Daily Huddle - Wed Mar 18, 2020 First Half - Second Half

Love you all, praying for you,

Have you ever had someone at work who was a knowledge expert – but didn’t share?  You had to keep going to them as they spoon fed their area of expertise in hopes of keeping people dependent on them, rather than multiplying it in others which would mean the whole organization would be lifted – including them!  I just love that the Bible is not that way.  It not only fully shares the expertise, whether Jesus, or Samuel, or Paul, or David – David also breaks down exactly how to replicate what He was – a man after God’s own heart.  Psalms 119:97 -  “Oh, how I love your law, I meditate on it all day long.”  He loves it because He is chewing on it all day!  He loves it because he meditates on it, and he meditates on it because he loves it.  The more you meditate on God’s Word, the more you will love it, and the more you love it, the more you will meditate on it.  Not a bad thing to love - the mind of God – the author and holder of all success.  Verse 98 – Your commands make me wiser than my enemies for they are ever with me.  Not only does meditate on the Word make you love it, it makes you wiser than your enemy.  What does that mean?  Meditate – it simply means – repeat it over and over - in your mind and on your tongue.  Say it, and say it.  Verse 99 - I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes.  People come to teachers because they are looking for the next big thing, the latest phrase or quote, they hope to get something new, a new thought a new pearl of wisdom. But benefit #3 of meditating on God’s Word beyond loving it, and getting more wisdom, you have more insight (a view from the inside) than those everybody listens to or goes to see.  You skip the middleman and get it right from the source!  This is the first half of the Super Bowl Championship.  1st Half – Meditate on His Word – you then love it which perpetuates your meditating on it.  Next, you’re wiser than your enemy – which means you know how to succeed in the midst of attack!  Third you have more insight – an insider’s perspective, more than those preachers, motivational speakers, self-help gurus or Ted Talk experts that go viral.  You already have that – and you even see things they don’t see, or haven’t seen yet.  You’re getting what no-one has thought of yet - directly from your Heavenly Father.  So PRISM – Meditate on His Word – you’ll love it, you’ve be wiser, and with more insight!  But Super Bowls Champions have to be Champions in the Second Half – not just the first.  “I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts.  David starts by sharing the top three benefits of the first half - the 1st key to success – Meditating on His Word, and the first benefit (loving it) is the secret to perpetual motion, it turns into not the egg but the goose that keeps laying golden eggs.  If you love it, you will never stop meditating on it - it’s perpetual.  So wisdom over the enemy, and insight over viral sensations – is perpetual also!  But now in the Second Half – where games are won or lost – David inextricably links – meditate from the first half – and obey for the second half.  His Word is - so you obey it.  Loving comes from Meditating, but understanding comes from obeying.  Understanding, “Know-How” that which makes elders, elders - those who have done this for a minute. Understanding becomes a part of your life experience, even more so than your elders – because of your ‘response time’ from meditating to obeying.  Your ‘time to obey’ measurement.  Years ago in the development world it was 'time to market' that was make or break to success.  Ideation that created competitive advantage meant nothing if your time to market was slow.  Competitors by then would beat you to product availability and already have a market-share advantage before your product or solution ‘hit the shelves.’  The key to success in life significance, in purpose fulfillment in your generation is not 'time to market,' but time to obedience!  How long does it take you to obey what the Holy Spirit reveals – either from PiVAT – His plans for you today, or PRISM – His Word for you today so you can succeed in what He has told you to do.  Do you saddle your donkey first thing in the morning – like Abraham, or do you falter between two opinions like the perverse generation of Elijah?  The key to David’s understanding - walking in the success God had for Him - was Meditate (to love God’s Word, and gain wisdom and insight – combined with – very short “time to obedience.”  The second step to second-half success – Verse 101  “I have kept my feet from every evil path that I might obey your word.  Just like loving it – keeps you meditating on it, so keeping your feet from wrong paths, keeps your "time to obedience" short.  The golden goose of Meditate on the Word – is loving it, which puts meditate in a perpetual loop.  But the golden goose of the Second Half – Obedience – is keeping your feet from every evil path.  Like King Julian – he did warn you about the feet.  Your hands never get dirty if your feet are in the right place.  Don’t do down the street near her corner at twilight, and if she comes into where you are, know when to run.  Leave your jacket behind if you have to!  Short “Time to obedience” is perpetuated by your feet in the right place at the right time.  Know God’s PiVAT for you in this hour – don’t skip your PiVAT before dinner!  That’s where you get the plans you need to succeed, so you know where your feet are supposed to be this hour, and where they’re not.   Verse 102  I have not departed from your laws, for you yourself have taught me.  When you do PRISM asking the Holy Spirit what PRISM to do today, and for His revelations, not your opinions of His Word, or your limited mental assessment… He reveals and confirms His PiVAT for you for today, and you don’t disobey in action because obedience results in Him teaching you more.  Verse 103 – How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey in my mouth.  This is hearers and doers.  Hearing God’s Word – is like seeing something that looks good, but obeying God’s Word – is how you taste it and see how good it is!   The more you PRISM: Meditate on His Word, and PiVAT obey what He tells you specifically to do today, you then experience the Good He has for you, and His Word becomes sweeter.  Verse 104 - I gain understanding from your precepts, therefore I hate every wrong path.  Obeying brings understanding – Actual Experience in the practice and blessing of obedience.  If you meditate and obey - a complete game - a full 60 minute Super Bowl Championship effort… Many teams played like Superbowl Champs for the first half but didn’t in the second half.  If your time to obedience is quick, and you keep your feet from every evil path, if you're busy doing this hour what God told you in PiVAT to do, then His Words become sweeter.  Your experience with Him and success in His ways – gets so strong that you even begin to hate every wrong path.  Not only does His Word and His Ways taste sweeter, He gives you a distaste for what used to control you and shame you.  Champions Meditate on His Word – so they love it – and perpetually come back to it, that’s how they are wise and have more insight.  And Champions obey – their ‘time to obedience’ is ever-shortening, they keep their feet from  evil – because they do only what He revealed for them in this hour.  That’s why His Word and Ways taste sweeter.  They come to understand His plans by walking in them, and what used to control them, has become distasteful. It’s how they perpetually walk in His wisdom and His ways – their mind is transformed – their time is surrendered, and their testimony is sure.  Praying that every day you will live like Super Bowl Champions - a full sixty minutes... Meditating on His Word continually, and Obeying instantly – so you increase a taste for His Word and His Ways.  They’re not just good for you – they lead you to the Good that He has planned for you! 
 
Love you all,
dad