Climbing the mountain of God - Elizabeth Matheson

In the meeting last week, we were encouraged to realise there is a mountain of God we can climb, instead of just cruising in life we can put effort into and push ourselves to go higher with God to push in to His presence. That is where the blessings really are.

My normal routine with God is telling him all about what I'm concerned about and then going into praise, but I was challenged to put praise first (Ephesians 1:3), to bring to mind the goodness, greatness and wonder of God and express it to Him before anything else.

The result of doing this, this week, is that I've been more full of joy, excitement and childlike lightness in my spirit.

I'm thankful to God when He tells us to give to Him in praise, especially when we don't feel like it, because He reaps back to us so much more.

I'm excited that He promises this year to pour out more blessing, to take us further with Him and that He's going to do more of the supernatural and things we can't explain if we will push into Him with praise and seek Him first.