The fourth verse was left out: "Lord whence are these blood drops all the way that mark out the mountain track?' "They were shed for one who had gone astray ere the shepherd could bring him back" "Lord whence are thy hands so rent and torn?" "They're pierced tonight by many a thorn, they're pierced tonight by many a thorn"
My mom has dementia and came into my room yesterday and said God said I'm supposed to sing this at church on Sunday. I'd never heard it before. I'm learning it quickly. I play by ear so I'm a pretty quick study. Anything to please God and my mom
The late Queen Elizabeth once recalled that as a child her dear father sung this hymn to her - how sweet Heaven must be for the Lord has brought back his own - king George was a believer and our dear Queen was too - now both serve their Saviour the King of all Kings.
I just now learned this about her and had to find the hymn and listen. I’m in tears thinking about how happy she was to be with her Lord, her parents, husband and all her family waiting for her. 🙏✝️
Breaks my heart they are gone but knowing they are in Heaven with God,Jesus and Angels makes it easier because they are home now!! Prayers for their loved ones!!🙏🙏
How beautiful they all sing...and how beautiful the Nelon's voices together...bless them and they are now with the Lord and shall forever sing in Glory. What a day it will be when we see Jesus face to face.
This song was playing when I got news of my only lil brother passing away. He was only 48 and had agent orange and chrons disease. I felt like God found him and took him home from all the pain and suffering. I look forward to seeing him one day. Love the Gaithers for so many years...
I lost my Beautiful Mother on 30 July 2021, the pain pierces through deep but the love of Jesus is deeper for warmth and comfort. I too am looking forward to Christ Second coming.
One of the most precious promises of God, if you are saved, GOD'S GOT YOU! We all make mistakes, we're all capable of wandering a bit, but I for one claim this promise 100% - GOD's got me now and forever. AMEN
I love this song guy penrod sings this song well he also sings then came the morning shout to the Lord and because he lives well three of my favorites by guy penrod
If there is overdose in anything, it is listening to this rendition that has caused mine. Can't imagine the numerous times I watched and played it over and over again.
"I'll go to the desert to find my sheep". It is the heart of the Good Sheperd. Praise the Lord. Thanx for this beautiful song. Thanx to Guy Penrod. This song is a blessing to us. Elizabeth Jeyaraj from India..
Heard this song during Sunday Worship Service today. The lyrics are so powerful and moving that I sought a rich orchestral version. Thank You LORD Jesus for loving me this much. Please hold me to the end when I'd You face to face. Then my Hallelujah shall become more alive than I'd ever sung.
Great hymn! Sankey spotted the words in a British newspaper while on an evangelism tour in Scotland with Dwight Moody. He tore the poem from the paper, put it in his pocket, and forgot about it. Later, at the end of their service, Moody asked Sankey for a closing song. Ira was caught by surprise. He brought out the paper, said a prayer, then composed the tune as he sang. Thus was born “The Ninety and Nine.” This was Sankey’s first attempt at writing a hymn tune. Not bad for a first try!
My objectives using wonderful words of life found in the attached prayer for unity is to encourage the disheartened and help the weak by being patient with everyone because our contract with life is brokered with fragility, sadness and anxiety. On a balcony of space STEPPED A PURE AND HOLY GOD. IN AWESOME SOLITUDE YOU STOOD ALONE. Not one faint star to give YOU light; just endless darkness, it was blackest night. But somehow in the darkness YOU COULD SEE. YOU SAW mountains high and lofty, YOU SAW valleys lush and green. YOU SAW babbling brooks, and wildflowers grow, YOU EVEN HEARD a robin sing. Then through YOUR COMPASSION STANDING OUT THERE IN YOUR TOMORROW, YOU SAW forum's visitors. 🥰 YOU SAW them as sinners because there is no intrinsic righteousness in any of us due to Adam’s sin. YOU SAW them as they grew from a baby into adulthood due to YOUR HANDS OF MERCY. 🥰 YOU SAW them pursuing a career path for the purpose of obtaining the gains of the world not realizing that it is a loss compared to what YOU DID on the cross. YOU SAW them working long and laboring hard to receive the grace by justification even though YOU stated, "This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent."(John 6:29 KJV) YOU SAW the unwillingness to accept YOUR PLAN OF SALVATION THROUGH YOUR SON JESUS CHRIST. YOU SAW them living with the guilt of committing crimes to the heart. YOU SAW them enduring personal crisis. YOU SAW the weight of the burden on their hearts with each tribulation. YOU SAW them seeking comfort from the above mentioned topography, ONE OF THE MANY MARVELS YOUR PERFECT HANDS HAVE MADE. 👏👏👏 YOU SAW their worries about tomorrow. If their hearts were a window that they could look through, oh the pains and scars they would see. What a cruel fate the skin gives as a mask to the inward pain. But the skin couldn’t cover THE SUFFERING YOUR ONE AND ONLY SON BORED on the cross as PAYMENT for all our sins because HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ALONE HAD THE MERIT TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF YOUR HOLINESS. Indeed, ONLY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS IS SUFFICIENT TO SAVE us from this present evil world as evidenced by Mary's song of praise. "And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." (Luke 1:46-47 KJV) Awesome thanks to YOUR GREAT PARDON for being easy on the heart. 