Matthew 18 verses 19 and 20 says again, I say to you that if 2 of
you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will
be done for them by my Father in heaven.
For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I
am in the midst of them. And that's us tonight.
We are gathered in His name. And it's up to you what supply
of faith you bring. Every time you come in here,
every time you come up in here. It is not a religious exercise
for us. We come in here and we bring our
supply of faith. So did you bring it tonight?
Amen. The presence of the Lord where
the Spirit of the Lord is. The Bible says there's liberty.
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there's freedom.
Do we believe that is God's presence in you?
In you? You are the temple of the Holy
Ghost. He's in you.
We're going to look at Moses in an Old Testament example of
this, but it's no comparison to us in the new covenant today.
First Corinthians 619 says, do you not know that your body is
the temple of the Holy Spirit? Who's in you, whom you have from
God, and you are not your own. Do you not know?
First John 4/4 says You are of God, little children, and have
overcome them, because he who is in you is greater than he who is
in the world. We sang about our victory.
Do we believe that we have the victory?
Do we believe that we're more than conquerors in Christ Jesus?
If we believe that, then we're saying that we're speaking that
out loud, Isaiah 2913 says. Therefore the Lord said, in as
much as these people draw near me with their mouth, and they
honor me with their lips, but have removed their hearts far
from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the commandment
of men, I put that in here. Matthew 15-8 is another parallel
scripture for that these people draw near me with their mouth
and they honor me with their lips, but their heart is far
from me. I, I put that in here because
sometimes we all have a, a tendency to get in habits and
get in religious exercises and religious ruts.
And you got to make sure that everything you do is in faith.
Everything that you do, you're applying faith to whether you
felt like coming to church, whether you felt like coming to
morning prayer, whether you felt like reading your Bible this
morning. Are you applying faith to
everything that you're doing? Because that's how you're going
to get the word of God and the power of God out of what you're
doing. Now I want to go to Exodus 33
and we're going to look at Moses and we're going to see the
example of Moses and how he longed for the presence of God.
And then it and then it's got to cause us to, to take a step back
and examine our own heart and our own life and ask, are we
seeking and are we longing for the presence of God?
I'm going to read some of this to you and just act like you're
in grade school and I'm your teacher and just just soak it up
and listen to it. Then the Lord said to Moses,
depart and go up from here. You and the people whom you have
brought out of the land of Egypt, to the land which I swore
to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying to your descendants, I
will give it, and I will send my Angel before you, and I will
drive out the Canaanites, and all those people go up to a land
flowing with milk and honey. For I will not listen to what
the Lord says. I will not go up in your midst,
lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff necked
people. In other words, he's saying, I'm
going to send an Angel with you, but I'm not going to go with you
because you're stiff necked and and the, the golden calf thing
happened the chapter before and you're stiff necked and I you're
in rebellion and, and my presence will consume you.
And so verse 4 says, And when the people heard this bad news,
they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments.
For the Lord had said to Moses, say to the children of Israel,
You are a stiff necked people, I could come up in your midst in
one moment and consume you. Now therefore take off your
ornaments, that I may know what to do to you.
So the children of Israel stripped themselves of their
ornaments by Mount Horeb, and Moses took his tent and pitched
it outside the camp, far from the camp, and he called it the
Tabernacle of meeting. And it came to pass that
everyone who sought the Lord went out to the Tabernacle of
meeting, which was outside the camp.
So it was that whenever Moses went out to the Tabernacle, that
all the people rose, and each man stood at his tent door and
watched Moses until he had gone into the Tabernacle.
And it came to pass, when Moses entered the Tabernacle, that the
pillar of cloud descended and stood at the door of the
Tabernacle. And the Lord talked with Moses.
All the people saw the pillar of clouds standing at the
Tabernacle door, and all the people rose and worshipped each
man in his tent door. So the Lord spoke to Moses face
to face as a man speaks to his friend.
Verse 12. Then Moses said to the Lord,
See, you say to me, bring up this people, but you have not
let me know whom you will send with me.
I love this because Moses essentially is saying, these are
your people. And I realize they're stiff
necked, but you're not telling me who's going with me.
