// Session 03 · Matt Hayes · Intentional with Our Thoughts

Know
Your God

What you believe about God is the filter through which every thought, decision, and emotion passes. Psalm 139 gives us three foundational truths about who He is — and who He knows you to be.

"What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us."
— A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy

Your faith needs a filter — and that filter is an accurate, biblical understanding of who God is. Because the God you believe in will shape the prayers you pray, the fears you carry, the decisions you make, and the way you see yourself. Get the filter right, and everything else starts to clear.

// Psalm 139 · Three Attributes of God

Who God Is — And Who
That Makes You

// 01
Omniscient
All-Knowing

God does not learn new things about you. He has always known you — completely. Every thought before you speak it, every moment before you live it, every version of you that has ever existed or ever will.

This is not surveillance. This is intimacy. To be fully known and still fully loved is the foundation of a transformed mind.

// What This Filters

You do not need to hide from God. He already knows. Come to Him as you actually are — not the version you think He wants to see.

// Psalm 139:1–4
"O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether."
// Psalm 139:5–6
"You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it."
// 02
Omnipresent
All-Present

There is nowhere you can go that God is not already there. Not in your worst moment. Not in the darkest corner of your life. Not in the place you have been running toward or the place you have been running from.

His presence is not a reward for good behavior. It is simply who He is. He is with you — always, everywhere, without condition.

// What This Filters

You are never alone with your thoughts. God is in the room. That changes what you allow to take up space in your mind.

// Psalm 139:7–10
"Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me."
// Psalm 139:11–12
"If I say, 'Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,' even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you."
// 03
Omnipotent
All-Powerful

The same God who formed the universe formed you — with intention, with detail, with care. He did not accidentally put you together. He crafted you. He knew you before you were born, wrote your days before any of them came to be, and His thoughts toward you outnumber the sand on the shore.

That is not poetry. That is the power of a God who is personally invested in your existence.

// What This Filters

Your life is not an accident. Your struggles are not a surprise to God. His power is not overwhelmed by your situation — it formed you for it.

// Psalm 139:13–15
"For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth."
// Psalm 139:16–18
"Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you."
// Reflect & Respond

Questions to Sit With

// Q1
What do you actually believe about God — not what you say you believe, but what you live like is true?
// Q2
Which of these three attributes of God — Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent — feels hardest for you to believe right now? Why?
// Q3
If God knows you completely and loves you fully, what are you still hiding from Him? What would it look like to bring that into the open?
// Q4
Psalm 139 ends with "I awake, and I am still with you." What would change in your daily life if you started each day with that truth?
// Q5
What thought patterns in your life are built on a wrong view of God — and what would it look like to replace them with the truth of Psalm 139?
// Q6
How does knowing that God's thoughts toward you outnumber the sand change the way you think about yourself today?

Now — Renew Your Mind

Knowing who God is leads to the practical work of transforming how you think. See the companion resource.

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