Energized By His Presence

When was the last time you were energized by the presence of God? The awareness and promise of God’s presence in our lives are essential to our relationship with Him.

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When is the last time you felt the presence of god in a very special way that was unlike anything he’d felt before,
or maybe I’d put it
this way. When was the last time you felt his presence in your life in a way that you couldn’t even describe?
There are no real words to describe it. Was it when you were praying?
Was it when you were in a worship service?
Or maybe you felt it in a very special way when you were witnessing to someone else.
Or maybe you were praying for someone else. You had a real burden for them.
Or maybe it was the fact that you yourself was going through a very difficult situation you fell.
So totally, absolutely dependent upon god. He just made himself known in a special way.
Almost like he just showed up.
Like it was he interrupted what was going on in your life at that moment.
Well, what is all of that about?
It’s all about god manifesting himself, revealing himself, showing himself forth in your life.
And when you think about that, Somebody says, well, I don’t know whether god would ever do that for me
or not. Maybe the question is, are you
in a position spiritually? Have you allowed yourself
to surrender
powerful way to encourage you, to energize you,
In other words, something that
would go on in your life that you’d not experienced before.
I think about, for example, when Jesus gave, uh,
the great commission, which is to be found the 28th chapter of Matthew and, uh, those last few verses, and most was know that by heart because we call it the great commission.
But listen
to what he said, and I want you to notice if if if he’d left out one phrase, I don’t think they would have done it.
Listen. But the 11 disciples proceeded to Galilee to the mountain, which is, uh, which Jesus had designated, And when they saw him, they worshiped him, but some were doubtful.
And Jesus came up and spoke to them saying, all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations. Now remember, didn’t have airplanes. We didn’t have trains.
We didn’t have fast boats. We didn’t have automobiles. We didn’t have bicycles.
We didn’t have anything except horses and camels and so forth.
Go into all the world and preach the gospel, baptizing them in the name of the father and the son, the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all that I’ve commanded you period.
Now if he had stopped right there, I’m not sure what those disciples would have done because what he was saying is in this handful of people, I want you to go all over the world, and I want you to tell them about the crucifixion and about my resurrection and that the hope of mankind is to be found in a personal relationship with me.
Well, first of all, the goal over the world seemed impossible number 1. Secondly, they could have come
up with lots of arguments about telling them that you had been crucified and that you’d risen from the dead.
And so they’d had lots of questions.
But then he finished that commission by saying, and I’m with you always, even to the end of the age.
It was the awareness and the promise of his presence that turned that handful of disciples and the 100,000,000
upon millions over all these years. What is it about that phrase?
I’ll be with you even to the end of this age. It is very important in the eyes of god.
That you and I recognize his presence that we understand what he’s about.
And when we think about his presence, How would you define it? How would you describe his presence?
Oftentimes, people say, well, I believe that god’s everywhere. That god’s in everything.
And what they mean by that is that, uh, as they look around at
the creation, they say god’s in the trees, god’s in the star gods in the beaches. He’s in
the mountains, god’s everywhere. And so people who are so called Pantheus in their theology would believe that everything is god.
That tree is god. And you hear people say this, not too often, but and the the the oceans god, everything is god.
God does not say that at all.
And remember this, while he’s on the present, which means that, uh, people will say, well, god’s everywhere, the truth is that means everywhere is in the presence of god.
Now, god is present everywhere, but he’s not present everywhere in the same way.
For example, he’s present in your life in a very specific personal, redemptive way.
But he is, shall we say, in the mountains in the fact that he created them.
He’s not he’s not a mountain. A mountain or the seas These are all creations of god.
These are exhibitions of his power.
These are the result of his awesome love for mankind to create such beauty for us to live in, but he’s not in a tree like he’s in your life.
And you see, people who do not know him personally have put god up yonder and out yonder somewhere.
They don’t know who he is exactly, but they say, well, I do believe in god.
What they don’t understand is that god never intends to be seen and to be felt and to be thought of as being out young to somewhere.
But rather in our life. What he desires is a personal intimate relationship with us.
And that’s what he’s always continually seeking to discover your life and mine.
And that’s why he has done the way he has operated in our lives.
So when you think about where god is, what do you think he is?
He said, well, I think he’s everywhere. Well, now who exactly what does that mean?
Well, that means that he’s over and up here and over there. Well, what about Back Yonder?