You're telling me an angel's going with me, but you're not
telling me anything more than that.
But you have not let me know whom you will send with me.
Yet you have said, I know you by name, and you have also found
grace in my sight. Now therefore I pray, if I found
grace in your sight, show me now your way, that I may know you,
and that I may find grace in your sight.
And consider that this nation is your people.
And he said, the Lord said, my presence will go with you and I
will give you rest. And I love this, this account of
Moses because he the the Lord was going to send an Angel.
And Moses said, these are your people.
You said you've graced me. Who you sending with me?
I want your presence. And in verse 15, Moses says,
then he said to him, Moses said this to the Lord, if your
presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here.
If you're not going to go with me, I don't want to go.
We, we ought to have that posture in our everyday lives.
If you're not going to go with me, I don't want to go.
If there's not going to be an anointing, Lord, when I get up
here, I don't want to do it. If there's not going to be an
anointing when I go out to my workplace, I don't want to go.
Are we even asking? Are we even seeking?
I'm telling you, there is a major distraction in the earth.
And you know what it is? We don't take one minute.
We don't take 3 minutes. We don't take 5 minutes to spend
time in the presence of God. The Ding happens.
There's always something going on that's distracting you,
that's stealing your attention. The Bible says be still and know
that I'm God. Are we doing that?
There is a presence of the Lord that he wants to, to show you,
to reveal a glory of God, the goodness of God that he wants
to, to show you in your personal life, not just the glory in the
temple when we come here, but the glory in the temple.
But are we even asking, are we even taking time to get in his
presence and seek him? And, and Moses said, if your
presence doesn't go, I don't want to go.
For how then will it be known that your people and I have
found grace in your side, except you go with us.
Oh, that ought to be our cry. That's a distinguishing factor.
How are the people going to know that that you're for me and that
I'm with you and that you're in me?
If you don't go with me? How are the people going to
know? People ought to be able to look
at you and go, there's something different about you.
There's something different about your face.
Some of some of us need to check our face because sometimes our
faces don't even look happy. How are you when you're walking
through Walmart, when you're going to public?
Now, I know Walmart's not the greatest, but how are you when
you're walking through there? You ought to have a song on your
lips, a praise in your mouth. I'm not talking about going up
in Walmart and singing psalms in hymns and spiritual songs to
people. I'm not talking about doing
that, but I'm talking about it's in you.
You carry the glory of God because you've been with him,
You spent time with him. So Moses is saying, if I found
grace in your sight, how are the people going to know unless you
go with me? So we shall be separate, your
people and I from all the people who are on the face of the
earth, if your presence is with us.
So the Lord said to Moses, I will also do this thing that you
have spoken for. You have found grace in my
sight, and I know you by name. And Moses said, please show me
your glory. Please show me your glory.
I wonder how many of us have said that today or this week or
in a month or a year. God, show me your glory.
God, I want to be in your presence.
I'm just challenging you because in this fast-paced society that
we live in, it's super easy not to.
It's so easy to go, go, go, go, go.
You know, I can be in the presence of my husband and not
be in his presence. You have God in you, you have
the Holy Ghost in you, but it doesn't mean you're abiding in
His presence. I can be in the same room as Him
and not be communing with Him or talking in any kind of way or
being intimate with Him. It's no different.
Even though you've got God in you, you've got the greater one
on the inside. Do we live as though we have the
greater one on the inside? So the Lord said to Moses, I'll
do it. And he said, please show me your
glory in verse 19. Then he said, I'm already
spitting clouds of glory up here.
Then he said not really, not really, I am spitting, but not
that. Then he said, I will make all my
goodness. I will make all my goodness pass
before you, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you.
I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will
have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
But he said, You cannot see my face, for no man shall see me
and live. And the Lord said, Here is a
place by me, and you shall stand on the rock.
And so it shall be while my glory passes by, that I will put
you in the cleft of the rock, and cover you with my hand while
I pass by. Can you imagine that?
Then I will take away my hand, and you'll see my back parts,
but my face shall not be seen. Exodus 34 I'm not going to read
all of it, just the first few verses and verse.
