The Sermon God Awareness by David McGee
Jul 29, 2012
God Awareness (36:17)
Referenced Scriptures: Psalm 100; Isaiah 43:1-7; Jeremiah 32:27; Romans 8:31-39
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Psalm 100
1) Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all you lands!
2) Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.
3) Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4) Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, Into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.
5) For Yahweh is good. His lovingkindness endures forever, His faithfulness to all generations. Psalm 101 A Psalm by David.
Isaiah 43:1-7
1) But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: Don‘t be afraid, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name, you are mine.
2) When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you: when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle on you.
3) For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.
4) Since you have been precious in my sight, [and] honorable, and I have loved you; therefore will I give men in your place, and peoples instead of your life.
5) Don‘t be afraid; for I am with you: I will bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west;
6) I will tell the north, Give up; and to the south, Don‘t keep back; bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth;
7) everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.
Jeremiah 32:27
27) Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?
Romans 8:31-39
31) What then will we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
32) He who didn‘t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
33) Who could bring a charge against God‘s elect? It is God who justifies.
34) Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
35) Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36) Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."
37) No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
38) For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
39) nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Peanut Psalm one hundred and. I assume that at the end of the sermon. Hopefully I'll find it correctly that the milk and I can sing the first song on it. We let it out today in worship and it goes along with this whole theme of Psalm one hundred and I'm speaking about God awareness. No awareness. Islam recognizing that God is with us all the time and that there was more to just more to this than just saying why, know that God is with the with Ryan in will endeavor them to put all this together to recognize what the psalmist is trying to say here in Psalm one hundred and reading from the message Bible. It's all one hundred verse one through five on your feet. Now it's going to get everybody stand up on your feet now applaud God bring a gift of laughter, saying yourself into his presence known. This God is God and God God seems like a redundant statement would talk about that. He made us. We didn't make him where his people, his well attended. She answered with a password. Thank you make yourselves at home talking praise and thank him. Worship him. For God, a sheer beauty all generous in love will always and ever, while God awareness. On your face. Now apply God bring a gift of laughter sing yourselves into his presence. The sunlight church. It sounds like what we you know if we look at these things, we began to think about awareness. Sometimes no most of something is the approximate the idea of self-awareness and self awareness is a bad thing. Self-awareness is is a good thing. Now if we were going to do it. It do a study on self-awareness, we would look at our understanding of ourselves kind of an understanding of who you are worried what are your personality traits. What are your strengths and your weaknesses. What are your life experiences. What are your attitudes. How often do they change what you are happy about, what are you sad about what would you like to happen, what would you strongly not like that happen. What are your feelings, your actions, your plan so, self-awareness, and with the kind of this study of what you are made up on her thing is it where the source of your identity, your family, going to your family tree, your family of origin your family legacy. Your significant personal experiences self self-awareness wouldn't cover encompass that the proxy war. Then just wall where you feel like today, so this is not necessarily easy thing, but sometimes it can be made a little simpler. We look at how that our self-awareness is related to our experiences in how we deal with life. I remember number of years ago I was involved with the Ornish program at the hospital and the voice program is a heart disease reversal program and it was the begun by Doctor Dean Ornish and we went to California. We had to kind. We have purchased or tried to purchase the franchise for the voice program here at Weber Hospital and while we were in the process it process making a part of the hospital Blue Cross of Blue Shield Ron in Houston. We ended up being within high mark. So any Hollywood, California and we went there for a week to San Francisco. He got a hotel and whatever, but we have to just go through this training and I was going to be a facilitator, a group facilitator which you would set any group now we one of the main distinctions was that you were not going to be a therapist or counselor. The idea of reversing heart disease by Doctor Ornish was that people need to be in touch with themselves and with their emotions and that he had four components he had the idea of a diet relaxation by relaxation group support figures three and that the risk for exercise that forgot that will imagine that the exercise, relaxation group support forgot exercise. Okay, but growth support was the main component and the main component of growth was not like this at group therapy, but a recognition of how that you were able to relate to your emotions and your experiences and putting them together so during this eye. I remember this guy saw they made a guinea pig out of me. No pun intended, then made an example that Reno made an example of out of myself because we were in this group. While the people who were going to be group facilitators were in this in this group, there were about twelve of us and their facilitator started off, he said. Now what do you feel at as is important for being in this program, and he pointed to me and you are the first one, then I start off well, I think that it would be a great opportunity news is that's wrong when it's wrong. I think that