Hidden Treasures of Psalms 119: Verse 46 - The Russian Cycle Verse

Hidden treasures of the 119th Psalm. As we are digging around today in the 119th Psalm, we are at the 6th of the Vav section of the 119th Psalm, which is verse 45.

And my friend Nikita Kolov would probably say, this is the Russian sickle. This is the signature move, so to speak, of the Vav. It's just an absolutely amazing verse. And I hope you've experienced it as I have. I'll just read it and then we'll talk about it.

Well, before I do that, let me do this. I just want to say for those of you who are tuning in for the first time or have tuned in recently that we've done over 50 episodes of this, going into every verse. But also there's this whole matrix of what the 119th Psalm is, which actually I think before I stop and go on to the Zion, I may spend a little time more in the matrix because it really is helpful for those of you who are memorizing or have memorized the 119th Psalm to understand a little bit about why the verses come in the order that they do. But also for me, it really, really helps to understand the letters that are the heading of it and essentially the anointing or the way the Holy Spirit works through these particular letters and all that kind of comes together in that. So I'm going to spend a little more time on that.

But also if you haven't been carrying on and listening and understanding the Hebrew of these things, it would be helpful actually to go back, I think, to the very beginning where I talked about the matrix and there's a PDF of all these words. So I don't want you to get left out there. And then you'll also notice in my show notes of every single podcast, I put my email. The reason I do that is because I'm hoping that you will text me, I mean, email me and let me know if you have a question or something.

I confused you because I know that a lot of times people just look at me like, what are you talking about, Robbie? I don't want that to happen to you. So feel free. Believe me, email me anytime I would. It would make my day. It literally would to get a note from you about the 119 Psalms.

You can tell I certainly love it. So to get back to verse 46, I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings and not be ashamed. Now, you might remember in Acts, it says, and that's the wonderful thing about scripture.

And for those of us who have the New Testament, unfortunately, Jews don't get a chance to look at this because Jesus unlocked so much of what this stuff means. So, you know, the the Holy Spirit will be, you know, according to Acts Chapter one, right, you're going to receive power to be my witness. Well, witness and testimony goes together like hand in glove.

Okay. And yes, here, you know, King David is talking about the testimonies, obviously, of the Old Testament being the whole thing is testimony stories, so to speak, eyewitness accounts of things that God has done. But I want to share this, that your particular story where you've actually seen what God has done in your life, that has phenomenal power.

And you can do that in front of anybody. And the cool thing about this is this is the this is in line with the anointing of the fear of the Lord. In other words, when you know God is so big, and he's done all this stuff for you, you'll never be ashamed to share those stories because you know that there's no reason to fear anybody other than God.

Right. And so it fits perfectly with I will speak of the testimonies also before kings and not be ashamed. Now, what I see every I see it constantly because you know, I get the chance to host a lot of different radio shows. And one of my hosts is Kingdom Pursuits, where I often have people that come in on the radio for the very first time. And I wish everybody could see it come to life like I do so often is the people are really nervous. They never been on the radio, it's hard to get in front of a microphone, I get all that, believe me, I get it because I feel the same way.

And you can watch them. And if you can begin to get them to tell their story, you know, a lot of them have some kind of agenda, they want to talk about their event or their book or whatever it is, but but the real power is their story, right, where God actually came in and did something and they were an eyewitness to it. And so if you can ask the right question as a host, and get them to begin to tell that story, or as a friend, right, you see this person, they don't seem to, to be on track with what they're trying to express, ask them to tell you the story. And watch what what transforms all of a sudden, the power of what they have to offer is phenomenal. Because this knows this as an axe, you're gonna receive power from the Holy Spirit. So when you go to tell these stories, oh my goodness, I mean, this is the stuff that literally, if you know, you talk about keeping an audience, nobody's gonna go into Walmart, when you're in the middle of a great story, especially if they know God's gonna show up in the story. And so these are the things that you can literally tell before kings and not be ashamed. So I can't tell you the times I've seen this, where somebody was so nervous to be on the radio, and then I watched them to begin and tell their story.

Now, if you could see this, because we do, you know, like I look at looking at right now, as I record this, I'm looking at the wave of what I'm saying. Well, if you could watch the recordings of these people, and when they were nervous, how short, how short the wave was, how stubby the wave was until they begin to tell their story. And once that story starts to come out, watch the wave, it gets longer and smoother, because they're completely relaxed, because they can tell their story before kings and not be ashamed. I'm telling you, if God's in the story, this verse has unbelievable power. And I want you to know that often you'll get opportunities to speak at a church and get an opportunity to speak at your Sunday school, or speak wherever is it that you get an opportunity to speak.

Don't miss this. Just tell your story. Tell the story. People relate to things that are in story form, and that story is where the power is going to be. You may wonder why every time I try to take these particular verses and turn them to a story in my own life.

Well, the reason is, is I know that that should explain what's going on. Like the story itself of watching people get on the radio and being able to do this without being nervous is a way to illustrate what this verse is saying. So this verse, to me, is like the Russian sickle. If you get a chance to speak, or even in front of your family, or somebody that's really important to you, your heart's breaking because you want to see them come to Christ, here's where your power is. The power is in the story, okay? It's in the story of the gospel.

Don't miss that one. But it's also in your story, where you saw God uniquely come, whether that might be through the Bible or wherever it may be, don't miss this verse that you can tell your story before kings and not be ashamed. The other thing I also want to highlight for a moment here is that, again, in the Zion section, when you read these in order, you see it's all along the lines of, and there's more, and there's more, and there's more. And so it's a building up of what's going on, because you might remember that verse 44, so shall I keep their law continually forever and ever, and I will walk at liberty, for I seek thy precepts. I will speak of thy testimonies also, right? So you can see, and there's more, and there's more. And the placement of this one is, I'll speak before kings. You see, this is, and I keep thy law, and I walk at liberty, and I share my testimonies before kings, and I'm not ashamed.

You see the power of that? Well, this is the inner meaning of the letter vav, which is that straight line coming down from heaven like Jacob's ladder. He is sending this stuff down to us. He sent your story down to you. I mean, how beautiful is that? And just think of the continuation of the blessing he's going to continue to share these stories with you. I mean, you're going to continue to be blessed and have more stories. Oh, man, how fun is this digging around in the 119th Psalm? I am so honored, really, really, really am, that you would spend the time with me today.