The promise unfailing

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My hope of salvation is steadfast and sure

Author: Haldor Lillenas
Tune: [My hope of salvation is steadfast and sure]
Published in 3 hymnals

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1 My hope of salvation is steadfast and sure,
I’ve builded my house on foundation secure,
The rock of His word that shall ever endure,
The promise unfailing is mine.

Refrain:
The promise unfailing is mine,
I rest on this bulwark divine,
Tho’ earth pass away,
His word stands for aye,
The promise unfailing is mine.

2 The storm clouds of sorrow may over me spread,
My hopes, glad and golden may from me have fled,
Still on this assurance I pillow my head:
The promise unfailing is mine. [Refrain]

3 The Tempter may strive to ensnare and defeat,
And many a pitfall is laid for my feet,
But grace all availing, each trial shall meet,
The promise unfailing is mine. [Refrain]

4 How happy my lot since the Lord has control
What glad, sweet assurance abides in my soul;
My heart sings with joy as I press t’wards the goal,
The promise unfailing is mine. [Refrain]

Source: Songs of Full Salvation #69

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Author: Haldor Lillenas

Rv Haldor Lillenas DMus Norway/USA 1885-1959. Born at Stord, near Bergen, Norway, his father sold their 15 acre farm in Norway and emigrated to the U.S., buying a farm in Colton, SD. After he built a sod house, the family (wife and three chldren) also came to SD in 1887. They moved to Astoria, Oregon in 1889, where Lillenas learned English and began writing song lyrics at an early age. In 1900 the family moved again to Roseville, MN, where he worked as a farm laborer and began attending a Lutheran high school at Hawick, MN. He sold a few songs at age 19. At age 21 he began writing more songs, encouraged by some earlier ones becoming popular (“He set me free” was one). His mother died in 1906 and his father returned to ND, but Li… Go to person page >

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First Line:	My hope of salvation is steadfast and sure
Title:	The promise unfailing
Author:	Haldor Lillenas
Refrain First Line:	The promise unfailing is mine, I rest on this bulwark divine
Copyright:	Public Domain