How do I know God is with me?

I can think of nothing better than the presence of God.  If He is with me and in me, then I never lack anything or anyone.  Ever.  But how do I know God is with me? 


By believing the attribute of God's omnipresence, and applying that attribute to my life, I have no choice but to acknowledge God's presence in the room with me right now.  I define omnipresence in two ways:


1.  God is everywhere at once.
2.  God is everywhere that He wants to be.


The second definition is critical to God's divine liberty and sovereignty.  Often times Christians and theologians make God a slave to His attributes.  Because He is everywhere at once, He must be everywhere at once, whether He wants to be or not.  This means God is even in hell in a way that causes Him the conscious experience of those who reject Him, whether He wants this conscious experience or not. But God is free.  He is everywhere at once, and He is also everywhere He wants to be, as well as no where that He doesn't want to be.  I will show these two applications of God's omnipresence in my personal life:  that God is in the room with me, and that He wants to be in the room with me. 



God is Spirit-- everywhere, unlimited by time and space.
Everywhere includes where I am right now.
Therefore, God is where I am right now.


But more than this, those who consciously acknowledge God's omnipresence are consciously aware that He is where they are.
I am one who consciously acknowledges God's omnipresence.
Therefore, I am consciously aware that God is where I am.


In other words, because God is aware of me, and I am aware of His awareness of me, I am aware that He wants me to be aware of Him.  How could I be aware of His awareness if God Himself didn't want me to be aware of Him?  Because God is everywhere, wherever He wants to be, and because God cannot be where He chooses not to be, if I am aware of Him, He wants me to be aware of Him.


And the same is true for you, if you want it to be.

2 Ways to Guarantee God's Presence and Power in Your Life (Part 1)

"Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good--except God alone."  Luke 18:19 NIV

 

I see a picture on the wall of a father and son hand in hand.  It shows them from behind--a baby boy holding his father's hand, his right foot lifting as his father's does, his left foot in step with his father's left foot.

 

A Corrections Officer hears inmates argue about the TV.  He listens and decides how to resolve it.  "Who was here first?" he says.  "His crew came over to the TV and voted for this channel, then all of them left except two."  "That's not how it's supposed to work gentlemen."  "The majority rules, Officer James."  "For the majority, not for two inmates.  Either first come first served, majority rules, or take turns."  "Alright Officer James.  We hear you." 




The officer realized a power the inmates lacked, the power of basic fairness. It was a foreign language.  They needed an unbiased third party with the power to bring order.  In this realization, Officer James found his power.

• Seeing the inherent goodness of a connected father and son gave me a glimpse of the goodness of the union of God The Father and God The Son.
• Seeing the inherent goodness of an officer's establishment of order gave me a glimpse of the power of God, who "is not the author of disorder, but of peace."

Being good, and doing good, are the two ways to guarantee the presence and power of God in your life.


BE GOOD.
We all know what this means.  The reason it guarantees God's presence is because true goodness only has one source as Jesus said.  God alone is good, and therefore being good can only happen in connection to Him.  When you act in ways that are inherently and obviously good, the goodness of your presence will manifest the God who alone is good. 



DO GOOD.
Again, you know when you are doing something inherently good.  Officer James established order.  The Apostle Paul said that "God is not the author of disorder but of peace."  So when Officer James does what God Himself does, he will in that moment have the power of God at his disposal.

In other words, God doesn't simply join in with those who do good.  He is goodness.  So doing good is really you joining into what God is already doing.

 

click HERE for part 2

Moses and You (Speaking to God Face to Face)

Anyone inquiring of the LORD would go to the tent of meeting outside of the camp. 
The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his friend.  Then Moses would return to camp, but his young aide Joshua son of Nun did not leave the tent.  Exodus 33:7 b,11

I want what Moses had with God.  What could be better?  We seem content to simply read about God and Moses, but from what I read, anyone could go to the tent of meeting...and stay there.

Anyone.
Joshua stayed.

