Blessings / Laura Story Cover - Daniel Hopkins and Shayla Salas - Piano and Vocal / Christian Music

"Blessings" words and music by Laura Story, deviations (from original) by Daniel Hopkins (me, piano).

This music video was recorded by Daniel Hopkins, Shayla Salas, and Jason Strull and filmed as a tribute to the goodness of God during the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. God's Word tells us in Romans 8:28, "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." We hope that this song is a message of hope to you!

Piano and vocal cover. Music for Christian worship.

It was a privilege to have Shayla Salas sing on my YouTube channel! She has an incredible voice and a heart to serve the Lord Jesus Christ with her life. Shayla is from Lancaster, CA and serves in the music ministry in the Spanish department of Lancaster Baptist Church on the staff of Dr. Paul Chappell, our Senior Pastor. Shayla is soon to be married to Israel Lopez.

Credits
"Blessings" words and music by Laura Story
© 2011 Laura Stories (Admin. by Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing, Inc.)
New Spring (Admin. by Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing, Inc.)

Lyrics

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
And 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
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

When friends betray us
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 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 a 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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This arrangement produced by Daniel Hopkins, copyright 2020.
Performed by Shayla Salas and Daniel Hopkins
Audio and video recorded by Jason Strull.

Mixed and mastered by Jason Strull. at https://butterygoodness.co

Video recorded in a beautiful poppy field here in the Antelope Valley of Southern California.

Produced by Daniel Hopkins and Jason Strull