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Sunday Message - Fountain of Grace International - Pretoria North

Why Your Drive Burns Out Before the Breakthrough

Ever felt fired up about God on Sunday, only for that feeling to be completely gone by Monday morning? You are not broken - you are buffering. In this message Pastor Ricardo Zaal uses the everyday frustration of slow WiFi to explain why so many people have access to God's full power but only ever experience a fraction of it. The answer is closer than you think, and it starts with presence.

Pastor Ricardo Zaal - Fountain of Grace International, Pretoria North - 7 September 2025

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The Buffering Problem - Why Your Spiritual Fire Keeps Going Out

Most of us know the frustration of a WiFi connection that drops right when you need it most. You were streaming something important, you were right in the middle of something, and suddenly - buffering. Pastor Ricardo Zaal opens this message with a simple but piercing observation: many believers are living their entire Christian lives in a constant state of spiritual buffering. They get fired up on Sunday, motivated by a message or a moment of worship, and by Tuesday it is gone. The excitement fades. The fire goes out. And they wonder what is wrong with them.

The problem, Pastor Ricardo explains, is not the amount of power available to you - God has provided 100 megabytes per second. The problem is the quality of your connection to the source. Acts 1:8 promises that you shall receive power after the Holy Ghost is come upon you. That power is not rationed. But when you drift from His presence, when you allow distance to grow between you and God, you start operating on the lowest possible signal. You get just enough to survive but never enough to truly flourish. And the longer you live like that, the more normal it begins to feel.

Presence Was Always the Point - From Eden to Emmaus

The concept of presence runs like a golden thread through the entire Bible, and Pastor Ricardo traces it back to its origins in Genesis 3:8. Before the fall, Adam and Eve walked in daily, face-to-face communion with God. It was natural, unforced, and life-giving. The Hebrew word for presence - panim - literally means face. Presence is not a mystical fog or an emotional high. It is the same thing a child demands when they grab your face and say "I am talking to you" - full, undivided, face-to-face attention. That is what God wants with you. That is what was lost in the garden.

After the fall, presence became terrifying rather than comforting. Adam and Eve hid. God pursued. And the rest of Scripture - the ark of the covenant, the pillar of cloud and fire guiding Israel, the glory that filled Solomon's temple so completely that the priests could not stand to minister - is the story of God relentlessly working to restore that original intimacy. When Jesus came, John declared in John 1:14 that the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us. Emmanuel - God with us - was not a theological title. It was the answer to every moment of hiding, every feeling of distance, every time a human being felt cut off from the face of God.

Digital Age Disconnection - Present Everywhere, Nowhere at Once

We live in an age of more connections than any generation before us. You can post something and have two thousand people respond within minutes. You can be online, visible, active, and reachable around the clock. And yet, Pastor Ricardo asks, when last did you have a moment of real presence - with God, with your family, with yourself? There is a critical difference between being connected and being present. You can sit next to someone and be completely absent. You can be in church, physically in the building, and spend the entire service thinking about lunch or replaying last night in your mind. That is not presence. That is attendance.

Pastor Ricardo uses a personal example that many South African parents and spouses will recognize immediately - the moment you realize your family has stopped trying to get your attention because you are always on a laptop or a phone. The screen becomes a barrier between your face and theirs. In the same way, the endless scroll of digital life has become a barrier between our faces and the face of God. Second Corinthians 3:18 says that as we behold His glory with an open face, we are changed into that same image from glory to glory. But you cannot behold what you are not facing. You cannot be changed by a service you attended but did not inhabit. Real transformation requires real presence, and that is the why fire that this message calls you back to.

"God has given you 100 megabytes per second, but you keep living on 10 - not because He reduced it, but because you moved away from His presence and started buffering."

- Pastor Ricardo Zaal

What to Do Next

  1. Identify one daily habit - phone, scrolling, or distraction - that is placing something between your face and God's face, and deliberately remove it for a set time each morning to create space for face-to-face prayer (Luke 24:32).
  2. Practise being fully present in your next church service or personal Bible reading - close other tabs, put the phone down, and ask the Holy Spirit to open the scripture to you the way Jesus opened it to the disciples on the road to Emmaus.
  3. Meditate on 2 Corinthians 3:18 this week and ask God daily to let you behold His glory with an open, undistracted face - then journal one way you notice yourself changing as you do.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Luke 24:32 mean when it says their hearts burned within them?

Luke 24:32 records the two disciples on the road to Emmaus realizing that when Jesus walked and talked with them and opened the scriptures, something ignited inside them - a burning heart. This burning was not emotional hype; it was the result of genuine presence and encounter with the living Word. According to Pastor Ricardo, you can only experience that kind of burning when you are truly present and attentive, not distracted or merely going through the motions.

