Psalm 139: Laid Bare | Summer Soundtrack Week 6

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Psalm 139: Laid Bare

Psalm 139:1-16 You have searched me, LORD, 
and you know me. 
2 You know when I sit and when I rise; 
you perceive my thoughts from afar. 
3 You discern my going out and my lying down; 
you are familiar with all my ways. 
4 Before a word

is on my tongue 
you, LORD, know it completely. 
5 You hem me in behind and before, 
and you lay your hand upon me. 
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, 
too lofty for me to attain.

 7 Where can I go from your Spirit? 
Where can I flee from your presence? 
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; 
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, 
if I settle on the far side of the sea, 
10 even there your hand will guide me, 
your right hand will hold me fast. 
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me 
and the light become night around me,” 
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; 
the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. 13 For you created my inmost being; 
you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; 
your works are wonderful, 
I know that full well. 
15 My frame was not hidden from you 
when I was

made in the secret place, 
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; 
all the days ordained for me were written in your book 
before one of them came to be.

Psalm 139: 23-24 Search me, God, and know my heart; 
test me and know my anxious thoughts. 
24 See if there is any offensive way in me, 
and lead me in the way everlasting.

1. Who am I trying to IMPRESS?

● The moment you stop trying to IMPRESS people you actually start to INSPIRE.

2. Has my life become a PERFORMANCE?

● If we slip into a life of PERFORMING, we need to run back to a life of PRAISE.

3. Am I doing the RIGHT THINGS for the WRONG REASONS?

● We can live for the SPOTLIGHT or we can live by the SPIRIT.

4. Am I driven by DESIRE or compelled by a CALLING?

● God’s SPECIFIC calling is often discovered while we are faithfully obeying His GENERAL commands.