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Look Up
What direction do you look when life gets hard? Pastor John Jackson takes us on a profound exploration of the spiritual significance behind the simple phrase "look up" in this moving message from Valley Gospel Church.
Starting with Stephen's extraordinary vision in Acts 7:55 of "Jesus standing at the right hand of God," Jackson helps us understand why this detail matters. While Scripture typically describes Jesus as sitting at God's right hand, in this moment of Stephen's martyrdom, Jesus stood—perhaps to receive His faithful servant or to advocate for him before the heavenly courts. This powerful image reminds us that Jesus personally stands for us in our darkest moments.
The message weaves through three key biblical passages, revealing how our spiritual posture of looking upward connects to Christ's return and our ultimate redemption. Pastor Jackson brings fresh insight to Acts 1:10-11, where the disciples gazed heavenward after Jesus' ascension, and Luke 21:28, which instructs us to "look up and lift up your heads, for your redemption draws near" when troubles surround us.
With transparent vulnerability, Pastor Jackson shares his own transformation story: "I had a ticket straight to hell, paid for by my sins, but God looked at me and changed me." His testimony powerfully illustrates how God never puts us down, pushes us down, keeps us down, or lets us down. Instead, every divine interaction lifts us to a higher plane of existence.
Ready for a spiritual perspective shift? This message will help you lift your gaze toward heaven and find hope in the promise that Jesus is personally coming back for you. As Pastor Jackson reminds us through personal stories and Scripture, when everything around us tells us to look down in despair, God's word consistently calls us to look up.
But not because of you, but because he is good and you will not have room to receive Him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Springdale, Pennsylvania. Our sole mission is to present the living truth of a risen Lord.
Speaker 2:Jesus Christ to a remnant church and a lost world. So let's go into the service recorded live at Valley Gospel Church.
Speaker 3:John, you know something? I come to church. John says he's coming down. He says, look up, my wife and I we drive. She's driving for the pharmacy, jack, we're driving to the union time. We're going driving. All she goes look up, look up. So I'm thinking what am I going to preach today?
Speaker 3:Last Sunday, jamie started talking about our redemption. Our redemption draws nigh and I've been thinking about it and I said, well, it didn't hit me, Just stand up and talk about me. So I'm going to talk about Jesus today, what we can do to grow in his grace and his mercy. And Christy, I'm sorry, I didn't know. Well, I was going to preach for sure. So I didn't call Christy to read. But you know, it's all good because she said you can do it, john.
Speaker 3:So I want to thank everybody today. I'm just so blessed to be able to stand before my brothers and my sisters today and share with you the goodness of Jesus. He's so good to us, more than we could ever imagine. As she's singing, I've been blessed. Karen started singing. I've been blessed. Karen starts singing blessed assurance. When you have that blessed assurance, no matter what you go through, zach, he'll take you through it. So I'm just here today to share with you what God shares with me. I'm excited. Now I'm not here today to share with you what God shares with me. I'm excited. Now I'm not going to ask you to read with me, I want to read some scriptures. But could you stand does stand, for the reading of God's word, because I'm reading some scriptures, three scriptures this morning, from different parts of the Bible. The first one will be from Acts 7.55. The second scripture will be from Acts 1.10-11. And the third scripture will be from Luke 21-28. God's Word, it's so good to look out and see you guys today, if you know what I know what God's doing in us and through us, you just get excited because he's so good to us.
Speaker 3:So the first scripture reading will be from Acts 7.55. And it's what God's word says Be he being fooled. The Holy Ghost look up, stand fastly into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. Now, how many times have you read that scripture? I never noticed. I'm going to tell you, I never noticed he was standing. Jesus is always sitting at the right hand, but in this verse he's standing. The second scripture will be from Acts 1, 10-11. Here's what it says. And while they looked steadfastly towards heaven as he went up, jesus, behold two men stood by them in white apparel which also said you, men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? The same Jesus which has taken up from you into heaven shall come in a like manner as you have seen him go into heaven. The third scripture will be from Acts no, from Luke 21, 28. Luke 21, 28. Here's what it says when these things begin to come past, jamie, then look up and lift up your hands, because your redemption draws nigh.
