Count Your Blessings
   Words: Johnson Oatman, JR.
   Tune: Edwin Excell
VERSE 1
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When upon life’s billows you are tempest tossed,
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When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost,
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Count your many blessings, name them one by  one,
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And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.
CHORUS
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Count your blessings, name them one by one,
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Count your blessings, see what God hath done!
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Count your blessings, name them one by one,
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And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.
VERSE 2
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Are you ever burdened with a load of  care?
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Does the cross seem heavy you are called to bear?
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Count your many blessings, every doubt will fly,
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And you will keep singing as the days go by.
VERSE 3
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When you look at others with their lands and gold,
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Think that Christ has promised you His wealth untold;
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Count your many blessings. Wealth can nev -er  buy
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Your reward in heaven, nor your home on high.
VERSE 4
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So, amid the conflict whether great or small,
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Do not be disheartened, God is over all;
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Count your many blessings, angels will att-end,
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Help and comfort give you to your journey’s end.
                    

                        I Have Been Blessed
   Tune: arr. from "The Rochesters")
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1. When He walks  among  us  in all that He does,
2. Warmth  in  the  winter, f lowers in     spring
3. Arms that  can  raise,  a voice that can talk
4. Father  and  mother  who  nutured and    raised 
5. We live in a  country  the  greatest on  earth
6. He’s my shoulder to lean on when I   am  down 
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1. All of     His      mercy  and  all  of  His love.
2. Laughter   in       summer    changes    of  leaves.
3. Hands   that   can  touch and legs that can  walk
4. Sisters   and       brothers     memories    made
5. Our flag stands for freedom and what it  is  worth
6. The rock where He   leads me when I am over -whelmed
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1. If the pen of a writer could write everyday
2. Food on  my    table, a  good place to sleep
3. Ears that can listen and eyes that can see
4. Our pastor to lead us, this alter to   pray
5. She stands in the harbor Miss Liberty called
6. The place where He hides me under His  wings
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1. Not even his   words could ever        contain how much I’ve been blessed.
2. Clothes on my  back shoes  on  my      feet   Oh, I have been     blessed! CHORUS
3. Oh I’ve got to praise Him as long as I breathe cuz, I have been   blessed!
4. Stripes that can heal and blood that can save,     Oh I have been blessed! CHORUS
5. All have gave  some   but same gave it all,          For me to be blessed! 
6. It's not just a song it's the reason I sing   Oh, I have been     blessed! CHORUS
CHORUS
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I have been blessed
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God is so good to me
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Precious are his thoughts of you and me
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No way I could count them there’s not enough time
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So I’ll just thank Him for being so kind
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God has been good, so-oh good, I have been blessed!
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Oh I’ve got to praise Him as long as I breathe cuz, I have been blessed!
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TAG AT END: 
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God you’ve been good so-oh good
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We have been blessed!
                    

                        It Is Well with My Soul
   Words: Horatio G. Spafford 1828-1888
   Tune: Philip P. Bliss 1838-1876
   Category: Peace and Joy
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1. When peace like  a      riv-er   at    -tend -eth   my     way,
2. Though Sa -tan   should buf-fet, though tri  -als   should come,
3. My sin-    O     the  bliss of   this   glo  -ri   -ous    thought,
4. And Lord   haste the day    when my     faith shall be     sight,
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1. When sor-rows like    sea-bil -lows roll;   What-ev-er      my  lot,
2. Let  this blest as   -sur-ance con- trol,   That Christ has re -gard
3. My   sin- not in      part but the  whole,  Is nailed to    the cross
4. The  clouds be rolled back as  a    scroll, The trump shall re -sound
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1. Thou has taught me  to say,  It     is   well, it is      well  with  my    soul.
2. -ed my   help-less  es-tate, And    hath shed  His own    blood for   my    soul.
3. and I    bear it    no more. Praise the  Lord, praise the Lord, O     my    soul!
4. and the  Lord shall de-scend, "e   -ven  so"   it is      well  with  my    soul.
Chorus
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It is well with my soul
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It is well, It is well with my soul.
                    

                        Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee
   Words: Henry Van Dyke, 1852-1933
   Tune: Ludwig Van Beethoven 1770-1827
   Category: Peace and Joy
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1. Joyful, Joy  -ful, we   a  -dore  Thee, God of    glo -ry, Lord   of love;
2. All Thy works with joy  sur-round Thee, Earth and heav'n re-flect Thy rays,
3. Mor-tals join the might-y   cho  -rus   Which the morn-ing stars  be-gan;
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1. Hearts un-fold like flow'rs be -fore  Thee, Op'n-ing to   the   sun a-bove.
2. Stars and an-gels   sing    a-  round Thee, Cen-ter  of   un   -bro-ken praise.
3. Fa-ther love is     reign-  ing o'er  us,   Broth-er love binds man to man.
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1. Melt the  clouds of sin and  sad-ness;  Drive the dark of  doubt a  -way;
2. Field and for-est,  vale and moun-tain, Flow-'ry  mead-ow, flash-ing sea,
3. Ev-er     sing-ing, march we on-ward,   Vic-tors  in   the midst of  strife;
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1. Giv-er    of im   -mor  -tal glad-ness, Fill us with the  light of day.
2. Chant-ing bird and flow -ing foun-tain  Call us to   re  -joice in Thee.
3. Joy-ful   mu-sic   leads us  on  -ward  In the  tri -umph song  of life.
                    

                        Like a River Glorious
   Words: Frances R. Havergal 1836-1879
   Tune: James Mountain 1844-1933
   Category: Peace and Joy
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1 Like a  riv-er glo-rious Is God's per-fect peace,
2 Hid-den in the hol-low   Of His   bless-ed hand,
3 Ev-'ry  joy or tri-al    Fall-eth from a  -bome,
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1 O-ver  all vic-  to- rious In its bright in- crease;
2 Nev-er foe can   fol-low,  Nev-er trai-  tor stand;
3 Traced up-on our di- al    By the Sun    of  Love;
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1 Per-fect, yet it flow-eth Full-er ev-'ry   day,
2 Not a surge of   wor -ry, Not a   shade of care,
3 We may trust Him ful -ly  All for us to    do-
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1 Per-fect yet   it  grow-eth Deep- er  all  the way.
2 Not a    blast of  hur -ry  Touch the spir-it  there.
3 They who trust Him whol-ly  Find  Him whol-ly  true.
Chorus
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Stayed up-on Je-ho-vah, Hearts are ful-ly blest-
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Find-ing, as He prom-ised, Per-fect peace and rest.