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I Surrender All
All to Jesus I surrender, all to Him I freely give;
I will ever love and trust Him, in His presence daily live.
All to Jesus I surrender, humbly at His feet I bow;
Worldly pleasures all forsaken, take me, Jesus, take me now.
I surrender all, I surrender all.
All to Thee my blessed Savior.
I surrender all.
I surrender all.
All to Jesus I surrender, make me, Savior, wholly Thine;
Let me feel Your Holy Spirit, May I know Thy power divine.
I surrender all, I surrender all.
All to Thee my blessed Savior.
I surrender all.
I surrender all.
All to Jesus I surrender, Lord, I give myself to Thee;
Fill me with Thy love an power, Let Thy blessings fall on me.
I surrender all, I surrender all.
All to Thee my blessed Savior.
I surrender all.
I surrender all.
With the strength of conviction and the gratitude of genuine
love Vanessa delivers a tender performance of this classic.
Rich harmonies compliment her expressive vocal is so completely surrendered under
the hand of her loving Lord that it cannot help but penetrate into your inner soul.
Song Story
Judson W. Van De Venter was a schoolteacher by profession but an
artist at heart. Teaching allowed him the
time to study his drawing and painting. After
many evangelistic meetings in his church, his friends urged him to become an evangelist
after noticing his gifts in counseling and working with people. For years he wavered between his love for art and
his apparent calling to the ministry.
He later wrote: “At last, the pivotal hour of my life came
and I surrendered all. A new day was ushered
into my life. I became an evangelist and
discovered down deep in my soul a talent hitherto unknown to me.” It was a few years later that Judson, remembering
that decisive moment in his life, wrote this hymn.
We began to sing this song during our years at First Baptist
Church of Bakersfield while we were ministering as a praise team in the Sunday morning
worship service. Later, when we started the
group Selah this song instantly became a part of our ongoing repertoire. It turned out to be a very moving arrangement and
congregations all over were particularly responsive to it.
“I Surrender All” was used in almost every altar call with much success
as it became one of our own favorites.
However, it was not until after Selah disbanded that we recorded
the song. I had not ever gotten tracs of
several of our pieces and asked the group members if they would like to get together again
to fill in the gaps. I had always wanted a
recording of this piece and welcomed the opportunity to lay it down.
The main reason why the group went their separate ways was our
busy family schedules. Therefore, when we
finally decided to record the song, I could not get everyone together at one time. So in came the Selah members to the studio,
one-by-one, to lay their own vocal trac over Vanessa’s lead. To hear the resultant harmonies, you would never
know it!
It is very hard to surrender everything to the Lord. Hence, this song pulls hard on the emotions of
everyone who truly loves God. The Selah
arrangement begins with a tender solo by Vanessa on the first verse bringing Mitch in on
the second. Virginia eventually slips in the
third as the convincing vocal harmonies build towards a modulation that lifts the song up
into sheer praise and dedication to God. We
pray that this arrangement encourages you as you surrender all to God.
Download a free chord chart of this praise song
When peace like a river attendeth my
way,
When sorrows like sea-billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me
to say,
“It is well, it is well with my
soul.”
It is well with my soul,
It is well, it is well with my soul.
Though Satan should buffet, tho’
trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control,
That Christ has regarded my helpless
estate,
And hath shed His own blood for my
soul.
It is well with my soul,
It is well, it is well with my soul.
My sin -- O, the bliss of the glorious
thought,
My sin -- not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross and I bear it
no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my
soul!
It is well with my soul,
It is well, it is well with my soul.
And, Lord, haste the day when the
faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll,
The trumph shall resound and the Lord
shall descend,
“Even so” -- it is well with
my soul.
Arrangement Copyright © 1999 Don
Wigton
A light piano lights the way towards
hope eternal. . .filled with a message of assurance
a flute joins with a confident and encouraging melody. . .a cello joins to declare the
faith of a thousand generations who have learned to trust in God.
Song
Story
There is not a hymn that expresses the
provision of God in times of overwhelming distress as this emotional song does. It came from a period of personal despair that few
of us could even imagine. In 1871 Horatio G.
Spafford, a forty-three year old businessman, suffered complete financial disaster in the
Great Chicago fire. Right before the fire he
and his wife lost their son. Yet this was only the beginning of Horatio’s problems.
Filled with grief they decided to go
away on vacation in England to visit with their friend, Dwight Moody, as he conducted
evangelistic campaigns. He sent his wife an
four daughters ahead on the SS Ville du Havre. In
the mean time, Horatio would follow in just a few days.
