However it is possible to shave my head off,
Lin-F牛 were terrible.
Every servant or worker's servant
Sal가비 baked in lessons learnt telling their cart to start making it
Then 예 gotta leave his home
I am the light in a midfire burnt
My heart is captured to lurk
I have in me the burning fire
The sound of cravings
I have in me the burning fire
Hallelujah
So anyway on Wednesday we started talking about face to face
That is the importance of the presence of God
We saw over here
David says that will show me the path of life
meaning this is what I want to talk to you about
Showing the presence, sorry, showing the path of life
I mean the fullness of joy at the presence of God
So when a man encounters the presence of God
He says that in thy presence is fullness of joy
He did not say in the presence of God one can find fullness of joy
He says that at thy presence or in thy presence is fullness of joy
Hallelujah
Now you can see that the word is italicized
It means that when you read from the original it is not there
Now the English people wanted us to understand so they brought the word is
But this is how it's going to read
Let me try and see if I can find it in the young literal translation
Okay, it's not really so
So it reads like that will show me the path of life
Uh-uh, go back
That will show me the path of life
In thy presence fullness of joy
So it is not really like in thy presence
It's not like when you, it's not like in the presence of God
There is something that is called fullness of joy
So this is God in his presence
There is something that so you so in my presence there is a chair
So one of the things in the presence of God is fullness of joy
The connotation there is that the fullness of joy is the presence of God
So you don't come into the presence of God
And then one of the things you find in the presence of God is called fullness of joy
Uh-uh, in the presence of God is fullness of joy
Hallelujah
Now that means that I told you about the word fullness from the Hebrew
That the word means to be satisfied
It is called the society of joy
The satisfaction of joy
So anybody who encounters the presence of God
The way to see that the person is in the presence
Or the person is maximizing the presence of God
Or the person is enjoying the presence of God
Is that you will not, it's not necessarily
Let me say this
Do you know it is possible to be healing the sick, raising the dead and what have you as we know
And still not be a man of the presence of God
Now this presence of God, I'm not talking about new creation in the presence of God
Now I'll talk about that one day, but that's not what I'm talking about now
Now here a man can be doing all of that and the person will be operating with gifts
But it's not a passing of the presence of God
Now one of the good characters of men who actually
Let me use a boring word
Who practiced the presence of God in the Bible was David
Hallelujah
Was David
And David never raised someone from the dead
He laid hands and raised somebody from the dead per se
Hallelujah
But you see, the reason why this is very important is that
Your personal life
Now that's where the teaching just came
Your personal life
Your personal life depends on this
Your personal enjoyment of God is dependent on this
What actually separates you from someone who is not born again is what you are learning now
Hallelujah
The Bible says that in the presence of God is the fullness, the completeness of joy
That's also the word full
So it also connotes the idea that any other kind of satisfaction you get in any other thing
Is not a complete satisfaction
It's not a total satisfaction
So you can have a friend, the friend can make you happy
And because of that, you know, you feel like, oh, how many of us read the tracts?
The one we had recently, how many of you read it?
Okay, so you can see the perfect example is the lady in the tract
Who because of the maltreatment she claims she had gone through
She has to go for patins, she has to go and booze
She has to go and do all of that
And by that, she believes that she is now a happy person
Do you understand?
So somebody can go to that extent, somebody can cover it up with money
But you see, that which brings my mind, I don't want to teach tonight
That which brings true satisfaction is the presence of God
There is nothing that man can carve
There is nothing that man can ever use to cover his nakedness or his want of God
Write this down
There is nothing that man can use to cover his need for God
That can bring him satisfaction
Except nothing
Hallelujah
Come on, I'm talking to all of us, praise the Lord
So it takes only God
Now, let me take you back to Genesis and let me try to let's try to help our understanding
Let's go to Genesis
Genesis chapter number three
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
Are you ready for a teaching tonight?
You ready for that?
Okay
Genesis three
Let's start from somewhere
Verse six
Alright, so, and when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and it was pleasant to the eye
And a tree to be designed to make one wise
She took of it, she took of the fruit thereof and did eat
And gave also to her husband with her and he did eat, next verse
And the eyes of them both were opened
And they knew that they were naked
And they sewed thick leaves together
And made aprons
If I actually have time, I can teach on this for a whole year
One year, solid
I know what I'm talking about
The
The Bible says that
When they ate of the fruit
Their eyes got
Opened
What did the devil tell them? The devil tell them for God knows that the day you eat of the fruit
Your eyes will be opened
And the Bible says when they ate it, their eyes got open. Did the devil lie?
