I Surrender All

The song I Surrender All was writ­ten in 1896 by Judson Van de Venter when he was con­duct­ing a meet­ing at East Pal­es­tine, Ohio, in the home of George Seb­ring (found­er of the Seb­ring Camp­meet­ing Bi­ble Con­fer­ence in Seb­ring, Ohio, and lat­er de­vel­op­er of the town of Seb­ring, Flor­i­da). For some time, he had strug­gled be­tween de­vel­op­ing his tal­ents in the field of art and go­ing into full-time evan­gel­is­tic work. At last the pi­vot­al hour of his life came, and he sur­ren­dered all. A new day was ushered in­to his life. He became an evang­el­ist and dis­cov­ered down deep in his soul a special song God blessed him with.

This song is still a very special hymn for many.

One that needs to be sung many times reminding us to surrender all the problems of this life to the one who loves us the most!


All to Jesus, I surrender;
All to Him I freely give;
I will ever love and trust Him,
In His presence daily live.

Refrain

I surrender all,
I surrender all,
All to Thee, my blessèd Savior,
I surrender all.

All to Jesus I surrender;
Humbly at His feet I bow,
Worldly pleasures all forsaken;
Take me, Jesus, take me now.

Refrain

All to Jesus, I surrender;
Make me, Savior, wholly Thine;
Let me feel the Holy Spirit,
Truly know that Thou art mine.

Refrain

All to Jesus, I surrender;
Lord, I give myself to Thee;
Fill me with Thy love and power;
Let Thy blessing fall on me.

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All to Jesus I surrender;
Now I feel the sacred flame.
O the joy of full salvation!
Glory, glory, to His Name!

Refrain