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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Mar 28 2017
Jacky

Enfield North London, United Kingdom

Love it.

Mar 28 2017
Laura de Maldonado

Colombia

Hermoso

Mar 19 2017
Niniola Damola

Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria

THE song is everything .....hope in Christ is assurance to live in Him till eternity.

Mar 12 2017
Mary Christensen

North Myrtle Beach, SC, United States

This is one of my Favorite Hymns it tells that I & all who accept Jesus as Our Lord and Savior have Blessed Assurance that we will be with Jesus forever when we die & while we're still living here on earth. He is Ours, Praise God!!! I want this hymn sung at my & my husband's Funerals. What better song to show everyone present that we Believe and are at Peace with Our Lord Jesus! AMEN

Mar 12 2017
Margaret Stutts

Meridian, MS, United States

I was reading a book this morning and this hymn popped into my mind. My father sang this hymn to me as he rocked me to sleep as a baby. One of my first memories is of him doing so. I have always felt a strong connection to the hymn and it touches my heart deeply. My father died in 1995. To this day I remember a church full of friends, family and acquaintances singing Blessed Assurance at his funeral. I cried the whole way through it, while I sang with my whole soul and holding my Mother's hand. My Father's blessed assurance had reached fruition and he was was now in his Savior happy and blest, watching and waiting, filled with his goodness, lost in his love. I will always love and miss my father, but I have blessed assurance that he is in heaven, joined now by my mother and sister, watching and waiting for me to join him in Our Father's home.

Mar 11 2017
Joel Essiaw

Accra, Achimota, Ghana

God is Good.

Mar 6 2017
Pastor Enoch Harmon

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

On the 4th of March two thousand seventeen, Sunday night as I sat down and began to think of the goodness of God Almighty in my life through Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior, then I remember this hymn Blessed Assurance and I googled it on my phone, and begin to sing it with all my heart. Truly Jesus Christ of Nazareth is my personal Savior and Redeemed. Glory be to God Almighty Amen it's Pastor Enoch Harmon

Feb 24 2017
Revelin Rozario

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

How wonderful it is to have this blessed assurance that we are the children of God & that He reigns in us.

Feb 16 2017
Bethwell Mbugua

Nairobi, Kenya

This song truly uplifts my soul, I don't take it for granted all the mighty He has done. All to me are praises of honour.

Feb 7 2017
Veronica

Whitby, Ontario, Canada

I like this song. I sing it to myself all the time often for comfort and to remind myself that there is nothing better in the world than walking hand in hand with God. He is the best friend or boss anyone can ever have. It's a pleasure to serve Him.

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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