Text: 1 John 4:7-19, Hebrews 10:19-23, 1 Peter 1:3-9
“No one takes care of you except you.”
It’s a lie I hear, over and over again. One I have to battle to make disappear. In a world where being a 30-something single woman is more common than it has ever been before (and, in some ways, probably easier than it was a few decades ago), it can still have its aches and pains, just like any other season of life.
I have dear family and friends who help in any time of need, but when it all comes down to it, I feel like I’m the only one who has my back. It can feel like I have no real assurance of someone else watching out for me, like no one is there to rescue me when I am drowning in a sea of work or finances or laundry or car problems.
This is my story.
For some reason, God has purposed and planned that my best life is right here, right now, even with the hurt and loneliness and worry that come right along with all the incredibly good things. This is what’s true, and the truth wins each and every time—if only I look to it.
Jesus is mine.
I’ve known it since I learned this song as a tiny kid. It is my assurance, that Jesus is mine. When I feel forgotten and think no one sees me, He sees. When I think no one will step in, He always steps in, to provide and protect. When I need to be rescued, He proves, again and again, that rescuing is His specialty in my life (Colossians 1:13).
An assurance, by definition, is a promise that is meant to give us confidence. The writer of this hymn, Fanny Crosby, felt it deep in her soul, enough that as soon as the organ notes were played, the lyrics poured out.
Did you know Fanny Crosby became blind when she was an infant? For nearly the entirety of her life, she lacked what so many of us have: sight. I recognize my own story in hers—in not having what others have.
It’s different, I know. But it’s the same, too, isn’t it? Can’t we all list something others have that we don’t? Something that can’t be earned or bought but is a gift that we just plain haven’t received? I think there’s something really beautiful about loving Jesus right there, right in the middle of that tension, where we recognize the gifts we haven’t been given by our good and perfect Father.
Clearly, I don’t know Fanny Crosby personally, as she died 100 years ago. But I almost feel a little wink from her in the second stanza.
“Visions of rapture now burst on my sight . . .”
It’s like she’s saying, “whatever it is you think I don’t have, I have in Him.”
Without Jesus, without THE blessed assurance, she couldn’t see a thing. But with Him, there were visions of rapture.
Without Jesus, I am the only one who takes care of me. With Jesus, I am never alone. I am loved deeply by God, and therefore, I can love and be loved by others (Deuteronomy 31:6, 1 John 4:7-19).
Whatever it is I think I don’t have, I have in Him.
Whatever it is you think you don’t have, you can have in Him.
Blessed assurance, y’all, Jesus is mine. That’s a promise that brings me great confidence. I pray it brings the same for you.
Preach on, Fanny. We’re listening.
“Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm,
for God can be trusted to keep his promise.”
-Hebrews 10:23
Blessed Assurance
Fanny Crosby, 1873
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.
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]
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]
For an added layer of worship during reading plan, we’ve created a Spotify playlist for Hymns V! You can find the complete SRT/HRT Hymns V Playlist here, or listen to the first track on the player below. Enjoy!
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307 thoughts on "Blessed Assurance"
Jesus is mine! Help me to praise your name, always! Please dear God, help me to be still even in the storm. Please help me to know you’ve got me and that you’re always with me. I love you so much and you are so good. Amen!
Amen! Such a powerful song.
One of my all time favorites ♥️
Amazing how content we can be in Christ
The chills I get reading those lyrics
I am glad I chose this plan today
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Thank you for this message today, amen.
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I stumbled on this because…some may think this sounds silly or even sacrilegious but I think of how Jordan Sparks once said as she was playing the piano one day she felt Whitney Houston’s hands over hers playing with her and guiding her I believe during the production of “Sparkle.”
That’s what I think of when I reason how I wound up on this page. It’s like the Holy Spirit was on my hands as I was navigating my keyboard…in search of truth. I love you, Lord.
Thank you for this website and this Word from You through the vessel of “She Reads Truth.” Especially 1 John 4:18 which I gleaned from his website which I never heard before but speaks volumes to me more than I realize.
Thank you.
Thank You.
My heart lit up as I swiped to see the devotion was written by Annie Downs…this is going to be good, I thought to myself. Tears filled my eyes as I read Annie’s words of hope that stem from the promises of God sung through the words of Fanny Crosby and I am thankful. I am thankful for a Father who is always assuring me that He is with me. But also thankful for strong women of God who do all the things so well and with encouragement as their motivator to build God’s people.
I can’t believe how true this was. I have been needing this. Jesus is Mine!
Amen sista
This was insane to read for me. I am a 21 year old single mother and honestly feel like I have no one. To motivate myself, tonight I was going to write on my mirror “the only person who is ever going to take care of you is yourself”. Right when this chapter starts it denies that. I’m not alone and he has my back. This is crazy because I haven’t been on this app in years/months. The first thing I read counters what I was planning on doing. So crazy. Was totally meant to hear this message.
Jesus is mine❤️
we can cling to the fact that jesus is our and we are his. living in him. so divine.
I needed this today. My husband, a minister, is recently unemployed and it feels very uncertain and scary right now. Thankful for this Blessed Assurance.
He assures me DAILY!
Without Jesus I have to handle things on my own but with him he has my back and I’m not alone! It’s an amazing answer for anxiety and loneliness!
loved this so much !!!! i sung this in my middle school choir !!
This is one of those song that goes way back in my childhood! This is a songs that bring me through my troubles and trials.
These songs…..I don’t understand why churches move away from singing them. So much truth and reality in these words! They may seem old-fashioned to some, but for me, they resonate in a way a lot of the newer music just doesn’t. These older hymn writers just had a way of saying things that were straight from the heart.
I really needed this. I’ve been feeling down lately and stressed and after reading this I feel such peace. If you all could pray for me I’d really appreciate it. I am currently student teaching and I am starting my unit I planned out and I’m getting observed tomorrow. If you could just pray for me and that I have the courage and confidence and patience that I do a good job I’d appreciate it :)
This lesson plan is truly what I needed and I accept it with open arms! Amen!
“whatever it is you think I don’t have, I have in Him.” Amen!! Like Yes Lord…
The sun shall no longer be your light by day, and for bright light the moon shall not give you light, but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God your glory. Your sun shall no longer go down, and your moon shall not wane, for Yahweh himself will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning shall come to an end.
Isaiah 60:19-20 (LEB)
I am a single mom for almost seven years now, and I’m not happy about it. I know this feeling, being lost, and all the years I wished my husband or somebody was there making me feel secure. I thought there had to be a man, for this, my deepest need. A man I belong to.
A few weeks ago I discovered SRT and the first sentence I read was: ‘And he tells me I am his own.’
I met Jesus ‘In The Garden’.
It hit me like an arrow. Love.
…and I became still.
I am HIS own and I belong to HIM.
He first loved me. And he is everything I need.
