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 Psalm 139:16-18 AMP

“16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance, and in Your book were all written the days that were appointed for me, when as yet there was not one of them. 17 How precious also are your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them. 18 If I could count them, they would outnumber the sand. When I wake, I am with you.”

The Holy Spirit has commissioned me to tell all those who will read this is that God sees us in a way that we would not see ourselves, that He has seen us in our unformed substance (Hebrew: golem an embryo like state) and declares us to Himself that we are good! Why? Because His eyes and hands have laid hold on us and shaped us in His image and likeness (Genesis 1:26). His image (Tzelem: mirror/shadow) and likeness (Demut: like, manner, fashion).

Get this! Our daily lives should reflect God, so when people see you they actually should see the nine fruits of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22) and when we look into a mirror we should see the reflection of the Seven Spirits of God (Isaiah 11:2) in ourselves so that we shadow Jesus’s walk (We are to go where He went). We should like what He likes and hate what He hates, our manners should be of faith and love, and we should fashion ourselves in holiness because we are a royal priesthood of a holy nation.

In Psalm 139:16 the Lord informs us that He saw who He created us to be and wrote it down and ordained it in His book before our form took shape. The book of Jeremiah 1:5 confirms this by saying “Before God formed us in the womb He knew us, He sanctified us, and ordained us”. That means He wrote down all the good and bad things and times that have happened and will happen.

Now, you might think to yourself “God wrote down the bad things?” Yes! He has! But, be encouraged saints, for Isaiah 45:7 states that the Lord makes peace (shalom) and creates evil (rah). If He makes and creates it He controls it! 1 Corinthians 10:13 tells us God is faithful and will not let you be tempted more than what you can bear/ handle. Good news! God is with you in every challenge, temptation, and calamity you faced and will face. Why? Because He wrote it! He wrote it to build you as a spiritually mature person He can use to build up and use.

Remember that what you go through is for you, too, but it is also bigger than you. It is so you can strengthen others you will encounter who will go through the same trials and tribulations as you. Jeremiah 29:11-13 says, “He knows the thoughts that He has toward you say the Lord” and He wants you to seek Him to fulfill His thoughts towards you and turn them into actions by fulfilling what is written. This is because He knows if we do not seek Him about His will then we will go off course and stray further from Him and give Satan an opportunity to have an all-out attack on us, our children, family etc. But Father wants us to have hope and a future in Him. I will continue with verses 17 and 18 on my next Pastor’s Blog. Keep this in mind in your morning prayers or just in your alone time with Father. Tell Him that you agree with everything written about you in His book and to help you fulfill it.

Allow me to speak the Aaronic blessing over you:

The Lord bless and keep you,

The Lord make His face shine upon you,

And be gracious to you,

The Lord lift His countenance upon,

And give you peace

through His Son the Prince of Peace

Jesus our messiah.

Amen.