MERCY CAME RUNNING...AMAZING GRACE...

SUNDAY IN THE SON

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It is my prayer that as this week goes along that these two scriptures and two songs become embedded deep within our souls.

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OLD TESTAMENT:

Micah 6:8

"He has showed you, O man,

what is good.

And what does the LORD require of you?

To act justly

and to love mercy

and to walk humbly with your God."

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Ephesians 2:1-10

"And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

in which you formerly walked...

...we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh,

indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind,

and were by nature children of wrath,

even as the rest.

But God, being rich in mercy,

because of His great love

with which He loved us,

even when we were dead in our transgressions,

made us alive together with Christ

(by grace you have been saved),

and raised us up with Him,

and seated us with Him in the heavenly places,

in Christ Jesus,

in order that in the ages to come

He might show the surpassing riches

of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

For by grace you have been saved through faith;

and that not of yourselves,

it is the gift of God;

not as a result of works,

that no one should boast.

For we are His workmanship,

created in Christ Jesus for good works..."

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MERCY CAME RUNNING LYRICS: 1.

Once there was a holy place

Evidence of God's embrace

And I can almost see Mercy's face

Pressed against the veil

Looking down with longing eyes

Mercy must have realized

That once His blood was sacrificed

Freedom would prevail

And as the sky grew dark

And the earth began to shake

With justice no longer in the way

Chorus:

Mercy came running

Like a prisoner set free

Past all my failures to the point of my needs

When the sin that I carried

Was all I could see

And when I could not reach Mercy

Mercy came running to me

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Once there was a broken heart

Way to human from the start

And all the years left it torn apart

Hopeless and afraid

Walls I never meant to build

Left this prisoner unfulfilled

Freedom called but even still

It seemed so far away

I was bound by the chains

From the wages of my sin

Just when I felt like giving in

repeat chorus.

3.

Sometimes I still feel so far

So far from where I really should be

He gently calls to my heart

Just to remind me .

repeat chorus

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AMAZING GRACE - Chris Tomlin

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