Hello everyone! This weeks “Song of the Week” goes to Blessings, by Laura Story. It is a very beautiful song about how God can use the trials of our lives as blessings in disguise. I hope you enjoy it.
(These tabs are a bit rough, but I hope you find them helpful though)
Song Title : Blessings
Artist/Band: Laura Story
Intro: C#m - B - F# - E - F# - D#m - C#m - B - F# - E
Verse 1
E F# G#m
We pray for blessings
E F# D#m
We pray for peace
E F# G#m A E
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
E F# G#m
We pray for healing
E F# D#m
for prosper--ity
E F# G#m F#
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
B E F# G#m
All the while, You hear each spoken need
C#m B F#
Yet love is way too much to give us lesser things
Chorus
B
(Cause) what if your blessings come through raindrops
F#
What if Your healing comes through tears
G#m F# E
What if the thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You're near
C#m B E (C#m - B - F# - E - F# - D#m)
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise
Verse 2
E F# G#m
We pray for wisdom
E F# D#m
Your voice to hear
E F# G#m A E
We cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
E F# G#m
We doubt your goodness
E F# D#m
we doubt your love
E F# G#m F#
As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
B E F# G#m
And all the while, You hear each desperate plea
C#m B F#
And long that we'd have faith to believe
[Chorus]
Bridge
E F#
When friends betray us
G#m A
When darkness seems to win we know
E F# G#m F#
the pain reminds this heart That this is not
C#m - B - F# - E - F# - D#m
this is not our home
B - F# - G#m - E - E- F#
it's not our home
Chorus 2
B
(Cause) what if your blessings come through raindrops
F#
What if Your healing comes through tears
G#m F# E
What if the thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You're near
B
What if my greatest disappointments
F#
Or the aching of this life
G#m F# E
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy
C#m B E F# E
What if trials of this life, the rain, the storms, the hardest nights
(E)
Are your mercies in disguise
Outro: C#m - B - F# - E - F# - D#m - C#m - B - F# - E - F# - B
If you are playing this song with the guitar, it sounds really pretty with a capo on the 5th fret (and is much easier to play).
Here are the chords you would play with CAPO 4:NO CAPO = CAPO 4
C#m = Am
B = G
F# = D/F#
E = C
D#m = Bm
G#m = Em
A = D
Again, I hope you enjoyed this song, and that it can help you get through some of those trials of your life.
In God’s Love and Grace
Colton
Born in 1989, Colton (the author of LivngForJesus) is child of God, husband, soon-to-be father (baby on the way), the Outreach & Youth Director at Gateway Christian Church and a graphic/web designer. He has had a passion for ministry since his mid-teens....
I love this song! It has really blessed me! Thanks!
really nice..
Godbless:)
I’m so blessed with the song’ it really reminds me how really amzing the Lord and how he gave us more than enough blessings.:)
..yeah..i love ths song…bcuz 8 rminds me how trials are.
Thanks
thankz for putting the lyrics God Bless
you!!
I love this song, very nice
God uses muic in my life when I most need to know He is near, I call them ” my songs in the night” this song has come at a time of life changing challenges and sadness it expresses how I am feeling at this moment, it has truly blessed me and for this I am eternally grateful.
Thanks Colton for posting the chords and lyrics for this song, it’s very nice of you sharing this beautiful song for others to play or sing with accompaniment. May God Bless you and your family even more!!!
everything is a blessing. 🙂 thank God for this song.
the song relates me …..
i love this song 4ever !
love yah…
i love this song in title ‘blessing’ . now it is the one of my favorite song…….
God well bless you……
Laura Story w/ Your Family & Your Bond
Thank you for posting this! it is a blessing to me!
its nice you know, nakaka inspire
This was very helpful for me as a starting point. For the piano, however, you want to do some tweaking to make it sound right. In the intro and interlude chords, walk the bass down, make the two Bs at the end of the verses and the B at the en of the chorus B/D#. E/F# on mercies then to Bsus B to go to the Bridge.
