Psalm 139:1-18 Meditation

Psalms 139:1-18 NLT

O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me.
The very centre of my being
In my heart of hearts
You know my thoughts and feelings
My beliefs and doubts
All I do and say
Is fully in Your view
Tomorrow and yesterday
All is known by You

You know when I sit down or stand up.
If I’m walking and talking
Or silently thinking
Scratching or sneezing
Crying or laughing
You see every move
Know what is happening
When a single hair falls
It is You who is counting

You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.
All of my thoughts
Even deep within my heart
Are known to You even
When it feels like we’re apart
No place or distance
Can deafen Your ears
To the cries of my heart
The joys and the fears.

You see me when I travel and when I rest at home.
There is nowhere I can go
No place to stop and stay
Where Your eyes do not see me
See me work and play.
When the journey’s long and hard
You are counting the cost
When I rest in Your love
You replenish what I’ve lost.

You know everything I do.
From cleaning my teeth
And putting on my shoes
To serve paupers or kings
You see all that I do.
Hidden or with crowds
You know where I stand
And who is by my side
And what is in my hand.

You know what I am going to say even before I say it, LORD.
The words I am thinking
Before I speak them out
Are known to You
I do not need to shout
Blessings or curses
You see them all
Speak kind and gentle words
That is Your call

You go before me and follow me.
Every challenge
Every day
You go before me
Make the way
And as I leave the scene
You are my rearguard cover
My hiding place, my shield
My fortress and my lover

You place your hand of blessing on my head.
The touch of Your hand
Reminds me I’m Your child
You shower me with blessings
Like a much loved son
I feel Your hand of grace
I feel Your hand of mercy
Your touch upon my face
Is my heart’s bounty

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand!
The knowledge of Your love
That You trust to my command
Is more precious than diamonds
More than I can understand
You know all my frailties
You catch me when I fall
Your love is never ending
Heavenly Father, my all in all.

I can never escape from your Spirit!
From the well You put within me
Your Spirit flows out
To my body, soul and spirit
He gives Your eternal life.
And as He moves around me
To wrap me in Your love
He binds me ever closer for
Of You I’m now a part

I can never get away from your presence!
There is no time or distance
No darkness or light
That can take me from Your Presence
Now I’m one with Your heart
No power in earth and heaven
can send You away
Your Spirit binds me to You,
every day.

If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there.
I can go up to heaven
By Your side, at Your throne
Your Presence and Your Glory
Everywhere is shone
In the darkness of death
You are my shining light
My life and love, You’re with me
Through the darkest night

If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans, even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me.
I cannot move so fast
Nor travel so far
That I leave You behind
For of me You are a part
Wherever I go
You gently steer my course
Your strength undergirding
Your power my resource

I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night— but even in darkness I cannot hide from you.
There is no darkness
That could hide me from you
Even in the darkest night
Your love comes shining through
I cannot escape
The brilliance of Your face
That sees with eyes of love
And says You are my hiding place

To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to you.
The brilliance of Your love
Lights every place
Darkness cannot stand
Against the Glory of Your face
Your laughter lights the heavens
Your joy floods the earth
The passion in Your Presence
Gives darkness no berth

You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
My bones my organs
My muscles my soul
You formed each part
You made me whole
You smiled and sang
With joy You rang
Your touch, Your breath
And my life began

Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Body and spirit
Heart and soul,
Hands and feet
To till the soil
Eyes to see
And a nose to smell
Ears to hear
And touch that I feel
A mind to think
A mouth to talk
Your praises I sing
For Your magnificent work!

Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
The pattern of skin
The structure of cells
The colour of eyes
Hair straight or in curls
The sweetness of honey
The singing which swells
The warmth of a smile
Show off Your skills

You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
When others were blind
To who I would be
In the darkness You saw
The child that was me
You watched and You guarded
My life in the womb
Until I came forth
Ready to bloom

You saw me before I was born.
Before I was born
Or even conceived
You had me planned
And Your plans succeed
So even as an embryo
Your eyes were on me
To be sure I would grow
With loving certainty

Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
So we’ll do you know me
So inside out
You know all of my choices
All of my doubts
All I will say
And all I will do
You had recorded
Because You knew

Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
You had me planned
And You knew what You’d get
My life You could see
From beginning to end
Your child in the planning
Your child by choice
Your love never ending
Over me You rejoice

How precious are your thoughts about me, O God.
Each thought of You for me
Is more than diamonds or gold
They give life and health and joy
Their value is untold
That You would think of me
Pierces my heart
Your loving kindness flows
In each word You impart

They cannot be numbered! I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand!
So vast Your sum of thoughts
Just about me
They shine like the grains
Of sand beside the sea
Not one thought or a few
But many, many, many
To You I am that precious
Loved for eternity

And when I wake up, you are still with me!”
God is with me, God within me,
God behind me, God before me,
God beside me, God to win me,
God to comfort and restore me,
God beneath me, God above me,
God in quiet, God in danger,
God in hearts of all that love me,
God in mouth of friend and stranger.

Restoration

Before the foundations of this world were made

God chose you to become in Christ

His holy and blameless child

Living in His tender loving care

This is the new covenant I make with you today says the LORD:

I will put my laws in your mind and I will write them on your heart

I will be your God, and you will be one of my people.

And you will know me.

I will forgive all your wickedness

I will never again remember your sins

So the Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is upon you

To comfort your broken heart

To proclaim freedom and release

Even in your mourning you will know that the time of the LORD’s favour has come

And with it the day of God’s anger against your enemies

He will give a crown of beauty for the ashes of your past

A joyous blessing instead of mourning

Festive praise instead of despair

Instead of shame and dishonour you will enjoy a double share of honour

And everlasting joy will be yours

For the LORD loves justice

He hates robbery and wrongdoing

He will faithfully reward you for your suffering

Everyone will realise that you are a person the LORD has blessed

For God has dressed you with the clothing of salvation

And draped you in His robe of righteousness

Your salvation will come like the dawn

And your wounds will quickly heal

Godliness will lead you forward

And the glory of the LORD will protect you from behind

Ephesians 1:4-5; Hebrews 8:10-12; Isaiah 61:1-3, 7-10; 58:8

Amazing Exchange Declaration Prayer

Lord Jesus, thank You that You died on the cross for me (1) to free me from my rejection of God (2) and bring me home to God to be part of His family (3).

Thank You that on the cross You took all the punishment for all the wrong things I have done or will ever do (4). In You I am completely cleansed (5) and freed from sin, freed my rejection of God (6), and freed from all the oppression and works of satan (7).

Thank You that you took my old self, who was trapped in ignoring and disobeying God (8), into Your death on the cross. That old me is dead and I am free from it (9).

I praise You for the new life You have given me (10), the indestructible, eternal life of the Holy Spirit (11), full of the power of God which raised You, Jesus, from the dead (12)!

Thank You for the new heart and new spirit You have given me which are built to do life with God as His child (12).

Thank You for the Presence of Your Holy Spirit in me, joined to my spirit, guiding and empowering me to know God and do life His way, pouring into me Your love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness and self-control (14).

Thank You that in You I am a new creation (15), healed (16) and holy (17), one with God, completed and filled with the fullness of God (18)! You Jesus, have taken my sicknesses and removed my diseases (16) and I am truly grateful!

Thank You for the power and giftings Your Holy Spirit deposits in me so I can do the good works You have planned for me to do (19).

Thank You that Your Spirit enables me to hear and know God, Father Son and Spirit, personally and intimately (20).

Thank You that as I ponder and speak out loud these Biblical truths, Your Spirit and Your angels move to fulfil Your Word (21) and my mind is renewed to live in You and be like You (22), sharing Your love, healing and freedom with others (23).

Thank You Jesus that my new spiritual self is now seated with You in the heavenly realms in God’s throne room, in His Personal Presence, at His right hand, far above all rule, authority and power in this world and the next (24).

I praise and thank You that You have made me part of all that You are and share with me all You have (25).

Thank You that that nothing or no one in this world or the next can separate me from God’s love for me through You Jesus (26).

I praise and thank You Lord Jesus that Your heavenly Kingdom comes to this world in and through me (27)!

Papa God, glorify Jesus – let it be to me according to your Word (28).

The bracketed numbers in the prayer refer to the following Bible passages which support those points (note: 3:15-17 means chapter 3 verses 15 to 17 inclusive):

(1) John 3:16; Romans 5:6,8; Ephesians 1:7; 2:13-16; Colossians 1:21-22; Hebrews 10:12

(2) 2 Corinthians 5:14-15; Ephesians 4:22-24; 5:8-9; Colossians 3:9-10; Romans 3:22-24

(3) Romans 8:15-16; Galatians 4:5-7; Ephesians 1:5; Hebrews 12:23; 1 John 5:1

(4) Galatians 3:13; ; Ephesians 1:7; Hebrews 9:28; 10:12-18; 1 John 2:2; Isaiah 53:4-6

(5) 1 Corinthians 1:30; 6:11; Colossians 1:22; Hebrews 10:22; Titus 2:14; 3:5; 1 Peter 1:21-22

(6) Romans 5:17; 8:13-14; Ephesians 4:22-24; Galatians 5:24; Hebrews 9:11-14; 1 John 1:7

(7) 1 John 3:8; Galatians 3:13; John 12:31-32; Romans 16:20; 2Corinthians 12:9; Luke 13:10-15

(8) Romans 1:21; 8:5-8; 2 Corinthians 3:14; 4:4 Ephesians 4:17-18; 1 Timothy 6:5; Titus 1:15

(9) Romans 6:14; Galatians 5:24; 6:14; Ephesians 4:20-24; Colossians 3:1, 3, 9-10; 1Peter 1:23

(10) John 3:16; 5:21; 17:3; Romans 5:21; 6:4; 8:11; Ephesians 2:5; Colossians 2:12; 1 Peter 2:24

(11) Acts 11:15-18; Romans 8:2, 11; 2 Corinthians 3:6; Galatians 6:8; 1 John 4:9; 5:11-12

(12) Romans 6:4-5; 1 Corinthians 1:18; 6:14; 2 Corinthians 10:4; 12:9; Ephesians 1:19-20

(13) Jeremiah 31:33; Ezekiel 36:26; John 3:5-6; Acts 15:9; Romans 2:29; 5:5; 8:10,16; 2 Corinthians 3:3; 4:16; Hebrews 8:10

(14) Romans 8:12-17; Galatians 5:22-23; 2 Peter 1:3-4; 2 Corinthians 3:17-18; Ephesians 1:13-14; 4:23-24; 1 John 2:20, 27; 4:4

(15) John 3:5-6; 2 Corinthians 5:14-17; Colossians 3:9-10; Ephesians 2:10; 4:24

(16) Matthew 8:16-17; James 5:14-15; 1 Peter 2:24; Psalm 107:20; Isaiah 53:5; Luke 10:1, 17-20

(17) 1 Corinthians 3:17, 6:11; Ephesians 1:4; 4:24; Hebrews 10:10, 14; 1 Peter 1:2; Romans 6:22

(18) John 17:20-23; Colossians 2:9; Ephesians 1:23; 2:22; 3:19; James 1:3-4; Philippians 3:12-14

(19) Matthew 10:1, 7, 8; 28:18-20; Mark 16:17-18; Luke 10:1, 17-20; Acts 1:8; 2:4; 4:33; 10:45-46; Romans 7:4; 8:37; 12:6-8; 15:13; Ephesians 1:3, 19-23; 2:10; 1 Peter 4:10; 1 Corinthians 12:4-11; Philippians 3:10; Colossians 1:9-11; James 5:16

(20) John 10:2-5; 14:18-21; 16:12-15; 17:3; Acts 23:11; 2 Corinthians 13:14; 18; Galatians 3:26-27; Ephesians 4:13; Colossians 1:9; Hebrews 3:15; 8:11; 10:19-22; 1 John 1:3; 2:24-25; 5:201 Peter 2:9-10; Romans 12:2; Ezk. 39:29.

(21) 2 Corinthians 4:13, 18; Isaiah 55:6-13; Psalm 103:19-21; Genesis 1:2-3; Ephesians 6:17

(22) Proverbs 4:20-23; Matthew 13:18-23; Mark 4:14-20; John 6:63; Romans 8:5-7; 10:8-10, 17; 12:2; Ephesians 1:23; 3:10; 4:23-24; Colossians 3:10-11; 2 Peter 1:3-4; Philippians 4:6-9; Revelation 12:11; Hebrews 3:7-14; 4:12; 10:23; 11:1,3; 2 Timothy 1:13-14; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 1 John 2:14

(23) Matthew 10:1, 7, 8; 16:19; 28:18-20; Mark 16:17-18. Luke 10:1, 17-20; Acts 2::17-22,33; 4:7, 10, 29-31; 21:9; Romans 15:18-20; 1 Corinthians 1:7; 12:7-11; Galatians 3:5; Hebrews 2:4

(24) John 17:22-24; Romans 5:17; 1 Corinthians 3:21-23; Ephesians 1:20-23; 2:6; Colossians 2:9-10; 3:1; Hebrews 2:6-8; 10:19-22; Revelations 5:9-10

(25) Luke 15:31; Romans 5:2; 8:17, 30, 32; 1 Corinthians 3:21-23; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 8:9; Galatians 4:7; Ephesians 1:3, 11, 14; 3:6, 8; Philippians 4:19; Colossians 1:27; 3:4; 1 Thessalonians 2:12; 2 Thessalonians 2:14; Hebrews 2:6-7; 6:19; 9:15; 1 Peter 1:4; 5:10

(26) Matthew 6:33; 28:20; Romans 8:28, 31-39; 1 Corinthians 1:8; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Ephesians 3:17; Colossians 2:19-20; Hebrews 12:28; 1 Peter 1:4

(27) Matthew 10:1, 7, 8; 12:28; 16:19; 28:18-20; Mark 16:17-18. Luke 10:1, 17-20; 17:21; Acts 2::17-22,33; 4:7, 10, 29-31; 21:9; Romans 14:17; Hebrews 12:28

(28) Luke 1:38

United With Christ

United with Christ
I’m a son of God
For ever and ever and ever
United with Christ
I’m a son of God
Living in God’s love and pleasure

I delight in your presence within me
I rejoice you are by my side
Jesus your presence is all that I need
Your voice, your touch, my delight

United with Christ
I’m a son of God
For ever and ever and ever
United with Christ
I’m a son of God
Living in God’s love and pleasure

The purity of Your love
The holiness of Your Presence
The strength of Your faith Jesus
Are mine because You are my essence

United with Christ
I’m a son of God
For ever and ever and ever
United with Christ
I’m a son of God
Living in God’s love and pleasure

Your wonderful eternal life
Your resurrection power
Are flowing in and through me
Making me God’s son right now

United with Christ
I’m a son of God
For ever and ever and ever
United with Christ
I’m a son of God
Living in God’s love and pleasure

You raise me to your kingdom’s throne
Co-ruler, co-heir, united as One
Your authority and power now mine
Jesus in me your kingdom has come

United with Christ
I’m a son of God
For ever and ever and ever
United with Christ
I’m a son of God
Living in God’s love and pleasure

To live You on this earth
To glorify Your worth
It is my joy and my delight
For Jesus you are this worlds true light

United with Christ
I’m a son of God
For ever and ever and ever
United with Christ
I’m a son of God
Living in God’s love and pleasure

Praise Your Glorious Generosity

“Praise be to God for giving us through Christ every possible spiritual benefit as citizens of Heaven! For consider what he has done – before the foundation of the world he chose us to become, in Christ, his holy and blameless children living within his constant care. He planned, in his purpose of love, that we should be adopted as his own children through Jesus Christ – that we might learn to praise that glorious generosity of his which has made us welcome in the everlasting love he bears towards the Son.” Ephesians 1:3-6 JB Phillips NT

Praise You Papa God
For giving me EVERY spiritual benefit
Making me a citizen of heaven
Praise Your glorious generosity!

For before this world was made
You chose me to be in Christ,
Your holy and blameless child
Living within Your constant care.

Praise You Papa God
For giving me EVERY spiritual benefit
Making me a citizen of heaven
Praise Your glorious generosity!

You planned, in Your purpose of love,
To make me welcome
In the everlasting love
You bear towards Your Son.

Praise You Papa God
For giving me EVERY spiritual benefit
Making me a citizen of heaven
Praise Your glorious generosity!

For before this world was made
You chose us to be in Christ,
Your holy and blameless children
Living within Your constant care.

Praise You Papa God
For giving us EVERY spiritual benefit
Making us citizens of heaven
Praise Your glorious generosity!

You planned, in Your purpose of love,
To make us welcome
In the everlasting love
You bear towards Your Son.

Praise You Papa God
For giving us EVERY spiritual benefit
Making us citizens of heaven
Praise Your glorious generosity!

God’s Kingdom Child

“And since we are his true children, we qualify to share all his treasures, for indeed, we are heirs of God himself. And since we are joined to Christ, we also inherit all that he is and all that he has. We will experience being co-glorified with him provided that we accept his sufferings as our own.” Romans 8:17 TPT

I praise and thank You Papa God that I am Your true child, qualified to share all Your treasures, for indeed, I am an heir of Yours. And since I am joined to Christ, I also inherit all that He is and all that He has. I will experience being co-glorified with Jesus because I accept his sufferings as my own.

The anguish You felt Jesus, at Gethsemane
Knowing what was about to be
When accepting the punishment deserved by me
I claim as mine so I can be freed