I think if we are honest with ourselves we have to agree with the phrase "Prone to wander, Lord I feel it", and guard aganst it with His strength every day.

“Prone to Wander, Lord, I feel it.” Is the best line in the song. It describes the human condition, anyone who can’t understand that line has some issues as well. That line and the lines that follow give me so much hope and peace.

Years ago I asked Jesus into my heart, only then to understand that no where in the bible does it give such instruction. A few years ago I was at the end of my rope. Sick with not job, they were going to take the house and me with a wife who was unable to work. I remember telling God to just let me win some money so I could fix the problems. See? I had this issue of blaming everyone one around me, till the Lord showed me my sins. The bible talks about people praying for the rocks to fall on them, I was just wanted to find a crack and fall into it. My heart was broken, I knew "asking Jesus into my heart wasn't going to do. I remember the thief on the cross who just had a simple request, "Lord remember me..." In tears with a broken soul before a Holy and Just God, I cried out for mercy. First time I heard this song I so understood it. Thanks for sharing

When I was a young believer I was prone to wander and this hymn resonated with me. Now I In my 70’s i am settled into his love and care- never to worry about wandering again.

Prone to wander, is my favorite line. It is so true.

Ive come to realize that my worse enemy who I need God's protection from is not the Enemy, not the world, but me, for all reasons expressed in this great song.

He is going to complete what He started in us ❤

I’ve literally cried the entire time watching this video. I can see myself in Robinson’s story. I love that he said “… prone to leave the God I love” because it almost doesn’t make sense that one can love God so desperately and yet still be prone to wander. “Here’s my heart, Lord, take and seal it, seal it for Thy courts above”, that’s my prayer today.

I learned that God used that lady who was in the stagecoach to draw him back to Him. "'Robinson continued working for the Lord until 1790, when he was invited to Birmingham, England, to preach for Dr. Joseph Priestly, a noted Unitarian. There, on the morning of June 8th, he was found dead at age 54, having passed away quietly during the night." THEN SINGS MY SOUL by Robert J. Morgan

The "praise songs" of today seem to be written with the presumed intention of "I need to write another new song." The great hymns -- in all fairness some of the later 20th century music as well -- are birthed from personal experience and being drawn to our Savior out of deep appreciation and surrender to God's will. Keep all verses.

Dear brother in Christ! Thank you for your humble but so precious work! I'm a youth from Romania who enjoys and feel blessed by your mission work. In my country not many people can speak and understand English. I would love to send this to my friends and my family so that they can understand and find courage and love for Christ just as I found!

I am using your videos in my homeschool. Thank you for sharing your videos. God bless you, and your efforts.

I love this channel! My wife and I live in San Antonio, Texas, USA. We just changed churches recently. The church we go to is called First Baptist Church San Antonio, a church that’s 163 years old. The service is traditional and we sing all hymns. We have sung this hymns.

Yesterday, after a special experience with the hymn Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing (which I’ll share briefly below) I searched for renderings of it on KZfaq. That’s when I came across your video. I loved your calm and peaceful discussion of the beautiful hymn and your singing of it. Thank you. After a heavy Saturday’s work making a French drain in my backyard I came into the house. I was exhausted. As a soon-to-be eighty-year-old, I had found digging the trench in the heavy Northern Ireland clay soil quite backbreaking, not to mention filling the fifteen-meter ditch with perforated pipe and crushed stone. I was too tired even to pray about a spiritual purpose for the usual monthly fast beginning right after our supper. So, after a game of Settlers of Catan with my little wife, I went to bed. Waking early, I turned to the new (digital) hymn book, ‘Hymns for Home and Church’. There at No. 1 of the first thirteen to be released, was ‘Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing’. Singing along I was invigorated with fresh spiritual momentum. My thoughts went back nearly fifty years to recall how “Jesus sought me when a stranger” and brought me to His fold. How grateful I am for Jesus Christ and the atonement He wrought in Gethsemane and on Calvary. How blessed too we are by those who compose sacred music for worship. Thank you again. I look forward to viewing more of your videos.

