Or something.
I'll never ask.
In the white haze amid fire burns
My heart is captured to lurk
I have in me the burning fire
Oh, a sound of great things
I have in me the burning fire
Praise the Lord. I want to talk to you about the importance of the presence of God.
How many of us love the presence of God?
Now, of course, I'm not going to be doing, it's not going to be a detailed exegesis. I'm just going to be touching, touching the part of the body.
Alright, to just give you a little part of the body.
So I asked the question, how many of us, what was the question?
How many of us love the presence of God? Truly, don't just lift your hand when you know that you don't like church.
But wait, how many of us love the presence of God?
We all do, right? Your presence is heaven to me.
Is it heaven to you? How does the presence of God feel like?
How important is God's presence to you?
Thank you, Father. Hallelujah.
Let's go to Psalm 16, 11.
Alright, so let's read it together. Verse 11.
That will show me the part of life in thy presence is fullness of joy at thy right hand. There are pleasures evermore.
All of us, let's read it. One, two, go.
Now, show me the part of life.
Hallelujah. Now this, this is David in Psalm.
And David said, God, you're going to show me the part of life. But this prophecy actually was talking about the resurrection of Jesus.
Hallelujah. So, I was talking about the resurrection of Jesus.
Hallelujah. But at the point or at the time that
David was writing to him, he had no natural knowledge that he was writing about Jesus.
Are we together? To him, he was writing something for himself.
He was making a testimony of himself. He was saying something of himself.
And he says that in the presence of God, there is the fullness of joy.
This is very important.
Like you mentioned that outside the presence of God, you get awakened to the troubles of the world.
You get awakened to all the misnomance around you.
But the very moment you enter, now I'm using enter carefully, the very moment you come into the presence of God, the Bible says, according to David, it says that
in your presence is fullness of joy.
Praise the Lord.
What David is writing here is an experience, a consistent experience that he's had.
Are we together? And he's telling of it that in the presence of God is fullness of joy.
In the presence of God is fullness of joy, meaning that the word fullness there is completeness, totality.
So in the presence of God is the completeness of joy.
It means that there is nothing in this world that has wholesome joy or total joy.
Except the presence of God. So he says in your presence, in thy presence is, not in thy presence, I will find, he says in thy presence is
fullness of joy, the totality. And the word, the Hebrew construct actually is, in your presence is where, how do I put it,
you know, how many of you have been hungry and you over ate? So in your presence is where we are overly satisfied with joy.
So it is where that we are satisfied with joy. So it's like when somebody comes into the presence of God or when somebody is brought into the presence of God,
the person is satisfied with joy. And the word satisfied is like somebody is like, regardless the hunger, the joy is able to satisfy you.
And the hunger here is not talking about food hunger, the hunger here is referring to all kinds of wants, all kinds of troubles, all kinds of burdens, all kinds of issues.
Come on, I want to get out of this place. So regardless whatever, then the man says, for example, so this guy, I'm withered, I'm battered, I am troubled, I don't even know what to do.
Then suddenly I find myself there. The first thing is, ah, finally. Like you are running through town, tired, tired, exhausted, you don't know what to do.
And you can't wait to be home. And then finally you get home. Do you understand the satisfaction? It's like there's no toil again.
There's no hunger again. There's no wannabe again. There's no looking for again. So that's what David is saying. David is saying in the presence of God, there's no wannabe again.
You can't be in the presence of God and still have a need. Oh, you don't understand it.
Hey, may I not be too... Hallelujah. I want to get out of this place.
So if I am brought in the presence of God, I have this and this is not just, this is not a teaching, alright. That is why when somebody comes into the presence, like the person will be like, I don't know what happened.
It's like all my burdens are gone. Do you understand? And that is the, he says in thy presence is fullness of joy.
Is the satisfaction of joy. So in your presence is where joy satisfies me. It means that joy overrides my hangers. Joy overrides my troubles. Joy of...
Boy, boy, boy. He's talking about that inner excitement that overrides any kind of trouble. Christians are not supposed to commit suicide.
Oh, why? Why? Who can answer that? Why? Because of the presence of God. In thy presence.
In thy... except the person is not... and you see in thy presence here is not talking about church. Of course church is part, but it's not... because then it means that when church is not in session, you are not in the presence of God.
So the man sits down to say, that will show me the path of life. Colon. Do you see Colon there? What is Colon?
This is actually what I mean. That you will show me the way of life. The way to live my life you are going to show it to me.
What I mean by you show me the way of life is that in your presence is the fullness of joy. So he's saying that the way of life is in your presence.
Ah, you didn't get it. You didn't get it.
So... if you asked David, how do you live life? David will say, in the presence of God is fullness of joy.
How many of you understand what I'm talking about? So it means that anyone who is not in the presence of God does not know the way, the path of life.
