Imagine
living every moment of your life in a place so full of everything that is good, so full of peace and joy, literally
overflowing so much that it can’t possibly all be contained….
Well, there really is such a place. The amazing
thing about it is, it’s a place that cannot be penetrated with evil or trouble. There can be all
kinds of storms raging all around – but when you’re in this place, you will only experience “great peace
and undisturbed composure”. [Isaiah 54.13 AMP]
You will see the storms, you’ll know about
the trouble – but it will have no effect on you. You will walk right through the “valley
of the shadow of death” and yet never be touched by it – Why? Because
you know God is with you – therefore there’s nothing to fear.
When you are established in this place, you will only know and experience abundant
life. Your life will grow and thrive, while the world struggles to merely survive. So
what is this place? The place is God Himself – His manifest
presence.
You will hear me talking about God’s presence a lot – and that’s because there’s just not
any other place like it.
Impossibilities disappear like vapor in His presence…. Lack is consumed, trouble vanishes, and sin, fear and
death are burned up like dross…. Most importantly, all the love and comfort you and I will ever need flows like a flood
in His awesome presence.
Once
I was telling the Lord that His presence is so precious to me and I love it so much – I want every other area
of my life to be like my relationship with Him. There’s no place that I feel so complete, so fulfilled,
and so full of peace, as when I’m with Him in that holy intimacy. What He said in response to me
was that every other area of our life is supposed to be like that.
He has created us to live in His presence and to take it into every other sphere of life.
When God placed Adam in the Garden of Eden, He commanded him to “be fruitful, multiply, and
replenish the earth”. What that command literally meant was for him to release the life-power
of God in him and make the rest of the world look just like that Garden. God gave him the authority,
dominion, and power to make this planet a world-wide Garden of Eden!
Through Jesus, we also have, in the same way, been given the Anointing to make every area of our
life literally like Heaven on earth. This does not mean the end of all trials. Jesus
said as long as we’re on earth there will be tribulation – “but
be of good cheer – I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD!” –
John 16.33
In other words, there will
continue to be trouble in the world and trouble that tries to come to our lives – but
as long as we stay in Him – living in His presence, we can ride
high above those storms of life!
The 23rd Psalm has always been one of my favourite chapters. In essence, it really is
the blueprint for living in God’s presence. The last verse proves it – “And I will
dwell in the House of the Lord [In His Presence] forever.”
If you’ll live like what this Psalm says, the
result will be that you will live forever in His presence….and experience all that it provides. You
will lack nothing!
“Even in the presence of my enemies – You spread the Feast of Life before me.”
(Ps.23.5 Sacred Words TM )
God’s intense desire is for you to live far over and above the mere average
life-styles of the world, above every circumstance and trial. In the midst of the enemies of your soul
pursuing you, His will is not that you just receive comfort and peace of heart – as good as that is. His
burning desire is that you absolutely stride in the Feast of Life He has prepared for you.
And that Feast encompasses every sphere of
life – so you can bask in rich fulfillment in your spirit, in your mind, in your emotions, in relationships,
in finances, in your body – literally feast on all the goodness of God.
Jesus said in John 10.10 – “….I
have come that they might have life and have it more abundantly.”
Not just abundantly….but more abundantly! We must permit the
Holy Spirit to unlock our thinking to the vastness of the presence of God. The universe
is still expanding at the speed of light – and to our minds that is almost unthinkable. And yet the
presence of God is even so much more infinite than that.
Our Father’s heart yearns for us to seek out the fathomless depths of His Love.
There are undiscovered continents of spiritual living just waiting to be sought out. In order to
infect every area of our life with His manifest presence – we have to be desperate for it.
One has to come to the point of wanting the
things of God badly enough that they can no longer live
without it in order to obtain it. Hebrews 11.6 says that God
is a “…Rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”
It is amazing to me that both of these words
are used in this verse – because in the original Greek and Hebrew each of these words (just by themselves)
are very intense. But this verse uses them back to back – so the intensity is more than doubled.
With that in mind, this verse can actually
mean – God is a rewarder of those who are desperately intent on Him –
so much that He has become their sole pursuit. Chasing after anything else in life
that intently, would not bring so great a reward. But when you go all out for God –
when your hunger is for Him and Him alone – He will be a rewarder to you.
There is no way you will be able to escape the tidal wave of all He has and
all He is, flooding in upon your life – when you diligently seek Him.
This is His dream for you…
This is what He lives for – to make you lie down in rich fulfillment – beyond anything
you could ask or think. His dream is for you to experience His manifest presence every moment of our
life – in every area of your life – because that is Heaven on earth.
If you want to experience
the reality of His dream in your life – I encourage you seek Him like you have never sought Him before,
from your heart. Even make a point to read out loud Romans 8 and Psalm23 to the Lord in
prayer every day. Those two chapters have continued to radically transform my life – and I believe
they will do the same for you.
Most
of all, as you continue to dwell in His Presence I believe you will truly know and experience
…the Feast of Life itself.
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Sharah LaGail Wyatt / First Love Ministries International
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