The Spirit Touched Soul

God planned for me a wondrous life of constant victory and power

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [God planned for me a wondrous life of constant victory and power]
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1 God planned for me a wondrous life of constant victory and pow’r,
I might have lived this life of faith and walked with Jesus hour by hour,
I might have overcome the world and broken from its hard control,
And had the sunshine of God’s love with joy and peace to flood my soul.

Refrain:
O Holy Spirit, flame of love, burn from my soul the earthly dross,
Let self and sin be mortified and nailed to Jesus’ cross,
Possess my heart, control my life, inspire my will, and make me pure,
Thus, heaven-touched and cleansed with fire, in faith may I endure!

2 Around me are the earnest souls whose faith on Jesus Christ is stayed,
To whom the Lord of righteousness a fount of blessing has been made;
They have a joy I do not know, they have a peace I do not feel;
O that the Lord would in my heart this deeper, richer grace reveal! [Refrain]

3 No more will I walk separate from Jesus Christ, my precious Lord;
With strong desire to be his own today my inmost soul is stirred;
I yield my life and love to him, I consecrate myself anew
To be the Lord’s forevermore and all his holy will to do. [Refrain]

Source: Songs of Matchless Love: for evangelistic services, devotional meetings and Sunday schools #28

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman

Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873. Mary Louise VanDyke… Go to person page >

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First Line: God planned for me a wondrous life of constant victory and power
Title: The Spirit Touched Soul
Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Language: English
Refrain First Line: O Holy Spirit, flame of love
Copyright: Public Domain

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Songs of Matchless Love #28

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