this would be a great opportunity to help people now what's wrong with that statement. I think not. I I think thinking is not an emotion I feel that this would be an important asset for myself and one of people that the feeling and a feeling of plot are two different things, so self-awareness is not only knowing how you think about how all that what you are feeling is connected to the event that takes place in your life God awareness is understanding how they God connected with every events in our life. So God is aware and we are aware of God 's connection with us now. We have different thoughts and have different emotions, and we try to put them in the context of our experiences and we put them in euros. We look at our day. What was today good they are bad. Well, it generally, we would generally put it in the concept of what happens, what happens to me today makes a good they are bad when it's not true how you respond to what happens today makes it good. They are bad it isn't what happens to you. It's how we respond to it, and we often are caught up in our thinking that if bad things happen. It's a bad day. If something doesn't go the way I want. It's a bad thing if I don't get what I want out of this day it's a bad day and that's our thinking, our seemingly logical process of self wanting personal gratification and if I get all the ratification that I can possibly have all been the first of that happen. You can be emotionally and whatever gratifying to the highest degree and years ago the happy person, because it's how we interpret those things and how we make application of those things to our life so you ever hear someone say went when we talk about connecting connecting that the connection is made on an emotional level and in group we always we would always do this that you have to come up with a feeling word okay, a word that describes your feelings are still happen. I feel sad and I was like some individuals in South Philly at every weekday shot of Billy FX you know what EMR disease are almost dead now, but the ideas that we feel things we have and we have an emotional response. The things whether we know it or not. I remember it's a true story and I heard somebody on TV 's quote this at use this anti- Muslim heard it for me. I memorized counseling years ago there was this older couple came in and in and out he was a farmer and the again horses and his wife. They came in for counseling marital counseling and in the lady was telling y'all went on with her story about how that her husband love the horses more than him or her and that the that he doesn't know he doesn't appreciate her. He doesn't want very does this mean is that on on on. She was about twenty minutes needed to see his face was getting red and green beans were signed balls and finally said one. I told to fifty years ago. I love the other changes I'll let you know him him he wasn't very good at expressing his emotions. I know most of us are having difficulty saying what we feel and sometimes we allow our negative emotions to be expressed without our positive emotions being expressed, but we always have an emotional response to each of our jubilation and sometimes we don't recognize them, but they're there. Sometimes whenever people are connecting no athlete we tell our story. Oh, I'm having a bad day and stomach of laws is what you now plan it is good as you. I never beset you think that the connecting statement. No, if you're my havoc you have, I would be sad while it isn't that we don't have to ask our perceptions and our understandings of these things if I had your relationship with God. If you had my relationship with the eye member of the couple that we had it in one church. There were a younger couple, and this was. This was the also that was thirty five years ago so that our young anymore, but the day they came to me in a sibling out faster if God answered my prayers lady answered yours. I would be. I would be in such bad shape because your preacher and God always answers your prayers. He doesn't answer. Follow up that way, shape our life is an based upon on our experiences, our life 's experience is based upon our responses to our experience, our response to what you know with the Olympics and on and on and is starting to tell the stories behind the Olympians and how many of them like the one from Ireland last night it when he competed on the floor exercise any and they said he would not. It wasn't good enough to continue, but they talk about how that as a child he had a tumor on it's like a cancerous tumor in a cut it off with a city never walk again. He had another injury. Many had another brain injury and he said he would never be able to would be with the loss is all sense of balance and there is performing at the Olympics, and they had all these things. There were not that that said he couldn't be soda. What happened to him. It was how he responded to those things that made him who he is so self-awareness is an emotional understanding a mental understanding a cognitive understanding of physical or as of the response of our total person will God awareness is the Bible is God 's story of connecting with the the Bible is God 's story of connecting with us. It is a broad awareness that we are putting together data from the Scriptures and from story to Godhead is presenting God connecting he's telling us how we are here to go back to Genesis and creation, we have the original intent. God created us to walk with him. That's the original intent, but what happened was we decided we could do it on our own better by breaking God 's command. Next thing we know where in separation from God but God initiated redemption, which is God initiated a plan whereby we could be brought back into a relationship with him. God is and send the output together a contract that covenant on an agreement that if we understand and apply to our lives. It is a it is where God is going to work in us and the New Testament is full of how that God is at work in DOS and how this agreement is working so people who are connectors, then seeing the world differently. People understand that the world we live in has a way of bringing good and evil Scripture says, the rain falls on the just and the unjust, we think of that Scripture as Sunday's, it's a rainy day and it's a bad day and Sundays. The sun is shining, it's a good day. But you know in a desert community rain is a blessing the blessings of God fall upon the good, and that John three seventeen for God sent not his son in the world to condemn the world, but the world through him might be saved. God isn't about the