Everything is Blessed

3,944 views Sep 5, 2026 updated Verified editorial review

Joe Praize's "Everything Is Blessed" works by inventory rather than argument — hands, legs, head, each one named and declared blessed in turn before the song widens to "everything." "My body, the temple of God" lifts Paul's language about the body directly, treating it less as poetic flourish and more as the actual basis for the earlier claims — if the body belongs to God in that specific way, calling each part blessed follows from it rather than being wishful thinking. "I'm a new creation, I overcome the world" pairs two ideas that don't usually share a verse: Paul's picture of anyone in Christ as something genuinely new, and John's promise that whatever is born of God overcomes the world's pull. "My eyes cannot be blind, say I cannot be down" reads as declaration more than description, the kind of statement meant to be spoken over a body and identity rather than simply observed as already obviously true. The song's short, repetitive structure suits that purpose — it's built to be said, not analyzed.