Fearfully and Wonderfully Made by God’s Sovereign Hand! Psalm 139-13-17

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made by God’s Sovereign Hand! Psalm 139-13-17

For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful,

I know that full well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you

when I was made in the secret place,

when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;

all the days ordained for me were written in your book

before one of them came to be.

17 How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God!

How vast is the sum of them!

I am truly awestruck by God’s Sovereign Hand of Creation; even to the details of my skin cells. He not only saw my unformed substance, He ordained out of nothing to be formed into my life, Joseph Valentini; my looks, size and stature—all ordained by God’s Sovereign Hand of Mercy and Grace! And did He ever, in the Secret Counsel of His Holy will, preordained and predetermined that I should believe on His only begotten Son for Eternal Salvation, to be conformed and change from this spiritually dead person to be made alive and changed into the beautiful glory of the image of Christ! Wow! I could not plan such a blessed end and Eternal beginning in Christ!

Here is the thrust of my thought: God made everyone to have eyes, a nose, mouth, ears, chin, lips and a face, and yet in the details of His Sovereign Created order, are we ever so unique and different from each other! Such details of His Sovereign Creation predetermined before the foundation of the world of how we would even look, blows my mind, and to think the Angels of His beloved children beholds their faces before the throne of God everyday! His watch care is ever so wonderful and glorious where can I flee from His presence! Indeed, I would not even want to flee from His glorious presence.

God’s Favor in the Law is found realized in Christ!

God’s Favor in the Law is found realized in Christ!

Here is something to also ponder: God's favor in the Law revealed God's perfection and Holiness of who our God is, and like a mirror shows us God's Glory and our unworthiness and UN-holiness before our Holy God; thus, condemns us for our sinfulness and departure from the Holiness of God's presence. The Law was powerless to make me holy. But Jesus is all powerful to make me perfect without sin, to be conformed to the image of Christ. Praise be to God! that in His only begotten Son--Jesus, Did God's favor ever rest and in His life was his perfection credited to my account through faith! And in Him, does the reflection of God in the Mirror become a reality in my life, as I am being made more into the image and likeness of Christ day by day through the Holy Spirit! While the Law is my mirror to show me the reflection of God's holiness and my own sinfulness and unworthiness; Jesus on the other hand, is my reality, not just a reflection and glimmer, but the reality of His resurrected life transforming me into His image and likeness. I praise God for Christ who delivered me from the curse and made me alive according to God the Father's predetermined will!


Romans 8: 1-4
1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you[a] free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh,[b] God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering.[c] And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

"Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For, if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law. But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe" Gal 3:21-22

The awareness of Jesus’ presence in my life: Proverbs 1:7

The awareness of Jesus’ presence in My life:

Proverbs 1:7 "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline"

"The Lord be with you" is no empty sentence, The Lord be with you is true, are you with Him? Are you aware He is with you...in everything you do, especially in Repenting and Claiming His blood to cleanse you!

To discover the reigning presence of the Lord in the details of your life; is to discover the reality of His living Resurrected presence in your life; it is also, to discover that He is a friend who knows you and stick closer than a brother; it is to discover that He is intimately acquainted with all your ways, and that He is not foreign or a stranger to the situations and details in your life; and it is truly to find that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom!

Glance intently on Christ's Glory in you; And Glance dimly on the quest for human glory

The craving for human glory controlling us over Christs glory results in glancing dimly in seeking the glory of Christ; only to glance too intently on human glory, and in doing so, the outcome of deferring to the rich and powerful over others not recognized with such esteem.

I am reminded of Proverbs 23:1-5

"When you sit to dine with a ruler

Note well what[a] is before you,

2 and put a knife to your throat

if you are given to gluttony.

3 Do not crave his delicacies,

for that food is deceptive.

4 Do not wear yourself out to get rich;

have the wisdom to show restraint.

5 Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone,

for they will surely sprout wings

and fly off to the sky like an eagle.

At the moment of Prayer in temptation, do we find relief from temptation

At the moment of Prayer in temptation, do we find relief from temptation.

Failure to pray in temptation results in being overcome by temptation, and how the Devil delights in that stronghold over us. But in saying, "no" in temptation and praying to God do we find the power of God strengthening us in temptation and does the devil ever flee and vanish from our presence when we submit to God in prayer in temptation--then we find true relief and victory over temptation as we resist and pray!

When thinking of Jesus in the wilderness--Did he ever submit to His heavenly Father in prayer in temptation. And It is not so much the temptation, He was tempted like us in everyway being 100% human, but He was without sin! However, in our old self there is the desire and craving to be tempted to sin that lingers through out our life. And the Devil seizes to use that to draw us away from God. But when the day of evil comes, and it will always surely approach with vengeance, we indeed, must be ever so vigilant to fight and pray—the more we pray, we can have confidence that he will flee away, until he seizes the next opportunity to attack. My Concern is this, sometimes we are so numb and paralyzed that we do not Pray in temptation; we try to handle it in our own strength, and as a result we always fall.

James 4:6-7

6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:

“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”[a]

7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Every No! In Temptation, is a step closer to greater Victory in Christ’s Resurrection!

Every No! In Temptation, is a step closer to greater Victory in Christ’s Resurrection!

Every, "No!" in temptation is a step closer in sharing in the Victory of Christ's Resurrection in your life; and a brighter path into the entrance of the Kingdom of His beloved Son!



1 Corinthians 10:13 "No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it."



James 4: 7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

The chief end of Prayer is to become like Jesus and Rest in his All sufficiency Psalm 23; Philippians 4:6

All my needs and Wants are Met Only in Knowing God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit

The chief end of the natural man who lives by basic instinct in this life will not be in pursuit of God in prayer, will not seek God, but if he does seek God in Prayer, it is for his own purposes that he may received from God's hands that which is sacred and spend it on his own pleasures. Such a man-centered view of God, relegates God to be your servant, as if he was your servant to do your bidding and give you the material things that you want. SUch a man centered view approaches God with demands of your will on what you want and how you expect God to answer your prayer, in your way and in your timing and on your terms and conditions. And when there is no answer to your prayer in the outcome of what you want--Oh! How will your heart then rage against the Lord.

The chief end of the new man--the spiritual man, in pursuing God in prayer is to seek to be conformed and changed in the image and likeness of Christ; the chief end of the beliver is to seek to know Christ and the power of His Resurrection; It is to seek to be drawn closer to Christ in your relationship to Him and to Love Him more and cry out to God your Father; it is to be drawn to your heavenly Father to cry out to Him, "Abba, Father" to know that He Loves you in His Son and to find in Him your full sufficiency; it is to know that the chief end and aim in Prayer, is to find that you rest and peace are found in Him; it is to discover that "The Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want..." Because in Him alone is your Chief end to glorify in your life and Him Alone! Based on His terms, will and directions and for His Glory Only!

How we need to find that your relationship to your Heavenly Father, is the greatest want in this life that can never be replaced with the material and natural things in this life.