Walking in His Presence

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Good morning everyone. My name is Pastor Gail, and I
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you feel. So what I was thinking about today is
walking in His presence. And you know, Jesus is so

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good and he gives us the ability to spending time
with him and spending time in his word, to walk
in his presence. It's like the thought that came to
me is we create the atmosphere we walk in. So
depending on what you're doing, how you spend your day,

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you can actually create either a positive atmosphere or a
negative atmosphere around yourself that can literally be felt in
the same way, you can spend time with the Lord
and be in his presence, and then when you leave
that people can tell that you've been with the Lord.

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You will begin to radiate his presence. It's like walking
being surrounded by a bubble. You know. First thing that
Jesus did just before he ascended, he gave them this command.
On one occasion, while he was eating with him, he
gave them this command, do not leave Jerusalem, but wait
for the gift my Father promise which you have heard

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me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in
a few days you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.
So Jesus was telling the disciples basically, hey, you need
to wait for the promise of the Father because you're
gonna need that, because you're going to need the presence
of God going with you wherever you go to really

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have an effect on people. And the first time you
see this really play out, and I got thinking about this,
was a little bit about Peter and Acts, chapter five,
verses twelve through sixteen. I'm going to read that a minute,
and the title of this morning's message is walking in
His Presence, Walking in His presence? How do we walk

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in such a way where the presence of God radiates
off us and touches everybody around us. Acts Chapter five,
verses twelve through sixteen. The apostles performed many signs and
wonders amongst the people, and all the believers used to
meet together in Solomon's Colonnade. No one else dared to

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join them, even though they were highly regarded by the people. Nevertheless,
more and more men and women believed in the Lord
and were added to their number. As a result, people
brought the sicken to the streets and laid them on
beds and matt so that at least Peter's shadow might
fall on some of them as he passed by. Crowds

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gathered also from the town surrounding Jerusalem, bringing their sick
and those tormented by impure spirits, and all of them
were healed. I don't know if you've ever thought about
this scene. People know Peter, and they know the type
of gentleman he is. They know he spends time with

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the Lord. They know that he is just when you
get by Peter, you just know he's been with Jesus.
So one day everybody heard that Peter was coming to town,
and so they know the route that Peter would be taken.
So they're bringing the sick and those tormented by evil spirits,

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and they're laying them by the side of the road,
just hoping that Peter's shadow might fall on some of
them and heal them. And the Bible said they all
were healed. Now, that's quite an amazing anointing to be carrying,
to be like Peter, who he didn't even have to
pray for people when he walked by him them being

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in his presence was enough to heal them and set
them free. You see, Peter had a bubble of the
presence of the Lord around him, and wherever he went, signs,
wonders and miracles happened. The same thing with Philip and Samaria.
Let's w re eat about that, because here's another interesting story.

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In Acts chapter eight, verses four through eight, it says
those who had been scattered priested the word everywhere they went.
Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed
the Messiah there. When the crowds heard Philip and saw
the signs he performed, they all paid close attention to
what he said. For with shrieks, impure spirits came out

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of many, and many who were paralyzed and lame or healed.
So there was great joy in the city. So just
like Peter Harry had Philip. Everywhere Philip signs, wonders and
miracles happen. We see it in the city of Samaria.
You see when you're in the presence of God, it

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will affect you physically, it will affect you spiritually and emotionally.
And we see this when Moses goes down the mountain
to get the ten commandments. Listen to this. Exodus thirty
four twenty nine through thirty five says, when Moses came
down from Mount Sinai with two tablets of the Covenant

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in his hands, he was not aware that his face
was radiant because he had spoken with the Lord. I
want you to get that his face was radiant. When
Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, his face was radiant,
and they were afraid to come near him. But Moses

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called to them, so Aaron and all the leaders of
the community came back to him, and he spoke to them. Afterwards,
all the Israelites came near him, and he gave them
all the commands the Lord had given him on Mount
Sinai when Moses finished speaking to them, he put a
veil over his face, but whenever he entered the Lord's

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presence to speak to him, he removed the veil until
he came out. And when he came out, he told
the Israelites what he had been commanded, and they all,
here it is again. They all saw that his face
was radiant. Then Moses had put a veil back over
his face until he went back to speak with the Lord.