There’s no such thing as god not being everywhere.
Now as I mentioned to you here, and I want you to look at this passage scripture in the 15 chapter of proverbs, And because while we say that god is everywhere, I want you to notice what the scripture makes very, very clear about where he is.
In this 15th chapter of the proverbs.
And, uh, look, if you will, in the, um, 15th chapter and the 29th verse, Listen to what he says.
The lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
He’s far from the wicked. He said, well, wait a minute, the Bible says that God is everywhere.
He is everywhere, but he’s not everywhere in the same way.
In the life of one of his children who is a believer, he is present in a certain way.
In the life of those who disobey him those who have no concept of god, those who just living an evil wicked life, he’s not in their light the same way.
So let me explain something.
It is difficult to explain the very presence of god when we take things out
of it. And we think in terms of the way he manifests himself, reveals himself, unveils himself to us personally.
And so
when you think about that, you try to explain that it’s very difficult to explain for this reason.
God, so to speak, sometimes, just shows up.
That is all of a sudden, you are aware of his presence.
You are aware that he is doing something’s special in your life. Something powerful.
So I wanna give you a definition.
Not that it’s an adequate definition because I don’t think you can adequately define the presence of god.
So I want to put this definition up here and think about it for a moment.
The presence of god is the revealing of god.
By his spirit, to our spirit, for the purpose, for a specific purpose of what?
Enabling us or energizing us, informing us, or maybe even warning us.
But what I want you to notice is this.
There is a direct relationship between the spirit of god and the way god manifests himself.
So how does he do that? So think about it in this light.
The place of the Holy Spirit in your life in my life is absolutely essential.
He came to indwelled you for some very specific reasons. He is our teacher, for example.
He’s the one who energizes us. He’s the one who gives us to who gives us understanding of the word.
In fact, if you go through the scripture, here’s what you’ll find that all the things that the spirit of god does for us are things that you and I could not do for ourselves.
God sent him in order to do what, to live in us and through us the life of Christ.
Because his goal for us is to conform us to his likeness.
Remember what he said in Genesis that that when we’re talking about the creation?
God said, let us make man in our image.
Why did god make us an image of himself?
So he could fellowship with us so we could relate to him so we could know him so we could experience his love.
God wanted to manifest him self to mankind.
God chose to do what to make us in his image, and therefore, to do that, He had to change us.
So that the person who is saved is not a person who’s decided to do good.
Uh, person who is saved is a person who has received Jesus Christ is their personal savior.
And at that moment, the spirit of god gave them a new spirit now a new spirit and order that you and I may be able to relate to god.
And the reason the lost person does not see in the in the personal relationship with God is because they can’t.
Now in our physical body, we relate to each other and our emotions and our mind, we relate to each other and our surroundings, the physical body we relate to our our environment with our spirit we relate to god.
And until the Holy Spirit is within you, you cannot relate to god.
Because god relates throupe by his spirit to our spirit and gives us direction, makes us aware of his presence.
And he’s willing to make his presence known.
Remember, it is the spirit of god speaking to your spirit to give direction, to encourage you to warn you, to assure you, to energize you, motivate you, stir you up.
Don’t shut him out. But you must live in such a fashion that god can speak.
And you can’t be living in sin on Monday and trying to be a saint on Sunday and have god He’s not that’s not that’s just not the way he operates.
He’s looking for people who are willing to be obedient to him, to trust him, to believe him, to be open to him, to be aware of him, to be to be to be realizing that god is always in the process of doing something in our life.
Now let me ask you this.
Can you think of a time in your life where you could look back and say, you know what?
That day at that moment, I had this awesome sense of the awareness of god in my life that I have never had before.
Well, what did you do?
Did you say, well, I don’t know what that meant.
Or did you say god speak to my heart? Lord, what are you saying to me now? Think about this.
God doesn’t do anything out of habit, He doesn’t do anything by accident.
He doesn’t make mistakes, and he doesn’t do anything without a purpose when god speaks to your heart.
That is to your spirit, When he reveals something to you, manifest himself, it just shows up in your life.
He has something in mind. And what he’s looking for are people who are willing to listen to him, to be to be quiet enough, to to be obedient enough that he can say listen.
God isn’t gonna say to you. Now here’s what I want you to do.
