The Presence of The Lord
My presence shall go with you,
and I will give you rest, Exodus 33:14
As we stand here in the Feast of
Succoth, our Torah portion speaks of the Presence of The Lord being with Moses
and the people of God and that His Presence brings rest.
A couple of words that I want to
look at in this Scripture to gain an insight and direct our spiritual
activation for this Shabbat in the midst of the Feast.
Presence:
Panim
There are 3 definitions for this
word:
·
Face
45 muscles in the face, the majority
of which are for emotional expression
·
Inside
Misrad HaPanim, Ministry of the
Interior- This determines who is allowed to enter the kingdom.
·
Before
Lifne- to stand before someone, to
present yourself for evaluation, for favor or for disfavor. There is a
vulnerability of transparency.
Rest:
·
Nuach
This is where we get Noah from, the
one who brought rest to the world from the judgment of God.
This is a picture of salvation, the
rest of God.
the word is a 2 letter root of
Nun-Chet. If you reverse the root you
get grace, Chen.
The word picture is a fence around a
seed. So the rest comes from the eternal
seed being in our being kept there by the fence of God's divine protection.
Now if we look at the Scripture in
the context of Succoth, we begin to see that the dwelling place is where the
Presence is and this is where our Destiny is contained through the seed.
Then
he said to Him, “ If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from
here. 16 For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I
and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your
people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are upon the face of
the earth?” Exodus 33:15-16.
Moses is showing us the key to our
inheritance. The Presence, brings us
inside His heart, reveals who He is and gives us intimacy which allows for His
favor, His grace, Chen to be upon us and that distinguishes us from all of the
people of the earth.
The word distinguish is the same
root as the word for wonders, peleh. it
is a picture of the anointing, the Holy Purpose. We are distinguished, made a wonder by His
Presence in our lives, His seed within us bringing forth our destiny, our peculiarity,
17
The Lord said to Moses, “I will also do this thing of which you have spoken;
for you have found favor in My sight and I have known you by name.
A person's name contains their
destiny. it is the prophetic declaration
of divine purpose. You see the devil
wants us to feel generic BUT we are NOT generic, we are name brand.
In Israel. the Holocaust memorial is
called Yad Va-Shem. Shem means the name
but it also means the remembering of who we are.
We spoke at Yom Teruah about
remembrance, the importance of remembering who we are. This is distinguishing, the remembering of
the uniqueness of each person. Judgment
is really a forgetting of who someone is.
It makes people generic.
Judgment also puts us in the place of God, claiming to
know good and evil. This separates His Presence from us and us
from His favor and our destiny.
When we judge, we lose our
name. How?? By the loss of who others
are to God.
Matthew 7:1-6 (NASB)
Matthew 7
Judging Others
[7:1] “Do not judge so
that you will not be judged. [2] “For in the way you judge, you will be
judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.
[3] “Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do
not notice the log that is in your own eye? [4] “Or how can you say to
your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is
in your own eye? [5] “You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own
eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
[6] “Do not give what is
holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample
them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
Judging is according to a standard
of measure. The problem is who determines
the scales. When are offended, our
standard of measure is the pain. The
pain is a form of glory or weight. Pain,
or hurt always challenges us in our identity.
It is in pain that the enemy is
able to insert lies. These lies maintain
the pain and set up a stronghold. This
changes our seeing, our measurement. We
"see" other through the pain they have "caused" us. This is what the Bible calls a
"vain" imagination.
2 Corinthians 10:3-5(NKJV)
[3] For though we walk in
the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. [4] For the weapons of
our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,
[5] casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against
the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of
Christ,
You see these high things are
judgments that change the very knowledge of God, the seed that is in the heart
that is designed to bring forth destiny.
This is what His face , His Presence is about. It is offense that corrupts the glory, not
only in how we treat others but in whom we then become, a high thing that is
exalted against the true name, the true character of God.
In Succoth as we tabernacle with God
and with each other let's purpose in our heart to be the dwelling place of His
Glory.
As we prepare for Destiny House event
tonight, in our hearts let's allow Him to reveal what hurts and judgments we
are carrying that are corrupting the Glory.
Proverbs 19:11 (NKJV) [11] The
discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, And his glory is to overlook a
transgression.
There is a wisdom which is cucial for our
destiny. It is the wisdom of being slow
to anger. It is the wisdom of
overlooking transgressions or offenses.
It is the wisdom of the Secret Place, where the Presence of the LORD is
our defense.
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