I am learning to trust at deeper levels. I am growing in my dependance upon God as a Father. I am surviving and navigating through tough times right now.
As I remember something King David practiced I am encouraged and I have discovered this to be a weapon in battle times as well.
All throughout the Psalms there is this phrase "O My Soul" that is repeated again and again. Each time the writer is speaking directly to his own soul. Listen to some of these statements from scripture.
Psalm 42.5 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
Psalm 62.5-6 Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken. Psalm 103.1-3 Praise the LORD, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. Praise the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits-who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, Psalm 103.22 Praise the LORD, all his works everywhere in his dominion. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
Psalm 104.35 But may sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Praise the LORD, O my soul. Praise the LORD.
Psalm 116.7-8 Be at rest once more, O my soul, for the LORD has been good to you.For you, O LORD, have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling,
Psalm 146.1-3 Praise the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul. I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. Do not put your trust in princes, in mortal men, who cannot save.
It has been powerful for me to reflect upon these scriptures. To reflect and do likewise. I have actually been speaking to my own soul just like we have read about. There is something powerful about speaking to yourself, to your own soul. Commanding it to remember the goodness of God our Father. It sets a different rhythm. It wars against hell itself. The enemy always wants to target our weakest areas, the places we are most vulnerable. I have found it to be a weapon but that is secondary. The very practice of speaking to your soul actually aligns your thinking to match back up with the way God desires for us to think. So its primary function aligns our heart, mind, soul with the Father's desire.
When we live aligned with God there is no force in hell that can take us out.
A great song by Kristene Mueller called Praise The Lord has been very refreshing to listen to today. Thanks to Bud and Angie Holdcroft for lending me this album.
