{"id":27108,"date":"2015-08-07T00:20:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T04:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=27108"},"modified":"2015-08-06T17:57:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T21:57:01","slug":"this-week-psalms-1391-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/07\/this-week-psalms-1391-3\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week&#8230;Psalms 139:1-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13840\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg\" alt=\"SeekingHimLogo\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg 560w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\">\u00a0<span class=\"text Ps-139-1\">You have searched me,\u00a0<span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span>,<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\" style=\"color: #008080; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Ps-139-1\">and you know me.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"en-NIV-16242\" class=\"text Ps-139-2\" style=\"color: #008080; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\">You know when I sit and when I rise;<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\" style=\"color: #008080; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Ps-139-2\">you perceive my thoughts from afar.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"en-NIV-16243\" class=\"text Ps-139-3\" style=\"color: #008080; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\">You discern my going out and my lying down;<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\" style=\"color: #008080; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Ps-139-3\">you are familiar with all my ways.<br \/>\nPsalms 139:1-3<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This week, here on the<strong><em> Seeking Him<\/em><\/strong> devotional blog, we have looked at the Truth that our wonderful God knows all about us. \u00a0Our devotional writers have shared this understanding with us in the devotionals that they have written. \u00a0Here are a few of their thoughts\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong><em>God Loves Our Brokenness<\/em>, <span style=\"color: #008080;\">Tina<\/span><\/strong> reminded us that God can use us for His glory&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>God loves our brokenness. Why? Because it is through our brokenness where He can begin to \u2018<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><em><strong>FIX<\/strong><\/em><\/span>\u2018 us. God will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><em><strong>F<\/strong> <\/em><\/span>ocus on what is right in us, He will help us build our\u00a0character to be a reflection of Him<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><em><strong>I<\/strong> <\/em><\/span>ntends to heal us and will use us as<\/li>\n<li>e<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><em><strong>X<\/strong> <\/em><\/span>amples of His great love and mercy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, God can use our past to help others to see Him as our Redeemer. \u00a0We can know that God will soften our hearts to forgive ourselves and use our lives to win others with similar situations to Him. \u00a0We just have to be willing. \u00a0We have to allow ourselves to be molded and shaped into what God can use. We will not be perfect; we are human. \u00a0But God can use our humanity to reach those who are unsaved&#8230;we will be able to reach others with our lives and show how God redeemed us from our path of sin and unrighteousness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">\u2766<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In <strong><em>To Be Known<\/em>, <span style=\"color: #008080;\">Ahmee<\/span><\/strong> shares how much it means to her to be &#8216;known&#8217; by God&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These three verses focus on one of the many aspects of God that I truly love and adore\u2014<em>He\u00a0<strong>knows<\/strong> me<\/em>. \u00a0Coming from a place in my life where I felt misunderstood, weird, different, and alone into a relationship with my Lord Who <em>knows everything<\/em> about me has been amazing. \u00a0Some people have things about themselves that they want to hide or hope others never find out\u2026and they behave the same with God. \u00a0I\u2019ve never been that way. \u00a0God <em>knows everything<\/em> about me, whether I tell Him or not. \u00a0And He <em>knows everything<\/em> about me whether I want Him to know or not.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing I do, say, or think as well as nothing I have thought, said, or done, \u00a0can change the fact that God loves me.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>He loves me just the way I am.<\/li>\n<li>He doesn\u2019t separate the good from the bad.<\/li>\n<li>He doesn\u2019t only love me when I behave.<\/li>\n<li>He doesn\u2019t only love part of me.<\/li>\n<li>He loves all of me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">\u2766<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In <strong><em>Divine Knowledge<\/em>, <span style=\"color: #008080;\">Ann<\/span><\/strong> relates how these characteristics of God&#8212;His omniscience and His omnipresence&#8212;are described throughout Psalm 139&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In verses 1-3 of Psalm 139 it shows God knows all our inward thoughts, motives, desires, and fears as well as our outward habits and actions. \u00a0He knows all we do from the beginning of the day to its end. \u00a0In everything we do, He encircles us with His care and lays His hand of favor upon our heads. \u00a0Our God knows everything and so we should not deceive ourselves that He is not there watching when we are doing what is not pleasing unto Him. \u00a0He sees all. \u00a0Refer to the verses below for a good understanding of how God operates:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Do you not know? Have you not heard?<br \/>\nThe Lord is the everlasting God<br \/>\nthe Creator of the ends of the earth,<br \/>\nHe will not grow tired or weary<br \/>\nand His understanding no one can fathom.<br \/>\nIsaiah 40:28<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He reveals deep and hidden things,<br \/>\nHe knows what lies in darkness and light dwells with Him.<br \/>\nDaniel 2:22<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026do not be like them for your Father knows<br \/>\nwhat you need before you ask Him.<br \/>\nMatthew 6:8<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026and again, The Lord knows<br \/>\nthat the thoughts of the wise are futile.<br \/>\n1 Corinthians 3:20<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0You have searched me,\u00a0Lord, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0you are familiar with all my ways. 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