BLESS YOU!
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy Name. 2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: 3 He forgives all your iniquity. He heals all your diseases. 4 He redeems your life from the Pit. He crowns you with lovingkindness and compassions. 5 He satisfies your years with good things, so that your youth is renewed like an eagle. (Ps.103)
God has delivered every believer from the bondage of sin that led to our spiritual exile, so we might dwell in His presence through a restored relationship. He has blessed us far beyond all expectation and within this realisation He has provided us with the capacity to express what Scripture describes as our “spiritual worship. (Rom 12:1)
To appreciate what exactly it means in the biblical sense to bless, we need to examine the ancient Hebrew word which literally means, ‘to kneel.’ So when we bless Him we are in fact presenting to Him a gift on bended knee – an expression of a life fully consecrated. (Rom 12:1-2.) The very most we can ever give Him is the least He deserves – the starting point of our journey. First-love is the well-spring that nourishes our walk with God without which we would simply wither and die. Let’s give Him our best not the scraps which is the highest form of worship to God.
Take what God has blessed you with today in both hands and release it as a sweet smelling scent. It will transform lives and release the fragrance of His love. Let’s partner with God that through our yielded lives we may spread His fragrance everywhere we go. As Scripture declares, “We have become the unmistakable aroma of the victory of the Anointed One to God—a perfume of life to those being saved and the odour of death to those who are perishing. (2Cor 2:15)
My prayer for you today: “…I bow my knees (bring blessings) before the Father, after whom all families in heaven above and on earth below receive their names, and pray: Father, out of Your honourable and glorious riches, strengthen Your people. Fill their souls with the power of Your Spirit so that through faith Yeshua will reside in their hearts. May love be the rich soil where their lives take root. May it be the bedrock where their lives are founded so that together with all of Your people they will have the power to understand that the love of God is infinitely long, wide, high, and deep, surpassing everything anyone previously experienced. May Your fullness flood through their entire beings.
Now unto Him who can do so many awe-inspiring things, immeasurable things, things greater than we ever could ask or imagine through the power at work in us, to Him be all glory in the church and in Yeshua the Anointed from this generation to the next, forever and ever. Amen.” (Eph.3:15-21)
Raphael ben Levi