Anybody who is not... can you listen? Anybody who is not in the presence of God does not know the path of life.
What is the path of life? The path of life simply is in the presence of God is fullness of joy.
If I live my life and I don't maximize everything the presence of God holds, I am missing the path of life.
Isn't it amazing how we get with it, we get troubled and sometimes you can be there, you don't even know what is the problem. You feel like all things are not okay.
And you are worried, you are worried, you don't know what is happening, you are just worried, you are worried about the future, you are worried about that, you are worried about this, you are worried about that.
And it's like you have to go and pray. You need to go and fast or you need something. That's not it. That's not it. My, my, my, my, my. Shout it, I'm joyful.
In thy presence. You didn't get it. See, he says in thy presence.
I don't know how to let you understand but the presence is speaking to me like you say the man of God is present.
So in thy presence means that, in thy presence means that in your hear, in your hear.
Not in your day, in your hear like, help me Father.
In thy presence means you are there. Do you understand? But that has not connoted like in thy presence.
In thy presence.
So listen. In thy presence.
So let's say this is the presence of God, right?
So I'm here.
I can't say that there is fullness of joy.
But the moment I come here.
Then you ask me, what's the path, what's the path of life in thy presence is fullness of joy.
So the, the here with me, the being with me is fullness of joy.
And that overrides my hunger and my hunger here, I'm not talking about food. It overrides any kind of desire.
It overrides any kind of failure. It overrides any kind of ambition. It overrides any kind of what?
Because in the hereness of this, there is fullness of joy.
I am satisfied with joy. I'll talk to you about joy. Hallelujah.
So it means that in the mind of David.
So let's see, there's a bad news right now. David says,
God, please, are you here? I just want to know
if you are present, because if you are present, then I'm in your presence.
God says I'm present. That's all right.
Why do you ask? It's the fullness of joy.
You didn't get that.
It's not like the issue is not there. The issue is there, but then you
are.
Let me show you.
That will show me the path of life.
When I am in your presence,
I am full of joy.
In thy presence
is fullness of joy.
My brother, my sister, one of the attributes of God is only present.
What does that mean?
Talk to me. What does that mean?
What is only RME? What did they tell you?
God is everywhere at the same time.
Is that all right?
So I am here.
I am going through something I don't even know what I should call it.
So where I am
is there the presence of God?
Then fullness of joy.
David says
in thy presence
there's one thing, fullness of joy.
Even if you bring a dead situation
and you are crying, that's fine. Maybe you are crying where God is not.
But the moment you bring that issue
or that issue comes anywhere around the presence of God. The Bible says that
is fullness of joy.
It means that situations don't redefine the presence of God.
The presence of God gives definition to situations
and the definition is one, fullness of joy.
Somebody didn't get it.
Raise the name of the Lord.
Ah.
I'll talk about at the right hand there, I'll tell you some more, I won't talk about it.
But in thy presence is fullness of joy.
See, it can never go worse with my life.
I still don't have Christians in this place.
See, my life will not go bad.
In thy presence
so this one is water.
Do you understand?
Then you come ahhh, then this thing comes straight
into the presence of God.
In thy presence
is fullness of joy.
Oh, you didn't get it.
I came with water.
But when water is in your presence, it is not called water.
In your presence is fullness of joy.
Anything in your presence is fullness of joy.
I brought a dead situation. In your presence is fullness of joy.
I brought a broken leg. In your presence is fullness of joy.
I brought a blind eye. In your presence is fullness of joy.
I brought a confused life. In your presence is fullness of joy.
I brought a dilapidated life. In your presence is fullness of joy.
I brought a life I don't even know where it is going to. In your presence that life is fullness of joy.
Oh my God, say fullness of joy.
So I
Oh my, I can't
I can't be in the presence of God and experience something else.
I can't be in the presence of God and be something else. No, if I am in the presence of God, I am, I is fullness of joy.
Let's put it that way.
Say fullness of joy.
So as I move up and down,
I am in the presence of God and experience something else.
I'm in the presence of God.
So I move up and down and I see the fullness of joy.
That tells you that, like he said, everything loses its place and value
Let me show you something he said.
Seventeen
Seventeen, verse fifteen.
Do they amplify, if you have amplified?
You don't have amplified. Is this I will see your face in righteousness when I am weak.
Then he talks about I will be satisfied with your presence.
This is not a teaching you shout, but we will shout.
He says that there is something that is called satisfaction with the presence of God.
Presence is a, forget it.
And it is like clear face.
You know, like when we say, oh, I am satisfied with this. I'm satisfied with food.
I'm satisfied with that. I'm saying.
Somebody can be walking in this life and the person is satisfied with God's presence.
And in thy presence is fullness of joy.
This is the mindset of a person.
