GHS 152 : Joys Are Flowing Like A River Lyrics
GHS 152, “Joys Are Flowing Like A River,” is a hymn celebrating the inner transformation that comes when the Holy Spirit takes up residence in a believing heart. The Comforter has come, and His presence changes everything: unbelief is banished, sadness is replaced with gladness, weariness becomes rest, and where storms once raged within the soul there is now a blessed, holy quietness. The hymn draws its imagery from both water and weather: the river of joy, the rain from heaven, the sunlight from the sky, all used as pictures of the Spirit’s work.
This hymn appears as number 152 in the Gospel Hymns and Songs (GHS) collection, used in Deeper Life Bible Church and related assemblies across West Africa, where the indwelling and infilling of the Holy Spirit are central doctrinal and experiential emphases.
Hymn Lyrics – GHS 152: Joys Are Flowing Like A River
- Joys are flowing like a river, Since the Comforter has come; He abides with us for ever, Makes the trusting heart His home.
Blessed quietness, holy quietness, What assurance in my soul! On the stormy sea, He speaks peace to me, How the billows cease to roll.
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Bringing life, and health, and gladness, All around this heav’nly Guest; Banished unbelief and sadness, Changed our weariness to rest.
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Like the rain that falls from heaven, Like the sunlight from the sky, So the Holy Ghost is given, Coming on us from on high.
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What a wonderful salvation, Where we always see His face; What a perfect habitation, What a quiet resting-place.