Speaker 3:Let's pray, father. I thank you so much, father, for the opportunity to stand in the shoes of so many men and women who are standing today declaring your word. Father, I just thank you for the opportunity to share with them what you share with me. I'm asking all the ghosts to have your way in me and through me, not my words, father, but your words. So, father, I just thank you and praise you for every opportunity you present to me. You're so good, so good, so good, and I have been blessed. I have been blessed, father. We thank you and we praise you. We ask everything, every word that I share today. Give God all the honor and all the glory In Jesus' name, I pray. Holy Ghost, have your way, have your way, Amen. You may be seated. You know, you know, daniel, and Pastor, you know, daniel, you can prepare all you want, but the Holy Ghost ain't there. It don't work. So I thank God for all he does because I have been blessed.
Speaker 3:You know, like my wife, we're going right up to Union Town. She's driving for the pharmacy. Oh, she goes, look up, you'll be dimmed in just nine. Sometimes I got a little come on now, look up. Oh, she says, look up the John's outside. I just go by. He said look up. The last week Jamie's talking about look up your redemption doors. Now I think that's a little hint, don't have to preach about today. So I want to preach on this subject this morning Look up, look up. But you know something, nancy, when I was looking up the word look up, I had to get a little deeper. I had to go to the Old Testament to find out what look means, what God says about looking in his word. So I'm glad you asked me today, john Jackson, what does look mean in the Old Testament?
Speaker 3:In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word for look is nabat. Nabat meaning to look, look upon or regard, with the underlying sense of examine. God says to look upon the ends of the earth, thereby seeing everything you see in the human sphere. Nabat refers to people looking or gazing at something, for example, abraham looking at the stars in Genesis 15, 5. Here's what it says. And he brought him forth and he said look now toward heaven and tell the stars that thou be able to number them. And this is that he said unto him. So shall you see be in the New Testament. I look up. What's look being in the New Testament the great word for looking. It's empty, co-empt, blepo. It means to look or to gaze upon. In Acts 11, first, the disciples looking towards heaven in the wake of Jesus' departure from earth. And antizio is another good word for look, which means to look intently at, gaze or stare or fix one's eye on something. This is evident in Acts 1.10.
Speaker 3:You know, church, this word up has a lot of connotations. It's easy to understand up, meaning toward the sky, at the top of the list. But when we awaken in the morning, what do we do, church? We wake up At a meeting. Why does that topic come up? Why are we told to speak up? Why are individuals up for election? The word up. We brighten up the room sometimes, don't we? We polish up the silver, we warm up leftovers, we clean up the kitchen, we light up the tickets, we work up an appetite, we think up excuses, don't we? To get dressed up is one thing, but to get dressed up is special. Drinks must be opened up when they are stopped up. Business must be opened up in the morning and closed up at night. Business must be open up in the morning and closed up at night. Business must be open, but they got to close.
Speaker 3:When we want to give encouragement to someone, what do they tell them, john? When they encourage someone, we say don't give up, you know up, you know. When it starts to rain, we say it's clouding up. Then, when the sun comes out, we say that it's clearing up. When it doesn't rain for a while, we say things will dry up. I think now you understand the connotation to the word up. It has a lot of different meanings, a lot of different things.
Speaker 3:But I want to move on to my brother, stephen, and that's. I'll say this Stephen was selected by the apostles in Acts 6, 5 as a deacon to serve the body of Christ, amen. Acts 6 tells us that he was a man of honest report, amen, who did great wonders and miracles among the people. Stephen was a man of faith. His name means crown. Jesus promised in Revelation 2, 10, here's what he said For none of these things with thou shalt suffer. Behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried and you shall have tribulation ten days. But be faithful, even to death, and I will give you the crown of life, brother Stephen. We know Stephen. He was an effective man of God.
Speaker 3:He was a preacher who was angry at the San Adrian council with his words of truth. They were cut to the heart with his accusations. They were responsible to the heart with his accusations. They were responsible for his death. Stephen was falsely accused of speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God. But even while he was being murdered, stephen's eyes were fixed on God because he looked up. You know church, stephen. Instead of shouting curses and revenge against his killers, instead of hurling stones at them in return, or at least hurling insults, he could have insulted them. Stephen was. What did he do? He offered them forgiveness. They're going to kill him. They want to kill him. He knew they wanted to kill him. Stephen knew he didn't want to do that. Well, what did he say? Stephen knew that, but what did he say, lord, do not hold this sin against them. He prayed when he said this. He died In the midst of death.
