Praying Psalm 119

Dear God, 

Thank you for enabling me, through the power and strength of your Spirit,
to be delighted by Your decrees, 
to learn Your decrees,
to meditate on Your decrees,
to follow Your decrees, 
to sing songs about Your decrees,
to know the benefit of my affliction which has enabled me to learn Your decrees, 
to be blameless toward Your decrees so I will not be put to shame, 
to set my heart on keeping Your decrees to the very end, 
and to always have regard for Your decrees.
Thank you for enabling me through the power and strength of your Spirit 
to hide Your word in my heart, 
to be strengthened according to Your word, 
to trust in Your word,
to obey Your word,
to confess that Your word is eternal and stands firm in the heavens
to acknowledge how precious the words of Your mouth are, they are more precious than silver and gold, 
to put my hope in Your word.
Thank you for enabling me, through the power and strength of your Spirit, 
for directing my footsteps according to Your word,
for preventing the word of truth from being snatched out of my mouth and for allowing the word of truth to remain in my mouth and on the tip of my tongue,
and for helping me not to neglect Your word.
Thank you for enabling me, through the power and strength of your Spirit,
to recount the laws which You have spoken,
to set my heart on Your laws, 
to keep Your law,
to obey Your law with all my heart, 
to put my hope in Your laws, 
to remember Your ancient laws, 
to rise at midnight to give You thanks for Your righteous laws,
to delight in Your law,
to learn Your law,
to love Your law,
to stand in awe of Your law, 
to be so upset that Your law is not being obeyed that I cry, 
to love your law enough to meditate on it all day long.
Thank you for enabling me through the power and strength of your Spirit 
not to turn from Your law, 
and not to forget Your law.  
Thank you for enabling me, through the power and strength of your Spirit,
to rejoice in following Your statutes,
to hold fast to Your statutes,
to speak of Your statutes to kings,
to consider my ways and turn my steps toward Your statutes,
to obey the wonderful statutes You have spoken about,
to see Your statutes as my heritage forever, 
and to be joyful over Your statutes. 
Thank you for enabling me, through the power and strength of your Spirit,
to meditate on Your precepts, 
to understand the teaching of Your precepts,
to long for Your precepts,
to keep Your precepts with all my heart,
and to seek out Your precepts,
to befriend all those who fear You and follow Your precepts,
to consider all that Your precepts are right,
to be free from the oppression of men so I can obey Your precepts,
to love Your precepts which have been thoroughly tested.
Thank you for enabling me, through the power and strength of your Spirit, 
not to forsake Your precepts,
not to stray from Your precepts,
and not to forget Your precepts. 
Amen

John 14: 22

v22 Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”

Then Judas said, Lord, what is your intention? Help us to understand what you are doing. You are showing yourself to such a few. What is your strategy? What is your plan to usher in the Kingdom of God? We thought your goal was to rule and reign over all.
How will you do that if you are hiding yourself from the majority of the people? Why are you only showing yourself to a handful of your disciples? What can we do as such a small group to keep this plan moving along? Wouldn't it benefit your cause to have your sphere of influence be as large as possible?
Perhaps if your movement was large enough and powerful enough, you could finally usher in this new era in which you are the King and we co-reign with you. (recall John's mother's request).
If you showed everyone your great power and authority then you would have a great army of people and we could take over the world, and regain our independence and freedom from the tyranny of Rome. Isn't that part of your plan? To set us free?
We don't want to live under Rome's domination and control and you are the only hope we have, but if you do not let the world know, then how will we succeed?
In our way of thinking a leader should be as visible as possible, gaining support and strength through numbers. If you limit your exposure then how are you going to get the job done?
You say are going back to the Father in a little while, and in the meantime you only show yourself to a handful of people…. your leadership strategy doesn’t make sense to us. How is this all supposed to work out?

John 14:21

vs 21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.

My commands are my teaching, my will, my desires, my intentions and purposes.
The person who has my commands is the one who has listened to me teach and preach and has taken my words to heart. The person who keeps my commands obeys them, follows them, lives according to them, and is governed by them in thought as well as deed. This is the one who shows me their love.
The person who has my commands in their mind and heart will keep them in their lifestyle and habits. To keep them is to take heed to them, to acknowledge and recognize their value and their paramount importance, to agree with the pre-eminence of their truth and the necessity of living according to them out of love and respect for the Father and I.
To keep them is to treasure them, keeping them is proof that your attitude is right toward the Father. If you didn't love me and my Father then you would have no respect for the commands and would show contempt for them by ignoring them.
The person who loves me will be loved by my Father. My Father loves all those He has created but He has a special affection for those who keep His commands because they are open to receiving His love and loving Him in return.
I will love them, too. I will show myself to those who are near and dear to the heart of God. These are the ones whose eyes are open and whose hearts are open and whose will is yielded - they are the ones who are able to see and hear and believe.
Those who have rejected my commands and treated them with no regard are the ones who are too dull to hear and too blind to see. They have missed out. They have forfeited the opportunity to be in a special love relationship with the Father and I, and they will not see the Father.
My intentions is to show myself and reveal who I am in the fullness of the Godhead, but I can only do that for those who have eyes to see and who are humble enough to see me without being puffed up with false pride and a sense of superiority or self-importance as a result. There is no use in showing myself to those who cannot recognize me.
The privilege of seeing me is reserved for those who want to see me because they love me. My father and the Holy Spirit take delight in revealing me to those who appreciate who I am and believe in me and worship me. As I've already said, you believe in God, so believe also in me. Believe who I am and believe what I say. This is what pleases and delights the Father.

