The Presence of God — Arthur Blessitt

It's just beautiful to be here tonight. I ran in there a while ago and laid down for 10 minutes. To kind of you know rest to see what was a store pin sticking in my pocket there. To find out, you know, just to rest and say God I just you know.

Clear my mind refresh me wake me up and get us ready to go for again. So I find a lot of times I have to lay down and I say Lord Give me eight and ten and that means eight hours and ten minutes, you know.

Eight hours of sleep in ten minutes and he does it and since y 'all aren't going to do any singing I guess maybe he thinks I'll do one of my songs. Have you ever heard any of my songs on record that I've written?

You haven't. I didn't expect you had. Why don't you stand up? I'll teach you a good song. Yeah, I wrote it and And you notice over here this big cross wasn't that a terrific article they did in today's newspaper.

I mean that was really great praise God. I Think it'd be good if you call the editor or write him a letter and just express. Because that that newspaper story was written better than I could have written it.

I even the preacher said better than he could have written it. I mean it was the gospel and then just the pictures of you praying there in the middle of the city on your knees and the mud and the rain and the wet and Praying with that wonderful lady, you know, just the cross and prayer.

What a wonderful picture right here at this Christmas time to share. Well, I've been walking around the world with this cross and a lot of music is written for church. And it just doesn't have the right beat for Walking so my music is for walking.

You might find another purpose. Maybe a horseback riding on a slow horse. I don't know but and it's also my songs are written for those who can't sing. And on most music. Are you ready for it choir most music is written for singers, but not mine.

You didn't expect it. Anyway, so mine's made for walking. So all you got to do is speak. If you can say anything you can you can you can sing this music now. What we'll do is we will clap and on the third clap the third beat you say Jesus and on the third beat you say Jesus and on the third beat again you say Jesus three times and then brothers and sisters and we do that three times and Then let's all get together in love and you say that three times and you'll pick the rhythm with it.

And then you sing it. Let's all get together. Let's all get together. Let's all get together in love. Got it. Everybody's ready to do it. Okay, it's real simple. You can do it. Okay, here we go. Now I'll count it off.

I'll go one two, and then we'll hit it, but we'll get our clap down first. Okay. Here we go. Whoa, whoa, whoa, you can't walk that fast. We're not talking about praising the Lord. We're talking about getting down there by the bath.

I mean I wouldn't last a day that way. So you got to get in kind of like I'm so just slow it down a little bit. It goes like this. Now, there you go. We can keep that up all day. Okay, count it off one two.

Jesus Jesus Jesus. Brothers and sisters. Brothers and sisters. Brothers and sisters. Brothers and sisters. Let's all get together in love. Let's all get together in love. Let's all get together in love.

Let's all get together in love. Now sing it Let's all get together. Let's all get together in love. Let's all get together. Let's all get together. Let's all get together. Let's all get together. You've got to do it louder, and you've got to try to smile.

If you don't mean it, fake it. Okay? Everybody, here we go again. One, two, Jesus. Louder. Sisters, sisters, sisters. Let's all get together in love. Let's all get together in love. Let's all get together in love.

Now sing it. Let's all get together. Let's all get together. Let's all get together. Let's all get together. Let's all get together. Put your arms around the person by you, and let's pray. Our Heavenly Father, we thank you for the love of Jesus Christ.

We thank you, Father, for your love that sent Jesus to this earth. And we thank you, Lord Jesus, for your love to send the Holy Spirit to abide within us. We thank you, Jehovah God, our Lord, the Divine and Holy Trinity.

We ask you this evening, in the name of Jesus, to visit us with your presence and with your glory. We invite you into this place, into this building that has been dedicated for the glory of God, with these men and women who have assembled here to worship you, who have joined together in love, one for another.

We pray that every evil and demonic spirit would be cast out of these grounds. And we pray for liberty in the Spirit. I pray, dear God, that every person in this building that's not saved shall be convicted of their sins and brought to a desire to know Jesus.

I pray, Lord, that they will have the walk to acknowledge and confess Christ. I pray for Christians that are bound, those who are defeated, those who are backslidden, who have been living in defeat, that they shall have victory this night.

We invite your presence and your Spirit in the name of Jesus, in whose name we pray. Amen. Praise God. God bless you. I want to share with you this evening just a little bit different from the way we have in the previous three meetings together in this auditorium.

