“And it shall be in the last days,” God says, “that I will pour forth of My Spirit on all mankind; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. Even on My bondslaves, both men and women, I will in those days pour forth of My Spirit and they shall prophesy. And I will grant wonders in the sky above and miracles on the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord shall come. And it shall be that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Acts 2:16-21.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Today we will continue our Life Lesson on the miracle of the fulfillment of Pentecost by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. This is vitally important for you to understand and take full possession of all this gives you to have days of Heaven on earth. I told the Israelites on the way to the Promised Land that by keeping My Word before their eyes and in their mouths and doing all that My Word commanded they could live days as the days of Heaven upon the earth. How much more this is true for you today who have My Word in your mouth and My Spirit in and on you!
It is time to wake up and begin walking in your full potential. It grieves Me and My Spirit that many of you never complete the Kingdom work I have given you to do on earth as the Body of Christ; and there are even more who never even begin it. Many are perishing for lack of knowledge of My Word so they never take what is rightfully theirs in Christ and instead live like those that have not received Jesus and thus have no hope. But this is not because knowledge is not available. My Word is available everywhere on the internet and other places, in fact, you have to work hard to avoid hearing it. It all comes down to who and what you find important in your life. Where your treasure is, there your heart is also. And that is where I look—in your heart. And if I see a heart that is open to Me, I assure you that I will be sure that you hear the information you need to go higher. Just like I did for Cornelius and his household. Acts 10.
“And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.” Ephesians 4:11-13.
Now let us look at the beginning of the age of grace, the church age, in which you are now living.
“When the day of Pentecost was being fulfilled, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues as of fire distributing themselves, and they rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.” Acts 2:1-4.
We looked at this passage yesterday and today we will move on. But first note that I tell you that Pentecost as being fulfilled in this miracle of the outpouring of My Spirit upon the believers. I revealed to Moses the divine timeline of events leading to the end of time as you know it when My plan of salvation to reconcile man to Myself and thus make him a heir to My Kingdom benefits and eternal life would be over and the unending day of eternity would dawn. And this timeline also matched the floorplan of the tabernacle. I call these “moadim” or appointed times, but they are translated as “feasts.” There are four spring appointed times, Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, and Pentecost, and there are four fall appointed times, Trumpets, Atonement, and Tabernacles. The last is Tabernacles. These appointed times are set forth in Leviticus 23 and then sprinkled throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament in the life of Jesus in the Gospels. Three of them are known as pilgrim feasts for everyone had to come to Jerusalem to the place where I put My Name, that is, the Temple, to gather together to celebrate these: they are Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles. Each one was to be a festal gathering with Me in the midst.
All these appointed times must be fulfilled before time as you know it ends, the Kingdom comes to join with earth, the devil is confined forever in the lake of fire, and you reign with Me in the Kingdom forever. New heavens and a new earth with no curse or evil present.
So far, Passover and unleavened bread were fulfilled in the sacrifice of Jesus for your sins and His burial signifying your death to sin so that the yeast of sin was removed from your hearts. First Fruits was fulfilled when I raised Jesus from the dead, and this occurred in keeping with the timeline three days after Passover. Pentecost was filled when the church was born when the Holy Spirit was poured out by Jesus upon the believers. Those were the spring feasts, the feasts of the early rain harvests. Next would come Trumpets (the rapture, the catching away of the church at the blast of the trumpet to join with Jesus in the air and be taken to My Kingdom safe from the horrors of the tribulation). And after that Atonement (tribulation) and then the most festive of the appointed times, Tabernacles. Which will be fulfilled when My Heavenly City descends to earth and I tabernacle with you forever. This all has to do with the latter rain.
