TARRY
IN HIS PRESENCE
BREAD
11 You
have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your
presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand. Psalms 16:11 (NIV)
7 Be
still before the Lord and wait
patiently for him. Psalms 37:7 (NIV)
10 “Be
still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be
exalted in the earth.” Psalms 46:10
(NIV)
3 Know
that the Lord is God. It is he who
made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter his gates with
thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his
name. Psalms 100:3-4 (NIV)
1 Guard
your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to
offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong. 2 Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in
your heart to utter anything before God. God is in heaven and you are on earth,
so let your words be few. Ecclesiastes
5:1-2 (NIV)
14 Hezekiah
received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the
temple of the Lord and spread it
out before the Lord. 15 And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord: 16 “O Lord Almighty, God of Israel, enthroned between the
cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made
heaven and earth. 17 Give
ear, O Lord, and hear; open your
eyes, O Lord, and see; listen to
all the words Sennacherib has sent to insult the living God. 18 It is true, O Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid
waste all these peoples and their lands. 19 They have thrown their gods into the fire and
destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by
human hands. 20 Now, O
Lord our God, deliver us from his
hand, so that all kingdoms on earth may know that you alone, O Lord, are God.” Isaiah 37:14-20 (NIV)
32 They
went to a place called Gethsemane, and Jesus said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” 33 He took Peter, James and John
along with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled. 34 “My
soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death,” he said to them.
“Stay here and keep watch.” 35 Going a little farther, he
fell to the ground and prayed that if possible the hour might pass from him. 36 “Abba, Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet
not what I will, but what you will.” 37 Then he returned to his
disciples and found them sleeping. “Simon,” he
said to Peter, “are you asleep? Could you not keep
watch for one hour? 38 Watch and pray so that you
will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”
39 Once
more he went away and prayed the same thing. 40 When he came back, he again
found them sleeping, because their eyes were heavy. They did not know what to
say to him. 41 Returning
the third time, he said to them, “Are you still
sleeping and resting? Enough! The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is
betrayed into the hands of sinners. 42 Rise!
Let us go! Here comes my betrayer!” Mark
14:32-42 (NIV)
17 pray
continually. 1 Thessalonians 5:17 (NIV)
11 You
have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your
presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand. Psalms 16:11 (NIV)
BUTTER
“It
is utterly impossible for any one to indulge in a boastful, pretentious,
self-confident spirit, if ever he has really measured himself in the presence
of God. To be much alone with God is the
sovereign remedy for pride and self-complacency. May we know the reality of this in the secret
of our own souls. May the good Lord keep
us truly humble, in all our ways, simply leaning on Himself and his grace…” C H
Macintosh
“The reason we do not go to the throne of
grace regularly is because we do not comprehend the promise of the awesome
power that is reserved for those who tarry in His presence. We do not
understand the abundance of grace that can be poured upon us from the throne of
grace when we approach Him in confidence.” Michael
Youssef
“More
spiritual progress can be made in one short moment of speechless silence in the
awesome presence of God than in years of mere study.” A.W.
Tozer
“Take heed that you do not glory in your graces, but let all
your glorying and confidence be in Christ and His strength, for this is the
only way you can be kept from falling.
Pray more often. Spend longer
periods of time in holy adoration. Read
the Scriptures more earnestly and constantly.
Watch your lives more carefully.
Live nearer to God. Take the best
examples for your pattern. Let your
conversation emit the fragrance of heaven.
Let your hearts be perfumed with affection for the souls of others. So live that others may recognize that you
have been with Jesus, and have learned of Him…On, Christian, with care and
caution! On, with holy fear and trembling! On, with faith and confidence in Jesus alone,
and let your constant petition be, ‘Sustain me according to your promise.’ He, and He alone, is able ‘to keep you from
falling and to present you before His glorious presence without fault and with
great joy.’”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“What
can be deeper than His Presence and constant care? In a world in which multitudes feel isolated
and alienated, we have the permanent companionship of the most loving and
powerful Being in the universe. Nothing
could be more important and life shaping than that. Whatever difficulty we go through, He
nevertheless holds us by the hand.”
Chris Tiegreen
“Prayer is not so
much a formula as it is a friendship – rote as it is relational. Prayer is a 24/7 access to ‘Abba’ (Daddy)
Father Who loves us with an everlasting love as well as rejoices over us with
singing. Further, He ‘brings out the
starry host one by one and calls them each by name. Because of His great power and mighty
strength not one of them is missing.’ He
is all love and all ability – all achieving power – nothing is too hard for
Him. Prayer is coming into His Presence
with singing and into His courts with praise.
It is listening with Faith for His ‘still, small voice’ as well as
pouring out our hearts in trust resting our heads gently ‘between His shoulders’. It is knowing His answer always has our best
interest at heart because He loves us.
It is an unspeakably high gift from the Creator to the created. Prayers moves the hand and heart of God. BHY
“The
prayer of the feeblest saint on earth who lives in the Spirit and keeps right
with God is a terror to Satan. The very
powers of darkness are paralysed by prayer; no spiritualistic séance can
succeed in the presence of a humble praying saint. No wonder Satan tries to keep our minds fussy
in active work till we cannot think in prayer.” Oswald Chambers
“The presence of God in the darkness of
our trials is a small foretaste of the presence of God that we will know in the
eternal light of his glory. It is in the absence of God's gifts that I
learn the Giver himself is the greatest gift of all.” Betsy Childs Howard
“Abide with me: fast falls the
eventide; the darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide. When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, O abide with me.
Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day; earth’s joys grow dim,
its glories pass away. Change and decay
in all around I see. O Lord who changes
not, abide with me. I need your presence
every passing hour. What but your grace
can foil the tempter’s power? Who like
yourself my guide and strength can be?
Through cloud and sunshine, O abide with me. I fear no foe with you at hand to bless,
though ills have weight, and tears their bitterness. Where is death’s sting? Where grave, your victory? I triumph still, if you abide with me. Hold now your Word before my closing
eyes. Shine through the gloom and point
me to the skies. Heaven’s morning breaks
and earth’s vain shadows flee; in life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.” Henry Francis Lyte
HEART
SAVOR
- · I am the loser if I do not take time to tarry in His Presence. Amazingly, it is His desire to meet with me at all times on all days. He is never too busy for me.
- · In Him is all achieving power and abundant love and joy. I am welcome to come into His presence with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise. I am never to take that lightly.
- · In His presence is great joy.
