Forgiven to Love - Singing our Prayers

When we confess out sins in our worship service, we also hear words of forgiveness and grace. These three verses confess, hear words of forgiveness, and then show a life of proper response.

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Not What My Hands Have Done (Psalter Hymnal 260)

1 Not what my hands have done

can save my guilty soul;

not what my toiling flesh has borne

can make my spirit whole.

Not what I feel or do

can give me peace with God;

not all my prayers and sighs and tears

can bear my awful load.

2 Your voice alone, O Lord,

can speak to me of grace;

your power alone, O Son of God,

can all my sin erase.

No other work but yours,

no other blood will do;

no strength but that which is divine

can bear me safely through.

3 I praise the Christ of God;

I rest on love divine;

and with unfaltering lip and heart

I call this Savior mine.

My Lord has saved my life

and freely pardon gives;

I love because he first loved me,

I live because he lives.

Text: Horatius Bonar, 1861, alt.