One says, And the Lord said to Moses, Cut 2 tablets of stone
like the first ones. And I will write on these
tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you
broke. So be ready in the morning and
come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to
me there on the top of the mountain.
And no man shall come up with you.
And let no man be seen throughout all the mountain.
Let neither flocks nor herds feed before that mountain.
So he cut the 2 tablets of stone like the first ones.
And then Moses rose early in the morning and went up to Mount
Sinai as the Lord had commanded him, and he took his hand.
It took in his hand the 2 tablets of stone.
Now verse 5 says, Now the Lord descended in a cloud and stood
with him and proclaimed the name of the Lord.
Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed the Lord,
the Lord God. Now he's, in other words, he's
saying this is who I am, the Lord, the Lord God,
compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding and
loving kindness and truth and faithfulness, keeping mercy and
loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and
transgression and sin. So the Lord stood with him and
says this is who I am in the Lord's presence and in his glory
is his goodness. It's his fullness, it's his
loving kindness, it's his faithfulness, it's his mercy in
his presence is everything that the I am is everything that you
need is in his presence. And if you jump down to verse
29, it says when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the 2
tablets of the testimony in his hand, he did not know that the
skin of his face was shining with a unique radiance because
he had been speaking with God. There was a glory on him that
the people couldn't even look at and he had to put a veil over
his face. And Moses spoke to the Lord face
to face like he was his friend, talked with him, communed with
him. Sometimes we have this picture
of God that he, he is, he is in the heavens.
But the Scripture says that you're seated there in heavenly
places with him. And the Bible tells us to
commune with the Holy Ghost and to go boldly before the throne
of God anytime and all the time. Do you feel worthy to do that?
You know most of the church doesn't.
I'm just going to be honest with you.
Most of the church does not operate in the being righteous
like God called us to be. You know, there's a difference
between being righteous and doing righteousness.
Being righteous is a gift and man, if you understood that
subject, if you understood that not only did God wipe away your
sins as far as the east is from the West, not only did he do
that, the scripture says he literally imputed his
righteousness to you. It's not innocence that gets you
into the Kingdom of God, it's righteousness.
The Bible says that the the scepter of righteousness is the
scepter of the Kingdom. Think about Esther.
He, she couldn't go before the king unless he extended the
scepter to her. Righteousness is your scepter.
It is your I can, I can come boldly, not because of what I
did, not because what I didn't do.
It's a gift. And the Bible says if you
understand the gift of righteousness, you will reign in
life. You'll reign in life as a king.
You need to understand it, and that's part of this subject of
the Lord's presence and coming into His presence.
If you don't feel worthy, then you're not going to do it.
If you're living in guilt and condemnation, then you're not
going to come boldly before the throne of God.
Not one of us should be living in guilt and condemnation.
The Scripture says there is right now, therefore no guilt,
no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
And then it goes on to say who do not live according to the
flesh, but according to the Spirit.
But the Scripture says that you are in the Spirit and that you
do know the Spirit and that you hear his voice and another you
won't follow. I'm just trying to encourage
you. You have the victory, you have
the righteousness of God, you have the boldness, you have the
access. Do it.
Quit letting your past failures and your your.
The Bible says for your shame, He'll give you double.
The Bible says that He's redeemed you from the shame of
your youth. There's not anything that should
keep you out of the presence of God.
Not anything, not one thing. And then if you didn't know
that, then tonight I expect you, whether you do it at the altar
or you do it when you walk out of here, for you to say I am
leaving those things that are behind.
I'm leaving them behind and I'm pressing on towards the mark of
the high calling which is in Christ Jesus.
Are you going to do it? Are we going to stay?
Are we going to stay in this complacent guilt, shame,
condemnation, inferiority complex?
No. We should be righteous
conscious, not sin conscious. If the devil can keep you out of
the Kingdom of God, if he can, if he can, if the devil can't
keep you out of the Kingdom of God, then he'll keep you in sin
consciousness. That's what I was trying to say.
