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40 Days Of Teshuvah To Yom Kippur |
Create In Me A Clean Heart Oh Adonai and Renew a Right Spirit Within Me
Psalm 51
Read Psalm 27 Daily
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The Goal Of Al Chet Is To Get To The Root Of The Problem. To become more like Yeshua and to become conformed to His Image and Torah is a process, it does not happen over night. The key is never to give up, because He does not give up on us. We are all under construction and a work in process and this is the time to do spiritual house cleaning.
#30. For the sin we have sinned before You with idle chatter of our lips/endless babbling.
Again we are back to the subject of our words, this time it is idle chatter. This can even happen on Shabbat when we are suppose to be focusing on God and His Torah/Word.
Do our prayers become idle chatter?
Definition of "idle" -Useless, vain, ineffecutual, lazy, unfruitful, not productive of good, unprofitable, not edifying
How many time to we speak before thinking. The words just come blurting out of our mouths and afterwards we wish we would have said nothing.
Jas 1:19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
WE NEED TO MAKE EVERY WORD THAT WE SAY COUNT! It is a spiritual discipline we all need to learn.
Do we pray from the heart to God, or do we just mouth words and do not let God get a word in at all. We need to learn to hear His voice, but if all we do is talk and not listen we will miss out on His directions, admonitions, corrections and His words of love.
Yeshua did not waste His words with idle chatter and He made sure He went off by Himself to pray and hear from His Father. He said the words He spoke were the words the Father told him to say.
Joh 14:10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
Mat 12:36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Pro 17:27 He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
Ecc 5:2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
We need to learn the art of silence ( or learn to be a good listener) and to learn to listen to...
We need to...
#1.- Learn to listen and hear the Voice of God
#2.- Learn to listen to the Ruach HaKodesh
#3.- Learn to listen and learn from those who know more then we do about spiritual truth, His Word.
#4.- Listen to listen to God's spiritual leaders
#5.- Listen to listen to the Word that is being spoken to you from the Pastor/Rabbi, Teacher. How many times have you lost out on receiving instruction and wisdom from God because you were sleeping during the teaching, or your mind was elsewhere.
#6.- Learn to listen to what others have to say who are more learned in an area/subject more then you are, instead of interupting so you can put in your two cents.
We do not like to listen, because we are full of pride.
#7.-When you are reading the Word, try reading it out loud so you can listen to the WORDS OF LIFE because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the WORD OF GOD.
30. For the mistakes we committed before You with endless babbling. Often we feel uncomfortable with silence, so we fill the time with meaningless chatter. The Torah tells us, however, that more than anywhere, God is found in the sound of silence.
Ask yourself:
Do I participate in conversations with no meaningful content?
Do I think before speaking and measure my words carefully?
Am I careful to concentrate when reciting prayers and blessings
Exploring the "Al Chet" Prayer by Rabbi Shraga Simmons (Aish Hatorah)
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