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For Sunday, August 28: He Lifted Me

So I'm getting hard pressed to find hymns on YouTube, or otherwise, that well...are done decently.  I'm sorry but hymns are kinda a thing of the past and YouTube can only offer so many!  Today's, for example, is kind of karaoke style.  The words are highlighted for you as the piano plays the song.  Just go with it, okay?  :)
I picked the hymn because one, I have no recollection of ever singing it myself (this, of course, does NOT mean I never have back in my Baptist days) and two, the message of the hymn is great! 
Psalm 40:2 talks about God being our lifter.  He lifts us up out of the miry pits we find ourselves in.  Whether we tripped and stumbled into the pit or whether we dived in of our own free will, God is there to lift us up and out - all we have to do is reach out our hand to him.  He is the greatest lifter of our heads and hearts.  Will you allow him to lift you up and out of the pit you are mucking around in?  All you need to do is look up and then reach your hand out, he'll take it from there!

He Lifted Me

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