A. Confession of sin to God - v.26
B. Pleading for His direction to help me do right - v.26
C. Pleading for understanding the way of God’s precepts - v.27
Understanding God’s precepts will result in me talking of His wondrous works - v.27
D. Admission of a depressed spirit - v.28
E. Crying for strength from the word of God - v.28
F. Crying to God to remove from me the way of lying and provide His gracious law in the
place of lies - v.29
G. Choosing the way of truth. This is found in God’s judgments - v.30
H. Sticking to the word of God - v.31
If I do this I will not be ashamed
If I do this, God will enlarge my heart, and I will run in the way of His commandments - v.32
VII. Personal teaching of the Holy Spirit so that I might understand and keep God’s statutes - v.33 “Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.”
Results of this personal teaching by the Holy Spirit
A. I will observe (keep) God’s word with my whole heart - v.34
B. I will delight in God’s commandments - v.35
C. God will keep me safely within the right way