v46 “Can anything good come from Nazareth?”

v47 “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!” "How do you know me?" Jesus answered, "I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you."

THE GOD WHO KNOWS YOU

1 O Lord, you have searched me and know me! 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise; you discern my thoughts from afar. 3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. 4 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.

WE ARE KNOWN COMPLETELY

‘Almighty God to whom all hearts are open, all desires known and from whom no secrets are hidden’.

HE KNOWS OUR SITUATIONS COMPLETELY

v11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” 12 even the darkness is not dark to you; for darkness is as light with you.

v16 Your eyes saw my unformed body”. V13 “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mothers womb” V15 “My frame was not hidden from you when I was being made in secret, intricately woven v16 Your eyes saw my unformed body”.

v16 “All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be” (NIV)

V7 “Where shall I go from your Spirit, where shall I flee from your presence?”

V8 “If I ascend to heaven you are there V8 “If I ascend to heaven you are there. If I make my bed in sheol (place of the dead) you are there!”

THE GOD WHO KNOWS – KNOWS OUR SITUATIONS & STRUGGLES

THE GOD WHO KNOWS IS THE GOD WHO LOVES

THE GOD WHO KNOWS CAN BE TRUSTED

v9 “If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there you will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.”

HE KNOWS US COMPLETELY & LOVES US COMPLETELY