NEW HOPE MUSIC - "I Was Glad", by Ralph Merrifield

Encouraging saints around the world since 1991 !!

Our background MIDI is "I Was Glad",
written by Ralph Merrifield,
performed by Bob Sorem (from Minnesota)

Inspired by a Mennonite church sign near my office that displayed the verse
"I was glad when they said ... 'let us go to the house of the Lord'" (Psalm 122:1).

Finished at my kitchen table, over breakfast,
with the help of my friend Sarah!

We are conducting a convention in District Sahiwal (I am the secretary of this convention)
Our children and youth choirs are practicing your songs.    My Sunday school students will sing
them during this convention, so that the people may get blessings...

Your songs are a great support to my ministries in Pakistan. You can not know my
inner feelings when I suddenly received so many songs from your web site.

Our choir is practicing two songs, "You Are My Shepherd" and "I Was Glad", in English.
We are also doing those two songs in Urdu.. I would like to... send you a recording and photo of our group.
(two emails from Evangelist Samson, from Pakistan)

NEW!!! Translated into Português (Brasil) by
Daniel Borges, from Sao Paulo, Brazil
Português (Brasil) translation

We are missionaries in Romania and Ukraine and use these songs in our
daily family devotion time as well as in the church here. We sing them in English and
put the translation of Romania up on the wall so the congregation knows what we are singing.

We have used quite a few of the songs from the website over the last few years. When we were
pastoring in South Dakota we used "I'm Grateful For The Cross" at each Communion service.
We continue to use this song in our devotions and in the Romanian Church where I preach.

We are also going to have "I Was Glad" translated. (this is one of my very favorites songs!)
and we have used this in all of the churches we have pastored in.

(Rev. Michael, from Romania)

I WAS GLAD
Key of C to D - the joy of entering His courts

C
I was glad when they said
                                               G
"let us go to the house of the Lord"
          G7
I was glad when they said
                                                C      C7
"let us go to the house of the Lord". Here is ---

                 F        Dm     C    Am
                Peace, hope, joy, love
                Dm          G         C
                Strength, pow'r, grace

                     G        C
                     I was glad when they said
                                 G                                 C
                     "let us go to the house of the Lord".

            C
All the days of my life how I long
                                  G
for the courts of the King
             G7
All the days of my life how I long
                                  C         C7
for the courts of the King.   For His

                 F        Dm     C    Am
                Peace, hope, joy, love
                Dm          G         C
                Strength, pow'r, grace

                     G        C
                     All the days of my life
                               G                                      C    (A7)
                     how I long for the courts of the King .

                 D
When the Master appears in the clouds
                                A
then the angels will sing
                A7
When the Master appears in the clouds
                                 D       D7
then the angels will sing...      Of His -------

                 G        Em     D    Bm
                Peace, hope, joy, love
                Em          A         D
                Strength, pow'r, grace

                     A              D
                     When the Master appears
                               A                                         D
                     in the clouds then the angels will sing.

               D
Soon forever in heaven with saints
                           A
I will lift up His name
               A7
Soon forever in heaven with saints
                          D            A7
I will lift up His name...          He is

                G        Em     D    Bm
                Peace, hope, joy, love
                Em          A         D
                Strength, pow'r, grace

                     A            D
                     Soon forever in heaven
                             A                                  D    D7
                     with saints I will lift up His name, He is

                G        Em     D    Bm
                Peace, hope, joy, love
                Em          A         D
                Strength, pow'r, grace

                     A            D
                     Soon forever in heaven
                             A                                  D
                     with saints I will lift up His name.

Medley Options: "I Will Sing Of The Mercies Of The Lord",
"He Has Made Me Glad", "Ah Lord God"

Part of the "I Am Persuaded" collection

Also included in the New Kid's Collection

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I Was Glad

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I Was Glad

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I Was Glad
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I Was Glad

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