Lauren shares from Matthew 9. The song “Come Thou Fount” was written by Robert Robinson. He lived a rough childhood, losing his dad at a very young age and needing to begin to work very early on to support him and his widowed mom. His maternal grandfather cut him out of the will and only left a small amount to him because he disapproved of his daughter's choice in a partner. Robert got in with the wrong crowd. One day Robert heard minister George Whitefield preaching and it changed his outlook on life. Robert began to study and eventually became a preacher. In his early 20s he penned the song “Come Thou Fount” to remember God's grace and mercy. Unfortunately Robert fell away from the faith and no longer preached the word as he once did. Robert was in a stagecoach one day later on in life with one other person. This other person was a woman who was singing come thou fount. She asked him his opinion on the song and he said, “Madam, I am the unhappy man who wrote that hymn many years ago; and, I would give a thousand worlds, if I had them, if I could feel now as I felt then." And she responded with, “the streams of mercy are still flowing.”

The streams of mercy are still flowing, they never stop flowing. We see this in Matthew 9:9-13, which is the passage of scripture where Jesus calls Matthew to follow him.

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