1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:22,680 Or something. 2 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:28,540 I'll never ask. 3 00:00:28,540 --> 00:00:33,540 In the white haze amid fire burns 4 00:00:35,540 --> 00:00:40,540 My heart is captured to lurk 5 00:00:42,540 --> 00:00:47,540 I have in me the burning fire 6 00:00:48,540 --> 00:00:53,540 Oh, a sound of great things 7 00:00:53,540 --> 00:00:58,540 I have in me the burning fire 8 00:01:00,540 --> 00:01:08,540 Praise the Lord. I want to talk to you about the importance of the presence of God. 9 00:01:10,540 --> 00:01:15,540 How many of us love the presence of God? 10 00:01:15,540 --> 00:01:25,540 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. 11 00:01:25,540 --> 00:01:29,540 Alright, to just give you a little part of the body. 12 00:01:29,540 --> 00:01:34,540 So I asked the question, how many of us, what was the question? 13 00:01:35,540 --> 00:01:42,540 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. 14 00:01:42,540 --> 00:01:47,540 But wait, how many of us love the presence of God? 15 00:01:48,540 --> 00:01:56,540 We all do, right? Your presence is heaven to me. 16 00:01:56,540 --> 00:02:00,540 Is it heaven to you? How does the presence of God feel like? 17 00:02:00,540 --> 00:02:04,540 How important is God's presence to you? 18 00:02:05,540 --> 00:02:08,540 Thank you, Father. Hallelujah. 19 00:02:08,540 --> 00:02:12,540 Let's go to Psalm 16, 11. 20 00:02:15,540 --> 00:02:19,540 Alright, so let's read it together. Verse 11. 21 00:02:20,540 --> 00:02:30,540 That will show me the part of life in thy presence is fullness of joy at thy right hand. There are pleasures evermore. 22 00:02:30,540 --> 00:02:33,540 All of us, let's read it. One, two, go. 23 00:02:33,540 --> 00:02:38,540 Now, show me the part of life. 24 00:02:45,540 --> 00:02:57,540 Hallelujah. Now this, this is David in Psalm. 25 00:02:57,540 --> 00:03:07,540 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. 26 00:03:07,540 --> 00:03:13,540 Hallelujah. So, I was talking about the resurrection of Jesus. 27 00:03:13,540 --> 00:03:19,540 Hallelujah. But at the point or at the time that 28 00:03:19,540 --> 00:03:28,540 David was writing to him, he had no natural knowledge that he was writing about Jesus. 29 00:03:28,540 --> 00:03:34,540 Are we together? To him, he was writing something for himself. 30 00:03:34,540 --> 00:03:40,540 He was making a testimony of himself. He was saying something of himself. 31 00:03:40,540 --> 00:03:52,540 And he says that in the presence of God, there is the fullness of joy. 32 00:03:52,540 --> 00:03:55,540 This is very important. 33 00:03:55,540 --> 00:04:04,540 Like you mentioned that outside the presence of God, you get awakened to the troubles of the world. 34 00:04:04,540 --> 00:04:09,540 You get awakened to all the misnomance around you. 35 00:04:09,540 --> 00:04:26,540 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 36 00:04:26,540 --> 00:04:34,540 in your presence is fullness of joy. 37 00:04:34,540 --> 00:04:38,540 Praise the Lord. 38 00:04:38,540 --> 00:04:48,540 What David is writing here is an experience, a consistent experience that he's had. 39 00:04:48,540 --> 00:05:00,540 Are we together? And he's telling of it that in the presence of God is fullness of joy. 40 00:05:00,540 --> 00:05:12,540 In the presence of God is fullness of joy, meaning that the word fullness there is completeness, totality. 41 00:05:12,540 --> 00:05:18,540 So in the presence of God is the completeness of joy. 42 00:05:18,540 --> 00:05:31,540 It means that there is nothing in this world that has wholesome joy or total joy. 43 00:05:31,540 --> 00:05:46,540 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 44 00:05:46,540 --> 00:06:01,540 fullness of joy, the totality. And the word, the Hebrew construct actually is, in your presence is where, how do I put it, 45 00:06:01,540 --> 00:06:16,540 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. 46 00:06:16,540 --> 00:06:27,540 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, 47 00:06:27,540 --> 00:06:47,540 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. 48 00:06:47,540 --> 00:07:04,540 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. 