The Presence of God as an Ever-Present Reality

Because this evening I want to share with you more from the Scripture than I have out of my personal experiences that have been illustrating the Scripture. But I also want to begin by sharing an experience that will well illustrate what we're going to share about tonight.

Tonight I want to share with you about the presence of God. I want you this evening, as we share, to make yourself available where God can reveal His presence to you. But we're not wanting this to be a time when you say, He touched me.

We want it to be a time where you begin to realize that He is with you always. So we're not here tonight for a highlight. We're not here for a mountaintop experience. We want to gather and to share together this evening about how you can live on top of the mountain all the rest of your life.

When you come to understand the presence of God, your life will be absolutely revolutionized. Many people say, but Arthur, don't you get lonely when you're traveling around the world? I said, how can you get lonely when you know that God is with you?

When you can discuss earthly things with the heavenlies, you're never lonely. How can you ever get lonely when you know the Father loves you and that His eye is in every place beholding you? How can you ever be lonely when you know the presence of Jesus is with you always?

How can you ever be lonely when you know that the Holy Spirit of God abides and lives within? How can you ever get lonely when you know in the very presence of God the angel assigned to you stands in God's company always?

How can you ever despair that God will never hear you when you know that Jesus ever liveth to make intercession for you? How can you ever be alone when you know that you're surrounded by a host of heavenly ministering angels that are always at the disposal of God's Spirit to meet your every need?

How can you ever be lonely nor despair when you realize that Philippians 4 .19 is for you where the Bible declares, My God shall supply all your needs according to His riches and glory through Christ Jesus.

Now I want you this evening to become aware in a way you never have of the always unceasing, never-ending constant presence of God. The reason most Christians have problems is because they don't realize how real the presence of God is.

You go somewhere. You move to another town. You go off on a business meeting. Nobody knows you. You didn't pray this morning. You feel like you can do anything and maybe get by with it. But when you know you're taking God with you everywhere you go, it makes a difference in your living.

It makes a difference in everything when you know He is with you. When you start to speak to someone about the Lord and fear starts to rush in, you say, But God is with me. And there is all the difference in the world in every circumstance.

Now I want to share an experience and then I want us to look in the Word of God. You can, after I've shared this experience, maybe even write down some of these Scripture verses. I mean even listen. You may get a tape recording of this message and I advise you, you may want to after it's over and listen to it.

It may take days before it all sinks in, but I want you to know from this night on, if you've never known it before, Jesus will be with you always. Never forget it. I was carrying the cross through Central America, this very cross right here.

And as I was going down, walking from Mexico down to Colombia, and for those who may be new, we've carried the cross around the world since 1969 through 60 countries of the world, more than 20 ,000 miles now.

Sometimes people say, Who is we? Well, it's obvious who we is. I mean it's the Lord. I'm not doing it alone, right? It's the Lord. So I always like to share the we, the Lord, His presence, His strength, because they could have never taken a step without Him.

God's Protection During the Nicaragua Cross Journey

But I was walking through Nicaragua during the war, and it was when the Sandinistas were trying to overthrow the government of Somoza and succeeded in it. And it was right during the height of that war that I was passing through that area of Central America.

I'll never forget that day as long as I live, at night, because I'd gone through the city of Leon, and they had been fighting all day in the city. And we walked right up to where they were fighting a big police barracks, army barracks in the middle of town, and preached right there.

And then I went on. And there were two guys who were with me at that time. We had a truck and a trailer loaded down with Bibles and Gospel tracts and a small trailer to sleep in. And one guy was driving Mike Uten, and another doctor had come to spend two weeks vacation with me.

And he spoke Spanish, and he was teaching me Spanish. And it was the day that my parrot died. Now, I had a parrot, and I'd named him El Salvador del Mundo. And I was trying to learn Spanish, and I'd named him after a plaza in San Salvador, El Salvador.

And I... You know, when you get on the road and you're away from your family so long, sometimes you get a little eccentric. And I had this parrot, and I'd bought him for $3 from a little kid. And he was the friendliest thing, and he'd sit there munching on my ear and just...

Oh, he'd just love you to death and ruin your clothes. But I loved him, and I mean I only spoke to the parrot in Spanish because I didn't want him to learn English because I had a missionary plan. I think you all have a mission plan here from the church, but I had my own.