I have always had a problem with trying to find devotions or passages of scripture that perfectly speak to what I think I need in a particular moment, so even before I begin I am closed off to hearing what God has to tell me through something I don’t expect to hear from. I prayed to God to have an open mind for discernment and to just let me divulge into his word with no questions asked. I’ve had to relinquish control countless times in my life and I realize now that I have been doing this in my reading of Gods word as well. I’ve been sick for a long time now and I forget sometimes that God has placed this on me not as a burden but as a gift to remind me of his strength in me. I love how this response talked about how you can find what you are lacking in the Lord and for me that is my health and strength of the body. I now know that I need to be specific in my prayer time with the Lord and to ask for his perfect health to shine through me. I need to have the faith to believe he can heal me and have the faith that his assurance is mine.
This was the exact thing that I needed at this moment. I had just finished saying that all I have is myself minutes before I opened this. Thank you Lord for your constant wisdom and helping me to see how you are working all around me.
Absolutely needed. Thank you God for being my constant in a world of change. I pray to have the strength to look to you and praise you daily.
This is so accurate for this exact time in my life. I just turned 30 and have been feeling that tension. So glad that I can say, Jesus is mine, everything I think I don’t have, I have in Him.
“praising my saviour all the day long.” This is something we all need to remember to continually do even when life gets hard. God will take care of us for He is bigger than any problem going on in our lives!
This song has always blessed me deeply, and I’m one of those people that just love hymns. I guess you could call me hymn crazy. lol
“filled with his goodness, lost in his love.” I just love it!
“filled with his goodness, lost in his love.” I love it when to retread old territory and find something new. Lost in his love!
It goes on and on about Fanny Crosby. But anyway it shows just how powerful God is
What a mighty Jesus we serve! In the midst of it all we can firmly hold onto our Jesus, he never lets go!
The Lord is so good!
this is such a powerful way to wake up
Agreed! So needed this! Thank you! ❤️
So moving, powerful message…..totally needed this right now…..thank you God.
I love this but my daily read from you to my email came out as different than this? Mine has me reading only Psalm 122 and starts out “The Christian life is a climb”. How can I get this one in my email as well and what is the difference? Sorry for my confusion! Both are good! :)
Hi Shelli! The daily email is for the plan and day that we are currently on. Today is Day 3 of the Songs for the Road: The Psalms of Ascent plan. I hope this helps!
– Stormye
Sitting in a prayer vigil at church and found this app- loving learning about Jesus through HIS word and HIS music!
so blessed to know jesus as my savior and friend❤
thank you Jesus fi blessing me in my life and being my one and only father I can depend on amen
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Needing his assurance today and blessed to find it here!
Yep! Same I really needed to know that god was there and this was the perfect scripture to read!❤️
glory amen
Blessed Assurance – Jesus is mine and I need nothing more
This has been the hardest week of my life and I know Jesus is with me through this walk. I lost my job last Friday and it turn my world upside down. But once again the Lord provided a roof over my head. Jesus has a plan for me and I will walk in it. I will find a job in my field work as RECE teacher and Jesus knows what is on my heart.
Im at in a point of life right now that Im confused what to believe anymore. Days goes on and my faith is shrinking and Im starting to believe that everything is an illusion. Im started to question God’s existense.
Search your heart in the Lord and know his truth .
Why did you first believe?
Go outside at night and look up. Dee the stars and moon, see the majesty of creation.
do you understand wind? I don’t. Does that make it any less real?
Jesus is mine and that’s all I need
I’be never been the type to go to church, but I do always go on a summer retreat because I see it as my “week of making up for never going to church” and I enjoy spending time with my friends there. A few years ago, we sang this song at nighttime praise and worship, and the song really hit me hard. I would forget about it over the course of the year, then be thrilled when we sang it again, never actually knowing what the song was called. So shoutout to She Reads Truth for supplying that tidbit of info for me! Side note- I go to church probably around 1-2 times a month now, so we’re getting there!
Amen. thanks for this it truly hit home and something i needed to be reminded of. I’ve. been feeling very alone and drowning in my chaotic hectic life. thank you lord for not leaving me….and for loving me
I just love ❤️ that hymn
So beautiful!! Thank you for the reminder …. Gods love is so infinite and overwhelming!❤️
perfect devotion at just the right time! claiming this through my struggle I’m going through right now.
Just what I needed after a long and trying day, God loves therefore we love. ❤️
Thank you for reaffirming His perfect will and way…
Amen!!! Blessed Assurance!
I truly needed this today! Having a heart full of hurt and uncertainty in my my marriage and life in general.. Blessed Assurance!
Thank you for the beautiful reminder.
Blessed Assurance Jesus is mine! What a wonderful reminder to start my day! Great devotional
Great devotional
So very much needed this lately. I’ve realized that in my head I make God out to reprimand me every time I mess up, which seems to be a lot lately, but I have to remember that is when God loves me the most. He rejoices when I mess up. He is not mad at me. He loves me first.
You took the words right out of my mouth. Needed to read this today.
i love this.
We put our little girl on the bus for her first day of school this morning. This was a good reminder that god is with her when we can’t be (and also with us)…. And not only that, god put her in her school with her teachers and classmates for a reason! This gives me so much hope and peace. Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
❤️ I’ll be thinking of you, today.
So great!
What inspiration to trust and love God!
I needed this today. It lifted my spirit and reminded me that no matter what I am going through He is always there with me. I am never alone!
This was amazing
What a beautiful reminder that what we do have, a gift so readily available to everyone and anyone, is our Savior. Whatever season we are facing, trials, joy, peace, or struggle – we can all rest in the assurance and claim JESUS IS MINE!
Thank you !!!!!
Just 3 years ago I was in Annie’s position, longing for someone to truly know me and care deeply for me. I felt like it would never happen, I didn’t question God why He hadn’t given me a husband but definitely prayed the same prayer continuously “God please let me get married, let me find a husband who loves you.” As if God didn’t hear me the first time or Forgot about me. God gave me the desires of my heart in His perfect timing and now I have been married 2 years and have a 9 month old baby boy. I have a blessed life with a husband who deeply loves The Lord and leads our family well but now I find myself praying to God that He would bring my husband and I closer. Believe it or not I don’t live in a Nicholas Sparks movie and my husband can be romantically challenged at times…..what?! I have spent time being resentful toward my husband until I will have little glimmers of this message pop into my head, God gave me the desires of my heart but on His terms. No matter how much I think I have a better picture of how my love story should go, God has the ultimate vision and His will has and will be done. The past two years of my marriage I have tried to mold my husband into this person that he will never be instead of just loving him for who he is. I have tried to find all my worth in my marriage and then give God the rest but that’s so backwards. I need to give my whole self to The Lord and let Him truly reign in my life and with his grace he will help me become the type of wife I need to be. When my confidence is truly in God it makes marriage so much easier and enjoyable. Jesus is mine, he is my worth and I can’t find that in any relationship! Thank you Lord!
