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Topic: Peace in His Presence
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Karen Samford
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Posted: 01/14/2016 at 2:59pm
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By:Kim Potter
Do you realize that the presence of God is the absolute
greatest gift we can give as believers? If you have the
tangible presence of God in your life you can change
lives, including your own. You can bring peace into a
situation that is chaos, if you have the presence of God
in your life. You will change atmospheres if you have the
presence of God in your life.
However, few Christians carry the presence of God. There
are very few people I know, or places I know that you can
walk into or be around and feel the tangible presence of
God. It is rare and it shouldn’t be, it should be a daily
part of the life of every Christian.
If His presence isn’t present you won’t find a yoke-
destroying-burden-removing anointing. If His presence is
absent you will not find peace that passes understanding.
If His presence isn’t there, it will be hard to find
unshakable faith. His presence is the thing that makes
the difference.
Psalm 9:3 says “your enemies perish at the presence of
the Lord.” Psalm 17:2 says “that vindication comes in the
presence of the Lord.” Psalm 16:11 says “there is
fullness of joy one place, in the presence of the Lord.”
Psalm 31:20 says “we are safe from plots of man and
strife of tongues in the presence of the Lord.”
When the Bible talks about the secret place, it is
referring to the presence of the Lord, God’s presence is
the secret place. Psalm 140 says “the righteous dwell in
the secret place of the presence of the Lord.” You will
also find in Matthew 6:6 that Jesus says “the Father is
found in the secret place.”
With all that being said, may I ask you a question; is
God’s presence present in your life this day? Do others
sense His presence when they are around you? Do others
sense the peace of God when they are in your presence? Is
His tangible presence a part of your daily life? Be
honest with yourself, is His presence vital to you and
obvious in your life?
If your answer is yes…then you can change lives. People
need to be in the presence of the Lord – it is life-
changing. Enemies flee; people are set free in His
presence. Healing flows in His presence. Yokes are
destroyed in His presence. People are restored and
renewed in His presence.
If your answer is no, then something needs to change. You
don’t even realize what is missing until you have spent
time in His presence…and spent time in His presence until
He has come and made His abode with you, there is nothing
like it; at least nothing here on this earth.
I want to encourage you today – spend time daily in His
presence, not just in prayer, not just reading the word
of God, spend time basking in His presence…you will never
be the same, nor will anyone around you.
I have been thinking about his presence a lot lately. On
the night before my birthday I wanted to usher my
birthday in by worshipping God. Therefore I was
worshipping God at midnight, I could not stop thinking
about His presence the next day. I spent more time
worshipping the next night because His presence is so
near. And the peace …I had so much peace…that kind of
peace comes from spending time in His presence.
As I was thinking about this today I came across a word
from Marsha & Bill Burns website. I want to share it with
you. It is from Debra Lowe:
I desire for you to find out there, out there in the
world where you live, My peace. Not just in the sanctuary
in the midst where all of my children lift up their hands
and worship Me in peace, away from the overpowering
voices of the enemy, but you must take the power of My
peace out there where the enemy is attacking, out there
where the enemy is telling you that you cannot have this
peace. Know this, that the only way you’re going to live
here under My shadow where peace dwells, is you must
practice it by doing it every day.
This secret place, and it is a place that I have provided
for My children, you must find it daily. You must find
your way to the secret place because from here it is
where you win every battle. From here is where the enemy
must bow his knee to every word that you speak in
agreement with My Word. From here it is where, when you
decree a thing it will happen, not from the place of
fear, not in the midst of anxiety, but here in the secret
place where My peace abides. It is where you are not
rushed or hurried, where the enemy cannot push you into
doing and saying things that otherwise you would never do
from the secret place of peace. This is where and how you
do battle from the secret place. This is where you win
and you ascribe to knowing Me more clearer, from this
secret place. And so I say to you, make it your aim and
your goal to seek Me daily, to find this secret place
where you hear Me so clearly. Where you can sense My
presence so strongly where you know that I will never
leave you nor forsake you, where you understand secret
things and hear in this peace. So I say to you, when you
leave this place do not forget this moment.
That kind of peace will not come if we only spend time
with God on Sundays and Wednesdays – it comes when we
spend time in His presence daily. Let’s make room in our
lives to spend daily time with God – it will absolutely
change everything around you.
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