Week 39: Worship God with your soul.

Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul! – Psalm 146:1

What is the role of your soul? How can you praise God with your soul? No one really knows the soul’s purpose. Scholars speculate it is your mind, your conscience and sense of morality, and your will. The following excerpt comes from my post called Why heal your heart and purify your soul? “Did you know your emotional heart is part of your soul? The following verses describe how the soul contains our feelings. Job said his soul grieved for the needy (Job 30:25). King David said in Psalm 6:3, “My soul also is greatly troubled.” And Psalm 35:12 states, “They repay me evil for good; my soul is bereft [left sad and lonely].” And Psalm 43:5a states, “Why are you cast down (in despair), O my soul, and why are you in turmoil? Hope in God…” And Psalm 88:3a states, “For my soul is full of troubles…” Lastly, Lamentations 3:17 states, “My soul is bereft of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.”

Based on the Bible’s description, our soul stores our feelings, which leads us to praise and gratitude to God. This makes sense, doesn’t it? If you fill your soul with the wonderful truths of God, then you are inspired to praise Him. However, if you ignore God and sin, this separates you from God by creating a barrier of negative feelings in your soul. I also wrote the following in Why heal your heart and purify your soul? “Our soul longs to be in a right fellowship with God. Moses said in Deuteronomy 4:29, ‘“…Seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you search after Him with all your heart and with all your soul.’” The wounds and guilt (from sin) in our hearts and souls hinder us from seeking God and being in the right fellowship with Him, which is another reason we need to heal our hearts and purify our souls.”

King David wasn’t perfect, yet he knew he could approach God for forgiveness and healing, read his confession in Psalms 51. He wrote in Psalm 30:12, “That my soul may sing praise to You and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever.” And in Psalm 119:175, “Let my soul live and praise you, and let your rules help me.” King David knew that God’s rules kept his soul rightly related to God. God’s rules and truths keep our souls pure and full of praise.

Let this week’s worship inspire and encourage you daily. May you be blessed.

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WEEK 39–September 24- September 30

Day 267-Sept. 24—Worship God for giving you His precious and very great promises.

By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. –2Peter 1:4

Day 268-Sept. 25—Worship God for helping you to be fruitful and effective for Him.

For if these qualities (faith, moral excellence, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love) are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. –2Peter 1:8

Day 269-Sept. 26—Worship God for helping you to never fall.

Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. –2Peter 1:10

Day 270-Sept. 27— Worship God for providing an entrance to His eternal kingdom.

For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. –2Peter 1:11

Day 271-Sept. 28—Worship God that He is not slow to fulfill His promises.

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. –2Peter 3:9

Day 272-Sept. 29—Worship God who forgives you and cleanses you from all unrighteousness.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. –1John 1:9

Day 273-Sept. 30—Worship God for providing Jesus Christ to be your advocate.

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. ²He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. –1John 2:1-2

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Verses are from the English Standard Bible. To review the previous weeks, visit the 365 Days of Worship Page. This post is copyright protected.