Digging Deeper - 08-16-26

“Blessed”

Psalm 1

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 First Things First - Open in Prayer

Ice Breaker Activity: See the reverse of this page for the lyrics to “Count your Blessings.”

Have each member share just one blessing for which they are grateful. Feel free to sing if you like.

Read aloud Psalm 1

Focus on verse one and two. Discuss how these verses describe how to live a blessed life. For additional input, see James 1:22-25.

Read aloud Psalm 24:1-6. See if you can list five ways to be blessed of God. If you can find more, great.

Consult different translations and work to paraphrase what you have discovered.

Conclude your study by reading silently, then aloud Matthew 5:3-12. Have each member share their J O T, just one thing, attitude or action, from these verses that they might most need to work on.

Close your time in prayer.

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"Count Your Blessings"

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.

Are you ever burdened 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.

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.

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.

Refrain

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.