Practice His Presence

Christian believers often are concerned that God has left them. However God says to His children:"I will never leave you nor forsake you." Why do these believers not experience His presence? Do they not believe that the Lord will not leave them, or have they left Him?

Jesus gives His Holy Spirit to be in and with those who believe and obey Him.We read in John 14:16"I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; 17that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you."

John 16:8"8“And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment; 9concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me; 10and concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and you no longer see Me; 11and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged."

The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ is ever present and He speaks to those who are born again, those who have repented and been baptized in water, and who were filled with the Holy Spirit. He wishes to guide them into all truth but many believers have not received the Holy Spirit, others ignore Him.

We have to PRACTICE HIS PRESENCE, be tuned in to the Holy Spirit; listen and obey when He speaks, warns, convicts, teaches and directs us. If we keep on ignoring Him, disregarding Him and rather choose to follow our own desires of the advice of others, He will be grieved and will not longer speak to us.

We must be sensitive to the Holy Spirit, listen, obey and follow His guidance. We must keep ourselves aware of His presence, trust and believe Him and He will guide us into all truth. Then we will experience the presence of Jesus.

Sin separates us from Jesus and destroys our confidence. We cannot pray with confidence if we have sin in our lives. If we do not experience the peace and approval of Jesus, we first need to repent of all sin and remove the idols that we have allowed to come between ourselves and Jesus, then we will be able to experience His presence.

Are we walking in the Light, practicing His presence,  experiencing His peace and approval?



May Jesus bless you.

BREAKING THROUGH into the PRESENCE of God

There is nothing that compares with experiencing and living in the presence of God. You are living in a different dimension. Jesus Christ said that since the days of John the Baptist the kingdom of heaven is suffering violence because violent men are taking it by force. They are forcing their way in.

You have to force your way into the kingdom of God, into the presence of God. It does not come easily.

Many people want to walk with God, they want to hear the voice of God, they want to be filled with the Holy Spirit but they are not willing to force their way in. They are not willing to PRESS ON IN. You have to press on into the presence of God. You have to seek Jesus. He has to be on your mind all the time. You have to seek Him with all your heart. You have to press on in until you break through, and then you have to STAY there. You have to STAY IN CHRIST. As Jesus promised, that we will experience Him and the Father, Him IN US and US IN HIM if we obey His words and if we seek Him with all our heart. He promised us the indwelling Holy Spirit for those who press on in, who seek Him.

Religious people are satisfied with their Bible knowledge and their church fellowship but they don't enjoy the presence of God. They are happy to quote Bible verses and be religious but they are incomplete because they are not IN Christ. They are continuously trying to prove and verify their salvation because they are insecure and they have reason to be insecure and worried because they are not IN Christ, they are not living in the presence of God. You are only fulfilled and content when you have BROKEN THROUGH  and when you know the Master, you know His VOICE. You have to PRESS ON IN into the presence of God. Seek Him with all your heart, PRAY, WAIT on Him, let Him be on your mind all day long, all night, every moment of the day. Live to please Him. Press on in.

If we seek Him, we find Him. If we draw closer to Him then He draws closer to us. He will reveal Himself to us, but if we do not seek Jesus, if we do not seek the kingdom of God, the approval of God, His presence then we will not find Him. If we allow ourselves to be distracted by the things of the world we will not get through into that presence of God , we will not live in that different dimension where even though things are falling apart around you, you are still in PEACE because you are living in the presence of God.

It is not imagination. It is a peace that passes all understanding. It is KNOWING the Master, KNOWING Jesus Christ and LIVING in His presence, DOING what you know  is pleasing to Him because you walk with Him and He talks to you, you LISTEN and you OBEY Him, but it does not come easily. You have to PRESS ON IN and STAY IN His presence to LIVE in that dimension where you constantly experience the presence of God.

PRESS ON IN. Seek Him with all your heart and you will find Him.

May Jesus bless you.

