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"It Is Well With My Soul", also known as "When Peace, Like A River", is a hymn penned by hymnist Horatio Spafford and composed by Philip Bliss.First published in Gospel Hymns No. 2 by Ira Sankey and Bliss (1876), it is possibly the most influential and enduring in the Bliss repertoire and is often taken as a choral model, appearing in hymnals of a wide variety of Christian fellowships.
'tis manna to the hungry soul, and to the weary, rest. 3 Dear Name! the Rock on which I build; my shield and hiding-place; My never-failing treasury, fill'd with boundless stores of grace, 4 By Thee my prayers acceptance gain, although with sin defil'd; Satan accuses me in vain, and I am own'd a child. 5 Jesus, my Shepherd, Husband, Friend,
Timothy Dudley-Smith wrote the hymn in May 1961 when he and his wife had just moved into their first house in Blackheath.He was inspired to write the text when he was reading a modern paraphrase of the Magnificat in Luke 1:46–55 in the New English Bible, a translation which begins with the phrase, "Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord".
The song is a contemporary version of a classic worship song making the case for "10,000 reasons for my heart to find" to praise God. The inspiration for the song came through the opening verse of Psalm 103: "Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name".
The hymn is a song for Abendmahl, the Lutheran Communion. The hymn lyrics were written in nine stanzas by Johann Franck, who was not a minister but a politician and mayor, [2] between 1646 and 1653. [3] Franck compared the unity between Jesus and a Christian receiving communion to the closeness of bridegroom and bride. [2]
The hymn appeared first in the fifth edition of the hymnal Praxis Pietatis Melica [2] by Johann Crüger in 1653. [3] It appears in a section titled "Von der Geburt Jesu Christ" (Of the birth of Jesus Christ). [4] The hymn was missing in the 1854 Deutsches Evangelisches Kirchen-Gesangbuch. [5]
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Thy love in my soul and in my heart --Grant this to me, O King of the seven heavens. O King of the seven heavens grant me this --Thy love to be in my heart and in my soul. With the King of all, with him after victory won by piety, May I be in the kingdom of heaven, O brightness of the sun. Beloved Father, hear, hear my lamentations.