Tears are flowing. ..I grew up with these songs..the mighty songs of the church..thank you!

Through sadness he still yearns to come to God. Let the angels carry me to the heavens to my God above.

A hymn that urges me to write great things for God.

I pray he reconciled with Christ and called upon Him before his last breath.❤

Been singing this song since a child ..... Count on God's blessings every moment and every day.....,

You did great with this hymn. I think the words"prone to wander" means that even if we've asked the Lord to forgive us of our sin, we still have that sin nature. God bless.

19:04 Very good job on this hymn. I know in my life, my heart has wandered, backslid, and brought much pain in my life and shame on the wondrous name of Jesus. Yet God has been very merciful to me and like the father of the Prodigal son He has mercifully forgiven me time and time again! We, who have been sealed by the Holy Spirit, have an eternal inheritance that will never fade away.

When I was young I was prone to wander. I am not young anymore and I am still prone to wander. So I learned to die daily, seek and talk to my God daily, give my life anew daily, and I shall do it with the help of Jesus for the days to come till my silver cord is cut. But I have a feeling Im going to see Jesus with all he's mighty angels coming in His glory soon!

Prone to wander resonates

God's goodness keeps us. And none can pluck us from his hand.

The Lord has so graciously called me to minister in a local jail as their chaplain. My most recent sermon in the jail came out of I Sam.7. What a blessing to hear this story about this hymn, and where the word Ebenezer originated. Thank you for this video and God bless you!

Grateful to have found this channel. I love the old hymns.

This was the song my beautiful sister chose for her funeral ( liver cancer). My wonderful cousins sang this at the funeral and now it’s my favorite song for life. Thanks for this video

Here's my heart, oh, take and seal it ...

*Sung by flaming tongues above...* ..."Not by might nor by power, *but by My Spirit,* saith the Lord of Hosts." *-Zechariah 4:6*

I cannot help but believe that I will see Robert in HeavenHome and tell him how grateful I have always been for this hymn. The reason I feel this way is 2 Timothy 2:13 “If we do not believe, He still remains faithful. He cannot deny Himself.”

We sang this song at church last Sunday. After the service I searched to see if you had done a video on it. So it was a pleasant surprise when I was notified tonight your video was premiering shortly. Thank you.

Wonderful, one of my favourite hymns. Our Lord truly is the Fount and Source of every blessing ❤

My dear mother use to sing this song. I miss her.. Blessings to you

Thank you Luke for all the efforts you make to tell us about the background of all these beautiful hymns. I love all the old hymns. The writer of this song says Take my heart O take and seal it. Seal it for thy courts above. It shows that he really longed to be with God. He did not want to be lost. Hope he repented in the end.

Beautiful praise God Amen 🙏

This is one of my favorite hymns and I have always felt that same urge to wander. I believe that to be a normal part of being a Christian. A normal part of our fallen condition. But I also believe that once we are saved, nothing can snatch us from our Savior’s hand. We wonder after our own desires. I have gone through periods of anger and depression where I turned from serving and worshiping God, but the Holy Spirit never stopped trying to bring me back to Him. ❤

All these "sadness" sections you talk about do not strike me as sadness at all, but as yearning to be united more fully with God. The entire song is positive to me.

I grew up singing this hymn in our church. Thank you for putting flesh on bones... you speak so well, and touch my heart with your words and thoughts. I needed to hear this song and history tonight. Thank you.

Hold fast..It's worth more than a 1000 worlds to win the victory in Christ!!!❤ He. Is the fountain of life eternal.Praise be to my King!❤

This song was meaningful to me a year after losing our eldest daughter to a car accident.

I believe that the writer of this song is now with God, for God forgives and loves sinners.

