WEEK 1 - THE HOLINESS OF GOD
Our focus during this first week is on the Person of God and His attributes. Our Triune God is perfect in holiness and in all of His other attributes. As we see Him for who He is, see Him in the fullness of His glory, may we be drawn to a posture of worship before Him. He is perfectly worthy!
DAY FIVE - THE OMNISCIENCE/OMNIPOTENCE/OMNIPRESENCE OF GOD BY CRAIG SMITH
Search me, O 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 (Ps. 139:23–24).
Psalm 139 celebrates God’s attributes—His omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence. Affirming these realities, the psalmist models for us how to pray in alignment with them.
Based on God’s omniscience, he opens himself to God’s all-knowing scrutiny. Such an intimate review of any of us can reveal deep, hidden secrets that are already fully known to Him. The psalmist subjects himself to such scrutiny with a heartfelt willingness to repent as needed, knowing God’s omnipotence makes Him the only One who can fully forgive and deliver us from sin. He is powerful enough not only for our needs but also the needs of all others for whom we pray.
Because God is everywhere, the psalmist can trust Him to lead him in paths that He ordains for him because He is already there. God’s omnipresence closes the distance gap between us and those we are interceding for, even if a world apart. Oceans may separate us from our international missionary force or from family living miles away. Regardless, God is right there with us as we pray—and with those we are praying for! This allows for intimate, productive praying that reaps results.
PRAYER POINTS:
1. As we pray, let’s begin with full surrender to God’s scrutiny of our lives. Opening ourselves up to an all-knowing God does not provide Him with new information! Such transparency welcomes Him to cleanse, fill, and empower us for holy living.
2. God is capable of doing exceedingly above all we can ask or think. Knowing this should embolden us to pray with divinely inspired confidence. Affirming God’s omnipotence in prayer moves His hand in the lives of those we intercede for, as much as it does in our own.
3. May God’s omnipresence encourage our hearts and move us toward deeper intimacy with Him and those we are interceding for, regardless of distance. His omnipresence will offer those we pray for the strength to endure until the answer comes.