Hey listen, you can be a pastor and you commit suicide. You can be a Christian leader and you commit suicide.
In this world, there are issues. Issues will never stop. You can be a whoever, a prophet, you will die.
You can be there, you are depressed.
Do you understand? But listen, there are those, David says there are those who are satisfied.
Onyamit the presence, nam me omu. It's everywhere they go. The Bible says there is the fullness of joy.
Can somebody be joyful?
You see some of the things that maybe we have gone through or some people have gone through.
Some people who have killed themselves, they've not gone through half of them.
I told you about somebody who had seven A's, one B, who wanted to go and kill himself.
And somebody had F9's, straight, all F9, nine F9's and was doing missions, praying for sick people.
Somebody can say, oh I don't have money. I don't know where money is coming from so I want to even die.
I want to die. You are saying you don't know where money is coming from so you even know what is called money.
What the Bible says, be content with such things as you have. Don't just think about this thing that you have.
I am satisfied with the presence of God. And that is my contentment.
Are you understanding that? I am content.
He says, I will be satisfied with your presence.
Let me read it from here.
He says, I shall be fully satisfied when I wait to find myself beholding your form and having sweet communion with you.
So when I am in fellowship with God, David is saying, listen in this world, when men are dying for cars,
when some are dying for money and some don't know, they are dying for future plans and whatever,
God let me wake up every morning, let go summer. Thank you Father for life. Blessed God.
Thank you God. Thank you God. Thank you God. Thank you God. Thank you God.
When some are killing others because of fame, when some are killing people because of money,
when people are selling their bodies because of money, when people are selling their souls to the devil for fame and all of that.
David said, Lord I just want to behold your face, commune with you and bless you Lord all the days of my life.
I want to give you praise because you satisfy me with your presence Lord.
I can wake up and I will sing to you. I can wake up and bless your name.
I can wake up and say Lord you are good. Oh, what a Messiah.
Satisfied with the presence of my God.
It's like if you went to David and say, what is your satisfaction in life?
He won't say when I win a big lottery.
He will not say when I pack, when I pack an auditorium full of people.
He will not even say when I'm demonstrating the power of God.
He will not say when I lay hands on the sick.
He will not say when men are falling down as I'm preaching.
He will say when I wake up in the morning and I'm beholding your face Lord.
In sweet fellowship, in sweet fellowship, in some quiet time somewhere, in some thank you Father.
In the name of the Lord, the Messiah.
That's that. That's that.
You see how useless David is making our worries?
You see how useless he's making all the things that have taken our attention and because of that we don't even have time for God.
He says no, no, no, not me, not me, not me, not me, not me, not me, not me, not me, not me.
His face. And I'll be satisfied with his presence.
Can you imagine? The presence of God satisfies.
May we grow to that point where our satisfaction is not the man who is with us, the woman who is with us, the friend who is with us, the big man that we know somewhere,
the big people that are in the church, the big kithiah, but it will be oh Samaya, that when I woke up today, I saw the face of my Lord in sweet communion, in sweet fellowship.
How you understand what I'm talking about?
Look at somebody, tell the person face to face.
Listen, tell the person face to face.
No, I mean, can you look, can you look at somebody and tell the person face to face, face to face with my God.
Face to face with my God.
Face to face with God.
Can you see?
I will be satisfied with your presence.
I will see your face in righteousness when I awake, when I awake.
Ma.
Hell in the morning like face to face.
At night, face to face.
In the afternoon whilst you are doing your day's job, face to face.
And when you come to church, face to face.
You're talking to some friends face to face.
And you will not be dry.
And you will not be withered.
And your life is constantly flowing and joy is constantly flowing and gladness is constantly flowing.
This is one of the key factors in constantly receiving songs from the Lord.
Your spirit is in communion, communion.
Now you know, it's not like you are always waiting to hear the next song or who is, no.
Your spirit can be singing whilst you're on your bed, face to face.
You'll not be withered.
Now Christians, it's only when they come to church that they feel something.
They just, they try and feel something.
No, brother, no.
Sometimes small thing will shake you.
Small thing, then you are shaken.
You are broken.
You have to be repaired.
Oh no.
Face to face.
The man didn't say, when God give me my dream wife, then I shall be satisfied.
No, no, no, no, no.
He didn't say when God gives him my drinker.
When God gives him my dream whatever.
No.
He says that when I wake up and I see your face.
When I wake up and I see your face, I am satisfied with your presence.
Think about it.
When I awake.
I'm sorry that I'm not with you anymore.
It's serious.
Why do we get withered?
Let me try and wrap up.
Why do we get withered?
Why do we get too dry?
Why do we get tarted?
Why do we get worried?
Why do we get...
And you are thinking.
You are thinking.
Look at somebody say face to face.
