God grants us to be strengthened

lyricist: L. S.
Composer: Henry Thomas Smart

God grants us to be strengthened

Into the inner man

With power

through His Spirit

To carry out His plan

That Christ would make His home in

Our hearts through faith each day

That we’d lay hold of Him and

God’s love would know for aye.

By Christ’s indwelling Spirit

We’re strong to apprehend

His magnitude and substance

Dimensions without end;

His love surpasses knowledge

Yet naught would He conceal;

He fills us in our spirit

God’s fullness to reveal.

Christ is our life and person

Head of the one new man

Created in Himself

where

Our corporate life began.

We’re rooted and we’re grounded

In Christ

God’s Firstborn Son;

We

in His love

enjoy Him

We

in His life

are one.

We exercise our spirit

That Christ indwell our hearts

To spread throughout our being

To all our inward parts

His life substantiating—

Mysterious

unseen—

By Him as faith

perceiving

God’s bounty unforeseen.

This metabolic process

Is constituting us

With Christ in all His riches

Through our enjoyment thus;

The church in our experience

Is full of God expressed

For Christ is God embodied

Made known and manifest.

Above all we could ask for

Or think of in this age

God’s work exceeds our measure;

He molds us

stage by stage.

God’s resurrection power

Within us operates.

We give God all the glory

From whom all emanates.

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