How Our Enemies Should Know Us (Part 1)

"They have already heard that you, Lord, are with these people and that you, Lord, have been seen face to face, that your cloud stays over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night." Numbers 14:14


Not only did Israel see and know God face to face, experiencing His daily and real leading Presence among them, but even the Egyptians knew this about the people of God.  Israel's reputation was that God Himself, the only real and true God, was literally and tangibly with them.  Seen face to face.  Staying over them.  A pillar of fire by day (that you could see.)  A pillar of fire by night.


What about us?


Do we not have a "better covenant" built on "better promises?" 


Are we not the temple of the Spirit of God, individually and collectively, so that we and our enemies should know that God's Spirit is literally with us, in us, and among us?  Do we not have a face to face relationship with God the Father, through faith in God the Son, by the very real guiding daily and nightly presence of God the Spirit?


Or do we just read the Bible, in our many Bible versions, according to our many denominations?


Do you want what I want?  What if you and I and one other Christian decided we wanted one thing, and one thing only:  The Experience of God's Abiding and Real Presence, with us in such a way that it becomes our reputation.  Imagine.


You, another brother or sister in Christ, and me, meeting together.  We do what Jesus said when He said,


"For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”  Matthew 18:20


It only takes two, at the most three.  It could be you and me only, or one other believer  And Jesus would be with us.  In the room.  We would know it.  Anyone who entered the room would know it, friend or foe.


This is church.
This alone is church.
Anything less than this is a lie about who and what we are.


I will not settle for anything less than this. 
I hope you are with me.
I hope that you want nothing less than for your reputation to be that God is seen with you, and that you have a face to face relationship with Him in which He leads you day and night, and that even your enemies know this about you.


I will have this.
Today and every day.
It will define my life.


Let's have it together.
(click HERE part 2)