🥰 They have seen a lot of crazy things done in YOUR NAME. For example, the father of lies futile attempts to make crooked the right ways of the LORD to turn people away from faith in the WORKS OF JESUS CHRIST ALONE. How can anyone bear the thought of his or her life story detracting from the GLORY AND HONOR KNOWN TO BELONG TO CHRIST ALONE? As a consequence, YOU ARE A MYSTERY OF GREAT MYSTERY to them. Despite this conviction, YOU ARE MINDFUL of them as evidenced by the fact that YOUR JUDGEMENT is not speedy, allowing them to pursue the desires of the flesh. They are aware of hypocrisy in religious assemblies that like to be seen and heard. In addition, secular education teaches that there is no right and wrong, if GOD exists there is no way of relating to HIM, and moral standards shift according to the whims of fashion. Therefore, their minds are conditioned to question everything this world has to offer including “THY POWER THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE DISPLAYED.” They have accepted the heavy burden of dealing with the troubles of this life and seeks to know another way, YOU THE GREAT COMFORTER TO ALL who did receive YOU as their personal SAVIOR. Still, YOU have shown them NEW MERCY every day with each thought they make and each breath they take. Unfortunately, like the prodigal son, we are all guilty of wandering far from YOU LORD because the negative experiences of our lives tend to build roadblocks to the TRUTH. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them to identify the way, truth, and eternal life (that is YOU). Since to know and follow your SPIRIT is more exciting than any 007 movie, and YOU DELIGHT MAKING the ordinary into extraordinary. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST MAKE them understand that there is no way around YOUR TRUTH, and that there is something about YOUR NAME. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them defeat in their minds what is false in YOUR EYES. LORD GUIDE their thoughts to know that the path of sin is hard on their hearts for the purpose of crying out to YOU to know the joy, peace of having the heavy burden LIFTED by THE GOD OF PEACE I AM, and ANCHOR their souls in THE HAVEN OF REST. In other words, LORD use the storms in their lives to get a hold of them to trust YOU and believe. In truth, YOU ARE THE JOY that seekest them through pain. LORD HELP their fainting hearts to believe that YOU, who was slain on the cross over 2000 years ago has the POWER TO CHANGE lives today through the INSTANTANEOUS GREAT FAVOR from GOD to the house of Israel made known in believers by YOU to make YOUR NAME EVERLASTING. 🥰 For as the statue liberates the citizens so the cross liberates the soul. ONLY YOU can calm the trouble waters of the mind when one admits to wanting salvation from one’s sinful nature, JESUS IS LORD, and believes in the heart that GOD RAISED HIM from the dead TO LIFT the heavy burden of sin's guilt away from the heart in accordance to YOUR WORD found in Psalm 51:1-10 KJV. 👏👏👏👏👏👏 O, the wonder of it all to experience within the flesh the feeling of a tree being cut back/pruned inorder for it to grow stronger and more beautiful after meditating on the words of said Psalm. 🥰🙌 LORD MAKE them know that ONLY YOUR HOLY SPIRIT, through the experience of a new birth within believers, can prevent the family circle from being broken because THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE YOU HAVE GRANTED means a chapter of their lives is decided. Creation sings the rebirth song for them yearly, through YOUR PROMISE of springtime, giving rise to the idea that by the mention of YOUR NAME flowers grow, and the desert blooms again. 🥰 LORD GUIDE their understanding of words to use to come into YOUR PRESENCE with an honest reverence of WHO YOU ARE to experience the beauty that time can't erase YOUR WISDOM resting on their faces. LORD STRENGTHEN their determination to never waiver in efforts to search for YOU because the wages of sin is too high for anyone to pay. Additionally, THE KING OF KINGS is needed in their hearts to learn how to expand their capacity to love for YOU are LOVE in any language. 🥰 Once they learn to speak it with boldness through YOUR WONDERFUL COUNSELING all the world will hear, and know that LOVE is the language of their hearts. So LORD, KEEP KNOCKING on their doors until they let YOU in to know hardships and struggles will end with a GREAT CELEBRATION WITH YOU. 🥰🙌 If one believes faith cannot be forced, YOU WILL GIVE that individual over to the stubborn heart to follow own counsel which will surely fail him or her to the extent that the punishment will last forever found in Psalms 81 NIV. Given this, I pray that YOU WILL MAKE that person see that this feeling is wasted for a world in which we become strangers as we age, gives us thrills instead of peace, aims to solve a problem but creates another, and unrest surges with each passing generation. Shed some light into their broken hearts for YOU ARE THE GREAT JEHOVAH, THE GOD THAT HEALETH thee. Lastly, LORD when they call on YOU in earnest prayer to come into their hearts to be born again, I pray that YOU WILL GIVE them the blessed assurance of their salvation because nothing breaks YOUR HEART, or tears YOU apart like when they cry from the trials of the devil who comes to slander, falsely accuse, steal, kill & destroy. Only by drawing nearer to YOU LORD will put them on a path to a glorious one way trip winding upward to YOU where pain is not welcome because the heart will never break anymore. For ONLY YOU UNDERSTANDS our tears since YOU LOOK at the heart, while humans look at the flesh. O LOVE that will not let them go. When they don't have the strength to try, and have cried all they can cry hear their hearts that need YOU more today than yesterday. Many thanks LORD for speaking TRUTH in our lives TO BLESS those who are not offended by THEE. LET YOUR WILL BE DONE because YOUR LOVE ALONE CONQUERS everything by WAITING for them to cease struggling, and finally surrender to YOUR EMBRACE to learn about YOUR LOVE AND PROMISE TO TAKE CARE of your children exquisitely. 🥰 Since... "at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore"... (Psalms 16:11 KJV), and the nail print for them to know YOU by answering the following question. How did CHRIST LOVE people into a relationship with HIM? 🥰
