Count your blessings, name them one by one, Count your many blessings, see what God hath done. And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done. Not once a year, but every day, we need to count the blessings God has sent us.

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Count your blessings, name
them one by one,
Count your many blessings, see
what God hath done.
And it will surprise you what
the Lord hath done.
Not once a year, but every day,
we need to count the blessings
God has sent us.

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What You Need
• A blank sheet of paper
and something to write
with for each person
• A timer

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What to do – Game
1. On your signal to begin,
everyone should write down
everything they are thankful for
that can be described in two
words or less.
2. Set a timer, for two minutes (or
less) and tell them to begin.
3. When the timer goes off each
youth must count how many
items they have.
4. The person with the most items
should read their list and if
anyone else has those items on
their list also, then everyone
who has the items must cross
them off the list. Only unique
items remain.

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5. The next person continues in
the same way, calling out the
items that remain on his/ her
list. If the item is unique it
remains. If someone else has
the same item, then all who
have it cross the item off their
lists.
6. Continue until everyone has
gone, then each person must
count up the unique items he
or she has on the list.
7. Award a prize for the person
with the highest number of
unique answers.

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TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL
Make it Spiritual
• What was the most surprising
thing that someone was
thankful for?
• How did creating your list
affect you?
• Did you have more or less
items than you thought you
would have?
• How did it make you feel
when you discovered that
others felt blessed for the
same things as you?
• Of all the things on your list,
which is most significant for
you? Why?

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Make it Personal
CREATE A BLESSINGS JAR
1. Give each youth a blessings
jar. While a small jar is nice,
any container with a lid will
work. Place a label on it
“Blessings Jar.” And maybe tie
a ribbon on it. You can just as
easily decorate a Pringles can
or another container. Or even
better, have materials for the
youth to decorate their own
jar.
2. Give each youth 30-40 small
slips of paper. You can also
buy a small notepad.

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3. Encourage the youth to
start today and for each
day from now until the
end of the year, at the
beginning of each day, to
write something down
they are thankful for, or
that was a blessing for
them on the previous day.
Place it in the jar each day.
Then at the end of the
year, encourage them to
open the jar and recall the
blessings of God for the
last few weeks of the year.

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SCRIPTURES
Ephesians 5:19-21
“Speak to one another with psalms,
hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and
make music in your heart to the
Lord, always giving thanks to God
the Father for everything, in the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Submit to one another out of
reverence for Christ.”
Philippians 4:6
“Do not be anxious about anything,
but in everything, by prayer and
petition, with thanksgiving, present
your requests to God.”

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Colossians 3:17
“And whatever you do, whether
in word or deed, do it all in the
name of the Lord Jesus, giving
thanks to God the Father
through him.”

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