Submission #4: Psalm 139 Meditation

Instead of trying to clear my mind in meditation instead I try to focus my mind on Christ and to meditate on His goodness. Below is a meditation and prayer that focuses on Psalm 139 that reminds us that we are masterpieces — the clay that the Lord has formed and fashioned. You are welcome to pray this prayer out loud or tune into the meditation here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/as-is-sis/id1688410119?i=1000639257230

 

Holy Spirit highlight the words you want us to tune into. Reveal the parts of this scripture that our souls need to hear. Tune out distractions and protect us from the enemies schemes that keep us from hearing and knowing your truth. Help us meditate on your words and hide them in our heart. Tear down lies and let us feel your love flowing through these words. Rewrite the narratives we have believed. Help us to know you better. Help us to know your heart for us better. Highlight your words for us Father. Let us hear your voice let us understand your words. Help them transform our hearts. Thank you for making us in your image. Lead us and guide us. Holy Spirit come. We thank you that your thoughts embrace us with everlasting love. That you know every detail of us and have every hair on our head accounted for. How wonderful it is to be known and loved by you.

 

”You have searched me, Lord, 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 you, Lord, know it completely.”

 

Thank you Father for helping me examine my heart and highlighting anything you want to transform. Thank you for loving me when knowing everything about me — what I will say, what I will do, what I think, where I will go. Thank you for guiding me and helping me look more like you as I spend time with you, Father.

 

“You hem me in behind and before, and you lay 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.”

 

Thank you Father for going before me and for placing your hand of blessing on me. How wonderful it is that I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence! Thank you that your hand guides me and your strength supports me — there is nothing you can’t handle.

 

“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.”

 

Thank you Father that there is nothing I can do to hide from you. That there is no shame or condemnation for those who are in Christ. Thank you that you take away any need to hide because of your gracious love. Thank you for being the master author, for making all the delicate, inner parts of my body. Thank you for knitting me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous. Thank you for recording every day of my life in your book.

 

“How precious to me are your thoughts, 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. If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty! They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name. Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you? I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies. 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.“

 

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭139‬:‭1‬-‭24‬

How incredible that your thoughts about me cannot even be numbered! You are so steadfast and faithful. Thank you that even when I feel lonely, I know that I am never alone and I can press into your presence. Because when I go to sleep you are with me and when I wake up, you are still with me! You know my heart Father help me to test my anxious thoughts and the thoughts that don’t align with yours. Point out anything in me that goes against your word and lead me in your ways. Thank you Father that your ways are better than mine.

 

Lord help us to anchor on what you say about us. Not what the world says. Help us to see what the world might consider to be blemishes as your perfect and unique design for us. Help us to see what we consider flaws as your fingerprint on us. Let us see ourselves next time we look in the mirror with a lens of love. Help us to see ourselves the way you look down and see us with awe and wonder. Transform us Father and help us to see our bodies as temples for your Holy Spirit. Help us to remember that charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Help us to fear you and to love you with reckless abandonment. Thank you Father for loving us. Amen!

 

Take some time to thank the Lord for creating you how He did. Thank Him for the details you appreciate and ask Him to help you to learn to love the parts you don’t yet appreciate.

When you feel discouraged or need a reminder of how you are perfectly and wonderfully made as is, anchor on Psalm 139.

 

Thank you for reading this meditation,

By Michaela