And my mission plan was since it's so hard to get human people out witnessing in the world and in the jungles, I decided I was going to train that parrot how to preach. And the parrot did a good job, as a matter of fact, better than some preachers I know.

And the booger was really getting his preaching down. And I was going to get him praising the Lord, and then I was going to turn him loose. And I let his feathers go out where I kept his wings clipped, and let him fly out in the jungle, and he'd be teaching the other parrots how to preach.

And before long, the jungles would be full of the glory of God. Hallelujah! Gloria a dios! Dias satiama, you know. I mean, wouldn't that be wow? But that day, the mosquitoes had been biting Mike and Don Price, this doctor from Key Largo, Florida.

And so, they were spraying hairspray, I mean, not hairspray, mosquito spray to kill the mosquitoes. And my parrot obeyed on mosquito spray. And I got up there, and the guy was kicking, you know, and I pray over him, lay hands on him to be healed.

And he just jerks on and dies. And I felt so bad, I cried, and I cried, because my mission plan died. My parrot, and I said, I guess God has to use humans, you know. So, we buried that old parrot, and I cried.

I don't know why, I just boo-hooed, and dug a hole, put him in it, put a little cross up over it. Started on down the road, got dark, and started to stop. Preached in this village, and they said, don't stay here, they'll kill you.

On this highway, at night, it's just murder. They rob and murder everybody. People were saying it was the government. And the government says it was the guerrillas. All I know is that it was people. Everybody said, they'll kill anybody.

You can't stay on the road. Go up to the town, park by the church, and you'll be okay. But not on the road. I said, I've been walking around the world. I spend the night where I finish. If there's any way I can sleep where I finish with a cross, I never have run, and I'm not going to start now.

We're going to sleep here on the roadside. And we pulled the trailer over, and the truck went to bed. After we'd finished preaching, and we went to sleep. At two o 'clock in the morning, and I'll make this brief, because I've got a sermon to share, there was a bam on the wall.

I looked out the curtain, and there were guns pointed at me. And they said, open the door. And I just slipped on my pants, opened the door, and looked, and the guys charged in. Who is Arthur? Bless him.

Well, I started to say, there he is right there. Old Mike Eaton was laying there, and Don, he's on vacation. That's him. But I said, I am. And they grabbed me, and started to take me out of the trailer.

And as they started to lead me out the door, I just somehow grabbed the truck keys. Just, I don't know, I just grabbed the truck keys, and they led me out, and I'm preaching to them in the best Spanish I know.

And they lead me over. The cross was over there near the village, and I got over beside, they led me over near the truck. Kind of the truck is here, and I'm standing over like this away from the truck, and they line up here, seven gunmen with rifles, and pistols, and two on a truck with machine guns, and they tell me they're going to kill me.

And I'm preaching away, and finally they raise their guns up like this, and I suddenly realize, like that, they really are. And I don't even have a shirt on, and I thought, I'm not going to die without a Bible.

I don't know, that, you may, I mean, that's what went through my mind. I'm not going to die without a Bible. And I was right there by the truck, and they got there like this, and the guy says, uno. I mean, it's starting to go one, two, uno, dos.

I have the truck keys, I just turn right to the door like this, stick it in, and the guy said, don't move. I figure, what does it matter whether you get in the front or back? And I turn the truck key, open the door, and lean in.

Only God knows why they didn't shoot me then. I mean, I could have come out with a hand grenade, or a gun, or anything. I'm in the truck, I pick up a case of Bibles. American Bible Society Bibles. I set them down, the guys come all around me, said, get up.

They're pulling on my shoulder, and I'm trying to tear the top off this box. And it's got wire in those threads. Have you ever seen that tape with a little wire running through it? I mean, I hope they don't do them that way again.

I'm trying to tear it off. My fingers are about to cut, and I have to tear it around, and I need them quick. And I think, I'll give them all a Bible. And they'll have a gun in their hand and a Bible. Now, I mean, I don't know, it's strange, you see.

When they had me stand up there, they were on the offense. But when I turned to that door, they didn't know what, God confounded them. They didn't know what to do. I'm getting down there, finally get the Bibles, get them up in my arm, and I said, Uncario, Uncario un Biblio, not too good of Spanish, but do you want a Bible?

And I, and nobody standing there. I look up, and the nearest one, I promise you, is as far away as from here to that man, laying on the ground. One guy's laying back in the door of our trailer with his feet hanging out.