Stay In His Presence

We are always BEFORE Jesus Christ but very few stay WITH HIM. Many believers go and pray and spend some time WITH Jesus but after they prayed they do not stay WITH Him. They go their own way and they follow their own mind, they go after their own things and they forget about Jesus. They are still before Him but they are not WITH Him.

Even those who have received the Holy Spirit, most of them do not stay IN HIS PRESENCE, they do not  stay WITH Him. They do not follow after Him. They might set some time aside for prayer and meditation but then after they have spent that special time with Jesus, they leave Him, they ignore Him. They go their own way and they go and do other things.

We have to stay WITH Jesus, stay IN HIS PRESENCE. We are the temple of the Holy Spirit and He dwells in us but we have to STAY WITH HIM, we have to FOLLOW Him. We can only be pleasing to Him if we remain IN HIS PRESENCE, if we maintain that AWARENESS, stay FOCUSED on Him throughout the day, wherever we go, whatever we are , we must always have Jesus on our mind, do everything to please Him and ask His approval, His guidance in everything. We have to go where He sends us and do what He tells us, then we remain IN HIS PRESENCE, then we FOLLOW Him, very few do.

Do you stay in His presence? Do you stay WITH Jesus? Is your mind on Him, constantly? Or do you go away from Him from time to time?

We can only PLEASE HIM if we STAY WITH Him. We have to remain IN HIS PRESENCE.

May Jesus bless you.

The Holy Spirit will leave you

The most dangerous thing that can happen to a born again child of God is for the Holy Spirit to leave you. If we keep on willfully sinning and keep on disobeying the Holy Spirit then He will leave us. If we do not feel the Spirit of God all the time then we are in grave trouble and we need to find out why the presence of God has left us.

Sin and disobedience separates us from God and then we grieve His Holy Spirit. If we keep grieving the Holy Spirit, keep on disobeying Him then He will leave us and we will be in darkness, we will be away from the presence of God.

If the presence of God has left you, if you do not sense the Holy Spirit in you any more, then RUN BACK TO Jesus, fall on your knees, cry out in repentance, ask Him to show you what there is between Him and you, whatever sin, whatever disobedience, unwillingness, He will show you. And then REPENT of it, plead for forgiveness and STOP DOING IT! Plead for His presence to return to you.

We have to ALWAYS FELL THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT with us, that is God WITH US, Jesus IN US, a river of life flowing from our inner being. If that river stops flowing and you do not feel the presence of God you are IN GRAVE DANGER OF HELL FIRE! Make sure that you ALWAYS feel that presence of Jesus Christ IN you.

May Jesus bless you.

Spiritual Implantation

Many professing Christians know their Bibles very well, yet they do not know the will of God. They also do not experience Jesus Christ as their Lord and Master, and they cannot SEE the kingdom of God of which Jesus Christ Himself is LORD, King and Master. The reason for that is that these people are not born again. We read in John 3:3, Jesus said to a Pharisee, Nicodemus, “unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” He cannot appreciate, understand the kingdom of God, He cannot know the will of God. Such people do not have the Holy Spirit and they do not belong to Jesus Christ.

We need to receive the IMPLANTED WORD, an IMPLANTATION OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD which we can only receive if we are BORN AGAIN.

If we cleanse ourselves of all unrighteousness, repent of all sin and are baptized in water for the washing off of our sins, then we can receive the Holy Spirit that Jesus promised to those who love Him and who OBEY Him.

The apostle James speaks about this implantation in James 1:21, He said:”“Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the WORD IMPLANTED, which is able to save your souls.” That IMPLANTED WORD is the INDWELLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. You do not get to know the will of God through studies, through Bible studies and through listening to other people but you receive KNOWLEDGE of the WILL OF GOD when the Holy Spirit is IMPLANTED in you and Jesus Christ LIVES in you. Then you KNOW the will of God.

Have you received that IMPLANTATION of the WORD OF GOD, the Holy Spirit of God DWELLING IN YOU? Do you LISTEN to that IMPLANTED WORD that guidance of the Holy Spirit and do you FOLLOW Jesus Christ? Do you experience Him as LORD?

May Jesus bless you.