We are told we have a "better covenant" based on "better promises."  Then we who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, who have the Spirit of the living God inside of our bodies, individually or collectively, are content with mere "Bible Studies."  We don't read God's word with the Author, the Holy Spirit, reading it to us.  We read it through denominational biases as merely the words of theologians, seminarians, and commentators.  Arguing.  Debating.  Dividing.  Not hearing God speak to us face to face as a man speaks to his friend.

Is this why Jesus came, so we could read and then argue over the Bible?
Is this why His Spirit is in us?

What do you want?

I want God to speak to me, face to face, as a man speaks with his friend.
And I have it, because I have God's Spirit in me.

So do you, if you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. 

You are now the tent of meeting because your body is the temple of God's Spirit.
Let Him speak to you face to face, as a man speaks with his friend. 
Be like Joshua. Never leave His presence.

How to Be a Worship Leader

As Moses went into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come and stand at the entrance, while the LORD spoke with Moses.  Whenever the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance to the tent, they all stood and worshiped, each at the entrance of his tent.  Exodus 33:10-11

Have you ever been coerced into worshiping God?  You know what I mean.  Some praise and worship leader tries to cheer lead you into God's presence.  You are commanded to shout, raise your hands, clap your hands, praise God, thank God, jump for joy...on and on and on.  You are ordered to "usher in the presence of God," or make a "joyful noise unto the LORD." You are told that you must "enter in his gates with thanksgiving in your hearts and enter into his courts with praise."  You must give the "sacrifice of praise," because He "inhabits the praises of His people."

All of this may be true, well, and good.  After all, it is in the Bible.

But a true worship leader simply enters into God's presence himself.  She and God connect, the congregation sees God and her connecting, and they join in that connection.

That's real worship.
That's a real worship leader.

It actually does God great dishonor to be a "cheer leader" instead of a worship leader.

Everyone knows when someone is genuinely excited about something or someone, versus when they try to make themselves excited when they are not.  Many worship leaders are trying to act passionate about God. But it's an act.

We've all experienced the real thing though.

I remember at a retreat a young man sang a song to the Lord. It was a quiet song.  And it was beautiful.  But there was something else.  A "holy hush."  A feeling that God Himself liked the song, which made me worship God with the singer.

This was different from another singer, whose voice was also beautiful.  But I didn't feel God listening and enjoying the song, so I couldn't join in God's enjoyment.

If you are a praise and worship leader, or even if you are not, the way to be a worship leader is to simply enter God's presence for yourself, for the enjoyment of God alone.  And when God responds to you, the people who want to worship Him will feel Him with you, and worship Him with you.

Meeting with God: What I learned from Salli and Lucy

Now Moses used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the "tent of meeting."  Anyone inquiring of the LORD would go to the tent of meeting outside the camp.  Exodus 33:7

SALLI
I had a date, a meeting with Salli.  I went to the lower level of Rick's Bar in Key West, where the pizza restaurant is.  I sat at a table...and waited.  I didn't have a book or a cell phone or ipad.  I didn't order any food.  I just sat...waiting for Salli.  That's why I was there.  It was obvious I was waiting for someone who may or may not show up.  She did...finally...with her dog.  Now it occurred to me that anyone watching her would not have known obviously that she was coming to see me.  If I was there, and she happened to pass by....while walking her dog...great!  But if I DIDN'T SHOW UP, oh well....Salli was just out...walking her dog.

LUCY
I had a date, a meeting with Lucy.  I stood by the pole right in front of Denny's on Duval Street in Key West.  I stood...and waited.  I didn't have a book, or a cell phone...or a dog. I just stood there, obviously waiting for Lucy, who may or may not show up.  She did, with no dog or cell phone conversation she interrupts to talk to me, whom she just "happened" to see at Denny's.  I was waiting for Lucy.  Lucy was coming to see me.  It was obvious.  Perhaps not as obvious with Lucy...after all, who knows why she was walking towards Denny's.  But it became obvious when she saw me and I saw her.  We planned to meet with each other.  This was our only and obvious purpose.
(click HERE for part 2)

The God Who Wants to Be Seen

Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up  and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, as bright blue as the sky.  But God did not raise his hand against these leaders of the Israelites; they saw God, and they ate and drank.  Exodus 24:9-11

From the beginning until now, God wants us to see Him.  He made us in His image and likeness, to look like Him and act like Him.  To reveal Him.  To make Himself seen to us, in us, with us, and through us.