In the Presbyterian churches in NSW we sing their version of the song. Not often but I always remember my grandparents as they lived in Ebenezer, NSW. The oldest Presbyterian church is there & my grandparents are buried there just on the high banks of the Nepean River facing east. I think that I like our version better as it is more uplifting & hopeful. 1 Come, thou Fount of every blessing; tune my heart to sing thy grace; streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise. Teach me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming tongues above; praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it, mount of God’s unchanging love! 2 Here I raise my Ebenezer; hither by thy help I’m come; and I hope, by thy good pleasure, safely to arrive at home. Jesus sought me when a stranger, wandering from the fold of God; he, to rescue me from danger, interposed his precious blood. 3 O to grace how great a debtor daily I’m constrained to be! Let that grace now, like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to thee. Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love; here’s my heart; O take and seal it; seal it for thy courts above. Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal (2003)

This was a favorite hymn of my father's, and I love it as well. It is such an honest expression of the writer's struggles with his sin nature. I don't see it as sad; I think he looks forward to the purity of heaven so much that, like Paul says in Philippians 1:21, for him "to live is Christ, and to die is gain." By the way, I did read in a book I have about hymns that the writer did return to faith in Christ after backsliding.

*Let Thy Goodness, like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to Thee...* ¹⁰ With my whole heart have I sought Thee: *O let me not wander from Thy Commandments.* ¹¹ Thy Word have I hid in mine heart, *that I might not sin against Thee.* *-Psalm 119:10-11* ⁵ *Hold up my goings in Thy paths,* that my footsteps slip not. *-Psalm 17:5*

I listened to your commentary and it has blessed my heart. I actually love this song and words because it shows our human tendencies. But we need to trust God to keep us from falling away.

The apostles spoke in their own tongue, but each man heard in his own tongue, many nations in the crowd . It is written!

We are nothing in this world without JESUS àre. LORD.

Raised on hymns.

Wow, I just found your channel and it is amazing. Come thy fount is one of my favorite hymns, but I never knew the story behind the song thank you so much!

This is the favorite hymn of a man I know. It's because that tendency to wander is also his experience. Knowing this man's story, some people feel so badly about themselves that they is constantly vulnerable to the internal doubt and whispers about himself.

Another beautiful song and praise. Thank you for sharing

Thank you for sharing the rich history of this song. I grew up in an Evangelical United Brethren Church that later became a United Methodist Church and we sang this song growing up. I loved it then and still love it.

This channel is wonderful! I teach elementary aged homeschoolers and we do hymn study every week. They love to sing the hymns! Very thankful for your hard work and I love the way you're put the video together with the history, narrating through the lyrics and then playing it for us to sing along. Thank you!

I remember an old church we used to go to called Ebenezer Baptist church in virginia where we would sing this song often in closing. so we found it rather fitting 😆

Thank you for your hymn presentation! I was blessed!

Remember singing this in a crusade choir (UK) in the 1990s!

i heard that story about robinson. what a precious hymn that admits how dependent we are upon the Lord to save and to keep us too (indeed prone to wander because in my flesh dwells no good thing as per romans 7) and the daily surrender to the Lord to take our hearts and seal with them...and He does! His promises never fail. His Spirit holds us fast when we come by faith under that sin cleansing Blood -- our names written in the Lamb's Book of Life. hallelujah what a Savior! and that dear friend is another wonderful hymn! thanks for sharing. God bless you :)

Subscribed... thank you... i am in tears of being humbled by that video

Amen! Such a beautiful hymn, but such a sad story 😢. Yes, we need the spirit of humility and gratitude for what we have, and abide in him always. Thank you Luke.

This truly blessed my burdened heart this morning ❤

This always been a favorite hymn

Than God for January 15 2017 when I assisted to a reformed church in Harlingen Texas and I heard this hymn so lovely it was like water to a parched land. Ever since I been assisting to listen to this sound word of God and I been greatly blessed, I speak broken English but the merciful God and his Holy Spirit is teaching me. Thanks for this powerful hymn and many blessings to you and family.

Tjis is my Late mom Favourite hymn n now its mine.

I call this my Anthem song. So sad to hear about the writer of the song. Incredible that one can write such a powerful song and yet fall away????