Just because you're born again doesn't mean you're living in
righteousness consciousness. The battle is right here and it
is not a hard battle. Let me just say that God's
giving you everything you need for life and for godliness right
here on the earth. And so you're brand new, your
spirit is brand new. God lives on the inside of you,
but all the time you need to be transforming this right here,
right here. Sometimes we get born again and
we're excited and you should be, and God's on the inside of you.
And then we try to change our behavior.
God didn't ask you to change your behavior.
He asked you to transform your mind.
And then your behavior will change.
Get it right. Get it in the right order, OK?
It's not about what you can do to look good before God.
He already knows how you were, and He knows what He did to make
you white as snow and clothe you with a robe of righteousness.
Hallelujah. I'm going somewhere with this
Moses scripture, OK? The Lord is compassionate,
gracious, slow to anger, abounding, loving kindness.
And the glory of the Lord was on Moses's face, and they had to
put a veil there. This is the old covenant, this
is the Old Testament. We have a new and better living
covenant New Testament that we're living in.
So because of that, let's go to 2nd Corinthians chapter 3 in
light of what we just read about Moses, Second Corinthians
chapter 3 starting in verse 7. But if the ministry of death,
we're talking about the tablets of stone that we just read
about, we're talking about the the commandments that God gave
Moses. If the ministry of death written
and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children
of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses
because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was
passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be
more glorious? I need to ask that question
again. How will the ministry of the
Spirit not be more glorious than the glory that Moses had on his
face? How is the ministry of the
Spirit not more glorious that we shouldn't be walking around full
of the glory of God, full of the joy of the Lord, full of the
peace that surpasses all understanding that's in his
presence. So it says, how much more will
this ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious For the
ministry of, if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the one
we just read about, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much
more in glory, much more in glory.
The ministry of righteousness is the ministry of the Holy Ghost.
It is that For even what was made glorious had no glory in
this respect, because of the glory that excels.
For if what was passing away was glorious, what remains is much
more glorious. Therefore, everybody say,
Therefore, Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great
boldness of speech, unlike Moses, who put a veil over his
face, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily
at the end of what was passing away, but their minds were
blinded. For until this day the same veil
remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because
the veil is taken away in Christ.
But even to this day, when Moses is red, a veil lies on their
heart. Nevertheless, when one turns to
the Lord, the veil is taken away.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is liberty. But we all with unveiled face,
beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being
transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by
the Spirit of the Lord. I've said this countless times
because I love the Scripture that says you behold what manner
of man that you are, and you walk away and you forget.
You behold in a mirror the glory of the of the Lord, the image of
Christ in you, and we walk away and we forget what manner of man
that we are. We're not ever supposed to
forget. We're always supposed to be
reminding that God what he sees because when he looks at you, he
sees Christ in you. He doesn't see your your old
self and your old failures. He sees that righteousness that
he imputed to you. He sees Christ in you.
And so that's the confession of faith that you make in whatever
area that you're dealing with. There's there's an intimacy
that's lacking in the church with the Holy Ghost.
Moses talked to him face to face.
Are we talking to him on a daily basis, face to face, spending
time with him? John chapter 14 says, and I will
ask the Father, and he'll give you another helper, comforter,
advocate, intercessor, counselor, strengthener, and
standby. I need to say that again, and
I'll ask the Father and he'll give you another helper.
This is the Holy Ghost within you.
He's your comforter. He is your advocate, he is your
intercessor, he is your counselor, your strengthener and
your standby. There's a guy that we haven't
talked to for years that I just thought of this because I was
feeling kind of coachy, like I want to come down there and grab
some of you. I there's a guy that we haven't
talked to for years that called my husband before church.
We haven't talked to Joe for so long and I heard his voice all
the way. He's from New Jersey.
I heard his voice all the way through the through the phone
and apparently he's watched some of our, the Youtubes And he, he
told my husband, he said, I, I listened to you and he said and,
and your wife, what happened? She's like, she used to be like
quiet or and and I when we were at Rayma and I was indeed I was,
I was learning how and some people ought to do this when
they get born again. I was learning how my
personality was going to be in Christ because I know how my
personality was and I know the coarse jesting and silliness and
fun and carnality and, you know, all the things that I did.