So the devil said when you eat your eyes will be open
But the devil did not tell them what their eyes will be opened to
Now the Bible says and the eyes of them both were opened
And they knew that they were naked
Let's go to chapter
Two
Verse 25
Man, I need time for this, Mary
But I have to be done in the next 40 minutes
And they were both naked, the man and his wife
And were not ashamed
The Bible didn't say and they were both naked but not ashamed
The Bible says and they were both naked and not ashamed
Now they were both, I like the seriousness
They were both naked but not ashamed means that
They were aware of their nakedness
If the Bible had said they were both naked but not ashamed it means that
Oh, I am naked but I am not ashamed
But when the Bible says they were both naked and not ashamed
It means that they did not have a sense of nakedness
Why?
Hallelujah
They were both naked and not ashamed so
They didn't have a sense of nakedness
They didn't have a sense of emptiness
But the very moment they ate the fruit
Let's go back there, let's go back to three
The Bible says their eyes got opened and they knew they were naked, alright?
So when their eyes got open they got to know that they were naked
Say the importance of the presence of God
Come on, say it again, say the importance of the presence of God
Come on, say it again, I'll let you understand, don't worry
Say the importance of the presence of God
One more time, the importance of the presence of God
So they added
And they did not become naked but their consciousness, their awareness was brought to their nakedness
Now that means that the moment they ate the fruit
They became self-conscious
Alright, it brought them to self
Now let me just digress a little
It means that, or this brings to notice that
One of the strongest effects of sin is
Grandious knowledge about self
I know a lot of you didn't understand what I mean, alright?
But don't worry, those who understood caught it
The
One of the strongest effects of sin is that
Sin brought men to know more of themselves
Alright? So when you see their eyes got open and they got to know that they were naked
It's not just a statement
They became self-conscious, hallelujah
They became aware of themselves
Their consciousness was about them
Everything was about them
Hallelujah
So now
We can see even in this world
How men know little about God but more about men
Do you understand?
How people know a lot about themselves but little about God
As for me, my zodiac sign is
I am karate, I am pangonka, I am push, I am push
And they can describe
They use their temperament, I am sanguine, as a sanguine
I like to behave and I like to behave, I am phlegmatic
I am this, you know, like
Everything, I know everything about me, scientific, I know how my system should
No, no, no, no, no, no
It's not God, it is sin
It is not God
Any knowledge that delves into self
This is where it came from
When they ate, the Bible says they knew, so knowledge came
But the knowledge that came was self-knowledge
Do you understand that?
So we can say, knowledge of self
Knowledge of self
Knowledge of self began when man sings
Don't worry, next year this scripture is one of the scriptures we will teach
When I'm talking about the concept of redemption
Yeah, concept of redemption, it will be tough
Do you understand?
I said, do you understand?
Good, so
They became aware of themselves
Now the very moment that happened, let me shift away from that
Because I said next year, the very moment they became aware of their nakedness
The Bible says that
They sowed thick leaves together
And they made themselves aprons
Ah, copra la tia first
The Bible says they sowed thick leaves for themselves
And they used it to make aprons
What is that? They made a cavern for themselves
Next year I will use this scripture to teach you one thing for the rest of your life
We will run like four, three scriptures
I've now understood it
And they sowed thick leaves for themselves
And they made aprons
So they covered themselves
When they had a sense of their nakedness
But all the while
The Lord made them still naked
All the while, God made them naked
And they were not ashamed
And they didn't have any sense of, hey, we need to cover ourselves
No? Why?
Why?
Because of the presence of God
That in the presence of God
There is no nakedness
In the presence of God
There is no sense of nakedness
Ah, you don't understand when the Bible says
We are covered under the shadow of his mighty wings
God does not have wings
Do you understand?
It's a technical word for the presence of God
That in the presence of God
There is a covering
And the covering covers so that
It covers so much that
You cannot even have a sense of nakedness
Or a sense of lack
This is what David said
That in thy presence is the fullness of joy
The completeness of joy
So if this is the same nakedness
Same nothing has changed
Same nakedness before and after
When a man, regardless his shortcomings
If the man is someone that is engrafted in the presence of God
There is no sense
There's no sense of lack
There's no sense of nakedness
Do you know why?
I think you are the one who made that statement
Where you believe that the moment you start
You come to church or whatever
Or you are worshipping God
There is the complete, it's like you are out of this world
You no longer remember you don't have school fees
You don't remember you have issues
You don't know why?
