CAPTURE THE FAVOR OF HIS PRESENCE
ANS ONLINE: CELEBRATION SUNDAY MESSAGE
14 JUNE 2020
by Dr. Jonathan David
Psalms 84:5-7
5 How blessed is the man whose strength is in You,
In whose heart are the highways to Zion!
6 Passing through the valley of Baca they make it a spring;
The early rain also covers it with blessings.
7 They go from strength to strength,
Every one of them appears before God in Zion.
God has set eternity in our heart so that we may know what God is about to do and what He has begun to do and what He has been doing all along and all that He plans to do in the future.
God is setting us free. He gives us the power to move. Our hearts are attached to the highway to Zion. This is the kind of people He is seeking for, those who seek His Presence. Those who seek after Him will have the fullness of joy.
God has given us an entrance. If our hearts are connected to Him afresh and seek Him while He can be found, He will show us great things and mighty things only God can do. If our heart is longing for it, no good things will he withhold for those who walk uprightly.
God puts everything that is needed inside of us to pass through the valley. Many people enjoy great things when it happens, but there are others who make good things happen. One only talks, the other does. Following the example of Jesus, we must do and teach. We only have authority to teach what we believe and practiced.
If we are a highway to Zion we carry the power to transform everything around. When God works within our lives, there’s something more and it’s no longer a place but a relationship.
Zion is a place where God is bringing in the best. He is the God of the nations and no one can set Him back.
Jeremiah 3:14-19
‘Return, O faithless sons,’ declares the Lord;
‘For I am a master to you,
And I will take you one from a city and two from a family,
And I will bring you to Zion.’
15 “Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you on knowledge and understanding. 16 It shall be in those days when you are multiplied and increased in the land,” declares the Lord, “they will no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of the Lord.’ And it will not come to mind, nor will they remember it, nor will they miss it, nor will it be made again. 17 At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘The Throne of the Lord,’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord; nor will they walk anymore after the stubbornness of their evil heart. 18 In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers as an inheritance.
19 “Then I said,
‘How I would set you among My sons
And give you a pleasant land,
The most beautiful inheritance of the nations!’
And I said, ‘You shall call Me, My Father,
And not turn away from following Me.’
We have found our Goshen and we are ready to go to Zion. God is shaking everything that can be shaken so that only the right ones will remain. We must find our way back to Zion. We are moving from church usual to church unusual, filled with breakthrough believers. Welcome to God’s church and God’s habitation. Don’t reject or refuse Him. We must be able to be taken. We must keep walking with God until we are taken to another level.
God’s next agenda is to bring us to Zion, to be blessed by His shepherds so that we can multiply and increase. There will be no remembrance of the ark because we will be carrier of the ark; the supernatural presence of God where idol will fall down.
Zion is the place to go in the spirit. When we build accurately in Zion, the people that we raise will know government. They will know how to lead people and God will bring His Throne down and His government will be established. The people will volunteer freely in the days of His power. The people will not walk in the stubbornness of their evil heart anymore. That’s why we need to touch the anointing of the apostles.
17 At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘The Throne of the Lord,’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord; nor will they walk anymore after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
18 In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers as an inheritance.
When we bring down the Presence of God and Zion manifest in our midst, we don’t need anything else external. God will supernaturally change our lives. God will take over and the Holy Spirit will become our close friend.
19 “Then I said,
‘How I would set you among My sons
And give you a pleasant land,
The most beautiful inheritance of the nations!’
And I said, ‘You shall call Me, My Father,
And not turn away from following Me.’
The teaching on fathering and mentoring or coaching is only important if we know God as our Father. We will hear the sound behind our ears saying this is the way and walk in it. Wherever we go will be like God going. The Throne of God is coming down to rule in the midst of our enemies.
How do we capture the Presence of God?
Hebrews 10:19-23
19 Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;
Who can enter into the Holy of holies? Those who have clean hands and clean heart and those who are mature and ready. We don’t see Him at the Throne and not receive our assignment. We will receive a fresh commission from heaven.
- Ignorance that we have the way of entrance to the Holy of holies
In the Spirit we can enter. God is bringing us to a new understanding. The Father has opened the heavens, double decade. The kingdoms of this world will serve the Kingdom of God and Christ forever. We enter in because we know it is open. We cannot open the door that God has closed and we cannot close the door that God has opened.
- We have boldness in what Jesus did and in His work
We believe, we speak. Speak what we believe.
- The blood of Jesus paid the full price
He paid the high price for us to be fully redeemed. The way to enter is through Christ. Anyone that comes in through the backdoor is a thief. It is a new and living way, approved and designated way. We are meeting the High Priest. When we are joined with the Lord, we are one spirit. He will stand by us, and bless us. Our high way to Zion will not be blocked. The crooked cannot find this way.
Romans 12:1
Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
Sometimes we have to check the sheep is clean. There is a high standard to be a sacrifice. We must be a willing, spiritual, reasonable, holy, acceptable, transformed and living sacrifice. Every day position ourselves in the high places connected God to our body and spirit. When we become partners with the Holy Spirit, He will fill us in full measure. Present our body. We offer what is up to standard. If we want to be worthy of our calling, we need to be a worshipper. We need to be renewed in our mind by the word of God.
Who is representing us in heaven? It’s Jesus our Mediator. The scepter shall not leave Judah. We need to know who represents us and assemble together collective as the day of the Lord comes nearer. Present ourselves from an honest heart and hold fast to our confession.
Romans 12:2
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
Many people don’t understand the severity of being a leader in God’s House. Every day when we are a leader in God’s House, people will judge us and see how clean we are and how we are going to save our land. When our minds are renewed, the spirit of our mind will also be renewed and we can know the mind of Christ so that we may prove what the will of God is. If we can prove what the will of God is, we will have courage to do. When we know Him well, and know Him as a Father, things will become better. When we have seen the Father we will be satisfied. We will discover God and find the way to His Presence, and new things will happen.