Jesus Lover of My Soul - story behind the hymn
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- Опубликовано: 28 июл 2024
- A classic Charles Wesley hymn. Did he write it in a storm? When a bird flew into his office? When he was chased by a crowd after preaching?
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1 Jesus, lover of my soul,
let me to Thy bosom fly,
while the nearer waters roll,
while the tempest still is high;
hide me, O my Savior, hide,
till the storm of life is past;
safe into the haven guide;
O receive my soul at last.
2 Other refuge have I none;
hangs my helpless soul on Thee;
leave, ah, leave me not alone,
still support and comfort me;
all my trust on Thee is stayed,
all my help from Thee I bring;
cover my defenceless head
with the shadow of Thy wing.
3 Thou, O Christ, art all I want;
more than all in Thee I find;
raise the fallen, cheer the faint,
heal the sick, and lead the blind.
Just and holy is Thy Name,
I am all unrighteousness!
Vile and full of sin I am,
Thou art full of truth and grace.
4 Plenteous grace with Thee is found,
grace to cover all my sin;
let the healing streams abound,
make and keep me pure within;
Thou of life the Fountain art,
freely let me take of Thee,
spring Thou up within my heart,
rise to all eternity.
This gem of a song comforted me in the narrow way for over 20 years since I first heard it...and it does in all life threatening situations .
As my father laid on his deathbed, this is the song my father whispered over and over. I was blessed to hear my daddies last words be from this wonderful hymn.
Just found your channel…what a blessing to hear the stories of these wonderful hymns. Thank you for sharing this and your beautiful voice as well.
Ever since 6 years ago when I developed anxiety disorders and became suicidal, I found this song, it's become my song an have been comforted that God will fight for me the battle that wanted to take my life. I sing it in the morning, noon evening and all the time. Let me to thy bosom fly. Cover my defenseless head. Am hanging on his mighty arm
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🙏🙏🙏 Praying for you right now Margaret. May God meet you where you are and keep you safe in His Care!!!
Love this one - and the tune is called Aberystwyth and is a typical Welsh minor key (my maternal grand father came from near 'Aber' (as we call it))
I heard it first on The Crown Season 3:3 AberFan. It was heart-rending and beautiful at the same time. Very emotional.
Although we did not use the Sankey hymnal at our Church meetings we were familiar with songs written in it. My mother had a Sankey and often sang hymns from it at home. Some of the families in our small Church came out of the Methodist tradition and often sang this song from memory. I think that is how I first learned this song as part of testimony services. We sang it in a different tune that I like better, perhaps because it is more familiar to me. However, I do appreciate your sharing your version with us. Thanks a lot.
I have this hymn on my worship song playlist.
While touring with the Eastern Nazarene College Accapella Choir I participated in a wonderful version of this hymn which forced me to really take apart the words.
One of my favorites. Really speaks to the heart.
This is one of my best and most favourite hymns. I started loving it as a young Christian lady. I will love and sing it almost every day throughout my time in this realm. The last stanza, "Thou o Christ art all I want..." Is such a bliss for me any day!
This was my mom’s favorite hymn. Born in 1914, orphaned at four, a life of challenges, this song comforted and blessed her. I sing it to bless her, though she died in 1990. It’s never too late to love.
Surely not. She hears you now, as my mom hears me.
What I love about you and your approach is that you don't run down or dump the old hymns and favour only the new stuff. The old favourites strike a special , sweet chord in this old heart of mine. We even have it translated into our Khasi language with a couple of additional stanzas composed by the Translator. It has a permanent place in our Hymnbook.Khasi is a tribal language spoken by about 900000 Khasi people of Meghalaya state of North East India. Thank you for this video.
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That song is beautiful, Your singing is, really wonderful also. Thank You Luke.
Raised up singing these hymns! So blessed!
As I was watching “The Crown” today on Netflix, I saw this hymn being sung at the mass funeral of the 1966 mine disaster victims of Wales and couldn't help but look up. Then I came across your site and listened to all of your message and the singing. I must say that you sang it so beautifully! Thank you!
Thank God these hymns are still around, to Minister to us today❤
Thank God 🙌🏻
Hymn was sung at my church during Maundy Thursday last year. The sombre tone and mood of the hymn makes it suitable for such an occasion.
