To you, O God of Jacob, we pray. You have taught us to use the means of faith, but we come to you in prayer because we do not trust in the means. God has created all things by speaking them into existence. This same God is able to unify the entire world by speaking a word. We always understand that we are coming to a God who loves to hear His law, covenants, curses, promises, decrees, and statutes. The axioms contain the personalities of all men and our renewal by the pronouncements. God defines our world, contains it, and recreates it. David is looking up and God is looking down. Prayer is a face-to-face encounter.We are born into a world that is full of shame and suffering. God cursed everything after He created it, and the Psalmist needs to be protected by God from all the problems that exist. The problem is we do not naturally act according to our identity. This is why God recreates us instead of using moral confrontation and force. We are looking for God to change us by force, but God teaches us who we are and we begin to act according to that image. We are related to God who created the world by word to reality. So God does not need anything outside of Himself to recreate us. He does not need trials to recreate us.It is not our place to think we force God to change by causing trouble. God does not need anything from outside of Himself – He is perfectly satisfied and content with Himself. He has the power to do whatever He pleases, without needing to be coerced. So the Psalmist teaches us we can be shielded from the shame of the world by adhering to the axioms – eternal pronouncements that protect us from the negative consequences of the curse.The axioms can be seen as statements that address anything that opposes us. We simply make our defense by pronouncing these axioms. he finds refuge in God, using these statements to address the attack of the opposition. You see, God does not help us from some mysterious position; God comes to earth through word to make things real.