This was one of my grandmother’s favorite, I learned it from her over 60 years ago

I love this song. When you are in problems

A beautiful song. My brother used to play this on the guitar when I was a kid. He was older than me. Sadly he passed away a few years ago. I was looking for a version of this on video. I happen to find your video. You sound like a very Christian good person. Thank you for sharing this. My sister is going to Johns Hopkins Hospital tomorrow Friday, Jan 5, 2024. Her name is Brenda Bonsall she lives in Elkton, Maryland in the USA. Could you please keep her in your prayers? I truly need her in my life. I am the youngest son of eleven children. Sadly all of them have passed on except my sister and one other brother and myself. That brother is fighting cancer now. His name is Franklin Charles of Elkton Maryland in the USA. Please keep him in your prayers also. Thank you for everything. I will look forward to your videos in the future. God bless you.

Oh Lord please dont pass me bye 😭😭😭 I am in trouble n only you can help me

As a boy, son of Missionary parents in Africa , this song was the cry of my young heart….. I knew the scriptures well…you could say I was cradles in the scriptures but yet was afraid that I would miss salvation. Nothing shook that fear until one night at 15 yrs old I finally gave up trying to have enough faith or the right kind of faith and on my knees told God that I was giving up and throwing myself on his mercy. I rose from my knees knowing he had saved me! This song has a special meaning for me. That night was 57 years ago and He has never let me down since then.

I absolutely love Fanny Crosby songs 😍

One of my favorites, even from a child at I believe age 5...now being 80 years old....a lot of times when people criticize it is because of jealousy rearing it's ugly head ....This song and it's words are timeless. We all need it so bad... So clear the heart here! 😊

We sing this every Sabbath as we kneel before the congregational prayer. Her songs are an inspiration to many. She wrote to bring honor and glory to God not for mens praises.

The Lord bless you, Luke. Gospel singer Fred Johnson, who sang for many years with Jimmy Swaggart, had recorded this song on one of his albums. Thank you for this review!

This was one of my my mom's favourite songs , she died 2 years ago in my arms at the age of 93, I was devasted, still healing...Thank you for bringing back precious memories, am glad I stumbled upon your channel.God bless you.❤

A beautiful request to our Saviour. Thank you Mr. Powell. God bless your ministry.

Luke I look so forward to your hymns and am sharing them far and wide . This eve I was reading the story of the Lord Jesus’ healing of the woman with the issue of blood while on His way to raise Jairus’ daughter from the dead . The woman must have been utterly desperate to reach Him but was blocked by the jostling crowd who were no doubt noisily pushing and shoving . ….. “do not pass me by while on others Thou art calling, do not pass me by “ must have been her heart’s cry . What a beautiful old hymn , thank you for reminding me of it . God bless your ministry .

Hi Luke, my husband and I love your ministry with going through the story and playing the music with the old hymns. You have blessed gift in presenting the true Gospel 💝

This is one song we often sang at night for an alter call, it was one of my favourites. Some of the words of the second & third verses are a little bit different to what we sang but that is common I have noticed between denominations. I love Fanny J Crosby songs. She was a gifted lady. This one always reminds me of King David when he cried out to the Lord not to take the Holy Spirit from him. I often sang it asking the Lord to help my unbelief. I think that most of those critics of her were jealous of her songs but think about it when you cannot see, then you have nothing coming between you & the Lord to disrupt your concentration. At least that is what I find in the night hours when I can't sleep as there is no distraction to my eyes to take my attention away from the One I am talking to when I can't sleep. Blessings & thank you for bringing all these old songs of my youth in the 1950/60s.

Thank you for spreading the history of our Christian Hymns, God Bless 🙏🏻🙏🏻💞

This is a beautiful hymn! To God be the glory!!

This is my most cherished of all hymns. The story of how she came to write it is so inspiring! I sing it outside in the mountains where I live. It lifts me when I feel overwhelmed and unworthy.

Fannie Crosby was a great writer used by God. Thankful for the songs God gave her to write that are so relevant today.

Thank you so much..all you said so helpful!! ....my daughter died has had me stuck and dont know why but this song i found myself singing w you & surprised me and seems be helping...i love youre ministry & pray i can again share songs esp hymns w others in the future.....thank you so much. I need God's touch. Thanks again for all your sharing & singing!!❤ love this.Blesd you!!

God bless you brother I love it

I work at Focus on the Family, and for our Friday team devos we have been watching these videos lately. Everyone on the team really enjoys what you are sharing here and it is an encouragement and great start to our day. Thank you for sharing these!

Thank you Luke, for your work in sharing your Friday Classics , “Story Behind the Song” Series! 👍 I remember singing many of these hymns in a small Methodist Church. One of my favorite writers is Fanny Crosby. Love your piano playing and performance of the hymns featured. Excellent format! These classic hymns are not part of worship in our modern church services.

What a pleasure to listen to right before I go to bed. Thank you so much for these comforting and peaceful videos ❤ ✝️ ❤

Lovely! Joni Errikson Tada has sung it. Her application of this is Pool of Bethesda. Joni could picture herself with those their on mats waiting for a healing.

This is the Power of the Hymns I've learned from infancy. Let the church be the church and bring our hymns back in worship and adoration to The Almighty.

