You Are My God
Psalm 118:28 (ESV) says, “You are my God, and I will give thanks to you; you are my God; I will extol you.” This verse summarizes the posture we can take when we come into prayer.
Come to him with personal openness.
We pray, “God, you are my God.” That doesn’t mean he is exclusively ours, but it means that we have determined He is the God we will worship and serve.
In this posture of personal prayer, we bring gratitude. We thank God for who He is and what He has done. This act of thanksgiving means we are declaring that God influences our life. His favor and his discipline impact us. When we pray with gratitude, we confess that we need him and that the blessings in our lives are the result of his hand.
It is good to come to God in this way.
This posture opens the door for us to commune with God and hear his voice. It is the entry point to the throne room of God and the beginning of secret intimacy with the Lord.
It is amazing how simple and yet profound this posture of prayer can be.
We can come into prayer acknowledging God or talking to God without opening ourselves up to Him. A lot of prayer looks like directing words we think we need to say toward God. It looks like reading off a list of requests.
If we are straining to get through our prayer time, it shows that we might not be connected to God at all. I am talking about more than an emotional connection. There is a spiritual, mental, emotional, and even physical abiding that is critical for growth in God.
The challenge today is to begin prayer with an open heart before a God that you need for a life of freedom. Pray out loud to yourself today, “You are my God, and I will give thanks to you; you are my God; I will extol you.” Patiently and carefully watch for what happens next. Do your best to respond to God’s heart and practice abiding in his presence.
Amen.
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