Until Your Son called out to me I was lost
  For years my cradle swung above the grave
  It is a wondrous thing to be adopted by a king
  To know a love that crowns and crucifies
  When Your Spirit moves I breath a prayer to You
  A cry not from my mouth but from the heart
  Because the Spirit came, I can use Your holy name
  The tender name a son could only use
  
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  Abba Father,
  Since that word became Your covenant name
  Abba Father I cry out to You
  Knowing You will hear my plea
  For You've adopted me
  
  Your Spirit of adoption came and filled my heart
  To smile upon the earth behind my eyes
  Urging me to give, teaching me to live
  To show the family likeness of Your love
  So Jesus has become for me a brother Lord
  The special son that died to set us free
  His cross for me has won the right to be Your son
  A blessed son You'd never cast aside
  
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