Why do I feel spiritually dry even though I go to church and read my Bible?

Feeling spiritually dry despite religious activity is one of the most common struggles believers face, and Pastor Ricardo addresses it directly in this message. The issue is not the amount of spiritual content you consume but the quality of your presence - whether your face is truly turned toward God's face. Like a WiFi connection that buffers because the device is not fully connected to the source, you can be in church physically while your mind and heart are somewhere else entirely.

How can I stop grieving the Holy Spirit and restore my connection with God?

Ephesians 4:30 warns us not to grieve the Holy Spirit of God. Pastor Ricardo explains that the Holy Spirit is never removed from a believer, but grieving Him creates a barrier that makes His presence feel distant. Restoring that connection begins with removing whatever is between your face and God's face - whether that is unconfessed sin, digital distraction, or a heart that has grown cold - and deliberately choosing to be fully present before God in prayer, worship, and the Word.

What does it mean that Jesus came to tabernacle among us in John 1:14?

John 1:14 says the Word was made flesh and dwelt - the Greek word "skenoo" meaning to tabernacle or pitch a tent - among us. Pastor Ricardo points out that this was God solving the problem of presence permanently. In the Old Testament, presence was localized to the ark, the temple, or the prophet. When Jesus came, God's presence became personal and accessible to every person, making a human middleman or a physical building unnecessary for encountering God directly.

