When your heart grows weary with the load you bear

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When your heart grows weary with the load you bear

Author: Lizzie DeArmond
Tune: [When your heart grows weary with the load you bear]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 When your heart grows weary with the load you bear,
When the tempter whispers “Jesus does not care,”
Look to Him whose power drives away despair,
Pray it down, pray it down.

Refrain:
Pray, pray it down,
Trust in God, do not despair,
Just remember Jesus waits to answer pray’r,
Pray it down, pray it down.

2 When you’re almost ready to give up the fight
You have bravely started for the truth and right,
Tho’ your faith may waver, trust the Lord of might,
Pray it down, pray it down. [Refrain]

3 When the world would call you from His service true,
With its many pleasures strive your soul to woo,
Just remember Jesus waits to help you thro’,
Pray it down, pray it down. [Refrain]

Source: Songs of Help: for the Sunday school, evangelistic and church services #76

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Author: Lizzie DeArmond

Lizzie De Armond was a prolific writer of children's hymns, recitations and exercises. When she was twelve years old her first poem was published in the Germantown, Pa. Telegraph, however, it was not until she was a widow with eight children to support that she started writing in earnest. She wrote articles, librettos, nature stories and other works, as well as hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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