Count Your Blessings

We’ve all heard the song: “Count your blessings, name them one by one. Count your blessings see what God has done…” Have you ever actually tried counting your blessings? I have. Whenever I start to feel down, I try counting my blessings. It works, I can’t be down when I have been so blessed, I also can’t count them all.

When we walk with Jesus, we are blessed. Even when the world is crumbling around us, with Jesus, we are blessed. With Jesus, we have more blessings than we deserve, yet God gives us more.

We have God’s grace, love, compassion, mercy, and everything else. God wants us to take all of him and he wants all of us. Even when we hold back, God showers us with blessings.

Were you able to get out of bed today? Did you see the blue sky? Hear the birds singing? Play with your children? Hear a baby laugh? Do you have a family? Are you in good health?  Do you have a job? A house? A car? Food?

All of these things are blessings. I’m sure you have many others. Remember to Thank God everyday for your blessings.

SCRIPTURE SUPPORT:

Genesis 1:28 – God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

Numbers 6:24-26 – “The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn your face toward you and give you peace.”

Psalm 5:12 – For surely, O Lord, you bless the righteous; you surround them with your favor as with a shield.

Psalm 34:8 – Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him.

Psalm 40:4 - Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not look to the proud, to those who turn aside to false gods.

Psalm 112:2 – His children will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.

Psalm 119:1-2 – Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the Lord. Blessed are they who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart.

Psalm 144:15 – Blessed are the people of whom this is true; blessed are the people whose God is the Lord.

John 20:29 – Then Jesus told them, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”