condemning isn't about any of the condemning condemnation oriented. James five nine fifty nine/ do not grumble against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned. Behold, the Judge is standing at the door don't be a grunt, Loretta complainer. Don't look at the things that are disturbing phrase don't complain about each other. They may need a toll operations. Now, stepping on toes. It is a blend that has obvious problems is stepped on her toes about is that all that was. Ken's phone is not here so I can blame can for stepping on her toes and breaking her toes and whatever so, but the idea is that rumbling even play him connecting is not connecting with God is not connecting with ourselves and is not connecting with others, so let it go. Connecting is finding and needs and allowing and giving yourself permission to work with it. It's not you, Saddam, and we do it for you connecting in working partnering and being part of a group part of routine part of the family of God. So we look at this in Psalm one hundred begins with this statement, King spoke about connectors we spoke about how that there is this awareness that we are to have awareness about our self-awareness about God. Now let's look at the awareness of God, our awareness of God the son. This says what you say in Islam, one hundred first one is up there you have it in the message Bible was the thing on your feet. Now get on your feet, so this song is the same stand up and get ready to go get ready to go where he tells us where he wants us to go, don't just sit there. Jenna Young is like sitting in the parking lot and turn return the car and turning the steering will and forgetting to put it in drive or like some trying to find out with you were in my card couldn't get it in part resentment is for. And that's not even here. Click on that. So they were trying to run this car runs fine. Try to get the doors block her son, but they forgot to put it in park it wouldn't turn on. That was it cars running. They couldn't get it to turn off what you needed to put it in park before he could turn about that. So this is one of those things that so a pharmacist saying standup and get started okay where are we going going into God 's presence. How do we get in the present of the Pentagon's present stand up and applaud. Stand up and applaud. What he did see we already know what is done needs redeemed us. He's never left us more protagonist is given a strength for the day is in always given us a plan for our life. So we began, not by looking at what's going on. We began by looking at who God is a plot. God bless just applaud God for his goodness and his love and his mercy. Stand up and let's given this phrase. Isaiah forty three with part of our Sunday school lesson this morning and it says, but now God 's message, the God who made you in the first place seemed a young guy put a lot of things in order, self-awareness, and all your family tree. Okay your family tree. I have people in your past that, then your past and your family there, hanging from your family tree in other not very good. Now I know my family brother. My brother knows our extreme. Our family and I not go to story before, but maybe some of them here we have this. There's this lady, Mrs. lady in our family trait that she's buried in the cemetery up near Frostburg were my dad and mom are. But when we were growing up, my mother would talk about the one lady who was part of our family straight because she was never married and she had five five seven okay five or seven kids all to different rental is never married and my mom one talk about, well I said mom, look at what happened in our family tree. When God came into our family before God when our family young if you if you know, I said is you look at the though the lady the girls that the daughters. My brother 's daughters, and my daughter Rachel, my brother Bill 's daughter. They are very stubborn, not strong-willed, independent persons, they are strong-willed, independent persons. And I think it isn't. This is me, but I think they are related to that lady had in the early and late eighteen hundreds early nineteen hundreds turn-of-the-century, that related to her because she doubt that sign. If you had a child you know how to wedlock. You know the roster side. She had five or seven of them and she didn't care why she was a strong-willed, independent person that wasn't going to conform to what people wanted her dead currency was just that individual and that genetic thing is in each of our ladies that are of our daughters but they now got the inside changed, but God 's message, the God who made you in the first place. We know honor. We know our family history but God we need to be aware of God 's family history using we know our family history. Our family tree and we have the people hanging from it. Now with the people who were really outstanding individuals and we have some people that God hung Furby now, standing now, we all have. Being aware of God 's being aware of who he is God awareness must want, but now God 's message in Isaiah forty three, the God who made you in the first place. Jacob, the one who got you started. Israel don't be afraid. I redeemed you. I called combining all be afraid& as in Sunday school don't be afraid, but we afraid of life. God is the one who initiates initiated this whole thing in your life. We've got people who went off course, but that's what we don't need to talk about all the things went wrong to talk about the God who enables us to be right to be right with him to be right with ourselves and that we, God has a plan for our life. I can go back and fix all the mistakes of our family tree, gender, but I can allow God to help me through the promises you come the child that he wants me to be. Don't be afraid. I'm the one who redeems you are the one who purchased you that from all of that failure, I pay the price, so that the failures of your past no longer influenced your present life. I've redeemed you. I called you by name and guess what your mind is who God says when you're in over your head all be with you when you are in rough waters. When you think you're going to drown belt wearing. You will not go down. Why is I've redeemed you. Your mind when you are between a rock and a hard place. It won't be a daddy and God awareness is that what him in over my head. I think I'm drowning. I need to be aware. God is with me. I'm not my own. I belong to him. I'm not going to drown. When I later rock and a hard place. I don't me I had. I need to be aware of God is telling me this is not a dead end because I am God. Your personal