And so when I got born again, I was like, I don't know, I don't
know who I am. I don't know what to do.
Can I even speak? Like I'm not even sure what's
happening. I was so grateful and so
thankful because the Lord delivered me.
I was so I was so grateful and I just was so humbled.
And just like Lord I, there is a definite reverential fear of you
and, and all, and I trust you and I'm just going to yield all
of it to you. And now it's all here.
So yeah, yeah, yeah. So so he, I guess he had watched
of our videos and was like, what happened to her?
So anyway, John, chapter 14 that I felt kind of coachy right
there, like I'm like, are you with me?
Are you are you hearing what I'm saying?
Because I want to, you know, if they're not getting it on the
basketball court, I might go spank them or grab them or I'm
not abusing them. It's all love.
But sometimes I want to do that up in here, up in here.
OK, now, John 14, I don't even know what song that is.
I hope. I don't even know.
It's maybe not good. I'm sorry, I'm trying to get the
presence of the Lord here, OK? The Holy Ghost.
The Holy Ghost is in you. He's in you, and he'll be with
you forever. The Spirit of truth, whom the
world cannot receive and take to its heart because it does not
see Him or know Him. But you know Him because He, the
Holy Spirit, remains with you continually and will be in you.
You know Him. He can be in you and with you,
and you're not acknowledging Him.
You know, the Holy Ghost can be grieved, He can be quenched, He
can be lied to, He can be resisted.
The Scripture is clear about that.
And unfortunately, I think sometimes in the church we're
doing that and and we're seeing more and more of the more you
resist, the more you quench, the more you don't yield to the Holy
Ghost, the easier it is for your conscience to become seared.
The Bible talks about that. And then it's harder for you to
hear and easier for you to yield to doctrines of demons and
seducing spirits. And so I encourage you, if the
Holy Ghost is talking to you about anything, you know, when
when I first got born again, you know, he would talk to me about
little things at the time that now I'm like, I wish those were
the things that he was telling me to like give somebody a pair
of shoes or take a break from peanut butter, you know,
something like that. But but when you grow, there's
other things that he's going to talk to you about, you know, to
sacrifice to, to lay down, putting your flesh down.
And are we yielding to that or do we make justification for
what we thought? It's OK if I eat peanut butter.
I mean, God's not against peanut butter, but did he tell me to
stop for a season? Right now is not the season.
I had peanut butter today. But.
But he has told me crunchy, too, by the way.
Yeah, I can eat either. But crunchy?
There's something about crunchy peanut butter.
Are you careful? Careful.
Are you drawing near? James, 47, says.
Therefore submit to God. Quit texting me.
Resist the devil. Resist the devil.
OK, Focus, focus. OK.
Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will
flee from you. Draw near to God and he will
draw near to you. Draw near to God and he will
draw near to you. Do you long for his presence,
His glory? Our access is greater if Moses
could talk to him face to face in the glory cloud could come
down and and envelope that space there.
So they all stood there on the edge of their tents and watched
the glory cloud. How much more in this new and
better covenant that we're in? Should we be living in the
glory? The glory of God is the full
fullness of his presence. The glory of God is the fullness
of his loving kindness, the fullness of his goodness.
That's the glory of God. Are we living in the glory of
God, God, God. Hebrews chapter 10 verses 19
through 23 says therefore, brethren, therefore, brethren,
having boldness to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
thank you Lord, thank you Lord for the blood.
Thank you, Father. Having boldness to enter the
holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way in which
he consecrated for us through the veil that is his flesh, and
having a high priest over the House of God.
Let us listen to verse 22. Let us draw near with a true
heart, with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our
hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.
That's what I was just talking about a few minutes ago.
You either live in an evil conscious, a sin consciousness,
or righteousness consciousness. So it says, having our hearts
sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed
with pure water, let us hold fast the confession of our hope
without wavering. For he who promised is faithful.
Is he faithful? Will he do it?
