Chords for Jared's Testimony

[Bb] Before we sing this song been trying to sing it [Gm] all week and it hadn't worked out
Heard it this year for the first time and [Ebm] I never forget growing up as a [Fm] preacher's kid
[Bb] The most backslid I ever was allowed to get was about the third row
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Me being out of church.
I was [Eb] still at church
There wasn't no [F] just staying [Bb] home that day
[F] And I'd always hear these preachers and these [Bb] people that come by and they testify God got me out of this and [F] God got me
Out of that.
I [Gm] remember thinking boy.
I need me one of them kind of [Eb] testimonies
If I'm ever gonna have something good to [Bb] say I need I need [Fm] God to bring [Bb] me from somewhere
I had a preacher one time sent me down.
He said son
What you don't [Gm] have is a life full of [Eb] regret
What you don't have is laying in your bed every night [Bb] and thinking of all the things that you wish [Eb] you wouldn't have done
[Bb] _ Wish you wouldn't have went there.
Wish you wouldn't have said [F] that.
Can I tell you [Bb] tonight?
Perfect by no [Eb] means but I sure am faithful that God let me be [Bb] raised up in a good [F] godly Christian home
[Bb] I sure am glad that I was raised up on the front row of the church
I'm glad that I had a praying mama.
I'm glad that I had a [Gm] praying daddy
I'm glad that I had a preaching grandpa, honey
You ain't gotta get [Dm] saved with a beer bottle in your [Eb] hand
You ain't gotta get saved with drugs in your body
But honey, if you've been to Calvary tonight, that's the [Bb] best testimony that a man can have don't ruin your life
Give it to God.
Let God take you early.
Let God use you right now.
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_ _ _ _ [Bb] Said I didn't get to play sports
I didn't get to do all that
[C] But I look back now [Bb] brother Paul and I realize if I'd have [F] had those
Opportunities [Bb] if I would have been able to walk down those school halls, I guarantee I wouldn't be standing here today
But I sure [F] I'm glad I had a mom and a daddy that took me [Dm] by the hand
And let me tell [Gm] me I was of a [Dm] church.
Hey, [F] man, when we [Eb] went on vacation, we was going to camp meeting
We was going to [Dm] revival.
[Bb] I'm glad that [Eb] there are some [F] people that cared enough about me to [Bb] give me around God
_ _ _ [Eb] [Bb] Sitting here tonight
Some [F] of y'all [Gm] have those testimonies that you do worry about the past you do have the regret
But can I say to those of [Bb] you that grew up on the church pew somewhere, honey
Don't feel like someone [Gm] else got a better testimony than what you do because [F] God saved them out of sin
[Eb] Honey, if you've got a pure [F] testimony in your life, amen
[Bb] If you're still pure [Eb] if you're [Bb] still clean, you better be proud of it, honey
Hey man, and God loves you just as much as he does [Gm] the drunkard just as much as he does the drug dealer
God loves you _
[Eb] We might not been a lot of places in life, but I've been to [F] Calvary
[Eb] My _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
[F] name may not reach [Ebm] a whole lot of places in [Bb] this world, but it reached the Lamb's Book of Life
I'm glad I know him tonight.
[Gm] I want Michaela to sing it listen
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[F] _ _ I've never [Bb] tasted champagne
_ [Eb] I've [Bb] _ never feared with the [Gm] popular crowd
And [Dm] _ I've been told by [Eb] some around me _
_ This world's fun, and [F] I've missed out _ [Bb] _ [F] I don't spend my [Bb] life chasing a fortune
[Cm] I've [Bb] _ never walked the [Gm] halls of fame. _
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Don't have a fancy
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Education _ _ to put a title by [G] my _ [Fm] name
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_ My lord is such a sweet companion
_ _ He meets with me in my [Gm] times of prayer
_ _ _ And when a storm steers my [Eb] direction
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[Eb] _ Still small voice tells me [F] he's [Cm]
there
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Have joy when they [Bb] say I shouldn't
And _ I have peace when it doesn't [Gm] make sense
I _ can rest content when I [Eb] have nothing
_ _ And _ persevere when I've lost [Bb] all [F] strength
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Met _ _ [E] this life for _ me
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This world
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