Let’s always practice the habit of praising God, not only with our thoughts but verbalizing it. Let’s do what David did that made him “the apple of God’s eyes.” He was always praising God by singing, dancing, even among the people despite he was king. He danced so much that his wife scolded him, but David persisted and told her he was dancing to the God that preferred him to her father, king Saul (2Sam 6:14-23). What a word!

​Let nothing, no one, or any situation stop you from praising God.  

Remember, no demon from hell, devil, or Satan himself can stop our praises. They may be able to stop our prayers but not our praises because only God is all praises is due. Praise belongs to him, and no one can take it. God lives in our praise.

Also remember the words of Apostle Peter:
​“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light” (1Pet 2:9).

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Psalm 119 is not only reputed to be the longest chapter in the Bible, it also harbor in it’s 176 verses powerful gems of wisdom, knowledge, and quotes for believers – even unbelievers – to navigate the world.

From the 97th verses down through 105, David penned what can be called one of the most important eulogy about the law and the commandments of God, which in our today’s world can be simply called, the word of God, as we are no longer under the law but under grace.

Here in this passage are ten powerful benefits of meditating on God's word.

According to the passage above, there are several powerful benefits of meditating on God's word. 

This is Part 1 of the 2-Parts Series on ​10 POWERFUL BENEFITS OF EMBRACING GOD’S WORD.

Here in Part 1, let's explore five of the 10 benefits.

1.  It makes you wiser than your enemies.

• Imagine being wiser than your enemies.
• This means:
  • You’d always be a step ahead of them at all times and in all ways!
  • This means victory.
• Only the word of God can do that when we mediate on it “day and night” like God told Joshua to do.
• God told Joshua that if he did that, he would have ‘good success.’ (Josh 1:8).
• We will have “good success, too, if we meditate on the word of God ‘all day.’

2.  It gives you more understanding than all your teachers.

• This is divine! You understand more than, not one, or two, but ALL your teachers.
• Is this even possible?
• Well, David said he did. And if you read your Bible well, you know this is true. This is the result of not only reading the word of God but “Meditating” on it ALL DAY!
• There is power in the word of God through the Holy Spirit whom the Bible calls a “quickening spirit.’ he makes you to know and understand quickly beyond (Psa 143:11, Rom 8:11).

3.  It makes you to understand more than the ancients.

• Jesus at age 12 stood at the temple and expanded the words of prophet Isaiah who lived over a thousand years before him to the Pharisees who were older than him.
• Result? They opened their mouth wide.
• First, they couldn’t understand where Jesus learned the Greek language he was speaking with instead of Aramaic.
• Secondly, they were baffled where or how he knew anything about prophet Isaiah and what he said and how he fit in – that’s the power of meditating on God’s words – he will teach you all things (1Jn 2:27).

4.  He keeps your feet from every evil ways.

• Only the word of God can keep you from EVERY evil ways.
• This because Pro 4:12 says, “There is a way which seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”
• But the word of God keeps you from the claws of a strange woman and from the deceit of a cunny man.
• When you meditate on the word of God “all day,” it keeps you from falling into the trap, arrows, and schemes of the enemy.

5.  It makes you accept God’s sovereignty – His judgments.

• Not departing from the ‘judgment’ of God is to accept Him as sovereign in all things even when we don’t understand.
• Job did not call God a fool despite his predicament – he accepted the ‘judgment’ of God until God came through for him
• When we accept the plan, purposes, and programs of God in our lives as sovereign, we embrace his judgment

1. Men of Issachar:

1. The Bible calls them “valiant men of might” (1Chr 7:5).
2. They are part of the “mighty men of David” in war and battle.
3. But they did not use sword or threw javelin.
4. Their might and strength was their “understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do” (1Chr 12:32).

LESSON: Surround yourself with people of physical might but also people endowed with counsels, experience, and wisdom to guide you through life, times, and seasons.

Bible Reading: 1Kngs 12:8,15-16, 2Sam 15:12,31, 2Sam 16:23, Pro 4:5,7, Pro 11:14, Pro 15:22, Pro 16:16, Pro 19:20, Pro 23:23, Pro 24:6.