The longest Psalm in the Bible is Psalm 119.

It has been called the Psalm of the Scriptures because it concentrates on one thing,

the amazing sufficiency of God's word for our lives.

Open to Psalm 119 today and open your heart to the Lord as we join Scott Pauli in this study.

It is our prayer that through God's truth, you will find all you need.

In our last study, we talked about the fact that God uses affliction often to give instruction,

that it is the Lord's classroom. In fact, the Lord has lots of classrooms. He has many ways of

instructing us. You remember when our Lord Jesus was here on earth. It seemed like he held class at the most

unusual times and the unique ways of teaching. And that's the way it works in all of our lives.

Before we move any further in our study of Psalm 119, I'd like to draw your attention to these

two little words. They're found twice in the section that we've been studying, verse 66 and verse 68. They are the two little words, teach me. Teach me good judgment

and knowledge, we read. Thou art good and do us good. Teach me thy statutes. Those two little words

teach me are a revelation of a humble heart, a heart that is hungry

to learn, willing to be instructed, ready to obey. I wonder, do you have that? You know,

sometimes we get to think, we're the teacher. We're all students in the Lord's classroom. Do you

still have the heart of a student? It's one of the marks of the men God used in a mighty way. Speak Lord for thy servant heareth. That's the way Samuel said it. Here am I, Lord, send me. That's the way Isaiah said it. That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable

unto his death. That's the way Paul said it. As the heart paneth after the water brook, so paneth

my soul after the old God. That's the way David said it. You get the point? If you're going to learn

more about the Lord and come nearer to God, then you have to have the heart that is wide open to the Lord and says

simply, teach me. So here's what I want to do today. I want to show you the eight times in Psalm 119 where

this prayer is found because each one of them gives us some principle that we can apply, some application to

our life if we truly want to learn the Lord's way.

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