Attributes of God | God is Omniscient

Discussion Questions

Psalm 139: God’s intimate knowledge 

1. Read Psalm 139:1-6. What phrases stand out regarding God’s knowledge of David? How does knowing that God knows you fully make you feel?
   
2. Read Psalm 139:2 How does this detailed knowledge of daily lives and thoughts impact your perspective on prayer?
   
3. Read Psalm 139:4 How does this foreknowledge affect your view of conversations with God? Does it change how you pray or what you choose to pray about?
   
4. Read Psalm 139:6. How does God’s omniscience amaze you? What are the comforting and sobering aspects of knowing nothing is hidden from God? 
   
5. Psalm 139:13-16 speaks to God’s intricate knowledge and design of each individual. How does being “fearfully and wonderfully made” impact your sense of self-worth and your view on the sanctity of life?

Our response to God’s omniscience (Psalm 139:17-24)

6. How does David’s declaration that God’s thoughts towards him are “precious” (v. 17) resonate with people?
   
7. What does it mean that God knows a person’s unformed substance, as mentioned in verse 16?
   
8. David asks God to search and test him (vs. 23-24). Why do you think he makes this request? How comfortable are people with this idea, and why?
   
9. How  can prayers like David’s, asking God to reveal any “grievous way” in us, help people grow spiritually?