The plan I gave Moses for the Tabernacle lines up with all the appointed times on the divine calendar of Leviticus 23, from Passover to Tabernacles, and shows the plan of every person’s life from coming in at the one gate to the outer court, which was always set up to face east, signifying the sunrise of your life where you enter the one door into the Tabernacle. And you could not enter without bringing a sacrifice for your sins, such as the precious unblemished lamb, which is the shadow and type of Jesus who gave His life in the flesh for you that you would have eternal life (Passover), signified at the bronze altar of judgment with your sins on the lamb and His blood atoning for your lives lost, and then on to the bronze laver to the renewal of your mind washing in the water of the Word and regeneration in the waters of Baptism (unleavened bread and first fruits), and then clothed in Christ as in the garments of priest you can go past the outer court through the door to the Holy Place, which represents the Church, the Body of Christ, entering with praise and thanksgiving, filled with the Holy Spirit (Pentecost), and then walking in the Light of the World (menorah on the south side) and the bread of the Presence on the north side, signifying the true bread from Heaven, with your lamps lit by the anointing, and then, in a cloud of prayer (Trumpets, Revelation 4:1), you press on to the Golden Altar of Incense and with the blood of the eternal sacrifice to sprinkle seven times on the Mercy Seat (Day of Atonement), you can enter the veil by a new and living way with your great High Priest to hear My voice in the flow of prayer where you walk with Me in the complete knowing of who the other one is, past the dividing line that the flesh sets up to keep you at a distance, to walking in heavenly realms even now, to enter into worship in the peace of the Holy of Holies in a continuous flow of love and honor between you and Me where each one values the other and finds the other one precious. And you have arrived on the west side at the setting of the sun of your lives, drawn back into My bosom to tabernacle with Me forever in perfect day (Feast of Tabernacles).
So now let us go back to the fulfillment of the appointed time of Pentecost and pick up from where we left off in the last Life Lesson as to what happened that day. Pentecost was to celebrate My giving of the Law on Mt. Sinai at the time of Moses and to celebrate the spring harvest.
“Now there were Jews dwelling in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven.” Acts 2:5. These were people who knew My Word but they had been scattered to the nations. Already you see the miraculous catch of the 153 fish and call to the disciples go to tell the good news to the nations. And a crowd gathered at the noise for many had come up to Jerusalem for the pilgrim feast of Pentecost, and they were amazed at what they were hearing and seeing.
And when the noise of the strong driving wind was heard, the crowd came together around the place where the disciples were, and when the disciples came forth speaking in tongues they were bewildered because each one of them was hearing the tongues of the disciples as in his own native language. This was a mass manifestation of an interpretation of tongues as ministry tongues. They were amazed and astonished, saying, “Why, are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we each hear them in our own language to which we were born? Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya around Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs—we hear them in our own tongues speaking of the mighty deeds of God.” And they all continued in amazement and great perplexity, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” But others were mocking and saying, “They are full of sweet wine.” Acts 2:6-13.
Peter knew the call that Jesus had put on his life when he first followed Him and how He had confirmed that call after the resurrection despite Peter’s denials the night Jesus was betrayed. Jesus had enlarged that call from the lost sheep of the house of Israel to all the nations on the shore of the Sea of Tiberias when He appeared there that morning a short time after I raised Him from the dead. Peter now stepped up to begin fulfilling My calling upon his life. And I have called you all to be My witnesses.
Peter stepped forward to preach and teach. My Spirit in Him had given him revelation as to the prophecy of Scripture which was taking place and he knew he was talking to people who knew scriptures.
So Peter stood up and how did he explain what was going on to the crowd? The prophecy of Joel, for they were hearing the sound of the early rain, My glorious Church had been planted in the earth and the age of grace had begun. And you are now part of this glorious age and once you believed in the gospel of your salvation, I sealed you in My Son by the Holy Spirit as a pledge of your resurrection to a new and glorious body at the end of the age.
Here is the prophecy of Joel that Peter now spoke to the crowd so they would understand what was taking place:
“And it shall be in the last days,” God says, “that I will pour forth of My Spirit on all mankind; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. Even on My bondslaves, both men and women, I will in those days pour forth of My Spirit and they shall prophesy. And I will grant wonders in the sky above and miracles on the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord shall come. And it shall be that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Acts 2:16-21.
Now you may be saying where do you find the early and the later rain in this passage? I will show you in the context of the prophecy as it was first spoken from Me by Joel.
“So rejoice, O sons of Zion, and be glad in the LORD your God; for He has given you THE EARLY RAIN FOR YOUR VINDICATION.” Joel 2:23. With the early rain came the opening of salvation to all men, for “the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.” Titus 2:11-14. “He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.” Titus 3:5-7.
