GHS 50 : Count Your Blessings Lyrics
GHS 50, “Count Your Blessings,” is one of the most practical and widely beloved encouragement hymns in Christian worship. Written by Johnson Oatman Jr. with music by Edwin O. Excell, the hymn was composed as a direct prescription for discouragement: when life is tempest-tossed, when all seems lost, when burdens weigh heavily, when doubt threatens to fly away with faith, the remedy is not primarily more prayer or more preaching but the deliberate, specific act of counting what God has already done. Name the blessings one by one, and it will surprise you how many there are.
The final stanza lifts the gaze to the reward in heaven as the greatest blessing of all, one that money cannot buy. This hymn appears as number 50 in the Gospel Hymns and Songs (GHS) collection, used in Deeper Life Bible Church and related assemblies across West Africa, and it is among the most sung gospel songs on the continent.
Hymn Lyrics – GHS 50: Count Your Blessings
- When upon life’s billows you are tempest toss’d,
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,
And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.
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Are you ever burden’d 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.
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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.
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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.