This is truly beautiful.
One of the first hymns I learned (to different tune).
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Glad I found you, I love all these hymms.
Like how you tell the story behind the song, Jesus Christ loves you,
Now thank you o my God. It has a wonderful story behind that one. You might be interested in its history.
Just love the way you play.
Absolutely beautiful❤ Thank you Luke 😊
Thank you for this. It is my favourite hymn. The words are wonderful. I have a lot of pain, 0n and off but sometimes severe. I always sing through the pain the beautiful words and melody. For my funeral, when that day comes and I go home to Jesus' bosom.
So Beautiful.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PROGRAMS ON THESE HYMNS. THESE HYMNS I REMEMBER FROM MY CHILDHOOD. BEING METHODIST THERE WAS SO MUCH SINGING THAT STILL KEEPS GOING. THESE TUNES AND WORDS SPEAK TO MY HEART OF GODS GREAT LOVE.THE YOUNGER GENERATION TOO SHOULD BE TAUGHT OF THESE HYMNS. THANK YOU AGAIN . MAY GOD BLESS YOU.
I am so grateful for your channel; truth spoken through the hymns meets our deepest heart needs 😊
Thank You bro beautiful
The words that Wesley used is what drew me to this hymn!
It is a wonderful and great hymn😊
Beautiful
Thank you, Luke, for presenting this wonderful musical fountain of peace, hope, and joy in Christ our Saviour. Wonderful words when written so long ago -- wonderful words now in this maddening world. May GOD bless you. You certainly blessed me.
Beautifully played and sung!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Your rendition of the accompaniment was very pleasing to sing with. My 90 year old mother and I sang together. Very, very meaningful. The Lord bless you!!!
A truly beautiful Hymn from a real believer ❤
That is a beautiful song! It is also into other melodies. Love how calm and peaceful your voice is what a nice little niche you have found. Love it!
Thank you for your Channel I just come acrossed it today,it definitely is a blessing,Thanks be to God Amen 🙏
Thanks so much, Luke. I grew up in the Methodist church. This was a favorite hymn as a child, and still is, though I learned it to a different tune I can no longer find. This is an older tune that i recognize but can't place. Don't mind the language either. Half my roots are in the UK. I am a student of Medieval and Renaissance music.
A bird entered my house one day and wound up in my office. She seemed quite upset and lost; no way would she nestle in my bosom. I just opened all the windows until she found her way out.
Thunderstorm happening now on the east coast of the USA. How appropriate, at least in one version of the origin stories you mention.
When I think of this hymn, I always think of the apostle John, who laid his head on Jesus' breast. I am experiencing deep grief now due to a lost partner, and visualize this almost every night.
Thanks for your efforts, brother. You have a lovely voice and fine musical talent. Thanks for the blessings you bring us. You certainly lifted me today.
Thank you, so moving.
Beautiful Luke, thank you❤
thanks and bless you I love this song ..mk
What a blessing 🙏♥️beautiful
Amen 🙏 🙏 🙏
Thanks for your work of bringing into focus these hymns. This particular one reminds me of my childhood days in the Methodist Church and also my Dad, who was in love with this particular hymn--Jesus Lover of My Soul. You're blessed.
I heard this song the first time when I was playing the intrumental hymns on my laptop. The music captured my attention. Then I searched the hymn on youtube where I came across with the Fernando Ortega rendition of this wonderful.hymn.
Beautiful song
Wonderful hymn.. I have a special memory with my mum.. both of use to sing this hymn.. and while you sing. You feel the anointing of Holy spirit.. tears roll unknowingly.. ❤
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Thank you, Luke ❤
That was my favourite song when I was college.
Thank you for this beautiful hymn. God has gifted you with a beautiful voice and a gentle, comforting demeanor. You have blessed me greatly today.
Many thanks for sharing
Greetings from Nebraska!
This is my very favorite hymn. I don't know when I first heard it or sang it. I also grew up in the Methodist Church and I must have learned it there. I also love the poem by Marianne Farningham called "The Last Hymn." Are you familiar with it?
In my hymnal it has an alternate melody. My dear friend and I sang this hymn together; each of us singing one of the melodies. It was beautiful.
