The Power of Presence
If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favour with you…then Moses said to Him, “If your presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here. How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your people from all other people on the face of the earth?” (Emphasis added) Ex 33:13-16.
We hear the cry of the heart of Moses in these few verses. If you don’t go with us then we’re not going anywhere. The Presence of God was just so important to Moses he wasn’t about to move unless the Lord went with them. As children of the Most High God there should be a ‘difference’ in us. Moses says here what else will distinguish us from all the other people on planet earth?
I truly believe that people today are hungry for an authentic experience of God. People are hungry for the ‘real thing’. How does the song put it? “When the music fades and all is stripped away, and I simply come longing just to bring something that's of worth that will bless Your heart…” There’s one simple but profound key here. It’s the Presence of God. We’re so hungry for His Presence at the Healing Rooms because it’s His Presence that ushers in the anointing that breaks the yoke of sickness and disease in the lives of those who come.
In His Presence there is fullness of joy. In His Presence there’s perfect liberty and in His Presence sickness, disease and everything from the enemy’s kingdom must flee.
The Father is just SO interested in the whole person. He loves each of us SO much that He sent Jesus not only to take away our sin but also to provide for our healing, deliverance and provision. Jesus came to pave the way for us to exchange shame for His glory, to replace rejection with acceptance and set us in a place of blessing instead of living under the curse.
There’s nothing more Jesus can do than has already been done for our salvation, healing and deliverance. His work at the Cross was completely perfect and perfectly complete and we get to enjoy the benefits of His sacrifice for us.
His Presence is not something that can be ‘manufactured’ although many have tried. It can’t be produced with music or nice décor but is a gift from heaven that we guard with ‘holy jealousy’.
Can I encourage you to get into His Presence? Get away quietly somewhere and allow the Father’s love to wash over you. In this hectic age in which we live, there seems so little time to stop and reflect on His love, but you know it’s been said nothing ever changes until it changes!
We are the ones who get to choose the depth of intimacy we have with our loving Father. He has given us everything we need for life and godliness and then allows us to participate in the divine nature (2 Peter 1:3-4). What an AWESOME privilege. We get to be Jesus with skin on to those in a lost and dying world who are yet to meet the King!
We get to carry His life changing Presence with us everywhere we go. Just think everywhere you go this week you get to take the Presence of God – into your workplaces, schools, colleges, universities and even to the place of retail therapy!
YOU can change a person’s life for eternity just by remembering you are the temple of the Holy Spirit. It’s really very simple if you just follow what Jesus said to do – Love God and love people. If we adopt this as a primary motivation in life then I believe the rest will follow.
Why not give it a try today? Simply say “Father use me today to bring blessing to another person” and leave the rest up to Him. He IS true to His Word and will pour out His Spirit on you as you go about your everyday lives.