Father God, Thank you
for this time in your Word. I pray for
my eyes to see, my ears to hear, heart to be open to receive and the grace to
do what you reveal to me today. May you
be glorified in and through my life. In
Jesus Name I pray. Amen.
Psalm 134 New King James Version (NKJV)
Praising the Lord in His House at Night
A Song of Ascents.
134 Behold, bless the Lord,
All you servants of the Lord,
Who
by night stand in the house of the Lord!
2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary,
And
bless the Lord.
3 The Lord who made heaven and earth
Bless
you from Zion!
Wow,
as I ask the Lord for my eyes, mind, ears and heart to be open to receive what
He has for me today I am yet again overwhelmed what He has in what appears to
be a short, simple psalm. A Psalm or
chapter that only has three verses recorded in The Word that is easily
overlooked if you are just reading to read to check it off your list that its
done. Meditating on the Word is far
more enlightening and fruitful then reading the Word.
“Behold”
what a word. It has a Ta Da fanfare to
it or a drum roll type presentation. It stirs my spirit and puts it on
alert. The word is defined as “see or
observe a thing or person, especially a remarkable or impressive one. Synonyms are view, look at, watch, survey,
witness, gaze at/upon, regard, contemplate, inspect.
The
word “Behold” calls me to accountability.
Am I truly observing the Lord? Am I gazing upon Him and seeing all that
He does for me? Or am I too busy with the menial things in life, allowing them
to fill up my day as I focus on them and let them shape and mold my emotions
and mood towards myself, my family, my friends, the people I encounter while
out and about. I do know that when I’m “Beholding
the Lord” and gazing upon Him, knowing Him, praising Him that the focus and
effects of others on the earth do not impact my life as deeply nor have the
roller coaster effect on my emotions. I
also know that I have my best results in getting the important things
accomplished during my day and the lesser things either go away or often
resolve themselves with little effort on my part. Why then do I choose to put the “busyness” of
the world before and above my “Behold” time of the LORD? Talk about a face palm insight moment.
I’ve
read the Psalm through several times before I even started to journal my
insights. There is so much here however
today I am lead to meditate on the “Behold”.
Behold, observe, as you bless the Lord. Behold and observe day and night … good
challenges and bad challenges. Observe
the Lord in all situations that you allow yourself into with your choices and things
put in to motion with your spoken authority.
God loves us so much that He allows us to make our own choices. He loves us so much that He allows us to
choose whether to give Him honor or not … and He delights in the praise and honor
we give Him. He who can speak anything
into being, who does not need us to do anything for Him, truly delights in our
adoration and praise of Him. Try to
comprehend that! Being a parent is such
an eye opener to the heart of God. As parents,
we love our children from the moment they are being created inside of us. It is such a pleasure to watch a loving couple
who are expecting their first child. How
the husband/dad hovers over, anticipates the needs and is delighted to get to
do whatever for the wife/mom to meet her needs and desires. How like our Heavenly Father who watches over
us, guides us (even when we are in the “2-year-old Do It Myself phase”; whether
we are willing to receive or not and loves us whether we decide to listen and do
or not!), anticipates our needs and provides even the smallest thing for us
when we allow and are willing to receive.
We
GET to bless God as we stand watch by night, in the darkest hours, the darkest
challenges. It is a choice. We can always find Him in every situation. God did not create sin. Adam and Eve’s love gift of free will, chose to
listen to the deception of Satan and allow his words and implications to outweigh
God’s words. God who has always spoken
truth to and over them, providing their everything. Even then God’s love for us was so great that
He had to honor His word and cast them out of the Garden of Eden for their
disobedience. BUT GOD cast them into a
void that He created and gave them everything they needed to have life, to
succeed, to fulfill their purpose of life.
He still hovered, watching, anticipating, giving what they would accept
when they were willing to receive out of an unconditional love.
God
shows His unconditional love for us repeatedly throughout The Word. Even when the Earth became so corrupt that only
one man and his family believed, sought God, heard Him and worshiped Him, He
saved that one man (Noah) by giving Him promptings and insight to build a boat
to prepare for what had never existed before on this Earth. Are we courageous as Noah? Are we willing to act
and stand against the ridicule of doing something beyond the norm? Even before
that … are we truly seeking and spending time with God? Do we even stand still long enough to
converse and be open to receive from God an idea to build/create/do something
that has never been done before?
Oh,
the proof of accountability and submission!
Because Noah sought after knowing God and knowing His heart thus knowing
and being aligned with His will and willing to receive direction no matter how
unknown the concept. Because Noah
covered his family, raised them according to the knowledge of God’s ways that
were imparted to him through prayer and meditation with God as the Bible didn’t
exist yet. Because Noah sought after and
“BEHOLDED” God, his family was saved when all the rest of the people of the
earth that had become so corrupted that there was no goodness and were
destroyed in the first rainfall and flood on earth. You think that you are just one person and
can’t make much of an impact? Rebuke
that lie right now because Noah is just one proof of what one man can do
because of God’s love for us and willingness to give us the delights of our
hearts in the blessing of obedience. You
do matter and impact the lives of those around you. How you walk out challenges
brought on by your own choices and sometimes brought on by the choices of
others … is a witness to others of our great, loving, Heavenly Father who guarantees
us victory in ALL challenges.
It
is written in John 10:10 that satan, our enemy, comes to kill, steal and
destroy. It is also written that Jesus
came to give us life and to not only give us life but to give us life
ABUNDANTLY! If it has to do with
killing, stealing, destroying then give credit to the correct initiator –
satan, and give PRAISE to Jesus who gives us victory in ALL things and will give
us the strength to stand and endure to receive the morning joy (Psalm 30:5) and
the restoration of what has been taken/stolen from us. (Deuteronomy 30:3-13). He gives us a life of abundance! Are we
receiving it and walking in it?
I
can honestly say, from walking through some dark challenges beyond the normal, that
God really is there guiding and giving strength to endure, to receive the
blessing of His morning joy. It is
possible to see and hold on to Him during the darkness, praising Him when satan
is doing everything he can to have all flesh and world things keep you from
praising your Creator and Unconditional Lover of your soul.
Wow! Thanks for such sweet reminders Lord. With the weights of worldly demands and
expectations dragging me down at times, I so needed this accountability check
as to where my focus is and where my spoken praise is. It’s a mindset or perspective choice with
every thought and circumstance.
My
affirmation today: I choose to seek
Him. I choose to follow His
leading. I choose to give praise to the
Lord. I choose to focus on His good report
only. I choose to rebuke and step on the
head of satan who can only bruise my heel instead of running screaming in fear. (Genesis 3:15) I feel God’s leading. I feel like praising the Lord. I feel like
focusing on His good report. I feel like rebuking satan in my life. I AM choosing Him. I AM following His leading. I AM giving praise to my Lord. I AM focusing on His good report. I AM rebuking the devourer.
To
you, Father God, I give the praise and glory of all good things in my life and
my ability to overcome and praise in and through all things. Thank you. Thank You. Thank you.
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Thank you for the investment of
your time.
May you hear and receive what is
yours to hear from the sharing of a portion of my insights.
Be blessed in the Name of the
Lord.
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His Beloved, blessed wife and mother
My Father’s Blessing Ministries
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