Amazing Grace (The G-Word 9)

Amazing Grace

How sweet the sound

That saved a wrecth like me

I once was lost but now am found

Was blind but now i see



Twas grace that taught

My heart to fear

And grace my fears relieved

How precious did that grace appear

The hour i first believe



My chains are gone

I've been set free

My God my saviour

Has ransomed me

And like a flood

His mercy reigns

Unending love,AMAZING GRACE



These words are the very words and lyrics of the song AMAZING GRACE.It speaks of God's amazing grace to the world.all of us was once lost but now am found.We were all blind but now we can see him.Behind this song lies a story of a man named JOHN NEWTON.He was a slave trader back in the old century.He trafficked thousands of man,woman and children into the auction block.In 1748 a storm threatened to sink his ship A=and he fell to his knee annd prayed to God for mercy.That very night he realised that there is a God that hears all his prayers and answers them.Even for the worst of men.Over time,Newton repented as a preacher and then he wrote the him that everyone knows as AMAZING GRACE in the year 1772.It perhaps became the most popular song ever in history.It lifts the head of the hopeless,soften the hearts of the heardened.Amazing Grace was sung during the civil war,the sweltering August day when Dr KIng shared his dream,when Nelson Mendela was freed from prison,When the berlin walls came crumbling down,And on september 11,Amazing grace was sung to comfort a mourning world.Grace has the power of transforming the lifes of others and of the

world.To right the wrongs,and turn a man,who once traded slaves,into one who fought for their freedom.



Though many dangers,toils and snares

We have already overcome

Twas grace that brought us thus far...

And grace will lead us home



John Newton