This week, Pastor Alex led us in a message titled “Search me. Know me” out of Psalm 139.

License is permission to do something; especially formal permission from a government or authority. If we are committing to God, we give Him a legal authority into our lives. This means asking the Lord to search us, lead us, and know us at the deepest levels.

Inside all of us there is a desire for control and to be the center of our own worlds, and our own lives. But giving our lives to God means turning both of those things over to Him.

Pastor Alex led us in three primary points:

1. God wants license into your lives.

We need to give God permission to speak into our lives, to search us and to know us. Within this Psalm, David asks the Lord to know his thoughts and doubts, and to test him. We see more of who God is through times of doubt and testing.

2. God wants your submission.

Our lives produce lasting change when we fully submit to Him – giving Him control. Jesus needs to be the Lord of our lives, which is a position of full authority.

Submitting to God therefore is what gives Him license to access our hearts, and it is this that produces lasting change within us.

3.God wants to give us His vision.

God sees redemption – and He wants to align us to that vision, and to Him. We need to give God license into our hearts so that we can see this world with His eyes and not our own.

Until we are willing to submit, He can not use us. We must give up control, and give God full license into our hearts.