He is so Sovereign…
He is Sovereign in creation…
He is Sovereign in salvation…
He is Sovereign in all the affairs of mankind…
There is nothing that occurs on earth which He does not permit…
He is in complete control of everything and everyone in His universe…
Even the devil and the demons can not do anything unless He ultimately permits it…
His will is done on earth as it is in heaven…
When He speaks the universe listens and obeys…
When He speaks to the hearts of His Children they listen and obey…
We are not in control of our own lives, He is…
We are not in control of our own destinies, He is…
We are not in control of our own pleasure, He is…
We are not in control of our own circumstances, He is…
We are not in control of our own life path, He is…
We are not in control of our own careers, He is…
He speaks and listening to His Voice, New Life the Dead Receive, as the hymn says…
This is the truth…
No word which God speaks to the heart of one of His Children returns to Him void, it accomplishes what it is sent to accomplish – every word of God proves true, as the scripture says…
When He speaks He sets in motion reality…
He is reality…
And His Voice is reality…
By His Voice He created the universe….
Bringing into existance what only existed in His Mind before this time…
When He speaks into our hearts – as sons and daughters of the Living God – He brings into existance what has previously not existed except in His Mind for our lives…
He is the Establisher-of-Our-Way, the Straight-Path-Creator, the Guide-to-Our-Steps, He will guide us until death, as the scripture says…
We are in the palm of His Hand, nothing can stand against His will being completed in our lives…
“O LORD, you have searched me, and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue O LORD, you know it completely.
You hem me in behind and before, you have laid your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”
even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
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.
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand—when I awake, I am still with you.”
Psalm 139:1-18 (NIV)
All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be…
Praise God…
Praise God for His Sovereignty…
Praise God for His Love…
Praise God that He has so ordered our lives – as sons and daughters of the Living God – that nothing is wasted…
Everything we go through has a purpose…
We are not living purposeless existances…
We are living in the purposes of Almighty God…
We are a part of a plan which was set in motion before the creation of the world…
Glorify Your Name Father in all the earth…
Use us, Your Children, for Your glory…
Do whatever You have to do in each of our lives to fulfil Your plan for our lives and for Your Church at this point in history…
Exalt Your Name Father in all the earth…
Be exalted…
Be exalted…
Be exalted…
Turn our hearts towards Your Truth…
Turn our hearts away from worthless pursuits…
Turn our hearts towards Your Glory…
Establish in us Your “Other-centred” way of living…
Establish in us Your “Selfless” way of living…
Let us live for Your Glory…
Glorify Your Name in all the earth…
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