And Peter understood this for he went on to tell the people standing there before him at the pouring out of the early rain: “This Jesus God raised up again, to which we are all witnesses. Therefore having been exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured forth this which you both see and hear.” Acts 2:32-33. And he goes on, “Therefore let all the house of Israel know for certain that God has made Him both Lord and Messiah—this Jesus whom you crucified.” Acts 2:37. No more denials, no more fear of crowds, Peter, just like when he Jesus on the shore a short time earlier jumped in the water to get to Jesus and then hauled he net ashore, was all in. No turning back. He was committed to witness and call the world to Jesus. Are you all in? Or are you still trying to please the world and Me? You cannot serve two masters. If you are trying to be politically correct you will deny Me.
And the result? They saw the confidence of Peter and they had seen the sign of the tongues; they were all in as well, “Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brethren, what shall we do?” Peter said to them, “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself.” Acts 2:38.
THE PROMISE had been fulfilled—what Jesus called “the promise of the Father,” which is a new heart filled with My Spirit so you can walk in My laws and keep My Words from your heart. A flow from Heaven to earth that opens up all the treasures of Heaven to you. It has pleased Me to give you who are born again as citizens thereof My Kingdom and all that goes with it. And it is all accessed by the One Spirit. And the PROMISE is for you and your children AND FOR ALL WHO ARE FAR OFF, AS MANY AS THE LORD GOD WILL CALL TO HIMSELF. I have called you all in Jesus to come and receive. All who are thirsty, COME! And drink freely of the water of life till rivers of living water flow into and out of you to flood the world with the knowledge of My glory as the waters cover the sea. There will be a great move of healing, provision, protection, and great deliverance. Not by human might and power but by My Spirit. And mountains will become plains before you as you shout, “Grace, grace to it.”
“This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel saying, ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the LORD of hosts. ‘What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain; and he will bring forth the chief corner stone with shouts of “Grace, grace to it!”’ Zechariah 6:6-7.
And that day of the fulfillment of Pentecost, Peter continued to address the crowd with many other words he solemnly testified and kept on exhorting them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation!” So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand souls. They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.” Acts 2:38-42.
The early rain had come. The time of vindication. The age of grace the Church age. The summer months on the timeline before the feast of Trumpets is fulfilled and the Church is caught away and atonement begins. But there is still time for men to be saved and come to know the truth.
And do you see how this all comes to pass? The gift of the Holy Spirit. The pouring down of the early and the latter rain.
And what happens when the latter rain comes? Go back to Joel, “The threshing floors will be full of grain, and the vats will overflow with the new wine and oil (the bread and the wine of the New Covenant of My Son’s body and blood, and the oil of the anointing). Then I will make up to you for the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the creeping locust, the stripping locust and the gnawing locust, my great army which I sent among you. You will have plenty to eat and be satisfied and praise the name of the LORD your God, who has dealt wondrously with you; then My people will never be put to shame.” Joel 2:24-26. And it is after this that the prophecy Peter quoted began.
Let Me show you the agreement with the prophet Hosea, “Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn Him (Jesus), but He will heal us; He struck Him (Jesus), but He will bind us. He will revive us after two days; He will raise us up on the third day, that we may live before Him. So let us know, let us press on to know the (את) LORD. His going forth is as certain as the dawn; and He will come to us like the rain, like the latter and the early rain watering the earth.” Hosea 6:1-3. He is coming to raise you at the beginning of the third day—a day is as a thousand years to Me and it is close to the dawn of the third day since I raised Christ from the dead. The time is near at hand. And the devil knows his time is short before he is locked in the abyss.
Now, so what should you be doing to overcome and be found busy about My business when I come? Go back to the prophecy of Joel for insight. I stated that I will pour My Spirit on you and My bond servants (those who serve Me willingly as their own choice), men and women, shall prophesy. And what will I do? “And I will grant wonders in the sky above and miracles on the earth below.” Your work is to prophesy and My Work is to confirm that Word by signs, wonders, and miracle that follow, Mark 16:20 (“And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them, and confirmed the word by the attesting miracles that followed.”) to bring all you can reach into the Kingdom. for “This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.” Matthew 24:14.