So good! As a single woman at 30 also praying and continually surrendering this desire to Christ, this is a helpful word to warn us when and if that time comes to never rest our hope in a person other than Jesus alone…that at the start and end of every day, married or single, only Jesus can truly know us, love us, fill us and complete our deepest need.
I think sometimes you need this message. It really helped me!! Praying for you all
The past few years maybe even my whole life I haven’t realized how empty I am. I claim to be a Christian but I have distanced myself so far from God. I occasionally take the time to pray but usually I forget by the time I go to bed. my youth pastor just told us that he is leaving and I’m really sad. He and his wife especially were such a blessing to my life. His wife has shown me kindness and joy and I’m going to really miss her because she really took the time to actually plan devotions out for the girls in the youth. I have realized I haven’t picked up the bible in probably months and it’s makes me mad at myself. I really hope that I can get back on track and be devoted to God and NOT TO JUST TALK BUT TO LISTEN. When I find myself praying I have realized I never listen pay attention for Gods answer I always just kinda forget about it. I have noticed that I am really hateful to my sister and we can almost never really get along and it really upsets my parents. I really need to fix this because I have emptiness inside me and I need God to dwell in me and I haven’t let him.
I’m praying for you!!
I disagree
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/28/theater/cicely-tyson-and-blessed-assurance.html
Friendly, Marissa
Just confirmation because I expressed on today that people may look at me and say that I have no reasons to be happy. But, they don’t know that my joy comes from the Lord. I am content in knowing that he loves me unconditionally every single day of my life. His mercy is new everyday for me. He loved me so much that he sacrificed himself for my sins. Gave his life for mine. That alone is assurance enough for me. That is blessed assurance. Thinking of how he promises things and never breaks those promises, thinking about how he is faithful to me despite myself. Thankful because he made me jus the way that I was meant to be, and whatever I lack I can find in him. I find comfort in knowing all of this, and it just makes my love for God even stronger. When everyone else in the world fails at reassuring me of their love for me, of their loyalty to me, of their permanent presence in my life, HE NEVER DOES! That is the blessed assurance that I find comfort in. God knows my heart, and I’m just so full.
I’ve been thinking a lot about my broken family and why I couldn’t grow up with my parents together but God has given my the best opportunity to see that I have family here to show me what to be and what not to be. He is my family and that will never be broken.
PRAISE GOD FOR SUCH FAITHFUL HYMN WRITERS
Such great words. I really needed this today!
I’m a little late to the party but I started this as a way to help me reconnect to God and rediscover my relationship with Him. When I was growing up I was an incredibly active member of my church and participated wholeheartedly in the music program. Blessed Assurance is one of my favorites and one I can easily sing from memory and the devotional that went with this spoke to me and touched my heart. I needed this reminder that He is always there with me and that I’m never alone. Jesus is mine!
I’m in the same boat. Praying for wisdom and direction to get all of our heads above water
What a different perspective knowing the writer was blind puts on these lyrics I’ve sung all my life! So much about seeing and looking and sight; as if to say “earthly blindness is nothing; I need to see only my God and he assures me that all will be made right and good and beautiful through His son Jesus.” ❤️❤️❤️
I liked where she said that it’s beautiful to love Jesus right in the tension of recognizing the gifts our good and perfect Father has not given us. Maybe those gifts will come, maybe they won’t. Everything I need is in Jesus’ work on the cross. It is such a good reminder that my best life is right here, right now. And I am so blessed to know and love Jesus.
My favorite part too!
My husband and I have been married almost seven years. He’s in the military, and so, he’s been over three years of our marriage. We now have two young children, 4, and 2 years old, and I am struggling. I feel so much alone, so often. And so unseen. What a gift to be reminded that I am not alone, and that even though I have to share my husband with his Marines and our country, Jesus is still MINE.
I was just feeling everything you explained. I really needed this today.
Even though this writer comes from a single-woman perspective, as someone who has been married for almost three years, I can say that I’ve felt the same sentiment. Jesus can assure us like no one – even our husbands- can! This was really encouraging to me and a great reminder.
“No one takes care of you but you” rings true often in life. But let us not forget the love of Christ we feel when others are there to help carry our cross, our burdens, our tears. No matter how small the support it is God’s gift to us. I have been touched deeply by God’s love the past month from friends at the most unexpected times, through a journey I would not have been able to carry myself. I could not care for myself the way other ms have!
I really needed to see this today.
I am assured of this one perfect thing: Jesus is mine!
No one takes care of you except you is true … I’ve been in the situation of my life that all that I can see is me, everyone left me…I feel so alone, sad and very down. One thing I’ve learned is that I was too blind not to see that Jesus was just there for me. So now, I know Im walking with Jesus through this path I am taking and everyday my thoughts are being renewed by God. Thanking Jesus for His life is given to us…
No takes care of you except is true … I’ve been in the situation of my life that all that I can see is me, everyone left me… One thing I’ve learned is that I was too blind not to see that Jesus was just there for me. So now, I know Im walking with Jesus through this path I am taking and everyday my thoughts are being renewed by God. Thanking Jesus for His life is given to us… For everyone!
Beautifully written. Such good truths to be reminded of. Need to thank God for the gifts I’ve received and for those who have the gifts I don’t.
Thank you for this post! It was exactly what I needed and used one of my favorite verses from Hebrews.
This was exactly what I needed to read right now. I’
I am 30 and single and have achieved everything I set out to do, but the one thing I can’t control is finding a man to love me and share my life with. I’ve been getting more and more angry with God because I’m starting to feel He is withholding blessings from me. Even if this was true, I can’t forget that I still have Jesus. This article reminded me of that truth. Having Jesus doesn’t take away the desperate ache I feel in my heart but it does take away my anger, and it does help me to move forward and focus on the big picture. That this is not our home, this body is broken and I need to live with expectancy for Jesus to return.
Although our situations are quite different I know what it’s like to long for something. Something that can’t be worked towards or bought in a store. For seven years my husband (high school sweethearts) and I longed to be parents. Like you, there was an ache so deep in my heart that no one but my Savior could see. I couldn’t understand why I wasn’t getting the blessings that the Lord was blessing everyone else with. I felt I had done everything ‘right’ – attended and served in my church my entire life, had a true love waits relationship and continued a daily walk with The Lord. So, two years ago in January of 2014 I fasted and prayed for 21 days. I didn’t pray for a baby. I prayed for peace. I was desperate for peace in the situation. Desperate to be able to talk about the hurt without becoming emotional, to be able to voice my feelings to my family, and to have a peace with whatever answer the Lord was giving me. Whether He was telling us no, yes or asking us to keep waiting – I wanted peace. It took nearly a year for that peace to come and The Lord worked on me throughout that year as I drew closer to Him trusting that His plan was better than my own. By October of that year I was finally, for the first time in my life, able to completely lay that burden at His feet and truly leave it there. In January of 2015 my husband and I both decided to fast and pray for 21 days to seek The Lord in what He wanted us to do about becoming parents. So, we prayed for a baby. We didn’t know what that looked like, when it would happen or how it would happen but we prayed believing that He would give us a baby. I got pregnant during that fast with NO medical assistance and had our baby girl in October of 2015 at 30 (almost 31!) I truly believe I had to pray for peace and truly lay it at His feet and surrender before He blessed us. I know I don’t personally know you but I felt The Lord leading me to respond to you because I know what that feeling of longing feels like. I pray for peace for you right now. That you have peace with the story that The Lord is writing for you. I pray that He has the perfect spouse for you and that your future husband is praying he finds you as well. The Lord is always good. Always faithful. Always on time.
