Blessed Assurance

03/04/2021

Blessed Assurance

“Que Segurança”

Letra: Fanny Jane Crosby, 1873. My friend, Mrs. Joseph F. Knapp, composed a melody and played it over to me two or three times on the piano. She then asked what it said. I replied, Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! This hymn was sung in the Academy Award winning movies Places in the Heart (1984) & Trip to Bountiful (1985). Based on the number of hymnals in which it appears (over 850), this song is Fanny’s most popular work.

Música: “Assurance”Phoebe Palmer Knapp, 1873; tradução do inglês para o português por Daniel Borges, 2009. [ Arquivo Midi — Arquivo NoteWorthy Composer — Arquivo PDF ].

Though blinded by an incompetent doctor at six weeks of age, she wrote over 8,000 hymns. About her blindness, she 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. When she died, her tombstone carried the words, “Aunt Fanny” and “Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine.

Signature of Fanny Jane Crosby 1820–1915

Danny’s Home Page
Frances Jane (Fanny) Crosby (1820-1915)

Frances Jane (Fanny) Crosby (1820-1915)

Phoebe Palmer Knapp (1839–1908)

Phoebe Palmer Knapp (1839–1908)

Blessed Assurance

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.

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.

Perfect submission, perfect delight,
Visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
Angels descending bring from above
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

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.

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
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.

[ See Potuguese in Cyberhymnal,
and in Danny’s Home Page: by Daniel Borges, by George Benjamim Nind
and see also English in Cyberhymnal]

Anseio Trabalhar Por Meu Senhor Confia no Senhor

Não se afastem de ti a benignidade e a fidelidade; ata-as ao teu pescoço, escreve-as na tábua do teu coração; assim acharás favor e bom entendimento à vista de Deus e dos homens. Confia no Senhor de todo o teu coração, e não te estribes no teu próprio entendimento. Reconhece-o em todos os teus caminhos, e ele endireitará as tuas veredas. Não sejas sábio a teus próprios olhos; teme ao Senhor e aparta-te do mal.

Provérbios 3:3-7