And I look around there. I say, Uncario un Biblio, senor? No molesto, por favor. They jump. We're not going to bother you, sir. And they get up. Guy gets out of the trailer, and he looks around, and he runs toward the truck.

They jump on the truck. Guy cranks up. They wheel around and take off, tires spinning down the highway. And I'm standing there. I thought, wow. Boy. You know. They just left like that. I walk in the trailer, and I said, praise God.

Don and Mike said, Arthur, we thought you were dead. I said, well, those guys were going to shoot me. And I said, I decided I was going to get a Bible. I believed I could maybe get that door open before I died.

I was just going to get a Bible. And I told them what happened. Don said, man, he said, Arthur, he said, I've only been saved two years. He said, and I tell you, he said, I know meat when it hits me. He said, I've been in a lot of barroom brawls.

He said, we heard them beat you. We heard them beat flesh against flesh. We heard them beat you. Then we heard a holler go, oh. And he said, we saw them falling down. And one guy fell in the door. We thought you'd kicked him before you died.

I said, no, I didn't do anything. I didn't hear anything. I didn't see anything. I said, when I got up, they're laying on the ground. And one guy's in the door. And, I mean, the story goes on and on. Now, just listen.

I said, we sat there and we said, man, God must have sent his, I mean, the angels must have come down here and knocked him down. I said, I mean, you know, I said, are you sure? I mean, I'm sure. I mean, they heard the blows.

Guys fell back. Mike was right by the door and he just saw them going down. And so then we stayed the rest of the night. It was two o 'clock at night when this happened. Early in the morning at dawn, I'm up ready to start carrying the cross.

The village of people are standing there. They've been up all night standing out there watching after this had happened. And when we came, Don speaks perfect Spanish. And I was understanding a lot. Those people were saying we saw God here last night.

There was a bright light and they've been standing there watching the trailer all night. They said God was here. We saw a bright light. That very night in Phoenix, Arizona, many of you have heard of Trinity Broadcasting Network, TBN.

They're now the largest Christian network in the country. Seven Christian stations full time from coast to coast as well as hundreds of cable networks. And their president and founder, Paul and Jan Crouch, were in Phoenix, Arizona.

And we have the videotape of all this. That night, I mean of what they say the next day, that very night at one o 'clock in the morning Phoenix time, Paul and Jan were reading the Bible and sharing and talking and praying and suddenly Jan has a vision.

And Jan saw me and she saw me standing by that truck under a tree and I was looking up and it was like I was saying I'm about to die. And Jan grabbed Paul. She said, Paul, pray. Arthur's about to die.

And Paul rolled out of bed and she starts to pray and she had been reading that day Billy Graham's book on angels. And as she had read that as how the angels are at the ministering beckoned word of God, Jan said, Lord Jesus, in the name of Jesus, send twelve big angels down there right now and deliver him.

And it was exactly the same time as I was down there in Nicaragua. The next night on their television program, Jan gets on and Paul and they tell what has happened. And the tape, we've seen the tapes.

Nobody's in touch with us in Nicaragua. That morning at my office, people start calling the office all across America and began to share saying what has happened. Last night we felt Arthur was about to die.

And Sherry went down to the post office and the postmaster said, didn't he just die? I mean it was a shadow of death hanging over. Finally later that week, at the end of the week, we arrive in Managua, Nicaragua.

And there in Managua, telephone back and I talked to Sherry. She said call the TV station, Arthur. They're on the air. Here's their line on the set they gave to me to call. And Jan was sharing and was shared on the air what had happened down there.

All I want to say out of that is what I'm going to preach on tonight. My presence shall be with you. God that night had sent his angels obviously and struck down those gunmen for the next weeks through Nicaragua.

Incredible awakening. Those people, I never said anything about it. Those people said the word spread what God had did and tens of thousands day after day flooded to me along the highways through Nicaragua.

Moses and the Promise of God's Presence

Tonight I want to read a scripture verse from the Bible. In Exodus the 33rd chapter and the 14th verse, it says these words. And God is speaking to Moses. And Moses has made a request of God. And Moses has said, Lord, that I may find, if I have found grace in thy sight, show me thy way.

That I may know thee. That I may find grace in thy sight and consider that this nation is thy people. And God said my presence shall go with thee and I will give you rest. Moses was on the mountain with God.

