to worship You, O my soul rejoice.
Take joy my King in what You hear,
may it be a sweet sweet sound in Your ear.
Songwriters: KLEIN LAURIE B
I Love You Lord lyrics © House Of Mercy Music, UMPG BRENTWOOD-BENSON PUB. OBO MARANATHA PRAISE, INC., UMPG BRENTWOOD-BENSON PUB. OBO HOUSE OF MERCY MUSIC
A short, simple praise chorus that I learned years ago. It is one that goes through my head often....pieces of it have been in my head when I couldn't seem to come up with anything else, not even a prayer.
Recently it has become an integral beginning to my prayer time.
One day while I began to pray and this immediately began in my head....I realized it had become an automatic part of my communication with my Lord....and I began to disect it...was it a good way to start my prayer time? .... Was it a prayer in itself? Etc etc...
So I decided to look at it in parts:
"I love You Lord"
The basic tenant of who I am, of who any Christian is. We choose to love our God, to follow Him.
📖 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. Matthew 22:37
"And I lift my voice"
That is what prayer is, praise is, worship is.
📖 I will lift my voice to sing Your praise, O my Strength—
for You came to my defense. O God, You have shown me Your loving mercy. Psalm 59:17 (the Voice)
"To worship you"
Not just during prayer time, but with my whole existence, worship my God
📖 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” John 4:24
"O, my soul rejoice"
I take joy, pleasure in the depths of my being in my relationship with my creator. My soul, which is His.
📖 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Philippians 4:4
It becomes not about me, but about Him. How can i serve Him? How can I Love Him? How can i bring Him Joy?
📖 For the Lord takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with victory. Psalm 149:4
"In what You hear"
It is about my responses to Him. Not just the words I "speak" to Him, but what "sounds" resonate off my life, off all I do!!
📖 "For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous
and his ears are attentive to their prayer, 1 Peter 3:12a
"May it be a sweet, sweet sound in Your ear"
At the end of it all...my prayers, my activities, my day, my life...
may ALL of it separately and collectively bring honor, and glory to God the Father, but this line speaks of something even more intimate...what we do brings something to Him personally, meant only for His "ear"
and I pray it be melodious and sweet!
Now listen with your heart to the song and may it penetrate your prayer time!
I Love You Lord Petra
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