Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship ‎#363a

363a. Count Your Blessings

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 has done.

Refrain:
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.

2. Are you ever burdened with a load of care?
Does the cross seem heavy you are called to bear?
Count your many blessings, ev'ry doubt will fly,
And you will be singing as the days go by. [Refrain]

3. When you look at others with their lands and gold,
Think that Christ has promised you his wealth untold;
Count your many blessings; money cannot buy
Your reward in Heaven, nor your home on high. [Refrain]

4. So amid the conflict, whether great or small,
Do not be discouraged, God is over all;
Count your many blessings; angels will attend,
Help, and comfort give you to your journey's end. [Refrain]

Text Information

• First Line: When upon life's billows you are tempest-tossed
• Title: Count Your Blessings
• Author: Johnson Oatman Jr. (1897)
• Refrain First Line: Count your blessings, name them one by one
• Meter: 11.11.11.11 with refrain
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2024
• Scripture:
  2 Corinthians 9:6-8
• Topic: Ordinary Time: Week 29; Thanksgiving
• Notes: Text by Methodist minister and businessman Johnson Oatman Jr., from Songs for Young People (1897)

Tune Information

• Name: BLESSINGS
• Composer: Edwin O. Excell (1897)
• Meter: 11.11.11.11 with refrain
• Incipit: 33345 55343 4
• Key: D Major
• Notes: Tune BLESSINGS by Chicago-based composer-compiler Edwin Excell, from Songs for Young People (1897), arr. composite.