Blessed assurance

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Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine;
Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.
 
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long.
This is my story, this is my song,
  Praising my Savior all the day long.
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Perfect submission, perfect delight,
Visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
Angels descending, bring from above
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
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Perfect submission, all is at rest,
I in my Savior am happy and blest;
Watching and waiting, looking above,
Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.
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Dec 30 2012
Franklyn

Ternopil, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine

Am assured by the assurances of this hymn that Jesus is mine. May His name continue to be praised as we worship Him with this hymnal, Amen.

Nov 29 2012
Novlette

Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

What a peaceful song.My grandmother always love to sing this song. RIP grandma Iris, I miss you so much. Things is not the same since you pass, everyone is drifting apart. I continue to lift my head high, and make sure that the Lord is in the center of everything I do. With Christ all things a possible.

Nov 10 2012
Marlene C. Block

Beresford, S.D., United States

What a wonderful song, my husband has now passed. It was one of the songs he repeatedly sang. The words were not always correct, but oh how he sang that song. I am assured Bob is singing for Jesus now. As believers, Blessed Assurance and a new resurrection is ours.

Oct 2 2012
Amber Walters

Durham, NC, United States

I was just talking about Fanny Crosby the other day. When life handed her a bad deal (becoming blind at the hands of a quack doctor)...she did not become bitter but, instead, gave praise to God for her lot in life. Yes, she did do what she could with what she had and oh, how it has blessed us! I thank God for her, for her life and for her gifts that she shared. May we all learn a lesson in this: even in the "dark times" God has a purpose and we can have hope in Him. We can trust Him.

Sep 30 2012
Victoria Itebe

Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States

It always reminds me of the assurance we have in the perfect work of our Christ. It is a song of thanksgiving that always fills me with joy and the love of our God anytime l sing it . Never got tired of singing it over and over again.

Sep 15 2012
Kofi Appiah

London, Dagenham, Essex, United Kingdom

Jane Cosby–a blind lady all her life–wrote this wonderful lyrics. What are we sighted doing? She left us an everlasting hymns that I play sometimes all day. We must bless her in Jesus name.

Sep 2 2012
David J Beadle

Franklin, Indiana, United States

My wife listened to this song 24 hours a day during the last week of her life. She passed away Feb 26 2012.

Aug 18 2012
Toto Faner

Manila, Romblon, Philippines

This hymn always reminds me about the how God loves us, way back in 1982 when I received Jesus Christ as my personal Savior and God I was changed; my whole life was changed and became new. This wonderful song keeps me in God's service. That's why I'm longing for the hymnal songs thats touch my soul; songs that brings me to the fullest service in God, Hallelujah.

Aug 16 2012
Sekar Anand

United Kingdom

It is a wonderful site to enjoy the promises of All is Well and all the manner of things shall be well from the music and song. God bless those who are running this website.

Jul 25 2012
Jill

Rogers, AR, United States

I went to bed with this song trying to play in my head. Glad to find it here to remind me of the words. SO beautiful.

I can remember hearing it every Sunday at church and that is a great memory of my childhood. Lets bring back these hymns!

The well-known chorus of a gospel song says, "This is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long." If we speak the fact that we are in the spirit, our story and song will be that we are in spirit. All day long we may praise the Savior that, because the Spirit of God dwells in us, we are now in the spirit. This will be a very effective inoculation against all the "bugs" sent by the enemy to trouble us in the Christian life.

Formerly we were busy planning. Now we are serenely trusting. Formerly there were constant sorrow and frustration. Now we are like a weaned child, who rests in his mother's bosom. Formerly we were filled with our own thoughts and had many cravings and ambitions. Now we consider God's will as the best and rest in Him. Indeed, "Perfect submission, perfect delight," and "Perfect submission, all is at rest" [Hymns, #308]. Ephesians 6:6 says more or less the same thing: "As slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul." No longer do we do God's will by the soul, which is self-assurance. Now we are doing God's will from the soul, which means carrying out His will practically and wholeheartedly. The soul-life which once rebelled against God's will is now brought into full submission to His will through the work of the cross and is willing to do His will wholeheartedly. Formerly everything was outward; we either walked according to our self-will, or we tried to do God's will according to our self-will. But now, in everything, we have become one mind with God.

