"I Am Praying For You"

Samuel O. Cluff (1837-1910) (spelling variation: Clough) wrote the hymn “I Am Praying For You” in 1860. A Trinity College graduate from Dublin, Ireland, Cluff became an Anglican minister in the Church of Ireland. He wrote about 1,000 songs, including the hymn “I Am Praying For You.”

Ira D. Sankey (1840 – 1908) wrote the melody for the hymn “I Am Praying For You.” Sankey served in the American Civil War as a chaplain. Sankey and Dwight L. Moody were at an evangelical meeting in Chicago at the outbreak of the Great Chicago Fire and both barely escaped with their lives.

“I Am Praying For You”

I have a Savior, He’s pleading in glory,
A dear, loving Savior though earth friends be few;
And now He is watching in tenderness o’er me;
And oh, that my Savior were your Savior, too.

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For you I am praying,
For you I am praying,
For you I am praying,
I’m praying for you.

I have a Father; to me He has given
A hope for eternity, blessèd and true;
And soon He will call me to meet Him in Heaven,
But, oh, that He’d let me bring you with me, too!

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I have a robe; ’tis resplendent in whiteness,
Awaiting in glory my wondering view;
Oh, when I receive it all shining in brightness,
Dear friend, could I see you receiving one, too!

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When Jesus has found you, tell others the story,
That my loving Savior is your Savior, too;
Then pray that your Savior may bring them to glory,
And prayer will be answered—’twas answered for you!

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Speak of that Savior, that Father in Heaven,
That harp, crown, and robe which are waiting for you—
That peace you possess, and that rest to be given,
Still praying that Jesus may save them with you.

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The hymn “I Am Praying For You” was one of the first melodies that Sankey wrote. He found the words in a pamphlet when he visited Ireland for the first time.

“I Am Praying For You”

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