Now this I know ...
- Psalm 20:6a

In the first movement of Psalm 20, David spent five verses blessing the people: May the Lord ____ and may the Lord ____. Over and over again, he poured out blessing after blessing.

And then all that blessing pauses.

It's as if David realized that his hearers might not know who it is that he's invoking, which God it is that the David's asking to bless them. And so he moves to ground his prayer of blessing in the reality of God's character and capabilities.

In these next, breathless verses we hear the echoes of a life spent with God. David confidently and enthusiastically shares that the Lord gives victory. And he has come to this conviction over the course of a wild life lived with God, a life full of battles and victories and close-chances and faithfulness.

David might not know much. But he knows what he knows.

When you move to speak words of blessing over the people you love, serve and care about, your words will flow out of what you know, out of what you've experienced. Your own adventures with God will shape the blessings you have to give.

David had his "Now this I know ..." and it had to do with the Lord giving victory and rescue to those who needed it. What's your "Now this I know ..."? How does your experience with God shape the way you bless others?