We recently song a new song in church that Misael Acosta and I wrote.  We adapted the text from a puritan prayer “The Great God,” from the book “Valley of Vision: A collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions” by Arthur G. Bennett. This is a great book to pick up, the prayers are all one page long and also very thought provoking.  Great if you want to be able to read something that you can think, pray, and meditate on throughout the day.

This particular prayer is very humbling.  Recognizing that we are sinful and helpless apart from God and it is He and He along that can regenerate us and give us new life.  This idea recognizes Him as being great. Just the fact that He can save a sinner as myself speaks of His greatness and that He is the only one that can rescue me points to His greatness and glorifies Him even more. Read through the text and meditate on this, it is very humbling and encouraging.  We serve a Great God.  At the bottom you will find the guitar and bass chord sheets.  I will be posting an mp3 later.

The Great God

O Fountain of All Good,
Destroy in me every lofty thought,
Break pride to pieces and scatter it to the winds,
Annihilate each clinging shred of self-righteousness,
Implant in me true lowliness of spirit,
Abase me to self-loathing and self-abhorrence,
Open in me a fount of penitential tears,
Break me, then bind me up;
Thus will my heart be a prepare dwelling for my God;
Then can the Father take up his abode in me,
Then can the blessed Jesus come with healing in his touch,
Then can the Holy Spirit descend in sanctifying grace;
O Holy Trinity, three Persons and one God,
Inhabit me, a temple consecrated to thy glory.
When thou art present, evil cannot abide;
In thy fellowship is fullness of joy,
Beneath thy smile is peace of conscience,
By thy side no fears disturb,
No apprehensions banish rest of mind,
With thee my heart shall bloom with fragrance;
Make me meet, through repentance, for thine indwelling.
Nothing exceeds thy power,
Nothing too good for thee to give.
Infinite is thy might, boundless thy love,
Limitless thy grace, glorious thy saving name.
Let angels sing for sinners repenting, prodigals restored,
backsliders reclaimed, Satan’s captives released,
blind eyes opened, broken hearts bound up,
the despondent cheered, the self-righteous stripped,
the formalist driven from a refuge of lies,
the ignorant enlightened,
and saints built up in their holy faith.

I ask great things of a great God.

Guitar Chord Sheet

Bass Chord Sheet