Seize the Moment – Day 606

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13
Nov '21

Seize the Moment – Day 606

Posted on Nov 13, 2021 by Ken Durham in Devotions, General |

13
Nov '21

Today’s hymn focus will be

“Count Your Blessings”

 

“O Lord my God, you have performed many wonders for us. Your plans for us are too numerous to list.  You have no equal. If I tried to recite all your wonderful deeds,  I would never come to the end of them.”

 

Johnson Oatman, Jr. grew up singing hymns with his father who loved to sing praises to God with his children, leaving behind a rich legacy. Johnson grew up to become a Methodist minister who wrote over 5000 hymns, with Count Your Blessings being the most loved, usually being sung around Thanksgiving. During the revival in Wales in the early 1900’s, it was one of the hymns sung at every service.

 

It is not a song to say, “Everything is fine, so just cheer up!” Rather, it is one to openly acknowledge life’s storms and burdens and bring them all to God in prayer.

 

            “Count your blessings, name them one by one. Count your blessings,

            See what God has done. Count your blessings, name them one by one.

            Count your many blessings, see what God has done.”

 

Wake up and remember that this is a hymn of gratitude, to rise above doubt, discouragement, self-pity and anxiety and remember that you can take everything to God in prayer, and He will handle it!
 
 
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Count Your Blessings

by Johnson Oatman, Jr
 
1
When upon life’s billows you are tempest tossed,
When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost,
Count your many blessings, name them one by one,
And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.
 
Chorus:
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your blessings, see what God hath done!
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.
 
2
Are you ever burdened with a load of care?
Does the cross seem heavy you are called to bear?
Count your many blessings, every doubt will fly,
And you will keep singing as the days go by.
 
3
So, amid the conflict whether great or small,
Do not be disheartened, God is over all;
Count your many blessings, angels will attend,
Help and comfort give you to your journeys end.
 

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