I read an article about this some years ago, write down all the things you want in a Godly, loving man. Put that slip of paper under your pillow and add it to your prayer list each night.
I know it sounds silly and high schoolish, but my divorced sister in law did it and it worked. If a man is meant to be part of your life, God will find him and place him there. He will answer your needs.
I have so much in Him! Most of all, that peaceful assurance.
This devotion was amazing. Everything that I needed right now. These past couple of days I’ve had so much tension with school and work that I felt like I was the only one supporting me. But He is there for me through out al the hard time and I appreciate everything that He has done for me.
Thinking about what “gifts I haven’t received” and praising God in that tension since it is what He decided best…
This brought tears to my eyes. It really resonated with me. How profound. The teaching of love and God is one of the same.
This really spoke to me. Loved this devotional. ❤️❤️
Beautiful devotional. There is a contemporary arrangement of this hymn that we sing at my church. It’s by Elevation Worship. My favorite part is the bridge that says: Death could not hold You, You are victorious, Praise to the Risen King! ❤️ you can check it out on YouTube.
Blessed, thanks for the reminder . . . I am never alone.
I needed this ❤️
I needed to read this today. It’s exam week, I’m stressed out about a ball I’m going to in two weeks, low on money, and yesterday I was intertwined in the distractions of life. Reading this this morning make me feel refreshed, and give me peace of heart knowing that this is what God intends my life to be right now; it’s not for nothing.
blessed assurance Jesus is mine
I needed this!! I don’t fear eternity but fear leaving my loved ones, so thank you for this bc I try giving it God, but sadly I pick it back up! Thank you!! I do needed this
going on in
Thank you for your heart of ministry. Loved stumbling onto your site.
I loved reading this. It is exactly what I needed to heat during this time in my life.
I don’t have to fear the future or anything that happens in my life. Jesus is mine!
We don’t have to fear because Jesus is ours. We need to wake up each morning and preach to ourselves this lesson.
loved it.
I really needed to hear this. I just read about how the rapture could happen next month and it was filled with prophecies and pointing to how it could happen with everything that’s going on in the world right now. It had me scared and afraid and after reading this it helped me feel so much. No one knows when it’s going to happen and just knowing that God is always with me when no one else is helps me to know that I have nothing to worry about. I just need to lean on him in times of trouble and I’ll get through every them every time. Thank yall so much for yall’s help!
This is. Beautiful
Beautiful!
I severely needed this word from the Lord this morning. Yesterday afternoon I found out I had 2 cancerous spots on my body. I looked at my 2 growing children and wondered what I was going to do. I didn’t even know how to respond to the news. Part of me wants God to use it for His glory, and the other part of me wants it to be a complete mistake. I have read of others who go through these trials with such peace and confidence, but I found that I did not have that yesterday. Then I read this devotional. God reminded me that I am not alone. I am not the only one who cares for me. He cares for me too, more than I could possibly care for myself. He is looking out for me and is over all things. Nothing is too hard for Him. Sometimes in our darkest days it is hard to remember who God is and what He can do. I needed that reassurance this morning. It is indeed a blessed assurance to know that God is watching over me, caring for me, and I do not need to hold on to worry. Thank you for that this morning.
Praying for you, thank you for sharing your heart. God is good, all the time.
Heather,
I am sorry about your news; I can’t fathom how difficult this must be for you. I’m glad you are starting to find God’s presence in this and I pray you continue to find his assurance.
Thank you for sharing your story. It is not a coincidence that God allowed me to come across your testimony for Christ.
My aunt also just discovered she has ovarian cancer and underwent surgery the other day. By God’s grace all of the tumors were removed and she is in full recovery now. We are praying for the next steps in which God will lead her, her husband and two sons physically and spiritually. Although she is uncertain of the days ahead in her life in this world, she, you and all of us sisters in Christ have been given the blessed assurance of God’s glory, which shall be revealed in us, because Jesus lives. I will keep you in my prayers, Heather. Keep on running the race marked out for us so we may faithfully trust in Him, growing in perseverance during the toughest of times.
With Love in Christ,
Eunice
Praying for you!
I needed this today.
I come from church of christ. I absolutely adore the hymns, old fashioned like. no instruments, just voices. makes me feel closer to God ❤
Thanks you Annie Downs! I was a puddle of tears this morning as I read this devotional. I grew up in the church, many pastors in my family, and this hymn is one that rings loud from my childhood. ‘The point of tension’ in my life is my husband and I believing to have children, and I have chosen to live in faith and that His praise will ever be on my lips no matter what.
He is so faithful.
I’ve been going through a pretty rough time the past two years, and this has been one of the most eye-opening stories I have read, reminding me that I am not the only one taking care of me. Thank you so much!
Love! While I’m not 30 yet it’s quickly approaching! I too struggle with being a single 28 year old. This was refreshing to read and an added boost that I’m not alone in many Eag! have
**not alone in many ways!! Silly iPhone!
Love love love this! I’ve dealt with infertility and had 6 miscarriages, with the result of still having no children . Throughout the years of struggling with this, I have come to know that Jesus is mine.
JESUS IS MINE:))
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I loved how Fanny still had a great amount of trust in God after she was blind!!
I have been struggling lately with being a “30-something single woman”. Imagine my surprise when God leads me to download this app, and download devotional about hymns and I find that He has a reminder for me about my blessed assurance. Praise Him. Thank you. :)
God can be trusted to keep his promises! Help me trust you, Lord and not depend on my plans.
JESUS IS MINE. Wow, what a great reminder. What I don’t have, I have in Christ.
Blessed assurance that Jesus is mine! Thankful for that reminder that reminder
So thankful for assurance and hope! We are never alone!
Wow!!
I in my Savior am happy and blest. May that always be the tune of my heart.
” I think there’s something really beautiful about loving Jesus right there, right in the middle of that tension, where we recognize the gifts we haven’t been given by our good and perfect Father.”
This is just awesome. I am so thankful for the vulnerability in this devotion for us to see that what we think we don’t have we DO have in HIM.