Speaker 3:Stephen was a living life fool, offering life and God to his accusers, to his murderers, at the height of the Sanhedrin wrath. Stephen, fool of the Holy Ghost, has the vision of glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand. What happened here? Why was he standing and not sitting? It says. Being fool of the Holy Ghost looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at his right hand. Why was he standing? Did you ever notice that when you read that, I'll read he's always sitting, but in his scripture he's standing.
Speaker 3:The thought made me this this is why he was standing. Jesus had risen to receive Stephen into heaven or to plead his case into heavenly courts. There were two trials going on. They wanted to kill him. They wanted to murder him. Stephen's fate was in their hands.
Speaker 3:So they thought Stephen saw Jesus in his role at this firm Messiah. He was to suffer and be rejected by the standard, elders chiefly, and the teacher of the law. This is why the Son of man was standing. He was standing rather than saying God right, he is standing as an advocate to plead Stephen's cause before God and to welcome him to God's presence. See, Stephen's vision confirms Jesus' claim and the Sanhedrin council.
Speaker 3:They remember what Jesus said. They don't want to admit it, but they remember it. When Jesus told them that he would see him at God's right hand, jesus was accused of blasphemy. Stephen was now making the same claim for Jesus that Jesus made for himself. Stephen showed the same spirit of faith and forgiveness as characterized in Jesus Christ. Stephen accepted Jesus. Stephen was a man of faith.
Speaker 3:When he read about Jesus standing at the right hand of God, stephen knew why.
Speaker 3:See Stephen, in his vision of the risen Jesus vindicated the accuracy of Stephen's understanding of the law. Stephen looked up. When he looked up, he saw the glory of God. How come we don't look up more? God ain't here. God's up here. We ought to be looking up Jeff. Look up your redemption. Come on somebody, it draws an eye. You will be redeemed one day because of what Jesus did for you. So look up. Look up now the second scriptures in Acts 1, 10 and 11, it says this and while they look steadfastly towards heaven that he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel which also said you, men of Galilee, why stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus which you've taken up from heaven, take him to heaven, shall come in the same, like manner as you have seen, or going to heaven. It's just amazing God's word. Stephen heard it, he believed it, he had faith. See, jesus had descended to heaven as a disciple, still looking up To where he had been.
Speaker 3:They're looking up, looking up, looking up. They were looking up To the last place, last place. They saw the Lord, but he was gone. They couldn't see him anymore. Who knows how long they would have been looking up into heaven if it had not been for the two heavenly beings that hadn't, if he hadn't tapped on them guys' shoulder. They'd probably still be looking up today. They were looking up today. They were looking towards heaven, but you know, church, it was time for them to move on. Jesus is gone. It was time to move on. They were looking up where Jesus had been. They were looking up to the last place. They had seen the Lord, but he was gone. Dear church, it's time to move on, time to do something else. So they did. They tapped on the. Why are you looking up? He said now, don't look up, be about your father's business. It was time to move on to something else. So they did.
Speaker 3:They went back to Jerusalem, right Back to the upstairs room where they had been staying and praying. See, praying is a good thing, pastor Bob. Praying is a good thing, pastor Bob. Praying is a good thing to do when it's time to change. There's no going back. Jesus returned to heaven, but he told them go to Jerusalem and stay, because I'm going to send a helper for you. The time between Jesus and the Holy Spirit. They were waiting. They were waiting. They didn't know when the Holy Spirit would come. They didn't know what would happen next. They didn't know what the next assignment would be. So they turned to the lord in prayer, not to turn back to what was, but to wait and discern what was going to be, so that they could be witnesses to christ in jerusalem, to mayor and all the ends of the earth. The disciples were looking up, seeing jesus going up heaven. They may have had tearful eyes because Jesus was gone. Church we're in an in-between time right now. The disciples were looking up. They didn't know what to happen. They didn't know what was going to happen. They didn't know it's time for them to move on. That's where we're at right now in church. We're in a time of the Holy Spirit waiting for Jesus to return to earth To claim his faithful. You and me to heaven, we have the Spirit waiting for Jesus to return to earth to claim his faithful. We have been given an assignment to be witnesses of the love of Jesus Christ, not only in this here, but all over the world to the ends of the earth.
Speaker 3:I went to breakfast yesterday morning. I'm sitting there right. This guy walks in and looks at me and says your light is shining. I said, wow, it's shining. What's the word To let your light so shine before me? They say God's good works in you, church. It's our power of the Holy Spirit that enables us to do what God calls us to do.
