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• God is Omnipotent
• Omnipresent
• Omniscient
• He is transcendent and yet immanent
• We are relational beings created in His image
therefore God is relational
• Programs begin big and end small,
movements begin small and end big!
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• Why is His presence needed?
• DIRECTION
• Exodus 23.21‐23 “ Behold, I send an Angel before
thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee
into the place which I have prepared. Beware of
him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he
will not pardon your transgressions: for my name
is in him. But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice,
and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy
unto thine enemies “ (cont)
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• Exodus 23 (cont) “ and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
For mine Angel shall go before thee and bring thee unto….”
• Exodus 33.13‐16 “ Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have
found grace in thy sight, shew me not thy way, that I may
know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider
that this nation is thy people. And he said, My presence
shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. And he said
unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up
hence. For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy
people have found grace in thy sight: is it not in that thou
goest with us? So shall we be separated, I and thy people,
from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.”
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• 2 Corinthians 10.5 “ ( For the weapons of our
warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God
to the pulling down of strongholds)”
• Carnality Defined: It is not the overcoming of sin,
which has been defeated in the christian life.
Carnality is the dependence upon our ingenuity,
creativity and reasoning abilities to accomplish
the work of God. Our natural abilities do not
supplant the work of the Spirit and his guidance.
• Spirit Power vs Soul Power
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• Conviction
• Conviction begins for most as we repent for our
sins and are then born again into the kingdom of
God. Conviction is then moved into a place of not
only the will of God but also the purposes of God.
Your revelation or understanding of the eternal
plan of God will dictate in most cases the will of
God. Conviction is the work of God to show His
mind for or against a thing.
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• Victory
• Victory for the believer is in overcoming or
conquering ground or territory held by the
enemy. This pertains to our minds as well as our
dominion.
• Without this supernatural leader we can’t gain
victories, for our battles and life consist of the
ability to discern. This is why we say that “ we
don’t know evil by experience but because it is
foreign to our spirit.”
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• Judges 16.20 “ And he awoke out of his sleep,
and said, I will go out as at other times before,
and shake myself. And he wist not that the
Lord was departed from him”
• We can maintain the appearance and the
programs of God and yet God is not here.
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• 1 Samuel 4.5 “ And when the ark of the Lord
came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a
great shout, so that the earth rang again.”
• Vs 10 “ And the Philistines fought, and Israel
was smitten, and they fled every man into his
tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for
there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.”
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• You can’t count on the past , to experience
God in the future
• Have you ever considered the number of
methods and ways that God brought victories
throughout the scripture.
• We keep doing the same things expecting
different results, that is the definition of
insanity !
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• In my opinion church life has become self
absorbed. We are eating and being blessed
until that is what is expected from church life.
• There is a principle that we are blessed to be
broken to be shared.
• Where are you doing in this war? This war is
all encompassing, it is everything from
cleaning the church to excorcism. Have we
mistaken “ the box” for God.
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• How do we encounter the presence of God?
• Invitation
• Believe it or not God wants to be invited?
• Worship is an invocation for the presence of
God.
• The book of Revelation
• The book of Song of Solomon
• They indicate that God is awaiting invitation
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• Humility
• Humility attracts the presence of God, it is the way in
which God has chosen as an indicator that we surrender
our ways to His ways.
• We have turned the scripture that has promises and
inverted them for our aggrandizement. I have heard
more concerning the exaltation than toward the humility.
• We want to be used of God, and that is admirable but we
have a propensity to turn that inward. We will cling to
that in our earthen vessels instead of realizing it is for His
glory.
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• Humility vs Exaltation
• Most people don’t realize that the exaltation
is relative to being with and part of what God
is doing in that instance.
• Exaltation doesn’t affect the measure of a
person . It places you in a vulnerable position
of becoming self exalted. 2 Corinthians 10,12