I heard this song on the radio today and instantly felt like it was one of those songs God used to speak to me. Laura Story, the artist of this song wrote this song after going through (still going through) some major trials in her life. After being married for not quite 2 years they discovered that her husband had a brain tumor and within a year required several surgeries that didn't even promise life in the end. They have now been married 7 years and he is still going through the healing process as he has some remaining vision and memory defecits. Laura shares their struggle to understand God's purpose in this. This song is such an inspiriation to me and I hope it is for you also.
Each of us go through different trials in our life- very different trials and different degrees of trials. But whatever the trial, we all share the struggle to understand God's purpose, or timing, or reasons for whatever it is we find ourselves going through. In the end, God is beyond the small amt. of understanding and reason we try to put on things. He is beyond what makes sense, beyond reason, beyond medical technology, whatever it may be. Our God has no limitations, no boundaries. And although we expect perfection from him and that all our prayers be answered the way we think they should be, He is far greater than anything we could even ask him for. I am encouraged and reminded that my God is greater than any trial I will ever go through in this life.
Here are the lyrics and I've attached the youtube video for you to listen to as well..............
Blessings
Artist: Laura Story
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
All the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love us 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
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
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
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
When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know the 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 a 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
Each of us go through different trials in our life- very different trials and different degrees of trials. But whatever the trial, we all share the struggle to understand God's purpose, or timing, or reasons for whatever it is we find ourselves going through. In the end, God is beyond the small amt. of understanding and reason we try to put on things. He is beyond what makes sense, beyond reason, beyond medical technology, whatever it may be. Our God has no limitations, no boundaries. And although we expect perfection from him and that all our prayers be answered the way we think they should be, He is far greater than anything we could even ask him for. I am encouraged and reminded that my God is greater than any trial I will ever go through in this life.
Here are the lyrics and I've attached the youtube video for you to listen to as well..............
Blessings
Artist: Laura Story
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
All the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love us 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
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
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
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
When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know the 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 a 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
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