I've Found a Friend, O Such a Friend!

 I’ve Found A Friend; O Such A Friend!

He Loved Me Ere I Knew Him;


He Drew Me With The Cords Of Love,


And Thus He Bound Me To Him;


And Round My Heart Still Closely Twine


Those Ties Which Naught Can Sever;


For I Am His, And He Is Mine,


For Ever And For Ever.

I’ve Found A Friend; O Such A Friend!


He Bled, He Died To Save Me;


And Not Alone The Gift Of Life,


But His Own Self He Gave Me,


Nought That I Have, Mine Own I Call,


I Hold It For The Giver:


My Heart, My Strength, My Life, My All


Are His, And His For Ever.

I’ve Found A Friend; O Such A Friend!


All Power To Him Is Given,


To Guard Me On My Onward Course,


And Bring Me Safe To Heaven.


Eternal Glories Gleam Afar,


To Nerve My Faint Endeavour;


So Now To Watch, To Work, To War,


And Then To Rest For Ever.

I’ve Found A Friend; O Such A Friend!


So Kind, And True, And Tender!


So Wise A Counsellor And Guide,


So Mighty A Defender!


From Him Who Loves Me Now So Well


What Power My Soul Shall Sever?


Shall Life Or Death? Shall Earth Or Hell?


No! I Am His For Ever.

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John 15:12-17

...“This is My commandment, 

that you love one another, 

just as I have loved you.

Greater love has no one than this, 

that one lay down his life for his friends.

You are My friends 

if you do what I command you.

No longer do I call you slaves, 

for the slave does not know 

what his master is doing; 

but I have called you friends, 

for all things that I have heard from My Father 

I have made known to you.

You did not choose Me but I chose you, 

and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, 

and that your fruit would remain, 

so that whatever you ask of the Father 

in My name He may give to you.

This I command you, that you love one another."...

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