He Sees And Hears Psalms 94:8-11 Proverbs 20:12 Proverbs 15:3 Proverbs 20:15 2 Chronicles 16:9 Job 24:22-23 Psalms 33:13-18 Jeremiah 16:17 1 Peter 3:12 Psalms 34:17-18 Exodus 22:27 Isaiah 59:1-2 04.06.18

HE SEES AND HEARS

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⁸ Take heed, you senseless ones among the people; you fools, when will you become wise?
⁹ Does he who implanted the ear not hear? Does he who formed the eye not see? ¹⁰ Does he who disciplines nations not punish? Does he who teaches man lack knowledge? ¹¹ The LORD knows the thoughts of man; he knows that they are futile.  Psalm 94:8-11 (NIV)

¹² Ears that hear and eyes that see-- the LORD has made them both.  Proverbs 20:12 (NIV)

³ The eyes of the LORD are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good.  Proverbs 15:3 (NIV)

¹⁵ Gold there is, and rubies in abundance, but lips that speak knowledge are a rare jewel. Proverbs 20:15 (NIV)

⁹ For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.   2 Chronicles 16:9 (NIV)

²² But God drags away the mighty by his power; though they become established, they have no assurance of life. ²³ He may let them rest in a feeling of security, but his eyes are on their ways. Job 24:22-23 (NIV)

¹³ From heaven the LORD looks down and sees all mankind; ¹⁴ from his dwelling place he watches all who live on earth-- ¹⁵ he who forms the hearts of all, who considers everything they do. ¹⁶ No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength. ¹⁷ A horse is a vain hope for deliverance; despite all its great strength it cannot save. ¹⁸ But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love.   Psalm 33:13-18 (NIV)

¹⁷ My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from me, nor is their sin concealed from my eyes.   Jeremiah 16:17 (NIV)

¹² For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.   1 Peter 3:12 (NIV)

¹⁷ The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles. ¹⁸ The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.  Psalm 34:17-18 (NIV)

When he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.  Exodus 22:27 (NIV)

¹ Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear.
² But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.   Isaiah 59:1-2 (NIV)

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“Do not think that your prayer, however weak or trembling, will be unregarded.  Our God not only hears prayer but also loves to hear it.  ‘He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.’  True, He does take into consideration haughty looks and lofty words; He doesn’t care for the pomp and pageantry of kings; He doesn’t listen to the swell of martial music; He doesn’t regard the triumph and pride of man; but wherever there is a heart big with sorrow, or a lip quivering with agony, or a deep groan, or a penitential sigh, the heart of Jehovah is open; He marks it down in the registry of His memory; He puts our prayers, like rose leaves, between the pages of His book of remembrance, and when the volume is opened at last, a precious fragrance will release itself from it.”   Charles H. Spurgeon

“We judge things by their present appearance; but the Lord sees them in their consequences.  If we could do the same we would be perfectly of His mind; but since we can’t, it is an unspeakable mercy that He will manage for us, whether we are pleased with His management or not; and it is regarded as one of His heaviest judgments when He gives any person up to the way of their own hearts, and to walk according to their own wisdom.”  John Newton

           

“Greatness is not made through one trial or one victory.  It is hammered out over and over on the anvil of daily demands.  Most often this work is done alone – in complete obscurity.  But God sees every word, every choice, and every action.  Devoted hearts are never wasted.  He frequently uses the obscure, the broken, or the outcast for some of His greatest work.”  Charles R. Swindoll 

“We err when we judge our prayers solely by what we can see happening around us. Prayer is a matter of faith. Prayer is taking God at His word. Prayer is understanding God’s promise that if we pray, He will work. And we must keep on praying even when we cannot see what He is doing. We do not see into the world in which God lives, but He definitely sees into ours.”  David Jeremiah  

