Whatever It Takes To Draw Closer To You Lord

jocerut · Post by **jocerut** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 8:22 pm

I have sung this song for years, but recently I heard a verse that I haven't heard before. Does anyone know the whole song?

savedbygrace · Post by **savedbygrace** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 11:38 pm

Hi, Might this be the song you want? Rita
There's a voice calling me, from an old rugged tree
And He whispers draw closer to me
Leave this world far behind,
There are new heights to climb
And a new place in Me you will find

And whatever it takes, to draw closer to You Lord
That's what I'd be wiling to do
And whatever it takes, to be more like you
That's what I'd be willing to do
(Repeat)
That's what I'd be willing to do

Questions seem to haunt us night and day
Like how could God allow my heart to be torn this way
Does He listen when I call?
Oh, is He even there at all?

Yet I know when my eyes fail to see
He is able
And even though it seems impossible to me
He is able
But if He chooses not to move
In the way we prayed he would
We're confident He's working
all together for our good
I will stand behind His Word
For He is able
He is able

And as the night gives way
to dawning and evaporates away
I stand to face another day
And I will stand behind His Word
He is able, I know
He is able
He's able

jocerut · Post by **jocerut** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 4:14 pm

Wow! Thanks! I never knew it had that many verses! Do all the verses have the same tune? Who wrote it?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 2:08 am

jocerut, Sorry but I must have copied the lyrics to two songs.I heard this song today for the first time and it is beautiful.
Here are the correct lyrics.

Words by Lanny and Marietta Wolfe

WHATEVER IT TAKES
There's a voice calling me from an old rugged tree

And it whispers, "Draw closer to me;

Leave this world far behind, there are new heights to climb

And a new place in Me you will find."

For whatever it takes to draw closer to You, Lord

That's what I'll be willing to do

For whatever it takes to be more like You

That's what I'll be willing to do.

Take the dearest things to me if that's how it must be

To draw me closer to Thee;

Let the disappointments come, lonely days without the sun

If through sorrow more like You I'll become.

Take my houses and lands, all my dreams and my plans

For I'm placing my whole life in Your hands

And if you call me today to a land far away

Lord, I'll go, and Your will obey.

I'll trade sunshine for rain, comfort for pain

That's what I'll be willing to do;

For whatever it takes for my will to break

That's what I'll be willing to do.

jocerut · Post by **jocerut** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 4:24 pm

Thanks very much!