Keeping Your Commands

To Phos Tou Kosmou [The Light Of The World]

This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.  

1 John 1:5-7

Then God spoke all these words:

 ²“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of slavery in Egypt.

 ³“Never have any other god.  

⁴Never make your own carved idols or statues that represent any creature in the sky, on the earth, or in the water.  

⁵Never worship them or serve them, because I, the Lord your God, am a God who does not tolerate rivals. I punish children for their parents’ sins to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.  

⁶But I show mercy to thousands of generations of those who love me and obey my commandments.

 ⁷“Never use the name of the Lord your God carelessly. The Lord will make sure that anyone who carelessly uses his name will be punished.

 ⁸“Remember the day of worship by observing it as a holy day. ⁹You have six days to do all your work.  

¹⁰The seventh day is the day of worship dedicated to the Lord your God. You, your sons, your daughters, your male and female slaves, your cattle, and the foreigners living in your city must never do any work on that day.  

¹¹In six days the Lord made heaven, earth, and the sea, along with everything in them. He didn’t work on the seventh day. That’s why the Lord blessed the day he stopped his work and set this day apart as holy.

 ¹²“Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live for a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

 ¹³“Never murder.

 ¹⁴“Never commit adultery.

 ¹⁵“Never steal.

 ¹⁶“Never lie when you testify about your neighbor.

 ¹⁷“Never desire to take your neighbor’s household away from him.

   “Never desire to take your neighbor’s wife, his male or female slave, his ox, his donkey, or anything else that belongs to him.” 

Exodus 20:1-17 [GOD'S WORD TRANSLATION]

Jesus replied, "'You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: 'Love your neighbor as yourself. The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments."

Matthew 22:37-40 [New Living Translation]

LORD,

I appreciate the grace you've given me to see the need to walk in the light. Help me not to fellowship with darkness, and also not to shun those who do. Make me honorable by helping me to keep Your laws. Remind me to write them on my heart so that you won't give me over to a reprobate mind. Discipline me as a disciple. Teach me Your ways and I'll follow You forever. I repent for breaking your laws. I am prone to honor myself above you by investing my money, time and energy into the things that I want to do, rather than those things I need to do for You. Sometimes I sleep, when I should pray and eat natural food when I should read Your Word. At times I use Your name without regard for how Holy it is/You are. There is not a day that I set aside to only worship You. I go to church on Sundays, but afterward I usually do whatever it is that I want to do (i.e. watch a movie, go out with friends). I have not honored You in keeping the sabbath holy. I repent and dedicate every Sunday to You. I will do no work on that day, but will only feed myself with Your Word and submerge myself in prayer, that I may be more like You. I have not been completely honest when filling out my time sheets at work. I often add an extra 5 minutes or round up or down. That is considered stealing and lying and I repent and vow to be completely honest from this day forth. Please forgive me and give me a fresh start. I want to be right with You. Rid me of pride and animosity toward others. I want to be loving regardless of how people treat me. I want to be gracious and generous and win people with Your love! I surrender to You and Your Lordship and ask that You would be in control of my life at all times. Make me aware of the times I try to take the reigns out of Your hands and do things on me own. You are the vine, and I am only a branch. Without You I can do nothing! NOTHING! I can't hold a conversation, I can't have meaningful relationships, I can't even sleep well. It is in You that I move and have my being, and I am content with that LORD. All I need is You! You certainly are all I need. Help me to be a living example of that. Show me exactly how to walk worthy of the call on my life [as stated in Eph 4:1]. LORD, I want to look just like my Father. I want my face to glow w/ radiance so that others will look at me and know that I've been with You. Humble me and make me new. Teach me and show me how to impact Your people. Reveal the things that You've placed in me to be used to bring You glory to the earth. Highlight the desires You've given me that I need to move forward with. Show me Your glory. I don't want to settle for visitation of Your Spirit, but I need it to be an habitation. I need to abide in Your presence, please show me how to live with You on my mind at all times. Help me to think only on things that are just, true, lovely, pure, honest and of good report. Remind me to only meditate on Your Word... day in and day out. Let me be a living sacrifice to you and a testament to Your awesome holiness. Get me to the point where I can suffer gladly for Christ's sake without murmuring or complaint. Mature me Lord, and allow me to see that the work You started in me will not be completed on this earth. Keep me mindful of the fact that I will never be at the place where I can say I have it all the way together. Jesus was the only 100% sinless man, but I want to be as sinless as possible. Help me, lead me, guide me and allow me to only hear and see what it is that You want me to know about. Let me not draw conclusions based on fleshly analyzing. Make me embrace the fact that as long as I acknowledge that I only know in part I will be wise. Teach me to only speak Your words, because anyone who will try to use them against me will fail. Invade my heart with Your love and light. Thank You for listening to me, and thank You for honoring the requests I make concerning Your glory. It is in Jesus' most powerful and matchless name I pray. Amen