That is where real covering is
And there he will not use his presence to bring you money
He will not give you money that oh because you are under his money
The presence becomes enough that you are like
This is where I want to be
Oh my, hallelujah
Praise the Lord
Because the presence of God brings us
Total, complete, absolute, whole joy
Come on, praise the name of the Lord
So when we see somebody, hallelujah
When we see somebody who is always in distress
When we see somebody who is always trying to make up something
When we see somebody who is always trying to find completion in something
I want, I have to cover myself
I have to sow thick leaves
I have to this, I have to that
The passing is not just about being hard
It's not all hard working that is hard working
The passing, something has tampered with his practice of the presence of God
Praise the name of the Lord
Ah, you didn't like what I told you
Alright, so they sow for themselves thick leaves
Do you know thick leaves?
It's a very broad leaf
Very broad
So they pieced it together
And then they cover themselves
But how long, oh man I can't wait for next year
Next year I will ask you that question
How long
I'm inside what I see already
In terms of the things I will teach
I'm inside it already
Next year I will do it in Montevideo
Hallelujah
How long can a piece of leaf take
If you are using it to cover yourself
Just a little sunshine
And then it dies off
That was a picture of the Lord
A picture of the Lord
And a picture of man trying to work out a way of covering
Trying to work out a way of covering
So he sow for himself thick leaves
This is also another picture of the Tower of Babel
When man, and this is also the picture of religions
This is the picture of religions
When man is trying to bring a covering
Let's continue the scripture
Now listen
And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden
In the cool of the day
And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord
They hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God
Among the trees of the garden
This is six months
Listen
You will sometimes think I'm exaggerating here
They heard the voice of God
This is the first time that the Bible is saying they heard the voice of God
Are you matured or you are not matured?
Because I want to say something
Before this, they were not hearing the presence of God
They were not hearing the voice of God
Come on, they weren't
And they asked how this thing is, they followed
So
How was the communication?
They heard the voice of God walking in the garden
The voice of God came walking in the garden in the cool of the day
And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of God
They hid themselves from the presence of God
Oh my God
Among the trees of the garden
That's the problem
Whenever men are dominated by self
They always hide among something to feel shielded from God
Oh my, you don't understand what I mean
So listen
I am running away from God to where?
He said inside a tree
Or around the trees of the garden
I want to go and stay somewhere that God
I don't even want to hear him
It's not today people stop going to church
Because they have sinned
This is where it is standing from
But you cannot hide yourself in a better place
Except the presence of God
You can't hide
You see, so a lot of people have places of hiding for themselves
So today it is not a tree
Somebody can be hiding at the back of his work
Among the place he works
Somebody can use friends to hide from God
Somebody can even use education to hide from God
I'm busy, I'm learning
So I don't want to, I can't come to church
I'm learning
I am doing this, I am doing that
Always a bunch of activities that makes the person hide from the presence of God
Oh but we are coming to read something right now
Hallelujah
The moment sin came in
Man began hiding in the midst of trees
In the midst of things
So now, next verse, listen to what he said
And the Lord God called Adam and said unto him
Where art thou, my God?
See, this is something
I'll not give you the duration
In Genesis, we see that it's God who came
Anything that claims man has to go to God is not correct
It is not correct, Islam is not correct
Buddhism is not correct
All those guys, not correct
What is Christianity?
I am come, then I may save my people
I have come to save
That's exactly what God was doing here
So God says where are thou?
Now listen to the response
And he said
I heard thy voice in the garden
And I was afraid
Because I was naked
And I hate myself
Now this, I'll look at
Because one word, one word
I was afraid I will explain to you
I was naked and I hate myself
This I will explain
Everyone will take some weeks
But listen, for the sake of the presence
Let me just take the one thing
He says that
I heard your voice
I was afraid
Because I was naked
Ah!
But some verses about the said they did what?
The Sufi glyphs
Do you understand?
He says I was afraid
Because I was naked
Now you can see there was
His italics says actually
It actually means I was afraid
Because I naked
Let's continue
Who told you that I was naked?
Have you eaten medicine?
I told you not to eat
Continue
Now down to
Oh my
Verse 21
Now all of us, let's read, want to go
So you see there, you see Christianity right there
So now God
Made coats of skins
The first atonement
And the Bible says
And
By Shabaya
Hallelujah
Read it again, want to go 21, want to go
He made coat of skins
And he did not just
Cover them
He clothed them
That means the word clothed means to dress up
So he made coat of skins and he dressed them up
What then is redemption?
