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I Can Bless God?

By Sharon Merhalski

As a child of God I so often pray for God to bless me and I so often tell others how God has blessed me.  As I was reading in the book of Psalms a verse seemed to leap off of the page, "O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:" (Psalm 66:8).  And then a question filled my heart: How often do I think about blessing God? I always want to praise God for His goodness and provision but I don’t think I have ever thought of my doing so as a blessing to God.

How can I bless God?

Psalm 66

Vs. 1  "....Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:

Vs. 2  Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious.

Vs. 3  Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.

Vs. 4  All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.

Vs. 5  Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.

Vs. 6  He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.

Vs. 7  He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.

Vs. 8  O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:

Vs. 9  Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.

Vs. 10  For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

Vs. 11  Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.

Vs. 12  Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.

Vs. 13  I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,

Vs. 14  Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.

Vs. 15  I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.

Vs. 16  Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.

Vs. 17  I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.

Vs. 18  If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

Vs. 19  But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.

Vs. 20  Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me."

Verse five, six and sixteen made me stop and think for a long time.  God says we are to ask those people that fear (fear/reverence) God to give us an audience—to "come and see"and hear—as we declare "what He hath done for my sou". Verse two says we are to make "his praise glorious" which (defined with the Strong’s Concordance) means weighty, copious, glorious, honorable.  Hmmmm  these definitions make me realize my blessing God is to take more than two to three sentences or seconds.  Verses five through seven says we are to speak "the works of God" and relate great things He has done and Who He is.  And verse twenty tells us we are to share our answers to prayer. In doing all these things verse eight says we bless God by making "the voice of His praise to be heard." 

I often give a testimony in church but I cannot remember ever thinking I was blessing God by doing so.

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