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THE GOD WHO CARES FOR YOU<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Psalm 139<\/strong><\/h1>\n

by Rev. Richard Jones<\/b><\/h2>\n

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GOD KNOWS US INTIMATELY
\n<\/u>Psalm 139:1-6 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n1\u00a0 O LORD, you have searched me and known me!\u00a0 2\u00a0 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. 3\u00a0 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. 4\u00a0 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether. 5\u00a0 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. 6\u00a0 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.<\/p>\n

Matthew 10:29-31 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n29\u00a0 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.
\n30\u00a0 But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.
\n31\u00a0 Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.<\/p>\n

Hebrews 4:13 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n13\u00a0 And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.<\/p>\n

Isaiah 55:8-9 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n8\u00a0 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.
\n9\u00a0 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.<\/p>\n

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GOD IS WITH US CONSTANTLY\u00a0<\/u>
\n<\/u>Psalm 139:7-12 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n7\u00a0 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?
\n8\u00a0 If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
\n9\u00a0 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 10\u00a0 even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
\n11\u00a0 If I say, \u201cSurely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,\u201d
\n12\u00a0 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.<\/p>\n

Isaiah 41:10 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n10\u00a0 fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.<\/p>\n

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GOD MADE US WONDERFULLY<\/u>
\n<\/u>Psalm 139:13-18 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n13\u00a0 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother\u2019s womb.
\n14\u00a0 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
\n15\u00a0 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 16\u00a0 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
\n17\u00a0 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
\n18\u00a0 If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.<\/p>\n

Psalm 8:3-5 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n3\u00a0 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
\n4\u00a0 what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?
\n5\u00a0 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.<\/p>\n

Jeremiah 1:4-5 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n4\u00a0 Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
\n5\u00a0 \u201cBefore I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Psalm 3:5 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n5\u00a0 I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the LORD sustained me.<\/p>\n

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GOD JUDGES ALL RIGHTEOUSLY
\n<\/u>Psalm 139:19-22 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n19\u00a0 Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me! 20\u00a0 They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain. 21\u00a0 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? 22\u00a0 I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies.<\/p>\n

Proverbs 6:16-19 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n16\u00a0 There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him:
\n17\u00a0 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
\n18\u00a0 a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil,
\n19\u00a0 a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.<\/p>\n

Romans 12:9 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n9\u00a0 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.<\/p>\n

2 Thessalonians 1:5-9 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n5\u00a0 This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering\u2014 6\u00a0 since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 7\u00a0 and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels 8\u00a0 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9\u00a0 They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,<\/p>\n

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GOD GUIDES US LOVINGLY
\n<\/u>Psalm 139:23-24 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n23\u00a0 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
\n24\u00a0 And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!<\/p>\n

Isaiah 40:27-31 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n27\u00a0 Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, \u201cMy way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God\u201d?
\n28\u00a0 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a029\u00a0 He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.
\n30\u00a0 Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted;
\n31\u00a0 but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.<\/p>\n

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