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“And He went up on the mountain and called to Him those He Himself wanted. And they came to Him. Then He appointed twelve, that they might be with Him and that He might send them out to preach.” Mark 3:13-14 NKJV

 

One of the most significant challenges facing believers today in our fast-paced, busy, and noisy society is spending quality time daily in deep and personal communion with God in His Word and prayer to relish God’s presence without distraction.

When God called Moses to come up to Him on Mount Sinai to receive the tablets of stone on which He had written the Ten Commandments for the children of Israel, Moses’ focus was not meant to be on what God would give but on being with God and relishing God’s presence.

God told Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and be there; and I will give you tablets of stone, and the law and commandments which I have written, that you may teach them.”

Moses undoubtedly didn’t have to wait for forty days and forty nights in God’s presence on Mount Sinai if God called him up to the Mount only to receive the tablets of stone and the law for the children of Israel.

It certainly wouldn’t take the Almighty God forty days and nights to write the Ten Commandments on stone tablets. The Scripture reveals that God had written them before calling Moses to come to the Mount to receive them (Exo. 24:12).

God’s primary purpose in calling Moses to Mount Sinai was to enjoy a loving and intimate fellowship or communion with Him. Receiving the tablets of stone and the law was only secondary.

Similarly, God calling us to His presence (a place of fellowship) today is not primarily to receive miracles, healings, breakthroughs, or answers to our prayers but to relish God’s presence.

Our Lord Jesus Christ prioritized being with Him for His first disciples when He called and chose them. The Lord made sending His disciples out for the ministry work only secondary.

Mark 3:13-14 – NKJV

 13 And He went up on the mountain and called to Him those He Himself wanted. And they came to Him.

 14 Then He appointed twelve, that they might be with Him and that He might send them out to preach.

The early apostles never allowed anyone or anything to displace or adjust the priority the Lord Jesus had set for them. Even under much pressure due to the Church’s rapid growth, they put ministering to the Lord Jesus above their service to the people.

They resolved and insisted, “…but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and the ministry of the word.” (Acts 6:4 NKJV).

Likewise, for us today, relishing God’s presence should take priority over receiving from God. Spending quality time in God’s Word and praying daily should be esteemed above running errands for God. Walking daily with God should be set above working for God!

God takes delight in a loving, intimate, and eternal relationship and fellowship with you. From the beginning, God’s pleasure has been with the sons of men (Prov. 8:31). God was always coming down in the cool of the day to fellowship with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden before the advent of sin (Gen. 3:8).

God still longs to fellowship or commune daily with His children today. God delights in speaking daily with you as a loving father delights in communicating with the son he loves deeply.

God always looks forward to having you spend quality time daily with Him (in His Word and prayer) because He loves you deeply and wants to reveal Himself to you.

It is simply self-centeredness to seek God or spend time in God’s Word and prayer only in times of trouble or when you need God’s intervention and help.

The more you spend quality time daily with the Lord, beholding His glory in the mirror of the Scripture, the more you will know and understand your new spiritual status, condition, position, purpose, and authority in Christ as a new creation.

Moreover, as you spend quality time daily with the Lord, beholding His glory, you will be increasingly transformed into Christlikeness in every sphere of your life (2 Cor. 3:18).

When Moses returned from Mount Sinai, where He had spent forty days and forty nights in deep communion with God, he effortlessly radiated and reflected God’s glory in an unprecedented dimension (Exo. 34:29-30).

Beloved, you also will effortlessly radiate, reflect, or manifest the love, glory, power, wisdom, nature, or character of God increasingly as you cultivate the good habit of spending quality time daily in God’s Word and prayer to relish or enjoy God’s presence.

 


 Prayer:  

I will relish God’s presence this New Year. I will radiate and manifest God’s love, glory, power, and wisdom this New Year, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

OUR mandate is to preserve the faith of the Apostolic Generation.

Pastor: Eniyekpemi Fidelis Oyinpreyebi 

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