ONE PRAYER Week 3 God Is Here by Perry Noble

ONE PRAYER WEEK 3 Perry Noble “God is Here”

If we could wrap our minds around this concept (Matthew 28:20) then the enemy wouldn’t be allowed to steal our joy as much as he steals our joy and we would walk in the victory that Jesus provided.

The last words that Jesus said: Matthew 28:20 “And surely I am with you always till the very end of the age”

God is here, He is not somewhere out there.

God is as real as the person sitting next to you.


3 ways to wrap our minds around the concept that God is always with us:

1. The Life of Jesus (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John).
Jesus came here! He was here for 33 years. He is a model for us of how we should be living life. Jesus lived a supernatural life (the virgin birth, Jesus lived a perfect sinless life, Jesus did miracles, Jesus came back from the dead). Jesus said in John 5:30: “By myself I can do nothing. I judge only as I hear and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself, but Him who sent me.” The key to a supernatural life is to try to stop doing it by yourself, listen to God, do what He says, and go all out to live a life that pleases Him. That’s what Jesus modeled. If we make it our goal to live a life that completely pleases Jesus, it is incredibly hard to forget the fact that He is with us when we are putting our eyes on Him everyday. If we forget He is with us, it’s because we have taken our eyes off of Him. Jesus wants us to repeat His words, because the world needs more of Jesus. We need to be obsessed with learning to repeat Him. Just do what God tells you to do. The life of Jesus is a reminder that He is always with us!

2. The Death of Jesus
If we ever think that God has forgotten us, we just need to remember the death of Jesus. When God is separated from us, it breaks His heart. Our sinfulness and God’s holiness could not co-exist. 2 Corinthians 5:21 “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.” We get obsessed with who we used to be instead of who God created us to be. The death of Jesus is a reminder that He is with us and He is not obsessed with who we used to be. If you are a child of God, he has cleaned up your mess and doesn’t even think about it anymore. He has removed it as far as the east is from the west. If you ever doubt that God is with you, all you have to do is look at the cross.

3. The Victory of Jesus
RUN UP THE SCORE ON THE ENEMY! As followers of Jesus, we win! 1 Corinthians 15:57 “But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” We have been given victory through Jesus! Sometimes we have to experience pain to understand His provision. Sometimes we have to go through the valley of the shadow of death to fully understand that He is the author of life. Your circumstances don’t rein over you, God, Jesus in you, actually reigns over your circumstances. 2000 years ago on a Friday afternoon, it all seemed to be falling part. When it seemed like God was the most out of control, He arranged those very circumstances to prove to the world that He was and is in control. We can’t have a resurrection without a crucifixion. And the crucifixion led to the resurrection. Some of us may feel like we are being crucified right now but the reason you are going through that is because on the other end God is going to achieve maximum glory out of your pain. It may feel like Friday, but Sunday’s coming. 2 Corinthians 4:7-10 “7But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 8We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 10We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.” 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 “16Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” The victory of Jesus is there because He won on the cross! The Holy Spirit lives in us, the same Holy Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead! RUN UP THE SCORE!

“I’ve never seen the devil but I’m willing to bet that if we could see him we would not fear him as much because I bet that Jesus put a cross on his forehead to prove to the world that he messed with the wrong person. If the one who put a cross on the Devil’s forehead lives in us, then we can conquer and overcome anything that the enemy throws at us. We have the victory of Jesus inside of us and if we walk in victory rather than think we are fighting for victory we will understand that He is with us because He is in us and we win”

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