And they were dressed up with the skins of the animals that God used
What it means is that
In the picture of our redemption
I'm still talking about the presence of God
Don't get it twisted
In the picture of our redemption
We are clothed
With the coat of skins
Of the skin
So Paul comes to make statements like
Put on Christ
He talks about put on Christ
He speaks about in Christ
So what he talks about in Christ
So there is in Christ meaning that you are inside, you are wearing
So salvation is a clothing
Do you understand like a clothing
So where
Where now is where now you are clothed
And God clothed them and then he said you can go
Oh Jesus
I don't necessarily have to be where you are physically
But you are clothed you can go
My voice has not, my voice does not have to follow you around
You are clothed you can go
Just wait, just wait
But you remember that after this God sucked them out of the garden
So this cloth that God has made
What if
The clothes finish
That's where one say forever comes
Is one dress I will done for you
One dress is not two, one dress
You are good to go, go with that one dress
Go with that one dress
Hallelujah
God ask God at least do like five this thing for us
Like just make like 25
I've made covers, I've made one for your hand
I've made one for your ear, I've made one for your ear
I've covered it, I've covered it
Just put all of that together and make a step and go
The Bible didn't say and they left with their backs
No, one is enough
I will come to you at the appointed time
And I will come and explain all these things
I will give you a proper explanation of all of these things
So there are two things
The Bible says the lamp of God that was slain before the foundation of the world
And then the lamp of God that was slain at the foundation of the world
They are not the same
The one before the foundation and there's one at the foundation
And then the one that came in time
2000 years ago Jesus, Jesus has died three deaths
Not three as in three but he gave pictorial
Prophetic this thing about it
Hallelujah
The first death is when he was born out of deity
When he was born out of the
He was, you see the Trinity was not one, two, three people
No
When Jesus was born out of deity that was where he died first
That is the one who was slain before the foundation of the world
Before the world was laid, before everything
When he had to die
And that one was when he had to be plucked out of the father
Ah, it's a teaching I'm telling you
It's a teaching
And the Bible talks about it
Hallelujah
The Bible talks about it
Now let's come back to what I'm telling you
So in the presence of God, Hallelujah
We look at Adam and the wife who before they sinned
It couldn't be said that they were naked
Hallelujah
Come on, are we together in this place?
It couldn't be said that they were naked until they sinned
And when they sinned they became naked
When they became naked the Bible says they hid themselves from the presence of God
And they hid themselves from the presence of God
They made things for themselves, they hid themselves among trees
And in this case, in this case, in this case, in this case
There is always a list of activities
There is always things that man wants to do
To fill up his inner cravings
Whenever he's out of touch with the presence of God
So even when a Christian is not practicing or maximizing or enjoying
The practice of the presence, all the things the Bible has listed
That is called the practice of the presence
When a Christian is not intentional about it
A Christian becomes like a weeded garden
Alright, he becomes like a garden with no life
He becomes like someone who is always, he is complaining, he is not happy
He has one problem after the other
Every issue he's inside
It's like, why, why, this guy, why is his life like that?
Meanwhile this guy goes to church
The person can't even be talking
It's like nothing works for the person
You see, the thing is that
Whenever there is an extrication from the presence of God
Either consciously or in person
You will always be in the midst of a lot of things
Hallelujah
You will always be in the midst, you will always be doing a lot of things
And you see, you will still be naked
You will still be found wanting
So David comes in to say that
In thy presence, I will talk about them, there are pleasures ever more
I don't know, maybe on Sunday, but in thy presence is the fullness of joy
In thy presence is fullness of joy
It means that the end result of all the things we are looking for
Is summed up in one thing, the presence
So, so when I marry I'll be happy
When I finish school I'll be happy
When I get money I'll be happy
When I build a house I'll be joyful
When I do this I'll be okay
When I do that, when you list all those things
Then David says listen to me
You don't have to get those things to be happy
There is one thing that when you see, that's where the joy is
Because when a man gets money
He has a desire to get more
So he's never satisfied
When somebody marries, if the person is not solid in his faith
The person would want to go and try another lady
Because he gets tired of just one person all the time
Do you understand what I'm talking about?
When somebody buys a car and then he is there
He wants to get a new car
When somebody buys a phone, all those of you using iPhone
Whatever and whatever
You know, now you are thinking of how to upgrade
We are upgrading our iOS
We are upgrading our Android versions
We are upgrading now
First of all it was some TVB
Now it became Khaled
If you have Khaled TV you are this
Oh then flat screen came
And then it's flat
Oh then they bought Kev
Now they will very soon they will bring OXAGO
And all the upgrades of men
Somebody is just praying to just pass Wasee
Oh it's not true
After Wasee he wants to bag a degree
After a degree now they begin to tell you bag masters
After masters they will tell you to do your doctorate
After that they will tell you to do your professorship
And go and go and go and go and go
And you see always there is something that tells you
You are never there
There's something that tells you you are never there
Search for more
You can become better
There's that penchant
And there's this competitive spirit
They will now tell you didn't you see what this person has done
Can't you do same? Can't you do?
