2. Introduction:Introduction:
Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me,Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, blessbless his holy name.his holy name.
Think about blessing the Lord with your Soul (mind, will, emotions,
imagination and intellect). When you say O my soul, O is a language of the
Spirit, we don’t know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit maketh
intercessions for us with groanings (oooo), which cannot be uttered.
All that is with in you is the Spirit of Christ, and the faith of Christ that is on
the inside of you. As you are blessing him, you are worshipping him in Spirit
and in truth as you think about all of the good things that he has done for you
and others.
Whatever is going on in your life you can call on the name of Jesus and he
will
Be your very present help in the time of trouble and he will answer you and
show
You great and mighty things.
All of your help is in the name of the Lord The Lord is your shepherd and you
shall not want. He will not withhold any good thing from you when you walk
upright. And for his name’s sake There is power in the name of Jesus. In
3. Psa 103:2 Bless the LORD, O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits:
Let’s think about His benefits for a minute He gives the Oil of Joy for Mourning – In the book of
James, He tells us to Count it all Joy when we enter into divers temptation because the trying of our
Faith is working patience….. You may think: How can I bless the Lord? By loving him and thanking
him for all of the many, many blessings that he has bestowed upon you. Let’s think about all of his
benefits. Take time each day and be glad for the Lord, think about all of the things that he has done
for you, dangers seen and unseen. Thank him for creating you in His Image.
I was talking to my friend and Prayer Partner, Josie, and she was telling about The lightening struck
a tree and some young scouts where effected with burns From the lightening strike that came from
under the ground from the tree. I thought Praise the Lord, I remember when I was sitting in the car
and lightening struck the Car power in the window, you see it was raining, thundering and lightening
and I was trying to raise the window, I hit the power button and lightening struck my hand I thought I
had died, but I was still alive and I was in pain all through my bones it seemed, I also had a little
burn like when you burn yourself from an iron. And the blessed thing about it was it didn’t even
blister. You see, that was about umm well many years ago. But I remembered and I’m sharing and
thanking the Lord today for my life. Hallelujah! Like Smokey Norvell sang: “For my Life Lord I thank
You.” Thank you Jesus for my life. Glory to God!!!! Now think about how the Lord has blessed
you. Even recently there was a large bomb like sound and lightening struck right in my back yard, I
have a lot of trees, Robert was at the window where it appeared to strike and all is well, was well
and still well. But it was awesome. I bless the Lord again for that. How about you? Can you think
of dangers seen and unseen that you want to thank the Lord for. Think about it! The Lord has
really blessed ya!
4. Psa 103:3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities;
Iniquities are hidden sins. Some sins that you don’t even realize that we have done
Think about it. Jesus said if you look upon a woman and lust, you have already
committed adultery. Therefore even in your thoughts you can sin and you have to
ask for forgiveness for the hidden sins of your thought life. Think about it, what about
the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. We must guard it and
watch what we are thinking about in our minds. We need to check it and shift the
thoughts from evil to peace. Even when someone upsets us – don’t sit up and plot on
how you are going to get even. Even if it is a little thing. It’s the little foxes that spoil
the vine. Jesus is the true vine and we are the branches and we want to continue to
abide in Him.
Let that mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus and we will not be thinking about
getting even, we will think about blessing the individual or others and sending out
loving thoughts to them. The Lord will repay evil doers.
Think on lovely things, good things, right thinking. Remember evil begats evil and we
will be judged by the things that are done in our bodies. And thoughts are things.
Continue to think on doing good. The Lord forgives all of hidden sin. Therefore we
must confess them to him. By saying Lord forgive for all my sins, the ones I know
that I have done and the ones that I don’t realize that I’ve done. Because He will
forgive and he will abundantly pardon.
5. Psa 103:3b who healeth all thy diseases;
Jesus went to Calvary and he died for diseases for you and
me. He shed his blood for our diseases that is all of our
diseases. I do mean all. We can accept the blessings that he
has already done for us. By his stripes we are healed I been
told that all of the stripes that he shedded was for the healing of
the nations. Now let’s think about healings, wellness, very well.
