Watch Focus Friday Aug 22, 2025, The Fear of the Lord

The watch takes an active intercessory stance towards many local, national, international, and
personal issues. Tonight we are positioning ourselves for our second annual corporate fast of
2025. For the next few weeks, we are humbling ourselves together, to listen, to wait,
intentionally and communally, to hear the Holy Spirit, and receive a refreshing grace for all we
endeavor in prayer for His kingdom.

Our meditation tonight starts with the exhortation for the man who fears the Lord:

Psalm 128
“Blessed is every one who fears the Lord, who walks in His ways.
When you eat the labor of your hands,
You shall be happy, and it shall be well with you.
Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine
In the very heart of your house,
Your children like olive plants
All around your table.
Behold, thus shall the man be blessed
Who fears the Lord.
The Lord bless you out of Zion,
And may you see the good of Jerusalem
All the days of your life.
Yes, may you see your children’s children.
Peace be upon Israel!”

Lord, hear our prayer. Forgive our wandering. Restore our hearts. Redeem Your people. Heal our
Land.

Micah 6:8, “He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?”

John 15:5, “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears
much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.”

Matthew 11, The Message Bible:

Abruptly Jesus broke into prayer: “Thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth. You’ve
concealed your ways from sophisticates and know-it-alls, but spelled them out clearly to
ordinary people. Yes, Father, that’s the way you like to work.” Jesus resumed talking to
the people, but now tenderly. “The Father has given me all these things to do and say.
This is a unique Father-Son operation, coming out of Father and Son intimacies and
knowledge. No one knows the Son the way the Father does, nor the Father the way the
Son does. But I’m not keeping it to myself; I’m ready to go over it line by line with
anyone willing to listen.   “Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me.
Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk
with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I
won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to
live freely and lightly.”