There Were Ninety and Nine 1 There were ninety and nine that safely lay in the shelter of the fold, but one was out on the hills away, far off from the gates of gold - away on the mountains wild and bare, away from the tender Shepherd's care, away from the tender Shepherd's care. 2 "Lord, thou hast here thy ninety and nine; are they not enough for thee?" But the Shepherd made answer: "This of mine has wandered away from me, and although the road be rough and steep, I go to the desert to find my sheep, I go to the desert to find my sheep." 3 But none of the ransomed ever knew how deep were the waters crossed; nor how dark was the night that the Lord passed thro' ere he found his sheep that was lost. Out in the desert he heard its cry - sick and helpless, and ready to die, sick and helpless, and ready to die. 4 "Lord, whence are those blood-drops all the way that mark out the mountain's track?" "They were shed for one who had gone astray ere the Shepherd could bring him back." "Lord, whence are thy hands so rent and torn?" "They're pierced tonight by many a thorn, they're pierced tonight by many a thorn." 5 But all thro' the mountains, thunder-riv'n, and up from the rocky steep, there arose a glad cry to the gate of heav'n, "Rejoice! I have found my sheep!" And the angels echoed around the throne, "Rejoice, for the Lord brings back his own! Rejoice, for the Lord brings back his own!"
My mother-in-law sung this to her five boys when tucking them into bed, as well as various nieces and nephews, and grandchildren. She and the song are dearly loved and treasured.
This song brought tears to my eyes indeed he will go to the desert to find his sheep's....rejoice for the lord brings back his own God is to be praised always 🙏💯❤
Una noche bien de madrugada escuché este himno y no paré de llorar por el contenido de su letra tan hermosa... Jesús es mi buen pastor y me fue a buscar cuando yo estaba apunto del suicidio...Hoy vivo por Jesús, siendo yo tan malo el ya me amaba y me perdonó.
Lord hear the cry of the earth, the road is rocky and steep but the sheep will be found. Forgive the earth the trespasses and Lord bring back your own. Thank God for Jesus.He crossed the waters. Hallelujah and hallelujah. Amen.
Phyllis Beckford HalleluYah! I spell the term with letter Y for YHWH. He is everywhere: Tail of the fish. The branch of trees. The leaves. Forearm and hand. Raised hand standing, is Y.
Just found out about the Nelons! 😭💔 May they rest in eternal peace and may God hold up and strengthen Autumn in her pregnancy at such a difficult time🙏🏾❤️
The L-rd is coming so very soon and what a wonderful glad Morning it will be when we see our L-rd face to face and see all of our loved ones..Praise HIM
The Story behind Ira Sankey writing the music to “The Ninety and Nine” in his own words… “It was in the year 1874 that the poem “The Ninety and Nine” was discovered. Its discovery seemed as if by chance, but I cannot regard it otherwise than Providential. Mr. Moody had just been conducting a series of meetings in Glasgow, and I had been assisting him in his work as director of the singing. We were at the railway station at Glasgow and about to take the train for Edinburgh. We had held a three months’ series in Edinburgh just previous to our four months’ campaign in Glasgow. As we were about to board the train I bought a weekly newspaper for a penny. Being much fatigued by our labors at Glasgow, and intending to begin work immediately upon our arrival at Edinburgh, we did not travel second or third class, as was our custom, but sought the seclusion and rest of a first-class railway carriage. In the hope of finding news from America, I began perusing my lately purchased newspaper…My eyes fell upon a little piece of poetry in a corner of the paper. I carefully read it over, and at once made up my mind that this would make a great hymn for evangelistic work-if it had a tune. So impressed was I that I called Mr. Moody’s attention to it, and he asked me to read it to him. This I proceeded to do with all the vim and energy at my command. After I had finished I looked at my friend Moody to see what the effect had been, only to discover that he had not heard a word, so absorbed was he in a letter which he had received from Chicago. Notwithstanding this experience, I cut out the poem and placed it in my musical scrap-book-which, by the way, has been the seedplot from which sprang many of the Gospel songs that are now known throughout the world. At the noon meeting on the second day the subject presented by Mr. Moody and other speakers was “The Good Shepherd.” When Mr. Moody had finished speaking, he called upon Dr. Bonar to say a few words. He spoke only a few minutes, but with great power. At the conclusion of Dr. Bonar’s words Mr. Moody turned to me with the question, ‘Have you a solo appropriate for this subject, with which to close the service?’ I had nothing suitable in mind, and was greatly troubled to know what to do. At this moment I seemed to hear a voice saying: ‘Sing the hymn you found on the train!’ But I thought this impossible, as no music had ever been written for that poem. Again the impression came strongly upon me that I must sing the beautiful and appropriate words I had found the day before, and placing the little newspaper slip on the organ in front of me, I lifted my heart in prayer, asking God to help me so to sing that the people might hear and understand. Laying my hands upon the organ I struck the key of A-flat, and began to sing. Note by note the tune was given, which has not been changed from that day to this. As the singing ceased a great sigh seemed to go up from the meeting, and I knew that the song had reached the hearts of my audience. Mr. Moody was greatly moved. Leaving the pulpit, he came down to where I was seated. Leaning over the organ, he looked at the little newspaper slip from which the song had been sung, and with tears in his eyes said: ‘Sankey, where did you get that hymn? I never heard the like of it in my life.’ I was also moved to tears and arose and replied: ‘Mr. Moody, that’s the hymn I read to you yesterday on the train, which you did not hear.’ Thus ‘The Ninety and Nine’ was born.”
