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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly
places in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and
without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself,
according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in
the beloved. Ephesians 1:3-6
And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his
season; there shall be showers of blessing. Ezekiel 34:26
Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. Proverbs 10:6
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your
God, which I command you this day: And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but
turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
Deuteronomy 11:26-28
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made
known unto God. Philippians 4:6
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly
places in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and
without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself,
according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in
the beloved. Ephesians 1:3-6
And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his
season; there shall be showers of blessing. Ezekiel 34:26
Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. Proverbs 10:6
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your
God, which I command you this day: And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but
turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
Deuteronomy 11:26-28
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made
known unto God. Philippians 4:6
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19
Johnson Oatman, Jr - Lyrics
1856-1922
1856-1922
Born: April 21, 1856, near Medford, New Jersey.
Died: September 25, 1922, Norman, Oklahoma.
Buried: Mt. Holly, New Jersey.
Died: September 25, 1922, Norman, Oklahoma.
Buried: Mt. Holly, New Jersey.
Edwin Othello Excell - Composer
1851-1921
1851-1921
Born: December 13, 1851, Stark County, Ohio.
Died: June 10, 1921, Chicago, Illinois.
Buried: Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois.
Died: June 10, 1921, Chicago, Illinois.
Buried: Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois.
HYMN HISTORY:
This hymn certainly ranks as one of the most familiar numbers in our hymnals. It is one of the songs that many of us
first sang with gusto during our early Sunday School days, yet one that we still enjoy singing in our gospel type of
services.
Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr., was one of the important and prolific gospel song writers of the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. He was born near Medford, New Jersey, on April 21, 1856. As a child he became acquainted with
the hymns of the church through the singing talents of his father.
At the age of nineteen Oatman joined the Methodist Church and several years later was granted a license to preach in
local Methodist congregations. Though he wrote over 5,000 hymn texts, Oatman was busily engaged throughout his
life in a mercantile business and later as an administrator for a large insurance company in New Jersey. Other gospel
favorites by Johnson Oatman include “Higher Ground, and “No, Not One!”
“Count Your Blessings” is generally considered to be Oatman’s finest hymn. If first appeared in Songs for Young
People, compiled and published by Edwin O. Excell in 1897. It has been sung all over the world. One writer has stated,
“Like beam of sunlight it has brightened up the dark places of the earth.”
Perhaps no American hymn was ever received with such enthusiasm in Great Britain as this hymn. The London Daily,
in giving an account of a meeting presided over by Gypsy Smith, reported, Mr. Smith announced the hymn ‘Count Your
Blessings.’ Said he, ‘In South London the men sing it, the boys whistle it, and the women rock their babies to sleep on
this hymn.’ “During the great revival in Wales it was one of the hymns the hymns sung at every service along with such
Welsh favorites as “Guide me, O Thou Great Jehovah” and “O That Will be Glory.”
The composer of the music, E. O. Excell, is a well-known name in early gospel hymnody. He was born in Stark County,
Ohio, on December 13, 1851. At the age of twenty he became a singing teacher, traveling around the country
establishing singing schools. For twenty years he was associated with Sam Jones, a well-known Southern revivalist.
Excell was recognized as one of the finest song leaders of his day. In addition to writing and composing more than
2,000 gospel songs as well as publishing about fifty songbooks. He administered a successful music publishing
business in Chicago. While assisting Gypsy Smith in an evangelistic campaign in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1921, he was
suddenly stricken at the age of seventy and taken home to join the immortal heavenly chorus.
This hymn certainly ranks as one of the most familiar numbers in our hymnals. It is one of the songs that many of us
first sang with gusto during our early Sunday School days, yet one that we still enjoy singing in our gospel type of
services.
Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr., was one of the important and prolific gospel song writers of the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. He was born near Medford, New Jersey, on April 21, 1856. As a child he became acquainted with
the hymns of the church through the singing talents of his father.
At the age of nineteen Oatman joined the Methodist Church and several years later was granted a license to preach in
local Methodist congregations. Though he wrote over 5,000 hymn texts, Oatman was busily engaged throughout his
life in a mercantile business and later as an administrator for a large insurance company in New Jersey. Other gospel
favorites by Johnson Oatman include “Higher Ground, and “No, Not One!”
“Count Your Blessings” is generally considered to be Oatman’s finest hymn. If first appeared in Songs for Young
People, compiled and published by Edwin O. Excell in 1897. It has been sung all over the world. One writer has stated,
“Like beam of sunlight it has brightened up the dark places of the earth.”
