In All Thy Ways Acknowledge Him

Driving home: an earnest penetrating awareness engaging the whole man. To acknowledge him in all our ways means that we give to him a recognition which involves an earnest penetrating awareness of God which engages the whole man.

The biblical phrase 'Adam knew his wife' is used to illustrate that 'know' or 'acknowledge' in Hebrew signifies a deep, intimate, experiential acquaintance, not mere cognition.

You use the word know as a word of simple cognition, simple awareness. Sometimes the word is used in that sense. But it has great latitude, and it's used on the other end of the spectrum to describe the word. describe what happens when Adam and Eve experienced that intimacy of the union that God had ordained for a man and a woman. The same word is used when it says Adam knew his wife. It's the word used in 1 Chronicles 28 in verse 9, where David is admonishing Solomon, and I think this probably most closely approximates the usage in this text. 1 Chronicles 28 in verse 9, David is admonishing h...

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In this part of the sermon: He shares a personal story from his Bible school days, illustrating how God taught him to acknowledge Him in all ways, leading to peace and guidance despite not knowing the…

Martin recounts his anxiety about post-graduation plans, his desperate prayer, and how God used Proverbs 3:5-6 to teach him to trust and acknowledge Him, leading to peace before specific guidance was revealed.

And I remember how vividly God taught me this lesson initially and I may have shared this a long time ago I guess when you've been any place over ten years you gain the privilege of repeating anecdotes.

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The point: Cultivate the spiritual discipline of acknowledging God in the 'minor affairs' of your life, as this prepares you for major crises.

He shares a story of working for $15 a day scraping manure from bullpens, illustrating how God used this 'inconsequential' task, where he sought to acknowledge God, to open the door to his next ministry appointment.

minor affairs of his life you see you cannot walk in a course of non-acknowledgement of God and then all of a sudden because a big crisis looms in which you know there's tremendous personal danger if you don't go the right direction and make the right decision all of a sudden you try to get acclimated to a God-centered perspective of God with reference to decision making. It doesn't work that way. It's the person who has cultivated this spiritual discipline of acknowledging God in all His ways, the little things, the inconsequential things, who is prepared by that discipline when he faces a cr...

34:28 - 35:53 Read in full sermon

The point: Measure yourself constantly against the standard of acknowledging God in all your ways, even though it is unattainable perfectly in this life.

The analogy of a mother overwhelmed by three children all demanding her attention at once is used to highlight the infinite greatness of God, who can care for each of His children as if they were His only one, even when all acknowledge Him simultaneously.

And as we think of it, our minds should immediately reflect upon the greatness of such a God who calls us to this. You could get yourself in trouble saying to even, if you have three kids, acknowledge me in all your ways. Some of you as mothers, you know what it's like. There are three children.

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