I've been involved with music in church my entire adult life, professionally and otherwise, and I can't believe that there are people who dislike this... amazing!
There were ninety and nine that safely lay In the shelter of the fold; But one was out on the hills away, Far off from the gates of gold. Away on the mountains wild and bare; Away from the tender Shepherd’s care. “Lord, Thou hast here Thy ninety and nine; Are they not enough for Thee?” But the Shepherd made answer: “This of Mine Has wandered away from Me. And although the road be rough and steep, I go to the desert to find My sheep.” But none of the ransomed ever knew How deep were the waters crossed; Nor how dark was the night the Lord passed through Ere He found His sheep that was lost. Out in the desert He heard its cry; ’Twas sick and helpless and ready to die. “Lord, whence are those blood-drops all the way, That mark out the mountain’s track?” “They were shed for one who had gone astray Ere the Shepherd could bring him back.” “Lord, whence are Thy hands so rent and torn?” “They’re pierced tonight by many a thorn.” And all through the mountains, thunder-riv’n, And up from the rocky steep, There arose a glad cry to the gate of heav’n, “Rejoice! I have found My sheep!” And the angels echoed around the throne, “Rejoice, for the Lord brings back His own!”
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The fourth verse was left out:
"Lord whence are these blood drops all the way
that mark out the mountain track?'
"They were shed for one who had gone astray
ere the shepherd could bring him back"
"Lord whence are thy hands so rent and torn?"
"They're pierced tonight by many a thorn,
they're pierced tonight by many a thorn"
Wonderful verse
Oh the Nelons were so anointed they will be so so missed
My mom has dementia and came into my room yesterday and said God said I'm supposed to sing this at church on Sunday. I'd never heard it before. I'm learning it quickly. I play by ear so I'm a pretty quick study. Anything to please God and my mom
AMEN SISTER!!!
Sure you did really really good!!!
It's so sad this family had to die the way they did. May the Lord comfort their family and friends
Hope LUKE. 17 chapter can help you understand daughter what Elohim said to you through you dear mother. Just the Remnant will be saved not the 99.❤.
Oh I miss the nelons..safe in the arms of Jesus
The late Queen Elizabeth once recalled that as a child her dear father sung this hymn to her - how sweet Heaven must be for the Lord has brought back his own - king George was a believer and our dear Queen was too - now both serve their Saviour the King of all Kings.
I just now learned this about her and had to find the hymn and listen. I’m in tears thinking about how happy she was to be with her Lord, her parents, husband and all her family waiting for her. 🙏✝️
Breaks my heart they are gone but knowing they are in Heaven with God,Jesus and Angels makes it easier because they are home now!! Prayers for their loved ones!!🙏🙏
My favorite song n my favorite singer guy penrod
❤never ending love of our God
How beautiful they all sing...and how beautiful the Nelon's voices together...bless them and they are now with the Lord and shall forever sing in Glory. What a day it will be when we see Jesus face to face.
‘I’ll go to the desert to find my sheep’ 🎶💜😭 . How deep the Father’s love for us.
Oh, Lord you have loved me this much!!! You braved the storm to find me!!!
One of the most incredible songs ever written about Christ.
This song was playing when I got news of my only lil brother passing away. He was only 48 and had agent orange and chrons disease. I felt like God found him and took him home from all the pain and suffering. I look forward to seeing him one day. Love the Gaithers for so many years...
I lost my Beautiful Mother on 30 July 2021, the pain pierces through deep but the love of Jesus is deeper for warmth and comfort.
I too am looking forward to Christ Second coming.
Condolence nelons heartbreaking news today so sad😢
I'am terribly touch all by your christian songs pastor guy Penrod i'am here in the philippines
This is my story in one song... Thank you Jesus for saving me and giving me the power over sin.
I HAVE A BROTHER THAT HAS DISAPPEARED 4 YEARS I HOPE THE SHEPHERD BRINGS HIM HOME.
Amen.
Yes we will pray!!
One of the most precious promises of God, if you are saved, GOD'S GOT YOU! We all make mistakes, we're all capable of wandering a bit, but I for one claim this promise 100% - GOD's got me now and forever. AMEN
This song just came to my spirit I thank you Lord Jesus save that lost sheep for your kingdom savoiur
I love this song guy penrod sings this song well he also sings then came the morning shout to the Lord and because he lives well three of my favorites by guy penrod
That's right one of the greatest hymns ever!!
WHAT COULD BE BETTER THAN THIS, HEAVEN IS REALLY REAL!
I make that one line "Out in the desert He heard MY cry....". Hallelujah, thank God for a wonderful Shepherd-Saviour!!!".
Oh, Jesus! I love you so! You rescued me and I will forever bless your precious name!
I can't think of anyone who could sing this old and simple song so beautifully. Important message! Thank you Guy and Nelons!