49 00:07:04,540 --> 00:07:18,540 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. 50 00:07:18,540 --> 00:07:37,540 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. 51 00:07:37,540 --> 00:07:51,540 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. 52 00:07:51,540 --> 00:08:05,540 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. 53 00:08:05,540 --> 00:08:14,540 You can't be in the presence of God and still have a need. Oh, you don't understand it. 54 00:08:14,540 --> 00:08:23,540 Hey, may I not be too... Hallelujah. I want to get out of this place. 55 00:08:23,540 --> 00:08:38,540 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. 56 00:08:38,540 --> 00:08:55,540 It's like all my burdens are gone. Do you understand? And that is the, he says in thy presence is fullness of joy. 57 00:08:55,540 --> 00:09:14,540 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... 58 00:09:14,540 --> 00:09:30,540 Boy, boy, boy. He's talking about that inner excitement that overrides any kind of trouble. Christians are not supposed to commit suicide. 59 00:09:30,540 --> 00:09:47,540 Oh, why? Why? Who can answer that? Why? Because of the presence of God. In thy presence. 60 00:09:47,540 --> 00:10:08,540 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. 61 00:10:08,540 --> 00:10:28,540 So the man sits down to say, that will show me the path of life. Colon. Do you see Colon there? What is Colon? 62 00:10:28,540 --> 00:10:41,540 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. 63 00:10:41,540 --> 00:10:56,540 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. 64 00:10:56,540 --> 00:11:13,540 Ah, you didn't get it. You didn't get it. 65 00:11:13,540 --> 00:11:36,540 So... if you asked David, how do you live life? David will say, in the presence of God is fullness of joy. 66 00:11:36,540 --> 00:11:54,540 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. 67 00:11:54,540 --> 00:12:07,540 Anybody who is not... can you listen? Anybody who is not in the presence of God does not know the path of life. 68 00:12:07,540 --> 00:12:21,540 What is the path of life? The path of life simply is in the presence of God is fullness of joy. 69 00:12:21,540 --> 00:12:34,540 If I live my life and I don't maximize everything the presence of God holds, I am missing the path of life. 70 00:12:34,540 --> 00:12:47,540 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. 71 00:12:47,540 --> 00:12:56,540 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. 72 00:12:56,540 --> 00:13:12,540 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. 73 00:13:12,540 --> 00:13:33,540 In thy presence. You didn't get it. See, he says in thy presence. 74 00:13:33,540 --> 00:13:42,540 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. 75 00:13:42,540 --> 00:13:53,540 So in thy presence means that, in thy presence means that in your hear, in your hear. 76 00:13:53,540 --> 00:13:59,540 Not in your day, in your hear like, help me Father. 77 00:13:59,540 --> 00:14:12,540 In thy presence means you are there. Do you understand? But that has not connoted like in thy presence. 78 00:14:12,540 --> 00:14:18,540 In thy presence. 79 00:14:18,540 --> 00:14:34,540 So listen. In thy presence. 80 00:14:34,540 --> 00:14:38,540 So let's say this is the presence of God, right? 81 00:14:38,540 --> 00:14:40,540 So I'm here. 82 00:14:40,540 --> 00:14:44,540 I can't say that there is fullness of joy. 83 00:14:44,540 --> 00:14:49,540 But the moment I come here. 84 00:14:49,540 --> 00:14:56,540 Then you ask me, what's the path, what's the path of life in thy presence is fullness of joy. 85 00:14:56,540 --> 00:15:06,540 So the, the here with me, the being with me is fullness of joy. 86 00:15:06,540 --> 00:15:16,540 And that overrides my hunger and my hunger here, I'm not talking about food. It overrides any kind of desire. 87 00:15:16,540 --> 00:15:27,540 It overrides any kind of failure. It overrides any kind of ambition. It overrides any kind of what? 88 00:15:27,540 --> 00:15:35,540 Because in the hereness of this, there is fullness of joy. 89 00:15:35,540 --> 00:15:42,540 I am satisfied with joy. I'll talk to you about joy. Hallelujah. 90 00:15:42,540 --> 00:15:49,540 So it means that in the mind of David. 