"Blessed Assurance, Jesus Is Mine!" - Ed Moore and Michael Warren
Channel: East Liberty Presbyterian Church
Date: 2020-04-04

Edward Alan Moore - ELPC Organist/Music Director
Michael Warren - ELPC Journey Praise Team Director

Fanny Crosby (1820-1915) wrote more than 8,000 hymns and gospel songs. Her blindness had a profound impact on her life, faith, and work. In 1837 composer Phoebe Knapp (1839-1908) played a new melody for Crosby and asked her what she thought the tune said. Crosby replied “Blessed assurance; Jesus is mine.” The text and tune have been inseparable since.

1 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.

Refrain:
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.

2 Perfect submission, perfect delight,
visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
angels descending, bring from above
echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
[Refrain]

3 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.
[Refrain]