11/11/2015 OUR GREAT, AMAZING, SPECTAUCLAR GOD NOTE TO SELF: Its - PDF document

11/11/2015 OUR GREAT, AMAZING, SPECTAUCLAR GOD NOTE TO SELF: It’s Time to Get Your Praise ON! Psalm 103:1-2, NIV Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits. 1

11/11/2015 REMEMBER ALL THE GREAT BENEFITS OUR GOD GIVES US What has God done? How is God at work? Psalm 139:3-5, NIV who forgives all your sins, and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion Who satisfies your desires with good things So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s Our God is the ONE w ho … Psalm 139:3-5, NIV who forgives all your sins, and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion Who satisfies your desires with good things So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s Our God is the ONE w ho … Psalm 139:3-5, NIV who forgives all your sins, and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion Who satisfies your desires with good things So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s 2

11/11/2015 Our God is the ONE w ho … Psalm 139:3-5, NIV who forgives all your sins, and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion Who satisfies your desires with good things So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s Our God is the ONE w ho … Psalm 139:3-5, NIV who forgives all your sins, and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion Who satisfies your desires with good things So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s Our God is the ONE w ho … Psalm 139:3-5, NIV who forgives all your sins, and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s 3

11/11/2015 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The L ORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. 29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. 30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; 31 but those who hope in the L ORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; Our God is the ONE w ho … Psalm 139:3-5, NIV who forgives all your sins, and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s "Omni" Know ledge God knows ALL there is to know about me!  ALL I DO: You know when I sit and when I rise…you discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. (v. 2-3, NIV )  ALL I THINK: You perceive my thoughts from afar. (v. 3, NIV )  ALL I SAY: Before a word is on my tongue you, O Lord, know it completely. (v.4, NIV ) 4

11/11/2015 Wonder-Know ledge! God knows me—and all 7 billion people on earth—this completely! Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. (v.6, NIV ) God Know s Everything—And Is Everyw here! Wherever I could travel in the vast universe, my omni-present God would be there waiting for me! Psalm 139:8-10 & 5, NIV 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…You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. Never Hidden From His View ! God even sees me in the dark—because he has perfect "night vision." Psalm 139:11-12, NIV If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light will 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. 5

11/11/2015 In The Prenatal Darkness God knew me before I was born—even before my mother knew she was pregnant! Psalm 139:13-16, NIV My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place…your eyes saw my unformed body…you knit me together in my mother's womb. Formed For A Purpose! The SOURCE of my life also laid out the COURSE of my life! Psalm 139:14 & 16, NIV I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well…all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 24/7 Care The God who is everywhere, and knows everything, thinks about me all the time! Psalm 139:17-18, NLT How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! I can't even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me! 6

11/11/2015 Time To Vent! David's thoughts abruptly shift from his awesome God to the awful people around him: I hate them, God! I wish you would just get rid of them! Psalm 139:19-22, NIV If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty! They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name. Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you? I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies. The Spiritual Therapy Of "Imprecatory" Psalms Examples: Psalms 35, 58, 59, 69, 83, 109, 137, 140  These curses are prayers—spoken to God, not to others.  These curses channel anger upward in words rather than outward in actions.  These curses place vengeance in the proper hands. "Search Me, O God!" David does not confine his attack to the evil around him! He invites God to expose the bad in his own life! Psalm 139:23-24, NIV 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 in the way everlasting. 7