Numbers 15 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Numbers 15.

www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/num/15/1/s_132001

Meditate on verse 39.  The LORD is speaking.

 

"It shall be a tassel for you to look at and

 remember all the commandments of the LORD,

 so as to do them and not follow after your own heart

 and your own eyes, after which you played the harlot.”

 

Have you ever been given this advice: “Follow your heart”?  Or have you ever said, “My heart told me to…”?  This is what God says about the heart:

 

The heart is more deceitful than all else and

is desperately sick; who can understand it?

—Jeremiah 17:9

 

Yet they did not obey or incline their ear but walked

 in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their

evil heart and went backward and not forward.

—Jeremiah 7:24

 

God says do not follow your heart because it is deceitful.  However, when you delight yourself in God and His Word, He will give your heart His desires (Psalm 37:4), so you can move forward with Him instead of backward.

 

Pray Numbers 15:39-41 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

 

“LORD, help ________ and me remember

all Your commandments

 so as to do them and not follow after our own

 heart and our own eyes.  Do not let us play the harlot

 but help us remember to do all Your commandments

and be holy to You, God.  You are

 the LORD our God who brought

 us out from slavery to sin to be our God.

You are the LORD our God, Jesus~”

 

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