Summary:
The presence of the Lord is the most important thing we have in our lives. There are many aspects of His nature and as we come humbly before Him crying out for more His nature to come forth within us, we find that He is exceedingly abundantly more than we could ask or think.
Show Notes:
The presence of the Lord is the center of our lives.
Being in His Word is key to His presence.
It is His Spirit within us that makes everything happen.
It's our reaching into His presence in our worship and speaking the Word that releases God in our midst.
You can't put God in a box. He is whatever He wants to be in any moment.
God is pouring out Himself on us.
We must humbly ask the Father for His nature to be imparted to us.
It's Christ in us that reveals the heavenly Father.
God the Father is ever unfolding His presence and who He is to us.
Quotes:
The presence of the Lord is the most important thing that we have in our lives.
To be in His presence, I relate with being in His Word.
...not by power nor by might, but by My spirit, saith the Lord. It only happens when we're in His presence.
...the whole aspect of who our Father is comes through these earthen vessels.
Reach up into more of God. Recognize that He's with you and worship Him. By faith, lose your will to speak the word that you move into the presence of God with.
There's an unformed substance within our being, and it's called the Father. The undefinable is the presence of the Father.
You can't say God is this or God is that you can't say He's just faith. You can't say He's just love. You can't say He's just this or that. He's all of it.
What we have to learn to do is how we tie together His attributes. Because that's what He's trying to pour out upon us.
...every one of His aspects of His nature is open for us to appropriate, put into practice, all we have to do is ask Him.
...Christ in us so alive, and so real in His fullness that reveals the Heavenly Father.
God wants to show us the expansion of who He is. He is not limited.
References:
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
(Read how God is His Word)
Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Takeaway:
The awesome presence of the Lord is everything to us. God is unlimited so we stop trying to define Him and reach in to experience His presence in our lives everyday.