God, I am God. I your personal God, I'm the holy one of Israel, your Savior. I paid a huge price for you. I bought you with my own blood shed upon the cross, God awareness. God is with me. That is how much you mean to me versus honest about how much you mean to me. That's how much I love you, God purchased us. That's what you mean to me. That's how much I love you I sell off the whole world to get you back. Scripture also says the man gains the whole world and lose his own soul. What good is God, and I stand to profit, says fear God would give the whole world. The whole world is not worth the value of your soul on you as a person. That's what God is placing on us, so our awareness of our God awareness is that God is with us, so connect with God. God awareness on your feet of Lot God see now where having an understanding of why was supposed to stand up and applaud. Bring a gift of laughter you smile a bit laugh a little bit sing yourself into his presence. Why won't thing here, but you're saying yourself into his presence. So I know I have to hurry, but I'm I was thinking of it so a thousand years in the future thousand years where you got to be wall going Scripture. If I confess my sins, God 's sake, a thousand years from now will be in heaven. And I have a thousand years from now, looking back, what now is that we really that important files in years and now looking back, I'm in heaven. Death is overcome. Eternal life is mine God is the beginning of the NPC author and finisher. They scale heaven is my home number was just a temporary place so I look back over my life and what is there now that is really not important to get upset over. I need to be aware of God 's presence in my future and my his presence in my pride and my present wife, God awareness is a God to take care of your death is conquered evil is cast into the lake of fire. Wait, what is there that I should be upset about Jeremiah thirty two twenty seven. Is there anything too hard for God or how about Romans eight thirty one to thirty nine. So what you think with God on your side like this. How can we lose if thought doesn't hesitate to put everything on the line for us embracing our condition. My awareness of God is he embraces me in everything that I am my weakness and it's the whole package you got the good and the bad and the ugly because God and God braces us. He embraces us. Why, because his spirit and his word will change authentic news and God embraces our condition, express, express pulsing himself to the wires by sending his son is there anything else he wouldn't gladly do and freely do for us. He wants us to be happy. And, there was presence of plotting with laughter because of what he has done for us and no one dared tangle with God by messing with one of God 's chosen your thousand years from now, I want to see how God just don't be in the world, come into existence. I understand completely how the God destroys evil like I can't see all that now, but I understand his word, and so my awareness of God, love for me is my security that don't mess with one of God 's chosen guess what I'm one of his chosen summary of what has he called you by name and we've respond that would dare even point a finger, the one who died for us was raised to life for us is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us in Christ love for us. This is the fine print of the contract. This is the fine print of the covenant of God is made with us that nothing shall separate you from the love of God, my awareness of God, there is no way no trouble, no hard times, no hatred, no hunger, no homelessness, not bullying threat, not backstabbing, not even the worst sales listed as Scripture you think you're going to be in the water over your head and dry, don't worry, I will take care of you when you walk to the fire, you won't be burned with the same rigor same thing. No hardship. Nothing you see that yellow thing called love because they got were sitting. I think I saw one of my one none of this phase is us because Jesus was. I'm absolutely convinced that nothing nothing, living or dead, nor angelic more demonic today or tomorrow higher low thinkable or unthinkable is absolutely nothing can get between us and God, but because of the way that Jesus our master has embraced. I am aware of the embrace of God in my life, and nothing can break that embrace her love so left the message Bible verse three says no. This God is God, King James version says know that the Lord his God. God is God, he is that he is. I am that I am, there is I am. There is no longer that's what God is saying in those verses God is self existent and self-sufficient. He is the fountain of life is gone, and not man. As we are God 's eternal spirit creator and sustainer of all life, my God. Awareness is the biblical faith, knowledge, and the most emotional love and understand knowledge had an heart he wants, he is Lord Jehovah. He gave us life, both he formed us in our bodies and our mother 's womb, and he gave us his eternal spirit make a joyful shout to the Lord of stand up and applaud members for this universe three know that the Lord he is God is even was made us and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture, meaning that God feeds his sheep enter his gates with thanksgiving and care with the password. Thank you on your feet applied God bring the gift of laughter, meaning that I don't with Jackson. Our grandson comes. It's also refreshing to hear him why does all pop-up that was funny. I think I'll pop that was funny in a nice somebody likes it that you have the whole point godsend. Once Augustine is likely last time you were going to pop up on that one of daddy daddy daddy daddy, Abba, father. That's one of the mother moving the leg you come and say knowledge is a member song against income be ready. Bring a gift of laughter burst for the second part of this is make yourself at home talking about praise for God first one saying yourself into his presence. Verse four thanked him, worship him, God awareness. Verse five. King James says the Lord is good. The message Bible for God is sheer beauty and even with people who just make you think beautiful pleasurable happy thoughts that God there always finding something to appreciate that God in us that God looking at you and I he wants us to have his outlook. Here's out love and appreciation God awareness is seeing my things in the feeling the blessing and being part of the blessing and blessing as many people as you can verse five. His mercy is everlasting is all generous in his love and his truth endures forever loyal always to be in