91 00:15:49,540 --> 00:15:55,540 So let's see, there's a bad news right now. David says, 92 00:15:55,540 --> 00:15:59,540 God, please, are you here? I just want to know 93 00:15:59,540 --> 00:16:05,540 if you are present, because if you are present, then I'm in your presence. 94 00:16:05,540 --> 00:16:10,540 God says I'm present. That's all right. 95 00:16:10,540 --> 00:16:15,540 Why do you ask? It's the fullness of joy. 96 00:16:15,540 --> 00:16:18,540 You didn't get that. 97 00:16:18,540 --> 00:16:26,540 It's not like the issue is not there. The issue is there, but then you 98 00:16:26,540 --> 00:16:30,540 are. 99 00:16:30,540 --> 00:16:35,540 Let me show you. 100 00:16:35,540 --> 00:16:39,540 That will show me the path of life. 101 00:16:39,540 --> 00:16:43,540 When I am in your presence, 102 00:16:43,540 --> 00:16:46,540 I am full of joy. 103 00:16:46,540 --> 00:16:51,540 In thy presence 104 00:16:51,540 --> 00:16:54,540 is fullness of joy. 105 00:16:54,540 --> 00:17:03,540 My brother, my sister, one of the attributes of God is only present. 106 00:17:03,540 --> 00:17:07,540 What does that mean? 107 00:17:07,540 --> 00:17:11,540 Talk to me. What does that mean? 108 00:17:11,540 --> 00:17:15,540 What is only RME? What did they tell you? 109 00:17:15,540 --> 00:17:20,540 God is everywhere at the same time. 110 00:17:20,540 --> 00:17:25,540 Is that all right? 111 00:17:25,540 --> 00:17:27,540 So I am here. 112 00:17:27,540 --> 00:17:34,540 I am going through something I don't even know what I should call it. 113 00:17:34,540 --> 00:17:39,540 So where I am 114 00:17:39,540 --> 00:17:45,540 is there the presence of God? 115 00:17:45,540 --> 00:17:51,540 Then fullness of joy. 116 00:17:51,540 --> 00:17:55,540 David says 117 00:17:55,540 --> 00:17:59,540 in thy presence 118 00:17:59,540 --> 00:18:04,540 there's one thing, fullness of joy. 119 00:18:04,540 --> 00:18:11,540 Even if you bring a dead situation 120 00:18:11,540 --> 00:18:15,540 and you are crying, that's fine. Maybe you are crying where God is not. 121 00:18:15,540 --> 00:18:19,540 But the moment you bring that issue 122 00:18:19,540 --> 00:18:25,540 or that issue comes anywhere around the presence of God. The Bible says that 123 00:18:25,540 --> 00:18:29,540 is fullness of joy. 124 00:18:29,540 --> 00:18:35,540 It means that situations don't redefine the presence of God. 125 00:18:35,540 --> 00:18:39,540 The presence of God gives definition to situations 126 00:18:39,540 --> 00:18:43,540 and the definition is one, fullness of joy. 127 00:18:43,540 --> 00:18:47,540 Somebody didn't get it. 128 00:18:47,540 --> 00:18:51,540 Raise the name of the Lord. 129 00:18:51,540 --> 00:18:55,540 Ah. 130 00:18:55,540 --> 00:18:59,540 I'll talk about at the right hand there, I'll tell you some more, I won't talk about it. 131 00:18:59,540 --> 00:19:07,540 But in thy presence is fullness of joy. 132 00:19:07,540 --> 00:19:13,540 See, it can never go worse with my life. 133 00:19:13,540 --> 00:19:17,540 I still don't have Christians in this place. 134 00:19:17,540 --> 00:19:27,540 See, my life will not go bad. 135 00:19:27,540 --> 00:19:39,540 In thy presence 136 00:19:39,540 --> 00:19:43,540 so this one is water. 137 00:19:43,540 --> 00:19:45,540 Do you understand? 138 00:19:45,540 --> 00:19:51,540 Then you come ahhh, then this thing comes straight 139 00:19:51,540 --> 00:19:54,540 into the presence of God. 140 00:19:54,540 --> 00:19:59,540 In thy presence 141 00:19:59,540 --> 00:20:05,540 is fullness of joy. 142 00:20:05,540 --> 00:20:11,540 Oh, you didn't get it. 143 00:20:11,540 --> 00:20:15,540 I came with water. 144 00:20:15,540 --> 00:20:20,540 But when water is in your presence, it is not called water. 