Declaring Your Choice to Bless the Lord
Editor’s note: This is part two of a three-part article. Find part one here and watch for part three, coming soon to charismanews.com.
“I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth” (Ps. 34:1, NASB).
I imagine that some of you are much like me. Sometimes we can wake up in the morning and feel refreshed, encouraged and ready to start our day. We may not even know why; it just seems like it is going to be a good day.
Yet other times when we open our eyes in the morning, we feel sluggish, lazy, unmotivated. We just seem empty or out of it. We do not feel like praising God. But even when we feel nothing, even when we have no emotions that compel us to worship Him, we still have a choice. We have power over our will.
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Beloved, I want to encourage you to make the decision to spend time with God every morning. Start each day with God by choosing to bless Him. No matter how we feel, we can begin our day that way. We do it because of a decision of our will. By doing so, we set the course of our life for the rest of that day. This is the “law of first fruits.” When we give God the first part of our day, we order our entire day.
Again, sometimes when I wake up in the morning, I can feel impassive, disconnected and tired. Maybe I had bad dreams the night before or simply did not get enough sleep. Still, I have a choice to praise Him—or not—just as you do. So I choose to say, “Father God, thank You for today. Father, thank You for the life You have given me and for the opportunity, Lord, to know You and to love You. HaShem, I praise You for the possibilities in this day. Father, please transform me into Your image. Thank you for all the goodness You have shown me over all these years.”
When we make the decision to praise Him, to bless Him, to speak forth His glory and to confess His wonders, our emotions change, and God empowers us. Just five minutes earlier, we felt detached, and we had no desire to praise Him. But since we chose to do so, because we have a will and we can choose, we began to declare God’s majesty.
After doing that for five minutes, all of a sudden, we feel great. All of a sudden, life comes into us. All of a sudden, we have joy. All of a sudden, our perspective of the day has been completely changed. Why? Because we transitioned ourselves in the spirit by our choice and through our will to put God first. As a result, we shifted the entire atmosphere.
Jesus did not say, “Whosoever feels, come.” No, He said:
“Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me” (Mark 8:34b, KJV).
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