and on the reverse one hundred. Again, Psalm one hundred on your face. Now apply. Bring a gift of laughter seeing yourself into his presence. Know this God is God and God God, he made us. We didn't make him where his people is well tended sheep enter with a password. Thank you. Make yourself at home talking praise. Thank you. Worship him, for God is sheer beauty all generous and love loyal always and ever losing less than an Internet presence with what applause. I will sing the song so. Amen. God is good to us amen. So we enter into his brain and is a God awareness. God awareness. God awareness is, we know his word and wherever we are. We recognize his presence and his touch upon our lives, whether were in the river when I finish round were between the walk and the high place. It's not a dead end. God awareness is with us. The changes, and then thank you Lord for your blessings in our life and weekend with an applause to God him and are thank you. Thank you for your blessings and payment. Psalm one hundred reading over and over and over againPeanut Psalm one hundred and. I assume that at the end of the sermon. Hopefully I'll find it correctly that the milk and I can sing the first song on it. We let it out today in worship and it goes along with this whole theme of Psalm one hundred and I'm speaking about God awareness. No awareness. Islam recognizing that God is with us all the time and that there was more to just more to this than just saying why, know that God is with the with Ryan in will endeavor them to put all this together to recognize what the psalmist is trying to say here in Psalm one hundred and reading from the message Bible. It's all one hundred verse one through five on your feet. Now it's going to get everybody stand up on your feet now applaud God bring a gift of laughter, saying yourself into his presence known. This God is God and God God seems like a redundant statement would talk about that. He made us. We didn't make him where his people, his well attended. She answered with a password. Thank you make yourselves at home talking praise and thank him. Worship him. For God, a sheer beauty all generous in love will always and ever, while God awareness. On your face. Now apply God bring a gift of laughter sing yourselves into his presence. The sunlight church. It sounds like what we you know if we look at these things, we began to think about awareness. Sometimes no most of something is the approximate the idea of self-awareness and self awareness is a bad thing. Self-awareness is is a good thing. Now if we were going to do it. It do a study on self-awareness, we would look at our understanding of ourselves kind of an understanding of who you are worried what are your personality traits. What are your strengths and your weaknesses. What are your life experiences. What are your attitudes. How often do they change what you are happy about, what are you sad about what would you like to happen, what would you strongly not like that happen. What are your feelings, your actions, your plan so, self-awareness, and with the kind of this study of what you are made up on her thing is it where the source of your identity, your family, going to your family tree, your family of origin your family legacy. Your significant personal experiences self self-awareness wouldn't cover encompass that the proxy war. Then just wall where you feel like today, so this is not necessarily easy thing, but sometimes it can be made a little simpler. We look at how that our self-awareness is related to our experiences in how we deal with life. I remember number of years ago I was involved with the Ornish program at the hospital and the voice program is a heart disease reversal program and it was the begun by Doctor Dean Ornish and we went to California. We had to kind. We have purchased or tried to purchase the franchise for the voice program here at Weber Hospital and while we were in the process it process making a part of the hospital Blue Cross of Blue Shield Ron in Houston. We ended up being within high mark. So any Hollywood, California and we went there for a week to San Francisco. He got a hotel and whatever, but we have to just go through this training and I was going to be a facilitator, a group facilitator which you would set any group now we one of the main distinctions was that you were not going to be a therapist or counselor. The idea of reversing heart disease by Doctor Ornish was that people need to be in touch with themselves and with their emotions and that he had four components he had the idea of a diet relaxation by relaxation group support figures three and that the risk for exercise that forgot that will imagine that the exercise, relaxation group support forgot exercise. Okay, but growth support was the main component and the main component of growth was not like this at group therapy, but a recognition of how that you were able to relate to your emotions and your experiences and putting them together so during this eye. I remember this guy saw they made a guinea pig out of me. No pun intended, then made an example that Reno made an example of out of myself because we were in this group. While the people who were going to be group facilitators were in this in this group, there were about twelve of us and their facilitator started off, he said. Now what do you feel at as is important for being in this program, and he pointed to me and you are the first one, then I start off well, I think that it would be a great opportunity news is that's wrong when it's wrong. I think that this would be a great opportunity to help people now what's wrong with that statement. I think not. I I think thinking is not an emotion I feel that this would be an important asset for myself and one of people that the feeling and a feeling of plot are two different things, so self-awareness is not only knowing how you think about how all that what you are feeling is connected to the event that takes place in your life God awareness is understanding how they God connected with every events in our life. So God is aware and we are aware of God 's connection with us now. We have different thoughts and have different emotions, and we try to put them in the context of our experiences and we put them in euros. We look at our day. What was today good they are bad. Well, it generally, we would generally put it in the concept of what happens, what happens to me today makes a good they are bad when it's not true how you respond to what happens today makes it good. They are bad it isn't what happens to you. It's how we respond to it, and we often