I rest in God alone

Authors:
Themes:
Scriptures:
  • Psalms 18:2
  • Psalms 33:20
  • Psalms 37:3-5
  • Psalms 37:7
  • Psalms 42:4-5
  • Psalms 62:1-2
  • Psalms 62:5-8
  • Matthew 11:28-29
Book Number:
  • 759

I rest in God alone,
from him comes my salvation;
my soul finds rest in him,
my fortress-I’ll not be shaken.

1. My hope is in the Lord
my honour and strength;
my refuge is in him for ever,
my trust and all of my heart-
in him alone my soul finds rest.

I rest in God alone …

2. O, trust in him, you people,
pour out your hearts,
for God is our refuge for ever,
my trust and all of my heart-
in him alone my soul finds rest …

© Sovereign Music UK
John Daniels

The Christian Life - Submission and Trust

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The story behind the hymn

The third of John Daniels’ 3 songs in Praise! is based on Psalm 62:1–2,5–8, closest to the NIV. It is dated 1984/85 and made its hymn-book debut in Let’s Praise in 1988. The author’s own tune I REST IN GOD ALONE was arranged there, as here and in MP etc, by Christopher Norton; it also featured in Songs from the Psalms in 1990.

A look at the author

Daniels, John

b Cowplain, nr Portsmouth, Hants 1951. After schooling at Churcher’s Coll, Petersfield, he worked for 2 engineering companies (ONC, Business Studies) until moving into full time Christian music in 1974. He first toured the midlands with a group called The Alethians, and travelled in a gospel ministry with Dave Pope (Saltmine), Graham Kendrick, Sheila Walsh, Dana and others in concerts and church-based missions. He often worked with Youth for Christ, YWAM and the Arts Centre Group. When colleagues DP and David Anfield moved on in different directions, JD (‘the more quiet of the three’—Paul Davis) saw songwriting as his priority, and in the 1980s he has worked in music production of some 40 gospel albums for Kingsway, Word, Chapel Lane etc and various TV slots. From 1992 to 1997 he lived and worked in the USA (Music Minister in a Fort Worth church 1995–97), returning to the UK in 1997 before settling in Texas in 2002. His American work has been mainly with music for the RBC Ministries ‘Day of Discovery’ TV programme; ‘my ministry has always been earthed in being a “writer. 565, 759.
He co-wrote 617 with Phil Thomson.