• He walked in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve.
• He talked face to face with Cain, even after Cain killed His brother.
• He spoke directly and specifically to Noah about building the ark.

• He appeared to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, The Elders, and Israel.

• He appeared to the judges, the kings, the prophets, and again ultimately, to all of Israel at the coming of Christ. 

• The Spirit of Christ appeared on 120 as flaming tongues above their heads.  Visible.  Like when John the Baptist saw the Spirit descend upon Jesus in the visible likeness of a dove.

How is God seen today?

In you, through you, and with you as the temple of God's Spirit, if you believe in Jesus Christ. 

According to Paul, your spiritual gift is a "manifestation of the Spirit."  To be "manifest" means to be made known to the physical senses.

The God who wants to be seen wants to be seen by you, in you, through you, and with you. 

Jesus told us the way to make this happen:

"He who has and keeps my commandments is he who loves me.  And he who loves me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him."

THE TERROR OF GOD (PART 1)

"If that’s true, if you don’t know who I am,

then maybe your best course… would be to tread lightly."

Walter White, "Breaking Bad"

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"Then they set out, and the terror of the God fell upon the towns all around them so that no one pursued them."  Genesis 35:5 (Emphasis mine)

 

Do you remember how the Lord Jesus used an unjust judge as an illustration of God, the perfectly just judge?  I'm about to do something like that.  Again, this is not going to be a one to one correlation.

 

Having said that...

 

When I thought of the terror of God as I read Genesis chapter 35, the character Walter White came to mind.  I thought about his scariness and realized it wasn't his meth dealing power or incredibly evil acts done in the name of his family or his ego.  It was an indescribable intensity that communicated immanent danger if you crossed him.  Not muscle or might.  Presence.  Danger's essence.  Manifest.  Real.  You can see and feel.

 

The terror of God is like that with the children of God who trust Him and are forgiven of sin.

 

In Genesis 35, Jacob and his family were obeying a command from God to go to Bethel, purifying themselves, and removing all idols from their midst.  In chapter 34, Jacob's sons had just killed all of the men in a town where their sister Dinah was raped.  Jacob feared danger from the surrounding cities, but instead the surrounding cities experienced the terror of God falling upon them, and did not pursue Jacob and his family.  The terror of God.  A feeling.  Menacing. 

 

The cities may not have known who God was, but because of this, they knew they should tread lightly!

 

If you are a child of God, trusting in Him, and purified from all your sin, then as you go through life, know that the terror of God is felt by those who mean you harm.

 

But if you are not God's child, or you  are His child and are living in sin, know that YOU will feel the terror of God.  Tread lightly.  Turn from your sin.  Do it now.

 

 



Will God Respond to You?

Have you ever felt like you had to practically beg someone to call or text you back?  Maybe you're the one being begged!  How does it make you feel, to beg and be begged?

It makes me feel anxiety, like the person doesn't really value me.  So why am I valuing him?  Why waste my time on her?

Because he is valuable to me.
Because she means so much to me.

So I persist in seeking him; I won't stop pursuing her.

But what about God?

Does God value you enough to respond to you without you begging Him?

Hear what God says:
"Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know." 
Jeremiah 33:3

Not only does God promise to respond to your call, but He promises to answer you with marvelous mind-blowing mysteries!  God will not leave you hanging after you've poured out your heart to him, like when you write a long heart felt email and get no reply.

Will God respond to you?  Yes He will!
Call to Him now, and wait for His answer!

How to REALLY PRAISE GOD!

I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever. Psalms 86:12

When you really experience God, you will really praise God. 

Just like you really praise anything and everything else that you really experience and really enjoy.

Some misquote, or misunderstand, this verse:
Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise--the fruit of lips that openly profess his name.  Hebrews 13:15.

They interpret "a sacrifice of praise," as praising God EVEN WHEN YOU DON'T "FEEL" LIKE IT.  But read these verses, and see if this interpretation is correct:

Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.  James 5:13

James isn't cheerleading God's people into "praising God any how!"  You know what I mean.  When you're in church and you're supposed to clap and yell and praise God even if you don't feel like it, the "sacrifice of praise."

