Barrenness shall be healed and the spring of my soul shall be self-controlled and chaste. Wounds shall be healed and needs shall be supplied. Crookedness shall be straightened and restrictions shall be opened wide. Impulsiveness and sluggishness shall be balanced. Motives and tendencies shall be sanctified. So, my viscera (affections) shall be self-controlled and straight, open wide and fertile, having balanced and holy motives.
They shall be filled with truth and wisdom. Behold you desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part you will make me to know wisdom. They shall be filled with love and compassion; tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness and longsuffering. They shall be filled with Your laws and Your judgments. Fill my stomach with Your Word so Your law is within my heart.
Barrenness shall be healed
Deuteronomy 28:4
“Blessed shall be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground and the offspring of your beasts, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.
And the springs of my soul shall be self-controlled and chaste
Galatians 5:23
gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Wounds shall be healed
Psalm 147:3
He
heals the brokenhearted
And binds up their wounds.
And needs shall be supplied
Philippians 4:19
And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Crookedness shall be straightened
Isaiah 40:4
“Let
every valley be lifted up,
And every mountain and hill be made low;
And let the rough ground become a plain,
And the rugged terrain a broad valley;
And restrictions shall be opened wide
2 Corinthians 6:11-13
11 Our mouth has spoken freely to you, O Corinthians, our heart is opened wide. 12 You are not restrained by us, but you are restrained in your own affections. 13 Now in a like exchange—I speak as to children—open wide to us also.
Impulsiveness and sluggishness shall be balanced
(We see Peter in 2 different situations: impulsive when he used the sword; laggard when he tarried with those who were warning themselves and was thus tempted and he denied Jesus.
John 18:10
Simon Peter then, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s slave, and cut off his right ear; and the slave’s name was Malchus.
John 18:25
Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. So they said to him, “You are not also one of His disciples, are you?” He denied it, and said, “I am not.”
Motives and tendencies shall be sanctified
Psalm 139:23-24
23 Search
me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me and know my anxious thoughts;
24 And see if there be any hurtful way in me,
And lead me in the everlasting way.
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
So my viscera (affections) shall be self-controlled and straight.
Hosea 5:4
Their
deeds will not allow them
To return to their God.
For a spirit of harlotry is within them,
And they do not know the Lord.
Isaiah 4:4
When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and purged the bloodshed of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning,
Leviticus 1:13
The entrails, however, and the legs he shall wash with water. And the priest shall offer all of it, and offer it up in smoke on the altar; it is a burnt offering, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the Lord.
Open wide and fertile
2 Corinthians 6:11,13
11 Our mouth has spoken freely to you, O Corinthians, our heart is opened wide.
13 Now in a like exchange—I speak as to children—open wide to us also.
Having balanced and holy motives
Isaiah 8:13
“It
is the Lord of hosts whom you should regard as holy.
And He shall be your fear,
And He shall be your dread.
1 Peter 3:13,15
13 Who is there to harm you if you prove zealous for what is good?
15 but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;
They shall be filled with truth and wisdom
Psalm 51:6
Behold,
You desire truth in the innermost being,
And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.
Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom.
Psalm 51:6
Behold,
You desire truth in the innermost being,
And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.
They shall be filled with love and compassion
Romans 5:5
and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Ephesians 4:32
Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.
Tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness and longsuffering
Colossians 3:12
So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience;
They shall be filled with Your laws and Your judgments
Deuteronomy 6:6-7
6 These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.
Deuteronomy 11:1
“You shall therefore love the Lord your God, and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.
Fill my stomach with Your Word so Your law is within my heart.
Psalm 40:8
I delight to do Your will, O my God;
Your Law is within my heart.”
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