Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, May 16th.

You are known perfectly by our Heavenly Father and through Christ can be totally accepted.

Let's take a few minutes in today's podcast to dwell on Psalm 139.

Now I want you to forget about everybody else for just a moment, and more than likely

most people sitting here this morning have something in their life they would like for God to

solve. You'd like to just have a little extra special awareness this morning and assurance

that God really and truly does understand how I'm feeling this

morning. The things that all of us have, we'd like to share with the people, and sometimes we feel

like we can't. And there's some things we can, but I want you to listen to how well God knows you.

Now watch this. If you don't, you're going to miss it. In your mind,

you say, oh, I'm sure God's omniscient, he knows everything. But I want you to forget that for just

a moment, and I want you to hear God tell you how perfectly he knows your innermost being this morning,

beginning in verse one. David says,

O Lord, thou hast searched me and known me. Notice what he didn't say. He didn't say like

oftentimes we pray. Oh, Lord, we are talking to you. We are praying to you, forgive us of our

sins. David said, O Lord, thou has searched me. That is, you have

looked me through and through. You know what is on the inside of me physically. If there is any

disease there, you ought to have it spotted. Any physical problem, you know all about it. But he also

knows something within you and about you that no doctor can ever

detect with an x-ray machine. Because he says, thou has searched me and you have known me through and

through. That means he looks on the inside and he sees what we feel. He sees what we're thinking.

He checks at our attitudes and our motivations. Thou has searched me,

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