Shalom,

I hope you have been finding and meditating on your "in Him" Scriptures. If you have, you've found that there are many more than you thought there were! I want to share something special with you today. In the Bible Reading Plan that we are following at The Spoken Word Church we just finished Psalm 119. We usually read the first 88 verses on one day and the last 88 the next day. I love Psalm 119 because EVERY verse talks about the Word of God! So I am posting the first 88 verses from the Amplified Bible today and the last 88 in the next post. See if you can find the reference to the Word in each verse and allow the importance of the Word of God to get inside of you!

Psalm 119 (Amplified)
1BLESSED (HAPPY, fortunate, to be envied) are the undefiled (the upright, truly sincere, and blameless) in the way [of the revealed will of God], who walk (order their conduct and conversation) in the law of the Lord (the whole of God's revealed will).
2Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are they who keep His testimonies, and who seek, inquire for and of Him and crave Him with the whole heart.
3Yes, they do no unrighteousness [no willful wandering from His precepts]; they walk in His ways.
4You have commanded us to keep Your precepts, that we should observe them diligently.
5Oh, that my ways were directed and established to observe Your statutes [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying them]!
6Then shall I not be put to shame [by failing to inherit Your promises] when I have respect to all Your commandments.
7I will praise and give thanks to You with uprightness of heart when I learn [by sanctified experiences] Your righteous judgments [Your decisions against and punishments for particular lines of thought and conduct].
8I will keep Your statutes; O forsake me not utterly.
9How shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed and keeping watch [on himself] according to Your word [conforming his life to it].
10With my whole heart have I sought You, inquiring for and of You and yearning for You; Oh, let me not wander or step aside [either in ignorance or willfully] from Your commandments.
11Your word have I laid up in my heart, that I might not sin against You.
12Blessed are You, O Lord; teach me Your statutes.
13With my lips have I declared and recounted all the ordinances of Your mouth.
14I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies as much as in all riches.
15I will meditate on Your precepts and have respect to Your ways [the paths of life marked out by Your law].
16I will delight myself in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
17Deal bountifully with Your servant, that I may live; and I will observe Your word [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying it].
18Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Your law.
19I am a stranger and a temporary resident on the earth; hide not Your commandments from me.
20My heart is breaking with the longing that it has for Your ordinances and judgments at all times.
21You rebuke the proud and arrogant, the accursed ones, who err and wander from Your commandments.
22Take away from me reproach and contempt, for I keep Your testimonies.
23Princes also sat and talked against me, but Your servant meditated on Your statutes.
24Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.
25My earthly life cleaves to the dust; revive and stimulate me according to Your word!
26I have declared my ways and opened my griefs to You, and You listened to me; teach me Your statutes.
27Make me understand the way of Your precepts; so shall I meditate on and talk of Your wondrous works.
28My life dissolves and weeps itself away for heaviness; raise me up and strengthen me according to [the promises of] Your word.
29Remove from me the way of falsehood and unfaithfulness [to You], and graciously impart Your law to me.
30I have chosen the way of truth and faithfulness; Your ordinances have I set before me.
31I cleave to Your testimonies; O Lord, put me not to shame!
32I will [not merely walk, but] run the way of Your commandments, when You give me a heart that is willing.
33Teach me, O Lord, the way of Your statutes, and I will keep it to the end [steadfastly].
34Give me understanding, that I may keep Your law; yes, I will observe it with my whole heart.
35Make me go in the path of Your commandments, for in them do I delight.
36Incline my heart to Your testimonies and not to covetousness (robbery, sensuality, unworthy riches).
37Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity (idols and idolatry); and restore me to vigorous life and health in Your ways.
38Establish Your word and confirm Your promise to Your servant, which is for those who reverently fear and devotedly worship You.
39Turn away my reproach which I fear and dread, for Your ordinances are good.
40Behold, I long for Your precepts; in Your righteousness give me renewed life.
41Let Your mercy and loving-kindness come also to me, O Lord, even Your salvation according to Your promise;
42Then shall I have an answer for those who taunt and reproach me, for I lean on, rely on, and trust in Your word.
43And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for I hope in Your ordinances.
44I will keep Your law continually, forever and ever [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying it].
45And I will walk at liberty and at ease, for I have sought and inquired for [and desperately required] Your precepts.
46I will speak of Your testimonies also before kings and will not be put to shame.
47For I will delight myself in Your commandments, which I love.
48My hands also will I lift up [in fervent supplication] to Your commandments, which I love, and I will meditate on Your statutes.
49Remember [fervently] the word and promise to Your servant, in which You have caused me to hope.
50This is my comfort and consolation in my affliction: that Your word has revived me and given me life.
51The proud have had me greatly in derision, yet have I not declined in my interest in or turned aside from Your law.
52When I have [earnestly] recalled Your ordinances from of old, O Lord, I have taken comfort.
53Burning indignation, terror, and sadness seize upon me because of the wicked, who forsake Your law.
54Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
55I have [earnestly] remembered Your name, O Lord, in the night, and I have observed Your law.
56This I have had [as the gift of Your grace and as my reward]: that I have kept Your precepts [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying them].
57You are my portion, O Lord; I have promised to keep Your words.
58I entreated Your favor with my whole heart; be merciful and gracious to me according to Your promise.
59I considered my ways; I turned my feet to [obey] Your testimonies.
60I made haste and delayed not to keep Your commandments.
61Though the cords of the wicked have enclosed and ensnared me, I have not forgotten Your law.
62At midnight I will rise to give thanks to You because of Your righteous ordinances.
63I am a companion of all those who fear, revere, and worship You, and of those who observe and give heed to Your precepts.
64The earth, O Lord, is full of Your mercy and loving-kindness; teach me Your statutes.
65You have dealt well with Your servant, O Lord, according to Your promise.
66Teach me good judgment, wise and right discernment, and knowledge, for I have believed (trusted, relied on, and clung to) Your commandments.
67Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now Your word do I keep [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying it].
68You are good and kind and do good; teach me Your statutes.
69The arrogant and godless have put together a lie against me, but I will keep Your precepts with my whole heart.
70Their hearts are as fat as grease [their minds are dull and brutal], but I delight in Your law.
71It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.
72The law from Your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.
73Your hands have made me, cunningly fashioned and established me; give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments.
74Those who reverently and worshipfully fear You will see me and be glad, because I have hoped in Your word and tarried for it.
75I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are right and righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
76Let, I pray You, Your merciful kindness and steadfast love be for my comfort, according to Your promise to Your servant.
77Let Your tender mercy and loving-kindness come to me that I may live, for Your law is my delight!
78Let the proud be put to shame, for they dealt perversely with me without a cause; but I will meditate on Your precepts.
79Let those who reverently and worshipfully fear You turn to me, and those who have known Your testimonies.
80Let my heart be sound (sincere and wholehearted and blameless) in Your statutes, that I may not be put to shame.
81My soul languishes and grows faint for Your salvation, but I hope in Your word.
82My eyes fail, watching for [the fulfillment of] Your promise. I say, When will You comfort me?
83For I have become like a bottle [a wineskin blackened and shriveled] in the smoke [in which it hangs], yet do I not forget Your statutes.
84How many are the days of Your servant [which he must endure]? When will You judge those who pursue and persecute me?
85The godless and arrogant have dug pitfalls for me, men who do not conform to Your law.
86All Your commandments are faithful and sure. [The godless] pursue and persecute me with falsehood; help me [Lord]!
87They had almost consumed me upon earth, but I forsook not Your precepts.
88According to Your steadfast love give life to me; then I will keep the testimony of Your mouth [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying it].

Shalom in Him!