Grace Begins

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You want to be a holy warrior, fighting for what's right
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Using all your determination, and all your will and might
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Well, you will never be victorious until you give up the fight
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Because it's where our strength ends that grace begins

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    It's where our strength ends that grace begins
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    And it's when we are most weak we enter in
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    If we trust in our own power, by our strength we'll be betrayed
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    But the battle's won the hour that we call on God for aid
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    In our frailty and our need we will find He's strong indeed
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    Because it's where our strength ends that grace begins

You want to live a pure and holy life, obeying all the laws you've learned
And you think that God will love you more because of all the sin you've spurned
Well, you do not know the love of God if you think it can be earned
Because it's where our goodness ends that grace begins

    It's where our goodness ends that grace begins
    He is faithful to the faithless ones who sin
    We perish in our health while the sick ones find true rest
    And we offer Him our wealth but it's the bankrupt who are blest
    Because all that He demands is that we come with empty hands,
    And it's where our goodness ends that grace begins.

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        Grace begins, grace begins
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        When our hopes and plans all fail us
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        And our fears and doubts assail us
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        And we don't know where to run
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        Grace begins, grace begins
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        When we're lost, confused, dejected
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        And the God we had rejected
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        Shows He's still our Faithful One

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