145 00:20:20,540 --> 00:20:25,540 In your presence is fullness of joy. 146 00:20:25,540 --> 00:20:35,540 Anything in your presence is fullness of joy. 147 00:20:35,540 --> 00:20:42,540 I brought a dead situation. In your presence is fullness of joy. 148 00:20:42,540 --> 00:20:48,540 I brought a broken leg. In your presence is fullness of joy. 149 00:20:48,540 --> 00:20:53,540 I brought a blind eye. In your presence is fullness of joy. 150 00:20:53,540 --> 00:21:00,540 I brought a confused life. In your presence is fullness of joy. 151 00:21:00,540 --> 00:21:07,540 I brought a dilapidated life. In your presence is fullness of joy. 152 00:21:07,540 --> 00:21:15,540 I brought a life I don't even know where it is going to. In your presence that life is fullness of joy. 153 00:21:15,540 --> 00:21:21,540 Oh my God, say fullness of joy. 154 00:21:21,540 --> 00:21:27,540 So I 155 00:21:27,540 --> 00:21:34,540 Oh my, I can't 156 00:21:34,540 --> 00:21:40,540 I can't be in the presence of God and experience something else. 157 00:21:40,540 --> 00:21:50,540 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. 158 00:21:50,540 --> 00:21:54,540 Let's put it that way. 159 00:21:54,540 --> 00:22:01,540 Say fullness of joy. 160 00:22:01,540 --> 00:22:06,540 So as I move up and down, 161 00:22:06,540 --> 00:22:11,540 I am in the presence of God and experience something else. 162 00:22:11,540 --> 00:22:16,540 I'm in the presence of God. 163 00:22:16,540 --> 00:22:25,540 So I move up and down and I see the fullness of joy. 164 00:22:25,540 --> 00:22:35,540 That tells you that, like he said, everything loses its place and value 165 00:22:35,540 --> 00:22:40,540 Let me show you something he said. 166 00:22:40,540 --> 00:22:55,540 Seventeen 167 00:22:55,540 --> 00:23:05,540 Seventeen, verse fifteen. 168 00:23:05,540 --> 00:23:23,540 Do they amplify, if you have amplified? 169 00:23:23,540 --> 00:23:30,540 You don't have amplified. Is this I will see your face in righteousness when I am weak. 170 00:23:30,540 --> 00:23:47,540 Then he talks about I will be satisfied with your presence. 171 00:23:47,540 --> 00:23:53,540 This is not a teaching you shout, but we will shout. 172 00:23:53,540 --> 00:24:01,540 He says that there is something that is called satisfaction with the presence of God. 173 00:24:01,540 --> 00:24:07,540 Presence is a, forget it. 174 00:24:07,540 --> 00:24:11,540 And it is like clear face. 175 00:24:11,540 --> 00:24:18,540 You know, like when we say, oh, I am satisfied with this. I'm satisfied with food. 176 00:24:18,540 --> 00:24:22,540 I'm satisfied with that. I'm saying. 177 00:24:22,540 --> 00:24:32,540 Somebody can be walking in this life and the person is satisfied with God's presence. 178 00:24:32,540 --> 00:24:42,540 And in thy presence is fullness of joy. 179 00:24:42,540 --> 00:24:49,540 This is the mindset of a person. 180 00:24:49,540 --> 00:24:55,540 Hey listen, you can be a pastor and you commit suicide. You can be a Christian leader and you commit suicide. 181 00:24:55,540 --> 00:25:06,540 In this world, there are issues. Issues will never stop. You can be a whoever, a prophet, you will die. 182 00:25:06,540 --> 00:25:10,540 You can be there, you are depressed. 183 00:25:10,540 --> 00:25:17,540 Do you understand? But listen, there are those, David says there are those who are satisfied. 184 00:25:17,540 --> 00:25:32,540 Onyamit the presence, nam me omu. It's everywhere they go. The Bible says there is the fullness of joy. 185 00:25:32,540 --> 00:25:35,540 Can somebody be joyful? 186 00:25:35,540 --> 00:25:41,540 You see some of the things that maybe we have gone through or some people have gone through. 187 00:25:41,540 --> 00:25:48,540 Some people who have killed themselves, they've not gone through half of them. 188 00:25:48,540 --> 00:25:53,540 I told you about somebody who had seven A's, one B, who wanted to go and kill himself. 189 00:25:53,540 --> 00:26:06,540 And somebody had F9's, straight, all F9, nine F9's and was doing missions, praying for sick people. 190 00:26:06,540 --> 00:26:13,540 Somebody can say, oh I don't have money. I don't know where money is coming from so I want to even die. 191 00:26:13,540 --> 00:26:25,540 I want to die. You are saying you don't know where money is coming from so you even know what is called money. 192 00:26:25,540 --> 00:26:33,540 What the Bible says, be content with such things as you have. Don't just think about this thing that you have. 193 00:26:33,540 --> 00:26:43,540 I am satisfied with the presence of God. And that is my contentment. 194 00:26:43,540 --> 00:26:52,540 Are you understanding that? I am content. 195 00:26:52,540 --> 00:26:59,540 He says, I will be satisfied with your presence. 