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He Looked Beyond My Faults



Amazing Grace..Will always be my song of praise.
For it was grace, that brought me liberty,
I do not know, just why He came to love me so.
He looked beyond my faults and saw my need.

I shall forever lift mine eyes to Calvary,
To view the cross, where Jesus died for me
How marvelous, His grace that caught my falling soul
He Looked beyond my faults and saw my need.

(Instrumental)

I shall forever lift mine eyes to Calvary,
To view the cross, where Jesus died for me
How marvelous, His grace that caught my falling soul
He Looked beyond my faults and saw my needs,
He Looked beyond my faults and saw my needs.

May those coming behind us find us faithful


We're pilgrims on the journey
Of the narrow road
And those who've gone before us line the way
Cheering on the faithful, encouraging the weary
Their lives a stirring testament to God's sustaining grace

Surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses
Let us run the race not only for the prize
But as those who've gone before us
Let us leave to those behind us
The heritage of faithfulness passed on through godly lives

CHORUS:
Oh may all who come behind us find us faithful
May the fire of our devotion light their way
May the footprints that we leave
Lead them to believe
And the lives we live inspire them to obey

Oh may all who come behind us find us faithful

After all our hopes and dreams have come and gone
And our children sift through all we've left behind
May the clues that they discover and the memories they uncover
Become the light that leads them to the road we each must find

REPEAT CHORUS

Oh may all who come behind us find us faithful
Oh may all who come behind us find us faithful

The purpose of this thread is to share the lyrics of Gospel songs that inspire and edify you.
As the world is awash with ungodly and suggestive music, let the children of Zion sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, offering our sacrifices of praise to the great Redeemer and encouraging one another.

I will start with mine. I have songs for different occasions: when I'm happy, sad, discouraged,etc.
I am a fan of Bill and Gloria Gaither and enjoy Southern Gospel music.

Please feel free to add yours

Down from His Glory

Oh, how I love Him
How I adore Him
My breath, my sunshine
My all in all
The great Creator
Became my Savior
And all God's fullness
Dwelleth in Him

Down from His Glory
Ever living story
My God my Savior came
And Jesus was His name
Born in a manger
To His own, a stranger
A Man of sorrows, fears and agony

Oh, how I love Him
How I adore Him
My breath, my sunshine
My all in all
The great Creator
Became my Savior
And all God's fullness
Dwelleth in Him


Without reluctance
Flesh and blood His substance
He took the form of man
Revealed the hidden plan
Oh, glorious myst'ry
Sacrifice of Calv'ry
And now I know Thou wert the great "I am"

Among the amazing blind people are two gospel artists: Fanny Crosby(remember Blessed assurance) and Marilyn Baker (He gives joy to the hopeless)

simpleseyi: Your id is Salt1, you are now adding salt to a bad injury. Mind you, middle east does not export religion and warfare; instead Nigeria exports religion because Nigerians have highest number of churches all over the world and USA exports warfare. You can't dispute this. For the few mad so-called Muslims terrorizing the world, we shall soon cage ourselves because they are damaging our already spoiled reputation no thanks to Western propaganda.

You sound too reasonable to be writing this.
JuSt for the records: I live in Nigeria and my opinion of Islam has nothing to do with Western propaganda but is formed by the actions of Yerima, Mutallab, Boko Haram,my Muslim driver, Mike the London killer etc. Maybe, I've not been fortunate to meet and relate with good Muslims even though I've stayed in Kano and visited Gombe, Zamfara, Sokoto, Kaduna etc.
Blame your fellow Muslims, not western media, for giving the rest of us the impression that Islam is an angry faith!

Ayoobscom: Subhanalah wabihamdihi Subhanalah liasim

No wander while my mallam (arabic teacher,chief Imam of my town) in his last moment kept saying "this is where I want to go,that place,yes that place" pointing his hand forth with ease,with his eyes already half close...Subhanalah..

Thank you @op......unlike the counterparts that visits hell fire on daily basis

"Walatanutuna ila wa antum muslimun"

And do not die except you are a Muslim...

Xtians,hinduist,budihist,traditionalist and idolaters are all a family of peganism and polytheism

Setting up ideas as God and inviting people like it is real,,attributing death,son,pain and other funny funny ideas as God

Islam is open...come on in...before you die and go to hell

No intention of disparaging your faith or the dead imam, but his last comment sounds like he preferred to be taken to a different destination rather than where he was heading

Middle east respiratory syndrome. I didn't know that the middle east exports other things than religion and warfare. As if those two are not problem enough

Don Demu: I hope igbo people will not take advantage of this cheap mode of transportation to export their trade of prostitution, armed robbery and kidnapping to the northern part of the country.

