Let my internal dialogue give Him praise

A few weeks ago I felt GOD leading me to a new prayer. . .

Let my internal dialogue give You praise.

If you have ever studied the number of words that we speak to ourselves each day, it is mind boggling. And one of the things that GOD has really brought to my attention the past few years, is how negative my internal dialogue is. I think most of us, when we really start to get to know JESUS better, must take a hard look at what we are telling ourselves each day. And He has really brought me far. Now when I am driving and someone cuts me off, although my initial reaction often is to get mad, I catch myself and ask GOD to reveal Himself to that person more today than ever before. And my road rage is slowly becoming less of an issue.

This is just one area GOD showed me that my internal dialogue needed to line up with what The Word teaches. But then He took it up one step to. . .

Let my internal dialogue give You praise.

Which means that all my thoughts, whether spoken or not, will be for His glory. I'm so not there yet, but when I think of this, I am reminded of 1 Thessalonians 5:17 that tells us to continually pray. When I was a kid, and didn't really understand much about what it means to live the life that JESUS intended for me, I would read this verse and get totally overwhelmed. But as I get to know Him better, I find myself just chit-chatting with Him more and more.

And the more my internal dialogue is aimed at Him and the more aware I become of Him always being near me, then. . .

My internal dialogue gives Him praise.

Is it well??

I got to spend part of the Christmas holiday with my grandparents. One of the conversations my grandmother and I always have is the difference between ministry now and ministry back when her and my grandpa were pastors. My grandma is amazing and she genuinely wants to understand those younger than her and how GOD is moving.

So each visit she and I will talk about music. We talk about different styles, cultural relevance of worship music today and the importance of not forgetting our heritage. All that to say, because of my grandmother, GOD has developed in me a love and respect for the old hymns.

And today when I heard the song It Is Well I was again taken by the words and challenge of this song.

It is well. . .

With my soul. . .

Is it? Is it really? What a profound and important question that we must continually ask ourselves. While once we know CHRIST and accept Him as our Savior, we have a wellness about our soul that cannot be described, that is not the end of it. We must continually work out our salvation like Paul talks about in Philippians.

I have found in my life a huge part of this, or way rather of working out my salvation is to ask the question "is it well with my soul?' Daily we have stuff that is thrown at us, whether it is from the enemy or simply just from living in a fallen world, we have to continually make sure that it is well with our soul.

I know for me insomnia is a big indicator whether or not I need to take my broken soul to the foot of the cross and allow GOD to mend the it once again. This happened a couple weeks ago. A situation came up, and I had determined in my heart to take care of it myself. I wasn’t going to trust GOD, I was gonna take the bull by the horn and handle. I even had some close friends agree that it was the right course of action. But deep in my heart, I knew for me, that to act instead of trust, was pure rebellion.

But I was still determined to do it. Then after a day or two, it became apparent that it wasn’t well with my soul. And I had to ask for forgiveness and for the broken places where my rebellion had caused a rift to be healed.

But the problem is too often we can get so caught up in the day to day, or we allow our hearts to be hardened, that we forget to ask if it’s well or not.

So today, I think what GOD wants to speak to you if you’re reading this, is to just simply ask yourself. . . Is it well? And if not then take the steps necessary to get it well with your soul. And if it is well, then take a moment and thank GOD for His grace and the ability to enter His throne room and sit at his feet.