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So, when I entitled my message from Wi-Fi to Wi-Fi, Presence Ignite, I want us to go to Luke 24. Let's start by Luke 24. Once again, greetings in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, I greet you all. I greet you all and I greet you in the name that no one can understand that that name has so much power that they think it's one of those younger things that you go to dollars and it will change. No, the name Jesus is different. So, we read out of Luke 24 verse 32. Luke 24 and verse 32. And they said one to another, did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? Did you hear he say? He says, and they said unto one another, did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scripture? Now, when we come to so many things in our lives, we tend to forget that when somebody reads the Bible, it doesn't have anything. Like, like, like, if I can make an example there. I heard a lot of people say, me, I read the Bible like nobody's business. I read the Bible, don't tell me, you can't tell me anything. And then you ask yourself, oh, okay, you can't tell me anything. Oh, right. Now, my question is, when I ask you about certain things in life, you can't use the Bible to tell me about it. Because to read the Bible, it's first for yourself, and then for somebody else. Do you know that, that one is the one that you can't be stingy, you can't be selfish, you can't be. So, you will hear me today talking about a lot about presence. David says, you can take everything. Take my car, take my house, take everything. You can even take my life, but do not take that presence and the Holy Spirit from me. That is, when he said it, now, when you go to Acts 1 verse 8. Acts 1 verse 8 says the following, he says, but ye shall receive power after the Holy Ghost is come upon you. And ye shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem and all Judea and all Samaria and unto the uttermost of the earth. He says, after you receive the Holy Spirit. After you receive the Holy Spirit. Now, you heard in the message, I say, presence ignite. When you're looking at Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi is a connection that makes you to connect to something. And the power of the connection, it's all connected to the source where it comes from. Now, if you want a Wi-Fi that is 10 megabytes per second. But your provider has provided you with 100 megabytes per second. It's easy to get the 10 megabytes per second. Because they have provided it to you. But when, when they provided you 10 megabytes per second. And you want the 100 megabytes per second. There's no connection that will help you. You will start buffering. Must I bring it down to earth? Not to technology. God has given you everything. But you kept on using the 10 megabytes per second. Because that is what you allowed it to be. And I will show you the reason why. Because when you move away from His presence. The 100 megabytes become 10 megabytes. And you buffer. To Wi-Fi. To Wi-Fi. That is why sometimes you find yourself. One day you are all charged up. You know that feeling of. Today I will show. You know you are all charged up. But wait until that fire is too high. And it burned out too quickly. Who of us has been in that situation? Have you ever got so motivated. By a certain thing. Just to. The next day. Motivation gone. Because the connection that you got. Is from the Wi-Fi. That has bigger. Megabytes per second. For you. But you don't make use of it. And therefore. The buffer comes. And you start. In plus one. In plus one. Instead of. Thank you. Instead of you. Going to. To this. 100 megabytes per second. You are on 10 megabytes per second. And it stop you. From moving. Now. You are buffering. Now. I want us to go into. That buffering situation. What is the buffering situation? What will. Increase. That the buffering. Is lesser. And this is where. Presence coming. If somebody. Is not in church. But want a teaching. Their presence. Is needed. For a teaching. If you want the Holy Spirit. You need to be closer to God. For the Holy Spirit to come. No. Remember. Holy Spirit. Has never been taken away. No. The only thing. Is that. When it comes. To the Holy Spirit. You need to understand. Something. No. That. Bishop. You remember. That the Bible says. Don't grieve. The Holy Spirit. So. It means. That you are. You are. The Holy Spirit. Is there. But the grieving part. Is that. Makes it feel like. It's not there. I sometimes. I sometimes. Have a. A tendency. Of. Of wondering. Does people. That says. I know God. Really know. What they are talking about. Let me. Get into the presence. Now. Because. There is so much. Things I need to go through. Or I want to go through. Not that I need to. I want to. Now. When you are talking about presence. The origin. Of presence. Is the first time. Presence was revealed. It was not revealed. By words. Or by talk. It was revealed. By walk. Now. They heard. The sound of the Lord. The sound of the Lord. Before walking in the garden. In the cool of the day. And Adam and his wife. Hit themselves. From the presence of the Lord. From the presence of the Lord God. Genesis 3 verse 8. They hit themselves. From the presence of the Lord. My question to you is. What is it. That you have done. That made you to hide. From the presence of God. So there is something. There is something. So. When the presence of God. When you are talking about the presence of God. The Hebrew word for it. Is. Penem. Panem. Meaning. Face. Meaning. Face. Presence. It is not a mystical cloud. It is also not. You know what is presence. Bishop. Have you ever had a conversation. Or. Did you see a conversation. With. With a child. Yeah. And the mom is looking away. Or the dad is looking away. And the child is saying something. But the child then comes. And takes the first. I am talking to you. I am talking to you. That is presence. It means. Face. To face. Jesus. I don't understand. What is it. That you are in lack of. Because. The face. Or the presence. Of God. Is sometimes. Sure. Sure. So in. In the garden of Eden. The presence. Of God. Was a daily communion. With the two of them. They knew it. But after the fall. The presence. Become terrifying. It was like. I have done something wrong. God mustn't come to you. He mustn't come. It become terrifying. What is that thing. That makes you. To be terrified. About God's presence. What is it. Let me. Let me. Let me ask you this. Now. In our days. These days. The kids doesn't. Doesn't feel it. More often. In our days. If your mom. Say to. To you. Wait until. Daddy comes home. Cho cho cho. You wish. He can come quicker. So that you can know. It's already. Or you wish that. He mustn't come now. You wish. He can be. Going somewhere today. And only come. 12 o'clock at night. So that. You don't. You don't. Have that. Presence. Of your father. Because you have done something wrong. Now the presence. The entire Bible. Is the story of God's restoring that presence. It's. God is trying to get us back to that presence. The presence from Eden. I mean. Yo. He even gave us Jesus. Jesus. Now. I want to. I want to talk about the presence in the old covenant. Now in the old covenant. God made his presence visible in signs. Like. Literally. The ark of the covenant carried. As his throne. That was in Exodus 25. 22. I'm just going to give you briefs. Because. I don't want to. Focus too much on it. Because there's so many things that I still need to go through. Then. In Exodus 13. 21 and 22. The cloud and fire. That's how he made his presence known. The cloud and fire. Guiding Israel. Day and night. It was guiding Israel. Day and night. Then. The temple. Where Solomon prayed. And the glory so filled the house. That the priest could not stand to minister. That was the first kings. 8 verse 11. First kings. 8 verse 11. Here the presence. Was localized. You went to the ark. The temple. And the prophet. To encounter him. So you needed to be. In the ark. You needed to be in the tabernacle. You needed to be. With the prophet. To feel his presence. Or to have some sort of. Encounter. With his presence. Today. A middle man came. And he said. I will die for you. So you don't need. That. Human beings. The ark. That. What is. Natural disasters. Can. Bring it down. The tabernacle. Natural disasters. Can bring it down. A human being. Just today. When you want to go there. I mean really. Let. Let's all be. Be. Honest. Every human being. Have their own. Problems. I don't care about your problems. Your problem is not my problem. And because your problem. Is not my problem. Do you know what I do? I then. Comes with a difficult one. Than. Shaky. Shaky. Again. to kill me. Yeah. Boys. So. When we're talking about. Human beings. If my tooth ache. I don't care about your heartache Or you telling me stories I don't want And then the presence of Christ came in there So when Jesus comes It makes such a difference Because he said the word become flesh And made his dwelling among us We have seen his glory So when Jesus came That's what John declared In John 1 verse 14 The Greek word for dwelling Is skinu Meaning To tabernacle To pitch a tent So Jesus is God's present tabernacle In human flesh Like you were saying there You remember you were saying Emmanuel Emmanuel God with us God with us Now All these things That I'm saying to you It is not Because I want you to To know these things But picture this Especially in today's life I want us to To To To To To go to today's life Now When you're looking at today I should actually I should have actually said this one first Let me make an example of myself Let me make an example of myself I'm not making an example of you I'll make an example of myself I'm so much into my own world That That Anytime Whenever Whenever my family is looking for me I'm busy on my laptop Ma I'm busy on my laptop So the more I'm busy on my laptop The less They have access to me You see You see So They can't sense Or feel My presence Because We live in a digital It's endless Scrollings It's like But little seeing So When I look at life I look at life like Where's my I look at life like this It's like We are Constantly If there's something between your face And God's face How would you be able to sense His presence How would you be able to see His presence Because there's a constant Facing Upon this That's the digital area that we are Error That we are living in Thousands of connections Bishop The light is a lot Millions of connections You go on You post put something Now now Two thousand people come and connect They like But no communion Nothing Nothing No Communication No Interaction No Not real Presence Our real presence Comes When You ask me a question And my mind Is with you Amen That's presence I sometimes have a tendency Of Being busy with something And then suddenly The kids comes in I drop whatever I'm doing I put it aside And I said I will look them in the face Like To hear what they say Because I know The moment I have a laptop in my hand Or I have a phone in my hand And I'm listening I won't listen I will focus on this thing the more Amen Because presence is very important Presence is very important It does not mean you are here If you sit next to me You can sit here in church But you think of what happened last night There was a time when I literally went to church And I was like What was the message about today? I can't remember Because I wasn't present at that time I was there But not My presence wasn't there I'm thirsty Here you When can the church finish? I'm thirsty When can the church