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"Follow On", also known in certain cases as "Down In The Valley With My Saviour I Would Go" [1] and "I Will Follow Jesus", is a Christian hymn written in 1878 by William Orcutt Cushing. [2] The music for it was composed in 1880 by both Robert Lowry and W. Howard Doane .
"I Have Decided to Follow Jesus" is a Christian hymn that originated in Assam, present-day Meghalaya, India. According to P. Job, the lyrics are based on the last words of Nokseng, a Garo man, a tribe from Meghalaya which then was in Assam, who converted to Christianity in the middle of the 19th century through the efforts of an American Baptist missionary.
He explains that he believes God called him to serve, and that he promised God to follow Him no matter what. He also promises to marry her when he returns. At the train station he gives her a Bible with the inscription in the front, "Though none go with me, yet will I follow. No turning back, no turning back."
In 2011, Peggy March re-recorded "I Will Follow Him" with Dutch singer José Hoebee (who covered this song and reached the number-one spot in the Netherlands and Belgium in 1982). However, it took another year for the release of this new version song, which was eventually released on the German version of March's album Always and Forever. [34]
Rating the album an eight and a half stars for Jesus Wired, Rebekah Joy says, "I Will Follow is a great album full of emotional, worship, and soul-filled songs." [12] Christian St. John, awarding the album five stars for Christian Review Magazine, writes, "I Will Follow is a release Mr. Camp can be proud of." [7]
A list of all songs with lyrics about Jesus Christ, where he is specifically the central subject.This category contains both songs referring to specific moments of Jesus's life (birth, preaching, crucifixion) and songs of blessing, rejoicing or mourning where he is portrayed as a religious deity or examined as a cultural figure.
The song's refrain follows a prayer ascribed to the 13th-century English bishop Saint Richard of Chichester: May I know Thee more clearly, Love Thee more dearly, Follow Thee more nearly. [3] The version in Godspell follows more closely the wording in Hymn 429 of the 1940 Hymnal: Day by day, Dear Lord, of thee three things I pray: To see thee ...
Its text contains thirteen questions asked by Jesus in the first person. [5] [6] The initial four stanzas with the questions are in Jesus' voice, and the fifth stanza is the singer's response to them. [1] The hymn is based on Mark 1:16–20 and alludes to Jesus calling his disciples to follow him. [5] C.