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Psalm 119:12 Blessed are You, O Lord!Teach me Your statutes.
Psalm 119:15 I will meditate in Your precepts, and have respect unto Your ways.
Psalm 119:18 Open my eyes, that I may see Wondrous things from Your law.
Psalm 119:91 They continue this day according to Your ordinances, for all are
Your servants.
Psalm 119:98 You, through Your commandments, make me wiser than my enemies;
For they are ever with me.
Psalm 119:99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for Your testimonies
are my meditation.
Psalm 119:102 I have not departed from Your judgments, for You Yourself have
taught me.
Rule #1: Unless we’ve been born again we cannot know Christ and understand
the Word of God
Rule #2: All the spiritual disciplines of Bible study, Prayer, and Worship go through
Meditation that honors God.
Rule #3: We must read our Bible prayerfully
Through His Word, God talks to us, through prayer we talk to God,
The psalmist in Psalm 119 uses at least nine different terms to describe God’s Word
Statues(22), precepts(21), ways(5), law(25), ordinances(1),commandments(21),
testimonies(22),word(38), judgments(22)
I. THE LISTENER: THROUGH HIS WORD, GOD TALKS TO US.
Luke 11:28 “…Blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
Hebrews 3:15 “… Today, if you will hear His voice,
John 10:27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
Hebrews 1:1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to
the fathers by the prophets,
Hebrews 1:2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son,
1 Kings 19:11 Then He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before the Lord.”
And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains
and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind;
and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake;
1 Kings 19:12 and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and
after the fire a still small voice.
Deuteronomy 32:1 “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; And hear, O earth, the
words of my mouth.
Deuteronomy 32:2 Let my teaching drop as the rain, My speech distill as the dew,
As raindrops on the tender herb, And as showers on the grass.
Isaiah 55:10 For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not
return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give
seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
Isaiah 55:11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return
to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for
which I sent it.
Lyrics “Word of God Speak”
Word of God speak
Would You pour down like rain
Washing my eyes to see
Your majesty
To be still and know
That You’re in this place
Please let me stay and rest
In Your holiness
Word of God speak
Psalm 119:12 Blessed are You, O Lord! Teach me Your statutes.
Psalm 119:18 Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from Your law.
Psalm 119:130 The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the
simple.
Psalm 119:27 Make me understand the way of Your precepts;
Psalm 119:73 “… Give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments.
Psalm 119:125 “… Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies
Psalm 119:144 “… Give me understanding, and I shall live.
Open the eyes of my heart Lord, open the eyes of my heart
I want to seeyou
Psalm 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path
Romans 4:3 For what does the Scripture say?
When we close our Bibles God closes His mouth and when we open our Bibles
God opens His mouth.
II. THE SPEAKER: THROUGH PRAYER, WE TALK TO GOD
Psalm 5:1 Give ear to my words, O Lord, Consider my meditation.
Psalm 5:2 Give heed to the voice of my cry, My King and my God, For to You I will pray.
Philippians 4:8 “… think on these things.
Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the Lord, …”
Psalm 5:3 My voice You shall hear in the morning, O Lord; In the morning I will
direct it to You, and I will look up.
When we lose the morning we lose the day.
When we lose the day, we forget to pray.
When we forget to pray, we lose the way.
Psalm 55:17 Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, and He
shall hear my voice.
III. THE CONVERSATION: BETWEEN TWO RELATIVES WHO LOVE EACH
OTHER.
Psalm 91:15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him;
Isaiah 58:9 Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; You shall cry, and He will
say, ‘Here I am.’
Prayer is a two-way conversation between God and one of His children.
Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice
and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.
Psalm 119:26 I have declared my ways, and You answered me; Teach me Your statutes.
Isaiah 65:24 “It shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer; And while they
are still speaking, I will hear.
Psalm 116:1 (LB) I love the Lord because he hears my prayers and answers them.
Psalm 116:2 Because he bends down and listens, I will pray as long as I breathe!
Matthew 6:9 Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.
Matthew 6:10 Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Matthew 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread.
Matthew 6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
Matthew 6:13 And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Jeremiah 29:12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to
you.
Genesis 3:8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the
cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the
Lord God among the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:9 Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”
Genesis 3:10 So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because
I was naked; and I hid myself.”
Genesis 3:11 And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten
from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?”
Genesis 3:12 Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she
gave me of the tree, and I ate.”
Genesis 3:13 And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
Romans 10:17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Psalm 119:81 My soul faints for Your salvation, but I hope in Your word.
Psalm 119:94 I am Yours, save me; For I have sought Your precepts
Psalm 19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul …
