Getting God's Message Getting God's Message Program Transcripts
Pastor Lud Golz
Pastor Lud Golz

About the Program | Meet Pastor Golz | Contact Information | Fellowship Bible Church | Christian Resources | Donations

  Home | Transcript Archive | July | July 27, 2017

Thursday, July 27, 2017

Have you ever seen the bumper sticker, “If you don’t sense God’s presence, guess who moved?” 

It captures a truth found in II Chronicles 15, beginning in verse 1: “The Spirit of God came upon Azariah, son of Obed.  He went out to meet Asa and said to him, ‘Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin.’  (And here it is)  ‘The Lord is with you when you are with Him.  If you seek Him, He will be found by you.  But if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.’” 

That first phrase captured my imagination. To me it’s an impact statement. “The Lord is with you when you are with Him.”  If you don’t sense God’s presence, guess who moved?  Paul said in Acts 17:28 that we live and move and have our being in Him, that is, in God.  This means our responsibility is to seek God, to pursue Him, to pray to Him, to trust in Him, to obey Him, to draw near unto God.  You will discover when you start seeking God that He is right there with you.

In the New Testament, Jude put it this way in verse 21: “Keep yourselves in the love of God.”  An amplified translation would be: “Keep yourselves within the sphere of God’s love.”  It’s as though a searchlight of God’s love is putting a circle of light on the ground.  You are to step into the circle and stay in that circle of light.  It’s when you’re within the circle of God’s love that you are kept from evil.  It’s when you’re within the circle of God’s love that you’ll find Him working within you and through you, His will and His purpose, for His glory.

 

Getting God's Message with Lud Golz, P.O. Box 167, Novelty, Ohio 44072

design by Klein Studios, Inc.