Weeping over the Torah
by Laura Densmore
Rivers of water run down from my eyes,
Because men do not keep Your Torah. Psalm 119: 136
When was the last time you or I wept because people do not keep the Torah?
Recently, at a small group prayer gathering, one of the intercessors began to pray for restoration in the body of Messiah. That the body would be restored to the fullness of God’s word, ALL of it from Genesis to Revelation.
So much of mainstream Christianity camps out in the New Testament. There is no foundation, no meditation, no knowledge or understanding of the Old Testament, of the Torah. It’s almost like we have cut the bible in half, pitched the Old Testament in the trash, and then we camp out only in the New Testament. So, as we pray for repentance and restoration for the body of Messiah, it is a return to the God of Israel and to the fullness of His word, a return to keeping and following TORAH, all the word of God.
As he was praying for restoration to Torah in the church, a picture dropped into my spirit. I saw a man standing. It was a hot day and he was wearing shorts and a T shirt. He was drenched in sweat. Why? He had been hobbling and hopping around on ONE LEG for a long time. His right leg was strong and steady and could easily bear weight.
The other leg was withered and bent. The muscles had atrophied through disuse. This leg could bear no weight at all. He was leaning on some crutches. It was almost like he had taken a fall long ago, the bone in the left leg was disjointed and out of place. It appeared like it had never been set properly and it had healed with crooked bones that were out of joint. So, the only way he could get around was on “ONE LEG” by hopping around and leaning hard on the crutches.
As we prayed for restoration to the LIVING TORAH in the church, suddenly the man’s leg was completely restored. He threw off the crutches and began to walk normally. He had a HUGE GRIN on his face!
The Holy Spirit impressed upon me that the good leg he had been standing on all this time was the New Testament. The bad leg that was withered, crooked, atrophied, wasa the Old Testament, the Torah.
We need BOTH legs to walk! We cannot camp out on just one or the other: we need BOTH!
Father, help us to connect to YOUR HEART. How do you feel that so many of us in mainstream Christianity do not pay attention to or keep your Torah? What is your heart in this matter?
Rivers of water run down from my eyes,
Because men do not keep Your Torah. Psalm 119: 136
It is time for you to act, O Yahweh,
for they have regarded your Torah as void. Psalm 119: 126
They draw near who follow after wickedness;
They are far from Your Torah. Psalm 119: 150
Salvation is far from the wicked,
For they do not seek Your statutes. Psalm 119:155
Salvation is far from the wicked,
For they do not seek Your statutes. Psalm 119:155
Yeshua gave us the Torah at Mount Sinai. It was a wedding. The Torah was the ketubah, the wedding covenant. YESHUA, how do you regard your Holy Torah? Let me string up a few pearls for you from Psalm 119:
Your Torah is very pure;
Therefore Your servant loves it. Psalm 119:140
The entrance of Your words gives light;
It gives understanding to the simple. Psalm 119: 130
Trouble and anguish have overtaken me,
Yet Your commandments are my delights. Psalm 119: 143
Thy word (Torah) is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. Psalm 119: 105
My eyes are awake through the night watches,
That I may meditate on Your Torah. Psalm 119: 148
Plead my cause and redeem me;
Revive me according to Your word. Psalm 119:154
Princes persecute me without a cause,
But my heart stands in awe of Your Torah. Psalm 119: 161
I rejoice at Your word
As one who finds great treasure. Psalm 119: 162
I long for Your salvation, O LORD,
And Your Torah is my delight. Psalm 119: 174
We repent, Abba for tossing out the Torah.
Here are some biblical definitions:
Thy word (Torah) is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. Psalm 119: 105
Yeshua said, “If you love me, keep my commands.” John 14:15
Yeshua said, “Do not think that I came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.” Matthew 5:17
Abba, we understand that you define sin in 1 John 3:4:
1 John 3:4: “Whosoever commits sin transgresses also the Torah: for sin IS the transgression of the Torah.”
If there is no Torah, then there is no transgression. If the Torah is nailed to the cross, then there is no need to repent because it is not possible to sin.
For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no Torah. Romans 5:13
Father we repent for tossing out the Torah. Forgive us for tossing it in the trash. Forgive us for ignoring it, for not HIGHLY valuing it. For considering the promises, covenants, commands and statutes found in OT, in Torah, as null and void.
We repent for thinking and believing that Yeshua came to "do away with" the law/the Torah; for thinking that we are no longer “under the law/Torah” but that Yeshua came and "nailed the Torah to the cross" and now we are under "grace".
We repent for nailing the “Torah” to the cross.
The only thing that gets nailed to the cross is our sin, NOT the Torah.
We repent for focusing on and camping out almost exclusively in the New Testament scriptures, and for paying little or no attention to the Old Testament.
We repent for thinking that the Torah has been replaced by “being led by the Holy Spirit”.
Oh, Abba, would you show us our true condition? We are like that man with the broken leg, hobbling and hopping around on one leg. Oh Father, would you please cause the scales to come off the eyes of the church, would you please remove the blindness, would you please reveal and show us our true condition? Would you please put the eye salve on our eyes so that we can TRULY SEE our pitiful state, our pitiful condition?
Oh Abba, would you please heal us, your body, and RESTORE the other leg! RESTORE the church back to the ancient ways, back to the ancient paths. Restore your people, your bride, to RETURN to the ketubah, RETURN to the marriage covenant, RETURN to your TORAH!
May we SHEMA! May we HEAR and OBEY! In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God and the word, the Torah, came and dwelt among us and we esteemed him not. Yeshua IS the living word, the living Torah.
Hear the word of Yahweh,
You who tremble at His word:
“Your brethren who hated you,
Who cast you out for My name’s sake, said,
‘Let Yahweh be glorified,
That we may see your joy.’
But they shall be ashamed.” Isaiah 66:5
May we become a people who tremble at your word. May you get your Torah, all of it, from Gen to Rev INSIDE of us, May you write it upon our hearts. May we not be hearers of the words but may we be DOERS of the word, the Torah.
O Abba, please RESTORE your church to the Torah!
May we walk as Yeshua walked! May we love as Yeshua loved! May we do as Yeshua did!