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:
G       C/G       G
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:
G       C/G        G
“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