Psalm 139:13a (KJV) “For thou hast possessed my reins….”

The study and teachings of this amazing 12 Part series DIRECTLY from 1 and 2 Peter can shake a person to the core. The reason is that one cannot help but become part of the Logos – the Word – the Word Who became Flesh (JESUS), if one is to truly impart the knowledge therein…therein as in the words and phrases of the Scripture. Someone once said that the best sermons preached are those preached to oneself.

Becoming part of the expounding of His Word, and therefore Him, is to become one with Him. This is Authentic Christianity. You can’t fake this. It will destroy you. It has to come from every fiber of your being and thus permeate not just your words, but your countenance.

One Scripture which truly hit me this morning as I prayed Psalm 139 was verse 13a in the modern King James Version. The verse said in part “Possess my reins”! That really spoke to my spirit and jolted me into a place He wants both you and I! If we want to truly see through His Eyes….if we want to truly have His Mind….if we want to truly live and love like Jesus – HE MUST POSSESS OUR REINS!

He must…AND, we must be willing to truly mean it when we ask Him to Psalm 139:13a “POSSESS our reins”! Are you and I really willing to do this because this is the biggest Key to a Godly Life!
Amen.

Many of us grew up without earthly fathers and hence, no example when we, ourselves, became fathers. Sure it was easy to go to all the conferences and classes etc at church. We listened to Dobson and his radio programs, even watched “The Cosby Show” back in the 1980’s.  

But you know, when you think about it , there is only one real way to learn to be a man of God and the father He called you to be – and that is, to follow the Lord Jesus Christ. He gave us these commands as men in  Deuteronomy 6: 6-8 (And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today. Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up.  Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders). This is the chapter on the Responsibility of Each Man towards his own children. Live them, learn them and impart them, because we will be held accountable on day for them. 

On our dying beds,  we would like to know, even if not in words, that our kids wanted to be like us because we only wanted to be like our own Father in Heaven. This song will encourage all fathers to be better men and examples in the coming year, because being a father, next to being a man of God, is the most important thing we will EVER be in life.