Date: 18-Oct-2024
Name: Josh Aleri
Topic: KEEPING THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD
Content:
1. Pre-sermon declarations
• Greetings
• Psalms 118:24: This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it.
2. Fire scriptures: Psalms 84
How lovely is your dwelling place,
LORD Almighty!
2 My soul yearns, even faints,
for the courts of the LORD;
my heart and my flesh cry out
for the living God.
3 Even the sparrow has found a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may have her young—
a place near your altar,
LORD Almighty, my King and my God.
4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house;
they are ever praising you.[c]
5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.
6 As they pass through the Valley of Baka,
they make it a place of springs;
the autumn rains also cover it with pools.[d]
7 They go from strength to strength,
till each appears before God in Zion.
8 Hear my prayer, LORD God Almighty;
listen to me, God of Jacob.
9 Look on our shield,[e] O God;
look with favor on your anointed one.
10 Better is one day in your courts
than a thousand elsewhere;
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield;
the LORD bestows favor and honor;
no good thing does he withhold
from those whose walk is blameless.
12 LORD Almighty,
blessed is the one who trusts in you.
ļ¼ What is trusting in the Lord?
ļ¼ Trusting the Lord is keeping his presence?
ļ¼ How do we keep the presence of the Lord?
ļ¼ It is easy to praise and worship good when things are going well but difficult when all is well.
ļ¼ The secret of keeping the faith is to trust in the Lord but keeping the presence of the Lord is multiple things.
Prayer Points:
1. Worship= Adoration and thanksgiving.
2. Repentance
3. Obedience = our bodies are the temple of the holy spirit
4. Waiting on the Lord in prayer. Praying in the spirit
5. Fasting / Mastering your flesh
6. Meditate on the scriptures
7. Practice your faith
- Get to places people need prayer
- Win souls
- Speak in your life
Conclusion
8. What is your covenant with God? Keeping the presence of God requires a prayer covenant?
9. Be blessed.
