Feel free to take notes in any blue box to the right.
Romans 8:28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
The Desert – The place of emotional confusion, where your heart and mind don’t match.
1 Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
2 But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, my steps had nearly slipped.
3 For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked
4 For they have no pangs until death; their bodies are fat and sleek. 5 They are not in trouble as others are; they are not stricken like the rest of mankind. 6 Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment. 7 Their eyes swell out through fatness; their hearts overflow with follies. 8 They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression. 9 They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.
10 Therefore his people turn back to them, and find no fault in them.
11 And they say, “How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
12 Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.
13 All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence. 14 For all the day long I have been stricken and rebuked every morning.
15 If I had said, “I will speak thus,” I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
18 Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin. 19 How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors! 20 Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms. 21 When my soul was embittered,
when I was pricked in heart, 22 I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you. 23 Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you hold my right hand. 24 You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory. 25 Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. 26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. 27 For behold, those who are far from you shall perish; you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you. 28 But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
16 But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task, 17 UNTIL I WENT INTO THE SANCTUARY OF GOD; THEN I discerned their end.
1.Priority
Jeremiah 29:13 You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
o If you SEEK GOD, you will find GOD’S PRESENCE
o If you SEEK SOMETHING ELSE, you will find SOMETHING ELSE
2.Posture
Speaking – Psalm 34:1 I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
Shouting– Psalm 27: 6 And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me, and I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make melody to the Lord.
Singing– Psalm 47:6 Sing praises to God, sing praises to our King, sing praises.
Bowing – Psalm 95:6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!
Dancing – Psalm 149:3 Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!
Playing Instruments – Psalm 33:2 Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre; make melody to him with the harp of ten strings! 3 Sing to him a new song; play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts.
Clapping – Psalm 47:1 Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!
Lifting Hands – Psalm 63:4 So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.
3.Practice
o When we are solely operating in the PHYSICAL, the SPIRITUAL becomes CLOUDY.
o When we are operating in the SPIRITUAL, the PHYSICAL becomes CLOUDY.
Which one is telling you the TRUTH?
- The PRESENCE OF GOD brings CLARITY of His LOVE, POWER, and PLANS for our LIVES.