Amen
If there is overdose in anything, it is listening to this rendition that has caused mine. Can't imagine the numerous times I watched and played it over and over again.
"I'll go to the desert to find my sheep". It is the heart of the Good Sheperd. Praise the Lord. Thanx for this beautiful song. Thanx to Guy Penrod. This song is a blessing to us.
Elizabeth Jeyaraj from India..
Heard this song during Sunday Worship Service today. The lyrics are so powerful and moving that I sought a rich orchestral version.
Thank You LORD Jesus for loving me this much. Please hold me to the end when I'd You face to face. Then my Hallelujah shall become more alive than I'd ever sung.
Great hymn! Sankey spotted the words in a British newspaper while on an evangelism tour in Scotland with Dwight Moody. He tore the poem from the paper, put it in his pocket, and forgot about it. Later, at the end of their service, Moody asked Sankey for a closing song. Ira was caught by surprise. He brought out the paper, said a prayer, then composed the tune as he sang. Thus was born “The Ninety and Nine.” This was Sankey’s first attempt at writing a hymn tune. Not bad for a first try!
Craig stephens Wow thank you for this background information
Why did mooder ask sanka for a closing song if hed
Never written a song b4? U mean like to choose one?
Thanks Craig most times the background of how the hymns came to be enhances the singing all the more
My objectives using wonderful words of life found in the attached prayer for unity is to encourage the disheartened and help the weak by being patient with everyone because our contract with life is brokered with fragility, sadness and anxiety.
On a balcony of space STEPPED A PURE AND HOLY GOD. IN AWESOME SOLITUDE YOU STOOD ALONE. Not one faint star to give YOU light; just endless darkness, it was blackest night. But somehow in the darkness YOU COULD SEE.
YOU SAW mountains high and lofty, YOU SAW valleys lush and green. YOU SAW babbling brooks, and wildflowers grow, YOU EVEN HEARD a robin sing. Then through YOUR COMPASSION STANDING OUT THERE IN YOUR TOMORROW, YOU SAW forum's visitors. 🥰
YOU SAW them as sinners because there is no intrinsic righteousness in any of us due to Adam’s sin. YOU SAW them as they grew from a baby into adulthood due to YOUR HANDS OF MERCY. 🥰 YOU SAW them pursuing a career path for the purpose of obtaining the gains of the world not realizing that it is a loss compared to what YOU DID on the cross. YOU SAW them working long and laboring hard to receive the grace by justification even though YOU stated, "This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent."(John 6:29 KJV) YOU SAW the unwillingness to accept YOUR PLAN OF SALVATION THROUGH YOUR SON JESUS CHRIST. YOU SAW them living with the guilt of committing crimes to the heart. YOU SAW them enduring personal crisis. YOU SAW the weight of the burden on their hearts with each tribulation. YOU SAW them seeking comfort from the above mentioned topography, ONE OF THE MANY MARVELS YOUR PERFECT HANDS HAVE MADE. 👏👏👏 YOU SAW their worries about tomorrow.
If their hearts were a window that they could look through, oh the pains and scars they would see. What a cruel fate the skin gives as a mask to the inward pain. But the skin couldn’t cover THE SUFFERING YOUR ONE AND ONLY SON BORED on the cross as PAYMENT for all our sins because HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ALONE HAD THE MERIT TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF YOUR HOLINESS. Indeed, ONLY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS IS SUFFICIENT TO SAVE us from this present evil world as evidenced by Mary's song of praise. "And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." (Luke 1:46-47 KJV) Awesome thanks to YOUR GREAT PARDON for being easy on the heart. 🥰
They have seen a lot of crazy things done in YOUR NAME. For example, the father of lies futile attempts to make crooked the right ways of the LORD to turn people away from faith in the WORKS OF JESUS CHRIST ALONE. How can anyone bear the thought of his or her life story detracting from the GLORY AND HONOR KNOWN TO BELONG TO CHRIST ALONE? As a consequence, YOU ARE A MYSTERY OF GREAT MYSTERY to them. Despite this conviction, YOU ARE MINDFUL of them as evidenced by the fact that YOUR JUDGEMENT is not speedy, allowing them to pursue the desires of the flesh.
They are aware of hypocrisy in religious assemblies that like to be seen and heard. In addition, secular education teaches that there is no right and wrong, if GOD exists there is no way of relating to HIM, and moral standards shift according to the whims of fashion. Therefore, their minds are conditioned to question everything this world has to offer including “THY POWER THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE DISPLAYED.” They have accepted the heavy burden of dealing with the troubles of this life and seeks to know another way, YOU THE GREAT COMFORTER TO ALL who did receive YOU as their personal SAVIOR. Still, YOU have shown them NEW MERCY every day with each thought they make and each breath they take.
Unfortunately, like the prodigal son, we are all guilty of wandering far from YOU LORD because the negative experiences of our lives tend to build roadblocks to the TRUTH. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them to identify the way, truth, and eternal life (that is YOU). Since to know and follow your SPIRIT is more exciting than any 007 movie, and YOU DELIGHT MAKING the ordinary into extraordinary. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST MAKE them understand that there is no way around YOUR TRUTH, and that there is something about YOUR NAME. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them defeat in their minds what is false in YOUR EYES.