When can the church finish? I just You are there But you are not present You are You are literally Saying Look I just come To be another number I came for another number You are You know there's some people If I go on Facebook now Facebook Whatever I think it's only Facebook That shows presence I can't remember When I go on Facebook now I can show you How many people Is online There's millions and millions Some sit in church And yet They are still online Then When you When you are looking online They are online Yet Rarely They truly Usain Is present They are not in church They are not in church So therefore It's important To understand The scripture That says And they rose up The same hour And they Said to one another Did not our heart Burn within us While he talked With us By the way And while he Opened To us Up the scriptures You can only Understand This part Of the What they were saying If you can understand That when he was there They were present In that moment So the scripture Was opened up For them Because They were present If I ask you a question About last week's message And you were not Literally here You were sitting here Thinking of the Mmm Thy beer fun Last night Oh It was nice You're sitting In the church Thinking I wonder What are we going To eat for lunch Today You're sitting In church And your mind Is wondering Presence Now Can you understand Why presence Is very important Because if you're Looking at it Presence Is also An Account Accountability Status You know What I mean By that Is It takes The moment You get Into a place And somebody Feels that I forgot To do something They feel The accountability To say to you I'm sorry The reason I'm late Is because of One two three It's not because Of what and what It's just because Of your presence They feel awkward Do you know What a presence Does It gives you Accountability Today Today I'm I'm almost like As if I'm Spiderman Touching there Coming here Go there It's like The message Is too much It's It's a lot To cover And I'm Looking at the Time And I'm Thinking Is But let me Explain to you When I say Face to face Encounters With God Makes a difference Second Corinthians Three Let's go to Second Corinthians Three Second Corinthians Three And we'll Read Verse Eighteen But we all With open Face Beholding As in a Glass The glory Of the Lord Are changed Into the Same image From glory To glory Even as By the Spirit Of the Lord He says With open Face Beholding As in a Glass The glory Of the Lord Are changed Into the Same image From glory To glory Even as By the Spirit Of Lord You see So There is That is The You can You can Say The face To face Encounters With God Now I Want to Give you Practical Evidence Today This is In today's Life Practical Evidence Evidence Children Children They don't Just need Provision You can Give them All the Shoes All the Clothing That you Can You can Do that But they Don't need That They need You to Be Presence They need You to Be a Father They need You to Be a Face In fact The smallest In the Room Say Yes Okay Not the Smallest In the Room There's More Smallest But Yes Do you Know That There's Somebody Wants Attention From You Because At Home They Don't Get The Attention Let me Explain A child Got Told Wow You look Beautiful Because Daddy Never Said It Suddenly This Man He Wants Me Because Daddy Never Complimented So When A guy Complimented She Sees That As An Acceptance That Wow This One Acknowledged Me They Can Sense Presence But Have The Wrong Presence They Mixed Up With Wrong Presence Because Daddy Never Told Me That I Look Beautiful Now The Guy Just Told Me I'm Looking Beautiful Suddenly They Ah Once If You Are An Ever Present Father And You Keep On Complimenting Your Kids Not Complimenting But Make Them To Feel Good About Themselves Being Them You Will Already Won A Victory You Have A Victory I Mean If You Looking At The Churches Today Sermons Are Streamed Online A Lot Of Them Are Streamed Online But The Thing Is Online Don't Replace Gathered Presence Where The Glory Man So Online Yes No Pastor I Don't Go To Church Because I Feel They They Have Failed Me So I Don't Want To Go To Church I Rather Watch Online Is Somebody Laying Hands On You Let Me Not Go There But Anyway Let Me The Reason I'm Saying This To You Is That There's Nothing Better Than The Presence Of The Presence Of God I Sometimes Have A A Tendency That I Can I Can Sit With Somebody And I Think Of Somebody Else And By The Time I Have Not Listened Half Of The Conversation And Then When I Come Back To The Conversation I'm Like What Do I Say And I Had To Force Myself To Come Back To Come Back Because Some Of The Information That You Get From Somebody Whilst Talking Open Up A Number Of Things That Can Make Sense I Wish I Can I Wish I Can I Can I Can Let You Understand Where I At So You Know You Know There Is Some Some Some Sort Of A Prophetic Way We Can Say In Today's Life God Is Probably Standing There And Saying My People Have My People Have Treated My Presence For Performance They Are Performing What Are You What Are You Performing For We Want God's Presence We Want His Face Not Platforms We Want God's Face Not Platforms Because Platforms I Can Tell You Now Gives You A Lot Of Thinking That You Are Accepted Acceptance In Our Lives Is Very Important Because People That Is Why People Form Tricks Hey Pastor You Must Actually See The Way She Is Laughing As I Am Speaking Yeah Yeah So When I Look At It There The Fellowship Is Followers You Know Followers Is Like Clicks They This One Likes That One So I Follow That One I Like This One I Follow This One I Can Tell You Now There So Many Times That I So Much I I Sometimes Wish I Could Have Seen Somebody In Face To Face You Know Like When You Go On TikTok You See This Guy Has A Power There There's Another Apostle I Just Know