Sunday Post ~Personal Testimony/Exhortations

Scriptural Reference: Job.14:7
There is so much hope for all of us, regardless whatever we have been through.

Your destiny is not dead! God still commands it.
God can turn your curse  into a blessing
Fall in love with Jesus, you will never be disappointed!
Bitterness is food for demons, avoid harboring bitterness!
Love Jesus Extravagantly!
Love Jesus Practically!
Love Jesus Publicly! He will do just the same to you.

"I got beatings from my father even before i was born"

Pastor- Chemonges John

Acts.16:23-26
Sometimes life can get us into a fix and life presses us so hard.
this is because the foundations of our life are intact.
we need these foundations to be shaken as we worship, just like Paul and Silas while in Prison.

Ps.22:3- God inhabits the praises of His children
when we lead a life of praise and worship we dwell in the presence of God.
Foundations hold you in a situation while doors keep you in that confinement, the chains also hold you in place even with open doors.
when you have praise on your lips, doors will swing open for you, the atmosphere around you will be freed and the heavens will be opened.

Sunday Post~CultivatingGodsPresence

Launching into the deep by #CultivatingGodsPresence [Luke.5:4]
[Heb.13:14-15]-Continually offer a sacrifice.
When your're launching into the deep you must be armed
have a life jacket, you're not in shallow waters, you must be ready.

• Praise means Showing Approval and Admiration [Psa. 107:21-22]
• Worship is showing reverence to God

[John.4:22]; IT IS NOT ABOUT THE PLACE WHERE YOU WORSHIP
Isaiah. 29:13 The shallow end is the Mouth, the deep end is your heart; the shallow end is muddy and contains weak, small fish whereas the deep end contains big and strong fish.
It is high time we marry our heart with our lips.
There is something extra somebody has done to gain an extra gain. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is the "extra".
[2Sam.6:14]- David did the "extra" in praising His God.

Sunday Post~Cultivating Gods Presence through Music

There is a way God works through Music;

• Praise and worship gives you an intimate relationship with God
  
• Don't wake up each day for routine purpose but for intimacy with God for the Spirit of God delights in the Worship of men.
• Don't focus on the problems and issues of life, they distract our constant worship to God.
• Our praises invoke the presence from heaven because God dwells in the praises of His saints.
• The Worship Team commands the presence of God. If they are found lacking, this will affect the entire meaning of the worship.
• We should praise God regardless of how we are feeling. There is a power in Worship that can transform our lives.

2 Chron. 5:2 God needs us to tap into His wave length.
Jehoshaphat enquired of the Lord  and God answered Him. He organised a worship  which disorganized the enemies camp. 2Chron. 2:20.
Where there is genuine praise and worship there is the presence of God, which sets in play Gods work.

Sunday Post~Cultivating God's presence through praise and worship

James 4:8

Come near to God and he will come near to you. In the old testament there are circumstances where God drew near to His people but also, on the contrary, instances are recorded where he withdrew from them, 1Sam.4:12 ff.

When the presence of God departed Israel, they were empty. no more protection, no more joy;
this can happen in the life of a christian, remember Samson, he became empty and an ordinary man.

The Laodicean Church Rev.3
This church was equally empty with Christ actually standing outside.http://biblehub.com/revelation/3-20.htm
It is possible to claim you're OK when you're not OK
It is possible to claim you have a reputation yet you actually have no presence.
What God is saying and how you feel are two different things.

Do you want to experience the presence of God; the springs of living waters? http://biblehub.com/john/7-38.htm; Do you want to feel the joy in the Spirit; do you want to have a sense of fear of God? This is possible.

Many times it is possible to loose the fear of God and still perform miracles. God can still use you to bless people but He will hold you accountable for whatever you do.Talent can promote you without presence. We need presence to take precedent.

The presence of God is everywhere; Ps.139, but this presence we need is the #manifest presence of God in our lives.

Don't come to Church expecting to receive this presence, you wont tap it from the worship team, no sermon will make you be filled with this presence, you can only draw it from God-Personally by pressing on in seeking the Lord. And you don't even have to tell anyone that you are seeking this presence.

There is a way i will behave in the presence of the President, how about God Almighty?