LORD GUIDE their thoughts to know that the path of sin is hard on their hearts for the purpose of crying out to YOU to know the joy, peace of having the heavy burden LIFTED by THE GOD OF PEACE I AM, and ANCHOR their souls in THE HAVEN OF REST. In other words, LORD use the storms in their lives to get a hold of them to trust YOU and believe. In truth, YOU ARE THE JOY that seekest them through pain.
LORD HELP their fainting hearts to believe that YOU, who was slain on the cross over 2000 years ago has the POWER TO CHANGE lives today through the INSTANTANEOUS GREAT FAVOR from GOD to the house of Israel made known in believers by YOU to make YOUR NAME EVERLASTING. 🥰 For as the statue liberates the citizens so the cross liberates the soul. ONLY YOU can calm the trouble waters of the mind when one admits to wanting salvation from one’s sinful nature, JESUS IS LORD, and believes in the heart that GOD RAISED HIM from the dead TO LIFT the heavy burden of sin's guilt away from the heart in accordance to YOUR WORD found in Psalm 51:1-10 KJV. 👏👏👏👏👏👏 O, the wonder of it all to experience within the flesh the feeling of a tree being cut back/pruned inorder for it to grow stronger and more beautiful after meditating on the words of said Psalm. 🥰🙌
LORD MAKE them know that ONLY YOUR HOLY SPIRIT, through the experience of a new birth within believers, can prevent the family circle from being broken because THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE YOU HAVE GRANTED means a chapter of their lives is decided. Creation sings the rebirth song for them yearly, through YOUR PROMISE of springtime, giving rise to the idea that by the mention of YOUR NAME flowers grow, and the desert blooms again. 🥰
LORD GUIDE their understanding of words to use to come into YOUR PRESENCE with an honest reverence of WHO YOU ARE to experience the beauty that time can't erase YOUR WISDOM resting on their faces. LORD STRENGTHEN their determination to never waiver in efforts to search for YOU because the wages of sin is too high for anyone to pay. Additionally, THE KING OF KINGS is needed in their hearts to learn how to expand their capacity to love for YOU are LOVE in any language. 🥰 Once they learn to speak it with boldness through YOUR WONDERFUL COUNSELING all the world will hear, and know that LOVE is the language of their hearts. So LORD, KEEP KNOCKING on their doors until they let YOU in to know hardships and struggles will end with a GREAT CELEBRATION WITH YOU. 🥰🙌
If one believes faith cannot be forced, YOU WILL GIVE that individual over to the stubborn heart to follow own counsel which will surely fail him or her to the extent that the punishment will last forever found in Psalms 81 NIV. Given this, I pray that YOU WILL MAKE that person see that this feeling is wasted for a world in which we become strangers as we age, gives us thrills instead of peace, aims to solve a problem but creates another, and unrest surges with each passing generation. Shed some light into their broken hearts for YOU ARE THE GREAT JEHOVAH, THE GOD THAT HEALETH thee.
Lastly, LORD when they call on YOU in earnest prayer to come into their hearts to be born again, I pray that YOU WILL GIVE them the blessed assurance of their salvation because nothing breaks YOUR HEART, or tears YOU apart like when they cry from the trials of the devil who comes to slander, falsely accuse, steal, kill & destroy. Only by drawing nearer to YOU LORD will put them on a path to a glorious one way trip winding upward to YOU where pain is not welcome because the heart will never break anymore. For ONLY YOU UNDERSTANDS our tears since YOU LOOK at the heart, while humans look at the flesh.
O LOVE that will not let them go. When they don't have the strength to try, and have cried all they can cry hear their hearts that need YOU more today than yesterday. Many thanks LORD for speaking TRUTH in our lives TO BLESS those who are not offended by THEE. LET YOUR WILL BE DONE because YOUR LOVE ALONE CONQUERS everything by WAITING for them to cease struggling, and finally surrender to YOUR EMBRACE to learn about YOUR LOVE AND PROMISE TO TAKE CARE of your children exquisitely. 🥰 Since... "at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore"... (Psalms 16:11 KJV), and the nail print for them to know YOU by answering the following question. How did CHRIST LOVE people into a relationship with HIM? 🥰
There Were Ninety and Nine
1 There were ninety and nine that safely lay
in the shelter of the fold,
but one was out on the hills away,
far off from the gates of gold -
away on the mountains wild and bare,
away from the tender Shepherd's care,
away from the tender Shepherd's care.
2 "Lord, thou hast here thy ninety and nine;
are they not enough for thee?"
But the Shepherd made answer:
"This of mine has wandered away from me,
and although the road be rough and steep,
I go to the desert to find my sheep,
I go to the desert to find my sheep."
3 But none of the ransomed ever knew
how deep were the waters crossed;
nor how dark was the night that the Lord passed thro'
ere he found his sheep that was lost.
Out in the desert he heard its cry -
sick and helpless, and ready to die,
sick and helpless, and ready to die.
4 "Lord, whence are those blood-drops all the way
that mark out the mountain's track?"
"They were shed for one who had gone astray
ere the Shepherd could bring him back."
"Lord, whence are thy hands so rent and torn?"
"They're pierced tonight by many a thorn,
they're pierced tonight by many a thorn."
5 But all thro' the mountains, thunder-riv'n,
and up from the rocky steep,
there arose a glad cry to the gate of heav'n,
"Rejoice! I have found my sheep!"
And the angels echoed around the throne,
"Rejoice, for the Lord brings back his own!
Rejoice, for the Lord brings back his own!"