Such a uplifting devotion!!!
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Such an encouraging devotion!!
Beautiful!
I feel blessed knowing I am never alone. I needed this devotional this morning
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine. Heavenly confidence. It’s what non-Christians are missing no worries.
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!! Oh, how I love this hymn. I grew up singing it with my mom at worship time, but now that I’m older, the words of this song really touch my heart. I’m currently drowning in my finances and school work, while dealing with my singleness and assisting in youth ministry. But I’m so thankful that I don’t have peace, I have peace in Jesus. When I feel like I have no strength, I find my strength in Jesus. When I feel unloved, I find unconditional love in Jesus. “An assurance, by definition, is a promise that is meant to give us confidence.” I really needed to see that. I’m praying for confidence and faith to keep going in Jesus’ name.
Thank you for sharing! I love how you put it – peace, strength, and unconditional love in JESUS! Wonderfully put. I love those words and how much they truly portray our deep need for complete reliance on Him.
Thank you Lord for never leaving me, you’ll always be there even when I feel completely alone. And thank you for showing us perfect love; we love because you loved us first. You’re mine! I will forever be grateful for that.
This found me in a season of brokenness and singleness. What a balm this is to my heart! submission to him is perfect peace. Trust comes hard for me, and I struggle with faith but I have His assurance! I get so caught up in people and serving them that I forget where my assurance should come from. I’m dealing with “laying down my Isaac” so to speak. It’s hard, it hurts, but being reminded of the unchangeable, steadfast, constant assurance I have in the Lord makes my heart weep in praise.
I’m really going through a time of pain and brokenness. Sisters, please pray for me. pray that God will give clarity, direction and healing. I’ve never need supplication on my behalf more than I do now. Thank you.
Lifting you up in prayer, for healing and purpose in this season of brokenness. That you may feel the power of his assurance and be refined like pure gold
Declare his presence in their lives
I thank God for he reminds us that we assured of blessings to those who
This is comforting!
Whatever happens here on earth, we have assurance! complete assurance.
thank you for sharing such a beautiful story. this is beautiful. God bless.
I was just praying able it this very thing this morning to be a single 30 something feeling these very same things. It’s sad to feel so alone , but thankful I’m not. God is good for this great devotional I opened in my time of need!
Wow. That is really good. Thanks. Ibeneeding a ft her
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Thank you. This is beautiful. Even in my singleness I can be assured that God is always there for me no matter what!
Thank you for this! I sometimes have fears of not being able to thrive if I lost my husband or a loved one. This reminds me that no matter what God will always be there. I will always thrive because God is always with me.
Thank you for this amazing devotional. I cannot wait to continue this and grow my relationship with God.
Thank you for this message. We are I am complete and whole with the washing over of Gods love in my life. Praise Jesus for His faithfulnessenough with Him
Thank you for inspiring me with Blessed Assurance devotion! And, it’s really remind me to be remembered it’s really impossible for me to live without GOD in all my life! If I am live without GOD in all my life, then I am died in physical and spiritual forever! I’m really blessed to have GOD in all my life from A to Z and from dash to dash forevermore! Agree?
This was such a wonderful devotional for me this
Morning. Certainly what I needed!mmorning
As a married woman, I can say that I also needed to hear this. It can be so easy, as was true for me, to think my future spouse (or now current one) can fill the void or be my perfect match, my help in times of sadness or trial. While God can bless us in that way, HE desires to be the first one we turn to for satisfaction, help, comfort. Don’t put that burden on your (future) spouse, he can’t and shouldn’t have to live up to our ideals (the illusion society tells us our mate should be). God is the only one who can love us truly unconditionally.
Amen Danae! Our spouses can’t take the burden of being our everything, but Jesus can!
I needed this
When your a Christian, and you have enemies, what do you do? You’re still humble to them when you’re around them but when you’re both enemies in eachothers hearts, how do you get rid of that ?
Prayer. For them and for you. It may not always be easy, but God tells us, “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you.” Matthew 5:43-44
You love them. This is hard…but what in your heart makes you hate them? What aren’t you confessing to God as sin? Be sure to search and ask God to reveal that to you so there can be reconciliation.
Beautiful. In combination with Annie’s table talk at the IF Gathering on Saturday about surrounding yourself with people in different seasons of life, this made my morning.
What an amazing thing love is.
First devotional on this site!
I literally just downloaded the SRT app yesterday when I just felt this desire to really work on my efforts in reading the bible. And then last night i dreamt of an ex and in that dream the problems we had no longer existed and I felt happy. But then i woke up and reality set in, and I felt so lonely and sort of angry that my mind would do that to me. I decided to open this app, read this and WOW like spot on. Going to really remind myself today and any day that life seems tough that every moment is part of God’s plan and this is right where I am meant to be.
My first devotional on the site – and could it be any better?? Love is the lord.
Man, does this relate to my life right now! When all your friends are engaged or married or having babies, it’s easy to forget that God planned my life for right here and right now, just as Annie says. So grateful for this site with encouraging women who remind us to whom we belong. Whatever it is I think I don’t have, I really do have in Him.
Loved this, thank you.
Just was reading the lyrics to that song and realized that the song was playing on the radio at the exact time I was reading the part!! God works in amazing ways :))
* my story Big Daddy Weave ^^^^
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1TKAN-nAsu8
Perfect way to start my Sunday morning. Thank you for your vulnerability and for sharing what God put on your heart.
Just what I needed. I have always loved that song but now it’s even more special- Blessed Assurance!!!!
I have never commented here before, but I found myself sobbing before I could even finish reading today’s devotion. As a 38 year old single woman, today’s scripture and song really touched me. Just yesterday I listened to Beth Moore teaching on how we have lost the romance, how we need to recapture a love for our Savior like the one David had in Psalm 63: “O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.” And I prayed for God to reveal romance to me, a romance that is pure and true, a romance that has nothing to do with earthly desires.
And today I read this devotion that reminded me of a blessed assurance I have in Jesus and God the Father. An assurance of Love. Perfect love that casts out fear. Fear that tells me I will always be alone. Fear that tries to convince me I will never have help. Fear that because of past sins, God will never allow me to have a help mate on earth.
This spoke right to my heart. Always thinking I’m
alone in my life struggles. Having no children at 32 and Lyme disease this year diagnosed. I’ve been spending so much wasted time in self pity. When this whole time Jesus has been here waiting for me to use this time to draw near to him. His assurance is so great!
Wow!! I’m totally praying for u! God loves u always!
Wowza! This was so incredibly relevant for me tonight! Often thinking of and feeling the difficulties of still being single in my 30s . . . reading this was another of so many assurances that He is always right here with me, by my side.
Annie, I am in your exact situation – thirty something and single – it was like you were writing my story too. It’s so easy sometimes to feel a little sad or bitter or jilted. I’m praying that my story and my song are like yours and Fanny’s…watching and waiting looking above, filled with his goodness lost in His love. Thank you so much for this post.
