May 1 2016 Your Loneliness And God's Presence
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YOUR LONELINESS AND GOD’S PRESENCE
Genesis 2:18 – God said, it isn’t good for man to be alone.
Psalm 139:7 – Where can I go from Your presence?
FIVE CAUSES OF LONELINESS
1. Disappointment.
Psalm 17:13 - Rise up, O Lord, confront them, bring them down, rescue me from the wicked by your sword.
2. Mechanical world.
2 Timothy 4:9 – Do your best to come to me quickly.
3. Commercial world.
Ecclesiastes 6:10 - Whoever loves money never has enough, whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is meaningless.
4. Busy world.
Ecclesiastes 4:8 - There was a man all alone. There was no end to his toil, yet his eyes were not content with his wealth.
5. Artificial world.
Ecclesiastes 6:17 - All his days he eats in darkness, with great frustration, affliction and anger.
SIX WAYS TO EXPERIENCE GOD’S PRESENCE
Isaiah 41:6 – Don’t worry because I am with you. Don’t be afraid because I am your God. I will make you strong and help you. I will support you.
1. Receive Christ into your life.
Galatians 2:20 - I will come in to you and will fellowship with you.
Galatians 2: 20 – Christ liveth in me.
Psalm 26-14 – The one thing I seek most of all is the privilege of living in His presence every day of my life.
2. Walk with God in obedience.
John 15:5 - Apart from me, you can do nothing.
1 Corinthians 2:9 - Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.
James 1:22 - Do not merely listen to the Word and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
3. Fellowship with other Christians.
Hebrews 10:25 – Let us not give up meeting together, but let us encourage one another.
Proverbs 27:9 - Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart and the pleasantness of one’s friends springs from His earnest counsel.
Ecclesiastes 4: 9-10- But they soon forgot what He had done and did not wait for His counsel.
4. Wait for God’s guidance.
Psalm 106:13 - But they soon forgot what He had done and did not wait for His counsel.
John 11:12 - I still have many things to say to you but You cannot bear them now.
Isaiah 28:16 - He that believeth shall not make haste.
5. Accept God’s will.
Noah
Abraham
The blessing does not come in discovering God’s will but in the doing of God’s will.
Ephesians 6:6 - Do God’s will from the heart.
6. Recognize God’s presence.
Psalm 116:8 – The Lord stopped my tears and He kept me from defeat so I walk in the presence of the Lord. I kept on believing even when I felt completely crushed.
John 14:18 - I will not leave you as orphans.
Psalm 139 - Where can I get away from your presence? If I go up to Heaven you are there. Anywhere on earth you are there. I can’t get away from you.
Psalm 26:14 – Friendship with God is reserved for those who reverence Him.