I hope the Northeners don't use them to transport BH boys, suicide bombers, almajiris, beggars and tiny infant brides down south

There is rarely any African woman that is a feminist. The African woman,unlike her Western counterpart is a womanist: pro-male, pro-child and pro-marriage.
The womanist fights societal evils like
Child marriage, illiteracy of women, genital mutilation, obligatory motherhood, horrible widowhood practices etc.
Don't confuse these frivolous women with others

Hearme: This headline is misleading several people on this forum. The woman died after a great quarrel and fight over money but not as a result of been unable to have a male child. The Childs comment on the money for stew shows that the man does not want to release money and there is no part of the story that states that the present pregnancy is also a female child. I think the poster should learn to use the right heading appropriately. RIP to the dead but a double tragedy to the children who will more or less live as an orphan till there father is executed.

It's related. This wasn't a one-oFf quarrel as neighbours had noticed that the man had been pouring out his frustrations on having to fend for daughters. I've seen it happen but joy and normalcy returns with the birth of the almighty boy!

A friend refused a man for answering Inyama. Said it reminded her of nyama nyama(dirty). Another refused an Onwu (death).

I think surnames matter. Which Igbo lady wants to answer Mrs Agbugbaeruleke?

Peace Mass Transit again?
That transport company should regulate the speed of their buses and train their drivers on defensive driving. I don't know if the driver was at fault in this particular case but their drivers are known for reckless driving and over speeding
It appears that Peace Mass and accident have become synonymous

Mods
Front page please and let's all commiserate with the mother of the nation.

This is really unfortunate

The report says she may not really be her mother but PEJ chose to call her mother.
Could it be same reason she chose to call widows fellow widows?

Not laughing at death, please!

Superego: God bless you!

Great questions. Let me address them serially.

Are you the op? You're a doctor of what?
Not related to this discussion. Don't worry, not OBG

Does it not bother that the North is supplying the nation all the negative indices of poverty, disease and illiteracy?
The north was recently listed as having many of the best states to do business in Nigeria. The crises hitting the north is multifactorial. I recently wrote an article, "The Nuclear Alms Race" about the ALmajiri problem. There are 10 million abandoned children in the north, almajiris' this can be more highly correlated to the poverty crises than young wives. See: http://saharareporters.com/article/nigeria-almajiri-and-nuclear-alms-race

Don't you see the link btw child marriage and maternal and infant mortality?
I discussed that link extensively in the article. the link is with poor health care and not with young motherhood. USA has 500,000 teen pregnancies/year as I mentioned. Their healthcare system handles it and so does their welfare system handle the single teen mothers epidemic. point is, we can both accept that pushing marriage age up and even cancelling marriage entirely will reduce and cancel out maternal mortality, however we must realize that we did so, not because young pregnancy is wrong, but because we have the worst medical infrastructure in the world.

Pls read Uwais' article on fp and stop exposing your perverted mindset
Her article is sentimental and lacks facts. i presented much data in my article. let's simply discuss this, or please present any point she made that you will like us to deliberate.

And please, no insults. Prove you have superior morality than those who marry 'children' that you attack.

best

I don't think I insulted you. I struggle, really struggle, to understand. The North has 10million almajiris and is still one of the best environments to do business? My understanding of business is where the people have the purchasing power. And purchasing power is a function of education even vocational education. What is the purchasing power of this 10million almajiris? What will they contribute to the economy in the future?
Can you not see that this is a vicious cycle? Illiterate and poverty stricken mothers breed babies who will only be like them.

500,000 teen mothers in the US isn't an epidemic, pls! In relation to their population. Most of these teen mothers have the opportunity for education and jobs.
Since our health care system is inadequate to cope, don't you think it's enough reason to dIscourage early teen pregnancy?

I am yet to see you discuss the implication of early marriage on educational attainment of these girls

Superego: Nairaland,

I am Dr. Peregrino Brimah, here to take your questions.

Please put questions and comments as clearly as possible, so i can address them and we can discuss them together.

Let this be constructive and free of derogatory reference as much as possible please. I myself will try to do so.

Are you the op? You're a doctor of what?
What of educating the girl? What of empowering her economically?
Does it not bother that the North is supplying the nation all the negative indices of poverty, disease and illiteracy? Don't you see the link btw child marriage and maternal and infant mortality?
Pls read Uwais' article on fp and stop exposing your perverted mindset

vedaxcool: where those who r running their, please come and rebut this man.

