Psalm 119: The Word in My Life

And today, the final post about Psalm 119. What a gorgeous Psalm about the Word of God! I hope you've been encouraged.

I have a card that's called, "Personal Prayers from Colossians" that is on my desk. I think I'll post next to it the prayers gathered from this Psalm.

Today's post is about how the Word affects -- or should affect -- or could affect -- my life.

The Word in My Life:

A collection of thoughts from Psalm 119

MY DELIGHT!

- I love His commandments and delight to do them.

- I am to delight in His statutes and not forget His word.

- God’s testimonies are my delight, my counselors, my comfort.

- I lift my hands up to His commandments, which I love.

- I sing of His statutes in the house of my pilgrimage.

- My lips utter praise and my tongue sings of His word because He teaches me His statutes and all His commands are righteous.

- Even though trouble and anguish surround me, I delight in His commands.

WITH OTHERS

- Even though others sit around speaking evil of me, I meditate on His statutes and His wonders.

- Speaking my testimony before Kings, I will not be ashamed.

- Stand strong in the word, even though the arrogant utterly deride me.

- I esteem right all His precepts concerning everything, and I hate every false way.

- I weep, my eyes shed streams of water, because others do not keep His law.

DAY AND NIGHT

- I remember the name of the LORD in the night.

- I meditate on Him during the night watches.

- At midnight, I rise and give thanks to You because of Your righteous ordinances.

- I love the law and meditate on it all day!

- I rise before dawn and cry for help; and then I wait for His words.

- Seven times a day I praise him because of His righteous ordinances.

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More About Psalm 119:

1. Psalm 119: The Word Is...

2. Psalm 119: What the Word Does for Believers

3. Psalm 119: Prayers for Guidance, Renewal, and Strength

4. Psalm 119: My Commitment to the Word

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Psalm 119: My Commitment to the Word

This is part 4/5 of my dissection of Psalm 119.

My Commitment to the Word
(Or what my commitment to the Word should look like.)

- I have promised to keep Your words.

- I consider my ways and turn my feet to Your testimonies.

- I hasten and do not delay to keep Your commandments.

- I am to meditate on His precepts and regard His ways.

- I must choose the faithful way, clinging to His testimonies, running the way of His commandments, always putting His ordinances before me.

- I am to trust in His word, waiting on His ordinances, keeping the law continually forever and ever.

- I am blessed if I walk in the law of the LORD, observe His testimonies, seek Him with all my heart, and walk in His ways, longing for and keeping His precepts diligently.

- I am to tell of the ordinances, rejoicing in the way of His Testimonies, as much as in all riches.

- My companions are also those who fear You and keep Your precepts.

- Affliction can be for my good, because then I learn to keep Your word, and God is faithful to afflict me.

- When the word is my delight, His compassion gives me life.

- Sometimes I have to wait with longing, but I must never forget or forsake His statutes and precepts.

- I must restrain my feet from every evil way, not turning aside from His ordinances that He has taught me, in order to keep His word.

- I hope for His salvation and do His commandments.

- God graciously deals with me according to His word.

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Read the other parts to Psalm 119 here:

The Word Is...
What the Word Does for Believers
Prayers of Psalm 119

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Psalm 119: Prayers for guidance, renewal, and strength

I like categorizing and sorting things. As you can see, that's how I've been working through Psalm 119. Today, I'd like to share the prayers of Psalm 119, sorted into three categories.

“Teach me Your Word”

- Open my eyes, that I may behold wonderful things from Your law.

- Oh that my ways may be established to keep Your statues.

- Teach me Your statutes, and make me understand the way of Your precepts, so I can observe it to the end.

- With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me wander from Your commandments.

- I am a stranger in the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.

- Give me understanding, that I may observe Your law and keep it with all my heart.

- Make me walk in the path of Your commandments, for I delight in it.

- Establish Your word to Your servant, as that which produces reverence for You.

- Remember the word to me, in which You have made me hope.

