Salmos 139

I wanted to write a short post about my Women's Bible Study last Friday. It was such a special time spent with 3 very special women. The numbers were down because of a chance of rain, but that turned out to be a blessing! Basically I do enjoy leading these Bible Studies, but I don't always feel excited about the topics we discuss sometimes. However, I am reading this great book that is making our time together so meaningful and special...



I HIGHLY recommend this book to any woman looking for a good read or a boost of confidence. My mom loves Joyce Meyer, but I have never really been a fan until now! However, I saw this book and thought it would be perfect for the class. Now all of the women are asking if it comes in Spanish!

Anyways, I didn't mean for this post to be about the book, but more about where I'm seeing God work down here. Before I taught my class on Friday, I felt so disorganized and stressed out about my lesson because I didn't know if it made any sense. Of course, the women always talk a lot in my classes, but because there were only a few of us, it gave them the chance to talk a lot more about what they are dealing with. After the lesson, they thanked me for challenging them and for providing them a special time to share their struggles and victories with one another. I really couldn't accept that because I know that God is the One that always intervenes and makes something beautiful out of  my mess. God is so good and HE ALWAYS shows up in the places that I need Him the most. I am not always good at noticing that :)!

We also read Psalms 139 and I wanted to share that with you.

For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.
 ¹ You have searched me, LORD,
   and you know me.
² You know when I sit and when I rise;
   you perceive my thoughts from afar.
³ You discern my going out and my lying down;
   you are familiar with all my ways.
⁴ Before a word is on my tongue
   you, LORD, know it completely.
⁵ You hem me in behind and before,
   and you lay your hand upon me.
⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
   too lofty for me to attain.
 ⁷ Where can I go from your Spirit?
   Where can I flee from your presence?
⁸ If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
   if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
⁹ If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
   if I settle on the far side of the sea,
¹⁰ even there your hand will guide me,
   your right hand will hold me fast.
¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
   and the light become night around me,”
¹² even the darkness will not be dark to you;
   the night will shine like the day,
   for darkness is as light to you.
 ¹³ 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,^[a] 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.
 ¹⁹ If only you, God, would slay the wicked!
   Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
²⁰ They speak of you with evil intent;
   your adversaries misuse your name.
²¹ Do I not hate those who hate you, LORD,
   and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
²² I have nothing but hatred for them;
   I count them my enemies.
²³ Search me, God, and know my heart;
   test me and know my anxious thoughts.
²⁴ See if there is any offensive way in me,
   and lead me in the way everlasting.