The myopia of this writer and yours is depressing.
He mentioned VVF only and dismissed it as just another chance happening. And the panacea for immorality and abortion is early marriage.? As if there is no immorality and abortion happening among these who marry so early!
What of educating the girl to a satisfactory level? What of her economic empowerment! What of educating her so that she makes good nutitional and health choices?
How can writers like this fail to see that in emasculating and pauperizing their females, they keep the entire region backward?
With this mindset, the North will remain backward and continue breeding like rabbits

bunmioguns: somebody shld read dis nd pls translate for me

Let me try.
The Muslim writer of this trash said "leave us with our child marriage. VVF can happen whether you marry at 9 or 90. It's just another shit that people are unfortunate to have even though it just happens more in the North.
Final summary: leave us with our child marriage because Mary (whom we don't like her Son's followers) did the same two millenia ago!
And don't bother if the man is 80 and the bride is 9! The more ancient the man, the better he will be as lover and provider"
Op, did I get your summary right?

ZUBY77: SENATOR AHMED SANI YARIMAN BAKURA
REPLIES HIS ACCUSERS
''Nigeria has many uncountable problems and
none of them is early marriage.[b] As a matter of
fact early marriage the solution to about half of
our problems. [/b]For those who wonder if I can
give my daughter(s) out in marriage at the age
of 9 or 13, I tell you most honestly, I can give
her out at the age of 6 if I want to and its not
your business. This is because I am a Muslim
and I follow the example of the best of
mankind, Muhammad ﺻَﻠَّﻰ ﺍﻟﻠَّﻪُ ﻋَﻠَﻴْﻪِ ﻭَﺳَﻠَّﻢَ .
In Islam, marriage is not only about sex, it is
about family and helping one another in
achieving their goals, which is the attainment of
Paradise.
In Islam, a girl can be given out in marriage as
early as 6 years old, but consummation of the
marriage can only be done when the girl
becomes physically mature and she gives her
consent to it because unlike English law, it is
not permissible for a man to rape his wife in
Shari'ah Law.
So what can anybody tell me?
~ I live in a city where young girls at the age of
12 have already became serial fornicators and
cannot count the number of man they've had
sex with.
~ I live in a City where primary school children
disvirgin themselves behind toilets on Valentine
day.
~ I live in a city where young girls flood the
street at night looking for men that would give
them N500 to have sex with them.
~ I live in a city where parents send their
daughters out overseas to prostitute and send
dollars down.
~ I live in a City where Government officials pick
undergraduates from University car parks with
Coastal Buses to wild sex parties.
~ I live in a city where abortion is so common
that even a Chemist shore owner can perform
abortion with just N2,500.
These are your daughters, and this should worry
you and not Yerima's private matters. So ask me
again why I support early marriage and I will
slap the Jinn out of your head''.
- Senator Ahmad Sani Yarima

Tell me that it's not true that Yerima wrote this! No it can't be true! A whole former state governor claims that early marriage can solve half of Nigeria's problems!

So, by Yerima's calculation the solution to the following problems is as follows
1. Unemployment............just marry the girls early
2. bad roads...............marry 13 year old girls
3. terrorism...............simple: marry a 12 year old
4. corruption...............a 9year old virgin girl's marriage is the solution
5. kidnapping..............early marriage

Someone please tell the arrogant senator that the other half of problems which early marriage will not solve include
1. Illiteracy of the girl child
2. Poverty as a result of illiteracy
3. VVF
4. raising tons of almajiri kids
It’s irritating when these folks peddle the morality factor. Check STD/HIV prevalence rate by state and the North still take the lion’s share. So much for morality!

chucksbadt: sowy bro!...jst so u kno; am a graduate

A graduate? Thought you were a page boy at big auntie's wedding!

signed

zig2ryme04: TO ALL HATERS, THIS IS HOW I DO MY THING!
YOUR LIVES ARE WORTHLESS BECAUSE YOUR MIND COULD NOT THINK ANYTHING POSITIVE ABOUT YOUR FELLOW MAN. IF ALL THE HATERS COULD BE BLOTTED OUT OF NIGERIA THEN, NIGERIA WILL BE A BETTER PLACE BECAUSE THEIR HEART IS FULL OF NEGATIVE THOUGHT TOWARD OTHERS.

TO ALL WHO COMMENTED GOOD ABOUT ME, GOD BLESS YOU RICHLY AND THE GRACE OF GOD WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU. AMEN.