Hallelujah My almighty and holy Jesus Christ, I appreciate that your holy spirit is always with me.
This has to be one of the most powerful songs ever written. AMAZING!!!!
this song touch my heart i'm the one that lost ..i need my shepherd's hsnds.. thanks Guy n friends i love your voice
My mother-in-law sung this to her five boys when tucking them into bed, as well as various nieces and nephews, and grandchildren. She and the song are dearly loved and treasured.
Kathy Garland hu
What an amazing mother and grandmother
Lovely singing and amazing hairdos.
Jesus is worthy to praise day by days.
One sheep is missing and Jesus, our shepherd, will get the one lost sheep.
Lord please find your children in this covid 19 pandemic
I LIKE THE SONG AND I LITERALLY WEPT HEARING IT FIRST TIME
One of my dearly departed Aunt’ favorite 💕🍃🙏🏾
I'm glad HE came for me!!! PTL
This song brought tears to my eyes indeed he will go to the desert to find his sheep's....rejoice for the lord brings back his own God is to be praised always 🙏💯❤
So true. I’m one of the sheep he travelled hills and desert to find.
Guy ,you are always a big blessing when you sing. You sing with such passion it always blesses my heart. Some day the Lord will say well done my son.
I agree
Praise God. May all who listen be blessed.
i like the nelons and guy penrod both. it is good they sing together
My favourite song
Una noche bien de madrugada escuché este himno y no paré de llorar por el contenido de su letra tan hermosa... Jesús es mi buen pastor y me fue a buscar cuando yo estaba apunto del suicidio...Hoy vivo por Jesús, siendo yo tan malo el ya me amaba y me perdonó.
My mom loves this song ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Lord hear the cry of the earth, the road is rocky and steep but the sheep will be found. Forgive the earth the trespasses and Lord bring back your own. Thank God for Jesus.He crossed the waters. Hallelujah and hallelujah. Amen.
Phyllis Beckford
HalleluYah!
I spell the term with letter Y for YHWH.
He is everywhere:
Tail of the fish.
The branch of trees.
The leaves.
Forearm and hand.
Raised hand standing, is Y.
Amen amen. Have to listen over and over
Very,very powerful & mighty worship,they worship with all their might & passion,glory to king Jesus for bringing us back to the righteous fold
Just found out about the Nelons! 😭💔 May they rest in eternal peace and may God hold up and strengthen Autumn in her pregnancy at such a difficult time🙏🏾❤️
It is a powerful hymn with rich lyrics
The L-rd is coming so very soon and what a wonderful glad Morning it will be when we see our L-rd face to face and see all of our loved ones..Praise HIM
What a song. what a savior, PRAISE MY LORD JESUS
The Story behind Ira Sankey writing the music to “The Ninety and Nine” in his own words…
“It was in the year 1874 that the poem “The Ninety and Nine” was discovered. Its discovery seemed as if by chance, but I cannot regard it otherwise than Providential.
Mr. Moody had just been conducting a series of meetings in Glasgow, and I had been assisting him in his work as director of the singing. We were at the railway station at Glasgow and about to take the train for Edinburgh. We had held a three months’ series in Edinburgh just previous to our four months’ campaign in Glasgow.
As we were about to board the train I bought a weekly newspaper for a penny. Being much fatigued by our labors at Glasgow, and intending to begin work immediately upon our arrival at Edinburgh, we did not travel second or third class, as was our custom, but sought the seclusion and rest of a first-class railway carriage.
In the hope of finding news from America, I began perusing my lately purchased newspaper…My eyes fell upon a little piece of poetry in a corner of the paper. I carefully read it over, and at once made up my mind that this would make a great hymn for evangelistic work-if it had a tune.
So impressed was I that I called Mr. Moody’s attention to it, and he asked me to read it to him. This I proceeded to do with all the vim and energy at my command. After I had finished I looked at my friend Moody to see what the effect had been, only to discover that he had not heard a word, so absorbed was he in a letter which he had received from Chicago.
Notwithstanding this experience, I cut out the poem and placed it in my musical scrap-book-which, by the way, has been the seedplot from which sprang many of the Gospel songs that are now known throughout the world.
At the noon meeting on the second day the subject presented by Mr. Moody and other speakers was “The Good Shepherd.” When Mr. Moody had finished speaking, he called upon Dr. Bonar to say a few words. He spoke only a few minutes, but with great power.
At the conclusion of Dr. Bonar’s words Mr. Moody turned to me with the question, ‘Have you a solo appropriate for this subject, with which to close the service?’ I had nothing suitable in mind, and was greatly troubled to know what to do.
At this moment I seemed to hear a voice saying: ‘Sing the hymn you found on the train!’ But I thought this impossible, as no music had ever been written for that poem. Again the impression came strongly upon me that I must sing the beautiful and appropriate words I had found the day before, and placing the little newspaper slip on the organ in front of me, I lifted my heart in prayer, asking God to help me so to sing that the people might hear and understand. Laying my hands upon the organ I struck the key of A-flat, and began to sing.
Note by note the tune was given, which has not been changed from that day to this. As the singing ceased a great sigh seemed to go up from the meeting, and I knew that the song had reached the hearts of my audience.
Mr. Moody was greatly moved. Leaving the pulpit, he came down to where I was seated. Leaning over the organ, he looked at the little newspaper slip from which the song had been sung, and with tears in his eyes said: ‘Sankey, where did you get that hymn? I never heard the like of it in my life.’