Speaker 3:But, like this said, we sometimes are caught gazing up, gazing back at what was the good old days? Come on, remember the good old days when on Sunday, you couldn't buy a piece of bread, you couldn't go to the store and get nothing. Back in those days you couldn't get nothing on Sunday. But now, sunday used to be a time when we took our families to church and we went to church on Sunday. Now today they got football, basketball, soccer, baseball. They got everything to keep us out of church. You got to understand who's behind everything. It's Satan.
Speaker 3:I'm pastoring in the Trona Heights. This lady comes up to me and she said John, my two daughters can play. They're good hoopers, they can play. She said, but I told that, coach, I just got my family back in church. If you're going to practice on Sunday morning my girls won't be there.
Speaker 3:You know what they did? They changed the time. See, if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. See, you got to stand for Jesus. It's just amazing when you look at the way things are today. She talks about it. It's crazy. Today, things have changed.
Speaker 3:People have a lot of choices on Sunday mornings, don't they, karen? Remember? The old fashionedns aren't familiar to many people today. Some people dress up, some people dress down. When it comes to church, some people come to hear a message, while others come to hear music. Some people come to soothe the soul, while others come to be nourished by the Lord's supper. Some people come to soothe their souls, while others come to be nourished by the Lord's supper. Some people come for all the reasons that I've listed above.
Speaker 3:But whatever the reason that, the reason that draws people into need is the same as it was 20 years ago, 50 years ago, 100 years ago, 2,000 years ago. The need is still to hear the good news about Jesus Christ. People still need to hear that God loves them, that God loves you and he loves me when we're feeling unlovable. God loves us so much that he doesn't leave us the way we were. Listen, I'm so glad God changed me. I had a ticket straight to hell, paid for by my sins, but God looked at me and changed me.
Speaker 3:Like the disciples, we need to look towards heaven, to turn our hearts towards God. We can't do that by ourselves. Church you got neighbors. You got family. You got friends that need to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ, everybody. Okay, somebody, raise your hand. All your family is saved, every one of them. They don't come on now. All our families are saved. We aren't so. We have a ministry to share this with the people around us.
Speaker 3:Dissension lifts humanity to heaven. Jesus sentient says human flesh, your flesh and my flesh, at the right hand of god, the father. We now partake of god's glory and divinity. God is so good to us. When I think about the goodness of Jesus, every time Steph sings that song, my heart cries out Because I know what I used to be. I know what I could have been. But when I thank God for his love and grace and his mercy for John Jackson you don't know. She knows well.
Speaker 3:I, I wasn't a very good person. I don't want to jail. No, got in trouble, no trouble or nothing like that. But my lifestyle was so bad no Jesus or nothing.
Speaker 3:And I was raised in a Christian home. My dad taught Sunday school. My grandfather, deacon, my two grandfathers, they were pastors, they preached. I knew I was raised right. My dad said we did all we could to raise you right and you gonna mess everything up. Raised right, my dad said we did all we could to raise you right and you're going to mess everything up. He said you're going to mess us up, john. You're going to mess up the Jackson name. What's wrong with you? And I didn't have an answer because I didn't know. I needed Jesus, even though raised and hearing the word of God, seeing it lit in front of my eyes.
Speaker 3:I remember my dad died and I walked out of the church and I went down and I stepped outside. People were everywhere and a guy come up to me and said John, you'll never know what your dad did for me. And then I started realizing I believe that's when my change came, because when my dad was in the hospital he had a stroke, when he died, right before he died. When I would walk into the room, he would follow me everywhere I went. My sister says God knew you were going to be alright, god knew you'd be here to take care of your family, because now I'm the prophet, priest and king of my family. I've got to live my life according to the will of God Not my will, but His will. So we get that mixed up. We think, well, I'll give God no, it but his will. So we get that mixed up. We think, well, give God no, it's his will, it's all him, none of us, it's all him.
Speaker 3:Now look at the final scripture In Luke 21, 28, which states when these things begin to come to pass, then look up and lift up your ears, for your redemption does come. Church, when things get rough, what do we tend to do? Look down. Bad day, look down. But the Bible tells us, when we see trouble, to look up. Some people think that the coming of Jesus is a scary thing, but we can look forward to the return of Christ because the scriptures say that when he is coming, our redemption draws nigh. So don't be discouraged, church, look up when you're in trouble. Look up. The earth will never be perfect until Jesus comes back. Even when things look bad, jesus said Don't get down. Look up With Jesus coming in the redemptive door of night.
