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Psalm 119:105-112
The Psalmist has emphasized the importance of God’s Word throughout this Psalm.
The Psalmist has been attacked, and is hungry for the Lord’s help during this trial.
This 14th section of this great Psalm is no exception.
The truth is, we need help from the Lord to live this life the way we ought to live.
We can see three indispensable prayers that we can pray to keep our hearts in tune with God.
The Psalmist was going through the trial of his life!
He needed him more than ever.
But even when we are not going through a trial, we need God’s help and power more than we ever know!
We ought to continually pray these prayers realizing that we never know when we are going to need Him.
First indispensable prayer that we need to pray is...
I. Show Me
Who better to show me about this life living than the author and finisher of the race I am running!
Rather than blindly going along this trail, we need to ask the Lord to Show me...
A. The Way to Go
105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, And a light unto my path.
The Word of God contains everything we need for this life!
It is our instruction manual.
It’s not written with a table of contents, like an instruction manual mostly, I believe, because God knows for it to be effective we must study it!
Just like when we use a flashlight to light our path in a dark forest, we want to see what we are stepping on next, and what is ahead of us, which way to turn.
We need the Word of God to help us know which step to take next, and which path to take down the way.
We need help in knowing which way to go, but also what we ought to do when we get there, so we need to pray to show me...
B. The Works to Do
106 I have sworn, and I will perform it, That I will keep thy righteous judgments.
The psalmist has over an over again declared that He will keep God’s Word.
Psalm 119:8 (KJV)
8 I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
Psalm 119:32 (KJV)
32 I will run the way of thy commandments, When thou shalt enlarge my heart.
Psalm 119:33 (KJV)
33 HE.
Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes; And I shall keep it unto the end.
Psalm 119:57 (KJV)
57 CHETH.
Thou art my portion, O Lord: I have said that I would keep thy words.
Psalm 119:88 (KJV)
88 Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; So shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
And more, the psalmist has committed—sworn to perform God’s Word.
Our prayer ought to be not only where should I go next, but “What would you have me to do next?”
Cleaning a room with children can be challenge, you have to tell them each step to take and what specifically to do.
We are no more than God’s children, however we are often too prideful to admit we need His direction.
The psalmist said, I will perform it, I will keep thy righteous judgments.
May we have that tenacity to follow through that which we ought to do!
As the the Psalmist in essence prayed, so ought we to pray that God would Show Me...
But I don’t know about you, but many times once I have seen what God wants me to do next, it feels far too difficult for me to manage!
So the Second indispensible prayer we can pray is...
II.
Enable Me
107 I am afflicted very much: Quicken me, O Lord, according unto thy word.
108 Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Lord, And teach me thy judgments.
109 My soul is continually in my hand: Yet do I not forget thy law.
Many of the things God calls us to do, we just are not able to do without His enablement!
There are many more specific things that we need God’s enablement to do, but I see three specific things in this Psalm.
They are signaled by three things the Psalmist asks God to do:
Quicken, Accept and Teach
The first one, the psalmist is asking God to enable him...
A. To Live in Affliction
107 I am afflicted very much: Quicken me, O Lord, according unto thy word.
WE have seen how the Psalmist is afflicted very much.
People have viciously attacked him, even though he is doing right.
Even his leaders have attacked him.
He has been pressured to bend away from God’s Word.
He has been physically assaulted
He has been in so much stress he felt he was dying.
So he realizes if He is going to do what he wants God to Show him…He needs God to enable Him.
He first asks him to quicken him.
He feels dead to being able to do what God has asked.
And he is asking God to make Him alive again.
Have you ever felt that?
I have just this last week.
I love Christmas, I love everything about Christmas!
I love the nativity sets, I love the nativity story, I love the giving of gifts, I love the traditions of the Christmas tree, the stockings, the gifts under the tree.
But this year something has sapped by Christmas spirit!
I don’t know what it is, but I just have had absolutely no desire to decorate, sing Christmas carols, or celebrate in any way.
When I realized I was acting this way I began to ask the Lord to help me.
I don’t want to be Ebeneezer Scrooge!
So rather than the Spirits of Christmas, I have asked the Holy Spirit to quicken me.
And I’ll say that I’m better…not there yet, but I’m getting better.
It may not be the Christmas spirit we need help with it may be the Christian spirit we need enabling in our hearts.
Have we lost the drive to read God’s Word, to spend devoted time in prayer, to sacrifice in fasting to hear from the Lord, to attend church faithfully with an open heart to hear from the Lord.
Oh what a difference an open heart ready to hear makes!
You have a limited pastor, I have been under some limited men as well!
I have also been under incredible preaches!
And Either way, what I receive is what I have prepared myself to receive!
Yes we are in an inflicting world!
Are spirits are attacked daily, but we need to ask God to enable us to truly live during these times.
Then secondly, and perhaps very connected to what we have been discussing…we need to pray that God will enable us...
B. To Offer Acceptable Prayer and Praise
108 Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Lord, ...
To Accept- Raw tsaw - means to take pleasure in, to treat favorably.
When I saw this verse I thought of the little chorus
I love you Lord and I lift my voice
to worship you, oh my soul rejoice.
Take joy my king in what you hear,
let it be a sweet, sweet sound in your ear.
Truth be told we need help praising God and praying to him the way we ought!
The psalmist calls his freewill offering of his mouth.
What a great picture!
It is of our own freewill we praise Him, we are not robots, we must choose to do it.
But we need His enablement to do Him justice!
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