With that, I'm really excited about the Psalms that we have before us tonight.

We're going through the Bible on Thursday nights, chapter by chapter, book by book, verse by verse.

And we are nearing the end of this amazing book of Psalms.

We'll pick it up in Psalm 139 tonight.

We left off at Psalm 138 last week. And Lord

willing, we'll make it through to Psalm 142. And I emphasize Lord willing because I want to spend

some time in Psalm 139. And I think you'll see why here shortly. But why don't we pray

first, and we'll ask God to bless our time tonight in His Word.

Loving heaven. loving heavenly father were so grateful to you that we have this beautiful church building that you gave us to come to on a Thursday night and have this time together in your

word as we study your word, especially in this book of Psalms. We're so richly blessed by this amazing book and tonight Lord as we now have

these psalms before us we would ask that you would help us to concentrate and

focus so that our minds don't wander.

We're so easily prone to be distracted, especially by the busyness of our lives.

And of course the enemy is always there to distract us and get us to think about something

else so that we miss what it is that you have for us and

or we don't want that to happen tonight so especially for those who might just be

tired from a busy day will you just supernaturally as only you can give us that

energy that attention that we would be alert and attentive,

that we would give you our undivided attention so you can speak into our lives in and through

your word we pray. In Jesus' name, amen. All right, Psalm 139 this is a Psalm of David and we're told that it's for

the chief musician some believe the chief musician is the Lord himself that this song, this Psalm was written for and two. Verse one, David writes,

by the Spirit, O Lord, you have searched me, this word in the original language of the Hebrew Old Testament for searched carries with it the idea of you have examined me.

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