Wednesday 6/29/11 He Knows Us 2

You hem me in, behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your Presence? 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 dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, ever there your hand will guide me. Your right hand will hold me fast.

Good Salvation Wednesday, my dear brothers and sisters. The day we pray for the unsaved and pray we can help bring those who are unsaved to the feet of Jesus to enjoy and be blessed by being saved.

Also, dear brothers and sisters, please remember to come to the picnic on Saturday, this Saturday, July 2nd. Come early and enjoy some great music by Baritone Singer Tim Beitzel. Willow Mill Park, Silver Spring Township, and you need to bring nothing, except maybe your lawn chair. Pray for the event please, pray my cooking is good!! Pray for a nice day. No time to RSVP, come anyway, there will be plenty.

Prayers for Vicki, Vicki has a very, very full plate of health issues.

He Knows Us 2: Psalm 139:5 - You hem me in, behind and before; You have laid 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 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. (NIV)

Yes, folks, He knows us, He knows you and He knows me. Did you just stop and think about this, all the millions and millions of people and He knows you and He knows me. He even has the hairs on our heads numbered, look at this!

Matthew 10:29 - Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. 30 And even the very hairs of your head are numbered. 31 So don't be afraid, you are worth more than many sparrows. (NIV)

I know that on some of you the numbers are not so high anymore, but know that Jesus knows you and loves you just as much. (I wonder, does He know my hair brush, where most of my hair can be found?) (Just kidding, folks.)

HE KNOWS ME!! I just cannot get past that fact, that He knows me and He knows you, and He knows all of us. And that means He even knows those who do not believe in Him, and look at this, we can't even hide from Him. He hems us in, meaning to me, He surrounds us with His big loving arms. He is all around us, even when we might have slipped and fell or tried to get away from Him, He was still there. I thought I was a lost son and now I am finding out that is a term, I was never lost for my God was with me, I was just not with Him. The Bible tells me this, maybe not in these words, but tells me this, I can run, but I can't hide. Think of how those God Haters must feel, they do not believe in God, yet He never ever leaves them. Our mission for each day, and we remind ourselves of the mission each week on Salvation Wednesdays that we need to just get the word to those who say they do not know Jesus, that He loves them anyway and is just waiting there for them to know and love Him.

Where can I go from Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your Presence? And if you are asking God that question your answer will be if you listen, "You can't." You can run but you cannot hide.

If I go up to the heavens, You are there. If I make my bed in the depths, you are there. God even knows me and where I am regardless of where I make my bed. Think about it, folks, I myself still think it can be a tad scary. Think about it, men, when we have been on picnics and we stood behind that tree, He was watching! Did I really say that? Regardless of what you are doing He is watching, and regardless of what you are thinking He is hearing your thoughts.

After really looking at these scriptures and bringing them to light about how He knows us, and that we cannot hide from Him, I am thinking even we who are born again, might need to "dress up our act". Or make sure that it is not an act that we are saying we are "born again".

Again I ask you as I say, He knows you and knows me but do you know Him? DO YOU REALLY KNOW HIM TODAY? THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT HE KNOWS YOU, BUT DO YOU REALLY, REALLY KNOW HIM?

Dear Father in Heaven, You who know all of my moves even before I know them myself, You who know the number of hairs on my head, You who know me before I was in the Womb, I want to thank You for watching over me all these years and I know I am a sinner, and when I think of some of the things I have thought about, I am so ashamed, so ashamed, forgive me, Lord, for not just what I do, but what I think and maybe not even do, help me control my thinking, give me kind thoughts all the time and wash away anything bad, I love You, Lord and want to do a better job of showing it. Help me with it, and Lord, hold me up today as I don't want to fall and fail You. Forgive me of my sins as I work hard to repent of them. In Jesus name, in Jesus name, I want to be born again and again. I love You, Lord... In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.

Now go forth, knowing that God knows and loves you and sharing your blessings and God with others. Let others who might be lost know that God does know them... I love ya. Pastor Dan.