the consciences of troubled souls, resulting in their repentance and salvation. We need this in our churches. The holy presence of God brings the worshipping soul into intimacy and abandonment, and brings prayer anointing and releases the gifts of the Spirit. The holy invisible presence of the Lamb is, nevertheless, tangibly felt and sensed by the people of God as the LORD dwells among His people. His children gather unto Him only. This is the church and has nothing to do with a physical building as such or a human priest. Each child of God is a priest unto God and requires no intermediary to stand between him and God. Until God comes and fills the church with His glory, we will not live righteous and holy lives and we will not be the people of God demanding and insisting on social justice, for the marginalized, exploited, and vulnerable people in our society. The nations will not listen to us if we are not genuine in our confession of Jesus Christ and our lifestyle is not truly kingdom living. We cannot separate our calling to be a people who dwell in the Presence of God and a people called to live as a testimony to God’s presence in the world. The presence of God must never be separated in our minds from the works of God which accompany His presence. The presence of Jesus in the temple was accompanied by teaching, deliverances, and healings. The invisible presence of God was felt/sensed by Jacob in his dream; the same invisible presence of God was there originally in the Garden of Eden and later Mount Sinai; later it came to rest in the tabernacle, demonstrated in the living symbols of the cloud and the fire. It was felt by the Israelites as they moved about the camp. It was there, much closer to them now as they came within the perimeter of the tabernacle wall to bring their sacrifices to the altar of sacrifice.
New Life Radio – Talk No 17
18 Derrick Harrison
03/02/2021