Also, I think the chords on the Bridge need some tweaking. This is what I’m hearing, but I could be wrong.
E/C# B/D# E F# x 2
For keyboard walk the bass down again on home (intro part)
Second home: E, F# G#m A E F#sus F#
Thanks for putting this up. It was helpful. 🙂
Very nice song. But then again, if you played this with capo on fret 5, you may as well as have chords in the key of C (which are below), which may be even easier yet.
C#m = Dm
B = C
F# = G
E = F
D#m = Em
G#m = Am
A = Bb
it’s a very very nice song…
I really love this song
It’s touch my heart really
God Bless you
when i heard this song…it gives intresting lyrics that i could apply in my life…
This was extremely helpful! I really appreciate the capo key chart. It makes it so much faster to transpose, and the pianist can play it normal so I can expand on the acoustic.
You have it laid out very well, one of the best I have seen.
Peace and blessing in Christ Jesus!
Ken
When i first heard this song my friend had betrayed me and this song really helps
This song speaks reality, how true it is that we got a binch of prayers its days and whats blessing we knows that how we count. yeas its true as the song says ” And what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise”. that’s right far from those circumstances what we have, after that we found ourselves Oh i just did, i had make it!!! but the real thing, God let us get through on those to make us strong and a better person… He is here always with Us…. 🙂
Hey Ashlee,
Yeah I believe they should work for piano.
Hey Colton! Thanks so very much for posting these chords. Will they work for the piano too???
God Bless
~A
love the song
ones ai heared this song,
ai really like it this song….
love this song so much……!!!!
annointing overflows!!!
I love this song soo much! Thank u for writing thjis song! it has help me with alot of things in life!! I even got saved listen to this sonng!! thank u very very very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for posting this! 🙂 AMAZING song!!
“Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.” -Romans 5:3-5 🙂
I LOVE THIS SONG ITS SOO BeAutIFUL=)….this song makes me cry=)
I knew this song was special when I heard it yesterday.
Today, when I listened and read the lyrics, my soul was shouting for joy as the lyrics I know are true for God’s love for all of us. We will sing this in our healing mass.
Blessing to you too.
Thank you for posting this!! I heard this song a couple of days ago and I wanted to learn how to play it horribly! Plus I can’t read sheet music, so this is perfect. Thank you! God bless 😀
do you have any piano sheets for this?
@Jennifer Hooper: You would be playing the ones listed with the lyrics (C#m, B, F#, E, D#m…etc)
So if I’m playing piano….what chords would I be playing?
@BOBBY Thank you for catching that, I accidentally put Capo 5 when it is obviously not. Thank you for pointing that out!
THE CHORDS ARE CAPO 4 ON THE GUITAR IN THIS VERSION. THE CHORDS WORKED… I JUST HAD TO MOVE MY CAPO 🙂
@jeff Thanks a bunch for the insight on the A chord. For some reason I couldn’t figure that one out…and it makes sense too. I made the change. Thanks for the melody as well, I’m sure many people will find it helpful.
A# is really just A major, it makes a huge difference, other than that spot on 🙂 and just incase anyone was wondering the melody is
e-f#-d#-b-c#-g#-a#-b-b-a#-f# 2nd time thru it just repeats an octave lower but at the end the little riff is b-a#-b-f#
It’s amazing how this song aptly put into words everything that I only have in mind.. So beautiful.. 🙂
I love this beautiful song. What a blessing.
i love this song….how can we understand God’s Way?
just have faith that every thing He do and let Him happen has its purpose, probably its hidden yet..but faith tell us to wait till He reveal to Us…..We just need to rest on His ways and his side
these chords are perfect 🙂 except the A# should just be a natural A major chord..
I’m using this song for an audition – and it’s such a wonderful song 🙂 thank you for putting these chords up.
Capo 4 should be used to match CD.