For a long, long time, I have been fixated on the presence of God. I want it, and I want everyone in the world to know that I have it. What better sign than for people to know that God is tangibly with you?
A number of folks declared that they stood in the presence of God.
Elijah
Gabriel
Luke 1:19
19 The angel answered and said to him, “I am Gabriel, who [a]stands in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.
Elisha in
2 Kings 3:14
14 Elisha said, “As the Lord of hosts lives, before whom I stand, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look at you nor see you.
Exodus 33
Moses Intercedes
12 Then 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.” 14 And He said, “My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.” 15 Then 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 [g]earth?”
How to Stand in the Presence?
- humility
- purity
- holiness
- righteousness
- blamelessness
- obedience