And it is natural with humanity and humanism
Because of the falling state
Listen when you read Ecclesiastes he said
Let's go let me let me
My
Let me show you something
Ha la ma suti
729 Ecclesiastes 729
Lo this only have I found that God has made man upright
But they have sought out many inventions
He says God the making of man
God made man upright and the Hebrew word upright means straight
No fault complete
God made man complete
Solid
He's not talking about Adam
He's talking about a man God has made he says you are okay
Then he says that
But they have sought out many inventions
He is explaining why there are a lot of troubles
They say listen God has made man complete
Complete
Your completion is not in a car
Your completeness is not in this
Your completion is not in that
First of all start living your life by knowing that
God has made me complete
Nothing is wrong with me man
Nothing is wrong with me
But the problem is that man has sought out many inventions
Somebody says that oh I am not hippie
He goes they can load all the fat from the tummy
And they will put it in the bottles
Do you understand what I am talking about
Stuff like that
He says I think I want to wear a tattoo
Then he goes and they tattoo him
Then somebody will say no I want to remove my teeth and do goat teeth
Then somebody will say I don't like the shape of my head
Then they will remove the head and put another head
And all kinds of things
And it's not just body stuff
It's not just body stuff
It talks about upgrades
It talks about hunger for increment
Upgrades
They want new things
So the thing that does not belong to him
He will even steal it
Upgrades
There's this hunger
There's this unsettlement with man
And the Christians say no God didn't make you like that
No no God didn't
God didn't make you that if you don't have money you don't be able to sleep
It's an invention
God didn't make you that at the age of 22
You by force by force you have to grab somebody's son or somebody's daughter
No it's an invention
You are learning it from the TV's
You are learning it from society
You are learning it from foolish people
So it's invention
They will begin to tell you that oh when you are 22 years your hormones are high
And because of that you begin to explore all sexual parameters
They will just use English it's still inventions
Still inventions
About God made man upright
God made man straight
God made man correct that's the word correct
But he says that
They have sought out many inventions
Praise the Lord
Many inventions
Today he's not happy
Why are you not happy sir? I think I'm having diplomatic diarrhea
Conjuitous
Kuleno kulata
They just be saying things like that
And you know I'm sanguin all those sanguin
Tampranguin
Confranguin
Astrogy
Palafratis
All these things are inventions
Choleric
Phlegmatic
Impapipa
Tilalala
Colossosu
Strikupaliku
Tanah Suwanta
All these things are inventions
Hallelujah
Because you see when God made man
God made man from him
Next year I'll talk to you about
And God made man in his image
I'll explain that to you
Yes it will go beyond the telem
The one that you know
My God
My God, my God
It's serious
When God
We'll visit this scripture
The Bible says let us make man in our own image
Most of it
I will tell you the own
It says in our own image
In our own image
It is in our images
In our own image
And after our likeness
So when man begins to define his importance
Things that are not in the image of God
It's an insult to his own persona
When a man can die because he does not have a car
When a man can commit suicide because he does not have
I understand when you don't have money you get angry
I understand all of that
But if a man can commit suicide
Because somebody did not give him money
And he thinks he's depressed
You have insulted your makeup
God made you faultless
God made you straight
God made you say I am correct
I am correct
Some of you didn't say something
Say I am correct
I am correct
So that's how God made man
Now man has now started seeking out for many inventions
It's time let's try and close
Many inventions
Now I have to smoke to get high
I have to smoke to be able to learn
I have to smoke to be able to do this
Right now I have to do this to be able to do that
I have to do
It's a still invention
God made man correct
Correct
Praise the name of the Lord
I am not
I am correct
So this I am made in the image
I am made in the own image of God
Man is made in
He says let us make man in our own image
In our own
So God could have made man in the image of something else
But it's in our own image
That one is not talking about Adam
He is not talking about Adam at all
No, no, no, no, no, that scripture is not for Adam
No, it's not for Adam
That's the statement God made it
He made it in the vision of Moses
It's not for Adam at all
No, no, no, it's not for Adam
See the Bible says Christ Jesus
He is the image of the Father
The express image of the Father
Let us make man in our own
God says in our own
So what is our own image?
