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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Sep 9 2021
Wes Garratt

Auckland, New Zealand

When I sing. “Praising my saviour all the day long “ I question is this my current situation and must confess that it is not BUT this surely is our destiny to be with our beloved Lord praising Him for who He is and what He has accomplished for us

So let’s sing this chorus in faith!

Sep 8 2021
Shengkai Sun

Auckland, New Zealand

Always rejoice, Unceasingly pray, In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Praise the Lord, Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and psalming with your heart to the Lord, he is mine!

Sep 7 2021
Christi Lo

Auckland, New Zealand

He who believes into Him has eternal life. Oh, what a blessed assurance. Thank and praise You, Lord Jesus.

Sep 6 2021
Jenny

Auckland, New Zealand

"Perfect submission, perfect delight, Perfect submission, all is at rest" Praise the Lord that He is the Perfect One and submissive One in us! In Him we can submit and find delight and true rest! Hallelujah!

Sep 6 2021
Ivy

Auckland, New Zealand

Whenever I sing this hymn, it stirs up within me to have a deeper experience of the Lord to match what the chorus says "this is my story, this is my song". We can't live with second hand experience. We need to have subjective experiences of the Lord!

Sep 5 2021
Lilo Xu

Auckland, New Zealand

we have the Lord Jesus, who learned obedience though the things He suffered, living in our spirit. He gave us His life of obedience and submission. when we are filled with Christ, we are filled with His life of obedience and submission. when we are willing to submit to this One, we receive the supply proceeding out from the throne. The issue is that we will enjoy perfect delight and rest. When we are willing to stop our own struggle and just abide in our Savior, we are happy and blest.

Sep 5 2021
R. Cheng

New Zealand

"Jesus is mine" - oh how I love this utterance! To those who believe into His name, He is ours! What an assurance! This is our story!

Sep 4 2021
Gloria Jackson

Sandy, OR, United States

This was my lullaby from my mom when I was little. I remember her singing it to me. I lost her 5 years ago on September 2nd.

Sep 4 2021
Farida

Kaduna, Nigeria

Singing this song just gives me full hope and joy.

Aug 27 2021
M. Summers

Chicago, IL, United States

It is not by chance or accident that this hymn "came to mind" for many of us. It was the same for me this morning during my devotionals.

Scripture is full of reminders that God's Presence is with those who believe and place their faith in His Son Jesus. His Presence in our lives assures us of His great redeeming love for us, whether we are celebrating life, reminiscing the past, enduring suffering, battling lonliness, or experiencing any other emotion or circumstance. We have assurance of His saving Presence now and in the future. What joy it brings when we focus our heats on the grace-filled assurance that we have in Him!

"May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word." (2 Thessalonians 2:16_17)

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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