Alan Jackson – Leaning On The Everlasting Arms
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⚠️ Visit this website daily to pray: before you sleep, when you wake up, through tough times, during joy, and in uncertainty. God is always with us.Leaning on the Everlasting Arms is a hymn published in 1887 with music by Anthony J. Showalter and lyrics by Showalter and Elisha Hoffman.
Showalter said that he received letters from two of his former pupils saying that their wives had died. When writing letters of consolation, Showalter was inspired by the phrase in the Book of Deuteronomy 33:27, “The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms”.
Lyrics
What a fellowship, what a joy divine
Leaning on the everlasting arms What a blessedness, what a peace is mine Leaning on the everlasting armsLeaning, leaning
Safe and secure from all alarms Leaning, leaning Leaning on the everlasting armsWhat have I to dread, what have I to fear
Leaning on the everlasting arms? I have blessed peace with my Lord so near Leaning on the everlasting armsLeaning, leaning
Safe and secure from all alarms Leaning, leaning Leaning on the everlasting armsMusic video by Alan Jackson performing Leaning On The Everlasting Arms. (C) 2017 ACR Records, LLC Under license to Spring House Productions, Inc.