And that mountain you remember is Mount Sinai. And the glory of God had come. I mean the Bible says that God spoke with Moses as a friend speaketh to his friend in verse 11. And the Lord spoke to Moses face to face as a man speaketh to his friend.

Moses on that mountain in the very presence of God. God speaking to him as a friend speaks to a friend. And Moses said, Lord, show me thy way. I want to know you. I don't want to just meet you. I want to know you.

I want to understand you. I want to find grace in your sight. And God said, yes, Moses. My presence will go with you. Now Moses was there in the middle of that Sinai desert. I had been there myself. I walked with his cross from Jerusalem to Cairo.

Hundreds of miles through that desert with four canteens of water. Getting army. The armies along the way would give me water. And I mean Moses was there with hundreds of thousands of people. There is no food.

There is almost no water. It is a hard desert. And there he is. And God is saying, Go. And God is letting. But on this mountain, God is talking with Moses. And God is giving him the Ten Commandments. And God is giving him orders of how to set up all that is before him.

And Moses in his condition says, Lord, I want to know you. And God said, My presence will be with you. I tell you, if God's presence is with you, everything is okay. Right? I mean, no matter what you've got or what you hadn't got, but if you have God with you, it's okay.

Right? I mean, there isn't one problem you've got that if you know that God Almighty is with you, it's all right. You can live through it. Whatever it is, however tough, however easy, whatever the circumstance, God said, Moses, My presence will be with you.

The root meaning of that word in Hebrew is what God was saying, My face shall be with you. My face, My eyes, you will be in My ever-constant watch. And I will be with you. He will be before you, behind you, around you, in you, above you.

God's Presence Brings Rest and Glory

My presence I was walking through Central America, and a truck came by one day. It had been, it's a death road. I mean, around the world, walking on the roadside, wrecks in front, beside, you're walking within inches, sometimes even less, I think, than an inch.

They'll brush your clothes. It is dangerous on the roads. And yet this truck came by, and it was loaded with tire rims, steel wheels. And it was all way up, more than you could get by with in America.

But as the truck went by, the ropes broke. And all these steel rims started falling all around me. And as that steel started dropping around me, I started laughing. I said, You thought you had me from the top, didn't you, devil?

I mean, God's been all around me, and He thought He'd drop a steel wheel on my head. But no, I said, God's up there, too. His presence shall be with you. His face shall be with you. And I will give you rest.

Amen. Rest! Peace! Rely on Him with you! You can go to sleep in the middle of chaos. This summer, as Joshua and I were in Lebanon, and in West Beirut, and through the night, bombing and shelling, and it seemed like unending shaking, and all the little old Joshua, he'd reach over and get his Bible, and he'd say, Daddy, the Lord's with us.

And he'd close his little eyes and go to sleep. And the Lord's presence, I will be with you. And give you rest. Rest! You can go to sleep! Hey, whatever it is you're facing, I mean, I'll be with you. Now, then, the Lord said, I'll be with you.

And Moses said something. Moses said in verse 18, I beg you, Lord, show me Your glory. I'd like to see Your glory. His heart was right. His desire was right. And God said, I'll be with you. And He made an awesome request, show me Your glory.

And you know what God said? I will make all my goodness pass before you. Do you know why that's what God wants for you? I want all my goodness to pass before you. God is just delighted to show you all His glory, all His power, all His greatness, all His might, all His goodness He wants to give you.

And we're going to get into that a little more later. And I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee. And then He goes on in verse 20. Thou canst not see My face, for there shall no man see Me and live.

The Lord said, behold, there is a place by Me. You stand upon a rock, and it'll come to pass that My glory passeth by. I'll put you in a little cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand while I pass by.

And I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back parts, but My face shall not be seen. Moses, you ask for it, I want you to see all My goodness. And I'll bring My glory by, and I will come by, and I'll let you stand in this little corner of the rock, and I'll pass by, and I'll move My hand, and you can see Me.

Oh, my dear friend, I want every day to live in the presence of this almighty, glorious God. And you can live in His presence. Look over in the end of Exodus, the last chapter, verse 37. And God, and when a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle, and Moses was not able to enter the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode upon it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

Let's just stop there. Wouldn't it be awesome if tomorrow we came up here to church, and as you started into the church, you felt such glory, and the glory of God was so in this place, you just stood at the door, and others drove up, and others stood out there, and others stood, and there was an awesome manifestation of God, and you couldn't even get in the building.

