POWER OF HIS PRESENCE

Power of His Presence

Key Scripture: “Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?” Psalms 139:7

Power Point:

One of the attributes of God is that He is Omnipresent.  That’s a big word that simply means that He is everywhere all the time.  King David was obviously thinking about that when He wrote Psalms 103 and 139. Can you imagine him lying out under the heavens one night, looking at the stars knowing that God had created them and placed them there for his pleasure. Imagine thinking about how incredible God was and how He filled each tiny space around him with His goodness.  Think about how the reality must have hit him that God’s goodness was with him whether he was alone in a field or in the presence of kings. God was there. Everywhere.

Omnipresence means that wherever we go today we are surrounded by grace and mercy. We are covered with love.  We are hugged by His peace. It flows over us and into us as we tap into what is all around us every moment of every single day of our lives. If He is everywhere in every place at every moment, is He not there in your circumstances with you?  Is He not able to know exactly what is going on? And is He not able to help? Is He not able to change things? Is He not able to bring heaven to earth?

Perhaps David wrote these songs of praise after his failure with Bathsheba. He understood with all his heart the forgiveness of God was everywhere for him. The fragrance of the incredible gift of forgiveness stunned him didn’t it? Everything within Him basked in the fact of being forgiven, everywhere for everything. He knew God. He never struggled with coming to Him at any time because He understood that wherever he walked, grace and mercy walked with Him.

With all our modern technology we can pretty much go anywhere can’t we? We really can dive to the depths of the sea.  We can soar to the heavens on our space shuttles. But we cannot go anywhere where we will not find Him. He fills everything. This is such a glorious truth isn’t it?

Sometimes we believe that lie that God doesn’t see us or hear us. We believe that we are insignificant, left to make our way through life alone, needing to figure it all out by ourselves. When we ask Jesus into our lives, His Holy Spirit comes to live in us and that incredible Spirit connects us to the presence of God everywhere for us. There is no place you can go where He is not, Beloved! There’s no wilderness too harsh, or no hospital that is out of His reach. There is no family where He is not available to bring His love.

Everywhere you go today, tomorrow and forever are filled with all the goodness of God. You’d have to work really hard not to trip over it!  Yes there’s His mercy for you in that situation. Yes, there is His favor upon you and there is the touch of His hand for healing. There is the Savior who saves, the Redeemer who redeems and the Lover of your soul. Yes, even there His hand will lead you and even there He will hold you. Even in that place He forgives you and in that place His grace and mercy walk with you.

Everywhere. In every place you are.  Forever and ever Amen! Thank You Jesus.

Power Thought:

You are enclosed in the presence of understanding, wisdom, power and the One who walks every step with you. And He's very very good. It’s a lot to take in isn’t it?