Put your whole heart in it, and stop faking it!

“I WILL praise You, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will show forth (recount and tell aloud) all Your marvelous works and wonderful deeds!” With my whole heart is what the Lord is saying here. He wants all of us not just a mental assent in wanting Him in our lives. Once our whole heart is in a thing, our souls will command our body into action. To give thanks to the Lord says two things about a person. One, you believe the Lord is there to hear. Two, by giving Him thanks you are exercising your faith in trusting Him for answers. Many times our actions speak louder than our words. We must invoke our will to trust in a God we cannot see with our eyes. As we share our faith and experiences with others about the marvelous works and wonderful deeds of our Lord, we edify each other in the Lord. God can tell whether our hearts are in a thing or not since He created our make-up to be like His (Genesis 1:27). When God created the world He used words to bring about the power which in turn caused creation to appear. Being almighty God couldn’t He have just thought everything into existence. I believe He set the example way back from the beginning of time concerning faith in action. As we use the words of God in our everyday lives, believing with all our hearts, things change for our good. So I will praise Him for His marvelous works.