I’m so encouraged to know there are other 30-something single women out there. I’m one of the very few in my small town, so finding a network of Godly single women online is great!
Feeling blessed to find this site. Even though I’m much older than most of the women posting I’m always encouraged by your thoughtfulness and encouraging words you share with each other. We serve an awesome God who is forever faithful and is not only by our side but on our side ready to step in and guide, comfort, support and lift us up each and every morning. Continue to look up and be encouraged. Blessings to you all.
Such a good word, I am married and have three kids and I am lonely all of the time, have thoughts that I don’t have the help I need or the tools to raise my kids well. But the truth is I do, in Christ I have everything I need and when I seek him and I am never lonely and that is the truth and reality that we need to live in daily.
Laura,
My heart so goes out to you. Been there, done that. And now my kids are grown and gone and my husband has passed and I’m there again. It seems that everything I can say to you is so cliche but …. I can tell you, honestly, that those feelings don’t last forever. I know you need adult interaction and it’s cold outside so you can’t go to the park. A local church may have mom’s groups and you don’t have to be a member there to join one. Or perhaps you could suggest that your Sunday School class meet once a week for lunch at someone’s home so there would be no babysitter fees. Think outside the box. Skype an old friend. Get down in the floor and play with those babies — before you know it they’ll be 37 and 6’8″. But most of all, don’t forget your daily time with the Lord. Even if it’s only long enough to write a verse on a 3×5 card and post it over the kitchen sink or on the bathroom mirror. And you don’t need special time to pray. Imagine that Jesus is in the room with you and you are carrying on a conversation with him about the spilled milk this morning. It doesn’t have to be out loud (the kids will tell everybody that mama’s crazy!). Pick up the phone and call someone. Read to the babies. I sit with my grandson a good bit and watch education television on PBS. Veggie Tales are on TV. I wish I knew where you were — I would call you. But I’ll tell you what, when you are feeling really down, say, “Lord, I could really use a hug.” And then close your eyes and imagine you can feel those strong arms wrapped all the way around you in the most tender, biggest bear hug you’ve ever had. Imagine how soft His robe is and how good He smells. Lots of women know how you feel and today we are feeling for you. Lean on Him who loves you so much.
Definitely needed this!
I was just reading Larry Crab’s Marriage Builder and he mentions how each person has the personal need of significance and security. These two needs are needs that only Christ can fulfill all the time. Our spouses cannot fulfill this need all the time because of their own imperfections. Because Christ fulfills this need, we can love it spouses freely and courageously! Praise God!! We love because He first loved us.
Perfect for what I am going through right now.
This was beautiful. Thank you
Favor – blessed assurance of favor
Can so relate to all of this. What an assurance!
How beautiful it is to know we are loved deeply by Him. Thank you for this timely reminder.
Thanks ❤️ I’ve needed this
Needed this today. Thank you.
I needed these reminders of God’s faithfulness and the assurance I have in Jesus Christ my Lord!
Thank you Annie,
I’m a single woman and this was a good read today . It does get lonely but Jesus is there
Thank you for bringing back the Spotify playlist!!
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
We have to love another, to mirror Gods love. But It strikes me that “whoever loves, has been born of God and knows God”
Don’t All people love at least someone? If they have no-one, then they all certainly had a mother, whom most people love..?
So, I guess maybe it’s not ‘love’ but ‘love without wanting to be loved back’? As God loved us before, when we were still sinners and didn’t want God? That sort of love? Because if it is just love, you could say everybody is a child of God, but in Hebrews 11:6 it says you have to believe God exists to come to Him, to know Him..
Love this song and this message!
Such a beautiful reminder! Jesusiaassurance!
Jesus is our assurance!
This was a message I needed to hear today too. Whatever I think I don’t have, I have in Him. Thanks SRT
I definitely needed this reminder today.
I think Jesus assures us He loves us in the simplest things, like even through His perfect timing. This is such a sweet hymn and it is exactly to the point. We all have a story to tell and somebody that is needing to hear it. I want to be “praising my Savior, all the day long” through my life’s journey.
God is good! Nothing like the arms of the Son & the love of the Father❤️
I have never commented before, but I’ve been blessed by SRT devos for several months now, and this one hits home FOR sure! Love this song, and I couldn’t agree more with what was said about it!
Hi Emily! So glad you commented today! We love having you in our community!
xoxo-Kaitlin
Thank you for beginning with this hymn. My Mom would sing this to me on sleepless nights. Now at 98 years old it is still her testamony. Jesus is mine.
“Whatever it is I think I don’t have, I have in Him. Whatever it is you think you don’t have, you can have in Him.” It’s so easy to compare lives with one another and desire what we don’t have. God fills gaps or holes in our hearts that no person, place or tangible thing can. So thankful to know God and for his love.
“When I feel forgotten and think no one sees me, He sees. When I think no one will step in, He always steps in, to provide and protect.” This part also touched me as something I can really relate to. Even in my darkest times when I haven’t felt loved; God loved me. What a beautiful gift. Thank you SRT for another great reading.
“Whatever it is I think I don’t have, I have in Him.
Whatever it is you think you don’t have, you can have in Him.” Amen and Amen. I needed to read that today. Absolute truth. He is all we will ever need, what blessed assurance!
Me too Ingrid. Such a beautiful reminder!
Found myself singing the hymn in bed before I sleep and thinking about Fanny in this song. What a blessed way to end my day. Thank you for this wonderful devotional!
I was singing the song too :) I absolutely love this song and totally agree that it’s the perfect way to end the day.
Thanks for attaching the Spotify playlist for us to!listen to!
We so rarely read a devotion that’s not about the joys/struggles of being a wife and mother, especially by someone of the author’s age that this, this piece that Annie wrote is such a treasure. Thank you for so beautifully and succinctly articulating our aches and pains, and at the same time reminding us – and we will often have to keep reminding ourselves – that we needn’t worry.
I can so identify with what Annie wrote today…I’m 36 and single. It has taken me a while to realize that right now at this moment that is what God has planned for me and that I need to be okay with that in order to fully experience the joy in God being number one in my life. If he eventually brings a male into my life, then so be it, but I know that I am a child of God and loved by him and blessed assurance that is enough for me! Oh, and my nickname is Annie too… :)
Thanks Annie for writing this from the heart. It’s amazing! God bless you
This devotion was so timely for me today! I can perfectly relate to the author’s sentiments, and have been recently struggling with the “waiting” while watching everyone else receive the gift that I want. Blessed Assurance is my favorite hymn and gives me great peace in the journey of trusting God in the midst of the wait. Thank you to the author for today’s devotional!!
Jesus is mine!!! And I am his ❤️❤️
My favorite lines are the end.