On its way to England, the ship that
carried his family was struck by an iron sailing vessel and sank within twelve minutes. Two hundred and twenty-six lives were lost in the
tragedy, including Horatio’s four daughters. When
the survivors were brought to shore at Cardif, Wales, Horatio was met by his wife alone
who declared, “Saved alone.”
He booked passage on the next ship and
asked the captain to notify him when they had reached the point where the Ville du Havre
went down. He stood out on the deck looking
at that mighty ocean that claimed the life of his daughters, then returned to his cabin
that night to pen those great lyrics: “When sorrows like sea billows roll. . .it is
well, it is well with my soul.”
The evening when I laid down the
instrumental to this song was a time of personal tragedy.
Just days before I had heard that an x-ray had revealed a growth on my
mother’s lung. That night I received the
news that a cat scan had demonstrated inflammation on the lymph nodes, which, if is was to
be cancer, could mean that it had already spread. The
doctor would be doing minor surgery within a few days to take a biopsy, so I indicated
that I would drive down for support. It is
with this on my heart that I read the words, “Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to
say, ‘It is well, it is well with my soul.’”
That night God gave me the answer that
I needed. Sometimes His responses to our
dilemmas are not exactly what we want to hear, but in this case I well understood and
received the message. I explained to Vanessa
that I knew that our hope for the future was to trust in the sovereignty of God. It is God and God alone who gives and takes life,
and whatever the outcome of this tragic time, I knew and understood fully that He was in
control and that I must trust Him for the outcome.
Days later the doctor came out of the
operating room explaining that my mom indeed had cancer.
Yet this instrumental is filled with hope. It
was written by a man deep in despair, now performed by one who was filled with the agony
of the possible loss of his mother. I
sincerely pray that you will be blessed by this offering and moved to put your trust in
God regardless of the circumstances that surround you.
Leaning On the Everlasting Arms
What a fellowship, what a joy divine,
Leaning on the everlasting arms;
What a blessedness, what a peace is mine,
Leaning on the everlasting arms.
Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms;
Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms.
O how sweet to walk in this pilgrim way.
Leaning on the everlasting arms;
O, how bright the path grows from day to day,
Leaning on the everlasting arms.
What have I to dread, what have I to fear,
Leaning on the everlasting arms;
I have blessed peace with my Lord so dear,
Leaning on the everlasting arms.
Arrangement Copyright © 2000 Don Wigton
Vanessa’s voice resounds on this gutsy arrangement over
Don’s hammering blues piano and classic B3 with heart-felt devotion and praise. This timeless rendition ushers from her joyous
spirit with fervor and a desire for God. It
is certain to enrapture you.
Song Story
It was after he dismissed his class that A. J. Showalter found
two letters at home from his former students. Both
writers had lost their wives who had died on the same day.
The scripture that came to Showalter’s mind was Deuteronomy 33:26-27 that
carries the assurance of God’s “everlasting arms” to support us. Showalter then wrote a letter to the hymnwriter
Elisha Hoffman and suggested that he write a hymn to that theme while giving him the
wording to the chorus. Hoffman responded
quickly with three stanzas that Showalter put music to and “Leaning on the
Everlasting Arms” was born.
This was the first hymn that I fell in love with. During the late ‘70s, after seeing my hopes
for rock-and-roll stardom dashed, I began attending a church in Long Beach, California
(after being asked to sing in the vocal group that the featured on TV weekly.) I was a bit of a lost bullet at the time, but
found myself enveloped by the love of that sweet church.
So I found myself attending whenever I got the chance. Sunday nights were less formal and more intimate
than the Sunday services and I enjoyed them very much.
“Leaning on the Everlasting Arms” was sung every service. I loved the melody and the words really spoke to
the condition that I was currently in, so I adopted it as a personal favorite.
Later in the ‘80s I put together a midi arrangement of it
for my vocal group “Selah” to sing to. Eventually
Vanessa got the task and she sang it with the amount of heart that it deserved. However, we never got around to recording it.
It wasn’t until one of the last days of the millennium that
I finally got Vanessa to the microphone to sing “Leaning” once again. As usual, she laid it down in a couple of takes
with her quite professional demeanor adding exquisite killer harmonies. I kicked in with a few piano licks that had never
been recorded and the results were fantastic!! We
sincerely pray that your will be encouraged in the understanding of the provision of the
Lord as you listen to this cut.
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