Psalms 119 verse 55 A Call In The Night

Hidden Treasures of the 119th Psalm. Oh, have I enjoyed the verse we get to work on today, as we are in the Zion section of the 119th Psalm, and we're on verse 55. So, as we've talked about this zikar, remember being a critical part of the Zion, here we see King David using that sword again. And this time in a real interesting way, because he says, I have remembered thy name, O Lord, in the night, and have kept thy law. So, what a sword. And, you know, the interesting question you can't help but ask yourself is when he talks about night here, is he talking about dark times?

And certainly he's had plenty of those. But when I read this verse, I just immediately went to, again, this is the zikar of the idea of being mindful, even to the point of in my sleep. And so I just began to pray, honestly, my own story, and show you how much I've enjoyed working with this verse and memorizing this verse, is I just began to pray, God, when I dream, can I remember your name in my dreams?

And honestly, immediately when I tried that, I had some tests as I was memorizing this particular verse. The first night I remember, I dreamt that my brother was being killed, and unfortunately woke up to the horror of the fact that I did not remember to call on God in the middle of that dream. The next night, similarly, this time my wife and I were going up a mountain road, very vivid dream.

It was a Saturday morning, which means I had a show that day. I remember it well, we were going up this mountain road in this dream, and we had our good friends with us in the backseat. And I was watching the temperature, and it had dropped down below 30, and then it began to mist.

And I was just thinking to myself, gee, I wonder if the road is getting icy. And about the time that thought crossed my mind, the car swerved right and left, and my friend jumped out of his seat, jumped out of the backseat, left his wife in the car with us, and Tammy and I plunged down the mountain. Once again, I mean, here I was, and I plunged and plunged, and I can't even tell you, it seemed like I plunged for, you know, 10, 20 minutes that we were just falling.

And again, I failed to call on the Lord. And the reason why that is even a little bit more vivid for me is, you may know, I fell 35 feet out of a treehouse. And that time I did ask for help, I remember. I was awake then, and I was building a treehouse for my wife, I mean, my daughter. And the board I was sitting on broke, and I fell head first, down 35 feet, and actually hit my shoulder first, thank goodness, and just broke several ribs and collapsed my leg.

It was a bad situation. But I remember in that moment saying, God, I need your help here, and I can remember that. But in this dream, once again, I was a failure, and I woke up and I was like, God, you've got to help me, I'm just praying, you know. I want to remember your name in the night, right? I mean, that seemed like the critical aspect of it, and I was just like, I want to keep thy law.

I mean, I need to know, how do I do this? And so on the third night, I mean, just like, it was interesting to me that I had dream after dream after dream. On the third night, I dreamt that, you know, this woman came on to me, and it was just really distressing to me.

It was not my wife. And all of a sudden, I actually did call out to God, like, Jesus, help me. And he came immediately, and I woke up rejoicing that I had remembered God's name in the night.

And I've had several dreams since then, not every night like those came in succession. But, and I got to, if I'm honest, sometimes I fail, and sometimes God comes through, and I'm mindful. Because I want that sword, I want that zakar to where, you know, when the ox goes in the ditch quickly, I want the mindfulness. I want that sense of the Holy Spirit taking hold of my mind and putting me in the direction of Jesus when the moment of truth comes, right?

Whether it's to save somebody in your family or whatever it is that God is calling you on in a dark season. I don't know, you know, again, what King David was talking about in this particular season. But I do know at the end of the deal that what he says is, I'm going to keep thy law. Well, once again, Jesus is the law, and we want to keep Jesus.

I mean, we just, we do. That word is Torah, and it's a beautiful, gorgeous, amazing word of how the end will be expressed to us, you know, when we read all the truth. And so Jesus came to, right, bear witness to the truth, and that's what we're wanting in our dreams.

That's what we're wanting in the night seasons. No matter where we are or when we are, we want the truth. So this being the seventh verse in the Zion section, once again, I want to lay that, you know, Isaiah 11 passage where he goes into the seven anointings of the Holy Spirit. And so this would be the last of the seven anointings because it's the seventh verse, which is a delight in the fear of the Lord. You can see if you can remember Jesus's name in the night seasons.

Wow. You know, that's using the Zechar, that's using that Zion to delight. This is the wisdom that's there in delighting in the fear of the Lord with this particular anointing on this particular letter. Once again, I find it absolutely beautiful to see how the Holy Spirit outlined this for us in each of these letters. Oh, what a joy it is to study this psalm and to be memorizing this with you. Again, I'm so grateful. I really, really, really am. For those of you who are following this and enjoying this ride with me again, I would be so delighted for you to email me with any questions or thoughts you have along these lines or maybe your dreams. I would love to hear it. God bless.