are caught up in our thinking that if bad things happen. It's a bad day. If something doesn't go the way I want. It's a bad thing if I don't get what I want out of this day it's a bad day and that's our thinking, our seemingly logical process of self wanting personal gratification and if I get all the ratification that I can possibly have all been the first of that happen. You can be emotionally and whatever gratifying to the highest degree and years ago the happy person, because it's how we interpret those things and how we make application of those things to our life so you ever hear someone say went when we talk about connecting connecting that the connection is made on an emotional level and in group we always we would always do this that you have to come up with a feeling word okay, a word that describes your feelings are still happen. I feel sad and I was like some individuals in South Philly at every weekday shot of Billy FX you know what EMR disease are almost dead now, but the ideas that we feel things we have and we have an emotional response. The things whether we know it or not. I remember it's a true story and I heard somebody on TV 's quote this at use this anti- Muslim heard it for me. I memorized counseling years ago there was this older couple came in and in and out he was a farmer and the again horses and his wife. They came in for counseling marital counseling and in the lady was telling y'all went on with her story about how that her husband love the horses more than him or her and that the that he doesn't know he doesn't appreciate her. He doesn't want very does this mean is that on on on. She was about twenty minutes needed to see his face was getting red and green beans were signed balls and finally said one. I told to fifty years ago. I love the other changes I'll let you know him him he wasn't very good at expressing his emotions. I know most of us are having difficulty saying what we feel and sometimes we allow our negative emotions to be expressed without our positive emotions being expressed, but we always have an emotional response to each of our jubilation and sometimes we don't recognize them, but they're there. Sometimes whenever people are connecting no athlete we tell our story. Oh, I'm having a bad day and stomach of laws is what you now plan it is good as you. I never beset you think that the connecting statement. No, if you're my havoc you have, I would be sad while it isn't that we don't have to ask our perceptions and our understandings of these things if I had your relationship with God. If you had my relationship with the eye member of the couple that we had it in one church. There were a younger couple, and this was. This was the also that was thirty five years ago so that our young anymore, but the day they came to me in a sibling out faster if God answered my prayers lady answered yours. I would be. I would be in such bad shape because your preacher and God always answers your prayers. He doesn't answer. Follow up that way, shape our life is an based upon on our experiences, our life 's experience is based upon our responses to our experience, our response to what you know with the Olympics and on and on and is starting to tell the stories behind the Olympians and how many of them like the one from Ireland last night it when he competed on the floor exercise any and they said he would not. It wasn't good enough to continue, but they talk about how that as a child he had a tumor on it's like a cancerous tumor in a cut it off with a city never walk again. He had another injury. Many had another brain injury and he said he would never be able to would be with the loss is all sense of balance and there is performing at the Olympics, and they had all these things. There were not that that said he couldn't be soda. What happened to him. It was how he responded to those things that made him who he is so self-awareness is an emotional understanding a mental understanding a cognitive understanding of physical or as of the response of our total person will God awareness is the Bible is God 's story of connecting with the the Bible is God 's story of connecting with us. It is a broad awareness that we are putting together data from the Scriptures and from story to Godhead is presenting God connecting he's telling us how we are here to go back to Genesis and creation, we have the original intent. God created us to walk with him. That's the original intent, but what happened was we decided we could do it on our own better by breaking God 's command. Next thing we know where in separation from God but God initiated redemption, which is God initiated a plan whereby we could be brought back into a relationship with him. God is and send the output together a contract that covenant on an agreement that if we understand and apply to our lives. It is a it is where God is going to work in us and the New Testament is full of how that God is at work in DOS and how this agreement is working so people who are connectors, then seeing the world differently. People understand that the world we live in has a way of bringing good and evil Scripture says, the rain falls on the just and the unjust, we think of that Scripture as Sunday's, it's a rainy day and it's a bad day and Sundays. The sun is shining, it's a good day. But you know in a desert community rain is a blessing the blessings of God fall upon the good, and that John three seventeen for God sent not his son in the world to condemn the world, but the world through him might be saved. God isn't about the condemning isn't about any of the condemning condemnation oriented. James five nine fifty nine/ do not grumble against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned. Behold, the Judge is standing at the door don't be a grunt, Loretta complainer. Don't look at the things that are disturbing phrase don't complain about each other. They may need a toll operations. Now, stepping on toes. It is a blend that has obvious problems is stepped on her toes about is that all that was. Ken's phone is not here so I can blame can for stepping on her toes and breaking her toes and whatever so, but the idea is that rumbling even play him connecting is not connecting with God is not connecting with ourselves and is not connecting with others, so let it go. Connecting is finding and needs and allowing and giving yourself permission to work with it. It's not you, Saddam, and we do it for you connecting in working partnering and being part of a group part of routine part of the family of God. So we look at this in Psalm one hundred begins with this