The Most Beautiful “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” You’ll Hear Today

“What a Friend We Have in Jesus” returns in this original Southern Gospel Quartet adaptation by Brother Golston, blending old time gospel, traditional Gospel harmony, and Christian country music with a timeless message about prayer and the faithfulness of Jesus. When the burden gets heavy, when the road grows lonely, and when there seems to be nowhere else to turn, there is still a Friend who listens. Jesus hears us when we pray. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT THIS SONG For generations, “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” has reminded Christians of one simple truth: We were never meant to carry every burden alone. This Brother Golston adaptation honors the heart of the historic hymn while introducing newly adapted lyrics, an original fourth verse, call-and-response quartet sections, and a new bridge. Trials will come. People may disappoint us. There will be nights when the road ahead is difficult to see. But the Friend who walked with believers generations ago is still faithful today. When we are weary, He is near. When we are troubled, He hears. And when we have nowhere else to turn, we can still call on the name of Jesus. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 0:00 What a Friend We Have in Jesus 0:14 Verse 1 – All Our Griefs He Helps Us Bear 0:46 Quartet – Bring It to Him in Prayer 1:02 Verse 2 – Have We Trials and Temptations? 1:36 Verse 3 – Weak and Heavy-Laden 2:08 Verse 4 – When the Night Is Long 2:34 Bridge – He Is Near 2:51 Final Chorus – Every Burden, Every Sorrow ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LYRICS [Verse 1 – Lead] What a friend we have in Jesus All our griefs He helps us bear What a blessing just to know Him And to meet the Lord in prayer [Quartet Response] Oh, the peace we sometimes forfeit Oh, the pain we choose to bear [Full Quartet] When we keep our hearts in silence Instead of bringing them in prayer [Verse 2 – Lead] Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere? We don't have to be discouraged We can seek the Lord in prayer [Quartet Response] There is still a Friend so faithful Who will all our sorrows share [Full Quartet] Jesus knows our every weakness And He meets us when we pray [Verse 3 – Lead] When we're weak and heavy-laden Burdened down with fear and care Precious Savior, still our refuge We can always find Him there [Quartet Response] When the ones we love forsake us Jesus still will hear our prayer [Full Quartet] In His mercy He will hold us And we'll find our comfort there [Verse 4 – Original] When the night is long and lonely And the road is hard to see Still the Savior walks beside us Still His grace will carry me [Bridge – Lead + Quartet] [Lead] When I am weary [Quartet] He is near [Lead] When I am troubled [Quartet] He will hear [Lead] When I have nowhere else to turn [Full Quartet] I will call on Jesus' name [Final Chorus – Full Quartet] What a friend we have in Jesus Faithful through our every care Every burden, every sorrow We can bring to Him in prayer [Final Tag] [Lead] What a friend [Quartet] What a faithful friend [Full Quartet] Jesus hears us when we pray ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SONG CREDITS “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” Original Lyrics: Joseph M. Scriven Original text written circa 1855 Music: Charles C. Converse CONVERSE, 1868 Original hymn: Public Domain Original Adaptation & Arrangement: Brother Golston Original Production: Brother Golston / Azenka Media © 2026 Azenka Media — original adaptation, arrangement, production and recording. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THERE IS STILL A FRIEND WHO LISTENS Maybe you've prayed for everyone else. Your children. Your family. Your friends. Maybe you've carried burdens quietly because you didn't want anyone else to worry. But you don't have to carry everything alone. There is still a Friend so faithful. If Jesus has been that Friend to you, write “What a faithful Friend” in the comments. And tell us what city, state, or country you're listening from today. We love seeing how far these old Gospel truths are traveling. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Brother Golston brings Southern Gospel Quartet harmony, Christian country music, and old-time Gospel storytelling together in songs about Jesus, prayer, grace, redemption, Heaven, and finding the road Home. Brother Golston | Revival Country Gospel #SouthernGospel #OldTimeGospel #BrotherGolston