“God Knows You”
Bro. Richard Tull
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INTRODUCTION.
We are designed for relationship.
We want to be known.
“The desire to be known is a fundamental human need, rooted in our innate social nature as human beings. Being known by others can bring a sense of validation, affirmation, and belonging, which are essential to our emotional and psychological well-being”
- a senior developer at Infosys Technologies. Second largest Indian IT Company.
We want people to know what we want them to know so they will like us.
GOD is Omniscient - All Knowing - Infinite Awareness.
1 O Lord, You have searched me and known me.
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar.
3 You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O Lord, You know it all.
5 You have enclosed me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is too high, I cannot attain to it.
MESSAGE.
I. God Knows your THOUGHTS .
I. God Knows your THOUGHTS .
1 O Lord, You have searched me and known me.
Searched.
searched = explore - dig deep - mining.
Known.
known - to known intimately to know experientially
3. Understand.
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar.
Thoughts - pay attention to- consider.
“thoughts from a far.”
Others can know what they see us do.
God knows even our heart. What we think. Our motives
II. God Knows your WAYS.
II. God Knows your WAYS.
3 You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
Scrutinize my path.
Scrutinize
Winnow
sift Through
Path
Journeying
Intimately acquainted.
Intimately.
to know - discern.
private and personal.
very close connection.
Ways.
Conduct
Journey - direction - actions
You (God) know it all.
4 Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O Lord, You know it all.
Words even before they are said.
Even before they are thought.
III. God LOVES YOU.
III. God LOVES YOU.
5 You have enclosed me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me.
Enclosed. - (kjv - beset)
envelop
surrounds
confine
bind
to guard a valuable object.
God laid His hand on David.
The sense of touch.
God used David.
God knew David and called him a “man after His own heart” 1 Samuel 13:14.
David was an adulterer and murder.
David was confronted by Nathan.
David was truthful.
David confessed.
3. Too wonderful for me.
CONCLUSION.
zephaniah 3:17.
17 “The Lord your God is in your midst, A victorious warrior. He will exult over you with joy, He will be quiet in His love, He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.