LIVING IN HIS PRESENCE: Be Continually Found in Him


Topic: LIVING IN HIS PRESENCE: Be Continually Found in Him
Anchor Scripture: Psalm 24: 3 
“Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?”  

Focus Scripture: “. . . but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.” – Hebrews 10: 38

Admonition
Greetings from the Throne of Grace!

I welcome you into another beautiful week in His presence. It is my sincere prayer that the good Lord will again enlighten and strengthen us in His Word that we may FINISH STRONG in Him in Jesus’ name. Amen. This week the Holy Spirit of God has chosen to speak to us about God’s presence. May we be richly blessed in the Word in Jesus’ name. Amen.

This week, our anchor Scripture is asking a very pertinent which in another way could mean, ‘who can come into God’s presence?’ This topic of discussion, brethren could possibly form a long series because as the Holy Spirit ministered it, it has three parts, with the first part examining what it means to be living in His presence, the second part exploring the qualifications for coming into His presence and the last part enumerating the benefits of living in His presence. May the good Lord see us through in Jesus Christ’s mighty name. Amen.

Our focus Scripture this morning, Hebrews 10: 38, is sounding a note of warning that informed our topic. The focus Scripture warns against drawing back and God says He won’t be pleased with anyone who draws back. Turned inside out, what God is saying is that we must be continually found in Him.

 I used to attend a Pentecostal fellowship when I first got into the university. One Sunday like that, the resident Pastor spoke about some people who give their lives to Jesus Christ every Sunday. This is it: when the altar call is made this Sunday, they come out and give their lives, but latest by Tuesday, they get lured back into the world like Demas (2 Timothy 4: 10), by which they will, literally speaking, take their lives back, use it from that Tuesday till Saturday and come back the next Sunday to give it to Jesus Christ again.

Above is the exact kind of Christian live that many live in the church today; they are holy children of God on Sunday and while inside the church, but immediately after, the kind of friends they keep, the kind of dresses they wear, the kind of words that come out of their mouths, the kind of the music they sing and listen to, the kind of dances they dance, the kind of places they go to and generally, the kind of lifestyle they live till they appear in church next Sunday questions whether they have ever been in the presence of God.

Essentially brethren, as TRUE children of God, we need to develop the consciousness that wherever we found ourselves, the presence of God is there. As the Holy Spirit ministered to me at the beginning of this ministry in 2001, most of the anomalies in the Christendom today are due to the wrong teachings, heresies, we received into our consciousness in the past. For example, some have been conditioned to believe that they are only in the presence of God only when they are in the church. So, such people have developed the mentality of living their lives the way they want as long as they are not in God’s presence, the church.

"As TRUE children of God, we need to develop the consciousness that wherever we found ourselves, the presence of God is there."

The book of Job 34: 21, however, says, “For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.” Can you imagine that? That is, wherever we go and or we may be, God’s eyes, and by implication, His presence is there with us. Meaning that as TRUE children of His, we are carriers of His glorious presence. Prove this position in the life of Prophet Elijah in 1 Kings 17: 1 and 1 Kings 18: 15. In both verses of the Bible, Prophet Elijah displayed that consciousness that wherever he was and no matter who was there, he was in the presence of the living God.

As we close this morning, it is this consciousness of God’s presence wherever we are that enables our living in His Presence because that consciousness prevents us from sinning against Him by which we automatically leave His presence (Hab. 1: 13). As rightly admonished by our focus Scripture this morning, our FINISHING STRONG is anchored on not drawing back, but being continually found in Him because God is not interested in on and off Christians.

Till tomorrow when we shall meet again on this beautiful journey of FINISHING STRONG together, please, keep keeping on in Him.

N. B. Please, pray that God will give you the grace for the consciousness of His presence wherever you may found yourself in Jesus Christ’s mighty name. Amen.
God bless you! Amen.

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