As I write this there are tears in my eyes…how poignant are these blessed Words inspired by God so long ago yet Eternally Anointed for God’s people. May the Lord continue to use it to provoke His Saints to gratitude…for the sake of the Name of His Dear Son, in Jesus’ Name I pray Amen and Amen! To God be ALL Glory!

I first heard this song sung by a lovely gentle man on the Gaither channel. It brought me to tears then and again today when you sang it. It reminds me of all that the Lord has forgiven in me and how I need Him to keep drawing me back from wandering away. Not that I have any intention of leaving the Lord. I love Him. But distractions interfere sometimes. This world is full of them. But He reminds me that we are in this world but not part of this world. Guy Penrod sings a beautiful song, This World is not My Home. I love your playing and singing. Thank you for your wonderful channel. Come Lord Jesus Come.

we battle our flesh, we all could be prone to leave. I was going to church, yet God showed me I was backsliding. Not reading God's word, not praying, my heart was not near to God.

I sing and pray in tounges its amazing...

I'm from Singapore and I recently had a vacation to Australia. Was visiting the town of Cowaramup and saw a Church there. Was a Sunday morn so my mom, sis and I decided to have a look. Turns out that the Church was run by and old couple. We asked them if we could play the piano and they gladly agreed. This was one of the songs that immediately came to my mind. In the end more people started to come into the Church and some started singing! A great reminder that God is not only the God of Singapore or the US, but the God of the universe!

Thank you for your ministry… just what I needed this morning!

Thank you for helping us yo edify our life

Jesus IS the fountain of all blessing! How foolish to wonder from him.

I love hymns so much and this is one of my favorites. I really enjoy hearing about the history of them. I grew up in a church that almost exclusively sang hymns for worship and I just grew to love them. I think all the verses were written by him because they all capture the struggle with sin and the longing for it to be gone. By the way, I love your voice. I can feel God's spirit when you are singing. Do you have a playlist of just you singing the hymns? God's great blessings to you.🙏🏻😌

“Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” is my personal favorite hymn. I also grew up in churches singing contemporary music and enjoy it, but I find myself singing this hymn frequently, especially when times are tough

I am old school and just cannot get into contemporary christian music. There is nothing as powerful as the old classic hymns. The wording and lyrics speak to me as no other!

Este himno me encanta, me llena de sentimientos y me fortalece espiritualmente, la letra es muy profunda, habla de las bendiciones que recibimos de Dios. En la Iglesia Presbiteriana Conservadora de México se sigue cantando para apertura del culto.❤✝️

Yes, the first time I heard this, I was watching the movie, 'Love Comes Softly'. There's a scene in the movie where one of the stars in the movie is singing a verse and it endeared me to the song. Especially the verse that says 'Prone to wonder, Lord I feel it'.

My grandparents sang it together as my grandfather passed away at 62 in the early 1940's. It always and forever will...bring tears to my eyes.

Thank you, Luke. This is helpful. It comes at an ideal time. I’m struggling to turn from long-established idolatrous ways with food; I have looked to food for comfort, and for that which only God can provide. He has been patient with me over the years, as He has unraveled, healed and delivered me from the many reasons I became bound, but as you say, a time comes when He leaves us to ourselves to decide, “What do I believe? Where is my trust? What do I truly desire? (see Ex 16:4, 20:20; Deut 8:2, 16; Jdg 2:21-22, 3:1, 4). I love my Lord Jesus and want to be with Him always and forever, but in the hard moments of life, when ingrained habits insist on compliance with past ways, what will I do? Will I take the easy way, in line with bad habits? Or will I do the hard thing (initially hard) that will produce greater blessing in my life? “O Lord God Almighty! Thank you for this story and for this hymn! It’s sobering, Lord! Help me to keep food in it’s proper place, in Jesus’ name. I do NOT want to be like this man, left to live the consequences of unwise choices. “Lord, your Word tells us … You let us live out difficult consequences of sin so that we will know the difference between serving you and serving anything in the world (see 2 Chron 12:1-2, 6-8). “I now turn and RUN from old sinful ways, because always, after initial pleasure, there is ongoing pain and grief. “But with YOU, Lord, there is initial struggle and difficulty in challenging sinful ways (but you do not give us more than we can withstand, and you always offer a way out [1 Co 10:13]); But ultimately, when we accept Your ways, Lord, and truly turn to You, we know that we will experience “the peaceable fruit of righteousness” rather than the pain and grief of sin (see Heb 12:11). “Help me, Lord-help us-to choose rightly. Thank you, Lord, in Jesus’ name, Amen.” It’s a matter of trust, and being willing to pass through the difficulty to come out the other side freer and closer to God. Glory to God Almighty!! May He grant grace and peace to ALL who truly desire Him above all else. Sin is deceitful and NEVER delivers on its promises, but GOD is faithful! Every gift that is truly good and perfect “comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning” (see Jms 1:14-17). ✨Glory to God Most High!!✨ ✨Forever and ever, Amen.✨

