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I have thought much about my being able to bless God and considered many verses of scripture  I will share with you at the end of this article.  I have wondered many times why I have never considered that anything I could to could actually bless God.  I believe it is because I have never heard this thought taught before.

I have heard much taught and preached about praising God.  Often the teaching and preaching has been done in admonition because generally many Christians in many denominations don’t do much—or at least enough—of it. I have heard the words "thanksgiving" and "praise" linked and extolled as everything from my duty to the cure for sadness, anxiety, depression...even some physical illnesses.  But I cannot remember anyone telling me that if I want to bless God--be a blessing to my Abba Father—I need to praise Him before men.

It makes me sad to say that I don’t hear a majority of Christians blessing God by verbally praising Him.  And I include me in this statistic.  Oh, often I have said what flooded over from my heart and I remember facing the blank stares—or worse—the looks of "what planet are you from?"  Sadder yet, I don’t see a majority of Bible-believing Christians blessing God with their countenance and/or lifestyle.  It is not a blessing to God for His children to live in anxiety, fear, depression, scornfulness and pessimism...or in acts of sin.

The Bible says we are a living epistle: 

"Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.  And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:"  II Corinthians 3:2-4

Today may we each look at what others are reading in our book...our lives.  Do they read a life that blesses God? Or are men reading a life that shows them a God incapable of taking care of His children and incapable of fulfilling the promises He made in His Word/the Bible?

I am going to let God speak and teach through the following verses of scripture.  I pray you will read through these with a searching and open heart.  I hope you will ask God to teach you how to bless the God of your salvation for He blesses us every day with a promised home in Heaven, the air we breathe, the water we drink, the sunshine for warmth and every thing we need to live for Him and others.

The Bible says God blesses His children:

Genesis 26:24 "And the Lord appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake."

Genesis 28:3 "And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;"

Deuteronomy 24:

19. "When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.

 20.  When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

 21.  When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

22. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing."

Deuteronomy 30:16 "In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

Acts 3: 26 "Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities."

Psalms 67

1. God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.

2. That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.

3. Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee

4. O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.

5. Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.

6. Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.

7. God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.

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