Daily Affirmations - Day 5 - Focus on Gratitude - I Count My Blessings

Day 5: I count my blessings

We are filled with the good things of Your house

Many, O Lord my God, are Your wonderful works Which You have done; And Your thoughts toward us Cannot be recounted to You in order; If I would declare and speak of them, They are more than can be numbered (Psalm 40:5 – NKJV).

How precious to me are Your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with You (Psalm 139:17-18).

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At the cross of Jesus bowing,

Here I count my blessings o’er;

Here I drink from life’s pure fountain,

Drink until I thirst no more.

~ Daniel O. Teasley~ 1905

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Now thank we all our God, with heart and hands and voices,

Who wondrous things has done, in Whom this world rejoices;

Who from our mothers’ arms has blessed us on our way

With countless gifts of love, and still is ours today.

Oh, may this bounteous God through all our life be near us,

With ever joyful hearts and blessed peace to cheer us;

And keep us in His grace, and guide us when perplexed;

And guard us through all ills in this world, till the next!

All praise and thanks to God the Father now be given,

The Son, and Him Who reigns with Them in highest Heaven—

The one eternal God, Whom earth and Heav’n adore;

For thus it was, is now, and shall be evermore.

~ Martin Rinkart~ ca.1636

~ tr. by Catherine Winkworth~1856, alt.

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