{"id":31,"date":"2017-11-28T19:45:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T19:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2017-11-28T19:45:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T19:45:54","slug":"count-your-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/28\/count-your-blessings\/","title":{"rendered":"Count Your Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Thanksgiving!\u00a0 This day is the set aside for us to count our blessings. The hymn Count Your Blessings was Mama\u2019s favorite. When Mama died and we planned her funeral there was no question what song we would play. My Mama was in bad health all my life. After Mama had lung surgery in Dallas in 1964, when I was two, the doctor said to Daddy that Mama would only live about a year.\u00a0 Mama was truly thankful for each day of life she was so proud when she turned 70 years old , that God allowed Mama to live so long.\u00a0 Now that you know a little of Mama\u2019s life story, it\u2019s plain to see why Count Your Blessings was Mama\u2019s favorite .<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FIAmignBKXY?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nWhen we would sing this hymn in church most of time we would skip the third verse I don\u2019t know why that\u2019s something that Baptist liked to do. But when you the words of the third verse why would you want to skip over this;\u00a0when you look at other\u2019s with their lands and gold, think that Christ has promised you wealth\u00a0untold ; count your many blessings, money\u00a0 cannot buy Your reward in Heaven, nor your home on high.\u00a0That verse was written in 1897 long before we heard sermons about how Jesus wants you to be rich! Throughout all this hymn is simply great words: When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost, does the cross seem heavy you are called to bear? Do not be discouraged ,thinking all is lost, count your many blessings, name them one by one, and it will surprise you what the has done; Do not be discouraged , God is over all; count your blessings, angels will attend help and comfort give you to your journey\u2019s end; \u00a0Have a happy Thanksgiving and don\u2019t forget to count your blessings\u2014\u2014\u2014every day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Thanksgiving!\u00a0 This day is the set aside for us to count our blessings. The hymn Count Your Blessings was Mama\u2019s favorite. When Mama died and we planned her funeral there was no question what song we would play. My Mama was in bad health all my life. After Mama had lung surgery in Dallas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/28\/count-your-blessings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Count Your Blessings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffssongoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}