I am surprised to see you angry. Can't you take jokes? Didn't people tease you? Who are you that can't be laughed at?
Come on, put back those pictures and let the laughter continue!

chucksbadt: rate me!

Fine boy! How was your JAMB?

PDPwayoo: @OP ur nose is wide wider widest like mr. Tortoise post office.

And the thick negroid lips nko! Nna mehn!

Op don't get angry. We all need some little laughter from the serious CHILDnotBRIDE protest.
I am sure you look better than me with my mango head and puff puff cheeks!

basilo101: Its beta dey get maried as early as possible dan constituting nuisaince in our streets. Teen marriage is beta dan immorality. NOTE: I'm a xtian frm SE

You are not a Christian and you are not from the SE!
How does a 13year old girl marrying remove them from being nuisance? They become a greater nuisance by giving birth to almajiris whom they cannot care for. And who says they aren't immoral even after the marriage? Go and check HIV rate. The North, with its polygamy and early marriage combined has the highest rate

My answers are here:

1 Logic : how logical is it for a 60year old man to marry a 9year old?
2 Indescencies: I don't know how you define decency. Marrying four wives?
3 Blasphemy: again the two religions define blasphemy differently but in one, the blasphemer is not killed but left for the blasphemed to judge
4 Intolerance: you shouldn't even include this one. Who bombs the other's place of worship?
5 Unclad: for one sex only, right? Laughable!
6 Consistency: with sound reasoning, like child marriage or polygamy? I don't understand you
7 Alterations: of what? The only constant thing is change.
8 Contradictions: with what? You've just said you don't practice everything in your religion
9 Versions: I agree that there are different versions of the Bible making it easy to understand unlike yours where you can only talk to or hear from your Creator in a language you don't understand!

Wsdm: Sorry i don't intend to derail the thread but i only replied someone.
When it comes to throwing bomb, is not peculiar to the Muslim countries. It is the latest trend in modern warfare.
I am not ready to start listing the disgusting things in Christianity but check the meaning of these words and compare your Christian practice with each of them, hence the answer to your question;
1 Logic
2 Indescencies
3 Blasphemy
4 Intolerance
5 Unclad
6 Consistency
7 Alterations
8 Contradictions
9 Versions.

Don Demu: Y'all hating cos u quiet well know how tight a 9yr old will be down there and ur fake religious belief will not allow you have a taste

I see you're joking! Enjoy your joke even tho it's not funny to the rest of us

Metallurgist: Hypocracy, they no protest for the thousands of child and teen pregnancies and abortions, but because concern islam and the north, its became a bashing thing, in our world where culture and understanding differs, proper explation is needed for clearance on such issues, in islam purberty equals maturity, and a girls who was physically and mentally capable of bearing a child is elligeable to be married even if she is 13 yrs old, and u bashers ar just echoes of western opion and not ur own geniun opion

CHILDnotBRIDE!

It's just unfortunate that it has to be about Islam and the North. Proper explanation is needed as you said, but people like you won't listen or even understand the explanation (judging from your composition above). Now listen and listen real hard to understand us. It's not just Western opinion or religion; because someone has asked what age is allowed by other religions. It is basic science.
A girl's body isn't mature enough to cope with pregnancy until she is, at least, sixteen. So menstruation is not maturity but the beginning of a process. To marry her off means the following:
1. she can develop VVF and you can't just say "na so Allah want am"
2. she may die in pregnancy. The rate of women dying in pregnancy in Nigeria is high and the North is contributing 80% of that figure. With child brides, you can understand why
3. she cannot get a good education. Without a good education, she can't get a good job or learn a trade. Or even know basic hygiene to take care of herself and her children.

Do you think that all these evils are ok provided her husband enjoys the tightness of a 9year-old? Must the little girls be destroyed and their future wrecked because one man wants intimate pleasure?

Desric: If all these things had happened in the North, I think the story, headlines, publicity, and polticisation will be quite different from what we seeing and hearing now. I think our problem is not really our leaders after all, our problem is simply ourselves for allowing nepotism and hypocrisy take over our conscience. Until we see ourselves as Nigerians and not Northern, Southern, Muslim or Christian, our problem will still be far from solved. My heart goes out to the affected corpers as well as I will still warn them to desist from any act that could jeopardise or risk their life wherever they are posted because sometimes our youths acts very irrational even though I condemn the act in its totality as no aggression whatsoever should have warranted such actions and wickedness against anyone.

Why bring sectionalism into this? What is bad is bad!

I feel sorry for the girls and their anxious parents