Christ
So now
Paul comes to tell you in Ephesians 2 verse 10
Therefore we are his workmanship in Christ
We are his workmanship in the image in Christ
Hallelujah
So for you are his workmanship created in Christ
Put it down, put it down, put it down
I told you put it there
Created in Christ unto good works
Which God before or then
That we should come and walk in them
It takes, it takes, it takes, it takes
It takes, it takes a making
It takes a creating, it takes a working
It takes a fashion
I need this for Crusade 2
It takes a fashion in the image
To be able to walk, to advance in the good works
Which he has ordained for you
Come on
For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus
Unto good works which God had before
Appointed or then that we should progress in them
So it takes a making in Christ
To be able to progress in the good works
Not just in good works
But in the good works which God has ordained for you to walk in them
Even before the world began
That is why we can say a man, if a man has not found Christ
He has not started living life
So let us make man in our own image
It's not just talking about, it's not talking about creation
Let me not just suggest
No
It's a revelation of the fact that man will be born in Christ unto good works
Praise the Lord
A-burning, a-burning in Christ
So the gentleman tells us in Ecclesiastes
That God has made man upright
When you see the church, people of Christ
People of God, you see the church
Begin to copy the world
So that now the church can become a place for everybody
There is a problem
Because the church is not the world
And the world is not the church
The church simply are the people that have been created in Christ
They are the workmanship
The word is poema, it actually means the greatest handiwork of an artist
Like when you meet an artist, the highest of the best that he has done
That is what the word was used for
So we are the best God has ever done
And that happened in Christ
Amen
So now let's come back to what I'm telling so we can wrap up
He says that
God has made man complete
God has made man faultless
But man has sought for many inventions
So I love the presence of God
So now
The only place to be
The only place to be that you are going to experience a total completion
And a total lack of nothing
Is in the presence of God
You didn't understand all the teachings
That's what I want us to arrive at
So if I am a man of the presence of God
And this one, listen
I'm not just talking about the fact that you're born again, of course
When you are born again, you live in the presence of God every day
But you see, when you are not conscious of where you are
And you are not practicing where you have been brought
The Bible says the air
As long as he is a child
He is not different from a slave
So your life will just be like somebody who is not born again
But the moment you get born again
You need to understand and know where you are
And practice where you are
I live in the presence of God
And where is the presence of God?
Fullness of joy
Completeness of joy
You see
Let me wrap up with this
The Bible says this same David
Psalm 27
No, Psalm 23, Psalm 23, sorry
The Lord is my shepherd
Me
The Lord is my shepherd
I shall not
Come on
I shall not
The Lord is my shepherd
I lack nothing
The Lord is my shepherd
I lack nothing
He didn't say the Lord is my shepherd
He gives me everything
There are two different things
He says the Lord is my shepherd
I lack nothing
A complete, no, a sense of completeness
When you have encountered and engaged God
Can I say that again?
A sense of absolute completion
When you are walking with God
Now here we can say that the moment somebody is not in this condition
And the person is in want
Because you see, the want here
When you continue to read, it has nothing to do with money
It has nothing to do with car
Do you understand?
Come on, I want to get out of this place
So when somebody begins to want
The word want is to be without
A sense of without
And he says that when the Lord is your shepherd
You don't have that sense
No, when I begin to think
When I even begin to think that my beauty or my handsomeness is not enough
As it stands now
I am wanting
When I begin to feel like
If I am standing before people, I can't talk
I am not maximizing the Shephadora skills of God
Because if God is my shepherd
I should not feel like I can't in anything
I should not feel like I don't have in anything
If God is my shepherd
I should come to a point of saying I don't lack
Come on, say God is my shepherd
Moshi paratose
He is my shepherd
This is why the man is talking about
The complete fullness of joy
Is in the presence of God
That sense of absolute completion
So let's continue
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want
He makes me to lie down in green pastures
He makes me to lie down
A picture of rest
So restlessness, agitation
Is simple or is simply
The fact that you are not being shepherded
And you are not being shepherded will not be from
It will not be
It will not be God's fault
He says that
He makes me to lie down in green pastures
He has a place, He has a constant position
Of making me rest
The very moment I become restless
The very moment I become, he, he, he, how is this thing?
The very moment that is happening
I am not listening to God
When I teach about listening to the voice of God
Or hearing the voice of God next year
I will also come here
How to know it is the voice of God
Or is the will of God or not
Come on, we are together in this place
Are we together in this place?
So he makes me to lie down
He makes me to rest
So the very moment
I begin to think about something
And I am restless
And the thing is taking my peace
And it's taking my joy
And it's taking all of that
I just have to know something is wrong
I am not being led
I am not being shepherded
I am not aligning myself
To the spirit of shepherding
In the presence of God
Come on
Are you here with me everybody?
So this is a brother who let's say
Everything is going bad around
Like everything, everything, everything is crumbling
But the person can still say
Jesus is Lord
It's not like it's not paining the person
It's paining the person
But the person says Jesus is Lord
The Lord is in charge
Things will align
The person may even be crying
Look at Jesus at the tomb of Lazarus
He wept, the Bible says Jesus wept
So he even cried
But he said Father thank you that you have heard me
I might have cried because I'm sorrowful
But that does not mean you have not heard me
You have heard me
Come on, hallelujah
I said hallelujah
Hallelujah
Meaning
Jesus is dealing with a case that
The sister said
Please, it's been four days
He is thinking
Let's forget about this
He is thinking
And Jesus said did I not tell you if you believe you see the glory of God?
