Psalm 139

          O, Lord, you have searched me and you know me.  You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.  You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.  Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord.  You hem me in-- behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.  Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.  Where can I go from your Spirit?  Where can I flee from your presence?  If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.  If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.  If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.  For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.  I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.  My frame was not hidden form you when I was made in the secret place.  When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body.  All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.  How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!  Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.  When I awake I am still with you.  If only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!  They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.  Do I not  hate those who hate you, O Lord, and abhor those who rise up against you?  I have nothing but hatred for them; I count  them my enemies.  Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.  See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me to in the way everlasting.

This chapter in Psalm is so awsome.  As many girls and guys tend to worry about what school they will go to who there friends should be when they will be married how long will it take; all of these things are sweapt away in this passage of scripture. 

Lets take an over veiw.  The first thing that David says is that God knows him, God knows when he is sitting sleeping griping, God knows every thing about you.   Then David says, God there is NO where that I can go that you are not there, NO where.  David then goes on to say, You O God are the creator of everything you created me you know all about me.

How can one even begin to fathom, the amazing Greatness of God?  When I read these verses it is all that I can to  not begin to cry, God knows me, He knows the lie I told my mom He knows the love I express He knows every thing about me.  When we begin to reolize that God knows us it is then that we are able to see the love He has for us.  In verses 17-24 David finally gets it, David understands the power of God and he understands the knowledge of God.  David ends the chapter by saying, Search me O God and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.  See if there is any offensice way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.  You see when we begin to grow in an intimate relationship with Christ it will become first priority to please Him.  It is so offten that we think we have to know all about the Bible so read read read, let me just say, God is more concerned about the creation (you) than he is in creating!

When you get a minute today, sit down and pray these scriptures to God, understand that He is longing to talk to you and see you. 

Life well what can I say... I have learned alot about it this week, the biggest leason would have come today, it is somthing that I learned along time ago, but now it is my turn to help someone else learn how to do it.  FORGIVE! REBUILD! and LOVE!

There comes a time in everyones life that one must forgive another.  The reality is is that it is NEVER easy, yeah we can forgive the little things like I forgive you for pinching me and I forgive you for pushing me , but what about the life changers, like I forgive you for getting a divorce, I forgive you for raping or mulesting me, I forgive you for killing my mom, what ever the pain may be great or small one must learn that there is no peace untill forgivness.  The reality is as well that in many cases one thinks that revenge is the best policy, but to be quite honest revenge is the Lords, not ours. 

As a young child I was hurt physicaly and mentaly, the mental part has taken 18 years to get over.  I was raised by my mom and as a young child especialy a girl it is hard to learn the simple things of life without a dad.  I was beside myself to find that my mom was leaving my dad, but confident that I would still get to see and talk to my dad.  For a few months he called every now and then, at the time we lived  in Cali, but we soon packed up and moved back to OK to be with my family, after that the phone stoped ringing and the cards stoped coming, it was then that he made it quite clear that he wanted nothing to do with me and had no intensions of ever seeing me again.  He quikly go married had more kids and that season of life was over.  I am now 18 and have not talked to my dad since my 5 birthday.  The bitterness and anger of the situation in which I had no control over began to tug at my heart in a way that there was no peace, you see I alowed satan to controle me and to creat a bitterness that at a time I thought would never be able to break loose.  But I am here to tell you that God has much bigger plans that anything that I could ever imagine.

I grew up in the Church and knew every thing there is to know about it, but just knowing is not enough, it isn't church or Bible Study or Wednesday night youth group that Saves you It is a personal relasionship with God.  In the Spring of 2000 I began to see this and began to reolize that all my time spent in the Church was worth nothing.  God didn't want my works he wants me and nothing less, God wants to spend time with me , He wants to know me. 

After giving my life to Jesus He began to reveal to me all the things that held me so tight.  He began to show me that the only way that bitterness would go away was if I let Him do it .  So through the course of time I began to pray, "God, I give every thing that I have to you, God would deal with these things because I am not strong enough to handle them."  And He did and He still is.  This past school year I fianaly came to the place where I could say, "I forgive my dad!"  You know I don't know how to explain it to you but there is no fealing like the fealing of being free from pain and anger and bitterness.

THere are so many other things in my life I could go on for hours, about the things that God has restored and brought peace to.  The bottom line is, I would not be where I am today if it were not for God and His sufficant Grace.

So here is my question, "Do you have that peace, do you want that peace?"  It is so simple!  Let me explain it this way. A B C

A: Admit to God you are a sinner.

     The Bible tells us that "Romans 3:23 - for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" 

B: Belive that Jesus is Gods only son, that He died on the cross for our sins and that He rose from the grave on the third day conquring death.

C: Confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord

Currently Playing Casting Crowns By Casting Crowns see related

Man God is soooo good.  These past few weeks God has been working in my heart, about going into the battle in the Holy Powerful name of Jesus Christ.  Today Bro. Ted spook out of 1 Samuel 17:41-51 and God spoke to me through a verse, it is talking about David and Goliath.  David has just arived at the battle field in the verse before, and King Saul is now saying to David, "YOu are not able to go out against the Philistine and fight him; you are only a boy, and he has been a fighting man from his youth."  and I love the way that David reponds to Saul, he says " Your servant has been keeping his fathers sheep.  When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, I went after it struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth.  When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it ans killed it.  your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncurcumcised Phillistine will be like one of them, because hi has defied the armies of the living God.  The Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine."  And man does Saul get it he says to David, " Go, and the Lord be with you."  This remindes me of how many times I loose sight that God is the ruler of all and that He can and He will protect me.  This next vers is my favorite.  Not because David defeats Goliath, but because of the way he does it. 

"David said to the Philistine, " You come against me with sword and spear and Javelin, but I come against you int he name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.  This day the Lord will hand you over to me, and I'll strike you dwn and cut off your head.  Today I will gice the carcasses of  the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beast of the earth, and The whole world willl know that there is a God in Israel.  All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give all of you into our hands."  

Man that is so amazing.  David didn't go into the battle on his own strengths, he went into the battle proclaming the name of a Pure and Holy God.  Proclaiming his faith in a Rightious God.  I can only pray that I would be so humble as to proclaim the name of Jesus, to trust Him in such a way that the whole world would know that God is a Rightious and Just God, a God worth of my praise and nothing short of amazing. 

You know as a girl I know that there are so many times that we feel bound by the ways of this world, bound by the giants in our life.  I am hear to tell you that there is a voice of truth, and He is calling out saying DO NOT BE AFRAID.  There is a song , by Casting Crowns,  called The Voice of Truth, and the words are so true:

Oh what I would do to have
The kind of faith it takes to climb out of this boat I'm in
On to the crashing waves

To step out of my comfort zone
Into the realm of the unknown where Jesus is
And He's holding out His hand

But the waves are calling out my name and they laugh at me
Reminding me of all the times I've tried before and failed
The waves they keep on telling me
Time and time again, "Boy, You'll never win!"
"You'll never win!"

But the Voice of Truth tells me a different story
The Voice of Truth says, "Do not be afraid!"
And the Voice of Truth says, "This is for My glory"
Out of all the voices calling out to me
I will choose to listen and believe the Voice of Truth

Oh what I would do to have
The kind of strength it takes to stand before a giant
With just a sling and a stone
Surrounded by the sound of a thousand warriors
Shaking in their armor
Wishing they'd have had the strength to stand

But the giant's calling out my name and he laughs at me
Reminding me of all the times I've tried before and failed
The giant keeps on telling me
Time and time again, "Boy, You'll never win!"
"You'll never win!"

But the Voice of Truth tells me a different story
The Voice of Truth says, "Do not be afraid!"
And the Voice of Truth says, "This is for My glory"
Out of all the voices calling out to me
I will choose to listen and believe the Voice of Truth

But the stone was just the right size
To put the giant on the ground
And the waves aren't looking so high
From on top of them lookin' down
I will soar with the wings of eagles
When I stop and listen to the sound of Jesus
Singing over me

Repeat Chorus

I will choose to listen and believe the Voice of Truth

I pray that you listen to the voice of truth, proclaim it, even in your every day life.  Before a test, what ever you may be facing if you proclaim the Holy name of the Lord Jesus Christ there is nothing that can stand in your path to defeat you. 

Love you guys~In Christ~MJ

To get a copy of this sermon, by Bro Ted Kersh.  You can call:(918)341-8181