Have Thine Own Way,
Lord
Written by: Adelaide
A. Pollard
Music by : George
C. Stebbins
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lyrics
1.
Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Thou art the Potter, I am the clay.
Mold me and make me after Thy will,
While I am waiting, yielded and still.
Thou art the Potter, I am the clay.
Mold me and make me after Thy will,
While I am waiting, yielded and still.
.
2. Have Thine
own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Search me and try me, Master, today!
Whiter than snow, Lord, wash me just now,
As in Thy presence humbly I bow.
Search me and try me, Master, today!
Whiter than snow, Lord, wash me just now,
As in Thy presence humbly I bow.
.
3. Have Thine
own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!Wounded and weary, help me, I pray!
Power, all power, surely is Thine!
Touch me and heal me, Savior divine.
.
4. Have Thine
own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Hold o’er my being absolute sway!
Fill with Thy Spirit till all shall see
Christ only, always, living in me.
Hold o’er my being absolute sway!
Fill with Thy Spirit till all shall see
Christ only, always, living in me.
Periodically distressed after being unable to raise money
to go to Africa as a missionary in the late 1890s, Adelaide A. Pollard (b.
Bloomfield, IA, 1862; d. New York, NY, 1934) attended a prayer meeting in 1902
and was inspired after hearing an older woman pray, "It really doesn't
matter what you do with us, Lord–just have your way with our lives."
Pollard went home and meditated on the potter's story in
Jeremiah 18 (the same image is also in Isa. 64:8) and wrote the consecration
hymn "Have Thine Own Way, Lord."
Repeating the words "Have thine own way," each
stanza emphasizes the believer's harmony with God's will.
This is a deeply personal prayer that culminates in a
strong plea that others may see Christ in the believer through the power of the
Holy Spirit (stanza 4).
Originally called Sarah, Pollard chose the name Adelaide
for herself. She studied speech at the Boston School of Oratory and taught in
several girls' schools in Chicago, Illinois.
Influenced by the evangelist R. A. Torrey, she enrolled
as a student at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and later taught at the
Missionary Training School of the Christian Missionary Alliance in Nyack-on-the
Hudson, New York.
A missionary in Africa prior to World War I, she devoted
the last years of her life to Christian mysticism.
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