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And a lot of people say he put the veil
over his face because he didn't want him to know
the glory was fading. But Moses's face was radiant and
thinking in the Hebrew has said it was like flashing
forth light, and so his face was shining. I remember
being in Honduras and I said to the group with me,

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I want to go pray for a couple of those
people over there that have guns on their hands, so
that I would walk up they would interpret, They lowered
their guns, they let me pray with them. We had
a great time. Later I said to them, I said,
can anyone do that, just walk up to those people
with guns by the side of the road and pray
with them? And they said no, But we see what

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they see when you're here, your face shines. I said, Lord,
how can that be? And the Lord said to me, Hey,
what is the first thing you did when you got
to Honduras? And I thought, well, I spent time with you, Lord,
I spend time in prayer. I spend time in the Word,
and we do it every day when we're here. And

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he said, that makes the difference. And we're going to
talk about Tewo Corinthians three ten and eleven a minute,
because that scripture says we live in a new and
a better covenant where the glory does not fade. So folks,

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we can have a radiance about us that stays day
after day after day. It doesn't have to fade, so
the atmosphere around you and me can be what we
want it to be. If we spend time with the Lord.
Then you got to ask yourself a question, are there

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things in my life that take away from the presence
of God being there? And I think we all have
to say, yes, there's probably things we ought to eliminate,
things we ought to cut back on. But you see,
you can walk with God and you can have his
presence all around you, and you can see God do

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amazing things in your life. I remember being at one
red light in a car pulled up beside me, and
the person looked at me and he flipped me off
for no reason. Thought what the world you know? I
just think that demonic realm consents. When you're in the
presence of the Lord, your bubble can extend beyond your car.
I mean, you can affect people just just by coming

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in contact with them, even without words. Many people know
whether you're a Christian or whether you're not. Now you know,
Jesus always had three of the twelve that were his favorite.
They were Peter, James, and John. Not that they were
his favorites, but you see, Peter, James and John always

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wanted to be the closest to Jesus. And I'll say this,
the closest you get to the Lord, the more you
will radiate his presence. The more you live and walk
like Jesus did, the more his presence will come from you.
Luke nine twenty eight and thirty six says about eight

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days after Jesus said this, he took Peter, John and
James with him and went up up into a mountain
to pray. As he was praying, the appearance of his
face changed, his clothes became bright as flashing of lightning.
Two men, Moses and Elijah, appeared in glorious splendor talking

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with Jesus. They spoke with him about his departure, which
he was about to bring fulfillment at Jerusalem. Peter and
his companions were very sleepy, but when they became fully awake,
they saw the glory and the two men standing with him.
As the men were leaving Jesus, Peter said to them, Master,

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it is good for us to be here. Let us
put up three shelters, one for you, one for Moses,
and one for Elijah. He did not know what he
was saying. When he was speaking, a cloud appeared and
covered them, and they were afraid. As they entered the cloud,
a voice came from the cloud, saying, this is my

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son who who I have chosen. Listened to him, and
when the voice had spoken, they found that Jesus was alone.
The disciples kept this to themselves. They did not tell
anyone at that time what they had seen. Can you
imagine being with Peter, James, and John going up to
the Mountain of Transfiguration with Jesus in all of us

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sudden watching Jesus, change his clothes, change watching him be
transformed and filled with the glory of heaven, and radiate light.
I'm telling you, as we spend time with God, we
can radiate the light of His presence that can shine

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from us in such a great way it'll affect everyone
around us. And then in Ephesians five eighteen, I love
this one. Do not be drunk on wine, which leads
to debat, but instead be filled with the Holy Spirit.
Have you ever seen people that like to get drunk.

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They'll go out and weekend after weekend after weekend, they'll
get so drunk they cannot operate. And so maybe you're
driving on the road right now one am and you're
blure leaving the bar. Well, God loves you. But I'm
telling you there's something better than wine to drink. It's
the power and the presence of the Holy Spirit. But

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the Bible says that we're not to be drunk with wine,
but be filled with the Holy Spirit. And here's my
thought on this. We should just be so excited to
have our time of the Lord. We should want to
be as drunk on Jesus as people want to be
drunk on alcohol. We should want to be that way.

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In the Acts chapter two, after the back because of
the Holy Spirit came, they were accused of being drunk
with wine. And the disciple said, we're not drunk as
wine with wine. The disciples said, we're not drunk with
wine as you suppose. We are just filled with the

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Holy Ghost. And you say, you and I are to
radiate the presence of Jesus. You know, you're gonna look like,
walk like, talk like, and smell like the person you
spend the most time with. And you know, if you
spend time with Jesus and you just spend time in
his presence and read his word, and listen to worship

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music and read good books and just be in the
presence of God, you are gonna look like the Lord
you are. The presence of God is gonna be with you,
radiate around you. You're gonna have divine appointments during the week.
You're gonna meet people that you've been wanting to meet.
All this stuff is gonna happen around you. See, and

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the Lord, the reason Jesus came and died is so
that we could have full access to the throne of Heaven.
You see, Adam and Eve walked in the glory of God.
Before a sending of the world. They were clothed in
the presence and the glory of God, and they walked
in that presence and glory each and every day, and

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God had very close fellowship with him. Well, God wants
to restore that today, and He did it through Jesus
coming die on across for our sins so we could
have eternal life, so we could be His son or
his daughter and have full access to the throne of

