As I wake in the early hours of the morning

A dread of today rolls over me,

but as I look to you Father

I know that today, you already see.

You know what will happen in this day

You’re there to hold my hand,

Today is another day

that you my Lord have planned.

I cling to you Heavenly Father

You hold me in your hand,

You have brought me this far by your grace

and it is you who helps me to stand.

It’s your strength that you give

as we walk along

as we read your words and pray,

You lead us and keep us with your mighty pow’r

You’re with us each hour of the day.

You said if my people would humble themselves and pray

and seek my face and turn from their wicked way,

then you would hear from Heaven and forgive their sin

and heal their land,

So we need to come aside and pray.

How your heart weeps over people and nations

your church you so love and other things too,

How selfish we are in the way we live

and the things that we want to do.

You see the poor and the sick and needy

the ones who are in the gutter,

These are the ones that Jesus came to

He loves the ones that to us don’t matter.

We need to hear the cries

the pain people feel in their hearts,

The ones who want to commit suicide

because there’s no one to share their life’s hurts.

O Father my heart is breaking

O Father what would you have me do,

I surrender completely to your Holy will

I pray with your love you will fill.

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Lamentations 3:40,41

Let us search and try our ways and turn again to the LORD, Let us lift up our hearts and our hands unto God in the heavens.