Hey everyone, this is Mary DeMuth and this is Pray Every Day, where I pray you through the Bible

verse by verse with joy and intention and all of the fun things. Happy 9th day of May. Super

grateful to have you here. And today we're going to read one of my most favorite Psalms,

and I have a feeling it's probably one of your most favorite Psalms, too, because it talks about God's intimacy with us, that he fashioned us, that he made us, that he delights in us, and I just sometimes need to be reminded of that.

And so I'm really grateful on a difficult day that I'm having that I get to read the Psalm out loud.

Psalm 139 for the chief musician,

a Psalm by David. Yahweh, you have searched me and you know me. You know my sitting down and

my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down

and are acquainted with all my days.

For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether. You hemmed me in,

behind and before. You laid your hand on me. This knowledge is beyond me. It is lofty. I can't attain it.

Where could I go from your spirit or where could I flee from your presence?

If I ascend up into heaven, you are there.

If I make my bed in shale, behold, you are there.

If I take the wings of the dawn and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand will lead me and your right hand will hold me.

If I say surely the darkness will overwhelm me, the light around me will be night.

Even the darkness doesn't hide from you.

But the night shines as the day the

darkness is like light to you for you formed my inmost being you knit me together in my

mother's womb I will give thanks to you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made your works are are wonderful. My soul knows that very well. My frame wasn't

hidden from you when I was made in secret woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my

body. In your book they were all written the days that were ordained for me when as yet there were none

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