Blessed Assurance
Backgrounder: Fanny Crosby
wrote three hymns each week
during much of her adult life,
totalling more than 8,000 hymns.
The fact that she was blind
didn’t diminish her productivity.
Phoebe Knapp composed a tune
in 1873 and brought it to Crosby
in Brooklyn. Play it for me on the
organ, Crosby asked. Knapp did
and then asked, What does
the tune say? She turned to see
Crosby kneeling in prayer. Knapp
played a 2nd time & then a third.
Then the blind woman responded
That says: Blessed assurance,
Jesus is mine! O what a
foretaste of glory divine!
Lord, we’ll hold on to assurance:
We can boldly enter heaven’s
Most Holy Place because of the
blood of Jesus..Without wavering
let us hold tightly to the hope
we say we have, for God can
be trusted to keep his promise.
Think of ways to encourage one
another to outbursts of love and
good deeds… especially now that
the day of his coming back again
is drawing near (Heb 10:19-25).
Lord, empower me to hold tightly
to the blessed assurance so that
I can encourage those around
who needs inspiration to love
and good deeds. Inspire me
to encourage other believers
to stay close to you & worship U.
Use me to give others assurance
and hope in You. Give me ideas
that will spur others to love and
good deeds. And I give you all the
glory for the Blessed Assurance.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine
O 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 Saviour all the day long
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Saviour all the day long.
Perfect submission, all is at rest,
I in my Saviour am happy and blest
Watching and waiting, looking above
Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.
Backgrounder: Fanny Crosby
wrote three hymns each week
during much of her adult life,
totalling more than 8,000 hymns.
The fact that she was blind
didn’t diminish her productivity.
Phoebe Knapp composed a tune
in 1873 and brought it to Crosby
in Brooklyn. Play it for me on the
organ, Crosby asked. Knapp did
and then asked, What does
the tune say? She turned to see
Crosby kneeling in prayer. Knapp
played a 2nd time & then a third.
Then the blind woman responded
That says: Blessed assurance,
Jesus is mine! O what a
foretaste of glory divine!
Lord, we’ll hold on to assurance:
We can boldly enter heaven’s
Most Holy Place because of the
blood of Jesus..Without wavering
let us hold tightly to the hope
we say we have, for God can
be trusted to keep his promise.
Think of ways to encourage one
another to outbursts of love and
good deeds… especially now that
the day of his coming back again
is drawing near (Heb 10:19-25).
Lord, empower me to hold tightly
to the blessed assurance so that
I can encourage those around
who needs inspiration to love
and good deeds. Inspire me
to encourage other believers
to stay close to you & worship U.
Use me to give others assurance
and hope in You. Give me ideas
that will spur others to love and
good deeds. And I give you all the
glory for the Blessed Assurance.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine
O 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 Saviour all the day long
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Saviour all the day long.
Perfect submission, all is at rest,
I in my Saviour am happy and blest
Watching and waiting, looking above
Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.