This is not true.

When God speaks of the "sacrifice of praise," He is contrasting the offering given in the past that were merely external, like animal sacrifices done according to the Law of Moses yet without sincerity.  God wants us to "offer" our hearts in genuineness.  But this by definition doesn't mean acting like we are praising God when we're not.  In those times, in times of sorrow, we should pray, not praise.

God is real, and wants us to be real. 

Jesus hates hypocrisy, which is ironically one of the things we as believers are most criticized for!

Real praise comes from real joy in the experience of the real God!

This is what the psalms are about when they invite praise!  Those who are singing to God are sincerely in awe of God, which is very much unlike the lame and boring songs that some of us sing to God with no heart or emotion.  We give more genuine praise to a good movie we've seen or a good restaurant we've gone to than to the living God!  Why?  Because we aren't really experiencing Him, as the word of God says,

"Taste and see that the LORD is good."  Psalms 34:8

Tasting is a very intimate physical experience.  When we taste, we take food or drink into ourselves and digest them.  They become a part of us.  And we know the food or drink most intimately.  This is what the psalmist is inviting us to, an experience of God he has had and wants to share with us, just like when you eat something really good and can't help but invite someone to try it.

This is real praise!
This is how to you really praise God!

The Key to Your Power as A Believer (Part 2)

He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn't looking for him and doesn't recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you.  John 14:17

 

The key to your power as a believer is the Spirit of God in your body!

 

As Charles Stanley wrote,

1.       The Holy Spirit is in you.
2.       The Holy Spirit is God.
3.       Therefore, God is in you.

If you believe in Jesus, GOD IS IN YOU.

Do you believe it?
· If you do, how does it affect how you act?
·  If it has no effect, then you don’t believe it.

How WOULD you act if you did believe it?

God.  In.  You.  Now.

Would you use your mind, or mouth, or hands, the way you do, if you know and believe that God is in you?

God.
Your Maker Master.

The One whom you will give an account on judgment day. 

The One you owe your life to today, right now.

The real God owns everything, as it is written,

“The earth is the LORD’S and everything in it, the world and all who live in it.”

“You are worthy oh Lord to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things and by Your will they exist and were created.”

Now, believing the word of God, and knowing the Spirit is in those who believe in Jesus, the most holy people on earth should be disciples of Jesus.  Set apart.  Devoted.  Fearless because of who’s in them.

Start now to acknowledge God in you, really respecting His presence. 

It’s impossible to do this and live a careless unholy life. 

1.       Act like God is God, and like His will is the only will that matters in your life.
2.       Act like He’s in the room, in your body.
3.       Act like your body is now His body.

What does He want you to do with your body?  He wants you to honor Him.

• Imagine you honoring God with your body. 
• Whatever you consider this honor, do it now. 
• Do it all day. 
• Do it everyday. 

 

 

The Key to Your Power as a Believer (Part 1)

Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.  1 Corinthians 6:19-20 NIV

John entered the church building and felt the weight of Someone with him.  Though alone on the front pew, He knew that Someone filled the room.  And the weight of that Someone caused John to fall face down to the ground.

He intuitively knew to be careful.  To watch his every thought, intention, word, and action.  John felt like he did when he played his piano recital before three judges.  The difference was this:  The One watching him, and judging him, watched as One who perfectly knew John…and perfectly loved John.  This love made him cry.  The Spirit felt warm and blazing.  A blanket.  An electric shock.

“Forgive me for not being what You made me to be.  From now on I will be by trusting you.”

The blaze cooled.  The comfort remained.  But the comforting flame was still intense.  John still dared not think, or speak, or act like he did before these moments.

He left the church building, still aware of the One who filled the room. The One now filling his body.  But it wasn’t his body anymore.  (It never had been.)

A billboard advertising a strip club loomed over head with a seductive woman in a two pieced bikini.  John thought, “My eyes are not mine any more.  I can’t just look at whatever I want.”  So he turned away from the picture and focused on the beautiful cloud formations instead, praising God, the One above, the one Enthroned, the One in John’s body.

