{"id":14026,"date":"2025-06-24T16:56:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T20:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/?p=14026"},"modified":"2025-06-24T16:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T20:56:17","slug":"we-are-being-watched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2025\/06\/we-are-being-watched\/","title":{"rendered":"We are Being Watched!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>2025 THEME: Burning Hearts<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Title: We are Being Watched!<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Scripture: Psalm 78-107<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">I. BY OUTSIDERS <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">(<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">78-79, 96-102)<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Two things we can learn from Psalm 78:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li>We must learn (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>from the past<\/strong><\/span>)<\/li>\n<li>We must instruct (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>our children<\/strong><\/span>).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Asaph echoes Deut. 6:4-6<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Psalm 101:1-4- Integrity is when there is no gap between (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>what we say we believe<\/strong><\/span>) and our<br \/>\n(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>actions, reactions, and responses<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>II. BY AN INSIDER (80-95, 103-107)<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Psalm 80:14-19 shows God uses (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>different means<\/strong><\/span>) to (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>get our attention<\/strong><\/span>), (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>change our focus<\/strong><\/span>),<br \/>\n(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>change our lives<\/strong><\/span>), and to turn us in the (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>right direction<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">God will not (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>stop pursuing<\/strong><\/span>) us. We can run but we can\u2019t hide. Ps. 84:1-4, 10-12<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Want to know what God thinks of you? Ps. 89:1-2, 6-8, 13-18<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">\u201cFor many of us, a dangerous gap lies between what we say we believe and how we live.\u201d (PDT-<br \/>\nJune 26-p.222)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">A person cannot recognize the awesome, magnificent, expansive, unending greatness of God<br \/>\nwithout seeing nothing compares to it.<\/p>\n<p>Next week:<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> Taking God at His Word<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Scripture: <\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Psalm 108-145<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025 THEME: Burning Hearts Title: We are Being Watched! Scripture: Psalm 78-107 I. BY OUTSIDERS (78-79, 96-102) Two things we can learn from Psalm 78: We must learn (from the past) We must instruct (our children). 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