Did he do it? Yes, Hebrews chapter 4 verse 16
says let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace
that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help us in our
time of need, empowering grace to overcome anything in our life
that that comes to us. We can boldly come to the throne
of God about it. Ephesians 3 verses 11 and 12
says according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in
Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom listen to verse 12 in whom we
have boldness and access, boldness and access with
confidence through faith in Him boldness and access, you have
access. Let's look at David in Psalm 51
verses 10 through 12. This is right after David had
failed with Bathsheba and and David is crying out for the
presence of God, longing saying please don't leave me, please
don't take your Holy Spirit from me.
In verse 10 it says created me a clean heart O God, and renew a
steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your
presence and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.
And David didn't even have the Holy Ghost within him like we
do. The Holy Ghost would come upon
him, the prophet, priest, and king.
And he's saying, please don't take your presents from me.
Please don't take your spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of your salvation and uphold me by Your
generous spirit. Psalm 139.
I'm going to fly through the rest of these.
Oh Lord, You have searched me and known me.
You know my sitting down and my rising up.
You understand my thoughts are far off, You comprehend my path
and my lying down, and you're acquainted with all my ways, for
there is not a word on my tongue.
But behold, O Lord, you know it all together.
You have hedged me in behind and before, and laid your hand upon
me. Such knowledge is too wonderful
for me. It is high.
I cannot attain it. Verse 7.
Where can I go from your spirit, and where can I flee from your
presence? If I ascend to heaven, you're
there. And if I make my bed in hell,
behold, you are there. Where can you go from him?
You can run all day long, but there he is.
You're going to have to choose. I want you.
I want your presence. I'm going to quit running from
you talking to me. I'm going to quit running
because I don't feel good enough.
I'm going to quit running because I'm insecure or have
guilt or condemnation. I'm going to quit running from
your presence because everywhere I go, there you are.
I can't get away from you. Everywhere I'm at, there you
are. If I'm in hell, there you are.
If I'm on the mountaintop, there you are.
But are you engaging with him? Zephaniah 317 says The Lord your
God in your midst, the mighty one will save, He will rejoice
over you with gladness, and he will quiet you with his love,
and he will rejoice over you with singing.
It says the Lord your God in your midst.
When his presence is there, you'll know that he's rejoicing
over you with gladness. You'll know that he will quiet
you with his love. You'll know his love and that he
sings over you. You know, I love that that
recently really ministered to me that that God sings.
I never really thought about that.
I never really, even though I've read that scripture and other
scriptures, I never really thought about the fact that God
sings and, and, and literally brought me to tears.
You know, one day reading this Scripture and, and I tried to
convey it in one of my Kingdom institute classes.
But but God sings over you think about think about your, your,
your kids when they were little. I don't know if you all sang
over them. We sang Pastor Mike even saying,
saying to the girls, and he's not a singer.
What was that song he used to sing?
Love is love is easily satisfied.
He made it up. And so he would sing that and I
would sing the Veggietales song. A thankful heart is a happy
heart. Be glad for what you have.
That's an easy way to start. I would sing that to them all
the time. And, and, and just sing songs.
If you know my girls or you've been in my home or you've been
in my car. I'm that meme that says nobody
ride with me because I want to sing.
I want to, I want to like belt it out.
Like I don't just, I don't know what people are thinking next to
me because I sing and I like it and I just, I just sing to the
top of my lungs anytime I can. I'll sing.
And it's not because I want to perform.
It's because there's a song in me and it's because God sings
over me and he loves me. And, and if when your kids know
that you love them, what do they do?
They just, they're happy. They just frolic around and run
through the house and dance and sing and, and, and that you
create an atmosphere of joy, an atmosphere of peace, an
atmosphere of the presence of God.
Even when you're watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, you can, you
can turn it into something. That's what I always used to do
when, when my girls were little. We always, and the Bible says,
write the word of God on your doorpost, put it on your
forehead, put it everywhere. Everything that you do, you're
the one that's training them up in the way that they should go.
You're the one that's that's creating the presence of God in
your home. OK, let's talk about one way to
draw near and we're going to do it.
