WHISPERS TO AND FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT
I Need Thee Every Hour
(These words are from a favorite song of mine written by Fernando Ortega. If you want to hear the song click on the link below)
I need Thee every hour
Most gracious Lord
No tender voice like Thine
Can peace afford
I need Thee, O I need Thee
Every hour I need Thee
O bless me now, my Savior
I come to Thee
I need Thee every hour
Stay Thou nearby
Temptations lose their power
When Thou art nigh
I need Thee, O I need Thee
Every hour I need Thee
O bless me now, my Savior
I come to Thee
I need Thee every hour
In joy or pain
Come quickly and abide
Or life is vain
I need Thee, O I need Thee
Every hour I need Thee
O bless me now, my Savior
I come to Thee
O bless me now, my Savior
I come to Thee
Just as I am
Without one plea
But that thy blood
Was shed for me
And that Thou bids me
Come to Thee
Oh, Lamb of God
I come, I come
Just as I am
And waiting not
To rid my…
Dr. Don’s Reflection
The Holy Spirit talks to me in many ways. Here he led me to share this song with you. It is a song I use when I have not got words of prayer. When that happens I like to listen to a song like this that helps me get in a receptive mood to receive God’s grace. It is only in the grace of God that I can come up with words of prayer to give to God and in that same grace, it is only with the grace of God that I can communicate with him by way of the Holy Spirit.
When I hear the words of this song I do realize “I Need Thee Every Hour”. That realization to me is unbelievable because I never expected to be so permeated by Christ through the Holy Spirit as I have been.
My journey with Christ has gone from going to a church on Easter and Christmas to going to Church every Sunday to going to church every morning. My prayer time has gone from a quick Our Father to two hours in the morning and continued aspirations of prayer throughout the entire day.
This songwriter says he needs God every hour but I can tell you a walk with God will not stop there. God wants you in totality and if it takes a lifetime to get there so be it. The greatest reward we can receive is salvation.
I never expected to be so involved with Christ but in my walk, with Christ, I have found the more I knew God the more I wanted of him. On the other side of that the more I gave the Lord the more the Lord wanted from me until I am totally in him and he in me. That totality has not happened yet but the Holy Spirit in his grace has me working on it.
If I would be writing this song it would be entitled “I Need Thee With Every Breath”. All during the day I see God, feel God, think about God and speak to God with every breath. Never did I think I would get this close to God and I cannot take one iota of credit for it because it was by the grace of God that I have been blessed with an intimate relationship with God through the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ the son of God.
Dr. Don’s Comments
Make sure you read the lyrics of this song and listen to it by clicking the link below. Fernando Ortega is telling the Lord he needs him every hour for his love and peace. He needs him every hour to deal with pain, with vanity, with sin and temptation, and for his love.
He is saying you need God every hour of your life. You cannot be intimate with Christ by being a “Sunday Christian”. No, not at all. It requires a desire to be as close to God as you can be. But realize the keyword is “desire”. All you have to do is desire to be close to God and through the power and gifts of the Holy Spirit, the Lord will make it happen. Know this there is no way you can get there by yourself. You simply get to the point where you lay your heart out to the Lord to for him to take and then you are surely on your way.
So know when you pray to the Lord know that you are his. Realize that the Lord takes you seriously and your walk with him will lead you to where he wants to take you and not necessarily where you want to go or the way you want to get there.
No matter how, when, where, or why your walk with Christ will be the best trip of your life