It Is Truly In His Presence…
Jeremiah 17:14 (Amplified Bible)
14Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for You are my praise.
For the past week and a half I have struggled to keep my emotions intact and my heart, mind and spirit in the right place, and I had been physically sick as a result, except for when I am at church. In seems the minute that the presence of the Lord is ushered in, I feel, no more sickness, no more despair and no more apprehension. I feel uplifted and my heart does not ache as it may have minutes before. Tonight I went to concert at church and I had felt sick all day, I had prayed consistently with no relief but when worship started it seemed as if I was never sick to begin with. It seemed as if all was right in my world, despite what was or was not. It was strange because I heard within my spirit could I see the difference and had I noticed that every time I would immerse myself in worship, I felt better, and the symptoms I once had were gone. Why had I not seen that trying to relieve my symptoms by normal means just was not working, how had I missed it? Yes prayer and praise seemed to give me temporary relief but it was being surrounded by the very presence of God that caused all that ailed me to be healed, and every fear to be calmed.
When David wrote in Psalms 27:4, “One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek, inquire for, and [insistently] require: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord [in His presence] all the days of my life, to behold and gaze upon the beauty [the sweet attractiveness and the delightful loveliness] of the Lord and to meditate, consider, and inquire in His temple.” It all makes so much more sense to me. That in the house of the Lord, in the presence of the lord in its purest form, when all the worship and focus is on God, no distractions, nothing to take our attention from Him, that God’s love has the ability to give us all that we need. I am not saying church is the only place that this can and is supposed to happen. We can have an altar, a place where God abides right in our homes. God will meet us right where we are, but it is in a place that is designated for His glory that He does some extraordinary things that are not done in other places, and in other arenas. But tonight as I stood in the very presence of God, I had to get real with myself and ask why wasn’t I receiving the same relief outside of the four walls of the church? The answer was simple and it was clear, I had lost fully allowing myself to become the place set totally apart for His presence. I had allowed so many things to distract and detract from me being the vessel, the alabaster box, the jar, the place where God could reveal who He was in fullness. It is not that we are not saved; it is not that we do not love God, but we allow things to take us out of His presence and Him fully away from us. We allow the cares, the circumstance, the people, etc... to become what we house and not the true essence and presence of God.
For truly in God’s presence there is all that we need. It is in His presence that the truth of who we are is manifested through God’s definition and not man’s. In God’s presence we have access to all that we require. In God’s presence we can see God’s word come alive and be active in our lives. God’s love and care is manifested there and it can cause the wrongs to be made right and it can cause the every sickness to be healed and it can cause the very thing that we think there is no hope for to be saved, resurrected. It is all because God is there and where God is there is liberty, freedom, salvation, healing, deliverance, peace, and joy. In the presence of God we all can be made whole if we would only become the place where God lives, abides and where nothing can take us from Him, not even what we think, how we feel, what we hear or do not hear or what we see. His presence has power, if only we truly enter in.
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