As I think about it there was an occasion when I was at home
and I had been hurting in my shoulder real bad, I had the T.V.
on and I heard from another room, an evangelist say: OK Lord
I’ll do that.
He said someone has a severe pain in their shoulder and the
Lord is healing you right now if you will just praise him. I
thought, hey, that is me, so I stood up and I starting praising
the Lord for my healing. He received a Word of Knowledge
concerning me. And I was instantly healed.
6. Psa 103:4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction;
Let the redeemed of the Lord say so: I am redeemed by the blood of the Lamb and
I’m saying so, and here is my testimony, I overcome by the blood of the lamb and the
Word of my Testimony:
O yes, Let’s go down memory land and think about it. I remember the time when I
was expecting my oldest daughter and several friends and I were traveling down the
high on ice and of course it was raining. So being the young driver that I was I
decided to pass this car on the ice and low and behold there was a large diesel truck
that was on the opposite side of the highway. All of a sudden we were coming head
on and O cried out O’ Lord!!!!! Next thing I know we were in the ditch and the driver
from the diesel truck came over to help us out and he pulled my car out of the ditch.
He said I don’t know what happened, we were in the car and we were coming head
on with each other and my car disappeared. O Bless His name forever.
The Lord God redeemed my life from destruction. My daugther is alive and well and
doing very well today. She has a bachelor’s Degree, a Master’s Degree and working
on her Doctorate Degree. This is the one that I was pregnant with at the time. She
is most of all a Christian and have been saved for most of her life. O bless the Lord
O’ My Soul and all that is within me. Hallelujah!!!
7. Psa 103:4 who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and
tender mercies;
God’s Lovingkindness is better than life and my lips shall praise him. His mercies
are new every morning, this is His unmerited favor. By grace I was saved thorough
faith it is the gift of God. The Lord has surrounded us with so many kind acts and
gifts. Just like John P Kee sings: Every time I turn around he is making a way.
God has made so many ways for me I just can’t tell it all. I thinking about the little
things that he has done for me also.
I just recently seen the hand of God move in my life. I needed a large financial
blessings and he told me to just trust Him and believe that He was doing
exceedingly, abundantly above all that I could ever ask or think, according to the
power that is in me. And the greater one lives on the inside of me. I thought I need
to go to rock that is higher than I and I did in my mind, in my imagination, I went
there and I praised and magnified the Lord everyday. He told me to tell my prayer
partners that he had put me on an assignment and He was working it out and I tell
you he did just what he promised me that He would do.
He gave me divine favor and I am so thankful. He crowneth me with His
lovingkindness and tender mercies. He has his hand on me and when the Lord ‘s
hand is on you, you can do supernatural things, supernatural favor, supernatural
8. Psa 103:5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things;
so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
I think about all of the good things, things of good report. I bless the Lord O’ my soul
and forget not all of his benefits. My Spirit man is telling my soul To bless the Lord.
With my mind, my will, my emotions, my intellitect and my imagination. I bless His
Holy Name.
With my mind I’m thinking blessed Thoughts and I think about his goodness and
his wonderful works to the children of men. With my emotions I’m feeling the joy
of the Lord, which is my strength. With my will, I’ve made a quality decision to
bless the Lord, I will bless the Lord at all Times and His praise shall continually be in
my mouth.
With my intellect I’m meditating and feasting on the word of God and receiving the
Revelation knowledge that I need to live in this sanctified life. With my
imagination I bless him because I have been created in His Image and I can do all
things Through Christ who strengthens me and He supplies all of my needs according
to His riches in Glory. Therefore I see in my sanctified imaginations, blessings
comingAnd overtaking me. As I give blessings unto him and the Glory due his name,
He continues to renew my youth like the eagles and I can continue rise again and
again I rise and run, run, run and not be weary, and even when I slow down and walk
I will Not faint. So O magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together.
Let’s bless Him Now!!!!