196 00:26:59,540 --> 00:27:14,540 Let me read it from here. 197 00:27:14,540 --> 00:27:24,540 He says, I shall be fully satisfied when I wait to find myself beholding your form and having sweet communion with you. 198 00:27:24,540 --> 00:27:32,540 So when I am in fellowship with God, David is saying, listen in this world, when men are dying for cars, 199 00:27:32,540 --> 00:27:37,540 when some are dying for money and some don't know, they are dying for future plans and whatever, 200 00:27:37,540 --> 00:27:44,540 God let me wake up every morning, let go summer. Thank you Father for life. Blessed God. 201 00:27:44,540 --> 00:27:49,540 Thank you God. Thank you God. Thank you God. Thank you God. Thank you God. 202 00:27:49,540 --> 00:27:54,540 When some are killing others because of fame, when some are killing people because of money, 203 00:27:54,540 --> 00:28:04,540 when people are selling their bodies because of money, when people are selling their souls to the devil for fame and all of that. 204 00:28:04,540 --> 00:28:14,540 David said, Lord I just want to behold your face, commune with you and bless you Lord all the days of my life. 205 00:28:14,540 --> 00:28:22,540 I want to give you praise because you satisfy me with your presence Lord. 206 00:28:22,540 --> 00:28:27,540 I can wake up and I will sing to you. I can wake up and bless your name. 207 00:28:27,540 --> 00:28:32,540 I can wake up and say Lord you are good. Oh, what a Messiah. 208 00:28:32,540 --> 00:28:42,540 Satisfied with the presence of my God. 209 00:28:42,540 --> 00:28:49,540 Satisfied with the presence of my God. 210 00:28:49,540 --> 00:28:54,540 It's like if you went to David and say, what is your satisfaction in life? 211 00:28:54,540 --> 00:28:59,540 He won't say when I win a big lottery. 212 00:28:59,540 --> 00:29:06,540 He will not say when I pack, when I pack an auditorium full of people. 213 00:29:06,540 --> 00:29:09,540 He will not even say when I'm demonstrating the power of God. 214 00:29:09,540 --> 00:29:13,540 He will not say when I lay hands on the sick. 215 00:29:13,540 --> 00:29:18,540 He will not say when men are falling down as I'm preaching. 216 00:29:18,540 --> 00:29:25,540 He will say when I wake up in the morning and I'm beholding your face Lord. 217 00:29:25,540 --> 00:29:34,540 In sweet fellowship, in sweet fellowship, in some quiet time somewhere, in some thank you Father. 218 00:29:34,540 --> 00:29:44,540 In the name of the Lord, the Messiah. 219 00:29:44,540 --> 00:29:49,540 That's that. That's that. 220 00:29:49,540 --> 00:29:57,540 That's that. That's that. 221 00:29:57,540 --> 00:30:01,540 You see how useless David is making our worries? 222 00:30:01,540 --> 00:30:07,540 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. 223 00:30:07,540 --> 00:30:18,540 He says no, no, no, not me, not me, not me, not me, not me, not me, not me, not me, not me. 224 00:30:18,540 --> 00:30:26,540 His face. And I'll be satisfied with his presence. 225 00:30:26,540 --> 00:30:37,540 Can you imagine? The presence of God satisfies. 226 00:30:37,540 --> 00:30:47,540 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, 227 00:30:47,540 --> 00:31:09,540 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. 228 00:31:09,540 --> 00:31:25,540 How you understand what I'm talking about? 229 00:31:25,540 --> 00:31:31,540 Look at somebody, tell the person face to face. 230 00:31:31,540 --> 00:31:34,540 Listen, tell the person face to face. 231 00:31:34,540 --> 00:31:47,540 No, I mean, can you look, can you look at somebody and tell the person face to face, face to face with my God. 232 00:31:47,540 --> 00:31:52,540 Face to face with my God. 233 00:31:52,540 --> 00:31:55,540 Face to face with God. 234 00:31:55,540 --> 00:31:58,540 Can you see? 235 00:31:58,540 --> 00:32:05,540 I will be satisfied with your presence. 236 00:32:05,540 --> 00:32:15,540 I will see your face in righteousness when I awake, when I awake. 237 00:32:15,540 --> 00:32:19,540 Ma. 238 00:32:19,540 --> 00:32:24,540 Hell in the morning like face to face. 239 00:32:24,540 --> 00:32:28,540 At night, face to face. 240 00:32:28,540 --> 00:32:32,540 In the afternoon whilst you are doing your day's job, face to face. 241 00:32:32,540 --> 00:32:36,540 And when you come to church, face to face. 242 00:32:36,540 --> 00:32:47,540 You're talking to some friends face to face. 243 00:32:47,540 --> 00:32:50,540 And you will not be dry. 244 00:32:50,540 --> 00:32:52,540 And you will not be withered. 