Week 10

PSALM 139:1-18

Psalm 139

For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

1 You have searched me, Lord,
    and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
    you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
    you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue
    you, Lord, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before,
    and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
    too lofty for me to attain.

7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
    Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
    if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
    if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
    your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
    and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
    the night will shine like the day,
    for darkness is as light to you.

13 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!
18 Were I to count them,
    they would outnumber the grains of sand—
    when I awake, I am still with you.

TALKING POINTS

• Do you love your best friend? Why?
• On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you love yourself?
• Do you know God's love for you?
• How does this Psalm make you feel?
• Perhaps it's easy to think and know that God love you, but do you actually feel it?
• "I am fearfully and wonderfully made." What does that mean? Do you believe it?
• "Fearfully" is exchanged with "Divinely" in other versions of the Bible.
• You are a direct work of God
• You are made in God's image - God is both feared and loved
• Fear comes out of respect
• Why is it hard to love yourself?
• What walls do you keep up that prevent you from loving yourself?
• How do you love yourself?

MUFFIN OF THE WEEK

PUMPKIN NUTELLA

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
• 1 cup pumpkin puree
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1/3 cup butter, melted
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1 tsp vanilla
• nutella

Directions

Preheat oven to 350F. Line and spray muffin tins. Combine flour, sugar, baking soda, salt and pumpkin pie spice in a bowl and set aside. In another bowl, whisk together pumpkin, milk, butter, eggs, and vanilla. Fold wet ingredients in the dry. Using an ice cream scoop, fill muffin tins 3/4 full. Add a teaspoon of nutella and swirl into muffin batter with a knife. Bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.