Blessed Assurance
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Organ and orchestra: an introduction, then each of the 3 verses. Tap a verse’s number to start there.
- Blessèd 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.RefrainThis 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.
- Perfect submission, perfect delight,Visions of rapture now burst on my sight;Angels descending bring from aboveEchoes of mercy, whispers of love.RefrainThis 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.
- 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.RefrainThis 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.
About this hymn
- Words
- Fanny J. Crosby, 1873. As printed in Revival Praises (1907), no. 40.
- Tune
- ASSURANCE, Phoebe P. Knapp, 1873.
- Harmony
- Phoebe P. Knapp, as printed in The Lesser Hymnal, 1875. Score from the Open Hymnal Project.
- Recordings
- Arranged and recorded by Fish the Right, from the harmony above: the melody note for note and every chord the hymnal’s own. Played on the Salamander Grand Piano V3 by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0), with organ, strings, brass and timpani from VSCO 2 Community Edition by Versilian Studios (the organ sampled by Simon Dalzell); drums from Virtuosity Drums and bass from Black And Blue Basses by Versilian Studios and Karoryfer Samples; pads from GeneralUser GS by S. Christian Collins; made with abcMIDI, sfizz, FluidSynth and FFmpeg.
- Rights
- Words 1873, tune 1873, setting 1875: all published before 1931, so public domain in the United States. Checked: words (hymnary.org), tune (hymnary.org), harmony (openhymnal.org).