IN HIS PRESENCE IS FULLNESS OF JOY

(Psalm 16)

1 Keep me safe, O God,

For in You I take Refuge.

2 I said to the Lord, 'Your are my Lord;

Apart from You I have No Good Thing.'

3 As for the Saints who are in the Land,

They are the Glorious ones

In who is all my delight.

4 The sorrows of those will increase

Who run after other gods.

I will not pour out their Libations of blood

Or take up their names on my lips.

5 Lord, You have assigned me my portion

And my cup;

You have made my lot Secure.

6 The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;

Surely I have a delightful Inheritance.

7 I will praise the Lord, Who counsels me;

Even at night my heart instructs me.

8 I have Set the Lord Always before me.

Because He is at my right hand,

I will not be Shaken.

9 Therefore my heart is Glad and my tongue Rejoices;

My body also will Rest Secure,

10 Because You will not Abandon me to the Grave,

Nor will You let Your Holy One (Christ) see Decay.

11 You have made known to me the Path of Life;

You will Fill me with Joy in Your Presence,

With Eternal Pleasures at Your Right Hand.

(Psalm 16)

The Greatest Blessing about being Born Again

Is that God has made know to us The Path Of LIFE

And we can be Filled with Joy in His Presence, Continually,

With Eternal Pleasures at His Right Hand,

When we Set the Lord before us Always.

When this is our Reality,

We cannot be Shaken by anything.

For this is what the High and Lofty One says--

He who lives Forever, Whose Name is Holy:

'I live in a High and Holy Place,

but also with him who is Contrite and lowly in spirit,

To Revive the spirit of the lowly

And to Revive the heart of the Contrite.'

(Isaiah 57:15)

The Lord told Moses:

“My Presence will go with you,

And I will give you Rest.'

Then Moses said to Him,

'If Your Presence does not go with us,

Do not send us up from here.

How will anyone know that You are Pleased with me

And with Your people Unless You go with us?

WHAT ELSE WILL DISTINGUISH ME AND YOUR PEOPLE

FROM ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH'

(Exodus 33:14-16)

The One and Only Thing that distinguishes a Christian

From all the other people on the face of the Earth

IS THE PRESENCE OF GOD!

Nothing has changed since the Days of Moses.

Without the Manifested Presence of God

In our lives and in our Churches,

We have NOTHING but Empty Words.