Praise and Thanksgiving is one way to draw near a focused
heart. Also, if I could say that,
remember, I read, you know that they, they, they say all the
right things. They do the right things with
their heart is far from me. You've got to focus your heart,
focus your mind. When you're with the Lord, you
can mindlessly be sitting here. You could, you could without any
thought be reading your Bible or putting it on, you know, read
out loud mode and be doing the dishes and not giving one.
Yep, I read it. No, you don't have a clue what
it said. Don't be mindlessly engaging
with God if you want His presence.
If you want where the Spirit of the Lord is, there's true
freedom and liberty. Be focused, have a focused heart
and and always give thanks. Psalm 22, verse 3 is the
scripture that says God inhabits the praises of his people and
Israel, the praises of you, his people.
God's presence comes in in the praise when we were doing praise
and worship, loved, loved, loved.
And I want to do that first song again, that his glory fills the
temple as we worship Him. His presence fills your life
when you're worshipping him. Are you thankful?
Do you have a thankful heart? It's such a great habit to get
in with the Lord first of all, but also in your home.
If, if, if I can't say thank you to my husband or to my kids, no
matter what it is, we're always like, thank you, appreciate you,
thank you for doing that. Have a thankful heart.
Vocalize it. You know that it's not a
scripture, but it's a, it's a little saying that I like, dance
like nobody's watching. Love like you've never been
hurt. Was it?
What's the rest of it? Nobody knows anyway.
I can dance like nobody's watching.
I have a problem with that. Love like you've never been
hurt. Live life like it's heaven on
earth. When are you going to wait to
just fully love? When are you going to wait to
just really love people and just really vocalize your
appreciation for people? That's not what this is about,
but apparently somebody needs to hear it.
Don't wait. Don't be locked up.
Don't, don't not tell the people around you how much you love
them, how much you care, how thankful you are for them, for
their gift, not just what they can do for you, but just how
much you love them. Be quick to do that and do it
often. Do it often.
Psalm 34, I will bless the Lord at all times.
Not sometimes, not in church, not every once in awhile.
It says I'll bless the Lord at all times.
His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
My soul shall make its boast in the Lord.
The humble shall hear of it and be glad.
O magnify the Lord with me. Let me say something about this
chapter. When we were at Rhema, Keith
Moore was one of our instructors, and he made us
every day in class without fail. Confess this out loud.
And some days I was like, and so I'm just telling you because if
some days you come in here and, and Chelsea or whoever's up here
says lift your hands and you're like, well, get a hold of
yourself and realize that it's for your good.
We're helping you be a conqueror.
We're helping you to step out of your comfort zone and and get
into the presence of God and conquer some things in your
life. Some of you need to break
threats. They're free.
You need to break free in the in this area.
Take a run, you know, do something that's out of your
comfort zone so that you know that you're free.
Sometimes you don't want to, but the Lord's prompting you get
out, do something, come down front, do something different
then what you're always doing. Quit staying in your little
locked up achy, breaky heart. Let me keep reading.
Let me pull my pants up and keep reading, OK?
My soul shall make its boast in the Lord.
The humble shall hear of it and be glad.
Oh, magnify the Lord with me. I'm saying to you, Oh, magnify
the Lord with me. Oh, magnify the Lord with me.
Oh come on, magnify the Lord with me.
Hallelujah. And let us exalt his name
together. I sought the Lord.
You know we like to see. I sought the Lord.
And we sing that song. But do you believe it?
I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and he delivered me from all
my fears. They looked to him and were
radiant. Oh my, Oh my, His presence.
It says they look to him. Are you looking to Him?
If you're looking to Him, you'll be radiant, you'll be full of
His glory, you'll be full of His presence, and their faces were
not ashamed. If you're in his presence,
there's not any shame that's going to be on you keeping you
out of it. Once you taste and see that the
Lord is good, once you get in his presence and go, oh wow, I
don't ever want to be out of this, then then there's no
shame. There's no anything that's going
to keep you out because you're able to discern the the
scripture says that the mature are the ones who by reason of
use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
So, so when something like that comes, I can go, no, no, that's
not what my God said. That's not what he said about
me. Let's keep reading.
