Welcome to the Feminine podcast. This is Nancy Wilson. Thanks so much for joining me today.

I'm going to talk about mornings and our morning rituals, since we all have mornings and we must do something regular in them. How we wake up and how we

greet the day plays a big role in how the rest of our day goes, doesn't it? Sometimes we have

the luxury of waking up when we want to, but more often, I hope anyway, we wake up because duty calls. We have things to do.

And sometimes these all coincide. We wake up by ourselves because we want to and because duty calls.

But whichever way it is for you, some things are common features for all of us, and that is the need to greet the Lord every morning with gratitude.

Good morning, Lord. Thank you for a good night's sleep. Another day in which to serve you.

Psalm 5.3 says this. My voice shalt thou here in the morning, O Lord. In the morning will I direct my

prayer unto thee and will look up. I love that phrase. I will look up. Why do we look up? Because we're

lifting up our voice to the Lord in the morning. We're looking up to him. Does God see you looking up in the morning?

Does he hear your voice in the morning? Are you cheerful in the morning? Well, direct your prayer to him

in the morning. Let him hear your voice. Psalm 5916 says, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning. Now we have two suggestions here from

the psalmist, my voice in prayer back in Psalm 5.3 and singing in Psalm 5916. And if the

psalmist is singing aloud, not quietly in his head, then go ahead, bust out the

sultan and sing in the morning. There's nothing that can lift us up and change a mood better

than singing of God's mercies. Psalm 143-8 says, cause me to hear thy loving kindness in the morning,

for in thee do I trust. cause me to know the way wherein I should walk, for I lift up my soul unto thee. Notice again, this idea of in the

morning, I hear your loving kindness. Sounds a lot like Bible reading, hearing God's loving kindness, finding guidance

in the word and prayer because he says, cause me to know the way, wherein I should walk.

So he's asking for directions in the morning. Are you wondering what you should do about something

or what you should do today? Cause me to know the way I should walk.

As you open the word, ask God to show you the way. He will supply all we need. He always does.

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