7: Blessed are Those Who Believe – Singing with Inspiration

John has written what is possibly the most well-known Bible verse in John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, He gave His only Son” which has had many say
Lord, I Have Made Thy Word My Choice – Hymn 273 and
Give Me The Bible – Hymn 272. John writes of many people who turned to Jesus in this quarter’s studies. Here are two hymns from which to choose for your theme hymn this quarter.

The myriad of Bible texts we are given in the Sabbath Afternoon study tell the story of why:
I Do Believe – Hymn 486, I Know Whom I Have Believed – Hymn 511, leaving us at the end of the week to sing
Rejoice, Rejoice Believers – Hymn 599.

Our Bibles are full of those wonderful people who had such amazing faith and really believed:
Hymn 11 – The God of Abraham Praise topped off with
Hymn 304 – Faith Of Our Fathers. I would like to add from the pre-1985 hymnal
497 – Dare To Be A Daniel.

Faith is a strong part of believing which is shown to us on Wednesday by the quote from Ellen White at the end of the day’s study:
Hymn 523 – My Faith Has Found A Resting Place and then we can say
My Faith Looks Up To Thee – Hymn 517.

We have been blessed to have the Bible so we are able to read all the miracles of Jesus, and we can believe, even though those who witnessed the miracles still had uncertainty as to who Jesus was, and then we have all of history to view of what Jesus said would happen to our poor old world down through the ages to today:
Hymn 272 – Give Me The Bible. And, we can see that Jesus’ statement that the Gospel would go to all the world is happening right now:
Hymn 378 – Go, Preach My Gospel.

Please continue to search the scriptures this week to be blessed, and to bless many others.

To learn unknown hymns, you will find the accompaniment music for each one at: https://sdahymnals.com/Hymnal/

Another great resource is for when there is a hymn you wish to sing but can’t find it in your hymnal. Go to https://www.sdahymnal.org/Search and in the search bar type a special word in that is in the hymn. I am sure you will be amazed at the help you will be given.

2 Timothy 2:15 KJV – “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”