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We should keep a register in our minds of all the eminent blessings and deliverances we have met with; some whereof have been so conveyed that we might clearly perceive they were not the issues of chance, but the gracious effects of the divine favor and the signal returns of our prayers.
Henry Scougal
Life of God in the Soul of Man, 112136
The hill of Zion yields a thousand sacred sweets before we reach the heav'nly fields, or walk the golden street
He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
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Great blessings that are won with prayer are worn with thankfulness.
Common and ordinary blessings once lost and found again become extraordinary.Lifting Up
the gleanings of a Christian are better than the vintage of a reprobate. "A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked."Works, 398
Instead of a river, God often gives us a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow. Why? To teach us not to rest in our blessings, but in the blesser Himself.
Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.
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