And what is prophecy? “One who prophesies speaks to men for edification and exhortation and consolation.” 1 Corinthians 14:3. And, “For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” Revelation 19:10. And at the Passover meal before He died, Jesus told His followers, “When the Paraclete (Helper) comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me, and you will testify also, because you have been with Me from the beginning.” John 15:26-27.
My Work is to do the miracles of healing and provision through you who are in Him that Jesus did and greater, and your work is to receive Jesus and the gift of the Holy Spirit and go forth and testify to the same so all may know the glorious gospel of salvation that is found in Jesus your Lord. And you are to take His authority and His Name and heal the sick, cast out demons, raise the dead, and preach the good news whether convenient or inconvenient.
And to finish the prophecy, “And it shall be that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” But “how then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher? How will they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news of good things!” Romans 10:14-15. Remember what Jesus told His followers when I raised Him from the dead? “Peace be with you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.” John 20:21-22. And Jesus told you I sent Him to seek out and save the lost. Go and do likewise. And do as Peter did and get people saved, but do not stop there, tell them about the Holy Spirit so they too can be filled with the Holy Spirit and faith, and have the joy of believing.
For no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except by the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 12:3.
It is time for you to witness. It is time to bring people to have days of Heaven upon the earth. Bring the Kingdom close, for My Kingdom is one of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Jesus told you, “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.” Acts 1:8. Are you paying attention? The devil will try to distract you, dissuade you, and persecute you to stop your prophesying and your witnessing but he cannot stop you if you are filled with faith and the Holy Spirit. Faith comes by hearing, speaking and doing My Word. You get filled with the Holy Spirit by asking Me for Him and then continually worshipping and making melody in your heart unto Me in the Spirit. And never forget praying in the Spirit, that is, tongues. It is the doorway to the supernatural.
But in case you are still wondering about what is the early and what is the latter rain because unless you understand the agricultural system in Israel, you will not join this up with planting and harvests.
If you recall, Jesus likened the way My Kingdom works to agriculture and farming, His first parable was about a sower sowing seed. My Word gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater. Isaiah 55:10. I tell you that if you sow sparingly you reap sparingly but if you sow bountifully you reap bountifully. 2 Corinthians 9:6. I call My Word imperishable seed that I plant in your heart. James 1:21. My appointed times, which are called “feasts” in translation to English, are integrated with the natural agricultural cycle of the year in Israel.
The process begins around the month of Kislev (November/December) with staggered sowing of the seeds over a period of four months. The first crops harvested are flax and barley (if you recall from the story of Ruth, the first harvest she gleaned was barley), at the time of Passover and First Fruits (the waving by the priest of the sheaf of first fruits, Leviticus 23:10). The time of the wheat harvest is at Shavuot (Pentecost) with the Two Loaves offering, made from the newly harvested wheat. Leviticus 23:17. The summer months are spent harvesting and gathering the summer crops and fruits. The cycle ends in the month of Tishrei (September). It is a time to take stock, a time for introspection and for making resolutions and planning the coming agricultural year. This is reflected in the festivals of Rosh Hashanah (Trumpets) and Yom Kippur (Atonement). The nation’s prosperity for the coming year is set on Rosh Hashanah and sealed on Yom Kippur if atonement is accepted before Me when the High Priest enters the Holy of holies to sprinkle the blood seven times for the sins of the nation. The celebration of the early rain, that is, the first rain for planting, showing My favor on the county, is accompanied by a feeling of wellbeing and prosperity reflected in the festival of Sukkot (Tabernacles), the time of rejoicing.
So now you see the cycle, the early rain appeared in late autumn at the time of planting (feast of Tabernacles) and the latter rain occurred in springtime at the beginning of the time of the harvest (close to Passover). The early rain of the outpouring of My Spirit into the hearts of believers planted the Church and it has been growing during the age of grace. The latter rain comes at the beginning of the harvest. Now the time of harvest is even at your door. Jesus explained this in a parable:
“The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away. But when the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the tares became evident also. The slaves of the landowner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ And he said to them, ‘An enemy has done this!’ The slaves said to him, ‘Do you want us, then, to go and gather them up?’ But he said, ‘No; for while you are gathering up the tares, you may uproot the wheat with them. Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn.” Matthew 13:24-30.