I Can't Say The The The Sermain But There's Another Apostle His Apostle Sergio That Guy Has Such A Power Word Neck That Whenever He Talks On TikTok I Wish One Day I Can Go To His Church And Sit Under His Word Because The Word He Give Or He Give Is Wow I Am Having Fellowship With The Following Of Him It's Not The Same Thing I I Can I Can Imagine If I Can Be In That I Can Only Be In That Church Then I Can Picture How It Will Be If I'm There Because Because Already On On On On The TikTok Is Is Already Something That I Like But It's Not Fellowship For Me I'm Calling You Back To The Garden To Walk With Me I'm Calling You Back To The Garden In The Cool Of The Day Forget About The Noise Forget About The Notifications Twing Twing Twing Twing Forget About The Noise The The The Who Is Who Is This Again Who Is This Ah Huh Forget About The Noise React To The Presence Of God Jesus We Can't Settle For Virtual Presence We Need To Settle For Presence My Presence Might Not Be Of That Significant To You I Don't Have Problem With That But Your Presence Is Significant To Me So Let Me Be There Thank You This One Is Preaching So Let That Presence That I Feel Your Presence Is Significant Don't You Think About Me Just Know I Love Your Presence I Sometimes Have A Tendency Of Sitting Next To My Wife But She Will Ask Me You Don't Listen It's Not About Communication It's About Presence And We Say You Don't Have The Communication Skills It Has Nothing To Do With The Communication You Communicating Very Nicely But The Problem Is By The Time You Communicated It I Wasn't Present I Wasn't Present I Was Somewhere Else While Sitting Next To You I I I I I What Is I Astral Projection I Was Doing Astral Projection Something Something I Don't Even I I I'm Like I'm Sitting Here With You But My Whole Spirit And Body Is In Post Mas Birth You Talking About Something Serious Serious Serious Something Between Life And Death But My Presence Is Not Here You Are Telling Me Something Of Heart You Know Like Deep Heart Things And Here I'm Sitting Somewhere Else Presence The Presence Is Very Important To Understand There's Something That You Need To Know About Yesterday And Tomorrow It's Either The One Is Gone Or Either The One Is Still To Come But The Present Moment Is The Only Thing That We Can Love In The Bible Says It Why Worry About Jesus Let Me Leave That One Let Me Not Get Into It Too Much Let Let Me Not Get Into It Too Much Do You Know In The Bible Presence Was Of The You Can Say Significant The Bible Says Adam Without Presence Was Just The Dust Animated Eden Without The Presence Was Just A Land If God's Presence Were Not There The Burning Bush Would Have Burned To Death To Ashes Not Death To Ashes Without God's Presence The Bush Would Have Burned To The Ground Life Without God's Presence It's Only A Survivor It's A Survivor I Mean You There's A I Wrote Here And I Want To Read It Because I Am Worried If I Say It Wrongly Presence Is The Difference Between A House And A Home Presence Is A Difference Between A House And A Home A Crowd And A Church A Song And Worship And Worship There's Something That You Should Understand Where Crowds Are Gathering It's Just Crowding But Where Churches Are Gathered God's Presence Is There A Song To Sing It's It's Just A Song But Let Let Us Worship In God's Presence It's Different Two Different Things No No No The Prophet And The Widow Let's Talk About That Presence That Made Provision A Presence That Made Provision It Says The Shunamite Woman Said To Elisha I Know This Man Who Often Passes By Is A Holy Man Of God Let Us Make A Room For Him She Knew What His Presence Will Do Let Us Make A Room For Him She Wasn't After His Sermons She Honored His Presence Because When Somebody Says I Want To Make A Room And Her Barren Womb Opened That's 2nd Kings 4 From 9 To 10 2nd Kings 4 Now Martha Mary And Lazarus Do You Know What They Said Lord If You Have Been Here My Brother Would Not Have Died If You Have Been Here They Knew What Jesus Presence Can Make A Difference From John 11 21 If You Would Have Been Here John 11 21 Jesus If You Would Have Been Here He Wouldn't Have Died Luman Let Me Let Let Me Go A Little Bit Further Can You See He Didn't Say Your Word He Didn't Say Your Prayer Or She I Mean Sorry She Didn't Say The Word She Didn't Say His Prayer She Didn't Say His Touch She She Didn't Even Mention His Hugs She Just Said If You Would Have Been Here Presence She Only Longed For Him To Be There And That Is Why The Presence Of God Has Resurrection Power Now David David Brought Back The Ark Because He Knew Israel Could Not Fight Could Not Rule Could Not Sing Rightly Without It Now The Ark Wasn't Wood And Gold It Was The Visible Throne Of His Invisible Of His Invisible Presence 2nd Samuel 6 Of His Invisible Presence Where The Ark Went Enemies Was Falling Where The Ark Was Blessings Was Over Flooding Where The Ark Was David Dance Until His Dignity Was Taken You Know Like God He Is Throwing Them All Clothes He Was Jive But The Presence Was Victory God's Presence To Others Man Carries Glory But At The Same Time When His Presence To You Carries Glory The Glory That Is Imparted In You Will Be Imparted To The People That Is With You Amen Wait Wait Wait Wait Wait I Don't Want I Don't Want To Go There Light Of The World You Step Down Into Darkness You Know You Know You Know It's Like You Must Never Forget That When Your Presence Is Filled With His Presence You Have To Wear A Veil Because God's Presence Is Too Much For Some Of Us This Is Where The Thing Comes In Bishop You Know That When We Go Somewhere And People Are Dancing And They The Next Thing They Say Is Here Your Presence Your Presence Don't The 21st Of What Is Zano What Is Zano Pastor Jerome Like We Were There And We Were Sitting Inside All All The You Can Almost Call Let's Say The Kerk