Rick Lee JamesHealthcare Chaplain, Bon Secours Mercy Health · Husband, Dad, Hospital Chaplain, Recording Artist, Podcast Host, Loyola University IPS Graduate, Alpha Sigma Nu Member, and Recording Academy (GRAMMY®) member - Contributing musician on a Grammy-nomin

Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (Perfect Love)

8 Sept 2016 · 4 min

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The video presents a devotional worship performance of the hymn “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling,” featuring two vocalists (Speaker A and Speaker B) who alternate verses, refrains, and lyrical prayers. The lyrics blend classic hymn lines with original devotional verses, repeatedly invoking God’s perfect love, salvation, and the presence of the Holy Spirit. Themes include a plea for divine compassion, spiritual renewal, liberation from sin, and a yearning for heavenly communion. The structure alternates between spoken‑like verses, repeated choruses, and lyrical sections marked as <LYRICS>, creating a meditative, prayer‑like atmosphere aimed at encouraging listeners to draw their hearts toward divine love.

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Love divine, all loves excelling, joy of heaven to earth come down. Fix us in thy humble dwelling, all thy faithful mercies crown. Jesus, Thou art all compassion, pure unbounded love Thou art. Visit us with Thy salvation into every trembling heart. Breathe, O breathe, Thy loving Spirit into every troubled breast. Let us all in thee inherit. Let us find that second rest. Take away our bent to sin. Alpha and Omega be in the faith as its beginning. Set our hearts at liberty.
Draw our hearts, God, Guide our minds and lead us to your love divine, until our lives are captured by your perfect love. Draw our hearts, guide our minds, lead us to your love divine, until our lives are captured by your perfect love.
<LYRICS>Come, Almighty, to deliver. Let us all thy life receive. Suddenly return and never, nevermore thy temples leave. Thee we would be always blessed. Serve thee as thy hosts above.</LYRICS> —pray and praise thee without ceasing.
Glory in that perfect love. Draw our hearts, guide our minds, and lead us to your love divine until our lives are captured by your perfect love. Draw our hearts, guide Guide our minds, lead us to your love divine, until our lives are captured by your perfect love.
Spotless let us be. Let us see thy great salvation, perfectly restored in thee. Change from glory into glory, till in heaven we take our place, till we cast our crowns before thee, lost in wonder, love, and praise.