I love this beautiful song and I used to sing it, Thank you for letting me hear this again.

That was great! Thanks for sharing these

This was used often as an invitation song where I grew up in Virginia, US. I have always loved the words, especially about the Spring of all my comfort, more than life to me.

Like there is nothing like simply, appreciating the hymn for what it is and for what it does, and allow the Spirit to do the rest. We used to sing this all the time in the Salvation Army church I grew up in and always, found it very, powerful and moving.

Love you Lord Jesus Christ Amen

I am thankful that pass me no 12:04 back and other hymns many churches stop singing them because they want want to please the youth.

My impression on the lyric is that I may have come close to committing the unpardonable sin so I plead with HIM not to pass me by.

Thank you Luke. As I have mentioned before, I grew up in an unbelieving home so all the hymns I know I learned through studying on my own as part of my time with the Lord in the mornings. Now I am at a church that sings from the hymnal. This song is like an old friend. It is one of the first I learned. I’d really like to share, with permission, some modern new hymn style worship music that you may or may not be aware of. If you are open to that, where may I share that? I know KZfaq doesn’t like links. Thanks again!

Yes, I love this Hymn. I prefer Hymns over worship choruses.

Thank you this is a wonderful song

You should cover the song "Is my name written there". I just recently found this song and it was an interesting story on how I found it. I love it, and I can't read the second verse without tears.

Great lyrics ! Beautiful hymn❤. Thankyou br. Luke for doing what you are doing.

one of my favorite hymns, thank you for posting this

A most beautiful hymn honored and well played in this video. I can somewhat understand questioning the idea of Jesus passing by anyone in sincere need, however, when someone is in a place of desperate need perhaps even feeling unworthy, this could be a very natural and heartfelt plea. Indeed it would seem quite Biblical. Like Fanny Crosby, in scripture we see a blind person making a similar heartfelt plea when told Jesus was "passing by". The story is found in Luke 18:37-42 "As he drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging. And hearing a crowd going by, he inquired what this meant. They told him, “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.” And he cried out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” And those who were in front rebuked him, telling him to be silent. But he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” And Jesus stopped and commanded him to be brought to him. And when he came near, he asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?” He said, “Lord, let me recover my sight.” And Jesus said to him, “Recover your sight; your faith has made you well.” Just as a child calls for the help or attention of a parent it is comforting sometimes to call out in our time of need "Jesus please see me even as I am and have mercy."

Yes , we enjoyed and worship the Lord through fany crosby But this I am hearing for the first time Thank u Luke .

Thank you for your words that we are important. I fell into that trap that I was not important enough for God to hear my prayer. God hears all our prayers. God does answer prayers in different ways, not how we expect them to be answered. We reject God. Humble is the key word. I am blessed God lead me to your channel for Friday classical hymns.

Awesome hymn. Its our daily prayer

Thanks

Hi Luke I was introduced to your sermons by the late Bruce. It's one of the greatest gifts that I ever had. Your words are always inspiring and soul nourishing. Continue the good work, and we're grateful for the time you take to heal and comfort many souls.

It came to mind as i asked for prayer to have a more gentle spirit like Corrie ten Boom when i deal with unthinking, non-biblical oeople who consider themselves Christian. It is much more than flag waving and apple pie. It is sooo much more and the opposite of some songs and militant beliefs. I find myself impatient and angered, which repells foolish "believers." I want to love them back to the truth, not stampeded them with outrage for their unbiblical beliefs and rantings and hatred. It starts with the stick in my own eye. I lack that humility and patience great saints of God have had. If i cling to His cloak, with great contrition for my arrogance, perhaps He will give a miracle and soften my heart and teach me how to teach others gently rather than being angry with them. So, i sing...

The fact is that in the past we were lead to believe that, being humble and feeling inferior is sort of the same thing. What taught me differently, Psalm 8 and also Christ's "spelled out", "love your neighbour as you love yourself". We are God's precious creations and to think of ourselves as inferior and worth loving, is in fact a sin. Thanks.

yes pass me not oh Lord

God bless !🙏🙏🙏✝️

That line which is so "controversial" .....it is SUCH a human moment. We cannot fathom that the Savior of all would actually stip for us, so we beg for Him to stop despite our own low view of ourselves....how can the Word which was spoken at the beginning of all things dein to speak to us?! It is unfathomable and thus the cry is so very vulnerable and human. Of course ot is "inaccurate" theologically...it is the cry of a broken heart that cannot imagine the God of the universe loving them.

Another song I've heard/sang all my life. The story of the song I've known differs from yours, but it does not matter. I enjoyed it until I heard the questions regarding the theology. That said the sentiments are such I'm sure we have all felt. Still a beautiful hymn.

Thanks!

I learned the song in Afrikaans as "Gaan my nie verby o Heiland"

Your comments is an inspiration to come close to God

It is a kind of SWING RYTHUM not strait four four IT GOES Pass------- Me Not O Gentle Sav---ior--hear my umbel cry ---etc.

Fanny Crosby is my absolutely favorite hymn writer. I greatly disagree with the critique that her songs are not quality.

I'm tired to be humble it's not real... you people are living in a bubble... when you get old its wishful thinking. Life told me another story

Thanks