Perhaps no American hymn was ever received with such enthusiasm in Great Britain as this hymn. The London Daily,
in giving an account of a meeting presided over by Gypsy Smith, reported, Mr. Smith announced the hymn ‘Count Your
Blessings.’ Said he, ‘In South London the men sing it, the boys whistle it, and the women rock their babies to sleep on
this hymn.’ “During the great revival in Wales it was one of the hymns the hymns sung at every service along with such
Welsh favorites as “Guide me, O Thou Great Jehovah” and “O That Will be Glory.”
The composer of the music, E. O. Excell, is a well-known name in early gospel hymnody. He was born in Stark County,
Ohio, on December 13, 1851. At the age of twenty he became a singing teacher, traveling around the country
establishing singing schools. For twenty years he was associated with Sam Jones, a well-known Southern revivalist.
Excell was recognized as one of the finest song leaders of his day. In addition to writing and composing more than
2,000 gospel songs as well as publishing about fifty songbooks. He administered a successful music publishing
business in Chicago. While assisting Gypsy Smith in an evangelistic campaign in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1921, he was
suddenly stricken at the age of seventy and taken home to join the immortal heavenly chorus.
| The Remorse of Nine Ungrateful Lepers Luke :11-19 |
“I meant to go back, but you may guess
I was filled with amazement I cannot express
To think that after those horrible years,
That passion of loathing and passion of fears,
By sores unendurable–eaten, defiled–
My flesh was as smooth as the flesh of a child.
I was drunken with joy. I was crazy with glee;
I scarcely could walk and I scarcely could see.
For the dazzle of sunshine where all had been black;
But I meant to go back, Oh I mean to go back!
I had thought to return, when my people came out,
There were tears of rejoicing and laughter and shout;
My cup was so full I seemed nothing to lack–
But I meant to go back, Oh, I meant to go back!”
I was filled with amazement I cannot express
To think that after those horrible years,
That passion of loathing and passion of fears,
By sores unendurable–eaten, defiled–
My flesh was as smooth as the flesh of a child.
I was drunken with joy. I was crazy with glee;
I scarcely could walk and I scarcely could see.
For the dazzle of sunshine where all had been black;
But I meant to go back, Oh I mean to go back!
I had thought to return, when my people came out,
There were tears of rejoicing and laughter and shout;
My cup was so full I seemed nothing to lack–
But I meant to go back, Oh, I meant to go back!”
| Selected |
“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.” Cicero
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
We as Christians find it hard to see the blessings of God in our own lives because so often our eyes are on others,
seeing what they have and continue to gain, feeling somehow that we have been cheated. Some wrongly feel that true
blessings are to be found in the amount of earthly possessions we obtain.
God wants us to be thankful in whatever state of life we are in. Philippians 4:19 tells us to be content in whatever state
you are in. Paul speaking of himself writes; "I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where
and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. Philippians 4:12.
And then in verse 19 he writes, But my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Jesus Christ.
The Lord shall supply your needs not you every wants.
Proverbs 30:8,9 states that God will make us content in our lives knowing that we are secure in his love and that he will
supply our every need. We continue to make this a prayer for our lives
We thank those that continue to support this ministry and count every one of you an awesome blessing from our God
and Savior Jesus Christ.
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in
vain. Proverbs 30:8,9
We as Christians find it hard to see the blessings of God in our own lives because so often our eyes are on others,
seeing what they have and continue to gain, feeling somehow that we have been cheated. Some wrongly feel that true
blessings are to be found in the amount of earthly possessions we obtain.
God wants us to be thankful in whatever state of life we are in. Philippians 4:19 tells us to be content in whatever state
you are in. Paul speaking of himself writes; "I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where
and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. Philippians 4:12.
And then in verse 19 he writes, But my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Jesus Christ.
The Lord shall supply your needs not you every wants.
Proverbs 30:8,9 states that God will make us content in our lives knowing that we are secure in his love and that he will
supply our every need. We continue to make this a prayer for our lives
We thank those that continue to support this ministry and count every one of you an awesome blessing from our God
and Savior Jesus Christ.
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in
vain. Proverbs 30:8,9
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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.
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your blessings, see what God hath done!
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
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.
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your blessings, see what God hath done!
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
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.
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your blessings, see what God hath done!
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
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.
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your blessings, see what God hath done!
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
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.
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your blessings, see what God hath done!
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
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.
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your blessings, see what God hath done!
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
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.
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your blessings, see what God hath done!
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
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.
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your blessings, see what God hath done!
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
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