You felt such glory. Now, that's what happened. And the Bible said, and when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys. And if the cloud was not taken up, then they journeyed not until the day when it was taken up.

For the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day, and the fire was upon it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, through all their journeys. Now, we're slowly building this message.

Just hang on. Right about now, we're going to start taking off. You thought it was good already, right? Now, it's going to get better. What did God say? He said, My presence will go before you. What did He tell Him to do?

He told Him to make a tabernacle. And the glory of God came down and abode there upon that tabernacle. And there was a cloud that covered the tabernacle. And there was a cloud upon it by day, and there was a fire that burned over it by night.

And every time the cloud moved, they moved the tabernacle. And every time the cloud stopped, they stopped. And they moved the tabernacle under the cloud by day, and in the fire by night they abode. Now, hold on.

Believers as the Temple of the Holy Spirit

Over in the New Testament, in the New Testament, the Bible tells us something about the believer. The Bible says, Know you not that your body is the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit? That you're not your own, but you're bought by a price.

The Bible tells us all throughout the epistles that we are the tabernacle of God. That our body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. It is the temple of God. Now, it is also represented that when they built the temple in Jerusalem, there in the Holy of Holies, represented the ever-constant presence of God.

But that temple and the Holy of Holies that represented the all-ever presence of God has been torn down. And on that place stands a Muslim mosque. Now, hear me. The Bible declares that our body is the temple of the Lord, right?

Do you believe it? The Bible says that we are the tabernacle of God. We are indwelled by the Spirit of God when we've received Jesus as our Savior. Now, listen. That tabernacle represented the presence of God.

And the cloud represented the cloud of the glory of God. The cloud has always represented the presence of God. From down below, when they looked on the mountain, they saw the cloud, the cloud, the cloud of glory, and fire.

It's what the people saw. Now, over in the New Testament, John said, And Jesus shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire. On the day of Pentecost, they were baptized with what? Cloven tongues of fire.

When Jesus was on the Mount of Transfiguration, what did the disciples see? Peter, James, and John saw a cloud of glory surround Him where they could not see. When Jesus ascended unto the Father, what did He ascend into?

He ascended up into a cloud when Jesus comes again. This is good. What is He coming? The Bible said, in the same manner that you've seen Him go, He is coming again. He cometh with the clouds, the Bible said, representing the presence of God.

Your body being the indwelling place of the Holy Spirit, your body being the temple of God, your body being the tabernacle of God, God wants you living under the cloud and in the fire. Under the cloud, when the cloud of God's Spirit moves, you move.

When the cloud stops, you stop. Walk in the Spirit, the Bible says. And the Holy Spirit, He shall guide you to all truth. Move with the Spirit of God. And when you abide, abide in the fire of the Holy Spirit of God.

God is saying, as He was with that tabernacle with Moses, My presence shall be with you. Today God Almighty is with you. You are to live in the cloud of His presence. You are to live in the fire of His presence.

God says, I will be with you. My presence shall be with you. Look at another passage of Scripture. So exciting in 2nd Chronicles 7 -1. And when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offerings and the sacrifices.

And the glory of the Lord filled the house. Now again, this is talking about the temple. It's the temple. Earlier we talked about the tabernacle, which was the portable thing that they carried as a place of worship.

But now we're speaking of the temple they built in Jerusalem. The same thing is happening. You understand? As they dedicate the temple to God, it says the fire came down from heaven. Consume their sacrifices and offerings.

That's what happens whenever we're saved. That's what happens whenever the Holy Spirit of God takes control of our life. You come to God. Sign 2. That old sin washes you clean through the blood of Jesus.

And the glory of God wants to fill the temple of God, which is you. And He wants to abide within you. And the priest could not enter into the house of the Lord, for the glory of the Lord had filled the Lord's house.

And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down and the glory of the Lord, there's the fire and the cloud. They bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement and worshiped and praised the Lord, saying, He is good, for His mercy endureth forever.

Praise God. They saw the fire come down. God, I tell you, friend, is saying my presence will be upon your tabernacle. My presence, I want to fill that temple with my glory, with my fire, with all my fullness.

I will be with you. That is the message of God. Always through the Old Testament, never fear. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. Why? Because He is with me. His rod and His staff, they comfort me, because He is with me.