statement, King spoke about connectors we spoke about how that there is this awareness that we are to have awareness about our self-awareness about God. Now let's look at the awareness of God, our awareness of God the son. This says what you say in Islam, one hundred first one is up there you have it in the message Bible was the thing on your feet. Now get on your feet, so this song is the same stand up and get ready to go get ready to go where he tells us where he wants us to go, don't just sit there. Jenna Young is like sitting in the parking lot and turn return the car and turning the steering will and forgetting to put it in drive or like some trying to find out with you were in my card couldn't get it in part resentment is for. And that's not even here. Click on that. So they were trying to run this car runs fine. Try to get the doors block her son, but they forgot to put it in park it wouldn't turn on. That was it cars running. They couldn't get it to turn off what you needed to put it in park before he could turn about that. So this is one of those things that so a pharmacist saying standup and get started okay where are we going going into God 's presence. How do we get in the present of the Pentagon's present stand up and applaud. Stand up and applaud. What he did see we already know what is done needs redeemed us. He's never left us more protagonist is given a strength for the day is in always given us a plan for our life. So we began, not by looking at what's going on. We began by looking at who God is a plot. God bless just applaud God for his goodness and his love and his mercy. Stand up and let's given this phrase. Isaiah forty three with part of our Sunday school lesson this morning and it says, but now God 's message, the God who made you in the first place seemed a young guy put a lot of things in order, self-awareness, and all your family tree. Okay your family tree. I have people in your past that, then your past and your family there, hanging from your family tree in other not very good. Now I know my family brother. My brother knows our extreme. Our family and I not go to story before, but maybe some of them here we have this. There's this lady, Mrs. lady in our family trait that she's buried in the cemetery up near Frostburg were my dad and mom are. But when we were growing up, my mother would talk about the one lady who was part of our family straight because she was never married and she had five five seven okay five or seven kids all to different rental is never married and my mom one talk about, well I said mom, look at what happened in our family tree. When God came into our family before God when our family young if you if you know, I said is you look at the though the lady the girls that the daughters. My brother 's daughters, and my daughter Rachel, my brother Bill 's daughter. They are very stubborn, not strong-willed, independent persons, they are strong-willed, independent persons. And I think it isn't. This is me, but I think they are related to that lady had in the early and late eighteen hundreds early nineteen hundreds turn-of-the-century, that related to her because she doubt that sign. If you had a child you know how to wedlock. You know the roster side. She had five or seven of them and she didn't care why she was a strong-willed, independent person that wasn't going to conform to what people wanted her dead currency was just that individual and that genetic thing is in each of our ladies that are of our daughters but they now got the inside changed, but God 's message, the God who made you in the first place. We know honor. We know our family history but God we need to be aware of God 's family history using we know our family history. Our family tree and we have the people hanging from it. Now with the people who were really outstanding individuals and we have some people that God hung Furby now, standing now, we all have. Being aware of God 's being aware of who he is God awareness must want, but now God 's message in Isaiah forty three, the God who made you in the first place. Jacob, the one who got you started. Israel don't be afraid. I redeemed you. I called combining all be afraid& as in Sunday school don't be afraid, but we afraid of life. God is the one who initiates initiated this whole thing in your life. We've got people who went off course, but that's what we don't need to talk about all the things went wrong to talk about the God who enables us to be right to be right with him to be right with ourselves and that we, God has a plan for our life. I can go back and fix all the mistakes of our family tree, gender, but I can allow God to help me through the promises you come the child that he wants me to be. Don't be afraid. I'm the one who redeems you are the one who purchased you that from all of that failure, I pay the price, so that the failures of your past no longer influenced your present life. I've redeemed you. I called you by name and guess what your mind is who God says when you're in over your head all be with you when you are in rough waters. When you think you're going to drown belt wearing. You will not go down. Why is I've redeemed you. Your mind when you are between a rock and a hard place. It won't be a daddy and God awareness is that what him in over my head. I think I'm drowning. I need to be aware. God is with me. I'm not my own. I belong to him. I'm not going to drown. When I later rock and a hard place. I don't me I had. I need to be aware of God is telling me this is not a dead end because I am God. Your personal God, I am God. I your personal God, I'm the holy one of Israel, your Savior. I paid a huge price for you. I bought you with my own blood shed upon the cross, God awareness. God is with me. That is how much you mean to me versus honest about how much you mean to me. That's how much I love you, God purchased us. That's what you mean to me. That's how much I love you I sell off the whole world to get you back. Scripture also says the man gains the whole world and lose his own soul. What good is God, and I stand to profit, says fear God would give the whole world. The whole world is not worth the value of your soul on you as a person. That's what God is placing on us, so our awareness of our God awareness is that God is with us, so connect with God. God awareness on your feet of Lot God see now where having an understanding of why was supposed to stand up and applaud. Bring a gift of laughter you smile a bit laugh a little bit sing yourself into his presence. Why won't thing here, but you're saying yourself into his presence. So I know I have