Proverbs 5 - Praying God's Word

Please read Proverbs 5.

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Meditate on verse 7.

Now then, my sons, listen to me

 and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

Pray Proverbs 5 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

“LORD, let ________ and me give attention to

 Your wisdom and incline our ears to Your understanding;

 that we may observe discretion and our lips reserve knowledge.

 Do not let us listen to the lips of an adulteress

 which drip honey, whose speech is smoother than oil;

but in the end, she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. 

Keep us away from her because her feet go down to death;

 her steps take hold of Sheol.  She does not ponder

 the path of life; her ways are unstable;

she does not know it.

Let us listen to You, LORD and not depart

 from the Words of Your mouth. 

Keep our way far from the adulteress;

do not let us go near her house. 

Do not let us give our vigor to others

 and our years to the cruel one.

 Do not let strangers be filled with our strength

or our hard-earned good go to the house of an alien,

 so we groan at our final end, when

 our flesh and body are consumed. 

Do not let us hate instruction

 and our hearts spurn reproof! 

Let us listen to the voice of our teachers

 and incline our ears to our instructors! 

Keep us from utter ruin in the midst

 of the assembly and congregation.

Let us drink water from our own cistern

 and fresh water from our own well. 

Do not let our springs be dispersed abroad or

 our streams of water be in the streets.

 Let them be ours alone and not for strangers.

 Let our fountain be blessed and let our men

 rejoice in the wife of their youth.

 As a loving hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts

 satisfy her husband at all times.

 Let her husband be exhilarated always with her love.

 Do not let us be exhilarated with an adulteress

and embrace the bosom of a foreigner.

 For our ways are before Your eyes, LORD,

and You watch all our paths. 

Do not let us be the wicked, captured by

 our own iniquities and held with the cords of our sin.

 Do not let us die for lack of instruction;

 do not let us go astray in the greatness of our folly,

In Your name, Jesus~”

The WATCHMAN on the WALL, 3 – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell