How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!
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… which leads to God's good influence upon our lives. Psalm 139, verse 17. Psalm 139, verse 17 says, How precious also are your thoughts. Think about that, church. To me. How precious are your thoughts to me, O God. How great is the sum of them. If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand. And when I awake, I am still with you. We read that verse last week, and this is where we kick off from here. God's thoughts toward you, according to his word, is a precious thing, an encouraging thing. Romans chapter 8, verse 31, and you want to seize upon this for your life. You want to memorize this. What then shall we say to these things? Paul made this great list of the great things of life and adversity and challenges and blessings and difficulties and good moments of life. What then shall we say to these things? The word if there is in the English Bible, but in some of your margins of your notes, you'll see the Greek word. …
… It's wonderful. Psalm 139, verse 17 and 18 says, Psalm 139, verse 17 and 18 announces, How precious also are your thoughts to me, O God, how great is the sum of them? If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand. Wow. When I awake, I'm still with you. I love how he's saying this. Watch this. When I wake up, I'm still with you. He's not talking about, as I was sleeping, I made sure that I stayed with you, God. No, no, no. He's saying, as I was sleeping, I'm so thankful, God, that when I woke up, I'm still with you. Are you hearing this? We're going to have to end. We have to end with this, I think. I think. No, you guys are really nice, but I'm in big trouble. How precious also are your thoughts to me. Listen, if you're in the house, if you're watching right now, God says, I know the thoughts I think toward you. …
… before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, God. How vast is the sum of them. Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, still I am with you. Search me, God, and know my heart. Test me and know my anxious thoughts. see if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting. Before I give you my title, would you just make David's words your prayer this morning? Would you just say, search me, God? Now say it to your father in heaven, say, search me, God. The title of my message today is I left that out. I left that out. You may be seated. Amen. doing marriage counseling together, and it's been so helpful. Every time I say that, people go like, oh no, what's wrong? But for us, it was, you know, we just thought, wouldn't it be good to talk with someone regularly, get perspective, get healthy before something goes wrong, you know, especially as life becomes more complex as we're trying to raise kids and all that. And so we've been doing this for a few years now, and it's been so helpful for us. 99% of our time with the counselor is Anna working through things, but now and then there's something that comes up that pertains to me. …
… sovereignty. And with that, it's no wonder that we have the response in verses 17 and 18, how precious to me are your thoughts, O God, how vast is the sum of them. If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I'm still with you. In other words, after exalting in the Lord and His sovereign disposition of all things. It is a striking metaphor that God has a book, and He's the author, and He's written out your days and the days of everyone that you know. And some of those days go longer than you ever thought possible, that they're 90s or past the century mark, and some of those days end far too short, but all of those days written in His book before one of them comes to pass. Now, we don't neglect that God means to sustain us by the use of secondary means. That's why we wear seat belts, why we have cancer treatments, and yet it is true that all of us are invincible, irinvincible, until the days marked out for you come to an end. And ultimately, no matter what we do, what extraordinary measures are taken, when we come to the end of our days that God has already written in His book, such will be the end. …
… something today that I think is really, really easy to understand but so difficult to apply. I'm going to be reading from Psalm 139, verses 7 through 17. This will be the foundation, and then I'll share a story from the Old Testament to illustrate this thought today that God gave me. Every sermon starts as a thought, so I want to talk to you about thoughts from a thought God gave me, which is, by the way, why I keep stacks of notebook paper all around my house. In case God gives me a thought, I need to be ready to catch it, just in case I can give it to you. This is so powerful. look at Psalm 139, David is speaking about the wonder of God. I was going to read only verse 17 to set up my thought, but I feel like it'll be so much more effective if I start at verse 7. So listen to this. The psalmist says, Everyone standing, please, for the Word of God, if you're physically able. Thank you. …