This poor man cried out, and the Lord heard him and saved him out
of all his troubles. The Angel of the Lord encamps
around around those who fear him and delivers them.
Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good.
Blessed is the man who trusts in him.
Oh, fear the Lord, you his Saints.
There is no want to those who fear him.
In other words, there's no lack anybody.
You don't have to raise your hand.
Anybody experiencing lack in this place.
The scripture says there's no want to those who fear him.
The Young Lions. Young Lions are pretty powerful,
right? Pretty, pretty awesome
creatures. The Young Lions lack and suffer
hunger. People with all kinds of status
and strength in the earth, they're going to lack and suffer
hunger. But those who seek the Lord
shall not lack any good thing, any good thing, not any good
thing. Psalm 36, seven through 10.
How precious is your loving kindness, O God?
Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow
of your wings. Because of your loving kindness
You they are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of
Your house and you give them drink from the river of your
pleasures, for with you is a fountain of life.
And in your light or in your presence we see light.
Oh, continue your loving kindness to those who know you
and your righteousness to the upright and heart.
Psalm 42, five and verse 11 says, why are you downcast?
Oh my soul, David, this is David, and why are you so
disquieted within me, hoping God for I will yet praise Him for
the help of His countenance or His presence.
His presence will help you. His presence will pull you out.
His presence will deliver you. His presence will give you
freedom. And this says hoping God for I'm
going to praise him for the help of his countenance.
Verse 11 says, Why are you downcast, Oh my soul, and why
are you disquieted within me, hoping God, for I will yet
praise him again for the help of my countenance and my God.
Psalm 95 says, Oh come, let us sing to the Lord.
Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.
Let listen to this part. Let us come before His presence
with Thanksgiving, and let us shout joyfully to Him with
psalms. For the Lord is the great God
and the great King above all gods.
In His hand are the deep places of the earth.
The heights of the hills are also His.
The sea is his, for he made it and his hands formed the dry
land. Oh, come, let us worship and bow
down. Let us kneel before the Lord our
Maker, for he is our God and we are his people, The sheep of his
pasture and the sheep of his hand.
Sorry, we are his people. I got, I, I feel like I'm about
to like explode up here. We are the people of his pasture
and the sheep of his hand. Psalm 100.
I'm busting through a couple more scriptures so we can put
our faith to action. Make a joyful shout to the Lord.
All you land, serve the Lord with gladness.
Listen, come before his presence with singing.
Come before his. Do you do that at home?
Do you come before his presence with singing?
It's as simple as getting your car and saying thank you Lord,
you're worthy. Oh, I honor you, thank you Lord,
and just begin to sing out of your spirit.
Just start thanking him. A thankful heart is is so huge
for you to have victory in your life.
Come before His presence with singing.
Know that the Lord He is God. It is He who made us and not we
ourselves, for we are His people, the sheep of His
pasture. Enter into His gates with
Thanksgiving and His courts with praise.
Be thankful to Him and bless His name, for the Lord is good, and
His mercy is everlasting, and his truth endures to all
generations. Psalm 114 Seven tremble O earth,
at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of
Jacob. Psalm one O 5 verse 4 says Seek
the Lord and his strength, seek his face or seek his presence
forever more. Proverbs 1810, the name of the
Lord is a strong tower. The righteous run into it and
they are safe. Worship team, you can come.
I have a couple more scriptures to read while you're coming.
That tower, that strong tower is a high, very high place.
It is a safe and high place that is inaccessible to anything down
here. It says the name of the Lord is
a strong tower. The righteous run into it, and
they are safe. Psalm 91 He that dwelleth in the
secret place, what is that secret place?
His presence. He that dwelleth in the secret
place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the
Almighty. I will say of the Lord, he is my
refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I trust.
I want by unction of the Holy Ghost for us to sing.
Your glory fills the temple as we worship you.
I want to sing that song again and and I want you to put action
to your faith. I'm not asking you to run.
I'm not asking you to dance. I'm asking you to genuinely give
him all the praise, because if for nothing else, He's delivered
you out of the domain of darkness and brought you into
the Kingdom of His son.