Open it
So Jesus is dealing with a situation that even the family members have
Written it off
But he will end in the sight of a lot of people
Yet he was very restful
Are we together?
Yes sir
Come on, are we together?
It is not like when you are in the presence of God there will be no situation
It's not like things will not come and challenge your faith
They will come
But then the proof that you are being shepherded
You are being led
Alright?
The proof that you are being led in that presence is that
We will see that you are lied down
Or you lie down in green pastures
You rest
Then he says he leads me beside the still waters
He does not lead me to a place of hot waters
He does not lead me to a place where I will be
I will be gasping for air
Where everything is crumbling
Everything is, I am in agitation
Hey, hey
Any little thing can go
No problem, please, any little thing
No
Still waters
Where I can have enough to drink
Where supplies are made
Hallelujah
See the kind of life in the presence of God
He leads me beside the still waters
Where the waters are fresh
Where I don't have to be rushing
Where I don't have to be killing somebody for something
Where I don't have to bulldoze my way through and stuff like that
Next verse
We are closing
He restores
My soul
He restores
It's literally
He rejuvenates me
He recharges me
He reenergizes me
See, so
Long days of witheredness
Long days of dryness in your spirit
You don't feel like praying
You don't feel the presence of God
You feel like your prayer life is down
You don't even use to pray again
And that has been for six months, two years
And somebody will be like, when I pray I don't feel anything
When I pray it's just normal
Uh-uh
You are not being led
Because if you are being led in the leading of his presence
There is always a restoration of souls
That there is the rejuvenation
You feel, you feel, you feel refreshed
Hallelujah
Come on, you feel refreshed
And this, remember
The man is not teaching you
He is singing
He is singing his experience with God
Psalm 23, he is singing his experience with God
He restored my soul, God restores my soul
So he is thinking, I have seen the Lord restore my soul
Then he says, he leads me in the path of righteousness
For his name sake
Uh-huh
Come on, next verse
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I fear no evil
For thou art with me
Me, what is that?
Presence
So he says, yea, though I walk through the valley
I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I will fear no evil
He says, if you drop me in the midst of situation
Where there are evils around
I will still not be expecting evil
Because you are with me
And you are with me does not mean that
You know, a lot of graceful people will now come and tell you that
He is not with you, he is in you
He was Emmanuel
He is no more in
That's foolishness man
God with you
So someone say, in the Old Testament
He was with us
In the New Testament, he is in us
Jesus says, hello, I will be with you always
In the New Testament
See, a lot of people just use English to explain Bible
Of course, it's very important
But a lot of times it makes things foolish
With you
With you is not English
When a Hebrew man tells you, I am with you
I can tell you, I am with you
But I will be in my home
So Elijah told Gehazi
It was my spirit not with you when you left
But the man was there
It doesn't mean that the spirit left
And it was, no, that's not it
The word with you has several connotations
But in this one
With you is agreement
So when God says, I will be with you
He is saying that I am in agreement with you
And I am bound
I am bound by that agreement
So when he says, thou are with me
He's not just saying that
As I'm working, God is also at my back
He says, I'm with you, Charlie, let's go
God says, no, let's go
No, I am with you
I am with you means that you are my person
I am with you is that you are my responsibility
I am with you is that my presence is with you
Come on, praise the name of the Lord
And when his presence is here
He says, even if you are thrown in the valley of the shadow of death
Fear no evil
Say, no evil shall befall me
I don't have people here
Say, no evil shall befall me
Come on, say, no evil shall befall me
No evil shall befall me
So when he says that in thy presence is the fullness of joy
That's the completeness that comes in the presence of God
That's the completeness that is found in the presence of God
That's the completeness
So when you begin to get worried
When you begin to get agitated
When you are always unsettled and unrested in your spirit
There are some people today they want this
They run it, then they say, ah no, there's nothing inside
Today this, today that, today this
When you see somebody who is not resting
Somebody who doesn't have rest, settlement
The person is not being led by God
And one of the ways you see such people is rush
Hallelujah! They don't have time for time
Yeah, yeah, they don't have time for time
So if, listen, if God has told you
If God has told you
It will not take away your peace of mind
If God is in agreement, it will not take your peace of mind
Come on, praise the name of the Lord
Hallelujah! So those of you who will be asking
How can I hear if it's God, how can I know if it is God
How can I know if it's my mind, how can I know if it's the devil
That's it
Because when flesh is involved, flesh will always want to have its way