I love how you speak the truth. I know many believe we are once saved always saved, but that is not the case, and this writer clearly understands that as he himself felt his lost condition. I am glad though as a backslider myself was able to find God's forgiveness and restorations some 15 years ago. We can walk away from God at any time. God does not keep us fenced in and we are free moral agents and can choose to serve God or not. Thank you again for your truthfulness in relating the story behind the hymn. God bless you.

absolutely my favorite. When I feel as though I am straying, this brings me back. I cry then I hear this.

I've never heard this hymn. Thank you for introducing it to me.

I grew up with this hymn and it was dear to my heart. Yes we are prone to wonder Lord I feel it. God is full of mercy He knows we are but dust.

Thanks much for the history of this song. Keep up the good work,

It is very true, we are prone to wandering away from God.

Hallelujah

Come my Lord, do not tarry.

Thank you for going through the hymns. This is such a blessing. I’ve never heard this one before watching your video, and it’s now one of my favorites. I grew up in the Catholic Church, then an atheist, now a born again Christian and trying to learn the hymns (my church sings contemporary music). I don’t know most of them. Thank you again, and for your gentle spirit!

I was blessed to have been a layman performing as the church song leader. It was my duty to select the hymns for each church service. I am not a trained musician, however previously, I had sung in many school choirs and could follow sheet music. I had a competent pianist and it was amazing how the Lord would guide me with hymn selection that matched the Pastor's sermon. This is one of the songs that I selected for congregational singing, quite frequently. The Lord saw fit to bring me to another place 2000 miles away, and I no longer am involved with singing, as the churches here no longer sing hymns. I do miss it.

Reminds me of my dear Father who passed in 2001. Cry each time I hear or sing it. Thank you for this.❤

Yes, we need to search these beautiful hymns as their lyrics are powerful words for the church. And the history behind each hymn is worthy of thought for us today. First Peter 2:23-25 you were going astray like sheep, but now you have returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.

Pity I don't know this hymn at all. But I will download it and from this day I will come to know it

"Jesus sought me when a stranger, wondering from the fold of God", that was me and the whole world I suppose, the Lord seeks us sometimes at our lowest hour.

I grew up singing his hymn in church but never heard the story behind it. Thank you! I’m in a lot of pain at times and find help through hymns like this one!

I've loved this hymn so much! It's so sad the author fell away. Do you suppose God is also sad when we sing it, remembering this man?

I'm so glad I found this. I am so blessed by your message and this song. Thank you so much for sharing.

I think this song is the one hymn that always gets me. Because my heart is proned to wander and despite the blessings, faith from me takes collosal effort.

Yes, prone to wander Lord I feel it Prone to leave the God I love, oh yes, from the age of 17 when He saved me until one more week when I will be 80 it has been a battle in this world to continually love, honor and glorify my Triune God. Amen

thanks dear Luke for your lovely channel. My favourite hymn is "And can it be that i should....." i love the indept story you covered. have a blessed day.

Thanks 🙏🏼 PTL this Song 🎶 I needed not so familiar as with many IAm but a new song and a new beginning again only so many of those stone of Ebineezer PTL