Mensa Was Sitting Inside But Outside People Were And Here I'm Thinking Our No This People People People Are Boring Here Let Let Go Outside Because Me I Don't Like That Boring Environment Of Christians Sometimes They Just Don't Do It For Me Because They Have This Stuck Up Thing About Them That I Don't Know How To Explain It Man Bishop Do You Know What I'm Trying To Say Sorry But Some Christian People They They Don't Have A Life So When I Went Outside The Floor Was Full The Next To The Wall Now Standing And As They Were Standing I Came There And I Jive Like Nobody's Business I Went Down To Come At All You Know I Wish I Cook I Went Down On My Knees I Came Up And I Danced The Whole Environment Changed It Changed And Everybody Started Dancing If Pastor Is Dancing Then Weekend Must Also Not Dance Your Presence Sometimes Have A Two Way Problem Sometimes It's Too Stiff Serious You Too Serious And Therefore People Can't Resonate With You So Sometimes You Need To Know What Kind Of Presence Do You Present If You Want To Present God's Presence You Must Have The Fragrance One Come Not You Must Smell Huh You Must Smell Nicely If I Presence Yo Let Me Give You A Few Evidence Of God's Presence The Evidence Of God's Presence Is That When We Play A Song I Don't Forget The Keys I Don't If If I Play That Song Anybody Knows What The Song Is Who Who Who Who To The Sun Where To Hide In The Morning My Redeemer Loves You Know So When The Presence Of God Is Upon Something It Clicks It triggers Something Now Give Let's Give Evidence Let's Not Be Let's Not Be Selfish Moses Came Down To Down The Mountain And His Face Radiated With Light So When You Go To Exodus 34 Verse 30 Exodus 34 Verse 30 He Says When Aaron And All The Israelites Saw Moses His Face Was Radiant And They Were Afraid To Come Near Him They Were Afraid To Come Near Him Your Presence It's Transformation That's The First One It Transforms Something That's Why The Shining Face What In Your Life Proves Jesus Evidence In You You Know The Hebrew The Hebrew Meaning For For For For That Light Or That Beam Is Karan It Means To Beam Or To Send Out Rays Like Like There's Flashes In The Some People Will Tell It You Can Almost Call It An Aura That's What They Tell It They Say You Have Such A Aura It's It's Like There's A Presence Close To You They Call It Aura Now God's Presence Is Shown Almost Something Like That Now The First Evidence Of Presence Is A Visible Transformation It Looks Visible But Remember It's Not Always A Shining Skin But A Change Of His Continence God's Presence Sometimes Makes You People Will Try To Explain You But The Explanation Is Unexplainable They Don't Understand Something About You Something And Another Evidence Of God's Presence Is Rest You Are You Are You Are Relaxed You Are Folding Your Arms And You Relax God Told Moses My Presence Will Go With You And I Will Give You Rest According To Exodus 33 Verse 14 Exodus 33 Verse 14 He Says My Presence Will Go With You My Presence Will Go With You And I Will Give You Rest So I Will Make You To Relax Man Don't Don't Stress About Anything I Will Give You Rest That's The Presence Of God So The Greek Word For Rest Is Subtuaning Subtuaning If I Can Say That Way It's To Be Refreshing To Ceasing From Striving So Evidence Of Presence Is Not More Stress But Supernatural Supernatural Supernatural Rest Supernatural Rest Even If You Are In Battle Some People When They Are In Battle They Are Stressed That They Will Lose But For Somebody Who Knows God Is Their Refuge There's No Stress There's No Stress Another One Another One That Comes From The Presence Of God Is Authority Authority You Know When You Let Let Let Me Go To X 4 13 Let Me Not Let Let Me Not Be Too Carnal Let Me Be Spiritual As Well Let Me Go Bible As Well You Know When I Speak Sometimes It Sounds Like X 4 X 4 X 4 Versace In Recess Fall Now When They Saw The Boldness Of Peter And John And Perceived That They Were Unlearned And Ignorant Men They Marvelled And They Took Knowledge Of Them That They Had Been With Jesus Demon Is Not Learned He Doesn't Have Great One Not Even Great R He Never Went School They Said Now When They Saw The Boldness Of Peter And John And Perceived That They Were Unlearned And Ignorant Men They Marvelled And They Took Knowledge Of Them So God Proved To You That With Your Nothing That You Have When His Present Enter You Have More Than What Others Would Ever Have Would Ever Have There's Nothing That Makes Them The Knowledge That They Get Of Them The Knowledge That They Get Of You Because Remember I Can See You But I Don't Have Any Knowledge Of You The Moment They Can Have Knowledge Of You Knowledge Jesus Jesus So They Were Astonished And They Took Note That This Man Had Been With Jesus Not Not To Say Not To Say That They Know Him They Always Around Jesus They Say They Know Him To Be With Jesus I Mean There Is A Lot Of Crowd Surrounding Jesus A Lot But Only One Knew The Presence If Only I Can Touch The Hem Of This Garmin She Knew The Presence She Didn't Know The Who Jesus Is Talking Whatever She Doesn't Want To Merge She Doesn't Want The Laying Of Hands She Doesn't Want Anything But The Presence If Only I Can Touch It's Almost Like It's Almost Like As If I Thought It Let Me Say It You Know Some Some Some Some Men When They See A Woman They They Like Oh But She's Beautiful If Only I Can Have A Conversation With Her Sometimes It's Not To To Want Her It's Just To Have Conversation And You Like Once I Have That Conversation I'll Be Happy And I'm Saying Men There's Women As Well That Just They Can Just Look At You And Just Want To Be Next To You It's Because Of The Evidence Of That Authority So Presence Make Ordinary Men Carry Extraordinary Authority You Don't Need A Title Not A Pastor Apostel What What No It's Besak What Is Besak It's Not Necessary Yeah So