" social media occupies a more supreme place in the heart than God, for more time is given to it than God can ever hope for! In the years gone by, brethren walked with pocket bibles and wouldl use every little free time to meditate on Gods word. Sadly this has become old-fashioned and many still wonder why they keep struggling with sin and unGodly thoughts. No faith-declarations, no matter how fervent can guarantee victorious Christian living except we begin to love God in deed and in truth and not just in word.
Little children, let’s not love with words or speech but with action and truth.
- 1 John 3:18 (Common Englis Bible)
The Love of Christ must have a compelling effect on your if it is genuine. (2 Cor 5:14)
A look at our earthly relationships will also help give us better understanding and perhaps expose any hypocrisy in our hearts! It is not possible to love someone without having a desire to spend some time with them. How is it that we are treating our love for God differently? Could it be that we are professing to love Him with our lips but our hearts are far away from Him?
At a certain time, God had to tell the children of Israel that they were dishonouring Him and they disagreed with the divine verdict! They had separated the honour of God from the honour of men and felt it was no big deal to honour God in a manner that mere men would not accept after all He is God and not man. However, God had to ask them to attempt giving to their earthly king what they offered Him and see if it would be accepted (Malachi 1:6-14).
In the same vein, if you had loved your spouse in themanner you claim to Love God, would he or she have married you? Or if you give such love to your fiancé or fiancée, would they agree to marry you? How then do you plan to be present at the marriage supper of the Lamb? Every private time with God is so boring that you cannot wait to just finish the “quiet time ritual” and get out. Your heart is so hard towards God that He cannot even interrupt you at any unscheduled moment for communion or prayer. Several years have passed since you believed in Jesus and your prayer or communion life has not grown. The only time you prayed for an hour plus perhaps, was when you were in trouble and needed divine bailout.
I know the story of a brother who was praying late in the night when rain came falling. He mustered the following words to God “Father, most people would say sleep is sweet when rain is falling but I would rather not be any other place at this moment but right here with you". Do you know this kind of reality in the love you profess for God? Do you even desire it?
Remember the Ephesian church in the book of revelation. The church had works which Jesus recognised. They had great patience and had borne much for the name of the Lord and had not fainted. They could not bear evil brethren and had great discernment to know false prophets. Do you know that while these works were present, their first love had been forsaken?!
Brethren, It is possible to serve God even sacrificially without loving Him.
Hear what Jesus said to the Ephesian Church:
"Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and DO the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent." (Rev 2:4-5)
The candle stick represented the church itself and Jesus said he would remove it because every thing they were doing counted for nothing without a burning love for God. By divine reckoning, it made no difference that the church even existed because they had forsaken their first love.
May we return to the true love for God that constrains. Amen.
Jos, Nigeria
Let's simply to desire to keep loving Christ no matter what may come our way. If it pleases the Lord to send suffering our way to test or try our faith, we should ask God to remain faithful to him, knowing that all things work together for good to them that love God and are called according to his purpose. More love to thee, O Lord.
Bellingham, United States
Steve Miller Sept 21, 2013 quotes: „But despite her many blessings, Prentiss' life was not easy. She suffered from severe headaches and chronic insomnia. One of her children suddenly died, and a short time later a 2nd child died. At this, Prentiss cried in anguish, "Our home is broken up, our lives wrecked, our hopes shattered, our dreams dissolved. I don't think I can stand living for another moment." Her hymn indicates she learnt to live with, to accept God’s ways, how difficult they are to understand, and trust Him all the more.
On Feb 27, 2020 He adds his own thought: „This is a beautiful hymn, but I think stanza 3 line 2 is too much. We should not pray for the Lord to send us grief and pain. Nor should we pray things that we don't really mean. ”
Here is the beginning of the third stanza:
“Let sorrow do its work,
Send grief and pain; (other, original(? ), come grief and pain;
Sweet are Thy messengers, …. ”
Eno-Obong Udo April 11, 2020 “Dear STEVE Miller, that stanza 3 is very important and it's an integral part of our Christian walk here on the earth. Christ said ‘in this world there would be tribulation’". He didn't say to always pray against... but to live in peace inspite of it. Evil is bound to happen…. ”
Hannah, May 4, 2020 responds in a similar vein “Christians are refined by trials of various sorts…. ”
Both responses talk about a Biblical truth, but neither one is an answer to Steve’s statement.
Steve finds it wrong, to ask for grief and pain. And it is wrong. It smacks of arrogance, self-deceit or even hubris. Prentiss is not, I am sure, a masochist (glutton for punishment). ”Punish me some more, I can take, it is good for me! ” As we saw above, she couldn’t take it.
Line 2 ends with a semicolon and not with an exclamation mark that normally follows an imperative (command form). Line 1 cannot be separated from line 2. Of course, there is great sorrow accompanying the grief and pain caused by the loss of a child and then a second one. Prentiss is not asking for more grief and pain, she is saying in a shortened form, caused by the demands of metric considerations: “Let sorrow do its work” (sorrow is needed for overcoming and healing), NO MATTER, YOU “send grief and pain; ” This is similar to: Let the game take place, NO MATTER, come rain, come shine. Nobody would be so foolish to mistake these two “come” for an imperative, there is no exclamation mark.
Port Harcourt, Rivers, Nigeria
Stanza 3 is a sound biblical mystery. I think that was what Paul was writing about in 2 Cor 12: 7–10, Phil. 3: 10. The spirit of those verses forbids us from praying against sorrow, rather it gives us the victory over it and the blessings of it.
If we suffer with Him, we shall also reign with Him.