But Your Servant Meditates on Your Statues...

20 My soul breaks with longing

For Your judgments at all times.

21 You rebuke the proud--the cursed,

Who stray from Your commandments.

22 Remove from me reproach and contempt,

For I have kept Your testimonies.

23 Princes also sit and speak against me

But Your servant meditates on Your statutes.

24 Your testimonies also are my delight

And my counselors.—Psalm 119:20-24

Father...

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.  Give me right longings...right spiritual desires.  Help me to learn obedience through my trials and to desire You more than any other thing. Make my heart a fount of living water to bless those around me.  You dwell in my heart and are my hope of glory.  There is no peace for the wicked who willfully go their own way and turn from Your law.  Their way is dark and slippery and their end is destruction.  

Remove from me reproach and contempt for I have kept Your testimonies.  There are many that speak against me wrongfully.  They slander me and desire me to fall.  But I am Your beloved.  I will spend my time with You.  I will meditate on Your statutes for they are my delight and my counselors.  In my distress and dismay, I will cry out to You, my God.  You will hear my prayer.  You will not forsake those who seek You. Father...You are my Helper...my defense is of You. 

How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!

How great is the sum of them!

If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;

When I awake, I am still with You.—Psalm 139:17-18

Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;

Let such as love Your salvation say continually,

“The LORD be magnified!”

But I am poor and needy;

Yet the LORD thinks upon me.

You are my help and my deliverer;

Do not delay, O my God.—Psalm 40: 16-17