You have the benefit of having this parable revealed to you by Jesus as He explained it to His disciples. “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, and the field is the world; and as for the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one; and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are angels. So just as the tares are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit lawlessness, and will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear. Matthew 13:36-43.
My Son told you that the tares that grew with the wheat are sons of the devil. My Son told the Pharisees, “I know that you are Abraham’s descendants; yet you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you. I speak the things which I have seen with My Father; therefore you also do the things which you heard from your father.” John 8:37-38. So the one that My Word finds no place in is still under the dominion of Satan, for that is how Adam and Eve got there and how they murdered the eternal life within them that was from Me. “Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word. You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me.” John 8:43-45. And until My Word finds place in you and you are born again from that imperishable seed you are still a child of the devil, that is, a child of wrath, for, as Jesus told them, “Unless you come to believe that I AM you will die in your sins.” John 8:24.
And Jesus explains to you very clearly, so you should not be unaware of this, that the harvest is the end of the age. What age? The age planted by the early rain, the Church, the age of grace, for when the feast of Trumpets is fulfilled all who are in the Body of Christ, that is, all born again believers in My Son (for if you have not been born again from above in Christ you cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, let alone see it, John 3:3-5), that is, the Church, will be caught up to meet Jesus in the air in a twinkling of an eye at the trumpet blast. And a new age will begin. The age of the great tribulation, the fulfillment of the feast of the Atonement.
And when you read the Book of Revelation you will find that the reapers are the angels. But all of you will be at the marriage feast of the Lamb! Get as many there as possible while there is still time. Be My witnesses to the end of the earth and bring as many as you can reach to the knowledge of the saving grace in My Son that is still available to them at this time. That is why I let the tares grow with the wheat, so that the wheat can bring the tares to join them in the great joy of eternal life with Me in the glorious Kingdom that will embrace Heaven and earth, a new earth. Go after the tares (the lost) and bring them into My barn. I do not want any to perish but for all to be saved and come to know the truth. Hell was created for the devil and his angels not for the sons of men but the devil will try to take you there with him and if he cannot do that at least to make you taste hell now by depression, worry, anxiety, and fear.
My Son told you that as the time of the great harvest approaches there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves, men fainting from fear and the expectation of the things which are coming upon the world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” Luke 21:25-28. For when He comes will He find any faith on the earth? Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many. Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end, he will be saved. Matthew 24:11-13.
But even though the world will have darkness, arise and shine, for My glory is shining on you. I know those who are Mine and I protect you. Abide in Me, make Me your dwelling place.
And to close I will just share with you how beloved and cared for you are. You are not one moment without My loving eyes on you waiting for you to connect with Me in the Spirit by faith.
Slowly read and meditate on Psalm 139. It is for you, as is all My Word. And you will notice it is for the choir director. It is meant to be sung, just use your own tune.
For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
139 O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
You understand my thought from afar.
3 You scrutinize my path and my lying down,
And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before there is a word on my tongue,
Behold, O Lord, You know it all.
5 You have enclosed me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is too high, I cannot attain to it.
7 Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.
9 If I take the wings of the dawn,
If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,
10 Even there Your hand will lead me,
And Your right hand will lay hold of me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me,
And the light around me will be night,”
12 Even the darkness is not dark to You,
And the night is as bright as the day.
Darkness and light are alike to You.
13 For You formed my inward parts;
You wove me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will give thanks to You,
for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth;
16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;
And in Your book were all written
The days that were ordained for me,
When as yet there was not one of them.
17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand.
When I awake, I am still with You.
19 O that You would slay the wicked, O God;
Depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.
20 For they speak against You wickedly,
And Your enemies take Your name in vain.
21 Do I not hate those who hate You, O Lord?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
22 I hate them with the utmost hatred;
They have become my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me and know my anxious thoughts;
24 And see if there be any hurtful way in me,
And lead me in the everlasting way.
I love you and I have you covered. You are with Me always and I am always with you. Never step out of our oneness.