I really sense the LORD leading me into a greater understanding of His Presence. I have been praying for increase most of this year. I just realized recently that the more of Him that we have in us, the more disease goes, sickness goes, broken bones go, devils go – even death goes. Nothing like that can stand in the Presence of God.
Here are the key verses that speak to me as I start reading through scripture on Presence:
Exodus 33
Moses Intercedes
12Then Moses said to the LORD, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people!’ But You Yourself have not let me know whom You will send with me Moreover, You have said, ‘I have known you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.’
13“Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found favor in Your sight, let me know Your ways that I may know You, so that I may find favor in Your sight Consider too, that this nation is Your people.”
14And He said, “My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.”
15Then he said to Him, “If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here.
16“For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are upon the face of the earth?”
17The LORD said to Moses, “I will also do this thing of which you have spoken; for you have found favor in My sight and I have known you by name.”
18Then Moses said, “I pray You, show me Your glory!”
19And He said, “I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the LORD before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion on whom I will show compassion.”
20But He said, “You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live!”
21Then the LORD said, “Behold, there is a place by Me, and you shall stand there on the rock;
22and it will come about, while My glory is passing by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by.
23“Then I will take My hand away and you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen.”
Knowing God’s ways brings God’s favor because in that, we truly know Him.Presence brings rest. God’s presence confirms that we have favor from God. There is a direct correlation to God’s Presence, His Glory and His Face.
Leviticus 10
2And fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD.
God is a consuming fire. And, fire comes from His Presence. As a minister of fire, this is a key of destroying impurities that effect God’s people just as Nadab and Abihu (Aaron’s sons) infected the Israelites. Darkness cannot stand in the Presence.
Deuteronomy 14
23“You shall eat in the presence of the LORD your God, at the place where He chooses to establish His name, the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock, so that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.
Tithing firstfruits teaches fear of the LORD. God chooses where He wants to make Himself known. By operating in that place, we get to eat in His Presence. Tithe: bread, wine, oil and firstborn – body, blood, anointing of Holy Spirit and Jesus. These are keys to the Presence.
Job 13:16
“This also will be my salvation,For a godless man may not come before His presence.
Psalm 21:6
For You make him most blessed forever;You make him joyful with gladness in Your presence.
Psalm 23:5
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;You have anointed my head with oil;My cup overflows.
Psalm 41:12
As for me, You uphold me in my integrity,And You set me in Your presence forever.
Psalm 51:11
Do not cast me away from Your presenceAnd do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.
Psalm 139:7
Where can I go from Your Spirit?Or where can I flee from Your presence?
Psalm 140:13
Surely the righteous will give thanks to Your name;The upright will dwell in Your presence.