A Prayer to Make Praising God a Routine – Your Everyday Prayer – July 13

A Prayer to Make Praising God a Routine
By Ashley Moore 

“Seven occasions a working day I praise you for your righteous policies.” – Psalm 119:164, ESV 

Have you at any time listened to of pattern stacking? This is a practice you can implement when striving to create a new pattern, exactly where you connect the new pattern to one thing you by now have a behavior of undertaking. For case in point, if you want to start off a new behavior of ingesting 16 additional ounces of water a day, each individual night, you would spot a contemporary bottle of water beside your toothbrush. So that as before long as you are done brushing your tooth in the early morning (present habit), you can chug the h2o bottle (new practice). 

So often, our new habits fall short to really turn into 2nd character for the reason that we make them also complicated to incorporate or, relatively, way too quick to gloss about in our working day-to-working day regime. Have you at any time experienced failing to create a new pattern? 

Perhaps you acquired a membership to the health club but only went a pair of situations mainly because the journey throughout city was also a lot hassle. Possibly you wished to start eating much healthier, but the extra food prep was so hard to incorporate that you discovered yourself opting for the travel-thru again. 

Finally, you set a new aim to go through the Bible suitable ahead of calling it a night time but find your self crawling into mattress right after a hectic day, unable to study devoid of drifting off. These behavior did not stick because they have been as well tough to put into practice. They labored towards your previously effectively-ingrained routine, and in the close, the resistance overpowered your willpower to generate a new routine. 

When I examine the Psalmist’s devotion to praise God 7 moments a working day in Psalm 119:164, I have to marvel if practice stacking was included. Commentators are divided on regardless of whether praising seven moments is literal or if the number seven signifies numerous situations a day when the author stopped to praise. Nonetheless, we all can concur that praising God several periods a working day can only positively impact a individual. 

Perhaps our other behavior weren’t sustainable, and I hope that habit stacking can be a valuable resource to help us give much healthier practices a further shot. But potentially we can give behavior stacking a shot by striving to carry out far more praise into a little something we previously do various periods a working day. Maybe allow each time you verify your telephone nowadays prompt you to offer you up quick and sweet praises to God. 

Let’s pray:

Dear Lord, 
You are worthy of our praise. All working day, every single working day, our life ought to be entire of us presenting our praise to you! You made everything. The solar, the moon, the stars, the mountains, and the trees. You designed a unfold of creatures and a varied team of picture-bearers that replicate Your glory! You gave us the legislation by which to stay a ideal life, and when we unsuccessful to are living up to it mainly because of our sins, you sent Your Son to stay it in our locations on our behalf. In an upside-down offer, you trade Your righteousness for our transgressions, Lord. So that we could inherit everlasting existence with you eternally in Paradise. Lord, what else could we request for? Oh, but how we do ask for extra? Sadly, we are quickly discontented and distracted by the pleasures of this everyday living. 

Lord, forgive us when we fixate a lot more on what we do not have and fail to remember to thank You and praise You for all that You have given to us in addition to eternal life. Lord, You didn’t have to you didn’t have to make food style sweet or dress bouquets with your good shade palette. You did not have to give us enjoyable friendships and relationships on Earth. You didn’t have to paint attractive sunrises and sunsets every day for us. But you did, and you continue on to do points that prompt us to praise You! Lord, You didn’t have to make us to get pleasure from it when we offer You praise, but in Your goodness, you manufactured praise effective to us by expanding our joy! Thank You, Lord. I request that You would support each and every of us to follow pattern stacking our praises to You with one thing we frequently do so that our praise would raise, Jesus.
In Your identify, I pray, amen.

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