His Presence, Your Reality!

Words are “things”; they carry spiritual substance. Oftentimes, God’s people are robbed of greater blessings because they speak the wrong words.

Your language is the expression of your understanding; it reflects what you know. And sadly, many have developed a language of limitation because they’ve been wrongly influenced by their environment.

As a child of God, you must speak right. This is beyond mere positive thinking or motivational communication. It means speaking truth, and the Word of God is truth (John 17:17).

When you speak the right words of God’s truths long enough, they’ll communicate a mindset to your spirit and produce results that are consistent with that mindset.

It’s not merely the words themselves that make or mar; it’s the language they form, the system of thought they represent. That’s why you must speak in accordance with the revealed knowledge of God’s Word.

For example, some would say, “Oh, when we started worshipping in church, the presence of God came down upon us.” It sounds spiritual, but it’s incorrect.

The presence of God doesn’t come down from heaven when you worship; you carry His presence. You’re His temple, and God lives in you permanently. He doesn’t come and go.

When we come together in worship, His presence is manifested, not imported. Similarly, don’t say, “We enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise.”

That was David’s revelation under the old covenant. Today, we’re in His presence; we live there. You don’t enter and exit God’s presence; you dwell there permanently. Hallelujah!

Train yourself to use words consistent with your divine nature. Align your language with the New Testament revelation of who you are in Christ, and you’d experience ever-increasing

The saddest day in human history was when Adam, having sinned against God, was driven away from the presence of God, together with his wife, Eve.

Man had been in fellowship with God, being in God’s image and likeness. The Bible says God sent an angel with a flaming sword to stay at the gate of the garden to disallow Adam from re-entering the Garden of Eden.

Suddenly, man (Adam) discovers something: the rich fellowship that he had with God was over. That was the beginning of religion. Man began to do everything he could to get that divine presence again.

All the religions of the world today are seeking the same thing: the lost presence. Man had no way to get back into that presence until Jesus came. He made a startling statement. He said, “I am the WAY…no one comes to the Father, except by me!” (John 14:6). He’s the way to “the lost presence.”

This was what Adam needed. This was what Abraham, Moses, and the Jewish Priesthood all needed: the way to the Father’s presence! Jesus, is that way! “By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh” (Hebrews 10:20).

There’s no veil, no separation anymore between the Father and us; He’s brought us into God’s presence, and the Bible says, “In His presence is fullness of joy” (Psalm 16:11). There’s no joy like what you have in the presence of God. What a glorious life we have in Christ!

If you haven’t found your way into His presence, if you’re not yet born again, this is your moment! There’s no need to wallow in sin, defeat and ignorance anymore.

There’s no enmity between you and God anymore. All you have to do is confess the Lordship of Jesus over your life, and your spirit will be recreated to begin an exciting life in His presence for eternity.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen (2 Corinthians 13:14).

The most important thing in your life now that you’re in Christ is your fellowship with the Holy Spirit. Until and unless this becomes a present-hour consciousness to you, your Christianity would be a form of religion.

You have to know, love, and relate with the Holy Spirit as not only a real person, but also as the very essence of Christ and Christianity.

He’s the One who raised Jesus from the dead, and without the resurrection, there would have been no salvation. Everything you’d ever want, admire and love in Jesus is in the Holy Spirit.

The Lord Jesus is now in heaven; the Holy Spirit is here with us, and the beautiful thing about it is that we have Him (the Holy Spirit) in us and with us anywhere and everywhere.

The disciples couldn’t take Jesus home with them; they were with Him in their waking hours, in their work hours, but when He went to heaven, they had to welcome the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit came to take the place of the ascended Christ. He lives in you today. So, be ever conscious of His presence in you; take advantage of His grace and power in your life. With Him, you can do anything; life becomes a glide and smooth sail in glory. Hallelujah!

The apostles in the early Church understood and took great advantage of the Holy Spirit’s presence in their lives.

After they received the Holy Spirit, their lives and ministry changed; they ministered and did all things by the power of the Holy Spirit. No wonder they had such extraordinary results and made such a marvelous impact with the Gospel.

When you come into a place, no matter where it is, you come in, and with, God’s presence. You bear His presence. You’re the temple of the living God, who dwells in you by the Holy Spirit. When you were born

again, Christ took up His abode in the quarters of your heart. He’s in you now, and you’re in Him. He didn’t come into you to leave again after some time; He’s forever in you.

Read the words of Jesus in Matthew 28:20; He said, “…lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.”

This was before the Holy Spirit came to take up His abode in the quarters of our hearts. He had said concerning the Holy Spirit in John 14:17, …ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.”

It’s an everlasting indwelling. The Spirit of God dwells in you, and He’s the conveyor of the presence and blessings of God, and all that’s been given to us in Christ Jesus.

Have the consciousness that you’re a God-carrying vessel, and you live in His presence every day. This is what it means to be in Christ. You’re in the divine environment, the environment of His glory and divine essence. Hallelujah!

-GSW-