The Beautiful Psalm 139

Each morning, I recieve an email from The Upper Room containing a devotion for the day. This morning, it was Psalm 139. I have read this Psalm before and I am sure that it "touched me"" then, as it did this moring. But, that is one of the reasons that I love reading the Bible - God's Word - so much! Each time you read it, God speaks to you in different ways.

Let me share the Psalm with you ~

Psalm 139 (New Living Translation)

1 O Lord, you have examined my heart

and know everything about me.

2 You know when I sit down or stand up.

You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.

3 You see me when I travel

and when I rest at home.

You know everything I do.

4 You know what I am going to say

even before I say it, Lord.

5 You go before me and follow me.

You place your hand of blessing on my head.

6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,

too great for me to understand!

7 I can never escape from your Spirit!

I can never get away from your presence!

8 If I go up to heaven, you are there;

if I go down to the grave, you are there.

9 If I ride the wings of the morning,

if I dwell by the farthest oceans,

10 even there your hand will guide me,

and your strength will support me.

11 I could ask the darkness to hide me

and the light around me to become night—

12 but even in darkness I cannot hide from you.

To you the night shines as bright as day.

Darkness and light are the same to you.

13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body

and knit me together in my mother’s womb.

14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!

Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.

15 You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,

as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.

16 You saw me before I was born.

Every day of my life was recorded in your book.

Every moment was laid out

before a single day had passed.

17 How precious are your thoughts about me, O God.

They cannot be numbered!

18 I can’t even count them;

they outnumber the grains of sand!

And when I wake up,

you are still with me!

19 O God, if only you would destroy the wicked!

Get out of my life, you murderers!

20 They blaspheme you;

your enemies misuse your name.

21 O Lord, shouldn’t I hate those who hate you?

Shouldn’t I despise those who oppose you?

22 Yes, I hate them with total hatred,

for your enemies are my enemies.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;

test me and know my anxious thoughts.

24 Point out anything in me that offends you,

and lead me along the path of everlasting life.

My thoughts ~

V. 1-6 ~  The Lord knows everything about me. He knows my every thought, no matter where I am. He knows what I am about to say, before I say it. He knows where I am at all times. He is with me when I travel. He travels before me and behind me. He blesses me with His hand on my head.

V. 7-12 ~ No matter where I go, He is there with me. Wherever I am, He will guide me & support me. The dark is light to Him and He can see still see me.

V. 13-16 ~ He "designed" my body - all of my parts. From every cell to every hair. He "knit" me together in my mother's womb.  He SAW me before I was born! Every day of my life is recorded in His BOOK. He has my whole life planned out for me! Many parts of it I have yet to even see!

V. 17-18 ~ He thinks about me so much that His thoughts can not be counted.

V. 19-22 ~ I have no thoughts on these verses. I'm not sure why David (the author of this Psalm) included these thoughts here.

V. 23-24 ~ Lord, please help me to relize my sins and guide me down the path that you have laid out for me.

May God bless you today and may you feel His love!

He knows that I love Him

and I don't feel that I have to PROVE it to others.

If you are on the popular social network site called FACEBOOK, then you may have seen this post on someone's status ---

I believe in Jesus Christ and have accepted Him as my personal Savior. One facebooker has challenged all believers to put this on their wall. In the Bible it says, if you deny me in front of your peers, I will deny you in front of my Father at the Gates of Heaven. This is simple. If you love God and you are not afraid to show it, re-p...ost. Are you willing?


I see a lot of different post like this one that ask you to "repost" this to your status if you believe whatever the post is about. (I wanted to find some more examples, but of course... when I go looking for them, I can't find any!)

This one really bothered me, tho. I feel as if it is asking me to PROVE my love for God by reposting this to my status, and if I don't... I will be denying that I know Him!

In Matthew 22:37-40... Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.”

I try very hard to live out my faith and I show my love for God in my everyday actions.


Jesus said "If you love Me, keep My commandments". I try very hard to do this.

How can we show our love for God to others?? -- Here's how...


By following His teachings and commandments, by loving others, and by continuing a relationship with Him; by praying to Him and by reading His word.

By praising Him and thanking Him, all the time, for everything that He has given to you and does for you. To Him, give all the glory!!
 
Read your bible every day in order to learn more about my God. 
 
Witness to others. Tell them about God.




Commit your life to Him. Make sure He comes first in your life and try very hard to seek Him first in everything that you do!  
Remember that when you serve others, you are serving Him.

Go to church every Sunday.

Live the way Jesus did to the best of your ability.

Believe that Jesus is God.


Remember that you can not earn salvation. Salvation is given to you by Jesus as a free gift when you believe the truth about Jesus. The truth about Jesus is that the only way to be saved and to get into heaven is by believing in faith alone that Jesus, who is God, died for our sins on the cross and rose from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:1-4). Believe this and you are saved, no matter what you do or what you fail to do.

May God Bless you today!

Feeling God's Love

Last night, as part of my Stephen Minister training, we were asked to pick one of the following passages of scripture to read ----

Psalm 46
Isaiah 40:25-31
Matthew 6:25-34
Romans 8:26-39

We were also asked to LISTEN for God to speak to us thru the scripture that we chose.

I chose Matthew 6:25-34 which reads ---

(New International Version)


Do Not Worry


"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?


"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

I chose this passage because WORRY is something that I have been dealing with for the past month because of my gall bladder issue. (By the way... I am having it removed on Friday, September 3rd.)

As I said above, we were asked to LISTEN for God to speak to us thru the passage. This is what I heard God say to me ---

Do not worry. Do you not see that I care for you? I love you and WILL provide for you. I am concerned for you. You worry too much and are forgetting about Me. You are forgetting to seek Me FIRST. Instead, you panic and worry. When you worry, you show a lack of faith in Me.

This hit me HARD!! Yes. I have been "forgetting" about God. I have been so wrapped up in "worrying" about ME that I have forgotten to seek the wisdom of God's words.

Our leader prayed for us and I cried as my head was bowed. I knew that God had gotten thru to me and I HEARD HIM SPEAK TO ME!

Wow!! Out of all the passages to read in the Bible, THIS ONE was one of the choices! God, you are amazing and I LOVE YOU!

On my way home, I turned on my Sidewalk Prophets CD and the song that came on was one called "You Loved Me Anyway". You can see the words and hear the song here. -- Sorry, I don't know how to add the actual video to my blog page. The words are beautiful, tho! I hope you will take the time to listen.

Again... God SPOKE TO ME!! He wanted me to know that even tho I have forgotten Him... He STILL loves me and there is NOTHING that I can do to keep Him from loving me.

Now... THAT is an AWESOME GOD!!!!