Would you perhaps pray something like...
Dear God, want to know You today! Lord, while we have breath and days.. we all-out praise Your Holy Name! With all we are in You. Your presence, what a privilege and JOY for each! We choose to walk with, and worship You alone, because there are none like You anywhere! So many have looked high and low.. everywhere else! Yes, we thank and praise You for who You are, and for all that You have done, and have planned for Your Church. GOOD and glorious is Your redemption plan for us. You said You'd build it--Your Church, Jesus, so I won't compete with you, but please do use me however You would like to.. okay. Wherever, whatever, whenever, however for Your glory! I love Your church because You love her dearly, but I love You most because Your are the Way for each of us, Jesus. You are man's ultimate Solution when no church or denomination is or ever has been. Danke Herr. In Jesus' Name I pray. Amen.
How does Psalm 103 start? Well, it opens with this robust, passionate, rousing exhortation for believers: “Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name!” (see verse 1, ESV). That same command to “bless the Lord, O my soul!” is repeated in the next verse too (Psalm 103:2, NKJV), and at the end of the psalm (verse 22), and twice again in Psalm 104, (verses 1 and 35). Psalm 103 begins with an individual doing what? This: blessing the Lord with his soul, and it ends with the angels and all of creation joining in blessing Him (verses 20–22).
The phrase O my soul refers to the author’s total human being—his inner self. The New Living Translation renders the meaning of soul here mentioned in Psalm 103:1 more transparently it would appear: “Let all that I am praise the LORD; with my whole heart, I will praise his holy name.”In addition to “soul,” the Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon gives several English meanings for the original Hebrew word (nephesh), including “heart,” “myself,” “self,” “the breathing substance,” “living being,” “inner being of a person,” “the man himself.” To “bless” the Lord is to all out praise Him because we love Him most.
