May you be blessed today, people of truth, souls of deep longing, heart walkers in cold halls, grace walkers of broken hearts, life livers and life givers.
May you be blessed.
May you be blessed, people of the edge, marginal pilgrims, shaky saints, trembling travelers, limping leapers, and lovers of humanity whose hands are extended into the darkness to those who dwell there, who enter the abyss with a light that gradually dissolves the fog of ambiguity and despair.
Be blessed soul travelers, guided guides, voices of hope, fellow stragglers who stagger toward something that glimmers in the darkness and the distance, swerving, swaying, yet mercifully, on course.
Be blessed, you who often fall down and mostly, rise up.
Be blessed, wounded neighbor, scabbed, scarred, healing healers.
Be blessed, you faithful doubters and doubting faithful who continue and thus, shake off the weights of those doubts to confidently live on.
Be blessed, witnesses of The Presence, who, with myopic eye, have seen and see and say, “Here is God and God is here.”
My comrades, my kinsmen, my fellow lovers of God and people who continue and conquer through the One who loves you, Jesus people, followers of that Way and those called to follow whose calling has not been heard or comprehended, but who are being drawn or shall be drawn, my beloved.
Be blessed.
” Be strong, and let your heart take courage,
all you who wait for the LORD!””
(Psalm 31:24 ESV)
“May He Give You the Desire of Your Heart” — Psalm 20:4
“May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.” — Psalm 20:4
Have you ever received a blessing spoken over you?
Have you ever spoken one over someone else?
Have you ever longed for someone to look you in the eye and say, “I see you. I believe in you. May God’s best unfold in your life”?
Psalm 20 is a communal blessing. It is not private sentiment. It is spoken publicly, intentionally, and courageously.
What This Psalm Teaches
Psalm 20 unfolds in a progression:
Distress
Divine deliverance
Protection
Help and support
Offering and sacrifice
Joyful celebration
Confidence in God’s saving power
Blessing does not skip suffering.
Blessing flows through suffering.
God desires to give us the desires of our hearts — but first He reshapes those desires so they align with His purposes. When His Spirit plants vision in us, success becomes obedience fulfilled rather than ego satisfied.
Psalm 20:5 says:
“We will shout for joy when you are victorious and will lift up our banners in the name of our God.”
Blessing includes community celebration.
Someone once rejoiced at your first steps of faith.
Someone encouraged you when you stumbled.
Someone prayed when you did not know how to pray.
Now it is your turn.
You are called to:
Encourage.
Pray.
Invest.
Cheer.
Speak life.
Psalm 20:6 declares:
“Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed…”
Jesus Christ is the Anointed One. All who are in Him share in His promises. When we bless others in Christ, we are not offering empty wishes — we are speaking covenantal hope.
Every believer has the capacity to invest spiritually in someone else.
Do not let that opportunity pass.
Transition to Application
Then ask:
How do we pronounce blessings?
What does a biblical blessing actually do?
How do we avoid sentimental language and instead speak Spirit-shaped words?
Invitation
Before moving deeper:
We’ve reflected on receiving and becoming a blessing.
Beyond the paywall, we will explore:
The theology of spoken blessing
A group process for blessing one another
A practical liturgy you can use in small groups
Scripture references for pronouncing blessing biblically
If this kind of formation work strengthens you, consider subscribing and stepping into the deeper work.
Blessing is not theory.
It is practice.