- Teach me good discernment and knowledge, For I believe in Your commandments.

- I cried with all my heart; Answer me, O LORD! I will observe Your statutes. I cried to You; save me and I shall keep Your testimonies.

- Let my cry come before You, O LORD; Give me understanding according to Your word. Let my supplication come before You; Deliver me according to Your word.

“Be gracious to me”

- Strengthen me according to Your word.

- Deal bountifully with me, that I may live and keep Your word.

- May Your lovingkindness also come to me, O LORD, Your salvation according to Your word.

- May Your compassion come to me that I may live, for Your law is my delight.

- Revive me according to Your lovingkindness, so that I may keep the testimony of Your mouth.

- Sustain me according to Your word, that I may live; And do not let me be ashamed of my hope.

- Uphold me that I may be saved, that I may have regard for Your statutes continually.

- Turn to me and be gracious to me, after Your manner with those who love Your name.

- Make Your face shine upon Your servant, and teach me Your statutes.
- I am Yours, save me; for I have sought Your precepts.

“Forgive me, and keep me from sin”

- Take away reproach and contempt from me, for I observe Your testimonies.

- Remove the false way from me, and graciously grant me Your law.

- Incline my heart to Your testimonies, and not to dishonest gain.                                                                         

- Turn away my eyes from looking at vanity, emptiness, falseness, worthlessness, and revive me in Your ways.

- Turn away my reproach, shame, which I dread, for Your ordinances, decisions, and judgments are right.

- May my heart be blameless in Your statutes, so that I will not be ashamed.

- Establish my footsteps in Your word, and do not let iniquity have dominion over me. Redeem me from the oppression of man, that I may keep your precepts.

- I have gone away like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, For I do not forget Your commandments.

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You can see my two others posts about Psalm 119 here:

The Word Is...

What the Word Does for Believers

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Psalm 119: What the Word Does for Believers

Gathered from Psalm 119...

WHAT THE WORD DOES FOR BELIEVERS

Walking according to the Word established my footsteps, keeps my way pure, and keeps me from going astray.

Treasuring His Word in my heart keeps me from sinning against Him.

God rebukes the arrogant, the cursed, who wander from His commandments.

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When I am grieving, the Word strengthens me.

Your word revives me and gives me comfort in my affliction.

Running in the way of the commandments enlarges my heart.

His lovingkindness comforts me according to His word.

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It produces reverence for God.

The Word gives me hope.

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It gives me an answer for those who reproach me and lie about me and set traps for me.

His word redeems me from the oppression of man.

It provides courage when speaking before rulers.

When I wait for His word, others who fear Him see me and are glad.

His commandments make me wiser than my enemies.

Meditating on His testimonies gives me more insight than all my teachers.

Observing His precepts gives me more understanding than the aged.

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Seeking His precepts helps me walk at liberty.

The power of His ordinances sustains the earth, causing it to stand.

Those who love the law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble.

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See previous post on this Psalm: Psalm 119: The Word Is...

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Psalm 119: The Word Is...

THE WORD IS…

• My counselor.
• Truth.
• Righteous.
• Wonderful.
• Light.
• The giver of discernment and knowledge.
• Better than thousands of gold and silver pieces.
• Settled forever in heaven.
• Sweeter than honey to my mouth!
• A lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
• A joy to my heart.
• My hiding place and my shield.
• The giver of understanding to the simple.
• Very pure.
• An everlasting righteousness.
 

We learn from John 1 that Jesus is the word, so we could write this list like this...


JESUS IS...

• My counselor.
• Truth.
• Righteous.
• Wonderful.
• Light.
• The giver of discernment and knowledge.
• Better than thousands of gold and silver pieces.
• Settled forever in heaven.
• Sweeter than honey to my mouth!
• A lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
• A joy to my heart.
• My hiding place and my shield.
• The giver of understanding to the simple.
• Very pure.
• An everlasting righteousness.

-- Gathered From Psalm 119. More reflections to come from this long but powerful Psalm

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