{"id":589,"date":"2009-07-10T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=589"},"modified":"2009-09-15T10:17:52","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T17:17:52","slug":"blessed-assurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/blessed-assurance\/","title":{"rendered":"BLESSED ASSURANCE!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Acts 17:31<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Because He has fixed a day when He will judge the world righteously (justly) by a Man Whom He has destined and appointed for that task, and He has made this credible and given conviction and assurance and evidence to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”<\/span> (Amplified Bible)<\/p>\n

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Fanny Crosby wrote over 8000 hymns. She said about her blindness, “The first face ever to gladden my sight will be when I get to heaven and behold the face of the One who died for me… I verily believe that God intended that I should live my days in physical darkness so that I might be better prepared to sing His praise and lead others from spiritual darkness into eternal light. With sight I would have been too distracted to have written thousands of hymns.”<\/p>\n

Fanny tells this one story about the hymn, “Blessed Assurance.” Mrs. Phoebe Fairchild Knapp, wife of the organizer of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, went to visit Fanny and get an opinion of a tune Mrs. Knapp had written. “What does it say to you, Fanny?” she asked. Fanny’s answer was “Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine.” And then a few minutes later she handed to Mrs. Knapp the completed lyrics of the hymn. Our hymn for this week is that wonderful hymn; “Blessed Assurance.”<\/p>\n

“Blessed Assurance<\/a>“<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
\nOh, what a foretaste of glory divine!
\nHeir of salvation, purchase of God.
\nBorn of His Spirit, washed in His blood.<\/em><\/p>\n

Refrain:
\n<\/strong>This is my story, this is my song,
\nPraising my Savior all the day long.<\/em><\/p>\n

Perfect submission, perfect delight,
\nVisions of rapture now burst on my sight;
\nAngels descending, bring from above
\nEchoes of mercy, whispers of love.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

Refrain:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Perfect submission, all is at rest,
\nI in my Savior am happy and blest;
\nWatching and waiting, looking above,
\nFilled with His goodness, lost in His love.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

Refrain:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Fanny Crosby lived her life without physical eyes, but her spiritual eyes shone so bright that they still illuminate the lives of all who love her hymns.<\/p>\n

To access Blessed Assurance<\/em>, this week’s inspirational video from GloryScapes.com<\/a>, please go to: http:\/\/www.gloryscapes.com\/blessedassurance<\/a> in your browser or click on the image below.<\/p>\n

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Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing!<\/p>\n

– – – Pastor Cecil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Acts 17:31 “Because He has fixed a day when He will judge the world righteously (justly) by a Man Whom He has destined and appointed for that task, and He has made this credible and given conviction and assurance and evidence to everyone by raising Him from the dead.” (Amplified Bible) Fanny Crosby wrote over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}