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Heaven and the presence of God. Hey, do you know
the Lord this morning is your life where it needs
to be. If your life isn't where it needs to be,
I invite you to pray this prayer with me. Say Jesus,
I know I'm a sinner. I asked you to forgive
me of my sin. Come into my heart and be

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my savior. Ask it in the name of Jesus, and
Lord fill me with the Holy Spirit in Jesus' name. Amen.
So let's talk about the things that can affect our
bubble in which we live. I talk look at it
like a bubble. But let's talk about what are some

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of the things that can hinder the presence of God
from radiating in and through our lives and out to
other people. You know, there are the habits we're involved with.
If you're doing drugs, getting drunk, playing with weezy boards,
the occult, that will greatly hinder anything coming from the

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Lord through you. Maybe you are involved with pornography. Maybe
there's other habits in your life you know not good.
You need to ask God to forgive you of those habits,
of those sins, and look to the Lord and get
free from that stuff. So all of those stuffs. See
what we see, what we hear, where we go, what

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we watch on TV or in movie theaters, can all
have a negative effect on our lives and on God's
presence being around us in a greater way. Sometimes we
just got to make a decisions. We got to say, Lord,
you know what, I want you more than I want

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that bottle. I want you more than I want those drugs.
I want you more than I want that TV program
that I know is not good for me. I want
you more than all those things that distract me and
detract me from really getting to know you. And if
you will eliminate some of those things from your life,

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God can begin to fill you with his presence more.
You know what, spending time in the Bible, spending time
in prayer, listening to good worship music. Well, you know,
I really love Jesus' image. Love. There's a lot of
great music by Jesus' image. You can look it up
on YouTube, a lot of great stuff that you can

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listen to that can really usher in the presence of
the Lord for you each and every day. So there's
all those things you can do to draw close to God.
If you know you've got sin in your life where
it shouldn't be there, all you got to do is say, Lord,
I asked you to forgive me for name the sin.
Ask for forgiveness, Ask for cleansing with the blood of Jesus,

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ask for a fresh infilling of the Holy Spirit. It
doesn't all happen overnight. God takes us in layers, But
the Bible says, draw near to God, and He will
draw near to you. See, the closer the Lord is
walking with you with me, the more his presence will
radiate from us as we walk with Him. And it's

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truly our goal to walk with Him each and every day,
each and every day. You know what, you don't have
to be perfect to have His presence surrounding you. You
don't have to be a preacher. Anyone can enjoy the
presence of Jesus. You know, even animals recognize when the
presence of Jesus is on a program. They'll be very calm.

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They'll lay there calmly. I know I've got a listener.
When you listen, you have your dogs laying by each
side of you, and so and there's many other of
you who listen, who have sent me cards and letters,
and you have wrote me telling me how you like
the program. And I'm so grateful that you're listening. Now.

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I like to lift up a prayer for each one
of you that God would be with you and they
would help you get rid of those things in your
life that you know are taking away from God's presence
being with you. And now only that I want to
pray for you, that He would help you put things
in your life that would help to increase the presence

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of God Father. I just pray for those that are
listening right now. Lord. There are many Lord that have
things in their life right now they know should not
be there that take away from the presence of God
being with him. So I pray in the name of Jesus,
that you would be with these persons. I pray that
you would help them to repent of the sin they

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have in their life. If it's a sin issue, Lord,
forgive me, cleanse me with the blood of Jesus, fill
me with the Holy Spirit. I pray for those that
have habits, those that just watch movies or at pornography
or what it is. Lord, I pray that through the
power and presence of the Holy Spirit, people would begin

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to get rid of everything Lord that just takes a
way from the presence of God being in their lives. Lord,
I pray that in the name of Jesus. Then, Lord,
I just pray for those that really want to walk
in a greater level of Your presence. I pray that
they would have a fresh encounter with You like Peter,

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James and John on the Mountain of Transfiguration are like
Moses on the mountains when he got the Ten Commandments.
I pray God for people to have a fresh, beautiful
encounter with the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords,
because I know that is the one and only way,
that is the greatest way for His presence to be

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felt in and through in our lives more. I pray
you would help people to pick up their Bibles and
begin to read their Bibles. I pray that you would
speak to people through your word. I pray that you
would help them to find a good home group or
fellowship to be involved with. Lord, and I just pray
that you would give people dreams, give people visions, keep

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them in the palm of your hand. I pray you
would heal people that are sick, touch people that are hurting,
and encourage people that feel hopeless. And Lord, I pray
for those that are lost that you'd find them, because Lord,
to you, they're not lost. You know exactly where there are.
You know exactly what everyone is going through. So Lord,

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I thank you for everything, and I give you the
glory and Jesus' name. Amen. Love to hear from you.
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