245 00:32:52,540 --> 00:33:02,540 And your life is constantly flowing and joy is constantly flowing and gladness is constantly flowing. 246 00:33:02,540 --> 00:33:11,540 This is one of the key factors in constantly receiving songs from the Lord. 247 00:33:11,540 --> 00:33:18,540 Your spirit is in communion, communion. 248 00:33:18,540 --> 00:33:25,540 Now you know, it's not like you are always waiting to hear the next song or who is, no. 249 00:33:25,540 --> 00:33:33,540 Your spirit can be singing whilst you're on your bed, face to face. 250 00:33:33,540 --> 00:33:36,540 You'll not be withered. 251 00:33:36,540 --> 00:33:39,540 Now Christians, it's only when they come to church that they feel something. 252 00:33:39,540 --> 00:33:41,540 They just, they try and feel something. 253 00:33:41,540 --> 00:33:47,540 No, brother, no. 254 00:33:47,540 --> 00:33:49,540 Sometimes small thing will shake you. 255 00:33:49,540 --> 00:33:51,540 Small thing, then you are shaken. 256 00:33:51,540 --> 00:33:52,540 You are broken. 257 00:33:52,540 --> 00:33:53,540 You have to be repaired. 258 00:33:53,540 --> 00:33:56,540 Oh no. 259 00:33:56,540 --> 00:33:59,540 Face to face. 260 00:33:59,540 --> 00:34:07,540 The man didn't say, when God give me my dream wife, then I shall be satisfied. 261 00:34:07,540 --> 00:34:09,540 No, no, no, no, no. 262 00:34:09,540 --> 00:34:11,540 He didn't say when God gives him my drinker. 263 00:34:11,540 --> 00:34:13,540 When God gives him my dream whatever. 264 00:34:13,540 --> 00:34:16,540 No. 265 00:34:16,540 --> 00:34:27,540 He says that when I wake up and I see your face. 266 00:34:27,540 --> 00:34:35,540 When I wake up and I see your face, I am satisfied with your presence. 267 00:34:35,540 --> 00:34:38,540 Think about it. 268 00:34:38,540 --> 00:34:40,540 When I awake. 269 00:34:40,540 --> 00:34:46,540 I'm sorry that I'm not with you anymore. 270 00:34:46,540 --> 00:34:48,540 I'm sorry that I'm not with you anymore. 271 00:34:48,540 --> 00:34:52,540 It's serious. 272 00:34:52,540 --> 00:34:55,540 It's serious. 273 00:34:55,540 --> 00:34:56,540 Why do we get withered? 274 00:34:56,540 --> 00:34:59,540 Let me try and wrap up. 275 00:34:59,540 --> 00:35:01,540 Why do we get withered? 276 00:35:01,540 --> 00:35:04,540 Why do we get too dry? 277 00:35:04,540 --> 00:35:06,540 Why do we get tarted? 278 00:35:06,540 --> 00:35:09,540 Why do we get worried? 279 00:35:09,540 --> 00:35:13,540 Why do we get... 280 00:35:13,540 --> 00:35:15,540 And you are thinking. 281 00:35:15,540 --> 00:35:20,540 You are thinking. 282 00:35:20,540 --> 00:35:36,540 Look at somebody say face to face. 283 00:35:36,540 --> 00:35:41,540 I feel like I should just say a little bit more. 284 00:35:41,540 --> 00:35:45,540 What do you think? 285 00:35:45,540 --> 00:36:05,540 Let me try and wrap up. 286 00:36:05,540 --> 00:36:08,540 I think I'm... 287 00:36:08,540 --> 00:36:10,540 Oh my, my, my, my. 288 00:36:10,540 --> 00:36:17,540 This is too sweet, baby. 289 00:36:17,540 --> 00:36:34,540 Let me try and then... 290 00:36:34,540 --> 00:36:41,540 Let me explain this one to you and then I'll close. 291 00:36:41,540 --> 00:36:45,540 Go to verse 14. 292 00:36:45,540 --> 00:36:50,540 Verse 14. 293 00:36:50,540 --> 00:37:00,540 He says, With your hand, Lord, save me from men, from men of the world, whose portion in this life 294 00:37:00,540 --> 00:37:05,540 you fill their bellies with... Oh, come on. What is this screen doing? 295 00:37:05,540 --> 00:37:07,540 Let me read from here. 296 00:37:07,540 --> 00:37:09,540 Let me read the NIV. 297 00:37:09,540 --> 00:37:19,540 He says, From men by thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life, 298 00:37:19,540 --> 00:37:23,540 and whose belly thou fillest with thy treasure. 299 00:37:23,540 --> 00:37:25,540 Then he talks about them and he says, 300 00:37:25,540 --> 00:37:34,540 They are satisfied with children, and they leave the rest of their substance to their babies. 