to hurry, but I'm I was thinking of it so a thousand years in the future thousand years where you got to be wall going Scripture. If I confess my sins, God 's sake, a thousand years from now will be in heaven. And I have a thousand years from now, looking back, what now is that we really that important files in years and now looking back, I'm in heaven. Death is overcome. Eternal life is mine God is the beginning of the NPC author and finisher. They scale heaven is my home number was just a temporary place so I look back over my life and what is there now that is really not important to get upset over. I need to be aware of God 's presence in my future and my his presence in my pride and my present wife, God awareness is a God to take care of your death is conquered evil is cast into the lake of fire. Wait, what is there that I should be upset about Jeremiah thirty two twenty seven. Is there anything too hard for God or how about Romans eight thirty one to thirty nine. So what you think with God on your side like this. How can we lose if thought doesn't hesitate to put everything on the line for us embracing our condition. My awareness of God is he embraces me in everything that I am my weakness and it's the whole package you got the good and the bad and the ugly because God and God braces us. He embraces us. Why, because his spirit and his word will change authentic news and God embraces our condition, express, express pulsing himself to the wires by sending his son is there anything else he wouldn't gladly do and freely do for us. He wants us to be happy. And, there was presence of plotting with laughter because of what he has done for us and no one dared tangle with God by messing with one of God 's chosen your thousand years from now, I want to see how God just don't be in the world, come into existence. I understand completely how the God destroys evil like I can't see all that now, but I understand his word, and so my awareness of God, love for me is my security that don't mess with one of God 's chosen guess what I'm one of his chosen summary of what has he called you by name and we've respond that would dare even point a finger, the one who died for us was raised to life for us is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us in Christ love for us. This is the fine print of the contract. This is the fine print of the covenant of God is made with us that nothing shall separate you from the love of God, my awareness of God, there is no way no trouble, no hard times, no hatred, no hunger, no homelessness, not bullying threat, not backstabbing, not even the worst sales listed as Scripture you think you're going to be in the water over your head and dry, don't worry, I will take care of you when you walk to the fire, you won't be burned with the same rigor same thing. No hardship. Nothing you see that yellow thing called love because they got were sitting. I think I saw one of my one none of this phase is us because Jesus was. I'm absolutely convinced that nothing nothing, living or dead, nor angelic more demonic today or tomorrow higher low thinkable or unthinkable is absolutely nothing can get between us and God, but because of the way that Jesus our master has embraced. I am aware of the embrace of God in my life, and nothing can break that embrace her love so left the message Bible verse three says no. This God is God, King James version says know that the Lord his God. God is God, he is that he is. I am that I am, there is I am. There is no longer that's what God is saying in those verses God is self existent and self-sufficient. He is the fountain of life is gone, and not man. As we are God 's eternal spirit creator and sustainer of all life, my God. Awareness is the biblical faith, knowledge, and the most emotional love and understand knowledge had an heart he wants, he is Lord Jehovah. He gave us life, both he formed us in our bodies and our mother 's womb, and he gave us his eternal spirit make a joyful shout to the Lord of stand up and applaud members for this universe three know that the Lord he is God is even was made us and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture, meaning that God feeds his sheep enter his gates with thanksgiving and care with the password. Thank you on your feet applied God bring the gift of laughter, meaning that I don't with Jackson. Our grandson comes. It's also refreshing to hear him why does all pop-up that was funny. I think I'll pop that was funny in a nice somebody likes it that you have the whole point godsend. Once Augustine is likely last time you were going to pop up on that one of daddy daddy daddy daddy, Abba, father. That's one of the mother moving the leg you come and say knowledge is a member song against income be ready. Bring a gift of laughter burst for the second part of this is make yourself at home talking about praise for God first one saying yourself into his presence. Verse four thanked him, worship him, God awareness. Verse five. King James says the Lord is good. The message Bible for God is sheer beauty and even with people who just make you think beautiful pleasurable happy thoughts that God there always finding something to appreciate that God in us that God looking at you and I he wants us to have his outlook. Here's out love and appreciation God awareness is seeing my things in the feeling the blessing and being part of the blessing and blessing as many people as you can verse five. His mercy is everlasting is all generous in his love and his truth endures forever loyal always to be in and on the reverse one hundred. Again, Psalm one hundred on your face. Now apply. Bring a gift of laughter seeing yourself into his presence. Know this God is God and God God, he made us. We didn't make him where his people is well tended sheep enter with a password. Thank you. Make yourself at home talking praise. Thank you. Worship him, for God is sheer beauty all generous and love loyal always and ever losing less than an Internet presence with what applause. I will sing the song so. Amen. God is good to us amen. So we enter into his brain and is a God awareness. God awareness. God awareness is, we know his word and wherever we are. We recognize his presence and his touch upon our lives, whether were in the river when I finish round were between the walk and the high place. It's not a dead end. God awareness is with us. The changes, and then thank you Lord for your blessings in our life and weekend with an applause to God him and are thank you. Thank you for your blessings and payment. Psalm one hundred reading over and over and over again