Blessing God anyway

Standing on the stairs were the [spiritual leaders] who called with loud voices to the LORD their God. ⁵ ... "Stand up and praise the LORD your God, who is from everlasting to everlasting." 
       "Blessed be your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise. ⁶ You alone are the LORD. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you.  Nehemiah 9:4-6 NIV (adapted)

Blessed be Your name in the land that is plentiful
Where Your streams of abundance flow: blessed be Your name
Blessed be Your name when the sun's shining down on me
When the world's all as it should be: blessed be Your name

With gratitude, God, we thank you for our salvation, our families, our friends, our homes, our many blessings.  We are grateful for health, for provision, forfood, for clothing, and for the breath of life your pour into us.   Blessed be you name when life is plentiful, abundant, and glorious. 

Blessed be Your name when I'm found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness: blessed be Your name

Blessed be Your name on the road marked with suffering
Though there's pain in the offering: blessed be Your name

In humility, God we come to you to lift up the burdens on our hearts - forbabies born too soon, for bank accounts too low, for emotional angst,for skubalon, for loved ones lost and far from Christ, for stresses of job, health, family, or just life in general, for fears for the future.   Blessed be your name on the road in the wilderness, desert, and suffering.  

Every blessing You pour out I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in Lord still I will say

Blessed be the name of the Lord, Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord, Blessed be Your glorious name

You give and take away, You give and take away
My heart will choose to say, Lord blessed be Your name

God, we remember those in this world who do not have basic necessities of life - clean water, adequate shelter, nutritious food - and pray you would use us to be the hands and feet of the love of Christ to help them.  

God, we remember those in this world who live in strife and grief and war and we pray that the Peace that passes understanding would fall heavy upon those internal and external places.

God, for the gift of another day to serve you, we thank you.  Praise be to the LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds. (Ps. 72:18 NIV)  Amen.

"Blessed Be Your Name" by Beth & Matt Redman

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