Prayer: Father, help me to tap into Your Kingdom economy of abundance. You are my source, my strength, and my provider. Everything comes from You. I ask of You, like the psalmist, “teach me Your decrees.” Amen.
Reading: Psalm 119: 33-64 key: vs. 33-35
33 Teach me the way of Your decrees, Adonai,
and I will follow them to the end.
34 Give me understanding,
that I may keep Your Torah
and observe it with all my heart.
35 Help me walk in the path of Your mitzvot—
for I delight in it.
Attention: As you engage in the long-range discipline of journaling with the Choose Life Journal system, you will make discoveries like the one I am going to share with you now. In the New Testament and specifically in the Gospel books (Matthew, Mark, Luke & John), which are the recorded life of Yeshua from birth to death, burial, resurrection and ascension, there is only one request which the apostles made of Yeshua. The request is found in Luke 11:1, “Now Yeshua was praying in a certain place. When He finished, one of His disciples said to Him, Master, teach us to pray.” It was following this request, that Yeshua recited what we call, The Lord’s Prayer. Many of us have corporately recited The Lord’s Prayer and this prayer has been put to music and sung for weddings, funerals, and worship.
Today, we witness the psalmist making a request of Adonai at the beginning and end of our reading, “Teach me the way of Your decrees, Adonai, and I will follow them to the end.” What is he referring too? The decrees of God (Adonai) are the Torah or Ten Commandments. We use the word “commandments,” they are also decrees, given to Moses directly, for documentation and relaying them to the Hebrew children.
The decrees found in Exodus 20, establish our relationship with Adonai and mankind. So, they are vertical and horizontal in nature. Vertical towards God and horizontal from man to man. The psalmist’s commitment to Adonai is, teach me and “I will follow them, … I will keep them and observe them with all my heart.” This sounds very New Testament, doesn’t it? It sounds like Yeshua’s teaching given to us through His teaching of the disciples, “You shall love Adonai your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The entire Torah and the Prophets hang on these two commandments (Matthew 22:37-40).”
Do you see the correlation of the psalmist’s commitment to doing the Word and our action statement each day which is also based on the Word? This is the power of the journaling system. Your life, my life is transformed when we apply and do what the Word instructs us to do!
Action: Teach me Your decrees Lord, and I will follow You and keep Your Word.
Yield: I give myself to You.
Engage: I want to be taught by Your Spirit.
Relationship: I am one with Adonai when I am humble and teachable.
Prayer: Father, I want to be taught by You. I want to sit at Your feet and be instructed by Your Holy Spirit. Amen.
Memory verse: Exodus 33:13-14
13 Now then, I pray, if I have found grace in Your eyes, show me Your ways, so that I may know You, so that I might find favor in Your sight. Consider also that this nation is Your people.”
14 “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest,” He answered.
Music Video: https://youtu.be/u8jImIjg4UY
Remember, “Abide in Yeshua, today!”