301 00:37:34,540 --> 00:37:49,540 As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness, I shall be satisfied when I awake with beholding thy face. 302 00:37:49,540 --> 00:37:58,540 There is no state of a man in this world that is enviable. 303 00:37:58,540 --> 00:38:10,540 If only you can wake up and behold his face and be satisfied with his presence, 304 00:38:10,540 --> 00:38:19,540 there is no state of any human being on earth that is enviable. 305 00:38:19,540 --> 00:38:23,540 You didn't get what I told you. 306 00:38:23,540 --> 00:38:37,540 Some of you have to listen to this over and over again to get what I'm telling you. 307 00:38:37,540 --> 00:38:41,540 Say face to face. 308 00:38:41,540 --> 00:38:45,540 Last time, say face to face. 309 00:38:45,540 --> 00:38:50,540 Say face to face. 310 00:38:50,540 --> 00:39:05,540 When you don't maximize the value of the presence of God in your life, 311 00:39:05,540 --> 00:39:20,540 you will be like a king's child that is chasing after a poor child's foot. 312 00:39:20,540 --> 00:39:27,540 Your happiness will be dependent on somebody, your joy will be dependent on somebody, your whole life. 313 00:39:27,540 --> 00:39:30,540 When somebody doesn't call you, you are angry. 314 00:39:30,540 --> 00:39:33,540 When somebody doesn't respond to your call, you are this. 315 00:39:33,540 --> 00:39:36,540 When somebody promises and feels you, you become a spirit. 316 00:39:36,540 --> 00:39:39,540 So now pastors are dealing with the spirit of promise and feel. 317 00:39:39,540 --> 00:39:42,540 If you are here and you have the spirit of promise and feel, come. 318 00:39:42,540 --> 00:39:45,540 Me, promise and feel. Do you know who I am? 319 00:39:45,540 --> 00:39:48,540 You promised me and you feel me. 320 00:39:48,540 --> 00:39:51,540 No, then you didn't promise. 321 00:39:51,540 --> 00:40:00,540 Now, Christians have promise and feel spirit. 322 00:40:00,540 --> 00:40:07,540 So when a Christian begins to act like a pauper, you know why? 323 00:40:07,540 --> 00:40:17,540 He does not maximize or he has not maximized the value of the presence of God in his life or in her life. 324 00:40:17,540 --> 00:40:19,540 How can you? 325 00:40:19,540 --> 00:40:25,540 Somebody who is satisfied with the presence of God, then you come and you come and sing or you go and... 326 00:40:25,540 --> 00:40:30,540 I heard a song. 327 00:40:30,540 --> 00:40:41,540 You are born again? You are wearing what? 328 00:40:41,540 --> 00:40:43,540 How did you wear it? 329 00:40:43,540 --> 00:40:48,540 Didn't you hear the Bible says we are satisfied with his presence? 330 00:40:48,540 --> 00:40:53,540 Who came to wear you that? 331 00:40:53,540 --> 00:40:56,540 You are satisfied with the presence of God. 332 00:40:56,540 --> 00:41:02,540 And you know the... 333 00:41:02,540 --> 00:41:04,540 So when I talk about that, I talk about... 334 00:41:04,540 --> 00:41:10,540 So if you are not married, you are wearing a cloth of embarrassment. 335 00:41:10,540 --> 00:41:13,540 Do you know what gives me value? 336 00:41:13,540 --> 00:41:15,540 It's the presence of my God. 337 00:41:15,540 --> 00:41:19,540 When I behold his face. 338 00:41:19,540 --> 00:41:23,540 Hey, you're here with me? 339 00:41:23,540 --> 00:41:25,540 Hey, you know what they are talking about again? 340 00:41:25,540 --> 00:41:32,540 A car, a house, a child. 341 00:41:32,540 --> 00:41:36,540 No, it can't be. 342 00:41:36,540 --> 00:41:42,540 The Lord wants you to know he is your enuffment. 343 00:41:42,540 --> 00:41:44,540 After singing that, then you come and sing. 344 00:41:44,540 --> 00:41:54,540 So you have Jesus, you know that. 345 00:41:54,540 --> 00:41:56,540 Powerful song. 346 00:41:56,540 --> 00:42:00,540 Then you come and say, after telling us when you have Jesus, you have everything. 347 00:42:00,540 --> 00:42:12,540 Now you come and say that you are wearing... 348 00:42:12,540 --> 00:42:14,540 Are you okay? 349 00:42:14,540 --> 00:42:17,540 I got the presence of God. 350 00:42:17,540 --> 00:42:26,540 I'm sealed. 351 00:42:26,540 --> 00:42:29,540 This is nice. 352 00:42:29,540 --> 00:42:31,540 Hallelujah. 353 00:42:31,540 --> 00:42:37,540 Listen, as we close. 354 00:42:37,540 --> 00:42:40,540 You are going to live your life from today. 355 00:42:40,540 --> 00:42:47,540 Never forget Psalm 17 verse 15. 