Blessings

Album: Blessings (2011)
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  • We pray for blessings
    We pray for peace
    Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
    We pray for healing, for prosperity
    We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
    And all the while, You hear each spoken need
    Yet love is way too much to give us lesser things

    'Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops?
    What if Your healing comes through tears?
    What if a thousand sleepless nights
    Are what it takes to know You're near?
    And what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise?

    We pray for wisdom
    Your voice to hear
    And we cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
    We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love
    As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
    And all the while, You hear each desperate plea
    And long that we'd have faith to believe

    'Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops?
    What if Your healing comes through tears?
    And what if the thousand sleepless nights
    Are what it takes to know You're near?
    And what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise?

    When friends betray us
    And when darkness seems to win
    We know that pain reminds this heart
    That this is not, this is not our home
    It's not our home

    'Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops?
    What if Your healing comes through tears?
    And what if the thousand sleepless nights
    Are what it takes to know You're near?

    What if my greatest disappointments
    Or the aching of this life
    Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy
    And what if trials of this life
    The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
    Are Your mercies in disguise? Writer/s: Laura Story
    Publisher: Capitol CMG Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Rosa from Memphis, TnI'm not religious but i like the message
  • Mike from Norwalk, CtA most powerful song. Possibly THE most powerful I've ever heard.
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