COME TO ME with your defenses down, ready to be blessed and filled with My Presence. Relax, and feel the elf of being totally open and authentic with Me. You have nothing to hide and nothing to disclose, because I know everything about you already. Take time to savor its richness, basking in My golden Light.
One of the worst consequences of the Fall is the elaborate barriers people erect between themselves and others. Facades abound in the world, even in My Body, the church. Sometimes, church is the last place where people feel free to be themselves. They cover up with Sunday clothes and Sunday smiles. They feel relief when they leave because of the strain false fellowship. The best antidote to this artificial atmosphere is practicing My Presence at church. Let your primary focus be communing with Me, worshiping Me, glorifying Me. Then you will be able to smile at others with My Joy and love them with My Love.
This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. — 1 John 1:5-7
The LORD replied, “My Presence all go with you, and I will give you rest.” — Exodus 33:14
Finally, brothers, whatever is true whatever is noble whatever is right whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, weaver is admirable…think about such things. — Philippians 4:8