John felt a new ability.  He felt a new motivation for self-control.  He considered Himself the Spirit’s slave, and His body the Spirit’s home.  John wanted only one thing:  For the Spirit to be comfortable inside him.  Not like the Spirit was a guest, but instead like John himself was the guest in another person’s house. 

Having read how Samurai devote their entire bodies and souls to their masters, possessing no time of their own, John knew that he could no longer use His body any old way.  After all, it was no longer his body.  This was John’s new ability, the key to his power:  The Spirit of God is in John.

 

How to Feel God When You Read the Bible (Part 2)

Leave your brain at the front door of the church....for now.

Stop thinking, stop reasoning, stop "bible studying,"...for the moment.

Stop approaching the Bible with no feeling, as though the only true God has no feelings.
As though He is merely a Bible study.
As though heaven is merely theological debates.

One day I came across this passage in scripture:

The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin and Ephraim; Israel was in great distress.  Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord, “We have sinned against you, forsaking our God and serving the Baals.”

 

The Lord replied, “When the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,  the Sidonians, the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you and you cried to me for help, did I not save you from their hands?  But you have forsaken me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you.  Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you when you are in trouble!”

 

But the Israelites said to the Lord, “We have sinned. Do with us whatever you think best, but please rescue us now.”  Then they got rid of the foreign gods among them and served the Lord. And he could bear Israel’s misery no longer.  Judges 10:9-16, emphasis mine.

 

After reading this, I felt deep pain.

God's pain.

God's hurt.

 

Here is God, the Deliverer of Israel, delivering them over and over again.  Yet they reject Him and dishonor Him, over and over again.  Their enemies conquer them, they're in distress, they cry out to Him.  But this time He tells them to go to the gods they so love.  In pain, Israel accepts their punishment, knowing they deserve it.  They still seek God's deliverance, but they choose to serve Him, whether He delivers them or not, even in their misery.

 

And God couldn't bear their misery.

 

Can't you feel all of this?
(Read Part 3 CLICK HERE.)

 

 

How to Feel God When You Read The Bible



 



"You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to Me!"  The Lord Jesus, John 5:39  NLT

Have you ever read a book and felt a connection with the author? 
Like he was in the room with you? Like she understood your very soul?

This author has poured his heart into his book.  She put her spirit in each letter and chapter.

So it is with the scriptures.

The Bible is "God breathed."

When you read it, move from the intellectual to the emotional. 
This is how you feel God when you read the Bible.

Start simple.

When you read Genesis 1, what does the Bible say God feels?
Pleased!  He looks at what He made, and He feels intense pleasure!
Feel it as you read it.  Ask the question, "What is my impression of God?"

What kind of Person do you encounter as you read about God creating all things?
I feel Him to be a very artistic and organized Person.  My perception is of one who looks and thinks and feels deeply about what He is doing.  He makes distinctions.  Light and darkness.  Day and Night.  Above and below.  Earth and Sea. 

What about in the story of Noah and the flood,  when God says His heart is grieved, that He is filled with sorrow, and that He regrets ever making people?  How does that impact your heart?

I felt like I never wanted God to feel like that about making me.

Do you see what I'm doing?

I'm feeling Him.
I'm not just thinking.
I'm feeling.
Connecting with God's feelings.

In the Bible God is very emotionally expressive.
Vulnerable even.  Passionate.  Sensitive.  Fierce.

So the next time you read the Bible, read what He feels, and feel it with Him.
This will give you more than letters, but direct God encounters.

You'll know Him as He was, and thus know Him as He is.

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Why You Aren't Close to God

I sat in the airport and thought about Jesus.  "Why were Peter, James, and John in Jesus’ inner circle?  What did they do that the other 9 didn’t?"  So I searched the scriptures to find out.  I looked in the letters of Peter and John, where both talk about seeing Christ in His glory with their own physical eyes.  I then went to the letter of James, not realizing at the time that this letter wasn’t written by John’s brother who was one of the 12, but by Jesus’ brother, who disbelieved in Jesus during his life.  I found this verse:

“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.”

Then Christ’s Spirit said to me, “You can be as close to Me as you want to be.”