When I was in high school, 45 years ago, our choir director had our choir learn this hymn but the melody, harmony was composed by Ken Medema. It became very special to me. I was not familiar with it at all before then. I had my own Lutheran hymnal my Grandparents had given me with my name embossed on the front of it. I don't believe this hymn was in it for I often played the songs on the piano and sang from it. That hymnal did have some of John and Charles Wesley's hymn in it. Thanks for sharing your insights.
This was the hymn sung graveside at the funeral of The Lawson Family in 1929. Charles Lawson murdered his entire family and then killed himself on Christmas Day, 1929. This was sung acapella at the graveside service.
So comforting. Sometimes I am full of fear, and I know this is si, it is difficult to escape from it.
A reference in today's instalment of Christian History "Death of Joseph Barnby" made me search to this hymn. Although I am Methodist it is unfamiliar in my church as well. Thanks.
Thank you brother! I grew up Methodist too and don't remember heariñg this song. I love it! ❤
Thank you.
Thank you again Luke....you'll never know what a blessing this is to me tonight.
So true
Legacy in words
Great pulling words
God loves
Uncourages us
Thank you
Jesu wangu mudiwa.
One of my favorites, thank you so much.
Thanks!
This is so kind. Thank you!!
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Is this the original melody for this hymn, we sung it to a different tune. One of my favourites, was interesting hearing it sung different, almost like hearing it for the first time again fifty years later.
Your content is such a blessing. May God bless and keep you! Charles and his brother were real giants of the gospel
This is a different melody from the one we sang. Charles Wesley has written more songs that I would call my favorites than any other .
Awesome. Please keep going!!
Was going to bring ro your attention you sang "found" but the poem says find, which took away from the blind.. but its totally irrelevant. Just making sure you know
What an amazing story behind the song, I am in love with this song, The words are so so wonderful & touching, It has helped me so much in my difficult times, The song helped me to know my Saviour's intimate love for me & a genuine cry in heart to look to His face through faith & draw close to Him more, Charles Wesley song's are still changing lives and helping many needy to draw close to Jesus through his song.
Thank you dear Brother for all the hard work you did to make this video, God bless you immensely.
Thank you for sharing this post we love it.God you you Luke Amen
Amazing, very beautiful. Thank you Luke🩷
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Really blessed by this song
Thanks a lot
I love this hymn. I learned it with a different tune but I like the one you sang it to.
It's my new favorite song ❤
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🎉The song invites one who needs help.
Absolutely beautiful. Thank you so much for posting.
God bless you 🙏😘
I am looking for hymns for my burial. Do not want to let mine children to do the task.
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Another great HYME
Can you do Nearer My God To Thee for your next hymn story?
Nice suggestion! I will add it to my list
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YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified/Pierced for our sins and “HERE IS THE PROOF”
From the Ancient Egyptian Semitic:
"Yad He Vav He" is what Moshe (Moses) wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3)
Ancient Egyptian Semitic Direct Translation
Yad - "Behold The Hand"
He - "Behold the Breath"
Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
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Thank you, Luke: lovely rendition... but that is not the tune I know. We sang the same words quiet differently at my local Baptist Church. Even so, I think we agree this is indeed a BLISSFUL HYMN... widely popular across many Baptist Churches be they in North America, West Africa (e.g. the CBC.; NBC et. al.), even in South- East Asia (=Philippines). I think a lot of its popularity can be attributed to the compilation and works of Ira D. Sankey the famous American composer and evangelist who published a lot of these timeless hymns in his SS&S hymnal, a veritable masterstroke of amazing gospel tunes and lyrics... which sold well over 50 million copies worldwide...
Very nice and devotional. What pianos/keyboards do you play and recommend.
Let's keep the old ways of the King James Bible and the old hymns. I'm John Wesley, we do not need to change. We're losing our way in America
Well said , the old paths !
Used to sing it but in a more melodious Germanic tune.
Luke thanks, one I never sang at the Methodist Church either. A beautiful hymn
I like your program I only think I disagree with is your teaching. That song is a little bit Archaic, they say that about the King James Bible as well. I Disagree
A host of stories - none of them true … Not sure how the facts were lost here?
Thanks for sharing