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

We Gather Together (Thanksgiving Hymn)

12 Nov 2014 · 3 min

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A rendition of the traditional Thanksgiving hymn that asks for God's blessing and protection. The verses invoke divine guidance, celebrate God's steadfast presence, and plead for deliverance from oppression and tribulation.

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We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing. He chastens and hastens his will to make known. The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing. Sing praises to his name, he forgets not his own. Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining. Ordaining, maintaining his kingdom divine. So from the beginning the fight we were winning, the Lord was at our side, all glory be thine. We all do extol thee, our leaded triumph, and pray that thou still our defender will be. Let thy congregation escape tribulation, thy name be ever praised, O Lord. We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing.