Praying through Psalm 119, verse-by-verse, day-by-day.

Why or How is this helpful?

  • Each verse is helpful in kick-starting your time of prayer.
  • Each verse can help collect and focus your thoughts towards God and onto what is important. Often it is difficult to find what to pray and yet you want to commune with the Father. This is from His Word. He has given us words to pray. He has given us what to pray for ourselves but also for your loved ones, and to pray for the Church.
  • Each verse also adds insight into the Christian life. Our struggles, our hopes, our needs, and where our hearts should be established are written for us to believe, accept, and pray.
  • Each verse teaches us what is important to God and therefore what should be important to us, as His children.
  • Each verse holds wisdom and understanding for those of us who haven’t figured it all out yet.
  • Each verse humbles us before our God and Savior, while reminding us that we are who we are only by His grace.

Today:

Vs. 10 With my whole heart I have sought You; Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments!

Comments from Charles H. Spurgeon on the verse:

The man of God exerts himself, but does not trust himself: his heart is in his walking with God; but he knows that even his whole strength is not enough to keep him right unless his King shall be his keeper, and he who made the commands shall make him constant in obeying them: hence the prayer, “O let me not wander.” Still, this sense of need, was never turned into an argument for idleness; for while he prayed to be kept in the right road he took care to run in it, with his whole heart seeking the Lord. (Spurgeon, C. H. (2009). The treasury of David: Psalms 111-119 (Vol. 5, p. 158). Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.)

Prayer:

Father, I cannot say that I have sought you with my whole heart. You and I know that I cannot. But though I have wandered from Your commandments, You have kept me sealed and preserved. For You have promised that nothing can separate me from Your love. Nothing. I ask that You continue to give me a desire to seek You and Your kingdom. I do not want to become dull in heart towards You. It is the Spirit that gives me affections for You. Keep pouring a love for Thee in and over me so that my heart will always turn to You.

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