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All For Jesus

By Josh Garrels

10 views Oct 24, 2026 updated Verified editorial review

Song Meaning

A simple, repeating confession of surrender, the song circles around one offering: everything the singer is, has, and hopes to become, handed over to Jesus. The opening lines set that total claim in place before the second movement names what is actually being given up — ambitions, hopes and plans — laid deliberately into God's hands rather than clutched. The turn comes in the line about freedom, which reframes surrender not as loss but as release: it is only within God's will that the singer finds liberty. That paradox gets repeated and stretched out at the end, as if the singer wants the truth to settle in. There is no narrative arc or scene here, just a short litany of trust, and its power lies in the plainness of the exchange it describes. The song reads like a prayer someone might return to when their own plans feel heavy, offering them up and discovering that the letting go is what loosens the grip.
Lyrics Verified by Editorial Team

Jesus, all for Jesus
All I am and have and ever hope to be
Jesus, all for Jesus
All I am and have and ever hope to be

All of my ambitions, hopes and plans
I surrender these into Your hands
All of my ambitions, hopes and plans
I surrender these into Your hands

For it's only in Your will that I am free
For it's only in Your will that I am free

Jesus, all for Jesus
All I am and have and ever hope to be
All of my ambitions, hopes and plans
I surrender these into Your hands

For it's only in Your will that I am free
For it's only in Your will that I am free
For it's only in Your will that I am free
For it's only in Your will that I am free

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