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THE PRESENCE OF GOD DWELLS IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD The initial idea for God’s creation is to put man in his temple so that He can walk with him (man), chat with him and make him His personal friend (Gen_2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it). God put man in the Garden of Eden to keep close watch over him and to delight in the creature He had just come out with. God doesn’t want to be distant from us. So He made a place for man upon creating him. God is delight with us to the extent that even when we sin He still loves us and forgives us. When He even realized that the blood of lambs and Able could not wash our sins, He sent His own and only begotten Son to die for us so that that relation He had for creating man should not perish. There is life in that garden and death also. The Garden of Eden is the first temple in the Bible. My friend there is life in the temple of the LORD because His presence dwell’s in His temple. God wants His presence to go with man so he made man like Himself. He made man in His own image and likeness. Hallelujah! He does not want to deny what He had created or be angry with him or complain about how he looks or how he stands or eats or dances, or plays or prays or sings or seats etc so He made man a thing He could always appreciate and love. He took His time and met with others (the Son and the Spirit) before they came out with man. He burnished him like himself. He adored him with beauty of the heavenly places. Man is God’s own creation so He made him as an apple of His eyes. In (Gen_1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth). Remember that what you make/buy yourself, you feel good when you turn to look at it again. Let us note four things here: one, God made man in His own image that is to look exactly like Him God. Brother and sisters, know from today that you resemble God. You are a carbon copy of God. Your appearance is so familiar to God to the extent that when you stand just very close to Him people might find it difficult differentiating between you and God. Two, He made us like Himself and for His own pleasure. So that He can look back and acknowledge the beautiful thing He had made. Three, since He made you in His image and likeness means you are son of God. This implies your surname is God. It is common knowledge that we take after our father’s name that is add to our name(s), this means am now called Jonathan Louis God. Because God is my father. What is Adam’s surname? You guess right, it’s God. He made man to feel like his is God or better still He made man a small god (Ps 82:6. I have said, Ye are gods and all of you are children of the most High). God added His name to our identity. We now possess the identity of God. God’s blood flows in us. Your DNA is God kind. Four, He gave us power to have dominion over every creature He made. Not to bow down in worship of what we are also mandated to use for our pleasure. Let us bow in shame when we take creatures for Creator. We got to dominate the things that God made for us. We got to use them to entertain ourselves. We cannot afford to upgrade them to the status of calling them or equating them to God. They are our playing things. Praise the Lord! Why do we need the presence of the Lord? We need the presence of the Lord because when His presence goes with us always we stand to inherit and possess the following: i.	His presence going with us always will endure us with power; ii. His presence will transform and change us; (Rom 12:2) iii. His presence gives us faith (Gen 1). The Bible did start with creation for a purpose. There was nothing but God called things to be. He brought them into being us though they were sitting somewhere else waiting for His command. He definitely is informing as of the fact that we as His children can call things to be. That is the whole idea of faith. If you sick in bed call healing to be, call your progress and growth to be, call wisdom and understanding to be, call riches to be etc. Anything you need call it to be as though they already existed somewhere waiting for your call. Never confess pain or any disease or sickness upon yourself. Living a life of faith harbingers that the presence of God is with you forever. Paul and Silas at the Beautiful Gate told the cripple they don’t have money but they have healing with them and they commanded the healing to come to the man and the man was healed. A friend said that it is only faith that buys in the market without money. iv. The presence of God create prayer consciousness. You will pray without stopping. You will pray till people begin to ask why you pray so long without getting tired. The wicked will mock you for praying long and not getting answers. Keep praying, God is alive. Pray the prayer of faith. Believing that whatever you are saying in the prayer had happened to you (Mark 11:24, Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when YE PRAY BELIEVE that ye RECEIVE them, and ye SHALL HAVE them). This can only be achieved by the presence of God in your life. v.	It gives you joy, peace and gladness (Isa_51:3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; JOY AND GLADNESS shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody). Jesus said he will send the comforter. The comfort of the Lord will come to you in His temple. Your joy shall overflow and shall abound forever. The presence of God provides sufficiency of everything. Get it noted that everything comes from God. vi. His presence will reveal all the hidden things of life to you. It gives us insight into situations and circumstances. He will make you make informed choices about tomorrow. vii. His presence promotes us from lower level of life to a higher level viii. His presence prospers us ix. His presence gives us freedom x.	His presence grows us spiritually and physically xi. His presence makes work easy because He provides the solution to all the work we do in this life. It be education or selling or in the office, His presence with you, will give you that all knowing ability. xii. His presence brings one to honour quickly. God blesses without adding pain to it. xiii. His presence gives us confidence, boldness and fearless character in approaching life situations. It is only His presence with you that the achievement of fearlessness can be accomplished. xiv. His presence gives you financial breakthrough. The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof. Everything in this world belongs to God our father. So inherit your wealth. Don’t wait go now and take possession. xv. His presence gives us direction xvi. It makes you signs and wonders and people will envy you. (Eze_31:9 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.) And the temple of the Lord is you. (2Co 6:16) And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. So the His presence dwells inside of you. It is not going before or after you. His presence is part of your make up. Amen.