The man will see the flesh and the spirit, they are always fighting
But if it is the spirit, if it is God
It comes with settlement, it comes with this assurance
Come on, praise the name of the Lord
Hallelujah! So if you see somebody
There are people, they rush in life
They rush, even when they are picking up a car, they rush
Do you understand what I'm talking about? Yes, sir
And they are always on, they are always on, they are always unsettled
No
When you are shepherded by God, there is rest
Sometimes you don't even know how God is going to fix all those mess
But you just, you just, you just leave it to God
And then things begin to perfectly align
As you keep on doing the things of God, you just
You say, Father, this is your business
And there is that kind of assurance
How many of you have been in situations before that it's like
Now that's it, that's it now, that's it
It's gone, it's gone, it's gone, you are dead
That's it, there's no way out
You can't explain anything, you can't, you don't
Even prayer, you don't even know where to begin from
I remember one time, I went to God in prayer and I just said one thing
Then I started crying
It was a three days wait, you know
Which is a normal three days waiting
It wasn't like there was a matter that took me to waiting
My normal three days, when I just went there
I just lifted my eyes
And I said, Father, I have missed you
I said, Dear God, I have missed you
And it sounded something to me
It was, it wasn't like I was not praying
My Father, my Father, hallelujah
But how many of you have been in those kind of situations
And then it's like inside your head there's no will
But inside your spirit it's like, why you, what is your problem?
Okay, so right now what's your problem?
How many of you have cried for nothing? You started crying, you started crying, you are just crying
And there's something we'll tell you, so right now why are you crying?
Why are you crying? And you are not able to answer
Hallelujah
There's a rest that comes with God
Sweet and wonderful rest found in Jesus, my Savior
Oh, sweet and wonderful rest
When you begin to be
Today
Something is wrong, something is wrong, check it
Hallelujah
Praise the name of the Lord
Go and write, wasi and kam, you are going to go mad
Over one paper
Now I have to pray for you
No rest
No rest, there's no rest
I'll give you scripture, maybe next week I'll show you
No rest, go and write a paper and kam
You've gone mad, say I rest
There is total completion
In the presence of God
17, 17, 15
17, verse 15
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness
I shall be satisfied when I awake
When I awake
With thy likeness
What scripture did you read the last time? I read something very sensible
But I'll see your face in righteousness when I awake
I'll be satisfied with your presence
Say face to face
One more time, say face to face
So let's
Let's practice, let's become intentional
About the presence of God
Come on, let's become very intentional
Be singing
Be praying
Be reading the scriptures
And be loving on God
That we can't do it in church
Hallelujah
Drop your troubles, just come and love God
Just be loving God, have a personal life, have a personal walk with God
Hallelujah
See, there are two kinds of walks, there is a corporate walk with God
And there are personal walks with God
Corporate walk with God is when we are walking with God as a church
Alright? So as a church we come together, we are praying, we are eating the word and stuff
That's a corporate walk
But the most important thing is a personal walk with God
You have a personal walk with God
You study your Bible, you pray
You feast on God
You spend time just in worship
Hallelujah
You feast on God
Our mothers and other people, some people have it
They are birthdays, I mean they are days of birth
They don't even eat
They fast
Some fast 6 to 12, some fast 6 to 9, some fast 6 to 2, some fast 6 to 3, some 6 to 6
And they stay conscious
Praying, worshiping or something
All these things are our intentional ways of enjoying the already given presence of God that we have
Hallelujah
Try this for one month
Just be praising God, worshiping God, loving on God
I believe in the course of the month I should be able to explain that and teach you how to do that
You will always, it will always be like you have found something, you found a treasure
And there's always a place to run to
Hallelujah
These are things that happen to you
In the place of fellowship
In the place of, you will not get overwhelmed
Hallelujah
A lot of useless things will not be coming in your head
Say I walk
In the presence of God
Say I make conscious effort
Oh come on talk to me, say I make conscious effort
To enjoy the presence of God
I want you to say this intentionally, say I make conscious effort
Come on say I make conscious effort
To enjoy the presence of God
Come on I enjoy the presence of God
I enjoy the presence of God
Come on say I enjoy the presence of God
Say in His presence
His fullness of joy
One more time say in His presence
His fullness of joy
Say I rejoice
In the presence of my Lord
I rejoice in the presence of my Lord
Hallelujah
Just lift your voice in the next 30 seconds
And bless the name of the Lord
Come on
The enlightened amid fire burns
My heart is captured to learn
I have in me the burning fire
Oh a sound of grace
I have in me the burning fire