I Need Your Mercy Every Hour

Gary Hicks, copyright 2010 Gary L. Hicks
inspired by the gospel song “I Need Thee Every Hour”
tune: KINGSFOLD, traditional English melody
(“O Sing a Song of Bethlehem”) (The United Methodist Hymnal #179)
may be sung to any Common Meter Double (CMD) tune

I need Your mercy every hour

O Fortress, safe and strong

You are my refuge and my rock

My joy, my strength, my song.

I need Your mercy every hour

When Your sweet voice I hear

The winds subside, the waves roll back

And storm clouds disappear.

I need Your mercy every hour

For sin’s allure is strong

Or subtle in its sly deceit

Enticing me to wrong.

I need Your mercy every hour

Forgive me of my sin

Restore my joy and cleanse my heart

O make me pure within.

I need Your mercy every hour

Help me to sing Your praise

And lift up holy hands to You

The Maker of my days.

I need Your mercy every hour

Your guiding staff and rod

O bless me as I come to You

My Saviour and my God.