Speaker 3:Listen when you make up your mind that life's all about looking up, it becomes simple enough. When things are going well, we say things are looking up. We try to talk someone through a crisis, we tell them things like things are looking up. We try to restore confidence in someone, we tell them to look up. When we're trying to change someone's, when we're trying to change someone's focus from the negative to the positive, we say look up.
Speaker 3:Ever wonder why we look up to pray? You ever think about how people look up when they're praying? Because God is heaven, heaven. Because God is heaven. Heaven is a storm and the earth is a footstorm. God is above us. The only way we can see or talk to him is to look up. The calling of God never leaves us on a downward path. God will never put you down, push you down, keep you down or let you down, and any interaction we have with God always lifts us up in a high plane of existence. God will pick you up, hold you up, sit you up and fix you up. I know that's true because he fixed me up. God will never put you down church or push you down or keep you down or let you down. Any interaction we have with God always lifts us up to a higher plane of existence. Come on, somebody, somebody.
Speaker 3:If God moves you in a situation, listen. If God moves you in a situation that are hard to understand, why does that? He's trying to narrow your opinions. We're people with opinions. We think, we talk, we say and we don't even know what we're talking about half the time. But God wants to show you that you must be looking up, you must trust and obey him. He's trying to make you look of John. He's trying to make you look up John. He's trying to make you look up Daniel, bob, don, vicki, kurt. He's trying to make you look up because you're redemptive to all's nigh. If God moves the church, it's too hard to understand. Like I said, he's trying to narrow your options. Our options should be him. You know, do you believe this? God can show you things that are way better than anything that you see on your television screen. Well, we're in a movie theater.
Speaker 3:Although the words of Luke 21-28 were spoken to a Jewish people, we who grasp the truth of the prophetic word know that it's also applied to the church spiritually. This verse naturally raises the question what things will come to pass If you look at chapter 21, matthew 24, you know Jesus speaks to the disciples about his return. He's talking I'm coming back, I'm coming back. He's trying to tell them we see, watching the chosen. I just kept saying why don't they understand what Jesus is saying? Why couldn't they understand? But here's my question. I ask myself, john Jackson, do you understand? Do you understand what God's saying to you? Do you understand what God and what Jesus is saying in his word? Virtually the entire chapter responds to the disciples. Where's the dead end? When shall these things be? What signs will be when these things come to pass? She tells us when things shall, what what they seem shall be, and what shall be signs of thy coming at the end of the world? They wanted to know because they didn't get it. They're asking Jesus questions.
Speaker 3:Then Jesus lists the events that will take place in John 14 1-4. Here's what Jesus said Let not your heart be in trouble. Believe in God also. Believe in me. Believe in God also believe in me. In my Father's house are many mansions. If it was not so, I would tell you I go to a place for you. If I go to a place for you, I will come again. Receive you unto myself that where I am there, ye may be also, and where I go, you know, in the way you know Jesus talking to his brothers and sisters about a place, a permanent dwelling place in heaven, a home, a home that no one will have to rent or buy. No one will be taken off of them because they no longer pay rent or mortgage.
Speaker 3:Once Jesus prepares a home, he's coming to get us, take us and get us back to heaven. He could send someone else, because he's God. He's coming personally to us so that we can receive him unto himself. Church. Everything you need he will supply. He'll give you strength to bear your burdens. He doesn't take the trouble away.
Speaker 3:Now listen, zach said this when you're going through something, if it doesn't take the trouble away, it's just amazing that we don't really get this, this gospel of Jesus Christ. I know a lot of us get it, but you know this word is called sanctification. It's a process where you grow, grow, grow. You never graduate, you never grow so much that you don't need anymore. It says in 1 Thessalonians, 2, 13 and 14, it tells us this.
Speaker 3:Now I'm going to ask you are you doing this? Are you looking for that blessed hope and the glory to appear in God and our Savior, jesus Christ, who gave himself that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify and tell himself a peculiar people zealous of good works. That's us Church. If anybody in your family has died in faith in Jesus, they will be resurrected first when Jesus comes back for his church. The greatest family union in the universe will occur when we all be caught up together. I did a funeral of a friend I was taking care of last week and I talked about what that reunion is gonna be like. You see Eddie, you see your mom and dad.
