Sermon preached on Sunday, July 21, 2013 at Garden Valley Chapel during our morning worship service based on Psalm 139:13-18.

Take your Bible if you will and open it to the book of Psalms, Psalms chapter one hundred thirty-nine (139).

Please stand in the reading of God's Word.

Read Psalm 139:13-18.

If you recall, this magnificent psalm, contains four chief thoughts. My prayer and hope has been that they serve to comfort your soul.

In preparation for this morning, my prayer has been for you my beloved...that you would be drawn to the all-knowing, all-present, all-powerful, all-holy God, to whom we render our worship.

CONTENT

Note, we have already covered the first two chief thoughts.

God knows you intimately (vv. 1-6)

1 O Lord, You have searched me and known me.

He knows you better than anyone. The One who knows you is the One who loves you and is intimately acquainted with all your ways.

God is with you closely (vv. 7-12)
7 Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?

The answer is nowhere. Why would you want to flee/go? Even if you could go to the farthest height, depth, or point, He would be there.

There is nowhere God is not present.

Just these two chief thoughts are enough to encourage the soul. For He knows you and is with you. You are not alone. He understands.

We can feel ever so lonely at times in our lives and may feel as though no one knows what you are going through, and yet here we have the comforting truth that God does - He both knows you and everything you experience, every motive, every thought, when no one else knows. He is with you though friends betray you. He is with you as though you were the only one on the face of this earth!

May these truths uplight your souls my beloved, may they lift you to the very throne room of God and cause you to adore and worship Him. For He is worthy of your worship.

Today we want to conclude our study of this magnificent psalm.

Please note the third chief thought in this psalm and that is...

God made you uniquely (vv. 13-18) -

13 For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb.

Perhaps one of the most well-known verses in all of Scripture.

CONTENT

Today we will begin to look at this second chief thought but allow me to review the first one...

God knows you intimately (vv. 1-6) -

He knows your character/who you are - He has "searched you" (v. 1).
He knows what you do - "when you sit down and when you rise up" (v. 2a).
He knows what you think - He understands your "thought from afar" (v. 2b).
He knows where you go - scrutinizing/winnowing your "path and your lying down, intimately acquainted with all your ways" (v. 3).
He knows all your words - "even before there is a word on your tongue" (v. 4).
He knows what you need - having enclosed you "behind and before and laid His hand upon you" (v. 5).

In short God knows it all! And such knowledge spurs one's soul to adoration, praise, and worship.

But that is only the first chief thought. There is another chief thought that will encourage your soul and that is...

God is with you closely (vv. 7-12) -

13 For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb.

Perhaps one of the most well-known verses in all of Scripture.