
“Lagniappe” = something extra or unexpected, a benefit
Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: (lagniappes)
Who forgives all your iniquities,
Who heals all your diseases,
Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies,
Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s —Psalm 103
1. Bless the Lord for His
He Gives Us
He has not dealt with us according to our sins,
Nor punished us according to our iniquities. —Psalm 103:10But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting
On those who fear Him,
And His righteousness to children’s children —Psalm 103:17
2. Bless the Lord for Showing Us Our
As a father pities his children,
So the Lord pities those who fear Him.
14 For He knows our frame;
He remembers that we are dust. —Psalm 103:13-14“The Lord gave and the Lord takes away; blessed be the name of the Lord” —Job 1:21
3. Bless the Lord for
He Gives Us
“He satisfies my mouth with good things” —Psalm 103:5
4. Bless the Lord for the
He Brings
5. Bless the Lord for the
that He Builds in Us
“Who redeems your life from destruction” —Psalm 103:4
6. Bless the Lord for the
in our lives
“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.” —Abraham Lincoln 1863
7. Bless the Lord for
As for man, his days are like grass;
As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone,
And its place remembers it no more.
—Psalm 103:15-16
8. Bless the Lord in All
“so that your youth is renewed like the Eagles” —Psalm 103:5b
“Bless the Lord O My Soul,
and ALL that is within me, bless His Holy name.” —Psalm 103:1“He forgives all your iniquities (sins)” —Psalm 103:3
As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He removed our transgressions from us. —Psalm 103:12