I Asked The Lord That I Might Grow chords by Sovereign Grace Music

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✝ Verse 1:
G                C/G          G
I asked the Lord that I might grow
   D         Em   Am        D
In faith and love and ev’ry grace
D              Bm Gmaj7      Em7 C
Might more of His salvation know
C              Dsus D       G
And seek more earnestly His face.




✝ Verse 2:
G                  C/G         G
‘Twas He who taught me thus to pray
D     Em     Am           D
And He
I trust, has answered prayer
D          Bm Gmaj7       Em7 C
But it has been in such a way
C         Dsus D         G
As almost drove me to despair.

✝ Verse 3:
G               C/G          G
I hoped that in some favored hour
   D         Em Am        D
At once He’d an-swer my request
D           Bm Gmaj7            Em7 C
And, by His love’s constraining pow’r
C         Dsus D           G
Subdue my sins and give me rest.

✝ Verse 4:
G          C/G              G
Instead of this
He made me feel
    D      Em  Am         D
The hidden e - vils of my heart
D           Bm Gmaj7        Em7  C
And let the angry pow’rs of hell
C          Dsus D        G
Assault my soul in ev’ry part.

✝ Verse 5:
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Yea, more with His own hand He seemed
  D       Em  Am        D
Intent to ag-gravate my woe
D               Bm Gmaj7       Em7 C
Crossed all the fair designs I schemed
C          Dsus D            G
Humbled my heart and laid me low.

✝ Verse 6:
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“Lord, why is this,” I trembling cried;
      D       Em  Am          D
“Wilt Thou pursue Thy worm to death ”
D            Bm Gmaj7         Em7 C
“’Tis in this way,” the Lord replied
C         Dsus D               G
“I answer prayer for grace and faith.”

✝ Verse 7:
G             C/G        G
“These inward trials I employ
     D        Em    Am          D
From self and pride to set thee free
D             Bm Gmaj7          Em7 C
And break thy schemes of earthly joy
 C               Dsus D          G
That thou may’st find thy all in Me