Thanks Jabcat... this song has ultra special meaning for me - I heard it for the first time sung at a Full Gospel Businessmen's Prayer Breakfast in the Fall of 1979.
On May 16, 1979, God delivered me of alcoholism... (7 evil spirits)
One week later after my first AA meeting, an elderly gentleman approached me and told me "I'm glad that I was an alcoholic. I know my sin and went to God and am forgiven. My family and friends know only my sin; they don't know their own sin so they don't have a need to go to God and they don't know the joy of being a forgiven sinner.
Several weeks later, I attended the Full Gospel Businessmen's Prayer Breakfast... the theme "To know Him and the power of His resurrection" Phil 3:10. The opening song was He's Alive! Oh, the joy of being a forgiven sinner.
Psalm 40:2-5
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
And He hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.
Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, ...
Many, O Lord my God are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to usward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
Ps 103:1-5
Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless His holy name.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies.
Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's
