What comes to mind when you hear the word channel? For most of us television probably comes to mind. A channel is a specific path to bring a specific message to a viewer. Some might think of a body of water and the physical confine of a river or ocean strait consisting of a bed and banks to carry water to a specific destination. In business it could be a chain of intermediaries, each passing the product down the chain to the next organization, before it finally reaches the consumer. But no matter what comes to mind, it is a path that carries a specific product to a specific destination. And that is probably what Mary Maxwell had in mind when she penned the words of this week's choice. It is amazing that God chooses humans to carry His message to a world that needs to know Him. He could have chosen the wind to covey the message "God loves you". Or He could have written it in the clouds. Or He could have chosen some other method to channel His powerful message. But He chose us. And so our prayer should be that we might be channels, saved, cleansed and filled, faithfully conveyint this message to those we contact. May our prayer be that we would do this faithfully, every day and every hour.
(1) How I praise Thee, precious Savior,
That Thy love laid hold of me;
Thou hast saved and cleansed and filled me
That I might Thy channel be.
Refrain
Channels only, blessèd Master,
But with all Thy wondrous power
Flowing through us, Thou canst use us
Every day and every hour.
(2) Just a channel full of blessing,
To the thirsty hearts around;
To tell out Thy full salvation
All Thy loving message sound.
Refrain
Channels only, blessèd Master,
But with all Thy wondrous power
Flowing through us, Thou canst use us
Every day and every hour.
(3) Emptied that Thou shouldest fill me,
A clean vessel in Thy hand;
With no power but as Thou givest
Graciously with each command.
Refrain
Channels only, blessèd Master,
But with all Thy wondrous power
Flowing through us, Thou canst use us
Every day and every hour.
(4) Witnessing Thy power to save me,
Setting free from self and sin;
Thou who boughtest to possess me,
In Thy fullness, Lord, come in.
Refrain
Channels only, blessèd Master,
But with all Thy wondrous power
Flowing through us, Thou canst use us
Every day and every hour.
(5) Jesus, fill now with Thy Spirit
Hearts that full surrender know;
That the streams of living water
From our inner self may flow.
Refrain
Channels only, blessèd Master,
But with all Thy wondrous power
Flowing through us, Thou canst use us
Every day and every hour.
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