356 00:42:47,540 --> 00:42:49,540 Face to face. 357 00:42:49,540 --> 00:42:58,540 And as I face to face with Jesus, I'm satisfied with his presence. 358 00:42:58,540 --> 00:43:02,540 Sometimes people think when you encounter God, he gives you money. 359 00:43:02,540 --> 00:43:04,540 Or when you encounter God, he gives you your heart desire. 360 00:43:04,540 --> 00:43:10,540 No, when you encounter God, he fills you, he satisfies you with his presence. 361 00:43:10,540 --> 00:43:13,540 You don't meet God and still be hungry. 362 00:43:13,540 --> 00:43:17,540 No, when you encounter God, car will not be of relevance. 363 00:43:17,540 --> 00:43:23,540 That's always I say, when you see a pastor, a pastor who is coming to church, 364 00:43:23,540 --> 00:43:32,540 and they have to take a video of their convoy, his car convoy, to make a case. 365 00:43:32,540 --> 00:43:37,540 When you see anybody who lives a celebrity life, that person has not seen God. 366 00:43:37,540 --> 00:43:40,540 No, no, no, that person has not seen God. 367 00:43:40,540 --> 00:43:42,540 Where is the name of God? 368 00:43:42,540 --> 00:43:45,540 Serious pastors down to earth. 369 00:43:45,540 --> 00:43:48,540 Every serious man of God. 370 00:43:48,540 --> 00:43:53,540 You can never tell me that you know the car maybe Pazacris uses. 371 00:43:53,540 --> 00:43:56,540 By the time you see him on the stage, he finished preaching, he's gone. 372 00:43:56,540 --> 00:43:58,540 Do you understand what I'm talking about? 373 00:43:58,540 --> 00:44:04,540 You know, as a music minister, you know, any, if they've seen God with you, 374 00:44:04,540 --> 00:44:16,540 because when you face to face with God, the only thing that fills you is his presence. 375 00:44:16,540 --> 00:44:22,540 Can I take two minutes and close? 376 00:44:22,540 --> 00:44:28,540 You know, movies are channels that get filled with all kinds of things. 377 00:44:28,540 --> 00:44:34,540 So you can tell somebody you are full of yourself. 378 00:44:34,540 --> 00:44:38,540 You can meet someone say you are full of pride. 379 00:44:38,540 --> 00:44:40,540 You can meet someone say you are full of lies. 380 00:44:40,540 --> 00:44:43,540 You are full of this. You are full of this. 381 00:44:43,540 --> 00:44:53,540 Now, when you meet God, God makes you full of him, his presence. 382 00:44:53,540 --> 00:44:58,540 So the moment you claim you have seen God and we are seeing something coming out of you, 383 00:44:58,540 --> 00:45:03,540 which is not him, you are lying. 384 00:45:03,540 --> 00:45:07,540 Do you understand? 385 00:45:07,540 --> 00:45:16,540 So listen, in thy presence is fullness of joy. 386 00:45:16,540 --> 00:45:22,540 In thy presence is fullness of joy. 387 00:45:22,540 --> 00:45:30,540 Anytime you become moody, anytime you become unhappy or uninterested, hold on, let me come down. 388 00:45:30,540 --> 00:45:39,540 Anytime you become that, know that you are not linking up. 389 00:45:39,540 --> 00:45:44,540 It is not that the matter is big, but you are not linking up, all of us included. 390 00:45:44,540 --> 00:45:47,540 It's like you are not linking up. 391 00:45:47,540 --> 00:45:54,540 Because the moment you link up, it's like fire. 392 00:45:54,540 --> 00:46:04,540 The moment you link up, you can burst out in laughter, even at the point when you were crying. 393 00:46:04,540 --> 00:46:07,540 Why? 394 00:46:07,540 --> 00:46:11,540 In thy presence. 395 00:46:11,540 --> 00:46:14,540 In thy presence. 396 00:46:14,540 --> 00:46:16,540 Say in thy presence. 397 00:46:16,540 --> 00:46:22,540 I'm going to continue this till the end of the month. 398 00:46:22,540 --> 00:46:26,540 Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord. 399 00:46:26,540 --> 00:46:30,540 We're going to come to the presence of God and join the presence of God in what have you. 400 00:46:30,540 --> 00:46:32,540 And we'll have a wonderful time. 401 00:46:32,540 --> 00:47:00,540 Hallelujah. Be upstanding. 402 00:47:02,540 --> 00:47:09,540 The enlightened amid fire burns. 403 00:47:09,540 --> 00:47:16,540 My heart is captured to lurk. 404 00:47:16,540 --> 00:47:23,540 I have in me the burning fire. 405 00:47:23,540 --> 00:47:30,540 Oh, a sound of grace. 406 00:47:30,540 --> 00:47:35,540 I have in me the burning fire.