Preparing Our Hearts For Worship Podcast - I'd Rather Have Jesus by Glenn Dawson published on 2022-08-11T00:07:38Z A hymn which expresses the desire to forsake all and follow Christ is “I’d Rather Have Jesus”. The text was written in 1922 by Rhea Miller. At the age of twenty-eight, while walking in the fields near her home, Rhea Miller recalled her father’s earlier battle with alcohol, and how the Lord set him free. He had made the comment that he would rather have Jesus than all the gold and silver in the world, and all the houses and lands that money could buy. Genre Religion & Spirituality