Perfect submission, all is at REST, (we can have true rest in him)
I in my savior am happy and blest (not in the things of this world or what culture says you need to be happy)
Watching and waiting, looking above (not looking the things of this earth, but waiting expectantly on HIM)
Filled with his goodness, (we have already been given his goodness)
lost in His love. (I want to be so lost in His love that my eyes have no where to look but to him )
This today was so good for me.
Blessed ASSURANCE! Jesus is mine!!!
Love your parenthesis Kate. Thank you for sharing your heart, I took a screen shot!!
Needed to hear this today! Right on time…
Thank you SRT!
Can’t begin to tell you, the SRT team, how you’ve all been used in my life and MANY others as well to help pull through difficult seasons. I’m so blessed daily by the wisdom poured out into these different plans and I’m loving this new hymns study! The other ones were awesome and I was so excited that another one was made. All I can say is thank you times a million, God is using this ministry so strongly in the lives of other women and myself. Just so tremendously grateful.
Just what I needed today, reassurance that I’m not in this alone. He IS my blessed assurance! Thank you!
Needed this today, thank you SRT
Thanks for joining us, Susan! We love having you in our community!
xoxo-Kaitlin
I really relate to that longing to have a man in my life at my age. It seems like everyone’s starting their families and I’m still here and still single.
Whatever I don’t have or do have , blessed assurance Jesus is mine! I may not have a boyfriend or anyone remotely interested in me, but I know Jesus loves me more than anyone. I may not be called “my love” by anyone else, but I know He calls me something way more beautiful than anyone could say.
Thanks for the reminder today!
What a great feeling to know we have assurance in God! The only one to put our complete trust in. Have a blessed week ladies
Wow, I loved this post. How often I focus on all of the things I feel that God has not given me that I “deserve.” Here’s the thing, if we have Jesus we have everything we need, even when it doesn’t feel like it. The result of truly understanding that? Praising our Savior all the day long. Instead of focusing on what we do not have, we ought to praise the Lord. Perspective changes everything. Praying this Monday morning that we all have attitudes of praise through all circumstances that we face!
I absolutely love every hymn study on SRT. Blessed Assurance has always been one of my favorites. In my church we so often sing the contemporary songs on Sunday morning, and I love those – belting out the lyrics and sometimes weeping at the powerful worship taking place. But I adore the hymns on which I was raised, such as Blessed Assurance. Thank you, SRT crew, for the gift of this series and the reminder of the beautiful words written so many years ago that remain so relevant today.
Valerie, we’re so excited to hear God’s using the hymns plans to bless and encourage you! What joy! We love having you in our community!
xoxo-Kaitlin
So thankful for this. That even when everything else is taken away, our cup can still be overflowing because we ALWAYS have HIM! Such truth! Thanks for sharing! http://www.in-due-time.com
This message so touched my heart and I am thankful that the Lord used you to speak to me! What an encouragement to start of my morning and this week!
Great post! I love how Fanny wrote “Visions of rapture now burst on my sight . . .”, what a powerful line! This is a great encouragement for me this morning. Thanks again!
Thank you so much for this morning!
I can’t even tell you how much this reading blessed me. I knew I was going to love it when I saw that Annie was the author but by the end I was in tears. There are so many areas in my life that this applied to.
I have struggled lately with the readings in SRT. They haven’t spoken to me and I find it difficult to hear Jesus in them. I haven’t heard him in awhile.
Is there anything you can think of that may be blocking His voice? Or is this just a quiet time? I know that when I notice His silence I have to remain committed to seeking Him in His Word, devotions, music, sermons, counsel and encouragement from other Christians. I’ve found it very helpful to write down the truths I read or hear. Sometimes I can’t feel God’s presence but by writing these things down, I’m reminded He’s here nonetheless . I try not to fret in the silence but to rest in the quiet. I read over and over what I’ve read and heard and that helps. Hope this suggestion is something you’ll consider. I’m praying.
I can relate to this. I try to spend more time on the bible passages and pray through those when the devotion doesn’t speak to me as much.
Hi Leanne,
Friend, we’re so grateful for your honesty and so glad you’re here. Praying that you would feel God’s presence as you read His Word today and that He would illuminate His Truth in your life. Love to you!
xoxo-Kaitlin
Hi Leanne- I’m familiar too with seasons like this. I will pray too that you feel his presence. I can say that when I feel He is quieter, I feel in some ways He is asking me to draw closer- so I do that by getting quiet, focusing on Him$ and my blessings, listening to sermons online and worship music. RT Kendall is really something as is Jerry Bridges- his book, Trusting God is wonderful. Colin Dye and Kensington Temple is also incredible. Wishing you peace and comfort. Som$etimes I believe we have to be still to hear his voice… sending you love…
Thank you for this devotion today! I’m struggling a with fear lately and also can relate as a single 30 something Thank you!lot
I woke up this morning to find out that my group mates wanted me to change a third of a lab report we have been working on and turn it in within a few hours because the whole thing is due today. Our professor did not email us back until this morning and I immediately became frustrated and lost my temper. But even more frustrating than this, I was starting my day off NOT in light of The Lord. So I immediately made the choice to turn to His Word, and I saw this email in my inbox. I praise God this morning for calming me and getting a great song stuck in my head.
Ugh! How frustrating! Glad you rose above! Hope all works out to your benefit
I’m so grateful for this well written devotion; it has truly blessed me this morning!
Thanks for joining us, Iyanu! We love having you in our community!
xoxo-Kaitlin
Just the other night I was feeling alone, dwelling on what I think I don’t have when I should have been remembering I have everything in Him.
I cannot think of a better way to start my day and my
Week! This has always been a favourite of mine!!
Happy Monday, Catherine! Praying you have a wonderful week!
xoxo-Kaitlin
Couldn’t believe I opened SRT to see this hymn today. My son was just sharing the songs they had used in worship Sunday and Elevation’s “Blessed Assurance” was one of them. Love when they bring back the old hymns and add a bridge or chorus so the younger generation can fall in love with them too! You can listen to it here if you like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOFu4FKTeks
So thankful today for that Blessed Assurance in a world of such uncertainty.
Who will be the next president?
What can we do about ISIS?
Will the economy rebound?
Will my children be saved?
What if I lose my job?
Who can fix my broken marriage?
Who can fix my broken heart?
And on and on the list goes…we all have problems, we all need Jesus! But if our hope is in HIM, if that assurance is wrapped up in the Creator of the Universe, we need not fear, He is ever near and ready to help and comfort. I take hope in that last stanza!
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
Amen!
Thank you for sharing your words and for the link to Elevation Worship’s version of Blessed Assurance…..LOVED IT!!!
Well timed devotion. I had just finished my prayer time where I had whined to God about my singleness (among other things). This just what I needed to hear….. BLESED ASSURANCE JESUS IS MINE!!!
