{"id":27437,"date":"2015-08-28T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=27437"},"modified":"2015-08-27T15:42:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T19:42:34","slug":"this-week-psalms-13911-and-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/28\/this-week-psalms-13911-and-12\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week&#8230;Psalms 139:11 and 12"},"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 class=\"verse\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\"><span id=\"en-AMP-16251\" class=\"text Ps-139-11\"><sup class=\"versenum\">\u00a0<\/sup><span id=\"en-NIV-16251\" class=\"text Ps-139-11\" style=\"color: #008080;\">If I say, \u201cSurely the darkness will hide me<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\" style=\"color: #008080;\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Ps-139-11\">and the light become night around me,\u201d<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"en-NIV-16252\" class=\"text Ps-139-12\" style=\"color: #008080;\">even the darkness will not be dark to you;<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\" style=\"color: #008080;\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Ps-139-12\">the night will shine like the day,<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\" style=\"color: #008080;\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Ps-139-12\">for darkness is as light to you.<\/span><\/span><\/span><span id=\"en-AMP-16252\" class=\"text Ps-139-12\" style=\"color: #008080;\"><br \/>\nPsalms 139:11 and 12<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"verse\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">* \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u271e \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"verse\" style=\"text-align: left;\">This week, here on the<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><em> Seeking Him<\/em><\/strong> <\/span>devotional blog, we have continued along in our series on this this wonderful psalm, Psalm 139. Our devotional writers have reminded us that even when we &#8216;are in the dark&#8217;, God still sees us. \u00a0Here are a few of their thoughts&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse\" style=\"text-align: left;\">In <strong><em>God Sees<\/em>, <span style=\"color: #008080;\">Tina<\/span><\/strong> wrote about the fears we all have concerning our sins&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>We all have that secret sin..<\/em>.you know\u2026the one that, if someone discovers it, we feel they will never love or respect us again. \u00a0As believers we can be truly terrified of being found out. \u00a0<em>But what if what we thought was a horrific secret wasn\u2019t so bad after all?<\/em>\u00a0 What if \u00a0all we had to do was confess it to God and ask Him for help us to overcome it?<\/p>\n<p>You see the evil one has a way of playing with our minds. \u00a0He makes us think we can\u2019t change. \u00a0He makes us think that life is hopeless. \u00a0But<strong> it is not<\/strong> hopeless. \u00a0God created us and He has a vision, a purpose for us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3 class=\"verse\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">\u2766<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>In <strong><em>God Sees All<\/em>, <span style=\"color: #008080;\">Ann<\/span><\/strong> reminded us that it is just not possible to hide anything from God&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our God sees everything and we cannot hide anything from him. He is omnipresence and omniscient (all-knowing). \u00a0Indeed darkness and light are all His\u2014He created them. \u00a0He is the one who separated darkness and light (Genesis 1).<\/p>\n<p>The good and the bad things we do are bare in the eyes of God. \u00a0Therefore whatsoever we do, let us be <em>Christ-<\/em>conscious <strong>not<\/strong> <em>man<\/em>-conscious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3 class=\"verse\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">\u2766<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0If I say, \u201cSurely the darkness will hide me \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and the light become night around me,\u201d even the darkness will not be dark to you; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the night will shine like the day, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0for darkness is as light to you. 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