“Man sees your actions, but God, your motives.”   Thomas a Kempis  

“We have a God who sees hearts like we see faces, a God who hears ache like we hear voices, and we have a God who touches wounds like we touch skin. No one’s crazy can change God’s crazy love.  Jesus died to save us not to make us safe. No one ever got saved unless someone else was unsafe.”   Ann Voskamp

“We are never beyond the Shepherd’s eye. In our sorrows He observes us incessantly, and not a pang escapes Him; in our toils He sees all our weariness, and writes in His book all the struggles of His faithful ones. These thoughts of the Lord encompass us in all our paths and penetrate the innermost regions of our being. Not a nerve or tissue, valve or vessel of our bodily organization is uncared for: all the littles of your little world are thought of by our great God.”   Charles Spurgeon

“As adults, we often accept the language of being a daughter or a son of God and yet still struggle—nearly daily and sometimes hourly—with the internal strife of not knowing how to rest in the safety of our God’s arms.  We live with Him, under His watch and in His family, and yet still behave like orphans—distant, fragmented, and serving tirelessly to earn our keep.  The problem is not that we long for significance but that we are shifty or misguided in where we look for it.  When we crave most the eyes of others—their opinions and accolades—we break our gaze with the only eyes that will ever truly see us.  We’re hungry for the thing for which we were made: to be seen, to be known, to be celebrated, to participate in something much larger than ourselves. But too often we settle for lesser things.  It seems easier to get a like online than it does to get quiet before God, to seek His face and listen for His whispers. Especially if we’re not sure what the expression on His face might be or whether His whispers will be kind.  To understand that a Father with kind eyes sees us, even in secret, makes hearts beat again. Long-dead hearts can come alive under those eyes.”   Sara Hagerty

“A life well lived is simply a life filled with continual ordinary obedience in doing the next right thing particularly when no one sees, when no one is watching.  No fireworks go off, no horns blow, no grand applause from an adoring audience.  It is living the one life we have been given for an audience of the One Who gave it to us, for His pleasure for our good.  Being a follower of sweet Jesus will always boil down to a matter of our faithful ordinary obedience. And will always lead to a life well lived.”  BHY

“Upon some points a believer is absolutely sure. He knows, for instance, that God sits in the stern-sheets of the vessel when it rocks most. He believes that an invisible hand is always on the world’s tiller, and that wherever providence may drift, Jehovah steers it. That re-assuring knowledge prepares him for everything. He looks over the raging waters and sees the spirit of Jesus treading the billows, and he hears a voice saying, ‘It is I, be not afraid.’ He knows too that God is always wise, and, knowing this, he is confident that there can be no accidents, no mistakes; that nothing can occur which ought not to arise. He can say, ‘If I should lose all I have, it is better that I should lose than have, if God so wills: the worst calamity is the wisest and the kindest thing that could befall to me if God ordains it.’ ‘We know that all things work together for good to them that love God.’ The Christian does not merely hold this as a theory, but he knows it as a matter of fact. Everything has worked for good as yet; the poisonous drugs mixed in fit proportions have worked the cure; the sharp cuts of the lancet have cleansed out the proud flesh and facilitated the healing. Every event as yet has worked out the most divinely blessed results; and so, believing that God rules all, that He governs wisely, that He brings good out of evil, the believer’s heart is assured, and he is enabled calmly to meet each trial as it comes. The believer can in the spirit of true resignation pray, ‘Send me what thou wilt, my God, so long as it comes from Thee; never came there an ill portion from Thy table to any of Thy children.’”   C. H. Spurgeon

“We have a God who sees hearts like we see faces, a God who hears ache like we hear voices, and we have a God who touches wounds like we touch skin.”    Ann Voskamp

HEART SAVOR

·       God not only sees and hears but knows the thoughts and attitudes of my heart as well.  He loves me with an everlasting love and always desires my greatest good.  He is such a sweet Savior, His kindness ever leading me to repentance.

·       God is constantly keeping watch over all things – He never sleeps, He never slumbers – nothing catches Him by surprise.

·       The Lord’s arm is never too short to save nor His ear to dull to hear.