I feel like I should just say a little bit more.
What do you think?
Let me try and wrap up.
I think I'm...
Oh my, my, my, my.
This is too sweet, baby.
Let me try and then...
Let me explain this one to you and then I'll close.
Go to verse 14.
Verse 14.
He says, With your hand, Lord, save me from men, from men of the world, whose portion in this life
you fill their bellies with... Oh, come on. What is this screen doing?
Let me read from here.
Let me read the NIV.
He says, From men by thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life,
and whose belly thou fillest with thy treasure.
Then he talks about them and he says,
They are satisfied with children, and they leave the rest of their substance to their babies.
As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness, I shall be satisfied when I awake with beholding thy face.
There is no state of a man in this world that is enviable.
If only you can wake up and behold his face and be satisfied with his presence,
there is no state of any human being on earth that is enviable.
You didn't get what I told you.
Some of you have to listen to this over and over again to get what I'm telling you.
Say face to face.
Last time, say face to face.
Say face to face.
When you don't maximize the value of the presence of God in your life,
you will be like a king's child that is chasing after a poor child's foot.
Your happiness will be dependent on somebody, your joy will be dependent on somebody, your whole life.
When somebody doesn't call you, you are angry.
When somebody doesn't respond to your call, you are this.
When somebody promises and feels you, you become a spirit.
So now pastors are dealing with the spirit of promise and feel.
If you are here and you have the spirit of promise and feel, come.
Me, promise and feel. Do you know who I am?
You promised me and you feel me.
No, then you didn't promise.
Now, Christians have promise and feel spirit.
So when a Christian begins to act like a pauper, you know why?
He does not maximize or he has not maximized the value of the presence of God in his life or in her life.
How can you?
Somebody who is satisfied with the presence of God, then you come and you come and sing or you go and...
I heard a song.
You are born again? You are wearing what?
How did you wear it?
Didn't you hear the Bible says we are satisfied with his presence?
Who came to wear you that?
You are satisfied with the presence of God.
And you know the...
So when I talk about that, I talk about...
So if you are not married, you are wearing a cloth of embarrassment.
Do you know what gives me value?
It's the presence of my God.
When I behold his face.
Hey, you're here with me?
Hey, you know what they are talking about again?
A car, a house, a child.
No, it can't be.
The Lord wants you to know he is your enuffment.
After singing that, then you come and sing.
So you have Jesus, you know that.
Powerful song.
Then you come and say, after telling us when you have Jesus, you have everything.
Now you come and say that you are wearing...
Are you okay?
I got the presence of God.
I'm sealed.
This is nice.
Hallelujah.
Listen, as we close.
You are going to live your life from today.
Never forget Psalm 17 verse 15.
Face to face.
And as I face to face with Jesus, I'm satisfied with his presence.
Sometimes people think when you encounter God, he gives you money.
Or when you encounter God, he gives you your heart desire.
No, when you encounter God, he fills you, he satisfies you with his presence.
You don't meet God and still be hungry.
No, when you encounter God, car will not be of relevance.
That's always I say, when you see a pastor, a pastor who is coming to church,
and they have to take a video of their convoy, his car convoy, to make a case.
When you see anybody who lives a celebrity life, that person has not seen God.
No, no, no, that person has not seen God.
Where is the name of God?
Serious pastors down to earth.
Every serious man of God.
You can never tell me that you know the car maybe Pazacris uses.
By the time you see him on the stage, he finished preaching, he's gone.
Do you understand what I'm talking about?
You know, as a music minister, you know, any, if they've seen God with you,
because when you face to face with God, the only thing that fills you is his presence.
Can I take two minutes and close?
You know, movies are channels that get filled with all kinds of things.
So you can tell somebody you are full of yourself.
You can meet someone say you are full of pride.
You can meet someone say you are full of lies.
You are full of this. You are full of this.
Now, when you meet God, God makes you full of him, his presence.
So the moment you claim you have seen God and we are seeing something coming out of you,
which is not him, you are lying.
Do you understand?
So listen, in thy presence is fullness of joy.
In thy presence is fullness of joy.
Anytime you become moody, anytime you become unhappy or uninterested, hold on, let me come down.
Anytime you become that, know that you are not linking up.
It is not that the matter is big, but you are not linking up, all of us included.
It's like you are not linking up.
Because the moment you link up, it's like fire.
The moment you link up, you can burst out in laughter, even at the point when you were crying.
Why?
In thy presence.
Say in thy presence.
I'm going to continue this till the end of the month.
Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord.
We're going to come to the presence of God and join the presence of God in what have you.
And we'll have a wonderful time.
Hallelujah. Be upstanding.
The enlightened amid fire burns.
My heart is captured to lurk.
I have in me the burning fire.
Oh, a sound of grace.
I have in me the burning fire.