Gratitude
READ: Psalm 139:13
CHALLENGE: Be Grateful for God’s Work in Your Life
A. BE GRATEFUL THAT GOD IS SOVEREIGN
VV13-18 – For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand—when I awake, I am still with you.
1. He’s Sovereign Over Who You Are
V13 – For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
2. God is Sovereign Over What You Are
V14 – I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful,.
3. God is Sovereign Over ALL Details
V15 – My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
4. God Is Sovereign Over Our Days
V16 – Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book.
1 Corinthians 4:7 – For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
Vv17-18 – How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!.
James 1:17 – Every good and perfect gift is from above,.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 – He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.