This is My Comfort

Thursday, March 5, 2015
Psalm 119:49-64 KJV

49 ZAIN. Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope. 50 This [is] my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me. 51 The proud have had me greatly in derision: [yet] have I not declined from thy law. 52 I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself. 53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law. 54 Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. 55 I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law. 56 This I had, because I kept thy precepts. 57 CHETH. [Thou art] my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words. 58 I intreated thy favour with [my] whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word. 59 I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. 60 I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments. 61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me: [but] I have not forgotten thy law. 62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments. 63 I [am] a companion of all [them] that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts. 64 The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) Psalm 119 is an acrostic containing the twenty-two consonants in the Hebrew alphabet. What does the psalmist ask of the Lord and why? (v.49)
2) What comforts the psalmist in times of affliction and why? (v.50)
3) Who or what afflicts or torments the psalmist and how? (v.51a,53,61a)
4) What did the psalmist do to comfort himself? Why? (v.51b,52,54-61b)
5) What else does the psalmist do because he delights in God's word? (v.62-63)
6) What does the psalmist ask of the Lord and why? (v.64)

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
7) How much do you need the word of God (the Bible) and why?

LIFE LESSONS
8) God has given us His word not only to read, but to remember during times of distress and/or spiritual attack.
9) We keep (retain) the word of the Lord to keep us from sinning against Him and to withstand the attacks of the enemy.