Take My Voice and Let me Sing

This was originally written and recorded in December of 2021. That was the year that we had a mice infestation and I was deathly ill for several months and I ended up with neuropathy in my right leg, and I have needed to use a walker out in public ever since then. So, I was sitting on the seat of my walker exercising my legs when I felt the Lord Jesus leading me to sing out loud, and this is the song he led me to sing, “Take my Life and Let it Be.” 

Now I was a singer from childhood and I sang all over the place in various different groups throughout my life, and I majored in music and in voice in college. My parents were both singers and my mother played the piano beautifully, and as children we sang the hymns on a regular basis. But with age my voice began to go, and since January of 2020 I have not been singing much at all out loud, so the Lord was encouraging me here that I needed to keep singing even if my voice doesn’t sound so great anymore.

Take my Life and Let it Be

Lyrics by Frances R. Havergal, 1874

Music by Henri A. C. Malan, 1827

har. By Lowell Mason, 1841

Scripture: Romans 12:1

Take my life and let it be

Consecrated, Lord, to Thee.

Take my moments and my days,

Let them flow in endless praise.

Take my hands and let them move

At the impulse of Thy love.

Take my feet and let them be

Swift and beautiful for Thee.

Take my voice and let me sing,

Always, only for my King.

Take my lips and let them be

Filled with messages from Thee.

Take my silver and my gold,

Not a mite would I withhold.

Take my intellect and use

Every pow’r as Thou shalt choose.

Take my will and make it Thine,

It shall be no longer mine.

Take my heart, it is Thine own,

It shall be Thy royal throne.

Take my love, my Lord, I pour

At Thy feet its treasure store.

Take myself and I will be

Ever, only, all for Thee.

Take My Voice and Let Me Sing

Video Talk

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December 15, 2021