I realized that the other 9 apostles DIDN’T WANT TO BE AS CLOSE TO JESUS AS PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN!

• Peter was the only one who walked on water with Jesus, the one to whom the Father revealed Jesus as the Christ.
• James and John wanted to sit on Jesus’ right hand in the coming kingdom.
• These three sought closeness to Jesus that the others did not.
• They were as close to Jesus as they wanted to be.

So are you.

If you are not close to God, it is your fault, and yours alone. 

But if you want to  be close to God, starting right now, you and God may be one!

1. Give your life  to His Son.
2. Give your body to the Spirit of His Son.

How?
Say it:

"God, I give my life to your Son, and my body to the Spirit of Your Son.  From now on, we are one."

Now you are as close to God as you can be, as close to God as you want to be.

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How to know God is with you Today! (Part 1)

A drug dealer planted cocaine in my van; I got arrested for a crime I didn’t commit, and put in the jail that I worked in as a corrections officer. September 24, 2010. My court date was October 12, 2010. My friends said, “Get a lawyer! This is your life!” But I couldn’t afford a lawyer, and dreaded the process, which could imprison me for years before trial. So I prayed, “God, completely deliver me by October 6, 2012.” On October 6, 2012, I received a letter from the State Attorney: “All charges are dropped against you. Reason: Not guilty.”

In the Bible, Joseph was also imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit. But the jailer knew God was with Joseph. How? Joseph succeeded in everything he did. This is how you know God is with you! Imagine. What if someone you knew succeeded in EVERYTHING he did on his job? What would you believe about her? You’d feel awe because you know only God, or a god, or a goddess has perfect success. But there is no god or goddess! So a person who always succeeds can only do so if God is with him, because God alone always succeeds. (READ PART 2.  CLICK HERE)

How to KNOW That GOD IS WITH YOU (PART 1)

Now the Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded, and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, "Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: the LORD is with you when you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you. 
2 Chronicles 15:1-2 NIV

 

You know God is with you in two ways:

1. Your conscious choice.
2. Your perfect success.

You choose to focus your attention on God's omnipresence.  You then welcome and acknowledge His presence, and you feel Him acknowledge and welcome you in response. 

It's like this:

You stand in a crowded party, looking into the crowd from the top of a stair case.  The music plays.  People talk and dance and laugh.  You are not focusing on any one person, and no one person is focusing on you.

Until you do.
Until he does.
Until she does.

You look at him and he looks at you.
You look at her and she looks at you.

You wave and smile.
He waves back and smiles.
She waves back and smiles.

You both have been at the party from the beginning, in the same room, listening to the same music.
But you didn't acknowledge or focus on each other, until now. 

This is how it is with God, always present, always watching.
When you acknowledge the always present gaze of God, you know He at that moment is acknowledging you.

Look at the One who is looking at you.
Wave at Him, and He'll wave back to you. 
(After this, read part 2!  Click HERE!)

How to KNOW that GOD IS WITH YOU (PART 2)

When his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord gave him success in everything he did,  Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant.  Genesis 39:3-4

God alone always succeeds.

If a man or woman succeed in everything they do, this can only be so if God is with them.

 

 

• To be successful is contextual.
• Because God was with Joseph, he was perfectly successful as manager.
• David's perfect success came in the context of his role as a soldier.

 

So if God is with a manager, she will perfectly succeed in managing.

If God is with a soldier, he will perfectly succeed in victory.

 

 

It is written,

Trust in the LORD with all of your heart, and lean not to your own understanding; in all of your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your path.

 

Think about that.

• You are focused on God, and God is focusing on you and all that you do.
• You acknowledge God in all you do; God acknowledges you in all you do.
• You will perfectly succeed in all you do, if God is with you in all you do, .

 

It all starts with us and God.

• If we  deliberately ignore Him, He will deliberately ignore us.
• If we want independence from Him, He will give us what we want:

God will leave us alone.

 

But if we want Him with us, He will be.

It's up to you and me.

 

 

You can know God is with you if you choose to welcome His omnipresence.

You will know He is with you when you succeed in whatever you do.

 

May God be with you.