IN GOD’S PRESENCE: BE AN ABIDING DWELLER NOT A VISITING GUEST!
“As the deer PANTS for the water brooks, So PANTS my soul for You, O God. 2 My soul THIRSTS for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? . . .” Psalms 42:1-11/NKJV
“If ye ABIDE in me, and my words ABIDE in you, ye shall ASK what ye will, and it shall be DONE unto you” John 15:17.
“Thou wilt shew me the PATH of LIFE: in thy PRESENCE is FULNESS of joy; at thy RIGHT HAND there are PLEASURES for evermore” Psalms 16:11.
The Scriptures says, that it is they that DWELL in God’s PRESENCE – the secret place of the most high – consistently and diligently, that can abide under the shadow of His wings. For in the PATH of LIFE, it’s only in God’s PRESENCE, there’s the FULNESS of joy and PLEASURES forever more. For God REWARDS those who DILIGENTLY stay in to seek Him without a shadow of doubt and turning – Hebrews 11:6; Psalms 91:1; Psalms 16:11.
Therefore, stop being a VISITOR and a VISITING GUEST into God’s PRESENCE, if you desire the FULNESS of His enabling GRACE and BLESSEDNESS. Be a DWELLER and ABIDING person, so that His ABIDING WINGS will take you along in LIFE and GODLY living.
There’s nothing as gracious and graceful in abiding in God’s PRESENCE 24/7. Do you mean 24/7 in His presence? YES! It’s not about sleeping in the Church building or locking up yourself only in any secluded place – it’s about living in the abiding CONSCIOUSNESS of His bids and leads in every aspects of DOING LIFE AND GODLY LIVING – and this is made possible, by the Holy Spirit that’s given to us and that dwells in us, in Christ Jesus stead. For it’s not about just HAVING the Holy Spirit in you but about being LED by Him in His CONSCIOUS PRESENCE in you, in Christ Jesus stead. Make it your daily goal, you will not have any cause to regret it. Romans 8:14-17.
SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK!
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:
“He that DWELLETH in the secret place of the most High shall ABIDE under the shadow of the Almighty” Psalms 91:1.
“If ye ABIDE in me, and my words ABIDE in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you” John 15:17.
“Thou wilt shew me the PATH of LIFE: in thy PRESENCE is FULNESS of joy; at thy RIGHT HAND there are PLEASURES for evermore” Psalms 16:11.
“Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that DWELLETH in love DWELLETH in God, and God in him. 17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world” 1 John 5:15-17.
“For as many as are LED by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15 For ye have not RECEIVED the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have RECEIVED the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit itself beareth WITNESS with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together” Romans 8:14-17.
“And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is GIVEN unto us” Romans 5:5.
“If ye love me, keep my commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall GIVE you another Comforter, that he may ABIDE with you for ever; 17 even the Spirit of truth; whom the world CANNOT receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye KNOW him; for he DWELLETH with you, and shall be in you” John 14:15-17.
“As the deer PANTS for the water brooks, So PANTS my soul for You, O God. 2 My soul THIRSTS for God, for the LIVING God. When shall I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say to me, “Where is your God?” 4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go with the multitude; I went with them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast. 5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him. For the help of His countenance. 6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me; Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan, And from the heights of Hermon, From the Hill Mizar. 7 Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; All Your waves and billows have gone over me. 8 The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, And in the night His song shall be with me— A prayer to the God of my life. 9 I will say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” 10 As with a breaking of my bones, My enemies reproach me, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” 11 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God” Psalms 42:1-11/NKJV.
REV. CHUKIE MORSI
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