Speaker 1:You see your dad.
Speaker 3:I'm a dad, just like your dad. We're still family members. Can you remember what that's gonna be like when we get to heaven? I think we try to get it but we can't get it because it's too much for our minds. What heaven's gonna be like? This is gonna be a great time Praising and worshiping, dance on the feet of gold, no more tears. This will be a great time for us. For us, not that world out there. For us, that's gonna be the greatest family in the universe and we'll all be caught up together. The earth will not sizzle out in a nuclear war, because Jesus says we shall hear war, nations against nations, kingdoms against kingdoms.
Speaker 3:Great overworks should be in diverse places. Do we see it today? Everything that's written, that we should know, is written. We ought to know what's going on. We ought to know what our jobs are. We all get that. We need to understand what is your ministry. Everybody got one. If it's taking care of your dad, that's your ministry. On and on. It goes on about outside conditions In the Bible, all these, all kinds of traditions, the signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars, before anything's happened.
Speaker 3:My Jesus is coming back. For me happened. My Jesus is going back for me. He probed at the internal battering, sieges to which the soul is liable. Let me read it again he probed at the internal battering and sieges to which the soul is liable. Jesus tells us that under the pressure of outside forces, and men's spiritual defenses may crumble Don't think you're all that in your bag of chips, because you ain't Something come by and you're unexpected and knock it to your knees. However, we can stand anything, no matter how strong or how contrary the wind might blow. Jesus says that we must look up and lift our heads. If you've got faith in Jesus, if he is your all in all, there's nothing he can't do.
Speaker 4:Thank you for listening to this week's podcast. There's nothing he can't do.
Speaker 1:Yes, so come on church, let's sing it.
Speaker 5:I have been blessed, god, so good to me Precious are His thoughts of you and me, the way I can count them. There's not enough time, so I'll just thank Him for being so kind. God has been good so very good, I have been blessed.
Speaker 1:Don't let's sing it again.
Speaker 5:I have been blessed. God's so good to me. Precious are his thoughts of you and me. No way I can count that. There's not enough time, so I'll just thank Him for being so kind. God has been good, so very good. I have been blessed.
Speaker 1:Yes, lord, we worship your name, jesus. Hallelujah to the Lamb. Yes, arms, we worship your name, jesus. Hallelujah to the Lamb. Yes, arms that can raise and a voice that can talk, hands that can touch and legs that can walk, ears that can listen and eyes that can see. I've got to praise Him as long as I breathe. How I have been blessed A mother and father, nurtured and raised, and father nurtured and raised, sisters and brothers. And memories made our pastor to lead us this altar to pray stripes that can heal the blood that still saves. I have been blessed. Oh, let's sing it.
Speaker 5:I have been blessed. God's so good to me. Precious are his thoughts of you and me. No way I can count them, there's not enough time, so I'll just thank Him For being so kind. God has been good, so very good. I have been blessed, oh, oh, let's sing it again. I have been blessed. That's so good to me. Precious are his thoughts of you and me. No way I can count them, there's not enough time, so I'll just thank him for being so kind. Thank you, lord. God has been good, so very good. I have been blessed. We live in a country that's the greatest on earth, where the flag stands for freedom and what it is worth.
Speaker 1:We should stand in a harbor. This never. He calls. Oh, they gave some, but some gave it all so he could be blessed. He's my shoulder to lean on, fallen when I am found, and the rock where he leads me when I'm overwhelmed Is the place where he hides me Under His wings. He's not just a song, he's the reason I sing. I have been blessed. Hallelujah, let's sing it.
Speaker 5:I have been blessed. God's so good to me. Precious are his thoughts of you and me. No way I can count them, there's not enough time, so I'll just thank him for being so kind. God has been good, so very good. I have been blessed. I have been blessed. God's so good to me. Precious are his thoughts of you and me. No way I can count them, there's not enough time, so I'll just thank him for being so kind. God has been good, so very good.
Speaker 1:I have been blessed. Glory, glory, glory, glory. Oh, glory glory, this is one is cold glory.
Speaker 5:I am washed, I am sanctified, I am holy ghost, god for all time. Yes, lord, because Jesus, my Savior, he is alive. I have been blessed. God's so good to me. Sing it out. Blessures are His thoughts of you and me. The way I can count them. There's not enough time, so I'll just thank Him For being so kind. God has been good, so very good. I have been blessed.