{"id":856,"date":"2011-09-25T11:22:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T11:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=856"},"modified":"2011-09-25T11:22:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T11:22:34","slug":"by-thy-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/25\/by-thy-mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"By Thy Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Jesus, Lord of life and glory,<br \/>\nBend from heaven thy gracious ear;<br \/>\nWhile our waiting souls adore thee,<br \/>\nFriend of helpless sinners, hear:<\/p>\n<p>2. From the depth of nature&#8217;s blindness,<br \/>\nFrom the hardening power of sin,<br \/>\nFrom all malice and unkindness,<br \/>\nFrom the pride that lurks within,<\/p>\n<p><em>Refrain:<\/em> By thy mercy, O deliver us, good Lord<br \/>\nBy thy mercy, O deliver us, good Lord, good Lord.<\/p>\n<p>3. When temptation sorely presses,<br \/>\nIn the day of Satan&#8217;s power,<br \/>\nIn our times of deep distresses,<br \/>\nIn each dark and trying hour.<\/p>\n<p>4. When the world around is smiling,<br \/>\nIn the time of wealth and ease,<br \/>\nEarthly joys our hearts beguiling,<br \/>\nIn the day of health and peace. <em>Refrain<\/em><\/p>\n<p>5. In the weary hours of sickness,<br \/>\nIn the times of grief and pain,<br \/>\nWhen we feel our mortal weakness,<br \/>\nWhen all human help is vain.<\/p>\n<p>6. In the solemn hour of dying,<br \/>\nIn the awful judgment day,<br \/>\nMay our souls, on thee relying,<br \/>\nFind thee still our Rock and Stay. <em>Refrain<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2004 Greg Thompson Music.<br \/>\nUsed by permission. All rights reserved<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/25\/by-thy-mercy\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Jesus, Lord of life and glory,<br \/> Bend from heaven thy gracious ear;<br \/> While our waiting souls adore thee,<br \/> Friend of helpless sinners, hear:<\/p>\n<p>2. From the depth of nature&#8217;s blindness,<br \/> From the hardening power of sin,<br \/> From all malice and unkindness,<br \/> From the pride that lurks within,<\/p>\n<p>Refrain: [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-pastor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FrAa-dO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}