I was also moved to tears and arose and replied: ‘Mr. Moody, that’s the hymn I read to you yesterday on the train, which you did not hear.’ Thus ‘The Ninety and Nine’ was born.”
The first time I heard this song sung by these people, I was moved that I played 11 times non stop
rejoice for the Lord bring back his own
I feel like tis song captures my story
Awesome music. Awesome voices. Awesome lyrical reminders...
Marvin Esonga John 10:1.... Jesus is a good Shepherd
Oh Yes! Always my favorite
05-09-2023 GOD BLESS YOU FOR BEING A BLESSING IN MY LIFE WITH YOURS BLESSEDS PRAISES!!!
❤❤❤❤❤❤BRASIL
Beautiful. I cant get enuf of GAITHERS
How beautiful is that song, beautifully sang. Words fail me. Thanks you Jesus for wanting to save all your children.
Beautiful voices with awesome hymn..l always love and admire the Gaither Choir..yur Big Fan from Gm USA
What a beautiful song. Old timer but still beautiful. Loved it....
There's none like the love of God our Father. A great song indeed.
My Gran used to sing this, so moving to find it, I loved it and thought it had been totally forgotten about
I've been involved with music in church my entire adult life, professionally and otherwise, and I can't believe that there are people who dislike this... amazing!
Thank you for this song. I love it. Guy Penrod a d the Neloens are awesome.Beautiful version of this song.
You could literally post a video of a little girl plucking dandelions, and some RUclipsrs would vote it down. Fun folks!
Michael wolfenbarger - I’m one of them... Ask me why.
Hi CJ! It wouldn't seem right toask you WHY you arelike that. Better toseek ways tohelp you!!
Michael wolfenbarger
Satan was once a key figure in the Heavenly Court.
84 persons didnt make the 90 and 9. How can you thumbs down this mighty song.smh
Hallelujah! this song really touched my heart...
Beautiful, God Bless All.
Lost But Found. Praise The Lord..
Can I get this music sheet from anywhere please? How great is Christ’s love for the lost sheep. ❤
Mere words can not express all hapiness and Hope that fill my heart right now.
Greetings from São Paulo Brazil.
one word: WOW !
Thank u father u do not forget your lost sheep,not one we are so important to u, I ĺove father
Thank you my Lord Jehovah to find and save me.
This is my Recently departed Aunt’ favorite song which l learned while visiting her at the hospital… 💕🍃
I ❤❤this song 🎼🎶🎵so very, very much!!! Such a beautiful song!!!
This was my grandfather's (Gerhard Esau 1878-1957) favorite song.
Can this Tent Revival come to South Africa please, can't get enough of watching it.. Bill & Gloria, just once again (In Durban this time)
Wonderful song amen
would love to watch this song everyday!
iam watching it again after 4 years!
Love this song. Such a blessing.
Lord that lost sheep is me, please find me
Amen.
God bless you. God never forgot you for him to find you. He is always by your side.
Though it has been a year, I know that He sees you, loves you, and is near. He is a rescuing God....rich in mercy!
Sweetheart, by asking Him to find you He already has. You were never lost, just strayed. Welcome back to the fold Dear one Welcome back
He knows where you are
Classique, jamais ancien ni vieux et encore moins périmé. GLOIRE ADIEU!!!!
Really melody
I really wish I could join in their sessions, sing-along and tent revivals. :(
One day I'll sing with you all in the presence of our King, what a day that will be
Mordecai Morales
Mordecai - Jewish name
Morales - Hispanic name
This group is umnatched for annointed holy singing
Shep ZionsCRY true
hallelujah, God Be Praised
so nice....the good shepherd!
The Gaithers GOD bless you real Big
The best of umanità
I love this song y'all sing this great hymn wonderfully
Gracias!!!!!!! por saber como fue compuesta este himno es muy impresionante, me encanta que hermosas voces solo para nuestro creador.
am so blessed ...God is good
There were a lot of great singers and song writers present under this tent, wish I could have been present for this great day of singing!
Mike Gross me too....especially to meet and hear Stephen Hill in person.
There were ninety and nine that safely lay
In the shelter of the fold;
But one was out on the hills away,
Far off from the gates of gold.
Away on the mountains wild and bare;
Away from the tender Shepherd’s care.
“Lord, Thou hast here Thy ninety and nine;
Are they not enough for Thee?”
But the Shepherd made answer: “This of Mine
Has wandered away from Me.
And although the road be rough and steep,
I go to the desert to find My sheep.”
But none of the ransomed ever knew
How deep were the waters crossed;
Nor how dark was the night the Lord passed through
Ere He found His sheep that was lost.
Out in the desert He heard its cry;
’Twas sick and helpless and ready to die.
“Lord, whence are those blood-drops all the way,
That mark out the mountain’s track?”
“They were shed for one who had gone astray
Ere the Shepherd could bring him back.”
“Lord, whence are Thy hands so rent and torn?”
“They’re pierced tonight by many a thorn.”
And all through the mountains, thunder-riv’n,
And up from the rocky steep,
There arose a glad cry to the gate of heav’n,
“Rejoice! I have found My sheep!”
And the angels echoed around the throne,
“Rejoice, for the Lord brings back His own!”
One of world's Best
beautiful
Ain't nothing more perfect!