The Path You Are On is Not Going to End Well
Prayer For Seeing Our Path
Psalms 139
The last verse and close to David’s Prayer gives us the reason for the prayer
Is there anything in my heart or mind that offends God?
And hinders the situations we face in life,
The choices we make, the trials, and abuse?
David knew human choices are not always God’s choices
David did not want a temporary fix, the path David was on had no end
Today’s challenges are a part of an eternal path
What happens today effects eternity
Life has always been more about what last forever than the temporary
Your heart and mind, your soul and spirit are eternal
So, invite God to search your heart and mind, your emotions and thoughts
Let God lead you on the everlasting way
The prayer of “Search me, O God” will lead to a life that will end well
An everlasting way
Prayer For Seeing Our Path
God’s Word is full of scriptures
that speak about God’s involvement
in our path through life.
Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life.
Even if we walk through
the valley of the shadow of death…
The Lord is with us.
If the Lord delights in a man's way,
he makes his steps firm;
though he stumble, he will not fall,
for the Lord upholds him with his hand.
Psalms 37:23-24
So when I find trouble in my path…
I turn to a Prayer of David.
Psalms 139 is David’s recognition
that God is everywhere.
God knows David…
Everything about him.
God knows when he sits
and when he gets up.
Even from a distance
God knows what David
is thinking.
God knows what we are about to say.
God is ahead and behind David.
In darkness,
God sees as if it were light.
David recognized God formed him at conception
with a purpose and eternal plan.
David believed God’s thoughts
are always on him even…
When he was sleeping.
WOW!!!
David believed God
was with him at all times.
No circumstance was God not fully aware of.
David ends this Psalm…
Not telling God what is going on in his life.
Not asking for anything from God.
David ends with…
A prayer of invitation.
David invites God to “search” him.
David turns over to God
what God already knows.
David submits to God three things…
“Know my heart”
Search my emotions
and why I feel the way I do.
“Test me”
The test is not to show God what is in us
but to show us what is in us.
“Know my anxious thoughts”
Search for why I am anxious and impatient.
Why my thoughts keep me
from waiting on the Lord.
The last verse and close to David’s Prayer
gives us the reason for the prayer.
Is there anything in my heart or mind
that offends God…
And hinders the situations we face in life,
the choices we make, the trials, and abuse?
David knew human choices
are not always God’s choices.
David did not want a temporary fix,
the path David was on had no end.
Today’s challenges are a part of an eternal path.
What happens today effects eternity.
Life has always been more about what
last forever, than the temporary.
Your heart and mind, your soul and spirit are eternal.
So, invite God to search your heart and mind,
your emotions and thoughts.
Let God lead you on the everlasting way.
The prayer of “Search me, O God”
will lead to a life that will end well…
An everlasting way.
Scripture Reading
Psalms 139:23-24 NLT
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 Point out anything in me that offends you,
and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
Holy Bible, New Living Translation ®, copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.
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