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If I close my eyes and whisper this song it transports me through time. I can imagine standing in my Sunday best as a young one between my parents and my grandmother. I can hear each of their voices nearly perfectly as if I just heard them sing days ago. I can remember the wrinkle of their hands as I imagine them on the pews next to mine, the fragrance of my mother’s perfume and that of my grandmother’s powder. The deep, beautiful voice of my father can be heard in perfect timing with the notes of the piano. Oh, how I needed this memory this morning. Needed the reminder that I belonged to them and they to me, that I have a beautiful history of loving folk who, while quite fallible, were genuine loves of my heart and life. The first examples I had of unconditional love, the very people that allowed me to understand what love from Christ must be like. My assurance was in them, my security in them, my identity in them but oh Christ walked in and while these were my people, He is and always will be my everything. Lying last week in a stark room, waiting on physicians to run down the list of do, don’ts and what will becomes had me recalling and confronting the things these sweet folks have handed down, the other seasons in my life that pointed to this one and the minutes I wish I could have back. The tears roll if I think too much on this, if I let the disappointment of what lies in front of me surround my heart but just as I find peace in the act of closing my eyes, singing this song and standing with old family, I can find even more peace in remembering that Christ walked in. That He is my “most” assurance, my comfort, my promise, my truth. Like, Fanny Crosby, I lack something, something most my age don’t and it is humbling but I can either be humbled to the earthly woes of this or look into the eyes of my Savior and be humbled by Him because He makes me whole. Life in Him makes me complete and He is my blessed assurance.
Prayerful over you beautiful women this week!
Prayers for you this morning, friend. Jesus is yours! ♥
Praying for you as well, B… He is our rescuer and has you in the palm of His hand…
Praying for you, friend!
Prayers lifted my friend…
Keeping you in my prayers, B. Love to you, friend!
Prays lifted for you dear dear friend. ..thinking of you…With love and God’s best…xxx
Praying for you friend! You’re so loved by your Heavenly Father and all the She’s!
This hymn had always been one of my favorites. Crosby penned words that divert my attention from my present circumstance to my eternal assurance. It is no trivial thing to set my eyes on the hope I have in Jesus when today is hard. Wether I am pressed, stressed, or blessed, this is the truth I hold on to: heir of salvation, purchase of God. Because of that assurance, I in my Savior am happy and blessed!
“Crosby penned words that divert my attention from my present circumstance to my eternal assurance.” ….. THIS today Kelly! YES!
Amen!
Love this Kelly! Thank you
Beautiful. Thank you.
“This is my story.” We are all Esther, here on this earth in this place in this family with these circumstances “for such a time as this.” Oh I’ve fought against my story, wanting to change it, wishing it were different. No peace in that. But once I embrace it, embrace my story with all its twists and turns, realizing that HE is the author, there is peace. Because HE is the author, the plot and characters in my story are all under His control. I have the blessed assurance that all is well, the pages are turning and the ending to my story has a happy happy ending. Thank you, SRT, for this reminder and that I’ll be singing this hymn today!
HE is the author! Need to hold this truth very very near!
Love this Churchmouse… I’m reading Trusting God by Jerry Bridges and you are speaking wonderful truth… it is ours to embrace… Thank you!
He is the great author of our story and sometimes this is so hard to accept. We want answers now. We want to write or edit our own story, but it is all in his time. Blessed assurance he will take care.
Thank you for this. So much. My husband and I have been absolutely drowning in financial problems for awhile now, and especially lately. Neither of us are great with money, my husband in particular, and on top of feeling like I can’t get my head above water, I’ve felt so angry at him for getting us into such a mess. I feel so much pressure to take it all on myself to fix it, because I’m struggling to trust God OR my husband to help, yet there’s so much that’s completely out of my control. Needless to say, anxiety has been an issue!
This reading was unbelievably timely (don’t you love how God works like that?). I’m in tears reading it, and feel so much more peace as I pray to let go and trust. Thank you again, and keep us in your prayers!
Praying with you Brittany for the guidance of financial freedom. My husband and I are or were in the process of losing out homes & vehicles and God opened a door to work with an attorney and I finally have peace and my anxiety is gone. Praying favor and victory!
Prayerful over you Brittany. You are not alone sister!
Praying that God will provide the resources you need, Brittany, and opportunities so that you and your husband can have financial peace. I pray even for abundance so that your stewardship of what God provides would enable you to bless others. And I pray that you and your husband would be united and in harmony with each other as God gives you both the wisdom to handle your finances.
Brittany, praying for you & your husband, be assured God is with you.
Thank you all so much :) I appreciate it more than you know
Praying for you and your husband, Brittany!
Brittany, I have been and still are where you are financially. Neither my husband nor I are good with money matters either. We have felt very alone in this and sort of isolated. We both lost our jobs in 2012 and then our house and then our retirement. We have had some pretty dark days and I am only now seeing a light at the end of this tunnel. Our situation has not improved (yet) but I am no longer feeling hopeless. Blessed assurance that He Is, gives me hope. I am able to trust when there is no money for rent. I am able to trust when there is no money for doctor appointments. I was not able to do that all these years. I was in constant fear and had allowed despair and anxiety overwhelm me. Today I thank Him for our little apartment, the pretty things, furniture, food, books to read. I have spent a lot of time in envy. I am turning from it to gratitude. Your words give me hope and connection and understanding that indeed I am not alone and I too am refreshed by theses blessed words of assurance.
Thank you,y thank you, thank you…!!!
Just the words ..BLESSED ASSURANCE, this morning, after a weekend of shock, sadness, hurt, disappointment, confusion, loss…..the list goes on, is so very very perfect..
BLESSED ASSURANCE…Jesus is mine….
This is the TRUTH of my story, and it will be my song, praising my Savior all the day long…
Amen..Amen..Amen.
Thank you Lord God, thank you Jesus…for the assurance, the promise, of Love, friendship, GRACE, mercy, protection, I could go on, because there is so so much more…Thank you Lord God, that in YOU I have ALL I need, in YOU, no matter the trials, the confusions of life, YOU are my assurance, my promise, my hope..Thank you Lord God…Thank you…
BLESSED ASSURANCE, JESUS IS MINE…
This is the truth of my story, and it will be my song, praising my Savior all the day long….
Happy Monday, my Sisters…be absolutely Blessed in the assurance that Jesus is ours, for always, and for always, and for all the always after that…xxx
yes blessed assurance is what I am in need of today too!
I hope this weekend wasn’t all of that for you friend! I hope that this finds you well this morning and that you’ve been given exactly the amount of peace you need in the assurance of Who is in charge. Love to you!
No matter what our circumstance we have this hope, Jesus is mine! Praying for you today! ♥
“Whatever you think you don’t have, you can have in Him.”
I absolutely love this!
I was moved by that same phrase. how powerful a message!
Me too. Thank you Annie for those powerful words