1 Almighty Father, great must be
Your power from all eternity;
How great your love in Christ made known
To those by suffering weighed down.
2 Christ healed the sick, the deaf, the blind,
Brought reason to the splintered mind.
He gave the peace of heaven to men
And set them on their feet again.
3 Yet may these things for us be so,
With Galilee those years ago?
Is life and all its fullness still
For us the heavenly Father's will?
4 Indeed! the Christ who wrought such things
Is Lord of Lords and King of Kings:
Today as yesterday the same
To those who gather in his name.
5 Through laying on of hands and prayer
The sick may in Christ's wholeness share,
And others, nursed to health again,
Renew their strength and lose their pain.
6 Almighty Father, let us see
In Christ man has the victory!
Help us to find, in life and death,
Your everlasting arms beneath.
David Mowbray (born 1938)
© David Mowbray/Jubilate Hymns
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