Sovereign Adoration: Praise The Lion of Judah and Reverent Assumption

In Genesis 49, Jacob’s blessing upon Judah resounds with symbolic majesty:

“Judah is a lion’s whelp... the sceptre shall not depart from Judah.”
Traditionally seen as a prophecy of kingship, Judah -- meaning "to praise" in Hebrew -- represents something far greater: the power of praise as sovereign adoration—and the dominion that arises when one reverently assumes a new identity.

Praise, in this deeper reading, is not flattery or performance. It is a quiet inner exaltation—an act of profound respect and trust in the unseen reality already accepted within. Like the voice of the bridegroom in the Song of Solomon, it carries a tone of steady delight, of one who honours what has been inwardly chosen and calls it good.

This form of praise is not merely an emotional response; it is a conscious act of enthronement. It crowns the assumed state, the I AM, placing the sceptre in its hand. It does not beg or bargain—it recognises and reveres. It says inwardly, “This is true. This is mine. Let it rule.”

Judah’s lion-like strength is the strength of clarity and conviction. His roar is not for show—it is the declaration that the inner world has been reordered. Praise in this sense is not soft or sentimental. It is quietly unshakeable—the sovereign reverence that holds fast, even before outer evidence appears.

Dominion, then, is not about control, but about agreement with what is real in imagination.
Praise is the full alignment with that chosen reality.
It is the inner stillness that comes when the soul no longer debates its direction, but delights in it.