Knowing that you’re not gonna do it, knowing that you’re living in a rebellion, he wants to get you to a position where you can listen to him and say, yes, lord, Whatever you want in my life is what I want.
Now what does that mean in your life in my life?
It means we have to get ourselves in a position to hear him. Think think about this.
Let’s get to
the new testament, for example. You remember when Peter and the disciples are out on the ship.
Storms, brewing, waves tossing them. And all of
a sudden, here comes Jesus walking on the water. Well, what happens? Peter saw him.
And when he saw it with Jesus, he said, Jesus, call me to you.
If that’s if that’s who you are, and I’ll come.
It was in the presence of Jesus that he had enough faith to walk on the water.
And so he did. You think about the apostle Paul, for example. What about him?
Think about this. If he had not been living in the awareness of god’s presence, Well, he had been beaten as
he said 39 times three times. Shipwrecked,
stoned, left, or dead, imprisoned over and over and over again, and then standing before Festus, Felix, and the gripper.
What happened? Every single time, stalwart, immovable,
absolutely unafraid, Why? Because he knew he was in
the presence of the living god. When you think about all the things
he went through out there on the seas, for 3 days battling for his life.
Could you ever convince the apostle, Paul? That the presence of
god was not with him. Never.
He was aware of his presence. But notice what happens to Peter.
In the presence of Jesus, man, he can walk on water. When Jesus went there,
He did not even know him. Now here’s the difference.
You and I have god living on the inside of us.
We are yes. And you may get lonely, but you can’t ever be alone
from the moment you receive him as your savior, you could never, never, never be alone.
Why does he love us that much?
We don’t know why god loves us that much. We just know
that he does, and we just know that somehow in some way, he’s chosen to work in every single one of our lives in a way that’s totally beyond this unless we are willing to acknowledge that he has the right to work in our life.
And I would challenge you this.
Before you go to sleep tonight, let’s say you live alone, for example, let’s just take the folks who live alone first, you live alone, and,
You really truly want god to show himself in your life.
Lord, I’m available for you to show yourself.
I’m available for you to reveal yourself to me in
a way that I’ve never known it before. So, lord, first of
all, I wanna ask you, to show me whatever sin there is in my life that that doesn’t fit what you’ve got in mind.
Secondly, I want you to point out anything that I’m holding on to that that you that I need to surrender.
Lord, I want you to bring anything to my mind that you know is a stumbling block between you’re a perfect control of my life and
what you wanna do in my life. And lord, I’m available for you to speak to me.
I’m available for you to make yourself known to me any way you choose.
You may be shocked at what god’s willing to do. The presence of
god is not a mystery. The presence of god is real. Is it almost indefinable? Yes.
Because we’re dealing with the spirit of god. Is that is that a mystery? No.
Because he lives within your heart.
And more than likely, if you’ve been a Christian for a while, you do you’ve prayed and asked god to give you clear direction about some things, and you know that he has he has given you specific direction at times in your life you knew that was the right thing to do, and you thanked him for it.
But you see, he doesn’t just want us to get answers. He wants us to
be satisfied, being in his presence. The answers will come.
So let’s think about how does he make his presence known to us?
This awareness of his presence that we say the awareness of his presence energizes us. Well, think about this.
When I think about the awareness of his presence, what comes to my mind is, first of all, who he is.
This is the sovereign of the universe, the god of this world, this is the
one who’s created it all, This is the one who is my savior, my lord, and my master, and who loves me totally.
How could it get any better than that?
And and he loves you enough to just make his presence known.
The awareness of his presence energizes us for the work to which he’s called us.
And in each of those cases, and and there are lots more in the scripture, what is god doing?
He’s he’s dealing with people, and the result is they
are motivated to live our god in life.
They’re motivated to do what god wants them to do.
You say, well, but here’s my job and you could give me, uh, let’s say, for example, you’re a secretary or let’s say that you work in electronics or maybe a plumber or a doctor, whatever you might be.
The truth is god wants to make himself known to you where you are doing what you do.
Don’t put yourself over here in somebody else’s category. You are precious in god’s eyes.
And all I’m saying to you is this, I’m really pleading with you just surrender your life to him and watch what he does.
He will make himself known in a way.
Listen, not the way he reveals to somebody else, but the way that fits you perfectly.
In fact, think about this, your relationship to him is tailor made.
That is it’s made by god for you in your circumstances who you are at this point in your life where you are, whether you’re a student or whether you’re ninety years of age, god has something going on for you and your life.
