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Church of the Nazarene – Harrisonburg
The Power of Prayer
Search me, test me, uncover my sin, and lead me.
Today we are beginning a new teaching series titled “Power of Prayer.”
Our series is based out of Psalm 139, where David prays four very specific petitions asking the Lord to do a deep and thorough search of his heart and inner life.
Throughout this series, that’s our desire too.
Psalms 139:23-24
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.
SEARCH ME, AND KNOW MY HEART
C.S. Lewis
We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
John Wesley
There is nothing so false and deceitful as the heart of man; deceitful in its apprehensions of things, in the hopes and promises which it nourishes, in the assurances that it gives us . . .
One commentary notes:
David came to the God of perfect knowledge and constant presence knowing He was also a God of love, and could be trusted to search him and to know him at the deepest levels.
This is also an admission that God knew David better than David knew himself, and that he needed God to search and know him.
It is not the challenge of a person protesting his innocence or righteousness.
Rather it is the confession of one who has been in the presence of the Lord and is convicted of his own sinfulness.
He realizes that he is not cognizant of all his sins and wants the Lord to point them out so they can be dealt with effectively.
The searching isn’t fun,
but the surgeon is faithful
Warren Wiersbe
We must never dispute with God, for He loves us and wants only the very best for us.
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