John 14: 20

Vs. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.

On that day, the day you see me in all my splendor and glory, exalted and seated at the right hand of the Father, you will realize and understand fully what I've been trying to explain to you in part. The Father and I are one. Therefore, I am in Him and He is in me. An even greater mystery will be revealed and made known to you and that is that I am in you. It is a truth and reality so fantastic that you will have to see it to believe it.

Trust me and take my word for it. It is too wonderful for you to grasp now. Until that day, I will be in you by way of the Holy Spirit. That is only a foretaste of what it will be like when you come to be with me in Heaven. On that day you will be joined to me as my Bride, then we will experience a oneness that you never dreamed possible and is beyond even your wildest imagination. Even I am so excited and look forward with such anticipation to the day when the Father presents you to me, a Bride without spot or wrinkle or blemish, holy and radiant.

John 14: 19

vs 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.

When I depart for heaven in a little while, the people in this world will not see me anymore because my time on earth is up. The work the Father gave me to do will be finished on the cross. I've come to do the will of my Father. My life of obedience brings me to this point of death, which is for you, to bring you life everlasting. Because death cannot hold me I will rise again and live forever, securing eternal life for you. I live now and I will live again.

The world will not see me, but you will. You will see me in three ways, initially you will see Me three days after my crucifixion because I will raise from the dead and appear to you alive. Secondly, you will see me in this world in the form of the Holy Spirit, and thirdly you will see me in the world to come, in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Because I live, you will live. You have hope.

You will live here on earth as new creations, with new hearts and new minds. You will live in Heaven with new bodies. I am purchasing this new life for you with my blood. I am redeeming you from a life of separation from God, who is LIFE. I am sacrificing my life for yours. Because I am laying my life down for you, you will live forever.

The world will eventually see me again. This is my first visit. I am here as the Suffering Servant. On my second visit I will come as the King of Kings, Lord of Lords and Judge.

John 14: 18

vs 18 I will not leave you as orphans. I will come to you.

You are not orphans. You have a Father. You are the children of the Most High. You belong to the family of God. In fact, I am your elder brother, the Firstborn.
The Father, the Spirit, and I would never dream of abandoning you or leaving you alone to fend for yourselves. What kind of father would walk away from His children or not allow them to live in his house and provide for them? What sense would it make for a father to build a house, make many rooms, and create a place for his family, and then leave them outside in the street? Even sinful earthly fathers know enough to care for their own children whom they love. They know it is right to make a home for them and give them the love and care they need to grow up. How much more will your Heavenly Father do for you?
If God the Father and I are spending all this time and effort preparing a place for you, would it make any sense at all for us to not bring you here to enjoy it?
We're doing it all for you, so you can be sure that I am coming back to get you.
This is why I have assured you that you do not need to be troubled. There is so much in store for you. So much for you to look forward to. Even though what you are facing right now on earth is difficult, you will be full of joy in God's house.

John 14: 16 & 17

16 And I will ask the Father and He will give you another Advocate to help you and be with you forever- the Spirit of Truth.

I’ve just reassured you that you can ask me for anything in my name. In fact, I’ve told you twice now that I will do for you whatever you ask that is consistent with my name (character, nature, purpose). I will not violate my integrity and forsake my plan in order to answer you. I am true to myself and my Father. It is for this reason that I bring you into alignment with myself so we are work together. You, the Father, the Advocate, and me - all on the same page – working for the same goal which is to glorify the Father.
In the same way that you ask me, I ask the Father. I ask in accordance with His glorious plan, too, which includes not leaving you alone or abandoned or forsaken. Quite to the contrary…..you will be accompanied by me in a new way….by the Holy Spirit of God.
The only way you can keep my commands is by the power of God and with His help anyway. This is why I am asking the Father to give you One who can help you. The Advocate, the Paraclete, the One who comes along side. My departure and return to Heaven is not detrimental but essential, because my leaving ushers in the opportunity for the Helper to come in my place. My leaving insures the coming of Another, the Spirit of Truth. I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Therefore, the embodiment of Truth will come to you as spirit. The Spirit of Truthfulness and Absolute Reality will abide with you.

17 The world cannot accept Him, because it neither sees Him or knows Him. But you know Him, for He lives with you and will be in you."

The world cannot accept or receive Him. Why? Because they do not recognize Him, they do not know who He is. Sadly, He is foreign to them, a stranger, and someone unfamiliar. They are blind and deaf, even though they’ve seen me and heard me, they still do not know who The Way-Truth-Life is or who the Spirit of Truth is. They believe the lie instead.
The world cannot accept Him because they do not belong to the One who is sending Him. You receive Him because you know the Father who is sending Him and have already believed in Him. If the world recognized the Father they would also know the One who comes from the Father.
But you do know Him. You already know Him because it is He who is with you even now. The Spirit of Truth and The Truth are One in the same. I am with you in body now but in a little while I will be with you in spirit. You will recognize me and welcome me. I will come to you and dwell in you.
This Advocate, the Spirit of Truth, will lead you in all truth. The truth about who I am and who the Father is. Because he will live inside you, He will enable you to know and understand more than if I remained here with you, on the outside of you. The Spirit reveals truth to you from the inside. Up till now truth has come to you from the outside. God is making a new covenant with you, a new and living Way. You will understand more after I have returned to the Father and the Holy Spirit will explain this to you.