Take Heed - Joshua 22:5

But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.  So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto their tents.--Joshua 22:5-6

The land had been possessed!  Here Joshua is dismissing the tribes of Reuben, Gad and Manasseh in order that they could return to their land on the other side of the Jordan River.  This is his charge to them as they left.  This is God's charge to us.  This is my prayer for you and me.

Father,

Help me, Father, to diligently hearken to Your voice and do what is right in Your sight.  Let me not add to or diminish from Your word...I want to keep your judgments and your statutes.  I want to do them!  Oh, that this would be my wisdom...that this would be my understanding!  That others would see that you, my God, are near to me and that You are in every part of my life, as I call upon Your wonderful name.

You are my God!   Help me to love you with all my heart, with all my soul and with all my might.  Let your word be in my heart always...that I would teach it  diligently to my children and my grandchildren...that I would talk of it as I sit in my house, as I walk by the way, when I lay down and when I rise up.

I ask you now to be in every part of my life so that your memory never leaves my heart.  Place reminders for me everywhere!   Oh, Father....that I would not forget you when I am full!  That I would do what is good and right in your sight whether I am abased or whether I abound.  I desire to cleave unto You always.  It is then that I have victory over my enemies.   I am blessed when I keep your testimonies and seek You with my whole heart.  Be the keeper and owner of my heart, Lord.  Search it and know it...root out selfishness and bitterness.  Show me anything that would separate me from You and the unfathomable peace, grace, mercy and love that is only found Jesus, Your Son.   Let me not waste time, money and effort on vain things which do not satisfy.  Lord, let my delight be in You and in You alone. Let me be influenced and impassioned only by You and Your desires for my life.  I want to love what You love.  Be the God of each and every circumstance in my life.   Help me, Lord, as I walk with You today and every day to take heed and hearken unto Your voice.


And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: heb.6.12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.--Hebrews 6:11-12