The Atmosphere That Shifts When You Walk In That's What People Are Talking About The Atmosphere When You Walk In And The Atmosphere Shift That's What People Are Talking About That's What They Want That That That Atmosphere Of I'm A Man Of God When They Come In So Demons Recognize That If You Don't Know It Mark 124 Let Wait Let Let Me Show You Something Mark 124 Let Me Show You Something Mark Come Now Mark 124 Read This One Listen To This One I Mean It Says Sing Let Let Us Alone What Have We To Do With The Thou Jesus Of Nazareth Art Thou Come To Destroy Us I Know The Who Thou Add The Holy One Of God Huh It's Like The Moment Jesus Stepped In Authority Has Stepped In Authority Has Stepped In Jesus Just The Demon Knows Ah He So He Is Trouble That is When Presence Is Real That is When The Character Speaks Louder Than The Character The Person Another Evidence Is The Conviction And The Comfort Conviction And Comfort Now When Ananias And Sapphira Fell Under Judgment Let Me Say Great Fear Sees The Whole Church And The Apostles Perform Many Signs And Wonders So When Ananias And Sapphira They Were Judge For Trying To Fake Make Is It Right Like I'm Saying Or Is My Own Words I'm Using Fake Make Not No wait That One That One Was I Read Now Was Evidence Of Fear And Favour Not Not the conviction and comfort The fear and favor Fear and favor Ananias judge But the apostles Were favored And feared I don't know So Presence Produce all reference and signs Fear for the Hippocrate Favor for the hungry So evidence of fear and favor Evidence of conviction and comfort When presence fills The upper room Peter preached And hearts were pierced That is comfort That is conviction So when presence Overshadowed Mary She conceived You know that presence where There was this Two coming together And the kids were dancing And my bra is here My bra has entered So Jesus and that other one Is John Or what Is John So when their mothers Were together They started doing the Rambasamba Immediately Immediately Because of the presence Of each other That is comfort There was a guy There was a guy By the name A.W. Tozer He said the following A.W. Tozer It's T.O.Z.E.R I think I think that's how you say it Tozer The presence of God Is the central fact Of Christianity The presence of God Is the central fact Of Christianity Without it Religion Is only Rules And rituals It's only Rules And rituals So presence Is the difference Between a lamp With oil And a lamp Without oil Both look similar But Let the night Comes You will see You will see Flames I said My message Is entitled Wifi And then The fire I said From wifi To wifi What that Means In plain And simple English If you are Connected You are Fire If you are Connected You are Fire Presence Ignite Presence Ignite That's what I was saying Presence Ignite Jesus Know some of These things Bishop I sometimes Wander If I If I make Notes And the Notes Is 300 Pages And I Only get Here to The 15th One And I Realize The time Is Finished And I'm Like Should I Be giving It Section 2 Part 2 Number 2 Or You know What I'm Saying Like That One What Series Series Series Series Series Because If I Can Tell You About Presence May One Last Thing I Can Tell You If The President Walk In Here Somebody That Doesn't Even Know The President Will Know Some Somebody Big Just Came In The Way Others Will They Will Honor Or Wow Wow Wow You Know Like Like That Because The Moment When A President Walk In The People That Don't Know Him Can Already See By Others Reactions That Something This One Carries The Woman With The Issue Of Blood Did Not Care Whoever Is Around There She Didn't Care If Paul Is The Biggest Apostle Of Life She Didn't Care About Peter She Didn't Care About John Or Whoever Only One Presence That Make A Difference Is To Be Close To Jesus And Some Of Us Has Been Getting Into A Situation Where Our Sins Has Made Us To Run Away From That Presence Most Of The Time Feeling Like Adam We Are Naked We Have To Cover Ourselves Because Of The Presence That Just Moved In Now Hear Me The Evidence Of Presence Is Not Good Goosebumps In A Service It's Never Goosebumps In A Service It's A Transformation That Remains Even When The Music Stops Amen That's God's Presence The Rest That Rules In A Storm That's Presence That way You rest In A Storm You Like Jesus Can't You See We Going To Ah Ja Ja Ja Ja Ja Ja Ja Ja Ja Ja Ja Ja Ja Ja Ja Ja Ja Ja Ja Ja Ja And The Fruit That Feeds Generations Command Darkness Let There Be Light Light The Kingdom Of God Is Not A Matter Of Talk But Of Power It's Not A Matter Of Talk But Of Power And There I Stop My Message First Corinthians I Want To Read It Like First First Corinthians 4 And The Verse 20 First Corinthians 4 Verse 20 Says For The Kingdom Of God Is Not In Word But In Power What Is It That You Are In Need Of Power For Get Closer To God That's It Heavenly Heavenly Father I Come To You In The Mighty Name Of Jesus Christ The Lord And Savior And I Said To You Jesus That The Evidence Of Presence Will Be Seen In Our Lives In The Mighty Name Of Jesus Transformation Will Testify And Rest Will Testify Fruit Will Testify Everything That We Come Home With Let Let My Home My Work My Speeches Everything Carries The Indeniable Evidence Of Christ That Dwells In Us In The Mighty Name Of Jesus Christ Everywhere We Go Father God Let That Presence Be Shown And Let That Presence Be Proven That It's Only By Power In The Mighty Name Of Jesus Christ Our Lord And Savior Amen And Amen Now May The Grace Of Our Lord Jesus Christ The Love Of God And The Sweet Fellowship Of The Holy Spirit Rest And Abide With Us All Until Jesus Comes Surely Goodness And Mercy Shall Follow Us All The Days Of Our Lives And We Shall Grown In The House Of The Lord Forever And Ever In Jesus Name Amen And Amen
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