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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Nairobi, Kenya
This song is ageless. It was translated in Swahili
Kampala, Uganda
I love to sing this song coz Jesus is my Saviour
I love to sing this hymn every week!
Accra, Ghana
I really love this song
Col. Hgts., VA., United States
"Lost in His Love!" Jesus said,
John 13:34-35 (NIV)
34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. ”
This is a command! He wasn't asking.
Now ask yourself, how does Jesus love us?
Jesus loves us unconditionally, sacrificially, openly, vulnerably, and when it isn’t convenient. He meets us right where we are and loves us just as we are.
To be lost in His love, for me, means, to be totally absorbed in loving each other the same way He loves us!
He's calling us to love one another. Jesus loves His disciples, (us), in such a radical, self-sacrificial manner that He is now calling us to emulate His glorious love in all of our relationships with one another.
Imagine what a wonderful world this would be, IF...?
Florissant, MO, United States
Thank you 2024
Maria M Thornbrough of
Seminole, FL, United States
Now that explains it. As a deaf person, I might possibly translate “Lost in His love” into ASL (American Sign Language). The translation may be like what you explained. Something like “Focus eyes (on) Jesus’s love”. The “on” will not be used when signing because the whole sentence of “Focus eyes Jesus’s love” IS the full ASL translation for “Lost in His love”. Hope I’m clear on my explanation. Again, thank you for explaining.
Seminole, FL, United States
To answer Gerrado Conas.."lost in his love" means surrounded so much by his love that there is nothing else that can distract you... a kind of "keep your eyes upon Jesus " moment, when all else fades away. 💞
Florissant, MO, United States
Love this song 🎵‼️❣️ But can someone explain “Filled with His goodness, lost in His love. ” What’s the meaning of “lost in His love”?
Accra, East Legon, Ghana
This is the best hymns ever I use to wait, submit and count on the Lord.
Storrs, Connecticut, United States
Frances Jane Crosby was born March 24, 1820, Brewster, Putnam County, New York and died February 12, 1915, Bridgeport, Connecticut. She was buried in Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Connecticut. On her tombstone are the words, “Aunt Fanny“ and “Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine. Oh what a foretaste of glory divine. ” “Blessed Assurance, ” one of her best known songs, appeared in at least 937 hymnals.
One of the the most prolific hymnodists in history, Fanny was the wife of organist Alexander Van Alstyne. He was known as one of the finest organists in New York. Like Fanny, he too was blind and taught at the New York Institute for the blind.
Though blinded by an incompetent doctor at six weeks of age, she wrote over 8000 hymns. About her blindness, Fanny said:
“It seemed intended by the blessed providence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank Him for the dispensation. If perfect earthly sight were offered me tomorrow I would not accept it. I might not have sung hymns to the praise of God if I had been distracted by the beautiful and interesting things about me. ”
In her lifetime, Fanny Crosby was one of the best known women in the United States. To this day the vast majority of American hymnals contain her work. On her 85th birthday. American president Grover Cleveland wrote to Fanny:
“My dear friend:
It is more than fifty years ago that our acquaintance and friendship and began; and ever since that time I have watched your continuous and interested labor in uplifting humanity, and pointing out the way to an appreciation of God’s goodness and mercy.
Though your labors have, I know, brought you abundant rewards in your consciousness of good accomplished, those who have known of your works and sympathize with your noble purposes owe it to themselves that you are apprized of their remembrance of these things. I am, therefore, exceedingly gratified to learn that your eighty-fifth birthday is to be celebrated with the demonstration of this remembrance. As one proud to call you an old friend, I desire to be early and congratulating you on your long life of usefulness, and wishing you in the years yet to be added to you, the peace and comfort born of the love of God.
Yours very sincerely,
Grover Cleveland”
Some of her publications include:
• The Bind Girl and Other
Poems, 1844
• Monterey and Other Poems, 1851
• A Wreath of Colombia’s Flowers 1858
• Bells at Evening and Other Verses, 1897