My Portion,...

     Yesterday, I came into work early and started my morning routine which includes taking time in the Word before doing anything else. I follow a "Bible in a Year" program and yesterday happen to fall on Psalms 119.
How many of you have taken time to be still and just empathically read those words? I know that I have speedily browsed that chapter many times but yesterday as I began to read verses began to jump out at me. They were things I needed to read, apply and believe. I needed to pray those things into my life. 

Example:

30 I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I have set my heart on your laws. 31 I hold fast to your statutes, LORD; do not let me be put to shame. 32 I run in the path of your commands, for you have broadened my understanding. 33 Teach me, LORD, the way of your decrees, that I may follow it to the end. 34 Give me understanding, so that I may keep your law and obey it with all my heart. 35 Direct me in the path of your commands, for there I find delight.

36 Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain. 37 Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word. 38 Fulfill your promise to your servant, so that you may be feared.

39 Take away the disgrace I dread, for your laws are good. 40 How I long for your precepts! In your righteousness preserve my life.

41 May your unfailing love come to me, LORD, your salvation, according to your promise; 42 then I can answer anyone who taunts me, for I trust in your word. 43 Never take your word of truth from my mouth, for I have put my hope in your laws.

 Whenever you feel that you don't have the words to pray, open the Psalms and begin to pray them. Ask God to "fulfill His promises" in your life. Pray that He "teach you and give you understanding,..."  And He will.

"You are my portion,..."