Music & HymnsMoment By Moment

"I am with you always, to the very end of the age." Matthew 28:1

Words: Daniel Webster Whittle (1840-1901); first published in 1896.

This pump organ at the Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, Illinois, is the one on which May Moody composed the music. Her picture is on the wall above the organ.

One day, evangelist Henry Varley was talking with Daniel Whittle about the hymn I Need Thee Every Hour. Varley said he didn't care for the hymn, because he needed Christ every moment of the day. From that seed, Whittle wrote the words to this hymn.

Dying with Jesus, by death reckoned mine;
Living with Jesus, a new life divine;
Looking to Jesus till glory doth shine,
Moment by moment, O Lord, I am Thine.

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Moment by moment I'm kept in His love;
Moment by moment I've life from above;
Looking to Jesus till glory doth shine;
Moment by moment, O Lord, I am Thine.

Never a trial that He is not there,
Never a burden that He doth not bear,
Never a sorrow that He doth not share,
Moment by moment, I'm under His care.

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Never a heartache, and never a groan,
Never a teardrop and never a moan;
Never a danger but there on the throne,
Moment by moment He thinks of His own.

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Never a weakness that He doth not feel,
Never a sickness that He cannot heal;
Moment by moment, in woe or in weal,
Jesus my Savior, abides with me still.

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