We also need to live a rejoicing life, a happy life. We all have to be "hallelujah people," who rejoice in the Lord always (Phil. 4:4). Sometimes the most restful thing is to sing a hymn. Singing a hymn fills us with joy and helps us to enjoy Christ as our rest. The chorus of Hymns, #308 says: "This is my story, this is my song,/Praising my Savior all the day long." A rejoicing life is a life of enjoying God in Christ as everything; this enjoyment makes us happy and causes us to exult all the day. The Christian life should be a rejoicing life.

Now we need to consider the way to have a group meeting. Ephesians 5:18 tells us to be filled in spirit. We believers who love the Lord Jesus, who are seeking His purpose, and who are burdened for His recovery should be persons filled in our spirit all day long. We should be filled with the Triune God, who is today the all-inclusive Spirit to us. When we are filled within, surely we will utter something out from our spirit. Ephesians 5 tells us to be filled, speaking and singing. Our speaking and singing are not in common language. We may speak or sing a psalm, which is a long piece of poetry. It may be like Psalm 119, which has one hundred seventy-six verses. There are twenty-two sections with eight verses in each section. Twenty-two is the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet. Each section of Psalm 119 is according to a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. We may speak or sing a hymn, which is somewhat shorter than a psalm, or we may speak or sing a spiritual song, which is shorter still.We need to speak and sing these psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs long before coming to the meeting. Even in our home, it is very good to be speaking and singing. The husband may say, "This is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior...." Then the wife may respond with, "All the day long" (see Hymns, #308). Or she may say, "I have passed the riven veil. Here the glories never fail." Then the husband responds with, "Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I am living in the presence of the King" (see Hymns, #551). If we are filled in spirit, we will have something to utter. The small group meeting may begin at 7:30 p.m., but if a couple begins to sing at dinnertime, around 6:00 p.m., the small group meeting will have already begun. Such a meeting can continue as they drive together to the meeting with the other saints.

As we read the Word of God, we should not only pray, but also sing to the Lord. This is to read the Word by psalming. (In ancient times the Psalms were sung and not merely read or spoken.) Praying requires more exercise of the spirit than speaking, and singing requires even more exercise than praying. By singing we can truly get into our spirit. We need more singing both in the meetings and in our daily life.The chorus of the well-known hymn 'Blessed Assurance' says:This is my story, this is my song,Praising my Savior all the day long.This is my story, this is my song,Praising my Savior all the day long.Many Christians have sung this hymn, but not many praise their Savior all the day long. What do you think would happen if we praised the Lord all day long? No doubt, we would be utterly immersed in the Lord.

We all need to say happily, triumphantly, and rejoicingly—"Jesus is mine!" We all know the familiar hymn that says, "Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine; Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!" The chorus of this hymn says, "This is my story, this is my song, Praising my Savior all the day long" (Hymns, #308). We are not praising the Lord all the day long for a good house, for an expensive car, or for a heavenly mansion with golden streets and pearly gates. We are praising the Lord all the day long for the fact that Jesus is ours. We are those who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, who is both theirs and ours. To fully understand 1 Corinthians 1:2, you need John 1:1, 14, and 17, John 3:16 and 34, and John 15:26. Also, 1 Corinthians 1:9 tells us that we have been called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. The Greek word for fellowship means joint participation, common participation. God has called us into the participation in His Son. We could even say that God has called us into the enjoyment of His Son.

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Assurance and Joy of Salvation
Born of the Spirit
Fanny Jane Crosby (1820-1915)
Phoebe Palmer Knapp (1839-1908)
Db Major
9/8
9.10.9.9. with chorus.
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