Sermon On “Does God Read Every Thought?” By Sister Anne On 28th November, 2025 (Part 1) скачать в хорошем качестве

Sermon On “Does God Read Every Thought?” By Sister Anne On 28th November, 2025 (Part 1)

Our heart’s desires precede, they come before, WHAT OVERFLOWS IN OUR LIVES. EVEN OUR MOUTH SIMPLY VOICES WHAT OUR HEARTS HAVE ALREADY CONCEIVED. It’s a pretty haunting truth that opens up a lot of implications to carefully consider. But that’s a non-issue with God. Because before we do or speak anything, He already knows our thoughts. OR, THAT’S WHAT MANY LISTENERS WOULD LIKE TO FIND OUT, AT LEAST; CAN GOD READ OUR THOUGHTS?” The short answer is yes, but what’s really important, as I have thought about this, are the implications of that answer, and they are many and really significant. Many would like to know; Why do you say that? What’s the basis of saying that He knows our thoughts? And what difference would it make in our lives if He does? So that’s what I want to answer. Every Thought Laid Bare Psalm 139:2, 4, 23: “You know [the psalmist is talking to God] when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. . . . Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. . . . Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts.” Or Psalm 19:14: “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart” That’s the phrase: “the meditation of my heart” — “be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.” And then there are numerous texts about God testing and seeing the heart and the mind, like Psalm 7:9: “Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous — you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!” Or Psalm 26:2: “Prove me, O Lord, and try me; test my heart and my mind.” Or Jeremiah 17:10: “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind.” Or Jeremiah 20:12: “O Lord of hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind . . .” Then there’s the same thing in the New Testament. It speaks of God searching the heart. Revelation 2:23: “All the churches will know that I am He who searches mind and heart.” Then the idea of God’s discerning the intentions of the heart is picked up in Hebrews 4:12: “THE WORD OF GOD is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and the intentions of the heart.” In the final judgment, God will take into account the secrets of the heart, Paul says in Romans 2:16: “. . . on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Jesus Christ.” Repeatedly, we read that God knows the heart and its thoughts. First Corinthians 3:20: “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.” He knows the hearts of all men. Acts 1:24–25: “The apostles prayed and said, ‘You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which one of these two you have chosen to [be Judas’s replacement].’” GOD IS THE GREAT HEART-KNOWER, THE GREAT MIND-KNOWER. “God is the great heart-knower, the great mind-knower.” Acts 1:24–25: “The apostles prayed and said, 'You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which one of these two you have chosen to [be Judas's replacement]. '” Jesus, in His ministry, had a huge quarrel with the Pharisees and the scribes precisely because they pretended to be something on the outside that they were not on the inside. And Jesus knew that; He knew what was inside of them. Matthew 23:25–26: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.” Or the way John summed it up in John 2:25: “[Jesus] needed no one to bear witness about man, FOR HE HIMSELF KNEW WHAT WAS IN MAN.” Will you follow Jesus today? Where will you spend eternity? Are you ready for Heaven? Do you believe in Jesus and have you repented of your sins? Have you allowed Him into your daily life and asked Him to continually transform you daily into the man or woman He wants you to be? If you can answer yes to these questions, you can rest assured that you will be with Jesus in Heaven when you pass from this life to the next. We don’t know what Heaven holds exactly, but if we truly trust God, we can trust that when he says it is paradise, it’s paradise. Don’t waste your time worrying about dying. Instead, spend your time living for Christ. The Bible says you can only get to heaven by trusting in God’s Son, Jesus Christ. You can’t earn your way into heaven: “It is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9 NIV). God proved his goodness through his Son, Jesus Christ. .....