It’s a matter, are you listening? Do you care?
In other words, do you care to have this kind of relationship to him?
And once listen, once you experience that, you will say, listen, you can count everything else as as almost nothing when you begin to realize that god loves you enough just to show up.
Let me ask you a question.
If you believe what the Bible says, I will never leave you enough for safety.
If you believe that, Would you ever have any real legitimate reason from walking away from the battle?
When you have god on your side.
Remember what he said to Joshua? Be strong and have a good courage.
Fear not neither be that is made for the lord your god is what with you wherever you go.
The awareness of his presence reminds us of who he is.
The awareness of his presence reminds us of what he’s done in the past.
And how he’s worked in the lives of all these men in the past.
And I think about times in my own life, uh, difficult times situations that I would never have wanted to deal with.
And yet,
he was there every time. And I’ve sat in battles, Big battles, big church battles.
And I’m sitting up here watching it all and watching who’s voting for me and who’s voting against me.
It’s really interesting. And with the most awesome sense of perfect peace and assurance, and confidence why.
Because I knew that I was sitting in his presence watching him work in the lives of people until he worked it all out.
You see, a believer has no reason to be afraid. Think about this.
If you were in the military and you had a 1000a1000 tanks, a 100,000 men and a whole squadron of Jet Bamas at your disposal And you were facing a 100 soldiers out there.
Would you be scared?
It wouldn’t even cross your mind.
So I want to I wanna show you something because you see it’s the way we look at things and what we see and what we don’t see And I want you to turn to 2nd King chapter 6.
Give you a little idea of what’s happening.
The the king of Aram is warring against Israel.
And what he can’t figure out is he can’t figure out why uh, the nation of Israel and the king knows everything.
And so one of his, uh, one of his associates said to him, well, he said, Uh, in fact, the king said, will you tell me which of which of us is for the king of Israel?
One of his servants said, no, my lord, old king, but Elijah, the prophet who is in Israel, He tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.
They ought to know what’s going on. Listen.
So he said, Go and see where he is that I may send and take him, and it was told him saying behold he sent Dothan.
He sent horses and chariot and listen as he sent horses and sheriffs and a great army there, and they came by night and surrounded the city.
Now when the attendant of the man of god, his servant had uh risen early and gone out, behold an army with horses and church was circling the city, and his servant said to him, I lost my master.
What shall we do? Scared to death.
Now that’s looking through the eyes of flesh. Listen to what the prophet said, Elijah.
Do not fear, but those who are
with us are more than
those who are with them.
Then Elijah prayed and said, Oh, lord, I pray, open the eyes that he may see, and the lord opened the servant’s eyes, and he saw, and behold the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elijah.
Here’s what happens.
When you are aware of the presence of god in your life, Here’s what happens.
You are able to see things from god’s perspective, and everything usually changes.
When you look at it from his perspective.
It’s the way you look through the eyes of your spirit, through the flesh.
And it’s my prayer that whoever you are, wherever you are. Don’t live out your life.
And miss one of god’s choices blessings.
And that’s learning to live in the presence of god. Learning to live aware that at
any moment, he could manifest himself
to you in ways that you can never imagine.
Can’t manufacture can’t predict it, and you can’t do anything to make it happen.
It’s just something that he chooses to do in your life.
Because he knows who you are, where you are, and what he wants to accomplish in your life.
If you’ve never trusted him as you say, you may say, well, all
of this is just beyond me. I don’t I don’t get all this. Well, naturally, you don’t. You know why?
Because you can’t even communicate with it. You must communicate with god through
the spirit of god. And if you’re not a believer, you don’t have the spirit of god within you, so you can’t.
You can talk about it. The truth is you cannot.
And I wanna challenge you to ask Jesus Christ to forgive you of your sins.
On the basis of what he did at Calvary, ask him to forgive you, surrender your life to him, Let the spirit of God come into your life and begin to work his awesome work.
Your life will never be the same. And it’s yours for the asking.
And, father, how grateful we are for your awesome grace.
And how we do pray that not a soul would listen and say, well, but because you love every single one of us, You’re ready to make yourself known in the times that you know are essential necessary to accomplish your purpose in every one of our lives.
And that is my prayer, father today.
Openness, yielded surrendered, available, for whatever you desire in Jesus’ name.
Amen.