...keep My commandments

          and live;

keep My teaching

  as the apple of your eye;

bind them on your fingers;

write them

    on the tablet of your heart.

                 Proverbs 7. 2-3

(God's Word matters

    more than we can know.

Not a quick glance,

nor just something else

    we should do or read,

nor a casual nod,

but "Soak in His Word."

And watch not if,

             but how

God changes our hearts

      through it.

And impacts everyone else

   by the transformation,

not of circumstances,

   but by Your power.

We will not understand 

     everything we read

     in God's Word,

but what we do grasp

   changes our lives forever.)

O LORD,

You have given us

          Your Word

that we would know

   not just about You,

   but know You more.

Help us to realize

this place of strengthening

    from which to go forth

and Your strong hold on us.

You bring us

   not from one place to another,

but seeing something different,

       which is Your Presence

       with us in this place.

May Your Word

   permeate our minds and hearts

for Your glory.

May Your Word help us to see

  what we never realized before.