AMEN 2023 Conference: In His Presence

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Adventist Medical Evangelism Network (AMEN)

Morning Devotions: In HIS Presence

Gem Castor

Surrender and Peace in HIS Presence

Healing and Joy in HIS Presence

Power and Victory in HIS Presence

I have already greeted some of you a wonderful morning.

This is like the extension of our prayer time.

Friends, it is such a joy to be in the presence of people who are hungering for the presence of God.

And when when Johnny was introducing me he said, a man of prayer.

I would like to correct him, a man who really needs a lot of prayer.

So before we continue on with a short devotional this morning, I'd like to invite for those who are able to kneel down, to please kneel down with me for a word of prayer.

Our great God, our dear, loving Heavenly Father, Lord, we praise and we thank you that we could be in your presence.

And Lord, we praise and we thank you that it is your desire to draw nearer and nearer to us.

So Lord, I ask in a very special way that may we not miss out on anything that you desire to give us.

May the anointing power of your Holy Spirit be upon us.

May your name be lifted up, O Lord, and may it be hidden.

May it not be heard nor be seen, but Jesus and Jesus alone be seen be heard the lifted up and exalted this is my desire the Lord may this be our hearts desire we ask this in the loving and precious name of your son Jesus all your children say amen And a little bit of a plug or announcement that tomorrow we'll be doing our prayer time not at 6 a.m.

But at 545 because it seems like we're rushed huh?

And friends, this morning, I'd like to share with you, I was thinking what to share, and this thought hit me, like, Can you imagine really being in the presence of Jesus when He was here on earth?

Can you imagine what it feels like, how His voice sounds like, how His demeanor?

And friends, I praise God for the inspired writings.

I really praise God for the Desire of Ages.

Aside from the Bible, Desire of Ages is 1 of my favorite books, if not my favorite book.

So it says here, Desire of Ages, page 254, paragraph 4, it says, His tender compassion fell with a touch of healing upon weary and troubled hearts.

Even amid a turbulence of angry enemies, he was surrounded with an atmosphere of peace.

And I'm thinking, if I have that, my dear friends, especially in the time that we're living in right now, that is a powerful weapon to have.

And we even lose our peace without enemies.

Listen to this friends, the beauty of His countenance, the loveliness of His character, above all, the love expressed in look and tone, drew to Him all who were not hardened in unbelief, had it not been for the sweet sympathetic spirit that shone out in every look and word.

Friends, sympathetic spirit that shone out in every look and word.

This is the beautiful thing that you experience in the presence of Jesus.

He would not have attracted the large congregation that he did.

The afflicted ones who came to him felt that he linked his interest with theirs as a faithful tender friend and they desire to know more of the truths he taught.

Friends, I hope and I pray that this will be our experience as well as we draw closer to his to his presence that when we go back home that people will have the same testimony as they have of Jesus.

Listen friends, and they long to abide in his presence.

Have you wondered friends how Jesus was always surrounded by people who doesn't want to let go of his presence is because of this.

And listen friends, that the comfort of his love might be with them continually.

And friends, as I'm reading this, this is something that hit me, and this is what the Lord desires for us to experience.

The continuation of this loving presence to abide with us.

And as much as the people desire to abide with him, the Lord's desire is stronger to abide with us.

And so when I look at all these blessings that comes from the presence of God, I'm thinking what is the secret of Jesus?

And so I was reading this article from Desire of Ages and I see that Jesus has 1 particular secret and why he has this strength, why he has this peace even in the midst of turbulence, even in the midst of enemies objecting him.

If you have your Bibles with you, please open it with me in John 6 verse 38.

1 simple thing, 1 aim that Jesus had in his life.

I have not heard an Amen so it means to say that you're still looking.

John 6 verse 38 it says, For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of Him who sent me." That was the absorbing thing in Jesus' life.

Not to do His own thing, but to do the will of Him who sent me.

Listen to this, I came down from heaven to do what God wants, not what I want.

And here I see the secret, my dear friends, of Christ's peace, of Christ's strength, even in the midst of all this chaos around him because he's not here for him he's here for God can we say the same thing and friends the signs of the times October 29 1894 it says here the 1 absorbing aim of the life of Christ was to do the will of his heavenly father.

The 1 absorbing aim of the life of Christ was to do the will of His Father.

And I'm thinking, what is the thing that absorbs me?

What is the thing that somehow consumes me?

Jesus is only 1 thing, and that is to do the will of His Father.

Some people ask me, Jen, do you always have to ask for God's will in everything?

How about things that you already know what to do?

1 thing that I've learned, I've been involved in the prayer ministry by the way friends for the past 13 years I'm a teen now 13 years and 1 thing that somehow and I learned over and over again that without God I am nothing and without God I would not even know how to pray.

And people might think, like, oh Jen, you are the prayer leader.

And this is 1 thing that I learned, friends, if God is not leading even in my prayers, I would be praying things that would not even make sense.

And that question, do you have to seek God, God's will, all the time?

And friends, when in our lives are we desperately seeking His will?

When it seems like we don't know what to do, then we seek Him with all of our hearts.

And I love this time that people always ask me, Brother Jen, can you lead us into prayer?

Can you lead us in our prayer and fasting?

And they will call me up and I'm thinking oh lord I pray that every day is a medical board exam and it's not just them who prays even their parents are fasting and praying.

Friends we only seek God when it seems like we need Him desperately.

But friends, I tell you, if we do not practice seeking Him in simple things, then we will not somehow be comfortable or be at peace seeking his presence, seeking his will in big things.

Friends, it needs to be a habit until it becomes a lifestyle.

I love this quote here from Science of the Times.

It says, those who have sanctified, who have a sanctified will, or shall I say, those who have a surrendered will that is in unison with the will of Christ, will day by day have their wills bound to the will of Christ.

Day by day, their wills will be bound to whom?

To the will of Christ and that is my desire.

And so here I see that God is testing us in these little things that he's placing in front of us.

Is Jen gonna ask for my leading and my guidance?

And friends, John 4 verse 34, another declaration of Jesus here.

Remember that scene of the woman at the well?

When the disciples went to the city and looked for bread.

You know the Filipinos could not relate to this because bread for us is snacks.

And the disciple asked Jesus, so have you eaten?

Series

Morning Devotions: In HIS Presence

Surrender and Peace in HIS Presence

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

The Conflict

57m

Great is Your Reward

53m

The DNA of a Disciple

41m

The Power of Prayer

The Power of Prayer- Part 2

30m

Unlocking the Mysteries of the Sanctuary

20 The Judgment Continued Phase 2

50m

Plenary

Pentecost Repeated

55m

Faith and Works

Faith and Works - Part 3

32m

ABC's of Prayer (with Video)

9 - Here Comes His Answer

48m

Plenary

Looking To Jesus

1h

Having A Experience in the Bible

46m

SWYC 2012: As In the Days Of ...

In the Days of Jesus

56m

The Sanctuary

06 The Sanctuary Dining with the Divine

53m

Sound Doctrine