Monday's Mourning Ministry - I Believe, Help Thou My Unbelief! / Beyond the Veil

Lord, I believe.

Help Thou my unbelief!

I can't see through these tears

Beyond the Veil to Thee....

Beyond the Veil

Monday's Mourning Ministry

I Believe. Help Thou My Unbelief! / Beyond the Veil

It seems Bill Gaither is one of those saints who has walked alongside me through many years of my life... As a teenager, I remember teaching the seven-year-olds of our church (including my oldest nephew, Curt) in their Training Union Class on Sunday nights (like an evening Sunday School in the Baptist church) Gaither's wonderful song of,

I am a Promise; I am a Possibility!

I am a Promise with a capital P;

I am a great big bundle of Potentiality!

And I am learnin' to hear God's voice,

And I am tryin' to make the right choice:

I am a promise to be anything God wants me to be!

(See the full lyrics below.)

Later, as a young adult, when I had my own children, I taught them this wonderful song so that they too would each know,

"I am a Promise!"

And now, as a middle-aged adult, I am singing along with Gaither to his song,

"I believe; help Thou my unbelief..."

as I walk through this devastating, tormenting loss and grief over my baby girl while I still experience her death from this side of the Veil...

And so today, I bring you Gaither's poignant song, "I believe. Help Thou my unbelief!" and then I add a verse of my own just below his lyrics that can be sung along to the same tune...

Lord, I believe.

Help Thou my unbelief!

I can't see through these tears

Beyond the Veil to Thee....

I Believe, Help Thou My Unbelief!

written by Bill and Gloria Gaither

sung by Bill Gaither, Marshall Hall, & Guy Penrod

2008

from Gaither Vocal Band Reunion Volume 2

Lyrics

I believe.

Help Thou my unbelief—

I take the finite risk

Of trusting like a child...

I believe

Help Thou my unbelief—

I walk into the Unknown

Trusting all the while...

I long so much

to feel the warmth

Others seem to know;

Should I never feel a thing,

I claim Him even so...

I believe.

Help Thou my unbelief—

I walk into the Unknown

Trusting all the while...

I walk into the Unknown

Trusting...

I long so much

to feel the warmth

Others seem to know

But should I never feel a thing

I claim Him even so

I believe

Help Thou my unbelief

I walk into the Unknown

Trusting all the while...

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{My added lyrics}

Beyond the Veil

Lord, I believe.

Help Thou my unbelief!

I can't see through these tears

Beyond the Veil to Thee....

Lord, I believe.

Help Thou my unbelief!

My baby girl's with Thee—

Someday... You'll come for me!

I long so much

To feel Your touch

As You walk through Grief with me.

But even when my days grow dark,

I know You're...still with me!

Lord, I believe.

Help Thou my unbelief!

My baby girl's with Thee—

Someday... You'll come for me!

My baby girl's with Thee—

Someday...

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And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

~Mark 9:24 KJV

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Lyrics for

I Am A Promise

I am a promise
I am a possibility
I am a promise with a capital “P”
I am a great big bundle of potentiality
And I am learnin’ to hear God’s voice
And I am tryin’ to make the right choice
I am a promise to be anything God wants me to be.

I can go anywhere that He wants me to go
I can be anything He wants me to be
I can climb the high mountains
I can cross the wide sea
I’m a great big promise you see!

I am a promise
I am a possibility
I am a promise with a capital “P”
I am a great big bundle of potentiality
And I am learnin’ to hear God’s voice
And I am tryin’ to make the right choice
I’m a promise to be anything God wants me to be
Anything God wants me to be!

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I am a Promise...

Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham's offspring—not only to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all. As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—not only to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all. As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—

the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were.

Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations just as it had been said to him, "So shall your offspring be." Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah's womb was also dead.

Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what He had promised.

This is why "it was credited to him as righteousness."

~Romans 4:16-22 NIV

Picture: the white sheet by Lisa KC:

http://digital-photography-school.com/21-beautiful-portrait-photos-on-imagekind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa4VJUsEL_o

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